with their antecedents, and the nouns for which they stand, in gender and number.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 154.  “Verbs neuter do not act upon, or govern, nouns and pronouns.”—­Ib., p. 179.  “And the auxiliary both of the present and past imperfect times.”—­Ib., p. 72.  “If this rule should not appear to apply to every example, which has been produced, nor to others which might be adduced.”—­Ib., p. 216.  “An emphatical pause is made, after something has been said of peculiar moment, and on which we desire to fix the hearer’s attention.”—­Ib., p. 248; Hart’s Gram., 175.  “An imperfect phrase contains no assertion, or does not amount to a proposition or sentence.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 267.  “The word was in the mouth of every one, but for all that, the subject may still be a secret.”—­Ib., p. 213.  “A word it was in the mouth of every one, but for all that, as to its precise and definite idea, this may still be a secret.”—­Harris’s Three Treatises, p. 5.  “It cannot be otherwise, in regard that the French prosody differs from that of every other country in Europe.”—­Smollett’s Voltaire, ix, 306.  “So gradually as to allow its being engrafted on a subtonic.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 255.  “Where the Chelsea or Maiden bridges now are.”—­Judge Parker.  “Adverbs are words joined to verbs, participles, adjectives, and other adverbs.”—­Smith’s Productive Gram., p. 92.  “I could not have told you, who the hermit was, nor on what mountain he lived.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 32. “Am, or be (for they are the same) naturally, or in themselves signify being.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 113.  “Words are distinct sounds, by which we express our thoughts and ideas.”—­Infant School Gram., p. 13.  “His fears will detect him, but he shall not escape.”—­Comly’s Gram., p. 64. “Whose is equally applicable to persons or things.”—­WEBSTER in Sanborn’s Gram., p. 95.  “One negative destroys another, or is equivalent to an affirmative.”—­ Bullions, Eng.  Gram., p. 118.

   “No sooner does he peep into
    The world, but he has done his do.”—­Hudibras.

CHAPTER X.—­PREPOSITIONS.

A Preposition is a word used to express some relation of different things or thoughts to each other, and is generally placed before a noun or a pronoun:  as, “The paper lies before me on the desk.”

OBSERVATIONS.

OBS. 1.—­The relations of things to things in nature, or of words to words in discourse, are infinite in number, if not also in variety.  But just classification may make even infinites the subjects of sure science.  Every relation of course implies more objects, and more terms, than one; for any one thing, considered merely in itself, is taken independently, abstractly, irrelatively, as if it