and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing us into some acquaintance with the writer.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 370; Mack’s Dissertation in his Gram., p. 175.  “Richard’s restoration to respectability, depends on his paying his debts.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 176.  “Their supplying ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood.”—­Ib., p. 375.  “Her veiling herself and shedding tears,” &c., “her upbraiding Paris for his cowardice,” &c.—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 433.  “A preposition may be known by its admitting after it a personal pronoun, in the objective case.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 28; Alger’s, 14; Bacon’s, 10; Merchant’s, 18; and others.  “But this forms no just objection to its denoting time.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 65.  “Of men’s violating or disregarding the relations which God has placed them in here.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 164.  “Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man’s killing his antagonist in a duel.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 295.  “His reminding them.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 123.  “This mistake was corrected by his preceptor’s causing him to plant some beans.”—­Ib., p. 235.  “Their neglecting this was ruinous.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 82.  “That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing the others as ‘finite.’”—­Felch’s Gram., p. 10.  “His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing it.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 119.

UNDER NOTE III.—­CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.

“An allegory is the saying one thing, and meaning another; a double-meaning or dilogy is the saying only one thing, but having two in view.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 461.  “A verb may generally be distinguished, by its making sense with any of the personal pronouns, or the word to before it.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 28; Alger’s, 13; Bacon’s, 10; Comly’s, and many others.  “A noun may, in general, be distinguished by its taking an article before it, or by its making sense of itself.”—­Merchant’s Gram., p. 17; Murray’s, 27; &c.  “An Adjective may usually be known by its making sense with the addition of the word thing:  as, a good thing; a bad thing.”—­Same Authors.  “It is seen in the objective case, from its denoting the object affected by the act of leaving.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 44.  “It is seen in the possessive case, from its denoting the possessor of something.”—­Ibid. “The name man is caused by the adname whatever to be twofold subjective case, from its denoting, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks.”—­Ib., p. 56. “When, as used in the last line, is a connective, from its joining that line to the other part of the sentence.”—­Ib.,