lected taking with him."--_Goldsmith's Rome_, p. 116. "And Caesar
took out of the treasury, to the amount of three thousand pound weight of
gold, besides an immense quantity of silver."--_Ibid._ "Rules and
definitions, which should always be clear and intelligible as possible, are
thus rendered obscure."--_Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 5. "So much both of
ability and merit is seldom found."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 179. "If such
maxims, and such practices prevail, what is become of decency and
virtue?"--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 78. "Especially if the subject require
not so much pomp."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 117. "However, the proper mixture
of light and shade, in such compositions; the exact adjustment of all the
figurative circumstances with the literal sense; have ever been considered
as points of great nicety."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 343. "And adding to that
hissing in our language, which is taken so much notice of by
foreigners."--ADDISON: DR. COOTE: _ib._, i, 90. "Speaking impatiently to
servants, or any thing that betrays unkindness or ill-humour, is certainly
criminal."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 183; _Merchant's_, 190. "There is here a
fulness and grandeur of expression well suited to the subject."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 218. "I single Strada out among the moderns, because he had the
foolish presumption to censure Tacitus."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 262. "I
single him out among the moderns, because," &c.--_Bolingbroke, on Hist._,
p. 116. "This is a rule not always observed, even by good writers, as
strictly as it ought to be."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 103. "But this gravity
and assurance, which is beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge,
do never reach to manhood."--_Notes to the Dunciad_. "The regularity and
polish even of a turnpike-road has some influence upon the low people in
the neighbourhood."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 358. "They become fond of
regularity and neatness; which is displayed, first upon their yards and
little enclosures, and next within doors."--_Ibid._ "The phrase, _it is
impossible to exist_, gives us the idea of it's being impossible for men,
or any body to exist."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 85. "I'll give a thousand
pound to look upon him."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 151. "The reader's
knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent his mistaking
it."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 172; _Crombie's_, 253. "When two words are set
in contrast or in opposition to one another, they are both
emphatic."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 24