Pericles gained such an ascendant over the minds of the Athenians,
    that he might be said to attain a monarchical power in Athens.

    Thou, Lord, who hath permitted affliction to come upon us, shall
    deliver us from it in due time.

    That writer has given us an account of the manner in which
    Christianity has formerly been propagated among the heathens.

    Though the measure be mysterious, it is not unworthy of your
    attention.

    In his conduct was treachery, and in his words, faithless
    professions.  After I visited Europe, I returned to America.

    I have not, nor shall not, consent to a proposal so unjust.

    I had intended yesterday to have walked out, but I have been again
    disappointed.

    Five and eight makes thirteen; five from eight leaves three.

    If he goes to Saratoga next week, it will make eight times that he
    has visited that renowned watering place.

    I could not convince him, that a forgiving disposition was nobler
    than a revengeful one.  I consider the first, one of the brightest
    virtues that ever was or can be possessed by man.

    The college consists of one great, and several smaller edifices.

    He would not believe, that honesty was the best policy.

    The edifice was erected sooner than I expected it to have been.

    Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life;
    and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.

    If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth
    he not leave the ninety and nine, &c.?

    He might have completed his task sooner, but he could not do it
    better.

The most ignorant and the most savage tribes of men, when they have looked round on the earth, and on the heavens, could not avoid ascribing their origin to some invisible, designing cause, and felt a propensity to adore their Creator.

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CRITICAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS.

OBSERVATION 1.  The following absurd phrases so common in the sacred desk and elsewhere, should be carefully avoided by all who regard common sense:—­“Sing the two first and three last verses.”  Just as if there could be more than one first and one last.  There may be a first two, a second two, &c.; a first three, a second three, a last three.  “Within the two last centuries;” “The second syllable of the three first words;” “The three first of these orthoepists have no rule by which their pronunciation is regulated:”—­“the last two centuries;” “the first three words;” “the first three of these orthoepists.”

2.  Adjectives should not be used to express the manner of action.  “The higher the river, the swifter it flows;” “James learns easier than Juliet; he sees deeper into the millstone than she:”—­“the more swiftly it flows;” “learns more easily; farther into the millstone.”  “He conducted the boldest of any:”—­“the most boldly.”