p. 200.  “Is it not charging God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?”—­Ib., p. 171.  “This is not enduring the cross as a disciple of Jesus Christ, but snatching at it like a partizan of Swift’s Jack.”—­Ib., p. 175.  “What is Spelling?  It is combining letters to form syllables and words.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 18.  “It is choosing such letters to compose words,” &c.—­Ibid. “What is Parsing? (1.) It is describing the nature, use, and powers of words.”—­Ib., pp. 22 and 192. (2.) “For parsing is describing the words of a sentence as they are used.”—­Ib., p. 10. (3.) “Parsing is only describing the nature and relations of words as they are used.”—­Ib., p. 11. (4.) “Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is describing facts concerning words; or representing them in their offices and relations as they are.”—­Ib., p. 34. (5.) “Parsing is resolving and explaining words according to the rules of grammar.”—­Ib., p. 326. (6.) “Parsing a word, remember, is enumerating and describing its various relations and qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence.”—­Ib., p. 325. (7.) “For parsing a word is enumerating and describing its various properties and relations to the sentence.”—­Ib., p. 326. (8.) “Parsing a noun is telling of what person, number, gender, and case, it is; and also telling all its grammatical relations in a sentence with respect to other words.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 16. (9.) “Parsing any part of speech is telling all its properties and relations.”—­Ibid. (10.) “Parsing is resolving a sentence into its elements.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 1850, Sec.588.  “The highway of the righteous is, departing from evil.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 168.  “Besides, the first step towards exhibiting truth should be removing the veil of error.”—­Ib., p. 377.  “Punctuation is dividing sentences and the words of sentences, by pauses.”—­Ib., p. 280.  “Another fault is using the preterimperfect shook instead of the participle shaken”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 259.  “Her employment is drawing maps.”—­Alger’s Gram., p. 65.  “Going to the play, according to his notion, is leading a sensual life, and exposing ones self to the strongest temptations.  This is begging the question, and therefor requires no answer.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 217.  “It is overvaluing ourselves to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 193; Ingersoll’s, 199.  “What is vocal language?  It is speaking; or expressing ideas by the human voice.”—­Sanders, Spelling-Book, p. 7.

UNDER NOTE IX.—­VERBS OF PREVENTING.