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the Arts how to avoid doing the one, and secure himself in doing the other."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 331. "The occasions when you ought to personify things, and when you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule."--_Cobbett's Eng. Gram._, 182. "They reflect that they have been much diverted, but scarce can say about what."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 151. "The eyebrows and shoulders should seldom or ever be remarked by any perceptible motion."--_Adams's Rhet._, ii, 389. "And the left hand or arm should seldom or never attempt any motion by itself."--_Ib._, ii, 391. "Every speaker does not propose to please the imagination."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 104. "And like Gallio, they care little for none of these things."--_The Friend_, Vol. x, p. 351. "They may inadvertently be imitated, in cases where the meaning would be obscure."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 272. "Nor a man cannot make him laugh."--_Shak_. "The Athenians, in their present distress, scarce knew where to turn."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 156. "I do not remember where ever God delivered his oracles by the multitude."--_Locke_. "The object of this government is twofold, outwards and inwards."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 553. "In order to rightly understand what we read."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 313. "That a design had been formed, to forcibly abduct or kidnap Morgan."--_Stone, on Masonry_, p. 410. "But such imposture can never maintain its ground long."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 10. "But sure it is equally possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art, as to any other that is cultivated among men."--_Ibid._ "It would have been better for you, to have remained illiterate, and to have been even hewers of wood."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 374. "Dissyllables that have two vowels, which are separated in the pronunciation, have always the accent on the first syllable."--_Ib._, i, 238. "And they all turned their backs without almost drawing a sword."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 224. "The principle of duty takes naturally place of every other."--_Ib._, i, 342. "All that glitters is not gold."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 13. "Whether now or never so many myriads of ages hence."--_Pres. Edwards_. "England never did, nor never shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 109. LESSON IX.--CONJUNCTIONS. "He readily comprehends the rules of Syntax, and their use and applicability in the examples before him."--_Greenleaf's Gram._, p.
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