of despatch.”—­Lord Bacon. “’A tall man and a woman.’  In this sentence there is no ellipsis; the adjective or quality respect only the man.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. 95.  “An abandonment of the policy is neither to be expected or desired.”—­Pres.  Jackson’s Message, 1830.  “Which can be acquired by no other means but frequent exercise in speaking.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 344.  “The chief and fundamental rules of syntax are common to the English as well as the Latin tongue.”—­Ib., p. 90.  “Then I exclaim, that my antagonist either is void of all taste, or that his taste is corrupted in a miserable degree.”—­ Ib., p. 21.  “I cannot pity any one who is under no distress of body nor of mind.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 44.  “There was much genius in the world, before there were learning or arts to refine it.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 391.  “Such a Writer can have little else to do, but to new model the Paradoxes of ancient Scepticism.”—­Brown’s Estimate, i, 102.  “Our ideas of them being nothing else but a collection of the ordinary qualities observed in them.”—­Duncan’s Logic, p. 25.  “A non-ens or a negative can neither give pleasure nor pain.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 63.  “So as they shall not justle and embarrass one another.”—­Blair’s Lectures, p. 318.  “He firmly refused to make use of any other voice but his own.”—­ Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 190.  “Your marching regiments, Sir, will not make the guards their example, either as soldiers or subjects.”—­Junius, Let. 35.  “Consequently, they had neither meaning, or beauty, to any but the natives of each country.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 161.

   “The man of worth, and has not left his peer,
    Is in his narrow house for ever darkly laid.”—­Burns.

LESSON X.—­PREPOSITIONS.

“These may be carried on progressively above any assignable limits.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 296.  “To crowd in a single member of a period different subjects, is still worse than to crowd them into one period.”—­Ib., ii, 27.  “Nor do we rigidly insist for melodious prose.”—­Ib., ii, 76.  “The aversion we have at those who differ from us.”—­Ib., ii, 365.  “For we cannot bear his shifting the scene every line.”—­LD.  HALIFAX:  ib., ii, 213.  “We shall find that we come by it the same way.”—­Locke.  “To this he has no better defense than that.”—­Barnes’s Bed Book, p. 347.  “Searching the person whom he suspects for having stolen his casket.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 479.  “Who are elected as vacancies occur by the whole Board.”—­Lit.  Convention, p. 81.  “Almost the only field of ambition of a German, is science.”—­DR. LIEBER:  ib., p. 66.  “The plan of education is very different to the one pursued in the sister country.”—­DR. COLEY, ib., p. 197.  “Some writers on grammar have contended