nor too perfectly."--_Ib._, p. 322.
"That you may so run, as you may obtain; and so fight, as you may
overcome."--_Wm. Penn_. "It is the case of some, to contrive false periods
of business, because they may seem men of despatch."--_Lord Bacon_. "'A
tall man and a woman.' In this sentence there is no ellipsis; the adjective
or quality respect only the man."--_Dr. Ash's Gram._, p. 95. "An
abandonment of the policy is neither to be expected or desired."--_Pres.
Jackson's Message_, 1830. "Which can be acquired by no other means but
frequent exercise in speaking."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 344. "The chief and
fundamental rules of syntax are common to the English as well as the Latin
tongue."--_Ib._, p. 90. "Then I exclaim, that my antagonist either is void
of all taste, or that his taste is corrupted in a miserable degree."--
_Ib._, p. 21. "I cannot pity any one who is under no distress of body nor
of mind."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 44. "There was much genius in the
world, before there were learning or arts to refine it."--_Blair's Rhet._,
p. 391. "Such a Writer can have little else to do, but to new model the
Paradoxes of ancient Scepticism."--_Brown's Estimate_, i, 102. "Our ideas
of them being nothing else but a collection of the ordinary qualities
observed in them."--_Duncan's Logic_, p. 25. "A _non-ens_ or a negative can
neither give pleasure nor pain."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 63. "So as they
shall not justle and embarrass one another."--_Blair's Lectures_, p. 318.
"He firmly refused to make use of any other voice but his own."--
_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 190. "Your marching regiments, Sir, will not make
the guards their example, either as soldiers or subjects."--_Junius, Let_.
35. "Consequently, they had neither meaning, or beauty, to any but the
natives of each country."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 161.

"The man of worth, and has not left his peer,
Is in his narrow house for ever darkly laid."--_Burns_.

LESSON X.--PREPOSITIONS.

"These may be carried on progressively above any assignable
limits."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 296. "To crowd in a single member of a
period different subjects, is still worse than to crowd them into one
period."--_Ib._, ii, 27. "Nor do we rigidly insist for melodious
prose."--_Ib._, ii, 76. "The aversion we have at those who differ from
us."--_Ib._, ii, 365. "For we cannot bear his shifting the scene every
line."--LD. HALIFAX: _ib._, ii, 213. "We shall find that we come by it the