p. 205.  “These are indeed the foundations of all solid merit.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 175.  “And his embellishment, by means of musical cadence, figures, or other parts of speech.”—­Ib., p. 175.  “If he is at no pains to engage us by the employment of figures, musical arrangement, or any other art of writing.”—­Ib., p. 181.  “The most eminent of the sacred poets are, the Author of the book of Job, David and Isaiah.”—­Ib., p. 418.  “Nothing, in any poet, is more beautifully described than the death of old Priam.”—­Ib., p. 439.  “When two vowels meet together, and are sounded at one breath, they are called diphthongs.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 10.  “How many ss would goodness then end with?  Three.”—­Ib., p. 33. “Birds is a noun, the name of a thing or creature.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 53.  “Adam gave names to every living creature.”—­Bicknell’s Gram., Part ii, p. 5.  “The steps of a stair ought to be accommodated to the human figure.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 337.  “Nor ought an emblem more than a simile to be founded on low or familiar objects.”—­Ib., Vol. ii. p. 357.  “Whatever the Latin has not from the Greek, it has from the Goth.”—­Tooke’s Diversions, Vol. ii, p. 450.  “The mint and secretary of state’s offices are neat buildings.”—­The Friend, Vol. iv, p. 266.  “The scenes of dead and still life are apt to pall upon us.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 407.  “And Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, the angelical and the subtle doctors, are the brightest stars in the scholastic constellation.”—­Literary Hist., p. 244.  “The English language has three methods of distinguishing the sex.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 38; Ingersoll’s, 27; Alger’s, 16; Bacon’s, 13; Fisk’s, 58; Greenleaf’s, 21.  “The English language has three methods of distinguishing sex.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 44.  “In English there are the three following methods of distinguishing sex.”—­Jaudon’s Gram., p. 26.  “There are three ways of distinguishing the sex.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 10; Picket’s, 26; Bullions’s, 10.  “There are three ways of distinguishing sex.”—­Merchant’s School Gram., p. 26.  “Gender is distinguished in three ways.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 2.  “Neither discourse in general, nor poetry in particular, can be called altogether imitative arts.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 51.

   “Do we for this the gods and conscience brave,
    That one may rule and make the rest a slave?”
        —­Rowe’s Lucan, B. ii, l. 96.

LESSON III.—­ADJECTIVES.

“There is a deal of more heads, than either heart or horns.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 234.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the adjective more has not a clear and regular construction, adapted to the author’s meaning.  But, according to the General Rule of Syntax, “In the formation of sentences, the consistency and adaptation of all the words should be carefully observed; and a regular, clear, and correspondent construction should be preserved throughout.”  The sentence may be corrected thus:  “There is a deal more of heads, than of either heart or horns.”]