Ib., p. 463.  “It is impossible, by means of any study to avoid their appearing stiff and forced.”—­Ib., p. 335.  “Besides its giving the speaker the disagreeable appearance of one who endeavours to compel assent.”—­Ib., p. 328.  “And, on occasions where a light or ludicrous anecdote is proper to be recorded, it is generally better to throw it into a note, than to hazard becoming too familiar.”—­Ib., p. 359.  “The great business of this life is to prepare, and qualify us, for the enjoyment of a better.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 373.  “In some dictionaries, accordingly, it was omitted; and in others stigmatized as a barbarism.”—­ Crombie’s Treatise, p. 322.  “You cannot see, or think of, a thing, unless it be a noun.”—­Mack’s Gram., p. 65.  “The fleet are all arrived and moored in safety.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 185.

LESSON XIII.—­TWO ERRORS.

“They have each their distinct and exactly-limited relation to gravity.”—­Hasler’s Astronomy, p 219.  “But in cases which would give too much of the hissing sound, the omission takes place even in prose.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 175.  “After o it [the w] is sometimes not sounded at all; sometimes like a single u.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 3.  “It is situation chiefly which decides of the fortunes and characters of men.”—­HUME:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 159.  “It is situation chiefly which decides the fortune (or, concerning the fortune) and characters of men.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 201.  “The vice of covetousness is what enters deeper into the soul than any other.”—­Ib., p. 167; Ingersoll’s, 193; Fisk’s, 103; Campbell’s Rhet., 205.  “Covetousness, of all vices, enters the deepest into the soul.”—­Murray, 167; and others.  “Covetousness is what of all vices enters the deepest into the soul.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 205.  “The vice of covetousness is what enters deepest into the soul of any other.”—­Guardian, No. 19. “Would primarily denotes inclination of will; and should, obligation; but they both vary their import, and are often used to express simple event.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 43; Murray’s, 89; Fisk’s, 78; Greenleaf’s, 27.  “But they both vary their import, and are often used to express simple events.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 39; Ingersoll’s, 137.  “But they vary their import, and are often used to express simple event.”—­Abel Flint’s Gram., p 42.  “A double conjunctive, in two correspondent clauses of a sentence, is sometimes made use of:  as, ’Had he done this, he had escaped.’”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 213; Ingersoll’s, 269.  “The pleasures of the understanding are preferable to those of the imagination, or of sense.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 191.  “Claudian, in a fragment upon the wars of the giants, has contrived to render