p. 253; _Bullions's E. Gram._, 170;
_Smith's_, 188; _Kirkham's_, 219; _Guy's_, 120; _Blair's_, 118;
_Merchant's_, 167; _Russell's_, 109. "It is proper to begin with a capital
the first word of every book, chapter, letter, note, or any other piece of
writing."--_L. Murray_, p. 284; _R. C. Smith's New Gram._, 192;
_Ingersoll's_, 295; _Comly's_, 166; _Merchant's_, 14; _Greenleaf's_, 42;
_D. C. Allen's_, 85; _Fisk's_, 159; _Bullions's_, 158; _Kirkham's_, 219;
_Hiley's_, 119; _Weld's Abridged_, 16; _Bullions's Analyt. and Pract._, 16;
_Fowler's E. Gr._, 674. "Five and seven make twelve, and one makes
thirteen."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 227. "I wish to cultivate a farther
acquaintance with you."--_Ib._, p. 272. "Let us consider the proper means
to effect our purpose."--_Ib._, p. 276. "Yet they are of such a similar
nature, as readily to mix and blend."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 48. "The Latin
is formed on the same model, but more imperfect."--_Ib._, p. 83. "I know
very well how much pains have been taken."--_Sir W. Temple_. "The
management of the breath requires a good deal of care."--_Blair's Rhet._,
p. 331. "Because the mind, during such a momentary stupefaction, is in a
good measure, if not totally, insensible."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. i,
p. 222. "Motives alone of reason and interest are not sufficient."--_Ib._,
Vol. i, p. 232. "To render the composition distinct in its parts, and
striking on the whole,"--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 333. "_A_ and _an_ are named
indefinite because they denote some one thing of a kind."--_Maunder's
Gram._, p. 1. "_The_ is named definite, because it points out some
particular thing."--_Ibid._ "So much depends upon the proper construction
of sentences, that, in every sort of composition, we cannot be too strict
in our attention to it."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 103. "All sort of declamation
and public speaking, was carried on by them."--_Ib._, p. 123. "The first
has on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never
attains."--_Ib._, p. 440. "When the words _therefore, consequently,
accordingly_, and the like are used in connexion with other conjunctions,
they are adverbs."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 88. "Rude nations make little or
no allusions to the productions of the arts."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 10.
"While two of her maids knelt on either side of her."--_Mirror_, xi, 307.
"The third personal pronouns differ from each other in meaning and use, as
follows."--_Bullions, Lat. Gram._, p. 65. "It was happy