the minds of every
American."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 44. "The word _church_ and _shire_ are
radically the same."--_Ib._, p. 256. "They may not, in their present form,
be readily accommodated to every circumstance belonging to the possessive
cases of nouns."--_L. Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 53. "_Will_, in the second
and third person, only foretels."--_Ib._, p. 88. "Which seem to form the
true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative moods."--_Ib._,
p. 208. "The very general approbation, which this performance of Walker has
received from the public."--_Ib._, p. 241. "Lest she carry her improvements
this way too far."--CAMPBELL: _ib._, p. 371. "Charles was extravagant, and
by this means became poor and despicable."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 189.
"We should entertain no prejudices against simple and rustic
persons."--_Ib._, p. 205. "These are indeed the foundations of all solid
merit."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 175. "And his embellishment, by means of
musical cadence, figures, or other parts of speech."--_Ib._, p. 175. "If he
is at no pains to engage us by the employment of figures, musical
arrangement, or any other art of writing."--_Ib._, p. 181. "The most
eminent of the sacred poets are, the Author of the book of Job, David and
Isaiah."--_Ib._, p. 418. "Nothing, in any poet, is more beautifully
described than the death of old Priam."--_Ib._, p. 439. "When two vowels
meet together, and are sounded at one breath, they are called
_diphthongs_."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 10. "How many _ss_ would goodness
then end with? Three."--_Ib._, p. 33. "_Birds_ is a noun, the name of a
thing or creature."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 53. "Adam gave names to every
living creature."--_Bicknell's Gram._, Part ii, p. 5. "The steps of a stair
ought to be accommodated to the human figure."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol.
ii, p. 337. "Nor ought an emblem more than a simile to be founded on low or
familiar objects."--_Ib._, Vol. ii. p. 357. "Whatever the Latin has not
from the Greek, it has from the Goth."--_Tooke's Diversions_, Vol. ii, p.
450. "The mint and secretary of state's offices are neat buildings."--_The
Friend_, Vol. iv, p. 266. "The scenes of dead and still life are apt to
pall upon us."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 407. "And Thomas Aquinas and Duns
Scotus, the angelical and the subtle doctors, are the brightest stars in
the scholastic constellation."--_Literary Hist._, p. 244. "The English
language has three methods of distinguishing the sex