to be twice the length of a short one.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 117. “I is of the first person, and singular number; Thou is second per. sing.; He, She, or It, is third per. sing.; We is first per. plural; Ye or You is second per. plural; They is third per. plural.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 46.  “This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is the nominative.”—­Ib., p. 43.  “No Body can think a Boy of Three or Seven Years old, should be argued with, as a grown Man.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 129.  “This was in one of the Pharisees’ houses, not, in Simon the leper’s.”—­Hammond.  “Impossible! it can’t be me.”—­Swift.  “Whose grey top shall tremble, Him descending.”—­Dr. Bentley.  “What gender is woman, and why?”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 8.  “What gender, then, is man, and why?”—­Ibid. “Who is I; who do you mean when you say I?”—­R.  W. Green’s Gram., p. 19.  “It [Parnassus] is a pleasant air, but a barren soil.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 311.  “You may, in three days time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem.”—­Josephus, Vol. 5, p. 174.  “And that which is left of the meat-offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons.”—­SCOTT’S BIBLE, and BRUCE’S:  Lev., ii, 10.  See also ii, 3.

   “For none in all the world, without a lie,
    Can say that this is mine, excepting I.”—­Bunyan.

LESSON III.—­ADJECTIVES

“When he can be their Remembrancer and Advocate every Assises and Sessions.”—­Right of Tythes, p. 244.  “Doing, denotes all manner of action; as, to dance, to play, to write, to read, to teach, to fight, &c.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 33.  “Seven foot long,”—­“eight foot long,”—­“fifty foot long.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 205.  “Nearly the whole of this twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss to the nation.”—­Fowler, on Tobacco, p. 16.  “Two negatives destroy one another.”—­R.  W. Green’s Gram., p. 92.  “We are warned against excusing sin in ourselves, or in each other.”—­The Friend, iv, 108.  “The Russian empire is more extensive than any government in the world.”—­School Geog.  “You will always have the Satisfaction to think it the Money of all other the best laid out.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 145.  “There is no one passion which all mankind so naturally give into as pride.”—­Steele, Spect., No. 462.  “O, throw away the worser part of it.”—­Beauties of Shak., p 237.  “He showed us a more agreeable and easier way.”—­Inst., p. 134.  “And the four last [are] to point out those further improvements.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 52; Campbell’s, 187.  “Where he has not distinct and, different clear Idea’s.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 353.  “Oh, when shall we have such another Rector of Laracor!”—­Hazlitt’s Lect.  “Speech must have been absolutely necessary previous to the formation of society.”—­Jamieson’s