cannot be too strict in our attention to it.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 103.  “All sort of declamation and public speaking, was carried on by them.”—­Ib., p. 123.  “The first has on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never attains.”—­Ib., p. 440.  “When the words therefore, consequently, accordingly, and the like are used in connexion with other conjunctions, they are adverbs.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 88.  “Rude nations make little or no allusions to the productions of the arts.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 10.  “While two of her maids knelt on either side of her.”—­Mirror, xi, 307.  “The third personal pronouns differ from each other in meaning and use, as follows.”—­Bullions, Lat.  Gram., p. 65.  “It was happy for the state, that Fabius continued in the command with Minucius:  the former’s phlegm was a check upon the latter’s vivacity.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 57.  “If it should be objected that the words must and ought, in the preceding sentences, are all in the present tense.”—­Ib., p. 108.  “But it will be well if you turn to them, every now and then.”—­Buckets Classical Gram., p. 6.  “That every part should have a dependence on, and mutually contribute to support each other.”—­Rollin’s Hist., ii, 115.  “The phrase, ’Good, my Lord,’ is not common, and low.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 110.

   “That brother should not war with brother,
    And worry and devour each other.”—­Cowper.

LESSON IV.—­PRONOUNS.

“If I can contribute to your and my country’s glory.”—­Goldsmith.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the pronoun your 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, having a doubtful or double meaning, may be corrected in two ways, thus:  “If I can contribute to our country’s glory;”—­or, “If I can contribute to your glory and that of my country.”]

“As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each their verb.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 120.  “He is likewise required to make examples himself.”—­J.  Flint’s Gram., p. 3.  “If the emphasis be placed wrong, we shall pervert and confound the meaning wholly.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 242.  “If the emphasis be placed wrong, we pervert and confound the meaning wholly.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 330.  “It was this that characterized the great men of antiquity; it is this, which must distinguish moderns who would tread in their steps.”—­Ib., p. 341.  “I am a great enemy to implicit faith, as well the Popish as Presbyterian, who in that are much what alike.”—­Barclay’s