the pupil of Cimabue, was not unworthy his master.”—Literary
History, p. 268. “It is a new, and picturesque,
and glowing image, altogether worthy the talents of
the great poet who conceived it.”—Kirkham’s
Elocution, p. 100. “If the right does
exist, it is paramount his title.”—Angell,
on Tide Waters, p. 237. “The most appropriate
adjective should be placed nearest the noun.”—Sanborn’s
Gram., p. 194. “Is not Mr. Murray’s
octavo grammar more worthy the dignified title of
a ‘Philosophical Grammar?’”—Kirkham’s
Gram., p. 39. “If it shall be found
unworthy the approbation and patronage of the literary
public.”—Perley’s Gram.,
p. 3. “When the relative is preceded by
two words referring to the same thing, its proper antecedent
is the one next it.”—Bullions’s
E. Gram., p. 101. “The magistrates commanded
them to depart the city.”—Sewel’s
Hist., p. 97. “Mankind act oftener from
caprice than reason.”—Murray’s
Gram., i, 272. “It can never view,
clearly and distinctly, above one object at a time.”—Jamieson’s
Rhet., p. 65. “The theory of speech,
or systematic grammar, was never regularly treated
as a science till under the Macedonian kings.”—Knight,
on Greek Alph., p. 106. “I have been
at London a year, and I saw the king last summer.”—Murray’s
Key, 8vo, p. 198. “This is a crucifying
of Christ, and a rebelling of Christ.”—Waldenfield.
“There is another advantage worthy our observation.”—Bolingbroke,
on Hist., p. 26. “Certain conjunctions
also require the subjunctive mood after them, independently
on the sense.”—Grant’s Lat.
Gram., p. 77. “If the critical reader
will think proper to admit of it at all.”—Priestley’s
Gram., p. 191. “It is the business
of an epic poet to copy after nature.”—Blair’s
Rhet., p. 427. “Good as the cause is,
it is one from which numbers have deserted.”—
Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 222. “In
respect of the images it will receive from matter.”—Spectator,
No. 413. “Instead of following on to whither
morality would conduct it.”—Dymond’s
Essays, p. 85. “A variety of questions
upon subjects on which their feelings, and wishes,
and interests, are involved.”—Ib.,
p. 147. “In the Greek, Latin, Saxon, and
German tongues, some of these situations are termed
CASES, and are expressed by additions to the Noun
instead of by separate words and phrases.”—Booth’s
Introd., p. 33. “Every teacher is bound
during three times each week, to deliver a public
lecture, gratis.”—Howitt’s
Student-Life in Germany, p. 35. “But
the professors of every political as well as religious
creed move amongst each other in manifold circles.”—Ib.,
p. 113.