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manner for each."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 2. "Thus feet composed of syllables, being pronounced with a sensible interval between each, make a more lively impression than can be made by a continued sound."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 32. "The superlative degree implies a comparison between three or more."--_Smith's Productive Gram._, p. 51. "They are used to mark a distinction between several objects."--_Levizac's Gram._, p. 85. UNDER NOTE III.--OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS. "This would have been less worthy notice."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 197. "But I passed it, as a thing unworthy my notice."--_Werter_. "Which, in compliment to me, perhaps, you may, one day, think worthy your attention."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 81. "To think this small present worthy an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment."-- _Ib._, p. iv. "There are but a few miles portage."--_Jefferson's Notes on Virginia_, p. 17. "It is worthy notice, that our mountains are not solitary."--_Ib._, p. 26. "It is of about one hundred feet diameter."-- _Ib._, 33. "Entering a hill a quarter or half a mile."--_Ib._, p. 47. "And herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan."--_Ib._, p. 100. "It was of a spheroidical form, of about forty feet diameter at the base, and had been of about twelve feet altitude."--_Ib._, p. 143. "Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width."--_Ibid._ "Then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure."--_Deut._, xxiii, 24. "Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary."--_Ezekiel_, xliv, 1. "They will bless God that he has peopled one half the world with a race of freemen."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 94. "What use can these words be, till their meaning is known?"--_Town's Analysis_, p. 7. "The tents of the Arabs now are black, or a very dark colour."--_The Friend_, Vol. v, p. 265. "They may not be unworthy the attention of young men."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 157. "The pronoun that is frequently applied to persons, as well as things."-- _Merchant's Gram._, p. 87. "And _who_ is in the same case that _man_ is."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 148. "He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet diameter."--_The Friend_, vii, 409. "Pliny informs us, that this stone was the size of a cart."--_Ibid._ "Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fi
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