Letters to Y. L., p. 43.  “What is the import of that command to love such an one as ourselves?”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 206.  “It should seem then the grand question was, What is good?”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 297.  “The rectifying bad habits depends upon our consciousness of them.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 32.  “To prevent our being misled by a mere name.”—­ Campbell’s Rhet., p. 168.  “I was refused an opportunity of replying in the latter review.”—­Fowle’s True English Gram., p. 10.  “But how rare is such generosity and excellence as Howard displayed!”—­M’Culloch’s Gram., p. 39.  “The noun is in the Nominative case when it is the name of the person or thing which acts or is spoken of.”—­Ib., p. 54.  “The noun is in the Objective case when it is the name of the person or thing which is the object or end of an action or movement.”—­Ib., p. 54.  “To prevent their being erased from your memory.”—­Mack’s Gram., p. 17.  “Pleonasm, is when a superfluous word is introduced abruptly.”—­Ib., p. 69.

   “Man feels his weakness, and to numbers run,
    Himself to strengthen, or himself to shun.”—­Crabbe, Borough, p. 137.

EXERCISE XII.—­TWO ERRORS.

“Independent on the conjunction, the sense requires the subjunctive mood.”—­Grant’s Latin Gram., p. 77.  “A Verb in past time without a sign is Imperfect tense.”—­C.  Adams’s Gram., p. 33.  “New modelling your household and personal ornaments is, I grant, an indispensable duty.”—­West’s Letters to Y. L., p. 58.  “For grown ladies and gentlemen learning to dance, sing, draw, or even walk, is now too frequent to excite ridicule.”—­Ib., p. 123.  “It is recorded that a physician let his horse bleed on one of the evil days, and it soon lay dead.”—­Constable’s Miscellany, xxi. 99.  “As to the apostrophe, it was seldom used to distinguish the genitive case till about the beginning of the present century, and then seems to have been introduced by mistake.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. 23.  “One of the relatives only varied to express the three cases.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 24.  “What! does every body take their morning draught of this liquor?”—­Collier’s Cebes.  “Here, all things comes round, and bring the same appearances a long with them.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 103.  “Most commonly both the relative and verb are elegantly left out in the second member.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. ix.  “A fair receipt of water, of some thirty or forty foot square.”—­Bacon’s Essays, p. 127.  “The old know more indirect ways of outwiting others, than the young.”—­Burgh’s Dignity, i, 60.  “The pronoun singular of the third person hath three genders.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 21.  “The preposition to is made use of before nouns of place, when they follow verbs and participles of motion.”—­Murray’s