“This figure [Euphemism] is often the same as the Periphrasis.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “All the intermediate time between youth and old age.”—­W.  Walker cor. “When one thing is said to act upon an other, or do something to it.”—­Lowth cor. “Such a composition has as much of meaning in it, as a mummy has of life.”  Or:  “Such a composition has as much meaning in it, as a mummy has life.”—­Lit.  Conv. cor. “That young men, from fourteen to eighteen years of age, were not the best judges.”—­Id. “This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy.”—­Isaiah, xxxvii, 3.  “Blank verse has the same pauses and accents that occur in rhyme.”—­Kames cor. “In prosody, long syllables are distinguished by the macron (-); and short ones by what is called the breve (~).”—­Bucke cor. “Sometimes both articles are left out, especially from poetry.”—­Id. “From the following example, the pronoun and participle are omitted.”  Or:  “In the following example, the pronoun and participle are not expressed.”—­L.  Murray cor. [But the example was faulty.  Say.] “Conscious of his weight and importance,”—­or, “Being conscious of his own weight and importance, he did not solicit the aid of others.”—­Id. “He was an excellent person; even in his early youth, a mirror of the ancient faith.”—­Id. “The carrying of its several parts into execution.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Concord is the agreement which one word has with an other, in gender, number, case, or person.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 142.  “It might perhaps have given me a greater taste for its antiquities.”—­Addison cor. “To call on a person, and to wait on him.”—­Priestley cor. “The great difficulty they found in fixing just sentiments.”—­Id. and Hume cor. “Developing the differences of the three.”—­James Brown cor. “When the singular ends in x, ch soft, sh, ss, or s, we add es to form the plural.”—­L.  Murray cor. “We shall present him a list or specimen of them.”  “It is very common to hear of the evils of pernicious reading, how it enervates the mind, or how it depraves the principles.”—­Dymond cor. “In this example, the verb arises is understood before ‘curiosity’ and before ‘knowledge.’”—­L.  Murray et al. cor. “The connective is frequently omitted, when several words have the same construction.”—­Wilcox cor. “He shall expel them from before you, and drive them out from your sight.”—­Bible cor. “Who makes his sun to shine and his rain to descend, upon the just and the unjust.”  Or thus:  “Who makes his sun shine, and his rain descend, upon the just and the unjust.”—­M’Ilvaine cor.

LESSON X.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.