LEO WOLF:  Lit.  Conv., p. 250.  “The Scotch have preserved the ancient character of their music more entire than any other country.”—­Music of Nature, p. 461.  “When the time or quantity of one syllable exceeds the rest, that syllable readily receives the accent.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 277.  “What then can be more obviously true than that it should be made as just as we can?”—­Dymond’s Essays, p. 198.  “It was not likely that they would criminate themselves more than they could avoid.”—­Clarkson’s Hist., Abridged, p. 76.  “Their understandings were the most acute of any people who have ever lived.”—­Knapp’s Lectures, p32.  “The patentees have printed it with neat types, and upon better paper than was done formerly.”—­Lily’s Gram., Pref., p. xiii.  “In reality, its relative use is not exactly like any other word.”—­Felch’s Comprehensive Gram., p. 62.  “Thus, instead of two books, which are required, (the grammar and the exercises,) the learner finds both in one, for a price at least not greater than the others.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., Recom., p. iii; New Ed., Recom., p. 6.  “They are not improperly regarded as pronouns, though in a sense less strict than the others”—­Ib., p. 199.  “We have had the opportunity, as will readily be believed, of becoming conversant with the case much more particularly, than the generality of our readers can be supposed to have had.”—­The British Friend, 11mo, 29th, 1845.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE V.—­OF FALSITIES.

“The long sound of i is compounded of the sound of a, as heard in ball, and that of e, as heard in be.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 3.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the sentence falsely teaches, that the long sound of i is that of the diphthong heard in oil or boy.  But, according to Critical Note 5th, “Sentences that convey a meaning manifestly false, should be changed, rejected, or contradicted; because they distort language from its chief end, or only worthy use; which is, to state facts, and to tell the truth.”  The error may be corrected thus:  “The long sound of i is like a very quick union of the sound of a, as heard in bar, and that of e, as heard in be.”]

“The omission of a word necessary to grammatical propriety, is called ELLIPSIS.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 45.  “Every substantive is of the third person.”—­Alexander Murray’s Gram., p. 91.  “A noun, when the subject is spoken to, is in the second person; and when spoken of, it is in the third person; but never in the first.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 17.  “With us, no substantive nouns have gender, or are masculine and feminine, except the proper names of male and female creatures.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 156.  “Apostrophe is a little mark signifying that something is shortened; as, for