“No larger portion should be assigned for each recitation than the class can easily master, and till this is done, a new portion should not be given out.”—­Id., ib., p. viii.  “The acquisitions made in every new lesson should be rivetted and secured by repeated revisals.”—­Id., ib., p. viii.

“The personal pronouns may be parsed briefly thus; I, the first personal pronoun, masculine (or feminine), singular, the nominative. His, the third personal pronoun, masculine, singular, the possessive, &c.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 23:  Pract.  Les., p. 28.

“When the male and female are expressed by distinct terms; as, shepherd, shepherdess, the masculine term has also a general meaning, expressing both male and female, and is always to be used when the office, occupation, profession, &c., and not the sex of the individual, is chiefly to be expressed.  The feminine term is used only when the discrimination, of sex is indispensably necessary.  Thus, when it is said ’the Poets of this country are distinguished by correctness of taste,’ the term ‘Poet’ clearly includes both male and female writers of poetry.”—­Id., E. Gram., p. 12; his Analyt. and Pract.  Gram., 24.

“Nouns and pronouns, connected by conjunctions, must be in the same cases.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 78.  “Verbs, connected by conjunctions, must be in the same moods and tenses, and, when in the subjunctive present, they must be in the same form.”—­Ib., p. 112.

“This will habituate him to reflection—­exercise his judgment on the meaning of the author, and without any great effort on his part, impress indelibly on his memory, the rules which he is required to give.  After the exercises under the rule have been gone through as directed in the note page 96, they may be read over again in a corrected state the pupil making an emphasis on the correction made, or they may be presented in writing at the next recitation.”—­Bullions, Prin. of E. Gram., 2d Ed. Revised and Cor., p. viii.

   “Man, but for that, no action could attend
    And but for this, be thoughtful to no end.”
        —­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., Pref. p. 5.

LESSON III.—­UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

“‘Johnson the bookseller and stationer,’ indicates that the bookseller and the stationer are epithets belonging to the same person; ’the bookseller and the stationer’ would indicate that they belong to different persons.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 127.

“Past is an adjective; passed, the past tense or perfect participle of the verb, and they ought not, as is frequently done, to be confounded with each other.”—­Id., ib., p. 148.

“Not only the nature of the thoughts and sentiments, but the very selection and arrangement of the words, gives English poetry a character, which separates it widely from common prose.”—­Id., ib., p. 178.