Part 240 (1/2)
”Birds_ is a noun; it is the _coave naave _a na creature”--_Bicknell cor_ ”The steps of a _flight of stairs_ ought to be accoht to be accoht an emblem, more than a simile, to be founded on _a_ low or familiar _object_”--_Id_ ”Whatever the Latin has not from the Greek, it has from the _Gothic_”--_Tooke cor_ ”The _mint_, and _the office of the secretary of state_, are neat buildings”--_The Friend cor_ ”The scenes of dead and still _existence_ are apt to pall upon us”--_Blair cor_ ”And Thoelical _doctor_ and the subtle, are the brightest stars in the scholastic constellation”--_Lit Hist cor_ ”The English language has threethe _sexes_”--_Murray et al cor_; also _R C S_the sexes_”--_Jaudon cor_ ”There are three ways of distinguishi+ng the _sexes_”--_Lennie et al cor_; also _Merchant ”The sexes are_ distinguished in three ways”--_Maunder cor_ ”Neither discourse in general, nor poetry in particular, can be called altogether an imitative _art_”--_Dr Blair cor_
”Do we for this the Gods and conscience brave, That one may rule and _all_ the rest _enslave_?”--_Rowe cor_
LESSON III--ADJECTIVES
”There is a deal _more_ of heads, than _of_ either heart or horns”--_Barclay cor_ ”For, of all villains, I think he has the _most improper nariest_ name”--_Id_ ”I am _surprised_ to see so much of the distribution, and _so raue”--_Priestley cor_ ”Nor did the Duke of Burgundy bring him _any_ assistance”--_Hume and Priestley cor_ ”Else he will find it difficult to htland cor_ ”Are there any adjectives which forrees of comparison _in a manner_ peculiar to themselves?”--_Inf S Gram cor_ ”Yet _all_ the verbs are of the indicative mood”--_Lowth cor_ ”The word _candidate_ is _absolute_, in the _nominative_ case”--_L Murray cor_ ”An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the _last_ accented”--_L Murray, D Blair, Jamieson, Kirkham, Bullions, Guy, Merchant_, and others ”A Dactyl has the first syllable accented, and the _last two [syllables_] unaccented”--_Murray et al cor_ ”It is proper to begin with a capital the first word of every book, chapter, letter, note, or[553] other piece of writing”--_Jaudon's Gram_, p 195; _John Flint's_, 105 ”Five and seven make twelve, and one _more_ makes thirteen”--_L Murray cor_ ”I wish to cultivate a _nearer_ acquaintance with you”--_Id_ ”Let us consider the means _which are proper_ to effect our purpose” Or thus: ”Let us consider _what_ means _are_ proper to effect our purpose”--_Id_ ”Yet they are of _so_ similar a nature as readily to mix and blend”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”The Latin is formed on the same model, but _is_ reat_ pains have been taken” Or thus: ”I know very well how ereat_ deal of care”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”Because the reat_ measure, if not totally, insensible”--_Kames cor_ ”Motives of reason and interest _alone_ are not sufficient”--_Id_ ”To render the composition distinct in its parts, and on the whole _impressive_”--_Id_ ”_A_ and _an_ are named _the Indefinite article_, because they denote _indifferently any_ one thing of a kind”--_Maunder cor_ ”_The_ is named _the Definite article_, because it points out sos_”--_Id_ ”So much depends upon the proper construction of sentences, that, in _any_ sort of composition, we cannot be too strict in our attention to it” Or:--”that, in _every_ sort of coht to be very_ strict in our attention to it”
Or:--”that, in _no_ sort of composition, _can we be_ too strict,” &c--_Dr
Blair cor_ ”_Every_ sort of decla was carried on by the, _were_ carried on by them”--_Id_ ”The _former_ has, on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never attains”--_Id_ ”When the words, _therefore, consequently, accordingly_, and the like, are used in connexion with conjunctions, they are adverbs”--_Kirkham cor_ ”Rude nations make _few_ or no allusions to the productions of the arts”--_Jamieson cor_ ”While two of her maids knelt on _each_ side of her” Or, if there were only two , and not four: ”While two of her maids knelt _one_ on _each_ side of her”--_Mirror cor_ ”The personal pronouns _of the third person_, differ fro and use, as follows”--_Bullions cor_ ”It was happy for the state, that Fabius continued in the com _of the former_ was a check _on_ the vivacity _of the latter_”--_L Murray and others cor_: see _Maunders Graht_, in the preceding sentences, are _both_ in the present tense” Or thus: ”If it be objected, that _in all_ the preceding sentences the words _ht_ are in the present tense”--_L Murray cor_ ”But it will be well, if you turn to them now and then” Or:--”if you turn to them _occasionally_”--_Bucke cor_ ”That every part should have a dependence on, and mutually contribute to support, _every_ other”--_Rollin cor_ ”The phrase, '_Good, my lord_,' is not common, and _is_ low” Or:--”is _uncommon_, and low”--_Priestley cor_
”That brother should not ith brother, And _one_ devour _or vex an_ other”--_Cowper cor_
LESSON IV--pronOUNS
”If I can contribute to _our_ country's glory” Or:--”to _your glory_ and _that of my country_”--_Goldsmith cor_ ”As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each _its_ verb”--_Lowth cor_ ”He is likewise required to make examples _for_ himself” Or: ”He _himself_ is likewise required to make exa, _it will_ pervert and confound the , the_will be perverted_ and _confounded_ wholly” Or: ”If _we place_ the e wholly”--_L Murray cor_; also _Dr Blair_ ”It was this, that characterized the great uish the moderns ould tread in their steps”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”I areat enemy to implicit faith, as well the Popish as _the_ Presbyterian; _for_, in that, _the Papists and the Presbyterians_ are _very_ much alike”--_Barclay cor_ ”Will he thence dare to say, the apostle held _an other_ Christ than _him_ that died?”--_Id_ ”_Why_ need you be anxious about this event?” Or: ”What need _have_ you to be anxious about this event?”--_Collier cor_ ”If a substantive can be placed after the verb, _the latter_ is active”--_A Murray cor_ ”_To see_ bad eement to virtue, _to see_ badpersons, _to be_ preserved froarden enclosed”--_Id_ ”_At_ the court of Queen Elizabeth, _where all_ was prudence and economy”--_Bullions cor_ ”It is no wonder, if such a man did not shi+ne at the court of Queen Elizabeth, as _so remarkable_ for _her_ prudence and economy”--_Priestley, Murray, et al cor_ ”A defective verb is _a verb_ that wants some parts _The defective verbs_ are chiefly the _auxiliaries_ and _the_ iiven _to the_ ned to theive _such_ infor”--_M'Culloch cor_ ”When the article _a, an_, or _the_, precedes the participle, _the latter_ also becomes a noun”--_Merchant cor_ ”To soiven, which custoement must determine”--_L Murray cor_ ”Many writers affect to subjoin to any word the preposition hich it is compounded, or _that_ of which it _literally_ implies the idea”--_Id and Priestley cor_
”Say, dost thou know Vectidius? _Whoely stretch?”--_Dryden cor_
LESSON V--VERBS
”We _should_ naturally expect, that the word _depend_ would require _from_ after it”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 158 ”A dish which they pretend _is_ made of emerald”--_L Murray cor_ ”For the very nature of a sentence implies _that_ one proposition _is_ expressed”--_Murray's Gram_, 8vo, p
311 ”Without a careful attention to the sense, we _should_ be naturally led, by the rules of syntax, to refer it to the rising and setting of the sun”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”For any rules that can be given, on this subject, _ht, if eloquence hat he conceives it to be”--_Id_ ”There I _should_ prefer a more free and diffuse manner”--_Id_ ”Yet that they also _resereed_ in certain qualities”--_Id_ ”But, since hean other_ in her place”--_Id_ ”But these are far fro so frequent, or so common, as _they have_ been supposed _to be_”--_Id_ ”We are not _led_ to assign a wrong place to the pleasant or _the_ painful feelings”--_Kareater iht”--_Id_ ”Since these qualities are both coarse and common, _let us_ find out the mark of a man of probity”--_Collier cor_ ”Cicero did what no man had ever done before hirapher cor_ ”Then there can _rehtland cor_ ”I have observed _that_ some satirists use the term” Or: ”I have observed some satirists _to_ use the term”--_Bullions cor_ ”Such men are ready to despond, or _to become_ enemies”--_Webster cor_ ”Cos”--_Inf S Gram cor_ ”To make ourselves _heard_ by one to e address ourselves”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”That, in reading poetry, he e of its correctness, and _may_ relish its beauties” Or:--”and _to_ relish its beauties”--_L Murray cor_ ”On the stretch to keep pace with the author, and _coht have been sold for iven to the poor”--_Bible cor_ ”He is a beaht behind”--_Ossian cor_ ”No part of this incident ought to have been represented, but _the whole should have been_ reserved for a narrative”--_Ka theht to ruin_” Or: ”_When_ the rulers and people _debauch_ the_ ruin on a country”--_Ware cor_ ”When _a title_, (as _Doctor, Miss, Master_, &c,) is prefixed to a name, the _latter only_, of the tords, is commonly _varied to form the_ plural; as, 'The _Doctor Nettletons_,'--'The two _Miss Hudsons_'”--_A Murray cor_ ”Wherefore that field _has been_ called, '_The Field of Blood_,' unto this day”--_Bible cor_ ”To comprehend the situations of other countries, which perhaps _it_ may be necessary for him to explore”--_Dr Brown cor_ ”We content ourselves noith fewer conjunctive particles than our ancestors _used_”--_Priestley cor_ ”And ill be chiefly liable to make mistakes where others have _erred_ before them”--_Id_ ”The voice of nature _and that of_ revelation _unite_” Or: ”_Revelation and_ the voice of nature _unite_” Or: ”The voice of nature _unites with revelation_” Or: ”The voice of nature unites _with that of_ revelation”--_Wayland cor_
”This adjective, you see, we can't aded to 'WORSE,' _the word is_ just and fit”--_Tobitt cor_
LESSON VI--PARTICIPLES
”Its application is not arbitrary, _or dependent_ on the caprice of readers”--_L Murray cor_ ”This is the ned for the benefit of private learners”--_Id_ ”A man, he tells us, ordered by his will, to have _a statue erected_ for him”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”Fro_ too far out of the road of ordinary thought”--_Id_ ”In the co_ from hand to hand”--_Dr Webster cor_ ”He pays s”--_Id_ ”I would not be understood to consider _the_ singing _of_ songs as crireat ”--_Editor of Waller cor_ ”Did they ever bear a testi _of_ books?”-- _Bates's Rep cor_ ”Exclaations”--_Hist of Print, cor_ ”Which cannot fail _to prove_ of service”--_Sures as would make them _incorporate_ easily and firmly”--_Beat, or Mur cor_ ”_After_ the rule and example, _there_ are practical inductive questions”--_J Flint cor_ ”I think _it_ will be an advantage, _that I have_ collected _s”--_Priestley cor_ ”He was eager _to recoood lady was careful _to serve_ ”--_Id_ ”No revelation would have been given, had the light of nature been sufficient, in such a sense as to render one _superfluous_ and useless”--_Bp Butler cor_ ”Description, again, is _a representation which raises_ in the mind the conception of an object, by means of some arbitrary or instituted sy the expectation of the hearers, when they look for _an end_” Or:--”for _the termination of_ our _discourse_”--_Id_ ”There is a distinction, which, in the use of them, is _worthy_ of attention”-- _Maunder cor_ ”A model has been contrived, which is not very expensive, and _which_ is easily ed”--_Ed Reporter cor_ ”The conspiracy was the more easily discovered, _because the conspirators were_ many”--_L
Murray cor_ ”Nearly ten years _had_ that celebrated work _been published_, before its importance was at all understood”--_Id_ ”_That_ the _sceptre is_ ostensibly grasped by a feovern the Declaration of Senti of men's lives when the world needed to be peopled, and _the subsequent_ shortening _of_ them when that necessity _had_ ceased”--_Rev John Brown cor_ ”Before the performance commences, we _see_ displayed the insipid formalities of the prelusive scene”--_Kirkha _of_ goods, or _the_ e _of_ capital in anyway, in transactions connected with that foreign traffic”--_Brougham cor_ ”Even abstract ideas have soative conferred_ upon thees _y_ into _i_, when _the y is preceded_ by a consonant”--_Kirkham's Gram_, p
25 ”The term PROPER is from the French _propre_, own, or the Latin _proprius_; and _a Proper noun_ is _so called, because it_ is peculiar to the individual _or fa the na equally to several or many; and _a Common noun_ is _so called, because it is common_ to every individual comprised in the class”--_Fowler cor_
”Thus oft by mariners are _showed_ (Unless the men of Kent are liars) Earl Godwin's castles _overflowed_, And palace-roofs, and steeple- spires”--_Swift cor_
LESSON VII--ADVERBS
”He spoke to every ht and language act and react upon each other”--_Murray's Key_, p
264 ”Thought and expression act _and react_ upon each other”--_Murray's Gram_, 8vo, p 356 ”They have neither the leisure nor the e, except what lies within the contracted circle of their several professions”--_Campbell's Rhet_, p 160 ”Before they are capable of understanding _, of _most_ other branches of education”--_Olney cor_ ”There is _no_ more beauty in one of them, than in _an other_”--_L Murray cor_ ”Which appear to be constructed according to _no_ certain rule”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”The vehe becaeneral_”--_Id_ ”_Not_ all languages, however, agree in this mode of expression” Or: ”This es”--_Id_ ”The great occasion of setting _apart_ this particular day”--_Atterbury cor_ ”He isnow, than _he was_ formerly”--_L Murray cor_ ”They are placed before a participle, _without dependence_ on the rest of the sentence”--_Id_ ”This opinion _does not appear to have been_ well considered” Or: ”This opinion appears to _have been fore merits a full explication; and _merits it_ the more, because distinct ideas are, perhaps, _but rarely_ for_ it”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”In the uished” Or:--”he is not so _highly_ distinguished”--_Id_ ”_Whether_ the author was altogether happy in the choice of his subject, ard to this reat error in the common practice”--_Webster cor_ ”This order is the very order of the hus we are sensible of, a means to cos _that_ are _already known, its_out_ those that are not so”--_Foreed, and _does not fear_ want, when he has no money?”--_C
Leslie cor_ ”Which the authors of this work consider of little or no use”--_Wilbur and Liv cor_ ”And here indeed the distinction between these two classes begins to be _obscure_”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”But this is a manner which deserves to be _avoided_” Or:--”which _does not deserve_ to be imitated”--_Id_ ”And, in this department, a person effects _very_ little, _whenever_ he attenifies _, is neuter”--_Ash cor_ ”I hope to tire _but little_ those whom I shall not happen to please”--_Rambler cor_ ”Who were utterly unable to pronounce some letters, and _who pronounced_ others very indistinctly”--_Sheridan cor_ ”The learner may point out the active, passive, and neuter verbs in the following exa them_” Or: ”The learner may point out the active, _the_ passive, and _the_ neuter verbs in the following exa them so_”--_C Adams cor_ ”These words are _allibly_ nonsense trickles froue!
Hoeet the periods, neither said nor sung!”--_Pope cor_
LESSON VIII--CONJUNCTIONS
”Who, at least, either knew not, _or did not love_ to make, a distinction”