sentences should be separated from each other by commas, unless such sentences are connected by a conjunction:  as, ’Youth is passing away, age is approaching and death is near.’”—­Hall’s Gram., p. 36. “V has the sound of flat f, and bears the same relation to it, as b does to p, d to t, hard g to k, and z to s.  It has one uniform sound.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 17; Fisk’s, 42. “V is flat f, and bears the same relation to it as b does to p, d to t, hard g to k, and z to s.  It is never irregular.”—­Walker’s Dict., p. 52. “V has the sound of flat f; and bears the same relation to it as z does to s.  It has one uniform sound.”—­Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 20.  “The author is explaining the distinction, between the powers of sense and imagination in the human mind.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 343. [The author is endeavouring] “to explain a very abstract point, the distinction between the powers of sense and imagination in the human mind.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 164.  “HE (Anglo-Saxon he) is a Personal pronoun, of the Third Person, Masculine Gender (Decline he), of the singular number, in the nominative case.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, Sec.589.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER THE CRITICAL NOTES.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE I.—­OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.

“The passive voice denotes a being acted upon.”—­Maunders Gram., p. 6.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the term “being acted upon” as here used, suggests a doubt concerning its classification in parsing.  But, according to Critical Note 1st, “Words that may constitute different parts of speech, must not be left doubtful as to their classification, or to what part of speech they belong.”  Therefore, the phraseology should be altered; thus, “The passive voice denotes an action received.”  Or; “The passive voice denotes the receiving of an action.”]

“Milton, in some of his prose works, has very finely turned periods.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 127; Jamieson’s, 129.  “These will be found to be all, or chiefly, of that class.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 32.  “All appearances of an author’s affecting harmony, are disagreeable.”—­Ib., p. 127; Jamieson, 128.  “Some nouns have a double increase, that is, increase by more syllables than one; as, iter, itin~eris.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 255; Gould’s, 241.  “The powers of man are enlarged by advancing cultivation.”—­Gurney’s Essays, p. 62.  “It is always important to begin well; to make a favourable impression at first setting out.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 307.  “For if one take a wrong method at first setting out, it will lead him astray in all that follows.”—­Ib., 313.  “His mind is full of his subject, and his words