on of the several organs
therefore, as well as their functions are ascertained."--_Medical
Magazine_, 1833, p. 5. "Every private company, and almost every public
assembly, afford opportunities of remarking the difference between a just
and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution."--_Enfield's Speaker_,
p. 9. "Such submission, together with the active principle of obedience,
make up the temper and character in us which answers to his sovereignty."--
_Butler's Analogy_, p. 126. "In happiness, as in other things, there is a
false and a true, an imaginary and a real."--_Fuller, on the Gospel_, p.
134. "To confound things that differ, and to make a distinction where there
is no difference, is equally unphilosophical."--_Author_.
"I know a bank whereon the wild thyme blows,
Where ox-lips and the nodding violet grows."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 51.
LESSON VI.--VERBS.
"Whose business or profession prevent their attendance in the
morning."--_Ogilby_. "And no church or officer have power over one
another."--LECHFORD: _in Hutchinson's Hist._, i, 373. "While neither reason
nor experience are sufficiently matured to protect them."--_Woodbridge_.
"Among the Greeks and Romans, every syllable, or the far greatest number at
least, was known to have a fixed and determined quantity."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 383. "Among the Greeks and Romans, every syllable, or at least
by far the greatest number of syllables, was known to have a fixed and
determined quantity."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 303. "Their vanity is
awakened and their passions exalted by the irritation, which their
self-love receives from contradiction."--_Influence of Literature_, Vol.
ii. p. 218. "I and he was neither of us any great swimmer."--_Anon_.
"Virtue, honour, nay, even self-interest, _conspire_ to recommend the
measure."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. i, p. 150. "A correct plainness, and
elegant simplicity, is the proper character of an introduction."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 308. "In syntax there is what grammarians call concord or
agreement, and government."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 128. "People find
themselves able without much study to write and speak the English
intelligibly, and thus have been led to think rules of no utility."--
_Webster's Essays_, p. 6. "But the writer must be one who has studied to
inform himself well, who has pondered his subject with care, and addresses
himself to our judgment, rather than to our imagination."--_Blair's Rhet._,
p. 353. "
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