but each should have its proper place, and be of importance in that place, and all the parts well fitted together and united, should present a whole.”—­Goldsbury’s C. S. Gram., p. 91.  “In the use of the transitive verb there are always three things implied,—­the actor, the act, and the object acted upon.  In the use of the intransitive there are only two—­the subject or thing spoken of, and the state, or action attributed to it.”—­Bullions, E. Gram.

   “Why labours reason? instinct were as well;
    Instinct far better; what can choose, can err.”
        —­Brit.  Poets, Vol. viii.

UNDER RULE III.—­INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.

“The sentence may run thus; ’He is related to the same person, and is governed by him.’”—­Hart’s Gram.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the semicolon is here inserted, in an unusual manner, before a quotation not closely dependent.  But, according to Rule 3d for the Colon, “A quotation introduced without a close dependence on a verb or a conjunction, is generally preceded by the colon.”  Therefore, the colon should be here preferred.]

“Always remember this ancient proverb, ‘Know thyself.’”—­Hallock’s Gram. “Consider this sentence.  The boy runs swiftly.”—­Frazee’s Gram., Stereotype Ed. 1st Ed.  “The comparative is used thus; ’Greece was more polished than any other nation of antiquity.’  The same idea is expressed by the superlative when the word other is left out.  Thus, ’Greece was the most polished nation of antiquity’”—­Bullions, E. Gram. see Lennie’s Gram. “Burke, in his speech on the Carnatic war, makes the following allusion to the well known fable of Cadmus’s sowing dragon’s teeth;—­’Every day you are fatigued and disgusted with this cant, the Carnatic is a country that will soon recover, and become instantly as prosperous as ever.  They think they are talking to innocents, who believe that by the sowing of dragon’s teeth, men may come up ready grown and ready made.’”—­Hiley’s Gram., see also Hart’s.

   “For sects he car’d not, ’they are not of us,
    Nor need we, brethren, their concerns discuss.’”—­Crabbe.

    “Habit with him was all the test of truth,
    ‘It must be right:  I’ve done it from my youth.’ 
    Questions he answered in as brief a way,
    ‘It must be wrong—­it was of yesterday.’”—­Id., Borough.

MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR.