Gram., p. 203.  “It is called, understanding human nature, knowing the weak sides of men, &c.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 284.  “Neither of which are taken notice of by this Grammar.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 279.  “But certainly no invention is entitled to such degree of admiration as that of language.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 54.  “The Indians, the Persians, and Arabians, were all famous for their tales.”—­Ib., p. 374.  “Such a leading word is the preposition and the conjunction.”—­ Felch’s Comp.  Gram., p. 21.  “This, of all others, is the most encouraging circumstance in these times.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 37.  “The putting any constraint on the organs of speech, or urging them to a more rapid action than they can easily perform in their tender state, must be productive of indistinctness in utterance.”—­Ib., p. 35.  “Good articulation is the foundation of a good delivery, in the same manner as the sounding the simple notes in music, is the foundation of good singing.”—­Ib., p. 33.  “The offering praise and thanks to God, implies our having a lively and devout sense of his excellencies and of his benefits.”—­ATTERBURY:  Blair’s Rhet., p. 295.  “The pause should not be made till the fourth or sixth syllable.”—­Blair, ib., p. 333.  “Shenstone’s pastoral ballad, in four parts, may justly be reckoned one of the most elegant poems of this kind, which we have in English.”—­Ib., p. 394.  “What need Christ to have died, if heaven could have contained imperfect souls?”—­Baxter.  “Every person is not a man of genius, nor is it necessary that he should.”—­Seattle’s Moral Science, i, 69.  “They were alarmed from a quarter where they least expected.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, ii, 6.

   “If thou more murmur’st, I will rend an oak,
    And peg thee in his knotty intrails.”—­SHAK.:  White’s Verb, p. 94.

EXERCISE XIII.—­TWO ERRORS.

“In consequence of this, much time and labor are unprofitably expended, and a confusion of ideas introduced into the mind, which, by never so wise a method of subsequent instruction, it is very difficult completely to remove.”—­Grenville’s Gram., p. 3.  “So that the restoring a natural manner of delivery, would be bringing about an entire revolution, in its most essential parts.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 170. “’Thou who loves us, will protect us still:’  here who agrees with thou, and is nominative to the verb loves.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 67.  “The Active voice signifies action; the Passive, suffering, or being the object of an action.”—­Adam’s Latin Gram., p. 80; Gould’s, 77.  “They sudden set upon him, fearing no such thing.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 252. “That may be used as a pronoun, an adjective, and a conjunction, depending on the office which it performs in the sentence.”—­Kirkham’s