s Key_, ii, 215. "It is the nature of extreme
self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and [or _an_] it were but
to roast their eggs."--_Ld. Bacon_. "Did ever man struggle more earnestly
in a cause where both his honour and life are concerned?"--_Duncan's
Cicero_, p. 15. "So the rests and pauses, between sentences and their
parts, are marked by points."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 114. "Yet the case and
mode is not influenced by them, but determined by the nature of the
sentence."--_Ib._, p. 113. "By not attending to this rule, many errors have
been committed: a number of which is subjoined, as a further caution and
direction to the learner."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 114. "Though thou clothest
thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold,
though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself
fair."--_Jeremiah_, iv, 30. "But that the doing good to others will make us
happy, is not so evident; feeding the hungry, for example, or clothing the
naked."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 161. "There is no other God but him, no
other light but his."--_William Penn_. "How little reason to wonder, that a
perfect and accomplished orator, should be one of the characters that is
most rarely found?"--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 337. "Because they neither express
doing nor receiving an action."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 53. "To find the
answers, will require an effort of mind, and when given, will be the result
of reflection, showing that the subject is understood."--_Ib._, p. vii. "To
say, that 'the sun rises,' is trite and common; but it becomes a
magnificent image when expressed as Mr. Thomson has done."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 137. "The declining a word is the giving it different
endings."--_Ware's Gram._, p. 7. "And so much are they for every one's
following their own mind."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 462. "More than one
overture for a peace was made, but Cleon prevented their taking
effect."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 121. "Neither in English or in any other
language is this word, and that which corresponds to it in other languages,
any more an article, than _two, three, four_."--DR. WEBSTER: _Knickerbocker
of 1836_. "But the most irksome conversation of all others I have met
within the neighbourhood, has been among two or three of your
travellers."--_Spect._, No. 474. "Set down the two first terms of
supposition under each other in the first place."--_Smiley's Arithmetic_,
p. 79. "It is an useful rule too, to