or joining together.  It is used to join or unite either words or sentences.”—­Ib., p. 20.  “The word interjection means thrown among.  It is interspersed among other words to express sudden or strong emotion.”—­Ib., p. 21. “In deed, or in very deed, may better be written separately, as they formerly were.”—­Cardell’s Gram., 12mo, p. 89. “Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name, and is restricted to distinguish him alone.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 25.  “As an indication that nature itself had changed her course.”—­Hist. of America, p. 9.  “Of removing from the United States and her territories the free people of colour.”—­Jenifer.  “So that gh may be said not to have their proper sound.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 10.  “Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce it to our children?”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 167.  “The first question is this, ’Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity’s sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform in her decisions?”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 171.  “Time is always masculine, on account of its mighty efficacy.  Virtue is feminine from its beauty, and its being the object of love.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 37; Blair’s, 125; Sanborn’s, 189; Emmons’s, 13; Putnam’s, 25; Fisk’s, 57; Ingersoll’s, 26; Greenleaf’s, 21.  See also Blair’s Rhet., p. 76.  “When you speak to a person or thing, it is in the second person.”—­Bartlett’s Manual, Part ii, p. 27.  “You now know the noun, for it means name.”—­Ibid. “T.  What do you see? P.  A book. T.  Spell it.”—­R.  W. Green’s Gram., p. 12. “T.  What do you see now? P.  Two books. T.  Spell them.”—­Ibid. “If the United States lose her rights as a nation.”—­Liberator, Vol. ix, p. 24.  “When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, it is in the second person.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 7.  “When a person or thing is spoken of, it is in the third person.”—­Ibid. “The ox, that ploughs the ground, has the same plural termination also, oxen.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 40.

“Hail, happy States! thine is the blissful seat,
Where nature’s gifts and art’s improvements meet.” 
EVERETT:  Columbian Orator, p. 239.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­THE RELATIVE THAT.

(1.) “This is the most useful art which men possess.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 275.  “The earliest accounts which history gives us concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 379; Jamieson’s, 300.  “Mr. Addison was the first who attempted a regular inquiry” [into the pleasures of taste.]—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 28.  “One of the first who introduced it was Montesquieu.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 125.  “Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent writer of sermons which modern times have produced.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 289.  “The greatest barber who ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype.”—­Hart’s Figaro, No. 6.