us whatever he utters will be
done with ease, and appear natural."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 103.
"Stops, or pauses, are a total cessation of sound during a perceptible, and
in numerous compositions, a measurable space of time."--_Ib._, p. 104.
"Pauses or rests, in speaking and reading, are a total cessation of the
voice during a perceptible, and, in many cases, a measurable space of
time."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 248; _English Reader_, p. 13; _Goldsbury's
Gr._, 76; _Kirkham's_, 208; _Felton's_, 133; _et al._ "Nouns which express
a small one of the kind are called _Diminutive Nouns_; as, lambkin,
hillock, satchel, gosling, from lamb, hill, sack, goose."--_Bullions, E.
Gram._, 1837, p. 9. "What is the cause that nonsense so often escapes being
detected, both by the writer and by the reader?"--_Campbell's Rhet._, p.
xi, and 280. "An Interjection is a word used to express sudden emotion.
They are so called, because they are generally thrown in between the parts
of a sentence without reference to the structure of the other parts of
it."--_M'Culloch's Gram._, p. 36. "_Ought_ (in duty bound) _oughtest,
oughtedst_, are it's only inflections."--_Mackintosh's Gram._, p. 165. "But
the arrangment, government, agreement, and dependence of one word upon
another, are referred to our reason."--_Osborn's Key, Pref._, p. 3. "_Me_
is a personal pronoun, first person singular, and the accusative
case."--_Guy's Gram._, p. 20. "The substantive _self_ is added to a
pronoun; as, herself, himself, &c.; and when thus united, is called a
reciprocal pronoun."--_Ib._, p. 18. "One cannot avoid thinking that our
author had done better to have begun the first of these three sentences,
with saying, _it is novelty which bestows charms on a monster_,
&c."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 207. "The idea which they present to us of
nature's resembling art, of art's being considered as an original, and
nature as a copy,[451] seems not very distinct nor well brought out, nor
indeed very material to our author's purpose."--_Ib._, p. 220. "The present
construction of the sentence, has plainly been owing to hasty and careless
writing."--_Ib._, p. 220. "Adverbs serve to modify, or to denote some
circumstance of an action, or of a quality, relative to its time, place,
order, degree, and the other properties of it, which we have occasion to
specify."--_Ib._, p. 84. "The more that any nation is improved by science,
and the more perfect their language becomes, we may naturally ex