tle time should intervene between their
being proposed and decided upon."--PROF. VETHAKE: _ib._, p. 39. "It would
be nothing less than finding fault with the Creator."--_Ib._, p. 116.
"Having once been friends is a powerful reason, both of prudence and
conscience, to restrain us from ever becoming enemies."--_Secker_. "By
using the word as a conjunction, the ambiguity is prevented."--_Murray's
Gram._, i, 216.
"He forms his schemes the flood of vice to stem,
But preaching Jesus is not one of them."--_J. Taylor_.
LESSON VIII.--ADVERBS.
"Auxiliaries cannot only be inserted, but are really
understood,"--_Wright's Gram._, p 209. "He was since a hired Scribbler in
the Daily Courant."--_Notes to the Dunciad_, ii, 299. "In gardening,
luckily, relative beauty need never stand in opposition to intrinsic
beauty."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 330. "I doubt much of the propriety of
the following examples."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 44. "And [we see] how far
they have spread one of the worst Languages possibly in this part of the
world."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 341. "And in this manner to merely place him
on a level with the beast of the forest."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 5.
"Where, ah! where, has my darling fled?"--_Anon_. "As for this fellow, we
know not from whence he is."--_John_, ix, 29. "Ye see then how that by
works a man is justified, and not by faith only."--_James_, ii, 24. "The
_Mixt_ kind is where the poet speaks in his own person, and sometimes makes
other characters to speak."--_Adam's Lat. Gram._, p. 276; _Gould's_, 267.
"Interrogation is, when the writer or orator raises questions and returns
answers."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 154. "Prevention is, when an author starts
an objection which he foresees may be made, and gives an answer to
it."--_Ib._, p. 154. "Will you let me alone, or no?"--_Walker's Particles_,
p. 184. "Neither man nor woman cannot resist an engaging exterior."--
_Chesterfield_, Let. lix. "Though the Cup be never so clean."--_Locke, on
Ed._, p. 65. "Seldom, or ever, did any one rise to eminence, by being a
witty lawyer."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 272. "The second rule, which I give,
respects the choice of subjects, from whence metaphors, and other figures,
are to be drawn."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 144. "In the figures which it uses,
it sets mirrors before us, where we may behold objects, a second time, in
their likeness."--_Ib._, p. 139. "Whose Business is to seek the true
measures of Right and Wrong, and not
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