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ords which end in _ly_ succeeding each other are indeed a little offensive to the ear."--_Ib._, p. 85; _Lennie's Gram._, p. 102. "Is endless life and happiness despis'd? Or both wish'd here, where neither can be found?"--_Young_, p. 124. EXERCISE XI.--PROMISCUOUS. "Because any one of them is placed before a noun or pronoun, as you observe I have done in every sentence."--_Rand's Gram._, p. 74. "_Might accompany_ is a transitive verb, because it expresses an action which effects the object _me_."--_Gilbert's Gram._, p. 94. "_Intend_ is an intransitive verb because it expresses an action which does not effect any object."--_Ib._, p. 93. "Charles and Eliza were jealous of one another."--_J. M. Putnam's Gram._, p. 44. "Thus _one another_ include both nouns."--_Ibid._ "When the antecedent is a child, _that_ is elegantly used in preference to _who, whom_, or _which_."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 94. "He can do no more in words, but make out the expression of his will."--_Bp. Wilkins_. "The form of the first person plural of the imperative, _love we_, is grown obsolete."-- _Lowth's Gram._, p. 38. "Excluding those verbs which are become obsolete."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 47. "He who sighs for pleasure, the voice of wisdom can never reach, nor the power of virtue touch."--_Wright's Athens_, p. 64. "The other branch of wit in the thought, is that only which is taken notice of by Addison."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 312. "When any measure of the Chancellor was found fault with."--_Professors' Reasons_, p. 14. "_Whether_ was formerly made use of to signify interrogation."-- _Murray's Gram._, p. 54. "Under the article of _Pronouns_ the following words must be taken notice of."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 95. "In a word, we are afforded much pleasure, to be enabled to bestow our most unqualified approbation on this excellent work."--_Wright's Gram., Rec._, p. 4. "For Recreation is not being Idle, as every one may observe."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 365. "In the easier valuing and expressing that sum."--_Dilworth's Arith._, p. 3. "Addition is putting together of two or more numbers."-- _Alexander's Arith._, p. 8. "The reigns of some of our British Queens may fairly be urged in proof of woman being capable of discharging the most arduous and complicated duties of government."--_West's Letters to Y. L._, p. 43. "What is the import of that command to love such an one as ourselves?"--_Wayland's Moral Science_, p. 206. "It should seem the
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