“One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises
up.”—
Spect., No. 535.
“This rule implies nothing else but the agreement
of an adjective with a substantive.”—
Adams
Latin Gram., p. 156;
Gould’s, 129.
“There can be no doubt but the plan of exercise
pointed out at page 132, is the best that can be adopted.”—
Blair’s
Gram., p. viii. “The exertions of this
gentleman have done more than any other writer on the
subject.”—DR. ABERCROMBIE:
Rec.
in Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 306.
“No accidental nor unaccountable event ought
to be admitted.”—
Kames, El. of
Crit., ii, 273. “Wherever there was
much fire and vivacity in the genius of nations.”—
Jamieson’s
Rhet., p. 5. “I aim at nothing else
but your safety.”—
Walker’s
Particles, p. 90. “There are pains inflicted
upon man for other purposes except warning.”—
Wayland’s
Moral Sci., p. 122. “Of whom we have
no more but a single letter remaining.”—
Campbell’s
Pref. to Matthew. “The publisher meant
no more but that W. Ames was the author.”—
Sewel’s
History, Preface, p. xii. “Be neether
bashful, nor discuver uncommon solicitude.”—
Webster’s
Essays, p. 403. “They put Minos to
death, by detaining him so long in a bath, till he
fainted.”—
Lempriere’s Dict.
“For who could be so hard-hearted to be severe?”—
Cowley. “He must neither be a panegyrist
nor a satirist.”—
Blair’s
Rhet., p. 353. “No man unbiassed by
philosophical opinions, thinks that life, air, or
motion, are precisely the same things.”—
Dr.
Murray’s Hist. of Lang., i, 426. “Which
I had no sooner drank, but I found a pimple rising
in my forehead.”—ADDISON:
Sanborn’s
Gram., p. 182. “This I view very important,
and ought to be well understood.”—
Osborn’s
Key, p. 5. “So that neither emphases,
tones, or cadences should be the same.”—
Sheridan’s
Elocution, p. 5.
“You said no more but that
yourselves must be
The judges of the scripture
sense, not we.”—Dryden, p.
96.
EXERCISE IX.—PREPOSITIONS.
“To be entirely devoid of relish for eloquence,
poetry, or any of the fine arts, is justly construed
to be an unpromising symptom of youth.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 14. “Well met, George, for
I was looking of you.”—Walker’s
Particles, p. 441. “There is another
fact worthy attention.”—Channing’s
Emancip., p. 49. “They did not gather
of a Lord’s-day, in costly temples.”—The
Dial, No. ii, p. 209. “But certain ideas
have, by convention between those who speak the same
language, been agreed to be represented by certain
articulate sounds.”—Adams’s
Rhet., ii, 271. “A careful study of
the language is previously requisite, in all who aim
at writing it properly.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 91. “He received his reward
in a small place, which he enjoyed to his death.”—Notes
to the Dunciad, B. ii, l. 283. “Gaddi,