be divided by a comma.”—­Jaudon’s Gram., p. 185. (22.) “Simple members of sentences, connected by comparatives, if they be long, are separated by a comma.”—­Cooper’s New Gram., p. 195.  See the same without the first comma, in Cooper’s Murray, p. 183. (23.) “Simple members of sentences connected by comparatives, and phrases placed in opposition to, or in contrast with, each other, are separated by commas.”—­Bullions, p. 153; Hiley, 113. (24.) “On which ever word we lay the emphasis, whether on the first, second, third, or fourth, it strikes out a different sense.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 243. (25.) “To inform those who do not understand sea phrases, that, ’We tacked to the larboard, and stood off to sea,’ would be expressing ourselves very obscurely.”—­Ib., p. 296; and Hiley’s Gram., p. 151. (26.) “Of dissyllables, which are at once nouns and verbs, the verb has commonly the accent on the latter, and the noun, on the former syllable.”—­Murray, p. 237. (27.) “And this gives our language a superior advantage to most others, in the poetical and rhetorical style.”—­Id. ib., p. 38; Ingersoll, 27; Fisk, 57. (28.) “And this gives the English an advantage above most other languages in the poetical and rhetorical style.”—­Lowth’s Gram, p. 19. (29.) “The second and third scholar may read the same sentence; and as many, as it is necessary to learn it perfectly to the whole.”—­Osborn’s Key, p. 4.

(30.) “Bliss is the name in subject as a king,
       In who obtain defence, or who defend.”
        —­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 178.

LESSON XVI.—­MANY ERRORS.

“The Japanese, the Tonquinese, and the Corceans, speak different languages from one another, and from the inhabitants of China, but use, with these last people, the same written characters; a proof that the Chinese characters are like hieroglyphics, independent of language.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 18.  “The Japanese, the Tonquinese, and the Corceans, who speak different languages from one another, and from the inhabitants of China, use, however, the same written characters with them; and by this means correspond intelligibly with each other in writing, though ignorant of the language spoken in their several countries; a plain proof,” &c.—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 67.  “The curved line is made square instead of round, for the reason beforementioned.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alphabet, p. 6.  “Every one should content himself with the use of those tones only that he is habituated to in speech, and to give none other to emphasis, but what he would do to the same words in discourse.  Thus whatever he utters will be done with ease, and appear natural.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 103.  “Stops, or pauses, are a total cessation of sound during a perceptible, and in numerous compositions, a measurable space of time.”—­Ib., p. 104.  “Pauses