Gram., p. 110.  “This is the distinguishing property of the church of Christ from all other antichristian assemblies or churches.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 533.  “My lords, the course which the legislature formerly took with respect to the slave-trade, appears to me to be well deserving the attention both of the government and your lordships.”—­BROUGHAM:  Antislavery Reporter, Vol. ii, p. 218.  “We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen.”—­John, iii, 11.  “This is a consequence I deny, and remains for him to prove.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 329.  “To back this, He brings in the Authority of Accursius, and Consensius Romanus, to the latter of which he confesses himself beholding for this Doctrine.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 343.  “The compound tenses of the second order, or those in which the participle present is made use of.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 24.  “To lay the accent always on the same syllable, and the same letter of the syllable, which they do in common discourse.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 78.  “Though the converting the w into a v is not so common as the changing the v into a w.”—­Ib., p. 46.  “Nor is this all; for by means of accent, the times of pauses also are rendered quicker, and their proportions more easily to be adjusted and observed.”—­Ib., p. 72.  “By mouthing, is meant, dwelling upon syllables that have no accent:  or prolonging the sounds of the accented syllables, beyond their due proportion of time.”—­Ib., p. 76.  “Taunt him with the license of ink; if thou thou’st him thrice, it shall not be amiss.”—­SHAK.:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Thou.  “The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.”—­Prov., xxx, 17.  “Copying, or merely imitating others, is the death of arts and sciences.”—­Spurzheim, on Ed., p. 170.  “He is arrived at that degree of perfection, as to surprise all his acquaintance.”—­Ensell’s Gram., p. 296.  “Neither the King nor Queen are gone.”—­Buchanan’s E. Syntax, p. 155. “Many is pronounced as if it were wrote manny.”—­Dr. Johnson’s Gram., with Dict., p. 2.

   “And as the music on the waters float,
    Some bolder shore returns the soften’d note.”
        —­Crabbe, Borough, p. 118.

EXERCISE XIV.—­THREE ERRORS.

“It appears that the Temple was then a building, because these Tiles must be supposed to be for the covering it.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 281.  “It was common for sheriffs to omit or excuse the not making returns for several of the boroughs within their counties.”—­Brown’s Estimate, Vol. ii, p. 132.  “The conjunction as when it is connected with the pronoun, such, many, or same, is sometimes called a relative pronoun.”—­Kirkham’s