ys fell upon her legs."--ADAM'S HIST. OF ENG.: _Crombie_, p.
384.

"From the low earth aspiring genius springs,
And sails triumphant born on eagles wings."--_Lloyd_, p. 162.

LESSON XIII.--TWO ERRORS.

"An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, are
always faults."--_Blair's Rhet._ p. 190. "Yet in this we find the English
pronounce perfectly agreeable to rule."--_Walker's Dict._, p. 2. "But
neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, are habits,
though absolutely necessary to the forming of them."--_Butler's Analogy_,
p. 111. "They were cast: and an heavy fine imposed upon them."--_Goldsmiths
Greece_, ii, 30. "Without making this reflection, he cannot enter into the
spirit, nor relish the composition of the author."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.
450. "The scholar should be instructed relative to finding his
words."--_Osborn's Key_, p. 4. "And therefore they could neither have
forged, or reversified them."--_Knight, on the Greek Alph._, p. 30. "A
dispensary is the place where medicines are dispensed."--_Murray's Key_,
ii, 172. "Both the connexion and number of words is determined by general
laws."--_Neef's Sketch_, p. 73. "An Anapsest has the two first syllables
unaccented, and the last accented: as, 'Contravene, acquiesce.'"--_Murray's
Gram._, i, 254. "An explicative sentence is, when a thing is said to be or
not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer, in a direct
manner."--_Ib._, i, 141; _Lowth's_, 84. "BUT is a _conjunction_, in all
cases when it is neither an adverb nor preposition."--_Smith's New Gram._,
p. 109. "He wrote in the king Ahasuerus' name, and sealed it with the
king's ring."--_Esther_, viii, 10. "Camm and Audland were departed the town
before this time."--_Sewel's Hist._, p. 100. "Previous to their
relinquishing the practice, they must be convinced."--_Dr. Webster, on
Slavery_, p. 5. "Which he had thrown up previous to his setting
out."--_Grimshaw's Hist. U. S._, p. 84. "He left him to the value of an
hundred drachmas in Persian money."--_Spect._, No. 535. "All which the mind
can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided between the
three."--_Cardell's Philad. Gram._, p. 80. "Tom Puzzle is one of the most
eminent immethodical disputants of any that has fallen under my
observation."--_Spect._, No. 476. "When you have once got him to think
himself made amends for his suffering, by the praise is given him for his
courage."--_Locke, on Ed_.