l make it just and fit."
--_Tobitt's Gram._, p. 63.
LESSON VI.--PARTICIPLES.
"Its application is not arbitrary, depending on the caprice of
readers."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, Vol. i, p. 246. "This is the more
expedient, from the work's being designed for the benefit of private
learners."--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 161. "A man, he tells us, ordered by his
will, to have erected for him a statue."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 106. "From
some likeness too remote, and laying too far out of the road of ordinary
thought."--_Ib._, p. 146. "Money is a fluid in the commercial world,
rolling from hand to hand."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 123. "He pays much
attention to learning and singing songs."--_Ib._ p. 246. "I would not be
understood to consider singing songs as criminal."--"It is a decided case
by the Great Master of writing."--_Preface to Waller_, p. 5. "Did they ever
bear a testimony against writing books?"--_Bates's Misc. Repository_.
"Exclamations are sometimes mistaking for interrogations."--_Hist. of
Printing_, 1770. "Which cannot fail proving of service."--_Smith's
Printer's Gram._ "Hewn into such figures as would make them easily and
firmly incorporated."--BEATTIE: _Murray's Gram._, i, 126. "Following the
rule and example are practical inductive questions."--_J. Flint's Gram._,
p. 3. "I think there will be an advantage in my having collected examples
from modern writings."--_Priestley's Gram._, Pref., p. xi. "He was eager of
recommending it to his fellow-citizens."--HUME: p. 160. "The good lady was
careful of serving me of every thing."--"No revelation would have been
given, had the light of nature been sufficient in such a sense, as to
render one not wanting and useless."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 155.
"Description, again is the raising in the mind the conception of an object
by means of some arbitrary or instituted symbols."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 52.
"Disappointing the expectation of the hearers, when they look for our being
done."--_Ib._ p. 326. "There is a distinction which, in the use of them, is
deserving of attention."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 15. "A model has been
contrived, which is not very expensive, and easily managed."--_Education
Reporter_. "The conspiracy was the more easily discovered, from its being
known to many."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 191. "That celebrated work had been
nearly ten years published, before its importance was at all
understood."--_Ib._ p. 220. "The sceptre's being ostensibly grasped by a
female h
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