should any teacher prefer to do it"--Ib., p. 132. "The three angles of a right-angled triangle were equal to two right angles in the days of Moses, as well as now."--GOODELL: Liberator, Vol. xi, p. 4. "But now two paces of the vilest earth is room enough."--Beaut. of Shak., p. 126. "Latin and French, as the World now goes, is by every one acknowledged to be necessary."--Locke, on Ed., p. 351. "These things, that he will thus learn by sight, and have by roat in his Memory, is not all, I confess, that he is to learn upon the Globes."--Ib., p. 321. "Henry: if John shall meet me, I will hand him your note."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 261. "They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times."--Blair's Rhet., p. 329. "Cato reminded him of many warnings he had gave him."--Goldsmith's Rome, i, 114. "The Wages is small. The Compasses is broken."--Fisher's Gram., p. 95. "Prepare thy heart for prayer, lest thou temptest God."--Life of Luther, p. 83. "That a soldier should fly is a shameful thing."--Adam's Lat. Gram., p. 155. "When there is two verbs which are together."--Woodworth's Gram., p. 27. "Interjections are words used to express some passion of the mind; and is followed by a note of admiration!"--Infant School Gram., p. 126. "And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth."--2 Samuel, xviii, 25. "The opinions of the few must be overruled, and submit to the opinions of the many."--Webster's Essays, p. 56. "One of the principal difficulties which here occurs, has been already hinted."--Blair's Rhet., p. 391. "With milky blood the heart is overflown."--Thomson, Castle of Ind. "No man dare solicit for the votes of hiz nabors."--Webster's Essays, p. 344. "Yet they cannot, and they have no right to exercise it."--Ib., p. 56. "In order to make it be heard over their vast theatres."--Blair's Rhet., p. 471. "Sometimes, however, the relative and its clause is placed before the antecedent and its clause."--Bullions, Lat. Gram., p. 200.
"Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
Does sometimes counsel take--and sometimes tea."
--Kames, El. of Crit., i, 321.
EXERCISE VI.--PARTICIPLES.
"On the other hand, the degrading or vilifying an object, is done successfully by ranking it with one that is really low."--Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 50. "The magnifying or diminishing objects by means of comparison, proceeds from the same cause."--Ib., i, 239. "Gratifying the affection will also contribute to my own happiness."--Ib., i, 53. "The pronouncing syllables in a high or a low tone."--Ib., ii, 77. "The crowding into one period or thought different figures of speech, is not less faulty than crowding metaphors in that manner."--Ib., ii, 234. "To approve is acknowledging we ought to do a thing; and to condemn is owning we ought not to do it."--Burlamaqui, on Law, p. 39. "To be provoked that God suffers men to act thus, is claiming to govern the word in his stead."--Secker. "Let every subject be well understood before passing on to another."--Infant School Gram., p. 18. "Doubling the t in bigotted is apt to lead to an erroneous accentuation of the word on the second syllable."--Churchill's Gram., p. 22. "Their compelling the man to serve was an act of tyranny."--Webster's Essays, p. 54. "One of the greatest misfortunes of the French tragedy is, its being always written in rhyme."--Blair's Rhet., p. 469. "Horace entitles his satire 'Sermones,' and seems not to have intended rising much higher than prose put into numbers."--Ib., p. 402. "Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the afflicted, yield more pleasure than we receive from those actions which respect only ourselves."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 238. "But when we attempt to go a step beyond this, and inquire what is the cause of regularity and variety producing in our minds the sensation of beauty, any reason we can assign is extremely imperfect."--Blair's Rhet., p. 29. "In an author's writing with propriety, his being free of the two former faults seems implied."--Ib., p. 94. "To prevent our being carried away by that torrent of false and frivolous taste."--Ib., p. 12. "When we are unable to assign the reasons of our being pleased."--Ib., p. 15. "An adjective will not make good sense without joining it to a noun."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 12. "What is said respecting sentences being inverted?"--Ib., p. 71. "Though he admits of all the other cases, made use of by the Latins."--Bicknell's Gram., p. viii. "This indeed, is accounting but feebly for its use in this instance."--Wright's Gram., p. 148. "The knowledge of what passes in the mind is necessary for the understanding the Principles of Grammar."--Brightland's Gram., p. 73. "By than's being used instead of as, it is not asserted that the former has as much fruit as the latter."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 207. "Thus much for the Settling your Authority over your Children."--Locke, on Ed., p. 58.
EXERCISE VII.--ADVERBS.
"There can scarce be a greater Defect in a Gentleman, than not to express himself well either in Writing or Speaking."--Locke, on Ed., p. 335. "She seldom or ever wore a thing twice in the same way."--Castle Rackrent, p. 84. "So can I give no reason, nor I will not."--Beauties of Shak., p. 45. "Nor I know not where I did lodge last night."--Ib., p. 270. "It is to be presumed they would become soonest proficient in Latin."--Burn's Gram., p. xi. "The difficulty of which has not been a little increased by that variety."--Ward's Pref. to Lily's Gram., p. xi. "That full endeavours be used in every monthly meeting to seasonably end all business or cases that come before them."--N. E. Discipline, p. 44. "In minds where they had scarce any footing before."--Spectator, No. 566. "The negative form is when the adverb not is used."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 61. "The interrogative form is when a question is asked."--Ibid. "The finding out the Truth ought to be his whole Aim."--Brightland's Gram., p. 239. "Mention the first instance when that is used in preference to who, whom, or which."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 96. "The plot
