to make some utensil supply purposes to which they were not originally destined.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 222.  “But that a being baptized with water, is a washing away of sin, thou canst not from hence prove.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 190.  “Being but spoke to one, it infers no universal command.”—­Ibid. “For if the laying aside Copulatives gives Force and Liveliness, a Redundancy of them must render the Period languid.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. 134.  “James used to compare him to a cat, who always fell upon her legs.”—­ADAM’S HIST. OF ENG.:  Crombie, p. 384.

   “From the low earth aspiring genius springs,
    And sails triumphant born on eagles wings.”—­Lloyd, p. 162.

LESSON XIII.—­TWO ERRORS.

“An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, are always faults.”—­Blair’s Rhet. p. 190.  “Yet in this we find the English pronounce perfectly agreeable to rule.”—­Walker’s Dict., p. 2.  “But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, are habits, though absolutely necessary to the forming of them.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 111.  “They were cast:  and an heavy fine imposed upon them.”—­Goldsmiths Greece, ii, 30.  “Without making this reflection, he cannot enter into the spirit, nor relish the composition of the author.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 450.  “The scholar should be instructed relative to finding his words.”—­Osborn’s Key, p. 4.  “And therefore they could neither have forged, or reversified them.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alph., p. 30.  “A dispensary is the place where medicines are dispensed.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 172.  “Both the connexion and number of words is determined by general laws.”—­Neef’s Sketch, p. 73.  “An Anapsest has the two first syllables unaccented, and the last accented:  as, ‘Contravene, acquiesce.’”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 254.  “An explicative sentence is, when a thing is said to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer, in a direct manner.”—­Ib., i, 141; Lowth’s, 84.  “BUT is a conjunction, in all cases when it is neither an adverb nor preposition.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 109.  “He wrote in the king Ahasuerus’ name, and sealed it with the king’s ring.”—­Esther, viii, 10.  “Camm and Audland were departed the town before this time.”—­Sewel’s Hist., p. 100.  “Previous to their relinquishing the practice, they must be convinced.”—­Dr. Webster, on Slavery, p. 5.  “Which he had thrown up previous to his setting out.”—­Grimshaw’s Hist.  U. S., p. 84.  “He left him to the value of an hundred drachmas in Persian money.”—­Spect., No. 535.  “All which the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided between the three.”—­Cardell’s Philad.  Gram., p. 80.  “Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants of any that has fallen under my observation.”—­Spect.,