Grammars.  “If, however, the members succeeding each other, are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 273; Comly’s, 152; and others.  “Gratitude, when exerted towards one another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man.”—­Mur., p. 287.  “Several verbs in the infinitive mood, having a common dependence, and succeeding one another, are also divided by commas.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 153.  “The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation to each other.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 268; Comly’s, 144; Russell’s, 111; and others.  “When two or more verbs have the same nominative, and immediately follow one another, or two or more adverbs immediately succeed one another, they must be separated by commas.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 145.  “Nouns frequently succeed each other, meaning the same thing.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 63.  “And these two tenses may thus answer one another.”—­Johnson’s Gram. Com., p. 322.  “Or some other relation which two objects bear to one another.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 149.  “That the heathens tolerated each other, is allowed.”—­Gospel its own Witness, p. 76.  “And yet these two persons love one another tenderly.”—­Murray’s E. Reader, p. 112.  “In the six hundredth and first year.”—­Gen., viii, 13.  “Nor is this arguing of his but a reiterate clamour.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 250.  “In severals of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found.”—­Ib., iii, 272.  “Though Alvarez, Despauterius, and other, allow it not to be Plural.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 169.  “Even the most dissipate and shameless blushed at the sight.”—­Lemp.  Dict., w.  Antiochus.  “We feel a superior satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, than that of vegetables.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., 172.  “But this man is so full fraughted with malice.”—­Barclay’s Works, i11, 205.  “That I suggest some things concerning the properest means.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 337.

   “So hand in hand they pass’d, the loveliest pair
    That ever since in love’s embraces met.”
        —­Milton, P. L., B., iv, l. 321.

   “Aim at the high’est, without the high’est attain’d
    Will be for thee no sitting, or not long.”
        —­Id., P. R., B. iv, l. 106.

CHAPTER V.—­PRONOUNS.

A Pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun:  as, The boy loves his book; he has long lessons, and he learns them well.

The pronouns in our language are twenty-four; and their variations are thirty-two:  so that the number of words of this class, is fifty-six.

OBSERVATIONS.