fix our eye on some of the most
distant persons in the assembly."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 328. "He will
generally please most, when pleasing is not his sole nor chief
aim."--_Ib._, p. 336. "At length, the consuls return to the camp, and
inform them they could receive no other terms but that of surrendering
their arms, and passing under the yoke."--_Ib._, p. 360. "Nor is mankind so
much to blame, in his choice thus determining him."--SWIFT: _Crombie's
Treatise_, p 360. "These forms are what is called Number."--_Fosdick's De
Sacy_, p. 62. "In languages which admit but two Genders, all Nouns are
either Masculine or Feminine, even though they designate beings which are
neither male or female."--_Ib._, p. 66. "It is called a _Verb_ or _Word_ by
way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence,
without which the other parts of speech can form no complete
sense."--_Gould's Adam's Gram._, p. 76. "The sentence will consist of two
members, which are commonly separated from one another by a
comma."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 7. "Loud and soft in speaking, is like the
_forte_ and _piano_ in music, it only refers to the different degrees of
force used in the same key; whereas high and low imply a change of
key."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 116. "They are chiefly three: the
acquisition of knowledge; the assisting the memory to treasure up this
knowledge; or the communicating it to others."--_Ib._, p. 11.

"These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness,
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,
Than twenty silly ducking observants."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 261.

LESSON XVII.--MANY ERRORS.

"A man will be forgiven, even great errors, in a foreign language; but in
his own, even the least slips are justly laid hold of, and
ridiculed."--_American Chesterfield_, p 83. "_Let_ does not only express
permission; but praying, exhorting, commanding."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 41.
"_Let_, not only expresses permission, but entreating, exhorting,
commanding."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 88; _Ingersoll's_, 135. "That death
which is our leaving this world, is nothing else but putting off these
bodies."--_Sherlock_. "They differ from the saints recorded both in the Old
and New Testaments."--_Newton_. "The nature therefore of relation consists
in the referring or comparing two things one to another; from which
comparison, one or both comes to be denominated"--_Locke's Essay_, i, 220.
"It is not credible, that there hath b