“Yet such his acts, as Greeks unborn shall tell,
    And curse the battle where their fathers fell.”
        —­Pope, Il., B. x, I. 61.

UNDER NOTE X.—­REPEAT THE NOUN.

“Youth may be thoughtful, but it is not very common.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 85.  “A proper name is that given to one person or thing.”—­Bartlett’s School Manual, ii, 27.  “A common name is that given to many things of the same sort.”—­Ibid. “This rule is often violated; some instances of which are annexed.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 149; Ingersoll’s, 237.  “This is altogether careless writing.  It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 106.  “Every inversion which is not governed by this rule, will be disrelished by every one of taste.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 62.  “A proper diphthong is that in which both the vowels are sounded.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 9; Alger’s, 11; Bacon’s, 8; Merchant’s, 9; Hiley’s, 3; and others.  “An improper Diphthong is one in which only one of the two Vowels is sounded.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 5.  “Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and his descendants, are called Hebrews.”—­Wood’s Dict. “Every word in our language, of more than one syllable, has one of them distinguished from the rest in this manner.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 236.  “Two consonants proper to begin a word must not be separated; as, fa-ble, sti-fle.  But when they come between two vowels, and are such as cannot begin a word, they must be divided; as, ut-most, un-der.”—­Ib., p. 22.  “Shall the intellect alone feel no pleasures in its energy, when we allow them to the grossest energies of appetite and sense?”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 298; Murray’s Gram., 289.  “No man hath a propensity to vice as such:  on the contrary, a wicked deed disgusts him, and makes him abhor the author.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 66.  “The same that belong to nouns, belong also to pronouns.”—­Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 8.  “What is Language?  It is the means of communicating thoughts from one to another.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 15.  “A simple word is that which is not made up of more than one.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 4; Gould’s, p. 4.  “A compound word is that which is made up of two or more words.”—­Ib. “When a conjunction is to be supplied, it is called Asyndeton.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 235.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­PLACE OF THE RELATIVE.

“It gives a meaning to words, which they would not have.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 244.  “There are many words in the English language, that are sometimes used as adjectives, and sometimes as adverbs.”—­Ib., p. 114.  “Which do not more effectually show the varied intentions of the mind, than the auxiliaries do which are used to form the potential mood.”—­Ib.,