“For none in all the world, without a lie,
    Can say of this, ‘’Tis mine,’ but Bunyan, I.”—­Bunyan cor.

LESSON III.—­ADJECTIVES.

“When he can be their remembrancer and advocate at all assizes and sessions.”—­Leslie cor. “DOING denotes every manner of action; as, to dance, to play, to write, &c.”—­Buchanan cor. “Seven feet long,”—­“eight feet long,”—­“fifty feet long.”—­W.  Walker cor. “Nearly the whole of these twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss to the nation.”—­Fowler cor. “Two negatives destroy each other.”—­R.  W. Green cor. “We are warned against excusing sin in ourselves, or in one an other.”—­Friend cor. “The Russian empire is more extensive than any other government in the world.”—­Inst., p. 265.  “You will always have the satisfaction to think it, of all your expenses, the money best laid out.”—­Locke cor. “There is no other passion which all mankind so naturally indulge, as pride.”—­Steele cor. “O, throw away the viler part of it.”—­Shak. cor. “He showed us an easier and more agreeable way.”—­Inst., p. 265.  “And the last four are to point out those further improvements.”—­Jamieson and Campbell cor. “Where he has not clear ideas, distinct and different.”—­Locke cor. “Oh, when shall we have an other such Rector of Laracor!”—­Hazlitt cor. “Speech must have been absolutely necessary previously to the formation of society.”  Or better thus:  “Speech must have been absolutely necessary to the formation of society.”—­Jamieson cor. “Go and tell those boys to be still.”—­Inst., p. 265.  “Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on sand:  those are apt to be requited; these, forgot.”—­G.  B. “None of these several interpretations is the true one.”—­G.  B. “My friend indulged himself in some freaks not befitting the gravity of a clergyman.”—­G.  B. “And their pardon is all that any of their impropriators will have to plead.”—­Leslie cor. “But the time usually chosen to send young men abroad, is, I think, of all periods, that at which they are least capable of reaping those advantages.”—­Locke cor. “It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the transcendently unintelligible.”—­Jamieson cor. “It contains a greater assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures, than is perhaps anywhere else to be met with.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The order in which the last two words are placed should have been reversed.”—­Dr. Blair cor.; also L.  Murray.  “In Demosthenes, eloquence shone forth with higher splendour, than perhaps in any other that ever