or rests, in speaking and reading, are a total cessation of the voice during a perceptible, and, in many cases, a measurable space of time.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 248; English Reader, p. 13; Goldsbury’s Gr., 76; Kirkham’s, 208; Felton’s, 133; et al. “Nouns which express a small one of the kind are called Diminutive Nouns; as, lambkin, hillock, satchel, gosling, from lamb, hill, sack, goose.”—­Bullions, E. Gram., 1837, p. 9.  “What is the cause that nonsense so often escapes being detected, both by the writer and by the reader?”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. xi, and 280.  “An Interjection is a word used to express sudden emotion.  They are so called, because they are generally thrown in between the parts of a sentence without reference to the structure of the other parts of it.”—­M’Culloch’s Gram., p. 36. “Ought (in duty bound) oughtest, oughtedst, are it’s only inflections.”—­Mackintosh’s Gram., p. 165.  “But the arrangment, government, agreement, and dependence of one word upon another, are referred to our reason.”—­Osborn’s Key, Pref., p. 3. “Me is a personal pronoun, first person singular, and the accusative case.”—­Guy’s Gram., p. 20.  “The substantive self is added to a pronoun; as, herself, himself, &c.; and when thus united, is called a reciprocal pronoun.”—­Ib., p. 18.  “One cannot avoid thinking that our author had done better to have begun the first of these three sentences, with saying, it is novelty which bestows charms on a monster, &c.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 207.  “The idea which they present to us of nature’s resembling art, of art’s being considered as an original, and nature as a copy,[451] seems not very distinct nor well brought out, nor indeed very material to our author’s purpose.”—­Ib., p. 220.  “The present construction of the sentence, has plainly been owing to hasty and careless writing.”—­Ib., p. 220.  “Adverbs serve to modify, or to denote some circumstance of an action, or of a quality, relative to its time, place, order, degree, and the other properties of it, which we have occasion to specify.”—­Ib., p. 84.  “The more that any nation is improved by science, and the more perfect their language becomes, we may naturally expect that it will abound more with connective particles.”—­Ib., p. 85.  “Mr. Greenleaf’s book is by far the best adapted for learners of any that has yet appeared on the subject.”—­DR. FELTUS and BP.  ONDERDONK:  Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 2.  “Punctuation is the art of marking in writing the several pauses, or rests, between sentences, and the parts of sentences, according to their proper quantity or proportion, as they are expressed in a just and accurate pronunciation.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 114.  “A compound sentence must be resolved into simple ones, and separated by commas.”—­Greenleaf’s Gram., p. 41; Allen Fisk’s, 155.[452] “Simple