“Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature’s hand.”—­Beattie.

    “They fall successive, and successive rise.”—­Pope.

LESSON III.—­ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

“A Figure of Etymology is an intentional deviation from the usual form of a word.”—­See Brown’s Institutes, p. 229.  “A Figure of Syntax is an intentional deviation from the usual construction of a word.”—­See Brown’s Inst., p. 230.  “Synecdoche is the naming of the whole of any thing for a part, or a part for the whole.”—­Weld cor. “Apostrophe is a turning-off[547] from the regular course of the subject, to address some person or thing.”—­Id. “Even young pupils will perform such exercises with surprising interest and facility, and will unconsciously gain, in a little time, more knowledge of the structure of language, than they can acquire by a drilling of several years in the usual routine of parsing.”—­Id. “A few rules of construction are employed in this part, to guide the pupil in the exercise of parsing.”—­Id. “The name of any person, object, or thing, that can be thought of, or spoken of, is a noun.”—­Id. “A dot, resembling our period, is used between every two words, as well as at the close of each verse.”—­W.  Day cor. “The casting of types in matrices was invented by Peter Schoeffer, in 1452.”—­Id. “On perusing it, he said, that, so far [was it] from showing the prisoner’s guilt [that] it positively established his innocence.”—­Id. “By printing the nominative and verb in Italic letters, we shall enable the reader to distinguish them at a glance.”—­Id. “It is well, no doubt, to avoid unnecessary words.”—­Id. “I meeting a friend the other day, he said to me, ‘Where are you going?’”—­Id. “To John, apples were first denied; then they were promised to him; then they were offered to him.”—­Lennie cor. “Admission was denied him.”—­Wells cor. “A pardon was offered to them.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 183.  “A new potato was this day shown me.”—­Darwin, Webster, Frazee, and Weld, cor. “Those nouns or pronouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender.”—­S.  S. Greene, cor. “There are three degrees of comparison; the positive, the comparative, and the superlative.”—­Id. “The first two refer to direction; the third refers to locality.”—­Id. “The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and an indirect object.”—­Id. “I was not aware that he was the judge of the supreme court.”—­Id. “An indirect question may refer to any of the five elements of a declarative sentence.”—­Id.