3. "The number of persons, men, women,
and children, who were lost in the sea, was very great."--_Ib._, ii, 20.
"Nor is the resemblance between the primary and resembling object pointed
out"--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 179. "I think it the best book of the kind
which I have met with."--DR. MATHEWS: _Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 2.

"Why should not we their ancient rites restore,
And be what Rome or Athens were before."--_Roscommon_, p. 22.

LESSON XII.--TWO ERRORS.

"It is labour only which gives the relish to pleasure."--_Murray's Key_,
ii, 234. "Groves are never as agreeable as in the opening of the
spring."--_Ib._, p. 216. "His 'Philosophical Inquiry into the origin of our
Ideas on the Sublime and Beautiful' soon made him known to the
literati."--_Biog. Rhet., n. Burke_. "An awful precipice or tower whence we
look down on the objects which lie below."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 30. "This
passage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; owing to no
other cause but this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded
together."--_Ib._, p. 149. "I propose making some observations."--_Ib._, p.
280. "I shall follow the same method here which I have all along
pursued."--_Ib._, p. 346. "Mankind never resemble each other so much as
they do in the beginnings of society."--_Ib._, p. 380. "But no ear is
sensible of the termination of each foot, in reading an hexameter
line."--_Ib._, p. 383. "The first thing, says he, which either a writer of
fables, or of heroic poems, does, is, to choose some maxim or point of
morality."--_Ib._, p. 421. "The fourth book has been always most justly
admired, and abounds with beauties of the highest kind."--_Ib._, p. 439.
"There is no attempt towards painting characters in the poem."--_Ib._, p.
446. "But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the introducing
them always in pairs, and by opposites, gives too theatrical and affected
an air to the piece."--_Ib._, p. 479. "Neither of them are arbitrary nor
local."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, p. xxi. "If crowding figures be bad, it is
still worse to graft one figure upon another."--_Ib._, ii, 236. "The
crowding withal so many objects together, lessens the pleasure."--_Ib._,
ii, 324. "This therefore lies not in the putting off the Hat, nor making of
Compliments."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 149. "But the Samaritan Vau may have
been used, as the Jews did the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and
consonant."--_Wilson's Essay_, p. 19. "But if a solemn and familia