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138. "In guarding against such a use of meats and drinks."--Ash cor. "Worship is a homage due from man to his Creator."--Monitor cor. "Then a eulogium on the deceased was pronounced."--Grimshaw cor. "But for Adam there was not found a help meet for him."--Bible cor. "My days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth."--Id. "A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof."--Id. "The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; a high hill, as the hill of Bashan."--Id. "But I do declare it to have been a holy offering, and such a one too as was to be once for all."--Penn cor. "A hope that does not make ashamed those that have it."--Barclay cor. "Where there is not a unity, we may exercise true charity."--Id. "Tell me, if in any of these such a union can be found?"--Dr. Brown cor.

   "Such holy drops her tresses steeped,
    Though 'twas a hero's eye that weeped."--Sir W. Scott cor.

LESSON II.--ARTICLES INSERTED.

"This veil of flesh parts the visible and the invisible world."--Sherlock cor. "The copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions operate differently on the verb."--L. Murray cor. "Every combination of a preposition and an article with the noun."--Id. "Either signifies, 'the one or the other:' neither imports, 'not either;' that is, 'not the one nor the other.'"--Id. "A noun of multitude may have a pronoun or a verb agreeing with it, either of the singular number or of the plural."--Bucke cor. "The principal copulative conjunctions are, and, as, both, because, for, if, that, then, since."--Id. "The two real genders are the masculine and the feminine."--Id. "In which a mute and a liquid are represented by the same character, th."--Gardiner cor. "They said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee."--Bible cor. "They indeed remember the names of an abundance of places."--Spect. cor. "Which created a great dispute between the young and the old men."--Goldsmith cor. "Then shall be read the Apostles' or the Nicene Creed."--Com. Prayer cor. "The rules concerning the perfect tenses and the supines of verbs are Lily's."--K. Henry's Gr. cor. "It was read by the high and the low, the learned and the illiterate."--Dr. Johnson cor. "Most commonly, both the pronoun and the verb are understood."--Buchanan cor. "To signify the thick and the slender enunciation of tone."--Knight cor. "The difference between a palatial and a guttural aspirate is very small."--Id. "Leaving it to waver between the figurative and the literal sense."--Jamieson cor. "Whatever verb will not admit of both an active and a passive signification."--Alex. Murray cor. "The is often set before adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."--Id. and Kirkham cor. "Lest any should fear the effect of such a change, upon the present or the succeeding age of writers."--Fowle cor. "In all these measures, the accents are to be placed on the even syllables; and every line is, in general, the more melodious, as this rule is the more strictly observed."--L. Murray et al. cor. "How many numbers do nouns appear to have? Two: the singular and the plural."--R. C. Smith cor. "How many persons? Three; the first, the second, and the third."--Id. "How many cases? Three; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Id.

   "Ah! what avails it me, the flocks to keep,
    Who lost my heart while I preserv'd the sheep:"--or, "my sheep."

LESSON III.--ARTICLES OMITTED.

"The negroes are all descendants of Africans."--Morse cor. "Sybarite was applied as a term of reproach to a man of dissolute manners."--Id. "The original signification of knave was boy."--Webster cor. "The meaning of these will be explained, for greater clearness and precision."--Bucke cor. "What sort of noun is man? A noun substantive, common."--Buchanan cor. "Is what ever used as three kinds of pronoun?"--Kirkham's Question cor. [Answer: "No; as a pronoun, it is either relative or interrogative."--G. Brown.] "They delighted in having done it, as well as in the doing of it."--R. Johnson cor. "Both parts of this rule are exemplified in the following sentences."--Murray cor. "He has taught them to hope for an other and better world."--Knapp cor. "It was itself only preparatory to a future, better, and perfect revelation."--Keith cor. "Es then makes an other and distinct syllable."--Brightland cor. "The eternal clamours of a selfish and factious people."--Dr. Brown cor. "To those whose taste in elocution is but little cultivated."--Kirkham cor. "They considered they had but a sort of gourd to rejoice in."--Bennet cor. "Now there was but one such bough, in a spacious and shady grove."--Bacon cor. "Now the absurdity of this latter supposition will go a great way towards making a man easy."--Collier cor. "This is true of mathematics, with which taste has but little to do."--Todd cor. "To stand prompter to a pausing yet ready comprehension."--Rush cor. "Such an obedience as the yoked and tortured negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer."--Chalmers cor. "For the gratification of a momentary and unholy desire."--Wayland cor. "The body is slenderly put together; the mind, a rambling sort of thing."--Collier cor. "The only nominative to the verb, is officer."--Murray cor. "And though in general it ought to be admitted, &c."--Blair cor. "Philosophical writing admits of a polished, neat, and elegant style."--Id. "But notwithstanding this defect, Thomson is a strong and beautiful describer."--Id. "So should he be sure to be ransomed, and many poor men's lives should be saved."--Shak. cor.

   "Who felt the wrong, or feared it, took alarm,
    Appealed to law, and Justice lent her arm."--Pope cor.

LESSON IV.--ARTICLES CHANGED.

"To enable us to avoid too frequent a repetition of the same word."--Bucke cor. "The for-