“Thus, ’The man, having finished his letter, will carry it to the post-office.’”—­Id. “Thus, in the sentence, ’He had a dagger concealed under his cloak,’ concealed is passive, signifying being concealed; but, in the former combination, it goes to make up a form the force of which is active.”—­Id. “Thus, in Latin, ’He had concealed the dagger,’ would be, ‘Pugionem abdiderat;’ but, ’He had the dagger concealed,’ would be, ’Pugionem abditum habebat.”—­Id. “Here, for instance, means, ‘in this place;’ now, ‘at this time;’ &c.”—­Id. “Here when both declares the time of the action, and so is an adverb; and also connects the two verbs, and so resembles a conjunction.”—­Id. “These words were all, no doubt, originally other parts of speech; viz., verbs, nouns, and adjectives.”—­Id. “The principal parts of a sentence, are the subject, the attribute, and the object; in other words, the nominative, the verb, and the objective.”—­Id. “Thus, the adjective is connected with the noun; the adverb, with the verb or adjective; the pronoun, with its antecedent; &c.” “Between refers to two; among, to more than two.”—­Id. “At is used after a verb of rest; to, after a verb of motion.”—­Id. “Verbs are of three kinds; Active, Passive, and Neuter.”—­L.  Murray. [Active] “Verbs are divided into two classes; Transitive and Intransitive.”—­Hendrick cor. “The Parts of Speech, in the English language, are nine; viz., the Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Interjection, and Conjunction.”—­Bullions cor. See Lennie.  “Of these, the Noun, Pronoun, and Verb, are declined; the rest are indeclinable.”—­Bullions, Analyt. and Pract.  Gram., p. 18.  “The first expression is called ‘the Active form;’ the second, ’the Passive form.’”—­Weld cor.

   “O, ’tis a godlike privilege to save;
    And he that scorns it, is himself a slave.”—­Cowper cor.

SECTION III.—­THE COLON.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.—­OF ADDITIONAL REMARKS.

“Of is a preposition:  it expresses the relation between fear and Lord.”—­Bullions cor. “Wealth and poverty are both temptations to man:  that tends to excite pride; this, discontentment.”—­Id. et al cor. “Religion raises men above themselves; irreligion sinks them beneath the brutes:  this binds them down to a poor pitiable speck of perishable earth; that opens for them a prospect to the skies.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 189.  “Love not idleness:  it destroys many.”—­Ingersoll cor. “Children, obey your parents:  ‘Honour thy father and mother,’ is the first commandment with promise.”—­Bullions cor.