."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 65. "It is evident, that words are most
agreeable to the ear which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, where
there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants."--_Ib._, p. 121.
See _Murray's Gram._, i, 325. "It would have had no other effect, but to
add a word unnecessarily to the sentence."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 194. "But
as rumours arose of the judges having been corrupted by money in this
cause, these gave occasions to much popular clamour, and had thrown a heavy
odium on Cluentius."--_Ib._, p. 273. "A Participle is derived of a verb,
and partakes of the nature both of the verb and the adjective."--_Dr. Ash's
Gram._, p. 39; _E. Devis's_, 9. "I will have learned my grammar before you
learn your's."--_Wilbur and Liv. Gram._, p. 14. "There is no earthly object
capable of making such various and such forcible impressions upon the human
mind as a complete speaker."--_Perry's Dict., Pref._ "It was not the
carrying the bag which made Judas a thief and an hireling."--_South_. "As
the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one
Christ."--_Athanasian Creed_. "And I will say to them which were not my
people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."--_Hosea_,
ii, 23. "Where there is nothing in the sense which requires the last sound
to be elevated or emphatical, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the
sense is finished, will be proper."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 250. "Each party
produces words where the letter _a_ is sounded in the manner they contend
for."--_Walker's Dict._, p. 1. "To countenance persons who are guilty of
bad actions, is scarcely one remove from actually committing
them."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 233. "'To countenance persons who are guilty
of bad actions,' is part of a sentence, which is the nominative case to the
verb 'is.'"--_Ibid._ "What is called splitting of particles, or separating
a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be
avoided."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 112; _Jamieson's_, 93. See _Murray's Gram._,
i, 319. "There is, properly, no more than one pause or rest in the
sentence, falling betwixt the two members into which it is
divided."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 125; _Jamieson's_, 126; _Murray's Gram._, i,
329. "Going barefoot does not at all help on the way to heaven."--_Steele,
Spect._, No. 497. "There is no Body but condemns this in others, though
they overlook it in themselves."--_Locke, on Ed._, Sec.145. "In the same
sentence, be c
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