ng, are separated by a comma."--_Cooper's New Gram._, p. 195. See
the same without the first comma, in _Cooper's Murray_, p. 183. (23.)
"Simple members of sentences connected by comparatives, and phrases placed
in opposition to, or in contrast with, each other, are separated by
commas."--_Bullions_, p. 153; _Hiley_, 113. (24.) "On which ever word we
lay the emphasis, whether on the first, second, third, or fourth, it
strikes out a different sense."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 243. (25.) "To
inform those who do not understand sea phrases, that, 'We tacked to the
larboard, and stood off to sea,' would be expressing ourselves very
obscurely."--_Ib._, p. 296; _and Hiley's Gram._, p. 151. (26.) "Of
dissyllables, which are at once nouns and verbs, the verb has commonly the
accent on the latter, and the noun, on the former syllable."--_Murray_, p.
237. (27.) "And this gives our language a superior advantage to most
others, in the poetical and rhetorical style."--_Id. ib._, p. 38;
_Ingersoll_, 27; _Fisk_, 57. (28.) "And this gives the English an advantage
above most other languages in the poetical and rhetorical style."--_Lowth's
Gram_, p. 19. (29.) "The second and third scholar may read the same
sentence; and as many, as it is necessary to learn it perfectly to the
whole."--_Osborn's Key_, p. 4.

(30.) "Bliss is the name in subject as a king,
In who obtain defence, or who defend."
--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 178.

LESSON XVI.--MANY ERRORS.

"The Japanese, the Tonquinese, and the Corceans, speak different languages
from one another, and from the inhabitants of China, but use, with these
last people, the same written characters; a proof that the Chinese
characters are like hieroglyphics, independent of language."--_Jamieson's
Rhet._, p. 18. "The Japanese, the Tonquinese, and the Corceans, who speak
different languages from one another, and from the inhabitants of China,
use, however, the same written characters with them; and by this means
correspond intelligibly with each other in writing, though ignorant of the
language spoken in their several countries; a plain proof," &c.--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 67. "The curved line is made square instead of round, for the
reason beforementioned."--_Knight, on the Greek Alphabet_, p. 6. "Every one
should content himself with the use of those tones only that he is
habituated to in speech, and to give none other to emphasis, but what he
would do to the same words in discourse. Th