voice
denotes _the receiving of an_ action."]

"Milton, in some of his prose works, has very finely turned
periods."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 127; _Jamieson's_, 129. "These will be found
to be all, or chiefly, of that class."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 32. "All
appearances of an author's affecting harmony, are disagreeable."--_Ib._, p.
127; _Jamieson_, 128. "Some nouns have a double increase, that is, increase
by more syllables than one; as, _iter, itin~eris_."--_Adam's Gram._, p.
255; _Gould's_, 241. "The powers of man are enlarged by advancing
cultivation."--_Gurney's Essays_, p. 62. "It is always important to begin
well; to make a favourable impression at first setting out."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 307. "For if one take a wrong method at first setting out, it
will lead him astray in all that follows."--_Ib._, 313. "His mind is full
of his subject, and his words are all expressive."--_Ib._, 179. "How
exquisitely is this all performed in Greek!"--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 422.
"How little is all this to satisfy the ambition of an immortal soul!"--
_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 253. "So as to exhibit the object in its full and
most striking point of view."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 41. "And that the author
know how to descend with propriety to the plain, as well as how to rise to
the bold and figured style."--_Ib._, p. 401. "The heart can only answer to
the heart."--_Ib._, p. 259. "Upon its first being perceived."--_Harris's
Hermes_, p. 229. "Call for Samson, that he may make us sport."--_Judges_,
xvi, 25. "And he made them sport."--_Ibid._ "The term _suffer_ in this
definition is used in a technical sense, and means simply the receiving of
an action, or the being acted upon."--_Bullions_, p. 29. "The Text is what
is only meant to be taught in Schools."--_Brightland, Pref._, p. ix. "The
perfect participle denotes action or being perfected or finished."--
_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 78. "From the intricacy and confusion which are
produced by their being blended together."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 66.
"This very circumstance of a word's being employed antithetically, renders
it important in the sentence."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 121. "It [the
pronoun _that_] is applied to both persons and things."--_Murray's Gram._,
p. 53. "Concerning us, as being every where evil spoken of."--_Barclay's
Works_, Vol. ii, p. vi. "Every thing beside was buried in a profound
silence."--_Steele_. "They raise more full conviction than any reasonings
produce."--_Blair's Rhe