, 'The
Philosophy of the Human Voice.'"--_Fowlers E. Gram._, 1850, Sec.65. "Nobody
confounds the name of _w_ or _y_ with their sound or phonetic
import."--_Ib._, Sec.74.

"Order is Heaven's first law; and this confest,
Some are and must be, greater than the rest."--_Ib._, p. 96.

LESSON II.--UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

"In adjectives of one syllable, the Comparative is formed by adding _-er_
to the positive; and the Superlative by adding _-est_; as, _sweet, sweeter,
sweetest_."--_Bullions, Prin. of E. Gram._, p. 19.

"In monosyllables the comparative is formed by adding _er_ or _r_ to the
positive, and the superlative by adding _est_ or _st_; as, _tall, taller,
tallest; wise, wiser, wisest_."--_Id., Pract. Les._, p. 24.

"By this method the confusion and unnecessary labor occasioned by studying
grammars in these languages, constructed on different principles is
avoided, the study of one is rendered a profitable introduction to the
study of another, and an opportunity is furnished to the enquiring student
of comparing the languages in their grammatical structure, and seeing at
once wherein they agree, and wherein they differ."--_Bullions, Prin. of E.
Gram._, Pref. to 5th Ed., p. vii.

"No larger portion should be assigned for each recitation than the class
can easily master, and till this is done, a new portion should not be given
out."--_Id., ib._, p. viii. "The acquisitions made in every new lesson
should be rivetted and secured by repeated _revisals_."--_Id., ib._, p.
viii.

"The personal pronouns may be parsed briefly thus; _I_, the first personal
pronoun, masculine (or feminine), singular, the nominative. _His_, the
third personal pronoun, masculine, singular, the possessive,
&c."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 23: _Pract. Les._, p. 28.

"When the male and female are expressed by distinct terms; as, _shepherd,
shepherdess_, the masculine term has also a general meaning, expressing
both male and female, and is always to be used when the office, occupation,
profession, &c., and not the sex of the individual, is chiefly to be
expressed. The feminine term is used only when the discrimination, of sex
is indispensably necessary. Thus, when it is said 'the Poets of this
country are distinguished by correctness of taste,' the term 'Poet' clearly
includes both male and female writers of poetry."--_Id., E. Gram._, p. 12;
_his Analyt. and Pract. Gram._, 24.

"Nouns and pronouns, connected by conjunctions, must be in th