nature is acquired by the spelling book.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 21.  “They do not cut it off:  except in a few words; as, due, duly, &c.”—­Ib., p. 24.  “Whether passing in such time, or then finished.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 31.  “It hath disgusted hundreds of that confession.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 269.  “But they have egregiously fallen in that inconveniency.”—­Ib., iii, 73.  “For is not this to set nature a work?”—­Ib., i, 270.  “And surely that which should set all its springs a-work, is God.”—­ATTERBURY:  in Blair’s Rhet., p. 298.  “He could not end his treatise without a panegyric of modern learning.”—­TEMPLE:  ib., p. 110.  “These are entirely independent on the modulation of the voice.”—­Walker’s Elocution, p. 308.  “It is dear of a penny.  It is cheap of twenty pounds.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 274.  “It will be despatched, in most occasions, without resting.”—­Locke. “‘0, the pain the bliss in dying.’”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 129.  “When [he is] presented with the objects or the facts.”—­Smith’s Productive Gram., p. 5.  “I will now present you with a synopsis.”—­Ib., p. 25.  “The conjunction disjunctive connects sentences, by expressing opposition of meaning in various degrees.”—­Ib., p. 38.  “I shall now present you with a few lines.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram, p. 13.  “Common names of Substantives are those, which stand for things generally.”—­Ib., p. 31.  “Adjectives in the English language admit no variety in gender, number, or case whatever, except that of the degrees of comparison.”—­Ib., p. 48.  “Participles are adjectives formed of verbs.”—­Ib., p. 63.  “I do love to walk out of a fine summer’s evening.”—­Ib., p. 97.  “An Ellipsis, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words in a sentence.”—­Merchant’s Gram., p. 99.  “The prefix to is generally placed before verbs in the infinitive mood, but before the following verbs it is properly omitted; (viz.) bid, make, see, dare, need, hear, feel, and let; as, He bid me do it; He made me learn; &c.”—­Ib., Stereotype Edition, p. 91; Old Edition, 85.  “The infinitive sometimes follows than, after a comparison; as, I wish nothing more, than to know his fate.”—­Ib., p. 92.  See Murray’s Gram., 8vo, i, 184.  “Or by prefixing the adverbs more or less, in the comparative, and most or least, in the superlative.”—­Merchant’s Gram., p. 36.  “A pronoun is a word used instead of a noun.”—­Ib., p. 17; Comly, 15.  “In monosyllables the Comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er.”—­Perley’s Gram., p. 21.  “He has particularly named these, in distinction to others.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. vi.  “To revive the decaying taste of antient Literature.”—­Ib., p. xv.  “He found the greatest difficulty of writing.”—­HUME:  in Priestley’s Gram., p. 159.