of money, or sending goods, or in any way embarking capital in transactions connected with that foreign traffic.”—­LORD BROUGHAM:  B. and F. Anti-Slavery Reporter, Vol. ii, p. 218.  “Even abstract ideas have sometimes conferred upon them the same important prerogative.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 171.  “Like other terminations, ment changes y into i, when preceded by a consonant.”—­Walker’s Rhyming Dict., p. xiii; Murray’s Gram., p. 24:  Ingersoll’s, 11.  “The term proper is from being proper, that is, peculiar to the individual bearing the name.  The term common is from being common to every individual comprised in the class.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, Sec.139.

   “Thus oft by mariners are shown (Unless the men of Kent are liars)
    Earl Godwin’s castles overflown, And palace-roofs, and steeple-spires.”
        —­Swift, p. 313.

LESSON VII.—­ADVERBS.

“He spoke to every man and woman there.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 220; Fisk’s, 147.  “Thought and language act and react upon each other mutually.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 120; Murray’s Exercises, 133.  “Thought and expression act upon each other mutually.”—­See Murray’s Key, p. 264.  “They have neither the leisure nor the means of attaining scarcely any knowledge, except what lies within the contracted circle of their several professions.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 359.  “Before they are capable of understanding but little, or indeed any thing of many other branches of education.”—­Olney’s Introd. to Geog., p. 5.  “There is not more beauty in one of them than in another.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 275.  “Which appear not constructed according to any certain rule.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 47.  “The vehement manner of speaking became not so universal.”—­Ib., p. 61.  “All languages, however, do not agree in this mode of expression.”—­Ib., p. 77.  “The great occasion of setting aside this particular day.”—­ATTERBURY:  p. 294.  “He is much more promising now than formerly.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 4.  “They are placed before a participle, independently on the rest of the sentence.”—­Ib., Vol. ii, p. 21.  “This opinion appears to be not well considered.”—­Ib., Vol. i, p. 153; Ingersoll’s, 249.  “Precision in language merits a full explication; and the more, because distinct ideas are, perhaps, not commonly formed about it.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 94.  “In the more sublime parts of poetry, he [Pope] is not so distinguished.”—­Ib., p. 403.  “How far the author was altogether happy in the choice of his subject, may be questioned.”—­Ib., p. 450.  “But here also there is a great error in the common practice.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 7.  “This order is the very order of the human mind, which makes things we are