that adjectives relate to, and modify the action of verbs.”—­Wilcox’s Gram., p. 61.  “They are therefore of a mixed nature, participating of the properties both of pronouns and adjectives.”—­ Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 57.  “For there is no authority which can justify the inserting the aspirate or doubling the vowel.”—­Knight, on Greek Alph., p. 52.  “The distinction and arrangement between active, passive, and neuter verbs.”—­Wright’s Gram, p. 176.  “And see thou a hostile world to spread its delusive snares.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 167.  “He may be precaution’d, and be made see, how those joyn in the Contempt.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 155.  “The contenting themselves now in the want of what they wish’d for, is a vertue.”—­Ib., p. 185.  “If the Complaint be of something really worthy your notice.”—­Ib., p. 190.  “True Fortitude I take to be the quiet Possession of a Man’s self, and an undisturb’d doing his Duty.”—­Ib., p. 204.  “For the custom of tormenting and killing of Beasts will, by degrees, harden their Minds even towards Men.”—­Ib., p. 216.  “Children are whip’d to it, and made spend many Hours of their precious time uneasily in Latin.”—­Ib., p. 289.  “The ancient rhetoricians have entered into a very minute and particular detail of this subject; more particular, indeed, than any other that regards language.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 123.  “But the one should not be omitted without the other.”—­Bullions’s Eng.  Gram., p. 108.  “In some of the common forms of speech, the relative pronoun is usually omitted.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 218; Weld’s, 191.  “There are a great variety of causes, which disqualify a witness from being received to testify in particular cases.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., ii, 75.  “Aside of all regard to interest, we should expect that,” &c.—­Webster’s Essays, p. 82.  “My opinion was given on a rather cursory perusal of the book.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 202.  “And the next day, he was put on board his ship.”—­Ib., ii, 201.  “Having the command of no emotions but of what are raised by sight.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 318.  “Did these moral attributes exist in some other being beside himself.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 161.  “He did not behave in that manner out of pride or contempt of the tribunal.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 190.  “These prosecutions of William seem to have been the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 199; Priestley’s Gram., 126.  “To restore myself into the good graces of my fair critics.”—­Dryden.  “Objects denominated beautiful, please not in virtue of any one quality common to them all.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 46.  “This would have been less worthy notice, had not a writer or two of high rank lately adopted it.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 197.

   “A Grecian youth, with talents rare,
    Whom Plato’s philosophic care,” &c.—­Felton’s Gram., p. 145.