owing
it."--_Sheffield's Works_, ii, 244. "So as to signify not only the doing an
action, but the causing it to be done."--_Pike's Hebrew Lexicon_, p. 180.
"This, certainly, was both dividing the unity of God, and limiting his
immensity."--_Calvin's Institutes_, B. i, Ch. 13. "Tones being infinite in
number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging them under
distinct heads, and reducing them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be
considered as the last refinement in language."--_Knight, on Gr. Alph._, p.
16. "The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have done it,
and until he have performed the intents of his heart."--_Jeremiah_, xxx,
24. "We seek for more heroic and illustrious deeds, for more diversified
and surprising events."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 373. "We distinguish the
Genders, or the Male and Female Sex, four different Ways."--_Buchanan's
Gram._, p. 20. "Thus, ch and g, are ever hard. It is therefore proper to
retain these sounds in Hebrew names, which have not been modernised, or
changed by public use."--_Wilson's Essay on Gram._, p. 24. "The Substantive
or noun is the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have
any notion."--_Lindley Murray's Gram._, 2d Ed., p. 26. "The SUBSTANTIVE, or
NOUN; being the name of any thing conceived to subsist, or of which we have
any notion."--_Dr. Lowth's Gram._, p. 6. "The _Noun_ is the name of any
thing that exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea."--_Maunders
Gram._, p. 1. "A noun is the name of any thing in existence, or of which we
can form an idea."--_Ib._, p. 1. (See False Syntax under Note 7th to Rule
10th.) "The next thing to be taken Care of, is to keep him exactly to
speaking of Truth."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 254. "The material, vegetable, and
animal world, receive this influence according to their several
capacities."--_The Dial_, i, 59. "And yet, it is fairly defensible on the
principles of the schoolmen; if that can be called principles which
consists merely in words."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 274.

"Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
And fears to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes."--_Beaut. of Shak._, p. 317.

LESSON XV.--THREE ERRORS.

"The silver age is reckoned to have commenced on the death of Augustus, and
continued to the end of Trajan's reign."--_Gould's Lat. Gram._, p. 277.
"Language is become, in modern times, more correct, indeed, and
accurate