Gram., Pref., p. viii.  “Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts.”—­Duncan’s Cicero, p. 175.  “I wondered where you was, my dear.”—­Lloyd’s Poems, p. 185.  “When thou most sweetly sings.”—­Drummond of Hawthornden.  “Who dare, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?”—­Music of Nature, p. 11.  “Every body are very kind to her, and not discourteous to me.”—­Byron’s Letters.  “As to what thou says respecting the diversity of opinions.”—­The Friend, Vol. ix, p. 45.  “Thy nature, immortality, who knowest?”—­Everest’s Gram., p. 38.  “The natural distinction of sex in animals gives rise to what, in grammar, is called genders.”—­Ib., p. 51.  “Some pains has likewise been taken.”—­Scott’s Pref. to Bible.  “And many a steed in his stables were seen.”—­Penwarne’s Poems, p. 108.  “They was forced to eat what never was esteemed food.”—­Josephus’s Jewish War, B. i, Ch. i, Sec.7.  “This that yourself hath spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon.”—­Hutchinson’s Mass., ii, 435.  “By men whose experience best qualify them to judge.”—­Committee on Literature, N. Y. Legislature.  “He dare venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish.”—­Johnson’s Dict, w.  Perch.  “If a gudgeon meet a roach, He dare not venture to approach.”—­SWIFT:  Ib., w.  Roach.  “Which thou endeavours to establish unto thyself.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 164.  “But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuates.”—­Ib., i, 215.  “Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presideth.”—­The Friend, Vol. v, p. 198.  “I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress have been astonishing.”—­Chazotte, on Teaching Lang., p. 62.  “Which of these two kinds of vice are more criminal?”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 115.  “Every twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 103.  “Every four years adds another day.”—­Ib. “Every error I could find, Have my busy muse employed.”—­Swift’s Poems, p. 335.  “A studious scholar deserve the approbation of his teacher.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 226.  “Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicate good breeding.”—­Ib., p. 37.  “A comparison in which more than two is concerned.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., p. 114.  “By the facilities which artificial language afford them.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 16.  “Now thyself hath lost both lop and top.”—­SPENSER:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Lop. “Glad tidings is brought to the poor.”—­Campbell’s Gospels:  Luke, vii, 23.  “Upon which, all that is pleasurable, or affecting in elocution, chiefly depend.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 129.  “No pains has been spared to render this work complete.”—­Bullions, Lat.  Gram., Pref., p. iv.  “The United States contains more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe.”—­DE WITT CLINTON:  Cobb’s N. Amer.  Reader, p. 173.  “I am mindful that myself is (or am) strong.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., Sec. 500.  “Myself is (not am) weak; thyself is (not art) weak.”—­Ib., Sec.479.