“A Sybarite was applied as a term of reproach to a man of dissolute manners.”—­Morse’s Ancient Geog., p. 4.  “The original signification of knave was a boy.”—­Webster’s El.  Spell., p. 136.  “The meaning of these will be explained, for the greater clearness and precision.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 58.  “What Sort of a Noun is Man?  A Noun Substantive common.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 166.  “Is what ever used as three kinds of a pronoun?”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 117.  “They delighted in the having done it, as well as in the doing of it.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 344.  “Both the parts of this rule are exemplified in the following sentences.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 174.  “He has taught them to hope for another and a better world.”—­S.  L. Knapp.  “It was itself only preparatory to a future, a better, and perfect revelation.”—­Keith’s Evid., p. 23. “Es then makes another and a distinct syllable.”—­ Brightland’s Gram., p. 17.  “The eternal clamours of a selfish and a factious people.”—­Brown’s Estimate, i, 74.  “To those whose taste in Elocution is but a little cultivated.”—­Kirkham’s Eloc., p. 65.  “They considered they had but a Sort of a Gourd to rejoice in.”—­Bennet’s Memorial, p. 333.  “Now there was but one only such a bough, in a spacious and shady grove.”—­Bacon’s Wisdom, p. 75.  “Now the absurdity of this latter supposition will go a great way towards the making a man easy.”—­Collier’s Antoninus p. 131.  “This is true of the mathematics, where the taste has but little to do.”—­Todd’s Student’s Manual, p. 331.  “To stand prompter to a pausing, yet a ready comprehension.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 251.  “Such an obedience as the yoked and the tortured negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer.”—­Chalmers’s Serm., p. 90.  “For the gratification of a momentary and an unholy desire.”—­Wayland’s Mor.  Sci., p. 288.  “The body is slenderly put together; the mind a rambling sort of a thing.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 26.  “The only nominative to the verb, is, the officer.”—­Murray’s Gram., ii, 22.  “And though in the general it ought to be admitted, &c.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 376.  “Philosophical writing admits of a polished, a neat, and elegant style.”—­Ib., p. 367.  “But notwithstanding this defect, Thomson is a strong and a beautiful describer.”—­Ib., p. 405.  “So should he be sure to be ransomed, and a many poor men’s lives saved.”—­SHAK.:  Hen. v.

   “Who felt the wrong, or fear’d it, took the alarm,
    Appeal’d to Law, and Justice lent her arm.”—­Pope, p. 406.

LESSON IV.—­CHANGE ARTICLES.

“To enable us to avoid the too frequent repetition of the same word.”—­Bucke’s Gr., p, 52.