“The truth of being, and the truth of knowing are one; differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.”—­Ld.  Bacon.  “Verbs denote states of being, considered as beginning, continuing, ending, being renewed, destroyed, and again repeated, so as to suit any occasion.”—­William Ward’s Gram., p. 41.

“We take it for granted, that we have a competent knowledge and skill, and that we are able to acquit ourselves properly, in our own native tongue; a faculty, solely acquired by use, conducted by habit, and tried by the ear, carries us on without reflection.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. vi.

“I mean the teacher himself; who, stunned with the hum, and suffocated with the closeness of his school-room, has spent the whole day in controlling petulance, exciting indifference to action, striving to enlighten stupidity, and labouring to soften obstinacy.”—­Sir W. Scott.

“The inquisitive mind, beginning with criticism, the most agreeable of all amusements, and finding no obstruction in its progress, advances far into the sensitive part of our nature; and gains imperceptibly a thorough knowledge of the human heart, of its desires, and of every motive to action.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 42.

   “They please, are pleased; they give to get esteem;
    Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.”—­Goldsmith.

LESSON VII.—­ADVERBS.

“How cheerfully, how freely, how regularly, how constantly, how unweariedly, how powerfully, how extensively, he communicateth his convincing, his enlightening, his heart-penetrating, warming, and melting; his soul-quickening, healing, refreshing, directing, and fructifying influence!”—­Brown’s Metaphors, p. 96.

“The passage, I grant, requires to be well and naturally read, in order to be promptly comprehended; but surely there are very few passages worth comprehending, either of verse or prose, that can be promptly understood, when they are read unnaturally and ill.”—­Thelwall’s Lect.  “They waste life in what are called good resolutions—­partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 262.

“A man may, in respect of grammatical purity, speak unexceptionably, and yet speak obscurely and ambiguously; and though we cannot say, that a man may speak properly, and at the same time speak unintelligibly, yet this last case falls more naturally to be considered as an offence against perspicuity, than as a violation of propriety.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 104.

“Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblamably we behaved ourselves among you that believe.”—­1 Thes., ii, 10.

“The question is not, whether they know what is said of Christ in the Scriptures; but whether they know it savingly, truly, livingly, powerfully.”—­Penington’s Works, iii, 28.