osition."--_Id._
"There is nothing _belonging to_ our fellow-men, which we should respect
_more sacredly than_ their good name."--_Id._ "_Surely_, never any _other
creature_ was so unbred as that odious man."--_Congreve cor._ "In the
dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the _deceased_."--_Phil.
Museum cor._ "These master-works would still be less excellent and
_finished_."--_Id._ "Every attempt to staylace the language of _polished_
conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy."--_Id._ "Here
are a few of the _most unpleasant_ words that ever blotted
paper."--_Shakespeare cor._ "With the most easy _and obliging_
transitions."--_Broome cor._ "Fear is, of all affections, the _least apt_
to admit any conference with reason."--_Hooker cor._ "Most chymists think
glass a body _less destructible_ than gold itself."--_Boyle cor._ "To part
with _unhacked_ edges, and bear back our barge undinted."--_Shak. cor._
"Erasmus, who was an _unbigoted_ Roman Catholic, was transported with this
passage."--_Addison cor._ "There are no _fewer_ than five words, with any
of which the sentence might have terminated."--_Campbell cor._ "The _ones_
preach Christ of contention; but the _others_, of love." Or, "The _one
party_ preach," &c.--_Bible cor._ "Hence we find less discontent and
_fewer_ heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally
burdened."--_H. Home, Ld. Kames, cor._

"The serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field."
--_Milton, P. L._, B. ix, l. 86.

"Thee, Serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field,
I knew, but not with human voice indued."
--_Id., P. L._, B. ix, l. 560.

"How much more grievous would our lives appear.
To reach th' _eight-hundredth_, than the eightieth year!"
--_Denham cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced
_each other_ at the same time."--_Lempriere cor._ "Her two brothers were,
one after _the other_, turned into stone."--_Kames cor._ "Nouns are often
used as adjectives; as, A _gold_ ring, a _silver_ cup."--_Lennie cor._
"Fire and water destroy _each other_"--_Wanostrocht cor._ "Two negatives,
in English, destroy _each other_, or are equivalent to an
affirmative."--_Lowth, Murray, et al. cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each
other_, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative."--_Kirkham and
Felton cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, and make an
affirmative."