religion consists in these things.”—­Barclays Works, i, 321.  “Except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.”—­Esther, ii, 14.  “The proper method of reading these lines, is to read them according as the sense dictates.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 386.  “When any words become obsolete, or at least are never used, except as constituting part of particular phrases, it is better to dispense with their service entirely, and give up the phrases.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 185; Murray’s Gram., p. 370.  “Those savage people seemed to have no element but that of war.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 211. “Man is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and in the nominative case.”—­J.  Flint’s Gram., p. 33.  “The orator, according as circumstances require, will employ them all.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 247.  “By deferring our repentance, we accumulate our sorrows.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, p. 166.  “There is no doubt but that public speaking became early an engine of government.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 245.  “The different meaning of these two first words may not at first occur.”—­Ib., p. 225.  “The sentiment is well expressed by Plato, but much better by Solomon than him.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 214; Ingersoll’s, 251; Smith’s, 179; et al.  “They have had a greater privilege than we have had.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 211.  “Every thing should be so arranged, as that what goes before may give light and force to what follows.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 311.  “So as that his doctrines were embraced by great numbers.”—­UNIV.  HIST.:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 139.  “They have taken another and a shorter cut.”—­SOUTH:  Joh.  Dict. “The Imperfect Tense of a regular verb is formed from the present by adding d or ed to the present; as, ‘I loved.’”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 32.  “The pronoun their does not agree in gender or number with the noun ‘man,’ for which it stands.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 182.  “This mark denotes any thing of wonder, surprise, joy, grief, or sudden emotion.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 19.  “We are all accountable creatures, each for himself.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 204; Merchant’s, 195.  “If he has commanded it, then I must obey.”—­Smith’s New Gram., pp. 110 and 112.  “I now present him with a form of the diatonic scale.”—­Dr. John Barber’s Elocution, p. xi.  “One after another of their favourite rivers have been reluctantly abandoned.”—­Hodgson’s Tour. “Particular and peculiar are words of different import from each other.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 196.  “Some adverbs admit rules of comparison:  as Soon, sooner, soonest.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 76.  “From having exposed himself too freely in different climates, he entirely lost his health.”—­Murray’s Key. p. 200.  “The Verb must agree with its Nominative before it in Number and Person.”—­Buchanan’s