“The Lacedemonians never traded—­they knew no luxury—­they lived in houses built of rough materials—­they lived at public tables—­fed on black broth, and despised every thing effeminate or luxurious.”—­Whelpley’s Lectures, p. 167.  “Government is the agent.  Society is the principal.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, 1st Ed., p. 377.  “The essentials of speech were anciently supposed to be sufficiently designated by the Noun and the Verb, to which was subsequently added, the Conjunction”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 191.  “The first faint gleamings of thought in its mind are but the reflections from the parents’ own intellect,—­the first manifestations of temperament are from the contagious parental fountain,—­the first aspirations of soul are but the warmings and promptings of the parental spirit.”—­Jocelyn’s Prize Essay, p. 4. “Older and oldest refer to maturity of age, elder and eldest to priority of right by birth. Farther and farthest denote place or distance:  Further and furthest, quantity or addition.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 148.  “Let the divisions be natural, such as obviously suggest themselves to the mind, and as may aid your main design, and be easily remembered.”—­Goldsbury’s Manual of Gram., p. 91.

   “Gently make haste, of labour not afraid: 
    A hundred times consider what you’ve said.”—­Dryden’s Art of Poetry.

UNDER RULE III.—­OF APPOSITION, &c.

(1.) “Adjectives are divided into two classes:  Adjectives denoting quality, and Adjectives denoting number.”—­Frost’s Practical Gram., p. 31.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the colon after the word “classes,” is not the most suitable sign of the pause required.  But according to Rule 3d for the Semicolon, “Words in apposition, in disjunct pairs, or in any other construction if they require a pause greater than that of the comma, and less than that of the colon, maybe separated by the semicolon.”  In this case, the semicolon should have been preferred to the colon.]

(2.) “There are two classes of adjectives—­qualifying adjectives, and limiting adjectives.”—­Butler’s Practical Gram., p. 33. (3.) “There are three Genders, the Masculine, the Feminine, and the Neuter.”—­ Frost’s Pract.  Gram., p. 51; Hiley’s Gram., p. 12; Alger’s, 16; S.  Putnam’s, 14:  Murray’s, 8vo, 37; and others. (4.) “There are three genders:  the MASCULINE, the FEMININE, and the NEUTER.”—­Murray’s Gram., 12mo. p. 39; Jaudon’s, 25. (5.) “There are three genders:  The Masculine, the Feminine, and the Neuter.”—­Hendrick’s Gram., p. 15. (6.) “The Singular denotes ONE, and the Plural MORE THAN ONE.”—­Hart’s Gram., p. 40. (7.) “There are three Cases viz., the Nominative, the Possessive,