ul, by any one who means to be
understood." The sentence may be amended thus: "However disagreeable _the
task_, we must resolutely perform our duty."]

"The formation of verbs in English, both regular and irregular, is derived
from the Saxon."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 47. "Time and chance have an
influence on all things human, and on nothing more remarkably than on
language."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 180. "Time and chance have an influence
on all things human, and on nothing more remarkable than on
language."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 47. "Archytases being a virtuous man,
who happened to perish once upon a time, is with him a sufficient ground,"
&c.--_Philological Museum_, i, 466. "He will be the better qualified to
understand, with accuracy, the meaning of a numerous class of words, in
which they form a material part."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 120. "We
should continually have the goal in view, which would direct us in the
race."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 172. "But [Addison's figures] seem to rise
of their own accord from the subject, and constantly embellish
it."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 150; _Jamieson's_, 157. "As far as persons and
other animals and things that we can see go, it is very easy to distinguish
Nouns."--_Cobbett's Gram._, 14. "Dissyllables ending in _y, e_ mute, or
accented on the last syllable, may be sometimes compared like
monosyllables."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 12. "Admitting the above
objection, it will not overrule the design."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 140.
"These philosophical innovators forget, that objects are like men, known
only by their actions."--_Dr. Murray's Hist. of Lang._, i, 326. "The
connexion between words and ideas is arbitrary and conventional, owing to
the agreement of men among themselves."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 1. "The
connexion between words and ideas may, in general, be considered as
arbitrary and conventional, owing to the agreement of men among
themselves."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 53. "A man whose inclinations led him to
be corrupt, and had great abilities to manage and multiply and defend his
corruptions."--_Swift_. "They have no more control over him than any other
men."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, 1st Ed., p. 372. "His old words are all
true English, and numbers exquisite."--_Spectator_, No. 540. "It has been
said, that not only Jesuits can equivocate."--_Murray's Exercises_, 8vo, p.
121. "It has been said, that Jesuits can not only equivocate."--_Murray's
Key_, 8vo, p. 253. "The