554. “I have got an hussy of a maid, who
is most craftily given to this.”—
Ib.,
No. 534. “Argus is said to have had an hundred
eyes, some of which were always awake.”—
Classic
Stories, p. 148. “Centiped, an hundred
feet; centennial, consisting of a hundred years.”—
Town’s
Analysis, p. 19. “No good man, he thought,
could be an heretic.”—
Gilpin’s
Lives, p. 72. “As, a Christian, an infidel,
an heathen.”—
Ash’s Gram.,
p. 50. “Of two or more words, usually joined
by an hyphen.”—
Blair’s Gram.,
p. 7. “We may consider the whole space of
an hundred years as time present.”—BEATTIE:
Murray’s Gram., p. 69. “In
guarding against such an use of meats and drinks.”—
Ash’s
Gram., p. 138. “Worship is an homage
due from man to his Creator.”—
Annual
Monitor for 1836. “Then, an eulogium
on the deceased was pronounced.”—
Grimshaw’s
U. S., p. 92. “But for Adam there was
not found an help meet for him.”—
Gen.,
ii, 20. “My days are consumed like smoke,
and my bones are burned as an hearth.”—
Psalms,
cii, 3. “A foreigner and an hired servant
shall not eat thereof”—
Exod.,
xii, 45. “The hill of God is as the hill
of Bashan; an high hill, as the hill of Bashan.”—
Psalms,
lxviii, 15. “But I do declare it to have
been an holy offering, and such an one too as was
to be once for all.”—
Wm. Penn.
“An hope that does not make ashamed those that
have it.”—
Barclay’s Works,
Vol. i, p. 15. “Where there is not an unity,
we may exercise true charity.”—
Ib.,
i, 96. “Tell me, if in any of these such
an union can be found?”—
Brown’s
Estimate, ii, 16.
“Such holy drops her tresses
steeped,
Though ’twas an hero’s
eye that weeped.”—Sir W. Scott.
LESSON II.—INSERT ARTICLES.
“This veil of flesh parts the visible and invisible
world.”—Sherlock.
[FORMULE.—Not proper, because the article
the is omitted before invisible, where
the sense requires it. But, according to a suggestion
on page 225th, “Articles should be inserted
as often as the sense requires them.” Therefore,
the should be here supplied; thus, “This
veil of flesh parts the visible and the invisible
world.”]
“The copulative and disjunctive conjunctions
operate differently on the verb.”—Murray’s
Gram., Vol. ii, p. 286. “Every combination
of a preposition and article with the noun.”—Ib.,
i, 44. “Either signifies, ‘the
one or the other;’ neither imports not
either, that is, ’not one nor the other.’”—Ib.,
i, 56. “A noun of multitude may have a pronoun,
or verb, agreeing with it, either of the singular
or plural number.”—Bucke’s
Gram., p. 90. “Copulative conjunctions
are, principally, and, as, both, because, for, if,
that, then, since, &c.”—See ib.,
28. “The two real genders are the masculine