een left out in these
passages."--_Burke's Gram._, p. 27. "To give separate names to every one of
those trees, would have been an endless and impracticable
undertaking."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 72. "_Ei_, in general, sounds the same
as long and slender _a_."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 12. "When a conjunction is
used apparently redundant it is called Polysyndeton."--_Adam's Gram._, p.
236; _Gould's_, 229. "_Each, every, either, neither_, denote the persons or
things which make up a number, as taken separately or distributively."--
_M'Culloch's Gram._, p. 31. "The Principal Sentence must be expressed by
verbs in the Indicative, Imperative, or Potential Modes."--_Clark's Pract.
Gram._, p. 133. "Hence he is diffuse, where he ought to have been
pressing."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 246. "All manner of subjects admit of
explaining comparisons."--_Ib._, p. 164; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 161. "The
present or imperfect participle denotes action or being continued, but not
perfected."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 78. "What are verbs? Those words which
express what the nouns do"--_Fowle's True Eng. Gram._, p. 29.

"Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
--_J. Sheffield, Duke of Buck_.

"Such was that muse whose rules and practice tell
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well."
--_Pope, on Criticism_.

LESSON XIV.--THREE ERRORS.

"In some words the metaphorical sense has justled out the original sense
altogether, so that in respect of it they are become obsolete."--
_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 323. "Sure never any mortal was so overwhelmed with
grief as I am at this present."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 138. "All
languages differ from each other in their mode of inflexion."--_Bullions,
E. Gram._, Pref., p. v. "Nouns and verbs are the only indispensable parts
of speech--the one to express the subject spoken of, and the other the
predicate or what is affirmed of it."--_M'Culloch's Gram._, p. 36. "The
words in italics of the three latter examples, perform the office of
substantives."--_L. Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 66. "Such a structure of a
sentence is always the mark of careless writing."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 231.
"Nothing is frequently more hurtful to the grace or vivacity of a period,
than superfluous dragging words at the conclusion."--_Ib._, p. 205. "When
its substantive is not joined to it, but referred to, or understood."--
_Lowth's Gram._, p. 24. "Yet they have always som