“Let such teach others who themselves excel,
    And censure freely who have written well.”—­Pope, on Crit., l. 15.

EXERCISE IV.—­PRONOUNS.

“You had musty victuals, and he hath holp to eat it.”—­SHAK.:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Victuals.  “Sometime am I all wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues, do hiss me into madness.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 68.  “When a letter or syllable is transposed, it is called METATHESIS.”—­Adam’s Lat.  Gram., p. 275.  “When a letter or syllable is added to the beginning of a word, it is called PROSTHESIS.”—­Ib. “If a letter or syllable be taken from the beginning of a word, it is called APHAERESIS.”—­Ib. “We can examine few, or rather no Substances, so far, as to assure ourselves that we have a certain Knowledge of most of its Properties.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 244.  “Who do you dine with?”—­Fisher’s Gram., p. 99.  “Who do you speak to?”—­Shakspeare.  “All the objects of prayer are calculated to excite the most active and vivid sentiments, which can arise in the heart of man.”—­Adams’s Rhet., i, 328.  “It has been my endeavour to furnish you with the most useful materials, which contribute to the purposes of eloquence.”—­Ib., ii, 28.  “All paraphrases are vicious:  it is not translating, it is commenting.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 163.  “Did you never bear false witness against thy neighbour?”—­SIR W. DRAPER:  Junius, p. 40.  “And they shall eat up thine harvest and thy bread:  they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds.”—­Jer., v, 17.  “He was the spiritual rock who miraculously supplied the wants of the Israelites.”—­ Gurney’s Evidences, p. 53.  “To cull from the mass of mankind those individuals upon which the attention ought to be most employed.”—­ Rambler, No. 4.  “His speech contains one of the grossest and most infamous calumnies which ever was uttered.”—­Merchant’s Gram.  Key, p. 198.  “STROMBUS, i. m.  A shell-fish of the sea, that has a leader whom they follow as their king.  Plin.”—­Ainsworth’s Dict., 4to.  “Whomsoever will, let him come”—­MORNING STAR:  Lib., xi, 13.  “Thy own words have convinced me (stand a little more out of the sun if you please) that thou hast not the least notion of true honour.”—­Fielding.  “Whither art going, pretty Annette?  Your little feet you’ll surely wet.”—­L.  M. Child.  “Metellus, who conquered Macedon, was carried to the funeral pile by his four sons, one of which was the praetor.”—­Kennett’s Roman Ant., p. 332.  “That not a soldier which they did not know, should mingle himself among them.”—­ Josephus, Vol. v, p. 170.  “The Neuter Gender denotes objects which are neither males nor females.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 37.  “And hence it is, that the most important precept, which a rhetorical teacher can inculcate respecting this part of discourse,