School Gram., p. 53.  “To find the answers, will require an effort of mind, and when given, will be the result of reflection, showing that the subject is understood.”—­Ib., p. vii.  “To say, that ‘the sun rises,’ is trite and common; but it becomes a magnificent image when expressed as Mr. Thomson has done.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 137.  “The declining a word is the giving it different endings.”—­Ware’s Gram., p. 7.  “And so much are they for every one’s following their own mind.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 462.  “More than one overture for a peace was made, but Cleon prevented their taking effect.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 121.  “Neither in English or in any other language is this word, and that which corresponds to it in other languages, any more an article, than two, three, four.”—­DR. WEBSTER:  Knickerbocker of 1836.  “But the most irksome conversation of all others I have met within the neighbourhood, has been among two or three of your travellers.”—­Spect., No. 474.  “Set down the two first terms of supposition under each other in the first place.”—­Smiley’s Arithmetic, p. 79.  “It is an useful rule too, to fix our eye on some of the most distant persons in the assembly.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 328.  “He will generally please most, when pleasing is not his sole nor chief aim.”—­Ib., p. 336.  “At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform them they could receive no other terms but that of surrendering their arms, and passing under the yoke.”—­Ib., p. 360.  “Nor is mankind so much to blame, in his choice thus determining him.”—­SWIFT:  Crombie’s Treatise, p 360.  “These forms are what is called Number.”—­Fosdick’s De Sacy, p. 62.  “In languages which admit but two Genders, all Nouns are either Masculine or Feminine, even though they designate beings which are neither male or female.”—­Ib., p. 66.  “It is called a Verb or Word by way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence, without which the other parts of speech can form no complete sense.”—­Gould’s Adam’s Gram., p. 76.  “The sentence will consist of two members, which are commonly separated from one another by a comma.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 7.  “Loud and soft in speaking, is like the forte and piano in music, it only refers to the different degrees of force used in the same key; whereas high and low imply a change of key.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 116.  “They are chiefly three:  the acquisition of knowledge; the assisting the memory to treasure up this knowledge; or the communicating it to others.”—­Ib., p. 11.

   “These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness,
    Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,
    Than twenty silly ducking observants.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 261.

LESSON XVII.—­MANY ERRORS.