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on that account worthy to be retained."--_Ib._, i, 369; _Campbell's Rhet._, p. 179. "Most men dream, but all do not."--_Beattie's Moral Science_, i, 72. "By hasty composition, we shall acquire certainly a very bad style."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 191. "The comparisons are short, touching on one point only of resemblance."--_Ib._, p. 416. "Having had once some considerable object set before us."--_Ib._, p. 116. "The positive seems improperly to be called a degree."--_Adam's Gram._, p. 69; _Gould's_, 68. "In some phrases the genitive is only used."--_Adam_, 159; _Gould_, 161. "This blunder is said actually to have occurred."--_Smith's Inductive Gram._, p. 5. "But every man is not called James, nor every woman Mary."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 15. "Crotchets are employed for the same purpose nearly as the parenthesis."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 167. "There is still a greater impropriety in a double comparative."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 78. "We have often occasion to speak of time."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 39. "The following sentence cannot be possibly understood."--_Ib._, p. 104. "The words must be generally separated from the context."--_Comly's Gram._, p. 155. "Words ending in _ator_ have the accent generally on the penultimate."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 239. "The learned languages, with respect to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in general, differently constructed from the English tongue."--_Ib._, i, 101. "Adverbs seem originally to have been contrived to express compendiously in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more."--_Ib._, i, 114. "But it is only so, when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case."--_Ib._, i, 174. "Enter, (says he) boldly, for here too there are gods."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 8. "For none work for ever so little a pittance that some cannot be found to work for less."--_Sedgwick's Economy_, p. 190. "For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again."--_Luke_, vi, 34. "They must be viewed exactly in the same light."--_Murray's Gram._, ii, 24. "If he does but speak to display his abilities, he is unworthy of attention."--_Ib., Key_, ii, 207. UNDER NOTE II.--ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES. "Motion upwards is commonly more agreeable than motion downwards."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 48. "There are but two ways possibly of justification before God."--_Dr. Cox, on Quakerism_, p. 413. "This construction sounds rather harshly."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 194; _Ingersoll's_,
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