infinite in number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging them under distinct heads, and reducing them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be considered as the last refinement in language.”—­Knight, on Gr.  Alph., p. 16.  “The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart.”—­Jeremiah, xxx, 24.  “We seek for more heroic and illustrious deeds, for more diversified and surprising events.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 373.  “We distinguish the Genders, or the Male and Female Sex, four different Ways.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 20.  “Thus, ch and g, are ever hard.  It is therefore proper to retain these sounds in Hebrew names, which have not been modernised, or changed by public use.”—­Wilson’s Essay on Gram., p. 24.  “The Substantive or noun is the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion.”—­Lindley Murray’s Gram., 2d Ed., p. 26.  “The SUBSTANTIVE, or NOUN; being the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion.”—­Dr. Lowth’s Gram., p. 6.  “The Noun is the name of any thing that exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea.”—­Maunders Gram., p. 1.  “A noun is the name of any thing in existence, or of which we can form an idea.”—­Ib., p. 1. (See False Syntax under Note 7th to Rule 10th.) “The next thing to be taken Care of, is to keep him exactly to speaking of Truth.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 254.  “The material, vegetable, and animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities.”—­The Dial, i, 59.  “And yet, it is fairly defensible on the principles of the schoolmen; if that can be called principles which consists merely in words.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 274.

   “Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
    And fears to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
    Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes.”—­Beaut. of Shak., p. 317.

LESSON XV.—­THREE ERRORS.

“The silver age is reckoned to have commenced on the death of Augustus, and continued to the end of Trajan’s reign.”—­Gould’s Lat.  Gram., p. 277.  “Language is become, in modern times, more correct, indeed, and accurate.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 65.  “It is evident, that words are most agreeable to the ear which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, where there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants.”—­Ib., p. 121.  See Murray’s Gram., i, 325.  “It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 194.  “But as rumours arose of the judges having been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave occasions to much popular clamour, and had thrown a heavy odium on Cluentius.”—­Ib., p. 273.  “A Participle is derived of a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and the