oom for much diversity of taste and sentiment."--_Blair's Rhet., Pref._,
p. 5. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as are not to
be found in the real examples of society."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p.
16. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as
has been attributed to him."--_Ib._, p. 218. "That shepherd, who first
taughtst the chosen seed."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 238. "With respect
to the vehemence and warmth which is allowed in popular eloquence."--
_Blair's Rhet._, p. 261. "Ambition is one of those passions that is never
to be satisfied."--_Home's Art of Thinking_, p. 36. "Thou wast he that
leddest out and broughtest in Israel."--_2 Samuel_, v, 2; and _1 Chron._,
xi, 2. "Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah?"--_1 Kings_, xiii,
14.
"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace
And wisdom, which alone is truly fair."--_Milton_, B. iv, l. 490.
"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,
While others sleep, thus range the camp alone?"--_Pope, Il._, x, 90.
UNDER NOTE II.--NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.
"The literal sense of the words are, that the action had been done."--_Dr.
Murray's Hist. of Lang._, i, 65. "The rapidity of his movements were beyond
example."--_Wells's Hist._, p. 161. "Murray's Grammar, together with his
Exercises and Key, have nearly superseded every thing else of the
kind."--EVAN'S REC.: _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, ii, 305. "The mechanism of
clocks and watches were totally unknown."--HUME: _Priestley's Gram._, p.
193. "The _it_, together with the verb _to be_, express states of
being."--_Cobbett's Eng. Gram._, 190. "Hence it is, that the profuse
variety of objects in some natural landscapes, neither breed confusion nor
fatigue."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 266. "Such a clatter of sounds
indicate rage and ferocity."--_Music of Nature_, p. 195. "One of the fields
make threescore square yards, and the other only fifty-five."--_Duncan's
Logic_, p. 8. "The happy effects of this fable is worth attending
to."--_Bailey's Ovid_, p. x. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays
still linger with us."--_Gould's Advocate_. "Enough of its form and force
are retained to render them uneasy."--_Maturin's Sermons_, p. 261. "The
works of nature, in this respect, is extremely regular."--_Dr. Pratt's
Werter_. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases have
been made by commerce."--_Bicknell's Gram._, Part ii, p. 10. "The dialect
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