“We often commend as well as censure imprudently.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 214.  “It is as truly a violation of the right of property, to take little as to take much; to purloin a book, or a penknife, as to steal money; to steal fruit as to steal a horse; to defraud the revenue as to rob my neighbour; to overcharge the public as to overcharge my brother; to cheat the postoffice as to cheat my friend.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, 1st Edition, p. 254.  “The classification of verbs has been and still is a vexed question.”—­Bullions, E. Grammar, Revised Edition, p. 200.  “Names applied only to individuals of a sort or class and not common to all, are called Proper Nouns.”—­Id., Practical Lessons, p. 12.  “A hero would desire to be loved as well as to be reverenced.”—­Day’s Gram., p. 108.  “Death or some worse misfortune now divides them.”—­Cooper’s Pl. and Pr.  Gram., p. 133.  “Alexander replied, ’The world will not permit two suns nor two sovereigns.’”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. ii, p. 113.

   “From nature’s chain, whatever link you strike,
    Tenth or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike.”
        —­Felton’s Gram., p. 131.

UNDER EXCEPTION III.—­ALTERNATIVE OF WORDS.

“Metre or Measure is the number of poetical feet which a verse contains.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 123.  “The Caesura or division, is the pause which takes place in a verse, and which divides it into two parts.”—­Ib., 123.  “It is six feet or one fathom deep.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 113.  “A BRACE is used in poetry at the end of a triplet or three lines which rhyme together.”—­Felton’s Gram., p. 142.  “There are four principal kinds of English verse or poetical feet.”—­Ib., p. 143.  “The period or full stop denotes the end of a complete sentence.”—­Sanborn’s Analytical Gram., p. 271.  “The scholar is to receive as many jetons or counters as there are words in the sentence.”—­St. Quentin’s Gram., p. 16. “That [thing] or the thing which purifies, fortifies also the heart.”—­Peirce’s Gram., p. 74. “That thing or the thing which would induce a laxity in public or private morals, or indifference to guilt and wretchedness, should be regarded as the deadly Sirocco.”—­Ib., 74.  “What is elliptically what thing or that thing which.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 99. “Demonstrate means show or point out precisely.”—­Ib., p. 139. “The man or that man, who endures to the end, shall be saved.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 73.  UNDER EXCEPTION IV.—­A SECOND COMMA.