facts, and enable us to behold them as
present, and passing before our eyes."--_Ib._, p. 360. "Which carried an
ideal chivalry to a still more extravagant height than it had risen in
fact."--_Ib._, p. 374. "We write much more supinely, and at our ease, than
the ancients."--_Ib._, p. 351. "This appears indeed to form the
characteristical difference between the ancient poets, orators, and
historians, compared with the modern."--_Ib._, p. 350. "To violate this
rule, as is too often done by the English, shews great incorrectness."--
_Ib._, p. 463. "It is impossible, by means of any study to avoid their
appearing stiff and forced."--_Ib._, p. 335. "Besides its giving the
speaker the disagreeable appearance of one who endeavours to compel
assent."--_Ib._, p. 328. "And, on occasions where a light or ludicrous
anecdote is proper to be recorded, it is generally better to throw it into
a note, than to hazard becoming too familiar."--_Ib._, p. 359. "The great
business of this life is to prepare, and qualify us, for the enjoyment of a
better."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 373. "In some dictionaries,
accordingly, it was omitted; and in others stigmatized as a barbarism."--
_Crombie's Treatise_, p. 322. "You cannot see, or think of, a thing, unless
it be a noun."--_Mack's Gram._, p. 65. "The fleet are all arrived and
moored in safety."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 185.

LESSON XIII.--TWO ERRORS.

"They have each their distinct and exactly-limited relation to
gravity."--_Hasler's Astronomy_, p 219. "But in cases which would give too
much of the hissing sound, the omission takes place even in
prose."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 175. "After _o_ it [the _w_] is
sometimes not sounded at all; sometimes like a single _u_."--_Lowth's
Gram._, p. 3. "It is situation chiefly which decides _of_ the fortunes and
characters of men."--HUME: _Priestley's Gram._, p. 159. "It is situation
chiefly which decides the fortune (or, _concerning_ the fortune) and
characters of men."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 201. "The vice of
covetousness is what enters deeper into the soul than any other."--_Ib._,
p. 167; _Ingersoll's_, 193; _Fisk's_, 103; _Campbell's Rhet._, 205.
"Covetousness, of all vices, enters the deepest into the soul."--_Murray_,
167; _and others_. "Covetousness is what of all vices enters the deepest
into the soul."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 205. "The vice of covetousness is
what enters deepest into the soul of any other."--_Guardian_, No. 19.
"_Would_ prim