e same
cases."--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 78. "Verbs, connected by conjunctions,
must be in the same moods and tenses, and, when in the subjunctive present,
they must be in the same form."--_Ib._, p. 112.

"This will habituate him to reflection--exercise his judgment on the
meaning of the author, and without any great effort on his part, impress
indelibly on his memory, the rules which he is required to give. After the
exercises under the rule have been gone through as directed in the note
page 96, they may be read over again in a corrected state the pupil making
an emphasis on the correction made, or they may be presented in writing at
the next recitation."--_Bullions, Prin. of E. Gram._, 2d Ed. Revised and
Cor., p. viii.

"Man, but for _that_, no action _could_ attend
And but for _this_, be _thoughtful_ to no end."
--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, Pref. p. 5.

LESSON III.--UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

"'Johnson the bookseller and stationer,' indicates that the bookseller and
the stationer are epithets belonging to the same person; 'the bookseller
and the stationer' would indicate that they belong to different
persons."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 127.

"_Past_ is an adjective; _passed_, the past tense or perfect participle of
the verb, and they ought not, as is frequently done, to be confounded with
each other."--_Id., ib._, p. 148.

"Not only the nature of the thoughts and sentiments, but the very selection
and arrangement of the words, gives English poetry a character, which
separates it widely from common prose."--_Id., ib._, p. 178.

"Men of sound, discriminating, and philosophical minds--men prepared for
the work by long study, patient investigation, and extensive acquirements,
have labored for ages to improve and perfect it, and nothing is hazarded in
asserting, that should it be unwisely abandoned, it will be long before
another equal in beauty, stability and usefulness, be produced in its
stead."--_Id., ib._, p. 191.

"The Article _The_, on the other hand, is used to restrict, and is
therefore termed _Definite_. Its proper office is to call the attention to
a particular individual or class, or to any number of such, and is used
with nouns in either the singular or plural number."--_Id., ib._, p. 193.

"Hence also the infinitive mood, a participle, a member of a sentence, or a
proposition, forming together the subject of discourse, or the object of a
verb or preposition, and being the name of an act or