is
a happiness to young persons, when they are preserved from the snares of
the world, as in a garden enclosed."--_Ib._, p. 171. "The court of Queen
Elizabeth, which was but another name for prudence and economy."--
_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 24. "It is no wonder if such a man did not shine
at the court of Queen Elizabeth, who was but another name for prudence and
economy. Here which ought to be used, and not who."--_Priestley's Gram._,
p. 99; _Fowler's_, Sec.488. "Better thus; Whose name was but another word for
prudence, &c."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 157; _Fish's_, 115; Ingersoll's, 221;
Smith's, 133; and others. "A Defective verb is one that wants some of its
parts. They are chiefly the Auxiliary and Impersonal verbs."--_Bullions, E.
Gram._, p. 31; _Old Editions_, 32. "Some writers have given our moods a
much greater extent than we have assigned to them."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo,
p. 67. "The Personal Pronouns give information which no other words are
capable of conveying."--_M'Culloch's Gram._, p. 37, "When the article _a,
an_, or _the_ precedes the participle, it also becomes a noun."--
_Merchant's School Gram._, p. 93. "There is a preference to be given to
some of these, which custom and judgment must determine."--_Murray's
Gram._, 8vo, p. 107. "Many writers affect to subjoin to any word the
preposition with which it is compounded, or the idea of which it
implies."--_Ib._, p. 200; _Priestley's Gram._, 157.
"Say, dost thou know Tectidius?--Who, the wretch
Whose lands beyond the Sabines largely stretch?"
--_Dryden's IV Sat. of Pers._
LESSON V.--VERBS.
"We would naturally expect, that the word _depend_, would require _from_
after it."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 201. "A dish which they pretend to be
made of emerald."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 198. "For the very nature of a
sentence implies one proposition to be expressed."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.
106. "Without a careful attention to the sense, we would be naturally led,
by the rules of syntax, to refer it to the rising and setting of the
sun."--_Ib._, p. 105. "For any rules that can be given, on this subject,
are very general."--_Ib._, p. 125. "He is in the right, if eloquence were
what he conceives it to be."--_Ib._, p. 234. "There I would prefer a more
free and diffuse manner."--_Ib._, p. 178. "Yet that they also agreed and
resembled one another, in certain qualities."--_Ib._, p. 73. "But since he
must restore her, he insists to have another in her place
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