e before
thee!"--ALGER'S BIBLE: _Gen._, xvii, 18. "And he said unto him, Oh let not
the Lord be angry, and I will speak."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Gen._, xviii, 30.
"And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry."--ID., and SCOTT'S: _ib._, ver.
32. "Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."--FRIENDS'
BIBLE, and ALGER'S: _Gen._, xliv, 18. "Oh, Virtue! how amiable thou art! I
fear, alas! for my life."--_Fisk's Gram._, p. 89. "Ay me, they little know
How dearly I abide that boast so vain."--_Milton's P. L._, B. iv, l. 86.
"Oh! that I had digged myself a cave."--FLETCHER: _in Bucke's Gram._, p.
78. "O, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late."--SHAK.: _ib._, p. 78.
"The vocative takes no article; it is distinguished thus: _O Pedro_, Oh
Peter! _O Dios_, Oh God!"--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 43. "Oh, o! But, the
relative is always the same."--_Cobbett's Eng. Gram._, 1st Ed., p. 127.
"Oh, oh! But, the relative is always the same."--_Id._, Edition of 1832, p.
116. "Ah hail, ye happy men!"--_Jaudon's Gram._, p. 116. "Oh that I had
wings like a dove!"--FRIENDS' BIBLE, and ALGER'S: _Ps._, lv, 6. "Oh
Glorious hope! O Blessed abode!"--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 183. "Alas,
Friends, how joyous is your presence."--_Rev. T. Smith's Gram._, p. 87.
"Oh, blissful days! Ah me! how soon ye pass!"--_Parker and Fox's Gram._,
Part I, p. 16; Part III, p. 29.

"Oh golden days! oh bright unvalued hours!
What bliss (did ye but know that bliss) were yours!"--_Barbauld_.

"Ay me! what perils do eviron
The man that meddles with cold iron."--_Hudibras_.

CHAPTER XII.--QUESTIONS.

ORDER OF REHEARSAL, AND METHOD OF EXAMINATION.

PART SECOND, ETYMOLOGY.

[Fist] [The following questions refer almost wholly to the main text of the
Etymology of this work, and are such as every student should be able to
answer with readiness and accuracy, before he proceeds to any subsequent
part of the study or the exercises of English grammar.]

LESSON I.--PARTS OF SPEECH.

1. Of what does Etymology treat? 2. What is meant by the term, "_Parts of
Speech?_" 3. What are _Classes_, under the parts of speech? 4. What are
_Modifications?_ 5. How many and what are the parts of speech? 6. What is
an article? 7. What is a noun? 8. What is an adjective? 9. What is a
pronoun? 10. What is a verb? 11. What is a participle? 12. What is an
adverb? 13. What is a conjunction? 14. What is a preposition? 15. What is
an interjection?

LESSON II.--PARSING.

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