speech.”—­Id. “If he is at no pains to engage us by the employment of figures, musical arrangement, or any other ornament of style.”—­Id. “The most eminent of the sacred poets, are, David, Isaiah, and the author of the Book of Job.”—­Id. “Nothing in any poem, is more beautifully described than the death of old Priam.”—­Id. “When two vowels meet together, and are joined in one syllable, they are called a diphthong.”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “How many Esses would goodness’ then end with?  Three; as goodness’s.”—­Id.  “Birds is a noun; it is the common name of feathered animals.”—­Kirkham cor. “Adam gave names to all living creatures.”  Or thus:  “Adam gave a name to every living creature.”—­Bicknell cor. “The steps of a flight of stairs ought to be accommodated to the human figure.”  Or thus:  “Stairs ought to be accommodated to the ease of the users.”—­Kames cor. “Nor ought an emblem, more than a simile, to be founded on a low or familiar object.”—­Id. “Whatever the Latin has not from the Greek, it has from the Gothic.”—­Tooke cor. “The mint, and the office of the secretary of state, are neat buildings.”—­The Friend cor. “The scenes of dead and still existence are apt to pall upon us.”—­Blair cor. “And Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, the angelical doctor and the subtle, are the brightest stars in the scholastic constellation.”—­Lit.  Hist. cor. “The English language has three methods of distinguishing the sexes.”—­Murray et al. cor.; also R.  C. Smith.  “In English, there are the three following methods of distinguishing the sexes.”—­Jaudon cor. “There are three ways of distinguishing the sexes.”—­Lennie et al. cor.; also Merchant.  “The sexes are distinguished in three ways.”—­Maunder cor. “Neither discourse in general, nor poetry in particular, can be called altogether an imitative art.”—­Dr. Blair cor.

   “Do we for this the gods and conscience brave,
    That one may rule and all the rest enslave?”—­Rowe cor.

LESSON III.—­ADJECTIVES.

“There is a deal more of heads, than of either heart or horns.”—­Barclay cor. “For, of all villains, I think he has the most improper name.”—­Bunyan cor. “Of all the men that I met in my pilgrimage, he, I think, bears the wrongest name.”—­Id. “I am surprised to see so much of the distribution, and so many of the technical terms, of the Latin grammar, retained in the grammar of our tongue.”—­Priestley cor. “Nor did the Duke of Burgundy bring him any assistance.”—­Hume and Priestley cor. “Else he will find it difficult to