e, rendered heavy and lifeless, but the meaning left often
ambiguous."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 330; _Murray's Eng. Reader_, p. xi. "He
regards his word, but thou dost not regard it."--_Bullions's E. Gram._, p.
129; _his Analytical and Practical Gram._, p. 196. "He regards his word,
but thou dost not: i.e. dost not regard it."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p.
219; _Parker and Fox's_, p. 96; _Weld's_, 192. "I have learned my task, but
you have not; i.e. have not learned."--_Ib., Mur._, 219; &c. "When the
omission of words would obscure the sentence, weaken its force, or be
attended with an impropriety, they must be expressed."--_Ib._, p. 217;
_Weld's Gram._ 190. "And therefore the verb is correctly put in the
singular number, and refers to the whole separately and individually
considered."--_Murray's Gram._ 8vo, ii, 24 and 190. "I understood him the
best of all who spoke on the subject."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 192. "I
understood him better than any other who spoke on the subject."--_Ibid._,
"The roughness found on our entrance into the paths of virtue and learning,
grow smoother as we advance."--_Ib._, p. 171. "The roughnesses,"
&c.--_Murray's Key_, 12mo, p 8. "Nothing promotes knowledge more than
steady application, and a habit of observation."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p.
265. "Virtue confers supreme dignity on man: and should be his chief
desire."--_Ib._, p. 192; _and Merchant's_, 192. "The Supreme author of our
being has so formed the soul of man, that nothing but himself can be its
last, adequate, and proper happiness."--_Addison, Spect._, No. 413;
_Blair's Rhet._, p. 213. "The inhabitants of China laugh at the plantations
of our Europeans; because, they say, any one may place trees in equal rows
and uniform figures."--_Ad., Spect._, No. 414; _Blair's Rhet._, p. 222.
"The divine laws are not reversible by those of men."--_Murray's Key_, ii,
167. "In both of these examples, the relative and the verb _which was_, are
understood."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 273; _Comly's_, 152; _Ingersoll's_, 285.
"The Greek and Latin languages, though, for many reasons, they cannot be
called dialects of one another, are nevertheless closely connected."--_Dr.
Murray's Hist. of European Lang._, Vol. ii, p. 51. "To ascertain and settle
which, of a white rose or a red rose, breathes the sweetest
fragrance."--_J. Q. Adams, Orat._, 1831. "To which he can afford to devote
much less of his time and labour."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 254.

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