who can properly be said to have written English.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 144.  “In the translating these kind of expressions, consider the IT IS, as if it were they, or they are.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 179.  “The chin has an important office to perform; for upon its activity we either disclose a polite or vulgar pronunciation.”—­Music of Nature, p. 27.  “For no other reason, but his being found in bad company.”—­Webster’s Amer.  Spelling-Book, p. 96.  “It is usual to compare them in the same manner as Polisyllables.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 77.  “The infinitive mood is recognised easier than any others, because the preposition to precedes it.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p, 95.  “Prepositions, you recollect, connect words as well as conjunctions:  how, then, can you tell the one from the other?”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 38.

   “No kind of work requires so nice a touch,
    And if well finish’d, nothing shines so much”
        —­Sheffield, Duke of Buck.

LESSON XVI—­THREE ERRORS.

“It is the final pause which alone, on many occasions, marks the difference between prose and verse; which will be evident from the following arrangement of a few poetical lines.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 260.  “I shall do all I can to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have.”—­GUARDIAN:  see Campbell’s Rhet., p. 207.  “I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have taken.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 215.  “It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and [or an] it were but to roast their eggs.”—­Ld.  Bacon.  “Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause where both his honour and life are concerned?”—­Duncan’s Cicero, p. 15.  “So the rests and pauses, between sentences and their parts, are marked by points.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 114.  “Yet the case and mode is not influenced by them, but determined by the nature of the sentence.”—­Ib., p. 113.  “By not attending to this rule, many errors have been committed:  a number of which is subjoined, as a further caution and direction to the learner.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 114.  “Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair.”—­Jeremiah, iv, 30.  “But that the doing good to others will make us happy, is not so evident; feeding the hungry, for example, or clothing the naked.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 161.  “There is no other God but him, no other light but his.”—­William Penn.  “How little reason to wonder, that a perfect and accomplished orator, should be one of the characters that is most rarely found?”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 337.  “Because they neither express doing nor receiving an action.”—­Infant