School Gram., p. 126.  “And the king said, If he be alone, there is tidings in his mouth.”—­2 Samuel, xviii, 25.  “The opinions of the few must be overruled, and submit to the opinions of the many.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 56.  “One of the principal difficulties which here occurs, has been already hinted.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 391.  “With milky blood the heart is overflown.”—­Thomson, Castle of Ind.  “No man dare solicit for the votes of hiz nabors.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 344.  “Yet they cannot, and they have no right to exercise it.”—­Ib., p. 56.  “In order to make it be heard over their vast theatres.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 471.  “Sometimes, however, the relative and its clause is placed before the antecedent and its clause.”—­Bullions, Lat.  Gram., p. 200.

   “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
    Does sometimes counsel take—­and sometimes tea.”
        —­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 321.

EXERCISE VI.—­PARTICIPLES.

“On the other hand, the degrading or vilifying an object, is done successfully by ranking it with one that is really low.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 50.  “The magnifying or diminishing objects by means of comparison, proceeds from the same cause.”—­Ib., i, 239.  “Gratifying the affection will also contribute to my own happiness.”—­Ib., i, 53.  “The pronouncing syllables in a high or a low tone.”—­Ib., ii, 77.  “The crowding into one period or thought different figures of speech, is not less faulty than crowding metaphors in that manner.”—­Ib., ii, 234.  “To approve is acknowledging we ought to do a thing; and to condemn is owning we ought not to do it.”—­Burlamaqui, on Law, p. 39.  “To be provoked that God suffers men to act thus, is claiming to govern the word in his stead.”—­Secker.  “Let every subject be well understood before passing on to another.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 18.  “Doubling the t in bigotted is apt to lead to an erroneous accentuation of the word on the second syllable.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 22.  “Their compelling the man to serve was an act of tyranny.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 54.  “One of the greatest misfortunes of the French tragedy is, its being always written in rhyme.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 469.  “Horace entitles his satire ‘Sermones,’ and seems not to have intended rising much higher than prose put into numbers.”—­Ib., p. 402.  “Feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the afflicted, yield more pleasure than we receive from those actions which respect only ourselves.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 238.  “But when we attempt to go a step beyond this, and inquire what is the cause of regularity and variety producing in our minds the sensation of beauty, any reason we can assign is extremely imperfect.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 29.  “In an author’s