areful not to use the same word too frequently, nor in
different senses."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 296. "Nothing could have made her
so unhappy, as marrying a man who possessed such principles."--_Murray's
Key_, ii, 200. "A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of,
but worst to write in."--_Cowley's Pref._, p. vi. "When thou instances
Peter his baptizing Cornelius."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 188. "To introduce
two or more leading thoughts or agents, which have no natural relation to,
or dependence on one another."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 313. "Animals, again,
are fitted to one another, and to the elements where they live, and to
which they are as appendices."--_Ibid._ "This melody, or varying the sound
of each word so often, is a proof of nothing, however, but of the fine ear
of that people."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 5. "They can each in their turns
be made use of upon occasion."--_Duncan's Logic_, p. 191. "In this reign
lived the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower, are the first authors who can
properly be said to have written English."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 144. "In
the translating these kind of expressions, consider the IT IS, as if it
were _they_, or _they are_."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 179. "The chin has
an important office to perform; for upon its activity we either disclose a
polite or vulgar pronunciation."--_Music of Nature_, p. 27. "For no other
reason, but his being found in bad company."--_Webster's Amer.
Spelling-Book_, p. 96. "It is usual to compare them in the same manner as
Polisyllables."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 77. "The infinitive mood is
recognised easier than any others, because the preposition _to_ precedes
it."--_Bucke's Gram._, p, 95. "Prepositions, you recollect, connect words
as well as conjunctions: how, then, can you tell the one from the
other?"--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 38.
"No kind of work requires so nice a touch,
And if well finish'd, nothing shines so much"
--_Sheffield, Duke of Buck._
LESSON XVI--THREE ERRORS.
"It is the final pause which alone, on many occasions, marks the difference
between prose and verse; which will be evident from the following
arrangement of a few poetical lines."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 260. "I shall
do all I can to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure
which I have."--GUARDIAN: see _Campbell's Rhet._, p. 207. "I shall do all I
can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I
have taken."--_Murray'
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