Part 180 (1/2)

”Not only the nature of the thoughts and sentiives English poetry a character, which separates it widely from common prose”--_Id, ib_, p 178

”Men of sound, discri, and philosophicalstudy, patient investigation, and extensive acquirees to i, that should it be unwisely abandoned, it will be long before another equal in beauty, stability and usefulness, be produced in its stead”--_Id, ib_, p 191

”The Article _The_, on the other hand, is used to restrict, and is therefore termed _Definite_ Its proper office is to call the attention to a particular individual or class, or to any nuular or plural number”--_Id, ib_, p 193

”Hence also the infinitive mood, a participle, a ether the subject of discourse, or the object of a verb or preposition, and being the naarded as nouns, and are usually called 'substantive phrases;' as '_To play_ is pleasant,' '_His being an expert dancer_ is no recommendation,' 'Let your motto be _Honesty is the best policy_'”--_Id, ib_, p 194

”In accordance with his definition, Murray has divided verbs into three classes, _Active, Passive_, and _Neuter_, and includes in the first class _transitive_ verbs only, and in the last all verbs used intransitively”--_Id, ib_, p 200

”Moreover, as the name of the speaker or the person spoken to is seldo used in its stead,) a noun is very seldom in the first person, not often in the second, and almost never in either, unless it be a proper noun, or a common noun personified”--_Bullions, Pract Les_, p 13

”In using the above exercises it will save ht to say every thing belonging to the nouns in the feords possible, and to say them always in the same order as above”--_Id, ib_, p 21

”In any phrase or sentence the adjectives qualifying a nounthe phrase 'What kind of,' to the noun in the form of a question; as, What kind of a horse? What kind of a stone? What kind of a way? The word containing the answer to the question is an adjective”--_Id, ib_, p 22

”In the following exercise let the pupil first point out the nouns, and then the adjectives; and tell how he knows the sentences point out the improper ellipsis Shohy it is improper, and correct it”--_Id, ib_, p 124

”SINGULAR pronOUNS PLURAL pronOUNS

1 I--a s s s sht's Philos Gram_, p 98

CHAPTER II--UTTERANCE

Utterance Is the art or act of vocal expression It includes the principles of articulation, of pronunciation, and of elocution

SECTION I--OF ARTICULATION

Articulation is the for of words; by the voice, with reference to their component letters and sounds

ARTICLE I--OF THE DEFINITION

Articulation differs froard to the ele accent[470] A recent author defines it thus: ”ARTICULATION is the act of fore”--_Coood articulation is the _perfect_ utterance of the elee”--_Ibid_

An other describes it e, is the for of the human voice, accompanied by the breath, in some few consonants, into the simple and cos, by the assistance of the organs of speech; and the uniting of those vowels, consonants, and diphthongs, together, so as to fore”--_Bolles's Dict, Introd_, p 7

ARTICLE II--OF GOOD ARTICULATION

Correctness in articulation is of such i becoible