121. "Such seems to be the musings of
our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his
grammar."--_Merchant's Criticisms_. "Two dots, the one placed above the
other [:], is called Sheva, and represents a very short _e_."--_Wilson's
Hebrew Gram._, p. 43. "Great has been, and is, the obscurity and
difficulty, in the nature and application of them."--_Butler's Analogy_, p.
184. "As two is to four, so is four to eight."--_Everest's Gram._, p. 231.
"The invention and use of it [arithmetic] reaches back to a period so
remote as is beyond the knowledge of history."--_Robertson's America_, i,
288. "What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, fills and
satisfies his mind."--_Ib._, i, 377. "If he dare not say they are, as I
know he dare not, how must I then distinguish?"--_Barclay's Works_, iii,
311. "He was now grown so fond of solitude that all company was become
uneasy to him."--_Life of Cicero_, p. 32. "Violence and spoil is heard in
her; before me continually is grief and wounds."--_Jeremiah_, vi, 7.
"Bayle's Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which make eleven
volumes in duodecimo, are truly a model in this kind."--_Formey's
Belles-Lettres_, p. 68. "To render pauses pleasing and expressive, they
must not only be made in the right place, but also accompanied with a
proper tone of voice."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 249. "The opposing the
opinions, and rectifying the mistakes of others, is what truth and
sincerity sometimes require of us."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 211. "It is very
probable that this assembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king
had, about the lawfulness of the Hollanders' throwing off the monarchy of
Spain, and withdrawing, entirely, their allegiance to that
crown."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 195. "Naming the cases and numbers of a noun
in their order is called declining it."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 10.
"The embodying them is, therefore, only collecting such component parts of
words."--_Town's Analysis_, p. 4. "The one is the voice heard at Christ's
being baptized; the other, at his being transfigured."--_Barclays Works_,
i, 267. "Understanding the literal sense would not have prevented their
condemning the guiltless."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 168. "As if this were
taking the execution of justice out of the hand of God, and giving it to
nature."--_Ib._, p. 194. "They will say, you must conceal this good opinion
of yourself; which yet is allowing the thing, though not the sh