--_Ib._, p. 181. "Please excuse my son's absence."--_Inst._, p.
188. "Bid the boys to come in immediately."--_Ib._

"Gives us the secrets of his Pagan hell,
Where ghost with ghost in sad communion dwell."
--_Crabbe's Bor._, p. 306.

"Alas! nor faith, nor valour now remain;
Sighs are but wind, and I must bear my chain."
--_Walpole's Catal._, p. 11.

LESSON VII.--PARTICIPLES.

"Of which the Author considers himself, in compiling the present work, as
merely laying of the foundation-stone."--_Blair's Gram._, p. ix. "On the
raising such lively and distinct images as are here described."--_Kames,
El. of Crit._, i, 89. "They are necessary to the avoiding Ambiguities."--
_Brightland's Gram._, p. 95. "There is no neglecting it without falling
into a dangerous error."--_Burlamaqui, on Law_, p. 41. "The contest
resembles Don Quixote's fighting windmills."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 67.
"That these verbs associate with verbs in all the tenses, is no proof of
their having no particular time of their own."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 190.
"To justify my not following the tract of the ancient rhetoricians."--
_Blair's Rhet._, p. 122. "The putting letters together, so as to make
words, is called spelling."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 11. "What is the
putting vowels and consonants together called?"--_Ib._, p. 12. "Nobody
knows of their being charitable but themselves."--_Fuller, on the Gospel_,
p. 29. "Payment was at length made, but no reason assigned for its having
been so long postponed."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 186; _Kirkham's_, 194;
_Ingersoll's_, 254. "Which will bear being brought into comparison with any
composition of the kind."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 396. "To render vice
ridiculous, is doing real service to the world."--_Ib._, p. 476. "It is
copying directly from nature; giving a plain rehearsal of what passed, or
was supposed to pass, in conversation."--_Ib._, p. 433. "Propriety of
pronunciation is giving to every word that sound, which the most polite
usage of the language appropriates to it."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 200.
"To occupy the mind, and prevent our regretting the insipidity of an
uniform plain."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 329. "There are a
hundred ways of any thing happening."--_Steele_. "Tell me, signor, what was
the cause of Antonio's sending Claudio to Venice, yesterday."--_Bucke's
Gram._, p 90. "Looking about for an outlet, some rich prospect unexpectedly
opens to view."--_Kames