it or requires it to be of some particular person, number, gender, case, style, or mode.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 126; see Murray’s Gram., 142; Smith’s, 119; Pond’s, 88; et al. (59.) “A simple sentence is a sentence which contains only one nominative case and one verb to agree with it.”—­Sanborn, ib.; see Murray’s Gram., et al. (60.) “Declension means putting a noun through the different cases.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 58. (61.) “Zeugma is when two or more substantives have a verb in common, which is applicable only to one of them.”—­B.  F. Fisk’s Greek Gram., p. 185. (62.) “An Irregular Verb is that which has its passed tense and perfect participle terminating differently; as, smite, smote, smitten.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 92. (63.) “Personal pronouns are employed as substitutes for nouns that denote persons.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 23.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE IV.—­OF COMPARISONS.

“We abound more in vowel and diphthong sounds, than most languages.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 89.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the terms we and languages, which are here used to form a comparison, express things which are totally unlike.  But, according to Critical Note 4th, “A comparison is a form of speech which requires some similarity or common property in the things compared; without which, it becomes a solecism.”  Therefore, the expression ought to be changed; thus, “Our language abounds more in vowel and diphthong sounds, than most other tongues.”  Or:  “We abound more in vowel and diphthongal sounds, than most nations.”]

“A line thus accented, has a more spirited air, than when the accent is placed on any other syllable.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 86.  “Homer introduceth his deities with no greater ceremony than as mortals; and Virgil has still less moderation.”—­Ib., Vol. ii, p. 287.  “Which the more refined taste of later writers, who had far inferior genius to them, would have taught them to avoid.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 28.  “The poetry, however, of the Book of Job, is not only equal to that of any other of the sacred writings, but is superior to them all, except those of Isaiah alone.”—­Ib., p. 419.  “On the whole, Paradise Lost is a poem that abounds with beauties of every kind, and that justly entitles its author to a degree of fame not inferior to any poet.”—­Ib., p. 452.  “Most of the French writers compose in short sentences; though their style in general, is not concise; commonly less so than the bulk of English writers, whose sentences are much longer.”—­Ib., p. 178.  “The principles of the Reformation were deeper in the prince’s mind than to be easily eradicated.”—­HUME:  Cobbett’s E. Gram., 217.  “Whether they do not create jealousy and animosity more hurtful than the benefit derived from them.”—­DR. J.