to every one of those trees, would have been an endless and impracticable undertaking.”—­Blair cor. “Ei, in general, has the same sound as long and slender a.”  Or better:  “Ei generally has the sound of long or slender a.”—­L.  Murray cor. “When a conjunction is used with apparent redundance, the insertion of it is called Polysyndeton.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “EACH, EVERY, EITHER, and NEITHER, denote the persons or things that make up a number, as taken separately or distributively.”—­M’Culloch cor. “The principal sentence must be expressed by a verb in the indicative, imperative, or potential mood”—­S.  W. Clark cor. “Hence he is diffuse, where he ought to be urgent.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “All sorts of subjects admit of explanatory comparisons.”—­Id. et al. cor. “The present or imperfect participle denotes being, action, or passion, continued, and not perfected.”—­Kirkham cor. “What are verbs?  Those words which chiefly express what is said of things.”—­Fowle cor.

   “Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
    The very masterpiece is writing-well.”—­Sheffield cor.

    “Such was that muse whose rules and practice tell,
    That art’s chief masterpiece is writing-well.”—­Pope cor.

LESSON XIV.—­OF THREE ERRORS.

“From some words, the metaphorical sense has justled out the original sense altogether; so that, in respect to the latter, they have become obsolete.”—­Campbell cor. “Surely, never any other mortal was so overwhelmed with grief, as I am at this present moment.”—­Sheridan cor. “All languages differ from one an other in their modes of inflection.”—­Bullions cor. “The noun and the verb are the only indispensable parts of speech:  the one, to express the subject spoken of; and the other, the predicate, or what is affirmed of the subject.”—­M’Culloch cor. “The words Italicized in the last three examples, perform the office of substantives.”—­L.  Murray cor. “A sentence so constructed is always a mark of carelessness in the writer.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Nothing is more hurtful to the grace or the vivacity of a period, than superfluous and dragging words at the conclusion.”—­Id. “When its substantive is not expressed with it, but is referred to, being understood.”—­Lowth cor. “Yet they always have substantives belonging to them, either expressed or understood.”—­Id. “Because they define and limit the import of the common names, or general terms, to which they refer.”—­Id. “Every