though vicious, and punishing other actions though virtuous.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 92.  “From hence, to such a man, arises naturally a secret satisfaction and sense of security, and implicit hope of somewhat further.”—­Ib., p. 93.  “So much for the third and last cause of illusion that was taken notice of, arising from the abuse of very general and abstract terms, which is the principal source of all the nonsense that hath been vented by metaphysicians, mystagogues, and theologians.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 297.  “As to those animals whose use is less common, or who on account of the places which they inhabit, fall less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or whom their diminutive size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English, employ a single Noun to designate both Genders, Masculine and Feminine.”—­Fosdick’s De Sacy, p. 67.  “Adjectives may always be distinguished by their being the word, or words, made use of to describe the quality, or condition, of whatever is mentioned.”—­Emmons’s Gram., p. 20.  “Adverb signifies a word added to a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, to describe or qualify their qualities.”—­Ib., p. 64.  “The joining together two such grand objects, and the representing them both as subject, at one moment, to the command of God, produces a noble effect.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 37.  “Twisted columns, for instance, are undoubtedly ornamental; but as they have an appearance of weakness, they always displease when they are made use of to support any part of a building that is massy, and that seems to require a more substantial prop.”—­Ib., p. 40.  “Upon a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks, some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet different from the Greeks, Latins, and Hebrews, and also unlike that of any modern nation.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, p. 176.

LESSON XVIII—­MANY ERRORS.

“’The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the northeast side of Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a channel of 800 yards wide.’ Gulliver’s Travels.  The ambiguity may be removed thus:—­’from whence it is parted by a channel of 800 yards wide only.’”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 44.  “The nominative case is usually the agent or doer, and always the subject of the verb.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 47.  “There is an originality, richness, and variety in his [Spenser’s] allegorical personages, which almost vies with the splendor of the ancient mythology.”—­Hazlitt’s Lect., p. 68.  “As neither the Jewish nor Christian revelation have been universal, and as they have been afforded to a greater or less part of the world at different times; so likewise, at different times, both revelations have had different degrees of evidence.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 210.  “Thus we see, that killing a man with a sword or a hatchet, are looked upon as no distinct