direct discourse, a noun used by the speaker or writer to designate himself [in the special relation of speaker or writer], is said to be of the first person; used to designate the person addressed, it is said to be of the second person; and, when used to designate a person or thing [merely] spoken of, it is said to be of the third person.”—­Id. “Vice stings us, even in our pleasures; but virtue consoles us, even in our pains.”—­Day cor. “Vice is infamous, though in a prince; and virtue, honourable, though in a peasant.”—­Id. “Every word that is the name of a person or thing, is a noun; because, ’A noun is the name of any person, place, or thing.’”—­Bullions cor.

   “This is the sword with which he did the deed;
    And that, the shield by which he was defended.”—­Bucke cor.

UNDER RULE II.—­OF SIMPLE MEMBERS.  “A deathlike paleness was diffused over his countenance; a chilling terror convulsed his frame; his voice burst out at intervals into broken accents.”—­Jerningham cor. “The Lacedemonians never traded; they knew no luxury; they lived in houses built of rough materials; they ate at public tables; fed on black broth; and despised every thing effeminate or luxurious.”—­Whelpley cor. “Government is the agent; society is the principal.”—­Wayland cor. “The essentials of speech were anciently supposed to be sufficiently designated by the Noun and the Verb; to which was subsequently added the Conjunction.”—­Bullions cor. “The first faint gleamings of thought in its mind, are but reflections from the parents’ own intellect; the first manifestations of temperament, are from the contagious parental fountain; the first aspirations of soul, are but the warmings and promptings of the parental spirit.”—­Jocelyn cor. “Older and oldest refer to maturity of age; elder and eldest, to priority of right by birth. Farther and farthest denote place or distance; further and furthest, quantity or addition.”—­Bullions cor. “Let the divisions be natural; such as obviously suggest themselves to the mind; such as may aid your main design; and such as may be easily remembered.”—­Goldsbury cor.

   “Gently make haste, of labour not afraid;
    A hundred times consider what you’ve said.”—­Dryden cor.

UNDER RULE III.—­OF APPOSITION, &C.

(1.) “Adjectives are divided [, in Frost’s Practical Grammar,] into two classes; adjectives denoting quality, and adjectives denoting number.”—­Frost cor. (2.) “There are [, according to some authors,] two classes of adjectives; qualifying adjectives, and limiting adjectives.”—­N.  Butler cor. (3-5.) “There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the