ich is the principal source of all the
nonsense that hath been vented by metaphysicians, mystagogues, and
theologians."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 297. "As to those animals whose use
is less common, or who on account of the places which they inhabit, fall
less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or whom their diminutive
size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English,
employ a single Noun to designate both Genders, Masculine and
Feminine."--_Fosdick's De Sacy_, p. 67. "Adjectives may always be
distinguished by their being the word, or words, made use of to describe
the quality, or condition, of whatever is mentioned."--_Emmons's Gram._, p.
20. "Adverb signifies a word added to a verb, participle, adjective, or
other adverb, to describe or qualify their qualities."--_Ib._, p. 64. "The
joining together two such grand objects, and the representing them both as
subject, at one moment, to the command of God, produces a noble
effect."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 37. "Twisted columns, for instance, are
undoubtedly ornamental; but as they have an appearance of weakness, they
always displease when they are made use of to support any part of a
building that is massy, and that seems to require a more substantial
prop."--_Ib._, p. 40. "Upon a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks,
some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet different from
the Greeks, Latins, and Hebrews, and also unlike that of any modern
nation."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 8vo, 1850, p. 176.

LESSON XVIII--MANY ERRORS.

"'The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated to the northeast side of
Lilliput, from whence it is parted only by a channel of 800 yards wide.'
_Gulliver's Travels_. The ambiguity may be removed thus:--'from whence it
is parted by a channel of 800 yards wide only.'"--_Kames, El. of Crit._,
ii, 44. "The nominative case is usually the agent or doer, and always the
subject of the verb."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 47. "There is an
originality, richness, and variety in his [Spenser's] allegorical
personages, which almost vies with the splendor of the ancient
mythology."--_Hazlitt's Lect._, p. 68. "As neither the Jewish nor Christian
revelation have been universal, and as they have been afforded to a greater
or less part of the world at different times; so likewise, at different
times, both revelations have had different degrees of evidence."--_Butler's
Analogy_, p. 210. "Thus we see, that killing a man with a swo