tense, and the first person plural.”—­Ibid. “Us is a personal pronoun, first person plural, and in the objective case.”—­Ibid. “Them is a personal pronoun, of the third person, the plural number, and in the objective case.”—­Ibid. “It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, of admiration, or a parenthesis.”—­Wilson’s Hebrew Gram., p. 47.  “The fifth, sixth, seventh, and the eighth verse.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 263.  “Substitutes have three persons; the First, Second, and the Third.”—­Ib., p. 34. “John’s is a proper noun, of the masculine gender, the third person, singular number, possessive case, and governed by wife, by Rule I.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 48.  “Nouns in the English language have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and objective.”—­Barrett’s Gram., p. 13; Alexander’s, 11.  “The Potential [mood] has four [tenses], viz. the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, and Pluperfect.”—­Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 96.

   “Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend,
    And own the patron, patriot, and the friend.”—­Savage, to Walpole.

UNDER NOTE X.—­SPECIES AND GENUS.

“A pronoun is a part of speech put for a noun.”—­Paul’s Accidence, p. 11.  “A verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense.”—­Ib., p. 15.  “A participle is a part of speech derived of a verb.”—­Ib., p. 38.  “An adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs to declare their signification.”—­Ib., p. 40.  “A conjunction is a part of speech that joineth sentences together.”—­Ib., p. 41.  “A preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts.”—­Ib., p. 42.  “An interjection is a part of speech which betokeneth a sudden motion or passion of the mind.”—­Ib., p. 44.  “An enigma or riddle is also a species of allegory.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 151; Murray’s Gram., 343.  “We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of an allegory.”—­Ib.:  Blair, 151; Mur., 341.  “And thus have you exhibited a sort of a sketch of art.”—­HARRIS:  in Priestley’s Gram., p. 176.  “We may ’imagine a subtle kind of a reasoning,’ as Mr. Harris acutely observes.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 71.  “But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of a very beautiful metaphor, that I may show the figure to full advantage.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 143.  “Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as a whole put for the part, or a part for a whole; the species for the genus, or a genus for the species.”—­Ib., p. 142.  “It shows what kind of an apple it is of which we are speaking.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 69.  “Cleon was another sort