Gram., 8vo, i, p. 309; Parker and Fox’s, Part III, p. 88.  “When the sense admits it, the sooner they are despatched, generally speaking, the better; that the more important and significant words may possess the last place, quite disencumbered.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 118.  See also Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 101.  “Thus we find it, both in the Greek and Latin tongues.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 74.  “A train of sentences, constructed in the same manner, and with the same number of members, should never be allowed to succeed one another.”—­Ib., p. 102; Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 306; Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part III, p. 86.  “I proceed to lay down the rules to be observed in the conduct of metaphors, and which are much the same for tropes of every kind.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 143.  “By a proper choice of words, we may produce a resemblance of other sounds which we mean to describe.”—­Ib., p. 129; Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 331.  “The disguise can almost never be so perfect, but it is discovered.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 259.  “The sense admits of no other pause than after the second syllable ‘sit,’ which therefore must be the only pause made in the reading.”—­Ib., p. 333.  “Not that I believe North America to be peopled so late as the twelfth century, the period of Madoc’s migration.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 212.  “Money and commodities will always flow to that country, where they are most wanted and will command the most profit.”—­Ib., p. 308.  “That it contains no visible marks, of articles, which are the most important of all others, to a just delivery.”—­ Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 13.  “And of virtue, from its beauty, we call it a fair and favourite maid.”—­Mack’s Gram., p. 66.  “The definite article may agree with nouns in the singular and plural number.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 130.

LESSON XV.—­MANY ERRORS.

(1.) “A compound word is included under the head of derivative words.”—­ Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 23. (2.) “An Apostrophe, marked thus ’ is used to abbreviate or shorten a word.  Its chief use is to show the genitive case of nouns.”—­Ib., p. 281.[449] (3.) “A Hyphen, marked thus — is employed in connecting compounded words.  It is also used when a word is divided.”—­ Ib., p. 282. (4.) “The Acute Accent, marked thus :  as, ‘Fancy.’  The Grave thus ` as, ‘Favour’”—­Ib., p. 282. (5.) “The stress is laid on long and short syllables indiscriminately.  In order to distinguish the one from the other, some writers of dictionaries have placed the grave on the former, and the acute on the latter.”—­Ib., 282. (6.) “A Diaeresis, thus marked “, consists of two points placed over one of the two vowels that would otherwise make a diphthong, and parts them into syllables.”—­Ib., 282. (7.) “A Section marked thus Sec., is the division