is negative.”—­Adams’s Rhet., ii, 97.  “The meanest and most contemptible person whom we behold, is the offspring of heaven, one of the children of the Most High.”—­ Scougal, p. 102.  “He shall sit next to Darius, because of his wisdom, and shall be called Darius his cousin.”—­1 Esdras, iii, 7.  “In 1757, he published his ‘Fleece;’ but he did not long survive it.”—­L.  Murray, Seq., p. 252.

   “The sun upon the calmest sea
    Appears not half so bright as thee.”—­Prior.

EXERCISE V.—­VERBS.

“The want of connexion here, as well as in the description of the prodigies that accompanied the death of Caesar, are scarce pardonable.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 38.  “The causes of the original beauty of language, considered as significant, which is a branch of the present subject, will be explained in their order.”—­Ib., Vol. ii, p. 6.  “Neither of these two Definitions do rightly adjust the Genuine signification of this Tense.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 280.  “In the earnest hope that they may prove as beneficial to other teachers as they have to the author.”—­John Flint’s Gram., p. 3.  “And then an example is given showing the manner in which the pupil should be required to classify.”—­Ib., p. 3. “Qu in English words are equivalent to kw.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 258. “Qu has the power of kw, therefore quit doubles the final consonant in forming its preterite.”—­Ib., p. 103.  “The word pronoun or substantive can be substituted, should any teacher prefer to do it”—­Ib., p. 132.  “The three angles of a right-angled triangle were equal to two right angles in the days of Moses, as well as now.”—­GOODELL:  Liberator, Vol. xi, p. 4.  “But now two paces of the vilest earth is room enough.”—­Beaut. of Shak., p. 126.  “Latin and French, as the World now goes, is by every one acknowledged to be necessary.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 351.  “These things, that he will thus learn by sight, and have by roat in his Memory, is not all, I confess, that he is to learn upon the Globes.”—­Ib., p. 321.  “Henry:  if John shall meet me, I will hand him your note.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 261.  “They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 329.  “Cato reminded him of many warnings he had gave him.”—­Goldsmith’s Rome, i, 114.  “The Wages is small.  The Compasses is broken.”—­Fisher’s Gram., p. 95.  “Prepare thy heart for prayer, lest thou temptest God.”—­Life of Luther, p. 83.  “That a soldier should fly is a shameful thing.”—­Adam’s Lat.  Gram., p. 155.  “When there is two verbs which are together.”—­Woodworth’s Gram., p. 27.  “Interjections are words used to express some passion of the mind; and is followed by a note of admiration!”—­Infant