Fisk’s, 115; et al. “There are new and surpassing wonders present themselves to our views.”—­Sherlock.  “Inaccuracies are often found in the way wherein the degrees of comparison are applied and construed.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 202.  “Inaccuracies are often found in the way in which the degrees of comparison are applied and construed.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 167; Smith’s, 144; Ingersoll’s, 193; et al. “The connecting circumstance is placed too remotely, to be either perspicuous or agreeable.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 177.  “Those tenses are called simple tenses, which are formed of the principal without an auxiliary verb.”—­Ib., p. 91.  “The nearer that men approach to each other, the more numerous are their points of contact and the greater will be their pleasures or their pains.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 275.  “This is the machine that he is the inventor of.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 124.  “To give this sentence the interrogative form, it should be expressed thus.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 279.  “Never employ those words which may be susceptible of a sense different from the sense you intend to be conveyed.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 152.  “Sixty pages are occupied in explaining what would not require more than ten or twelve to be explained according to the ordinary method.”—­Ib., Pref., p. ix.  “The present participle in _-ing_ always expresses an action, or the suffering of an action, or the being, state, or condition of a thing as continuing and progressive.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 57.  “The Present participle of all active verbs[457] has an active signification; as, James is building the house. In many of these, however, it has also a passive signification; as, the house was building when the wall fell.”—­Id., ib., 2d or 4th Ed., p. 57.  “Previous to parsing this sentence, it may be analyzed to the young pupil by such questions as the following, viz.”—­Id., ib., p. 73.  “Subsequent to that period, however, attention has been paid to this important subject.”—­Ib., New Ed., p. 189; Hiley’s Preface, p. vi.  “A definition of a word is an explanation in what sense the word is used, or what idea or object we mean by it, and which may be expressed by any one or more of the properties, effects, or circumstances of that object, so as sufficiently to distinguish it from other objects.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 245.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIV.—­OF IGNORANCE.

“What is an Asserter?  It is the part of speech which asserts.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 20.