and, does not reverse the general order of Government."--_West's
Letters to a Lady_, p. 43. "I have hesitated signing the Declaration of
Sentiments."--_Liberator_, x, 16. "The prolonging of men's lives when the
world needed to be peopled, and now shortening them when that necessity
hath ceased to exist."--_Brown's Divinity_, p. 7. "Before the performance
commences, we have displayed the insipid formalities of the prelusive
scene."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 23. "It forbade the lending of money, or
sending goods, or in any way embarking capital in transactions connected
with that foreign traffic."--LORD BROUGHAM: _B. and F. Anti-Slavery
Reporter_, Vol. ii, p. 218. "Even abstract ideas have sometimes conferred
upon them the same important prerogative."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 171.
"Like other terminations, _ment_ changes _y_ into _i_, when preceded by a
consonant."--_Walker's Rhyming Dict._, p. xiii; _Murray's Gram._, p. 24:
_Ingersoll's_, 11. "The term _proper_ is from being _proper_, that is,
_peculiar_ to the individual bearing the name. The term _common_ is from
being _common_ to every individual comprised in the class."--_Fowler's E.
Gram._, 8vo, 1850, Sec.139.

"Thus oft by mariners are shown (Unless the men of Kent are liars)
Earl Godwin's castles overflown, And palace-roofs, and steeple-spires."
--_Swift_, p. 313.

LESSON VII.--ADVERBS.

"He spoke to every man and woman there."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 220;
_Fisk's_, 147. "Thought and language act and react upon each other
mutually."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 120; _Murray's Exercises_, 133. "Thought
and expression act upon each other mutually."--See _Murray's Key_, p. 264.
"They have neither the leisure nor the means of attaining scarcely any
knowledge, except what lies within the contracted circle of their several
professions."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 359. "Before they are capable of
understanding but little, or indeed any thing of many other branches of
education."--_Olney's Introd. to Geog._, p. 5. "There is not more beauty in
one of them than in another."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 275. "Which appear not
constructed according to any certain rule."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 47. "The
vehement manner of speaking became not so universal."--_Ib._, p. 61. "All
languages, however, do not agree in this mode of expression."--_Ib._, p.
77. "The great occasion of setting aside this particular day."--ATTERBURY:
p. 294. "He is much more promising now than formerly."--_Mu