among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 262.  “I single him out among the moderns, because,” &c.—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 116.  “This is a rule not always observed, even by good writers, as strictly as it ought to be.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 103.  “But this gravity and assurance, which is beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood.”—­Notes to the Dunciad.  “The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road has some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 358.  “They become fond of regularity and neatness; which is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors.”—­Ibid. “The phrase, it is impossible to exist, gives us the idea of it’s being impossible for men, or any body to exist.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 85.  “I’ll give a thousand pound to look upon him.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 151.  “The reader’s knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent his mistaking it.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 172; Crombie’s, 253.  “When two words are set in contrast or in opposition to one another, they are both emphatic.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 243.  “The number of persons, men, women, and children, who were lost in the sea, was very great.”—­Ib., ii, 20.  “Nor is the resemblance between the primary and resembling object pointed out”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 179.  “I think it the best book of the kind which I have met with.”—­DR. MATHEWS:  Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 2.

   “Why should not we their ancient rites restore,
    And be what Rome or Athens were before.”—­Roscommon, p. 22.

LESSON XII.—­TWO ERRORS.

“It is labour only which gives the relish to pleasure.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 234.  “Groves are never as agreeable as in the opening of the spring.”—­Ib., p. 216.  “His ’Philosophical Inquiry into the origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful’ soon made him known to the literati.”—­Biog.  Rhet., n.  Burke.  “An awful precipice or tower whence we look down on the objects which lie below.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 30.  “This passage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; owing to no other cause but this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together.”—­Ib., p. 149.  “I propose making some observations.”—­Ib., p. 280.  “I shall follow the same method here which I have all along pursued.”—­Ib., p. 346.  “Mankind never resemble each other so much as they do in the beginnings of society.”—­Ib., p. 380.  “But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in reading an hexameter line.”—­Ib., p. 383.  “The first thing, says he, which either a writer of fables, or of heroic poems, does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality.”—­Ib., p. 421.  “The fourth book has been always