“Tell me, in whose house do you live?”—­N.  Butler cor. “He that acts wisely, deserves praise.”—­Id. “He who steals my purse, steals trash.”—­Id. “The antecedent is sometimes omitted; as, ’Who steals my purse, steals trash.’—­[Shak.] That is, ‘He who,’ or, ’The person who.’”—­Id. “Thus, ’Whoever steals my purse, steals trash;’—­’Whoever does no good, does harm.’”—­Id. “Thus, ‘Whoever sins, will suffer.’  This means, that any one, without exception, who sins, will suffer.”—­Id.

“Letters form syllables; syllables, words; words, sentences; and sentences, combined and connected, form discourse.”—­Cooper cor. “A letter which forms a perfect sound when uttered by itself, is called a vowel; as, a, e, i.”—­Id. “A proper noun is the name of an individual, [or of a particular people or place]; as, John, Boston, Hudson, America.”—­Id.

“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing; more, a cunning thing; but very few, a generous thing.”—­Davis cor. “In the place of an ellipsis of the verb, a comma must be inserted.”—­Id. “A common noun unlimited by an article, is sometimes understood in its broadest acceptation:  thus, ‘Fishes swim,’ is understood to mean all fishes; ‘Man is mortal,’ all men.”—­Id.

“Thus, those sounds formed principally by the throat, are called gutturals; those formed principally by the palate, palatals; those formed by the teeth, dentals; those by the lips, labials; and those by the nose, nasals.”—­Davis cor.

“Some adjectives are compared irregularly:  as, Good, letter, best; Bad, worse, worst; Little, less, least.”—­Felton cor.

“Under the fourth head of grammar, therefore, four topics will be considered; viz., PUNCTUATION, ORTHOEPY [sic—­KTH], FIGURES, and VERSIFICATION.”—­Hart cor.

   “Direct her onward to that peaceful shore,
    Where peril, pain, and death, are felt no more!”—­Falconer cor.

GOOD ENGLISH RIGHTLY POINTED.

LESSON I.—­UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

“Discoveries of such a character are sometimes made in grammar also; and such, too, are often their origin and their end.”—­Bullions cor.

“TRAVERSE, [literally to cross,] To deny what the opposite party has alleged.  To traverse an indictment, or the like, is to deny it.”—­Id.

“The Ordinal numerals denote the order, or succession, in which any number of persons or things are mentioned; as, first, second, third, fourth, &c.”—­Hiley cor.

“Nouns have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third.  The First person is that which denotes the speaker:  the Second is that which denotes the person or thing spoken to; the Third is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of.”—­Hart cor.