those lectures more carefully for which they pay.”—­Dr. Lieber, Lit.  Conv., p. 65.  “This book I obtained through a friend, it being not exposed for sale.”—­Woolsey, ib., p. 76.  “Here there is no manner of resemblance but in the word drown.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 163.  “We have had often occasion to inculcate, that the mind passeth easily and sweetly along a train of connected objects.”—­Ib., ii, 197.  “Observe the periods when the most illustrious persons flourished.”—­Worcester’s Hist., p. iv.  “For every horse is not called Bucephalus, nor every dog Turk.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 15.  “One can scarce avoid smiling at the blindness of a certain critic.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 257.  “Provided always, that we run not into the extreme of pruning so very close, so as to give a hardness and dryness to style.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 92; Blair’s, 111.  “Agreement is when one word is like another in number, case, gender or person.”—­Frost’s Gram., p. 43.  “Government is when one word causes another to be in some particular number, person or case.”—­Ibid. “It seems to be nothing more than the simple form of the adjective, and to imply not either comparison or degree.”—­Murray’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 47.

EXERCISE VIII.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

“The Indians had neither cows, horses, oxen, or sheep.”—­Olney’s Introd. to Geog., p. 46.  “Who have no other object in view, but, to make a show of their supposed talents.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 344.  “No other but these, could draw the attention of men in their rude uncivilized state.”—­Ib., p. 379.  “That he shall stick at nothing, nor nothing stick with him.”—­Pope.  “To enliven it into a passion, no more is required but the real or ideal presence of the object.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 110.  “I see no more to be made of it but to-rest upon the final cause first mentioned.”—­Ib., i, 175.  “No quality nor circumstance contributes more to grandeur than force.”—­Ib., i, 215.  “It being a quotation, not from a poet nor orator, but from a grave author, writing an institute of law.”—­Ib., i, 233.  “And our sympathy cannot be otherwise gratified but by giving all the succour in our power.”—­Ib., i, 362.  “And to no verse, as far as I know, is a greater variety of time necessary.”—­Ib., ii, 79.  “English Heroic verse admits no more but four capital pauses.”—­Ib., ii, 105.  “The former serves for no other purpose but to make harmony.”—­Ib., 231.  “But the plan was not perhaps as new as some might think it.”—­Literary Conv., p. 85.  “The impression received would probably be neither confirmed or corrected.”—­Ib., p. 183.  “Right is nothing else but what reason acknowledges.”—­Burlamaqui, on Law, p. 32.  “Though it should be of no other use but this.”—­BP.  WILKINS:  Tooke’s D. P., ii, 27.