same way."--_Locke_. "To this he has no better defense than
that."--_Barnes's Bed Book_, p. 347. "Searching the person whom he suspects
for having stolen his casket."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 479. "Who are elected
as vacancies occur by the whole Board."--_Lit. Convention_, p. 81. "Almost
the only field of ambition of a German, is science."--DR. LIEBER: _ib._, p.
66. "The plan of education is very different to the one pursued in the
sister country."--DR. COLEY, _ib._, p. 197. "Some writers on grammar have
contended that adjectives relate to, and modify the action of
verbs."--_Wilcox's Gram._, p. 61. "They are therefore of a mixed nature,
participating of the properties both of pronouns and adjectives."--
_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 57. "For there is no authority which can justify
the inserting the aspirate or doubling the vowel."--_Knight, on Greek
Alph._, p. 52. "The distinction and arrangement between active, passive,
and neuter verbs."--_Wright's Gram_, p. 176. "And see thou a hostile world
_to_ spread its delusive snares."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 167. "He may be
precaution'd, and be made see, how those joyn in the Contempt."--_Locke, on
Ed._, p. 155. "The contenting themselves now in the want of what they
wish'd for, is a vertue."--_Ib._, p. 185. "If the Complaint be of something
really worthy your notice."--_Ib._, p. 190. "True Fortitude I take to be
the quiet Possession of a Man's self, and an undisturb'd doing his
Duty."--_Ib._, p. 204. "For the custom of tormenting and killing of Beasts
will, by degrees, harden their Minds even towards Men."--_Ib._, p. 216.
"Children are whip'd to it, and made spend many Hours of their precious
time uneasily in Latin."--_Ib._, p. 289. "The ancient rhetoricians have
entered into a very minute and particular detail of this subject; more
particular, indeed, than any other that regards language."--_Jamieson's
Rhet._, p. 123. "But the one should not be omitted without the
other."--_Bullions's Eng. Gram._, p. 108. "In some of the common forms of
speech, the relative pronoun is usually omitted."--_Murray's Gram._, i,
218; _Weld's_, 191. "There are a great variety of causes, which disqualify
a witness from being received to testify in particular cases."--_J. Q.
Adams's Rhet._, ii, 75. "Aside of all regard to interest, we should expect
that," &c.--_Webster's Essays_, p. 82. "My opinion was given on a rather
cursory perusal of the book."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 202. "And the next day,
he was put on boa
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