of any thing which exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea.”—­Maunder cor. “A Noun is the name of any thing in existence, or of any thing of which we can form an idea.”—­Id. “The next thing to be attended to, is, to keep him exactly to the speaking of truth.”—­Locke cor. “The material, the vegetable, and the animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities.”—­Dial cor. “And yet it is fairly defensible on the principles of the schoolmen; if those things can be called principles, which consist merely in words.”—­Campbell cor.

   “Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness,
    And fearst to die?  Famine is in thy cheeks,
    Need and oppression starve in thy sunk eyes.”—­Shak. cor.

LESSON XV.—­THREE ERRORS.

“The silver age is reckoned to have commenced at the death of Augustus, and to have continued till the end of Trajan’s reign.”—­Gould cor. “Language has indeed become, in modern times, more correct, and more determinate.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “It is evident, that those words are the most agreeable to the ear, which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, and in which there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants.”—­Id. “It would have had no other effect, than to add to the sentence an unnecessary word.”—­Id. “But as rumours arose, that the judges had been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave occasion to much popular clamour, and threw a heavy odium on Cluentius.”—­Id. “A Participle is derived from a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and of an adjective.”—­Ash and Devis cor. “I shall have learned my grammar before you will have learned yours.”—­Wilbur and Livingston cor. “There is no other earthly object capable of making so various and so forcible impressions upon the human mind, as a complete speaker.”—­Perry cor. “It was not the carrying of the bag, that made Judas a thief and a hireling.”—­South cor. “As the reasonable soul and the flesh are one man, so God and man are one Christ.”—­Creed cor. “And I will say to them who were not my people, Ye are my people; and they shall say, Thou art our God.”—­Bible cor. “Where there is in the sense nothing that requires the last sound to be elevated or suspended, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is finished, will be proper.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “Each party produce words in which the letter a is sounded in the manner for which they contend.”—­J.  Walker cor. “To countenance persons that