and feminine.”—­Ib., 34.  “In which a mute and liquid are represented by the same character, th.”—­Music of Nature, p. 481.  “They said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee.”—­Luke, vii, 20.  “They indeed remember the names of abundance of places.”—­Spect., No. 474.  “Which created a great dispute between the young and old men.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. ii, p. 127.  “Then shall be read the Apostles’ or Nicene Creed.”—­Com.  Prayer, p. 119.  “The rules concerning the perfect tenses and supines of verbs are Lily’s.”—­King Henry’s Gram., p. iv.  “It was read by the high and the low, the learned and illiterate.”—­Johnson’s Life of Swift.  “Most commonly, both the pronoun and verb are understood.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. viii.  “To signify the thick and slender enunciation of tone.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alph., p. 9.  “The difference between a palatial and guttural aspirate is very small.”—­Ib., p. 12.  “Leaving it to waver between the figurative and literal sense.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 154.  “Whatever verb will not admit of both an active and passive signification.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 31. “The is often set before adverbs in the comparative or superlative degree.”—­Ib., p. 15; Kirkham’s Gram., 66.  “Lest any should fear the effect of such a change upon the present or succeeding age of writers.”—­Fowle’s Common School Gram., p. 5.  “In all these measures, the accents are to be placed on even syllables; and every line is, in general, more melodious, as this rule is more strictly observed.”—­L.  Murray’s Octavo Gram, p. 256; Jamieson’s Rhet., 307.  “How many numbers do nouns appear to have?  Two, the singular and plural.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 8.  “How many persons?  Three persons—­the first, second, and third.”—­Ib., p. 10.  “How many cases?  Three—­the nominative, possessive and objective.”—­Ib., p. 12.

   “Ah! what avails it me, the flocks to keep,
    Who lost my heart while I preserv’d sheep.” 
        POPE’S WORKS:  British Poets, Vol. vi, p. 309:  Lond., 1800.

LESSON III.—­OMIT ARTICLES.

“The negroes are all the descendants of Africans.”—­Morse’s Geog.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the article the before descendants, is useless to the construction, and injurious to the sense.  But, according to a principle on page 225th, “Needless articles should be omitted; they seldom fail to pervert the sense.”  Therefore, the should be here omitted; thus, “The negroes are all descendants of Africans.”]