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ses necessarily succeed each other."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 142. "They saw that it would be practicable to express, in writing, the whole combinations of sounds which our words require."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 68. "There are some Events, the Truth of which cannot appear to any, but such whose Minds are first qualify'd by some certain Knowledge."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 242. "These Sort of Feet are in Latin called Iambics."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 134. "And the Words are mostly so disposed, that the Accents may fall on every 2d, 4th, 6th, 8th, and 10th Syllables."--_Ib._, p. 135. "If the verse does not sound well and harmonious to the ear."--_Ib._, p. 136. "I gat me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts."--_Ecclesiastes_, ii, 8. "No people have so studiously avoided the collision of consonants as the Italians."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 183. "And these two subjects must destroy one another."--_Ib._, p. 42. "Duration and space are two things in some respects the most like, and in some respects the most unlike to one another."--_Ib._, p. 103. "Nothing ever affected him so much, as this misconduct of his friend."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 155. "To see the bearing of the several parts of speech on each other."--_Greenleaf's Gram._, p. 2. "Two or more adjectives following each other, either with or without a conjunction, qualify the same word."--_Bullion's E. Gram._, p. 75. "The two chapters which now remain, are by far the most important of any."-- _Student's Manual_, p. 293. "That has been the subject of no less than six negotiations."--_Pres. Jackson's Message_, 1830. "His gravity makes him work cautious."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 534. "Grandeur, being an extreme vivid emotion, is not readily produced in perfection but by reiterated impressions."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 203. "Every object appears less than when viewed separately and independent of the series."--_Ib._, ii, 14. "An Organ is the best of all other musical instruments."--_Dilworth's English Tongue_, p. 94. "Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well."--_Pope, on Crit._, l. 15. EXERCISE IV.--PRONOUNS. "You had musty victuals, and he hath holp to eat it."--SHAK.: _Joh. Dict., w. Victuals_. "Sometime am I all wound with adders, who, with cloven tongues, do hiss me into madness."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 68. "When a letter or syllable i
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