“They are institutions not merely of an useless, but of an hurtful nature.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 344.  “Quintilian prefers the full, the copious, and the amplifying style.”—­Ib., p. 247.  “The proper application of rules respecting style, will always be best learned by the means of the illustration which examples afford.”—­Ib., p. 224.  “He was even tempted to wish that he had such an one.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 41.  “Every limb of the human body has an agreeable and disagreeable motion.”—­Kames, El. of Crit. i, 217.  “To produce an uniformity of opinion in all men.”—­Ib., ii. 365.  “A writer that is really an humourist in character, does this without design.”—­Ib., i. 303.  “Addison was not an humourist in character.”—­Ib., i. 303.  “It merits not indeed the title of an universal language.”—­Ib., i. 353.  “It is unpleasant to find even a negative and affirmative proposition connected.”—­Ib., ii. 25.  “The sense is left doubtful by wrong arrangement of members.”—­Ib., ii. 44.  “As, for example, between the adjective and following substantive.”—­Ib., ii. 104.  “Witness the following hyperbole, too bold even for an Hotspur.”—­Ib., 193.  “It is disposed to carry along the good and bad properties of one to another.”—­Ib., ii. 197.  “What a kind of a man such an one is likely to prove, is easy to foresee.”—­Locke, on Education, p. 47.  “In propriety there cannot be such a thing as an universal grammar, unless there were such a thing as an universal language.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 47.  “The very same process by which he gets at the meaning of any ancient author, carries him to a fair and a faithful rendering of the scriptures of the Old and New Testament.”—­Chalmers, Sermons, p. 16.  “But still a predominancy of one or other quality in the minister is often visible.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 19.  “Among the ancient critics, Longinus possessed most delicacy; Aristotle, most correctness.”—­Ib., p. 20.  “He then proceeded to describe an hexameter and pentameter verse.”—­Ward’s Preface to Lily, p. vi.  “And Alfred, who was no less able a negotiator than courageous a warrior, was unanimously chosen King.”—­Pinnock’s Geog., p. 271.  “An useless incident weakens the interest which we take in the action.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 460.  “This will lead into some detail; but I hope an useful one.”—­Ib., p. 234.  “When they understand how to write English with due Connexion, Propriety, and Order, and are pretty well Masters of a tolerable Narrative Stile, they may be advanced to writing of Letters.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 337.  “The Senate is divided into the Select and Great Senate.”—­Hewitt’s Student-Life in Germany, p. 28.  “We see a remains of this ceremonial yet in the public solemnities of the universities.”—­Ib., p. 46.

   “Where an huge pollard on the winter fire,
    At an huge distance made them all retire.”—­Crabbe, Borough, p. 209.