“Calm Temperance, whose blessings those partake
    Who hunger, and who thirst, for scribbling sake.”
        —­Pope, Dunciad, i, 50.

EXERCISE III.—­ADJECTIVES.

“Plumb down he drops ten thousand fathom deep.”—­Milton, P. L., B. ii, 1, 933.  “In his Night Thoughts, there is much energy of expression:  in the three first, there are several pathetic passages.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 403.  “Learn to pray, to pray greatly and strong.”—­The Dial, Vol. ii, p. 215.  “The good and the bad genius are struggling with one another.”—­ Philological Museum, i, 490.  “The definitions of the parts of speech, and application of syntax, should be given almost simultaneous.”—­Wilbur and Livingston’s Gram., p. 6.  “I had studied grammar previous to his instructing me.”—­Ib., p. 13.  “So difficult it is to separate these two things from one another.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 92.  “New words should never be ventured upon, except by such whose established reputation gives them some degree of dictatorial power over language.”—­Ib., p. 94.  “The verses necessarily succeed each other.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 142.  “They saw that it would be practicable to express, in writing, the whole combinations of sounds which our words require.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 68.  “There are some Events, the Truth of which cannot appear to any, but such whose Minds are first qualify’d by some certain Knowledge.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 242.  “These Sort of Feet are in Latin called Iambics.”—­Fisher’s Gram., p. 134.  “And the Words are mostly so disposed, that the Accents may fall on every 2d, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th Syllables.”—­Ib., p. 135.  “If the verse does not sound well and harmonious to the ear.”—­Ib., p. 136.  “I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.”—­Ecclesiastes, ii, 8.  “No people have so studiously avoided the collision of consonants as the Italians.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 183.  “And these two subjects must destroy one another.”—­Ib., p. 42.  “Duration and space are two things in some respects the most like, and in some respects the most unlike to one another.”—­Ib., p. 103.  “Nothing ever affected him so much, as this misconduct of his friend.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 155.  “To see the bearing of the several parts of speech on each other.”—­Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 2.  “Two or more adjectives following each other, either with or without a conjunction, qualify the same word.”—­Bullion’s E. Gram., p. 75.  “The two chapters which now remain, are by far the most important of any.”—­ Student’s Manual, p. 293.  “That has been the subject of no less than six negotiations.”—­Pres.  Jackson’s Message, 1830.  “His gravity makes him work cautious.”—­Steele, Spect., No. 534.  “Grandeur, being an extreme vivid emotion, is not readily produced in perfection but by reiterated impressions.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 203.  “Every object appears less than when viewed separately and independent of the series.”—­Ib., ii, 14.  “An Organ is the best of all other musical instruments.”—­Dilworth’s English Tongue, p. 94.