mortal_ poisons practised by the _West
Indians_, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man."--_Bacon
cor._ "He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the _most faithful_
and _most affectionate_ allies the Medes ever had."--_Rollin cor._ "'You
see before you,' says he to him, 'the most devoted servant, and the _most
faithful_ ally, you ever had.'"--_Id._ "I chose the _most flourishing_ tree
in all the park."--_Cowley cor._ "Which he placed, I think, some centuries
_earlier_ than _did_ Julius Africanus afterwards."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "The
Tiber, the _most noted_ river of Italy."--_Littleton cor._

"To _farthest_ shores th' ambrosial spirit flies."--_Pope_.

----"That what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest, _worthiest_, discreetest, best."--_Milton cor._

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"During the _first three or four_ years of its existence."--_Taylor cor._
"To the first of these divisions, my _last ten_ lectures have been
devoted."--_Adams cor._ "There are, in the twenty-four states, not _fewer_
than sixty thousand common schools."--_J. O. Taylor cor._ "I know of
nothing which gives teachers _more_ trouble, _than_ this want of
firmness."--_Id._ "I know of nothing _else_ that throws such darkness over
the line which separates right from wrong."--_Id._ "None need this purity
and _this_ simplicity of language and thought, _more than does the
instructor of a common school_."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ periodical
that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education."--_Id._
"Are not these schools of the highest importance? Should not every
individual feel _a deep_ interest in their character and condition?"--_Id._
"If instruction were made a _liberal_ profession, teachers would feel more
sympathy for _one an other_."--_Id._ "Nothing is _more interesting to_
children, _than_ novelty, _or_ change."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ labour
which affords so much happiness as the teacher's."--_Id._ "Their school
exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable _duties_, that they engage
in."--_Id._ "I know of no exercise _more_ beneficial to the pupil _than_
that of drawing maps."--_Id._ "I know of nothing in which our district
schools are _more_ defective, _than_ they are in the art of teaching
grammar."--_Id._ "I know of _no other branch of knowledge_, so easily
acquired as history."--_Id._ "I know of _no other school exercise_ for
which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as _for_ comp