ming body
is equal to that of the weight, of the quantity of fluid displaced by
it."--_Percival's Tales_, ii, 213. "The Subjunctive mood, in all its
tenses, is similar to that of the Optative."--_Gwilt's Saxon Gram._, p. 27.
"No other feeling of obligation remains, except that of
fidelity."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, 1st Ed., p. 82. "Who asked him,
'What could be the reason, that whole audiences should be moved to tears,
at the representation of some story on the stage.'"--_Sheridan's
Elocution_, p. 175. "Art not thou and you ashamed to affirm, that the best
works of the Spirit of Christ in his saints are as filthy
rags?"--_Barclay's Works_, i, 174. "A neuter verb becomes active, when
followed by a noun of the same signification with its own."--_Sanborn's
Gram._, p. 127. "But he has judged better, in omitting to repeat the
article _the_."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 194. "Many objects please us as highly
beautiful, which have almost no variety at all."--_Ib._, p. 46. "Yet
notwithstanding, they sometimes follow them."--_Emmons's Gram._, p. 21.
"For I know of nothing more material in all the whole Subject, than this
doctrine of Mood and Tense."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 292. "It is by no
means impossible for an errour to be got rid of or supprest."--
_Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 642. "These are things of the highest
importance to the growing age."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 250. "He had
better have omitted the word _many_."--_Blair's Rhet._ p. 205. "Which had
better have been separated."--_Ib._, p. 225. "Figures and metaphors,
therefore, should, on no occasion be stuck on too profusely."--_Ib._, p.
144; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 150. "Metaphors, as well as other figures, should
on no occasion, be stuck on too profusely."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 338;
_Russell's_, 136. "Something like this has been reproached to
Tacitus."--BOLINGBROKE: _Priestley's Gram._, p. 164.

"O thou, whom all mankind in vain withstand,
Each of whose blood must one day stain thy hand!"
--_Sheffield's Temple of Death_.

LESSON XII.--TWO ERRORS.[448]

"Pronouns are sometimes made to precede the things which they
represent."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 160. "Most prepositions originally denote
the relation of place."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 65. "_Which_ is applied to
inferior animals and things without life."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 24;
_Pract. Lessons_, 30. "What noun do they describe or tell the
kind?"--_Infant School Gram._, p. 41. "Iron cannon, a