rray's Gram._,
Vol. ii, p. 4. "They are placed before a participle, independently on the
rest of the sentence."--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 21. "This opinion appears to be
not well considered."--_Ib._, Vol. i, p. 153; _Ingersoll's_, 249.
"Precision in language merits a full explication; and the more, because
distinct ideas are, perhaps, not commonly formed about it."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 94. "In the more sublime parts of poetry, he [Pope] is not so
distinguished."--_Ib._, p. 403. "How far the author was altogether happy in
the choice of his subject, may be questioned."--_Ib._, p. 450. "But here
also there is a great error in the common practice."--_Webster's Essays_,
p. 7. "This order is the very order of the human mind, which makes things
we are sensible of, a means to come at those that are not so."--_Formey's
Belles-Lettres, Foreman's Version_, p. 113. "Now, Who is not Discouraged,
and Fears Want, when he has no money?"--_Divine Right of Tythes_, p. 23.
"Which the Authors of this work, consider of but little or no
use."--_Wilbur and Livingston's Gram._, p. 6. "And here indeed the
distinction between these two classes begins not to be clear."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 152. "But this is a manner which deserves not to be
imitated."--_Ib._, p. 180. "And in this department a person never effects
so little, as when he attempts too much."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 173;
_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 367. "The verb that signifies merely being, is
neuter."--_Dr. Ash's Gram._, p. 27. "I hope not much to tire those whom I
shall not happen to please."--_Rambler_, No. 1. "Who were utterly unable to
pronounce some letters, and others very indistinctly."--_Sheridan's
Elocution_, p. 32. "The learner may point out the active, passive, and
neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons why."--_C.
Adams's Gram._, p. 27. "These words are most always conjunctions."--_S.
Barrett's Revised Gram._, p. 73.
"How fluent nonsense trickles from his tongue!
How sweet the periods, neither said, nor sung!"--_Dunciad_.
LESSON VIII.--CONJUNCTIONS.
"Who at least either knew not, nor loved to make, a distinction."--_Dr.
Murray's Hist. of Europ. Lang._, i, 322. "It is childish in the last
degree, if this become the ground of estranged affection."--_L. Murray's
Key_, ii, 228. "When the regular or the irregular verb is to be preferred,
p. 107."--_Murray's Index, Gram._, ii, 296. "The books were to have been
sold, as this day."--_Priestley's E. Gr
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