Conjunction, when it answers to so and such.”—­W.  Ward’s Gram., p. 152.  “He attributes to negligence your failing to succeed in that business.”—­Smart’s Accidence, p. 36.  “Does will and go express but our action?”—­S.  Barrett’s Revised Gram., p. 58.  “Language is the principle vehicle of thought.  G. BROWN.”—­James Brown’s English Syntax, p. 3. “Much is applied to things weighed or measured; many, to those that are numbered. Elder and eldest, to persons only; older and oldest, either to persons or things.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 20; Pract.  Les., 25.  “If there are any old maids still extant, while mysogonists are so rare, the fault must be attributable to themselves.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 286.  “The second method used by the Greeks, has never been the practice of any part of Europe.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 64.  “Neither consonant, nor vowel, are to be dwelt upon beyond their common quantity, when they close a sentence.”—­Sheridan’s Rhetorical Gram., p. 54.  “IRONY is a mode of speech expressing a sense contrary to that which the speaker or writer intends to convey.”—­Wells’s School Gram., 1st Ed., p. 196; 113th Ed., p. 212.  “IRONY is the intentional use of words in a sense contrary to that which the writer or speaker intends to convey.”—­Weld’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 215; Imp.  Ed., 216.  “The persons speaking, or spoken to, are supposed to be present.”—­Wells, p. 68.  “The persons speaking and spoken to are supposed to be present.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 51.  “A Noun is a word used to express the name of an object.”—­Wells’s School Gram., pp. 46 and 47.  “A syllable is a word, or such a part of a word as is uttered by one articulation.”—­Weld’s English Gram., p. 15; “Abridged Ed.,” p. 16.

   “Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then! 
    Unspeakable, who sits above these heavens.”
        —­Cutler’s Gram., p. 131.

   “And feel thy sovereign vital lamp; but thou
    Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain.”
        —­Felton’s Gram., p. 133.

   “Before all temples the upright and pure.”
        —­Butler’s Gram., p. 195.

   “In forest wild, in thicket, break or den.”
        —­Cutler’s Gram., p. 130.

   “The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise;
    And e’en the best, by fits, what they despise.”
        —­Pope’s Ess., iii, 233.

CHAPTER XIV.—­QUESTIONS.

ORDER OF REHEARSAL, AND METHOD OF EXAMINATION.

PART THIRD, SYNTAX.

[Fist][The following questions, which embrace nearly all the important particulars of the foregoing code of Syntax, are designed not only to direct and facilitate class rehearsals, but also to develop the acquirements of those who may answer them at examinations more public.]