nominative of the first and second person in Latin
is seldom expressed."--_Adam's Gram._, p. 154; _Gould's_, 157. "Some words
are the same in both numbers."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 40;
_Ingersoll's_, 18; _Fisk's_, 59; _Kirkham's_, 39; _W. Allen's_, 42; et al.
"Some nouns are the same in both numbers."--_Merchant's Gram._, p. 29;
_Smith's_, 45; et al. "Others are the same in both numbers; as, _deer,
swine_, &c."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 8. "The following list denotes the
sounds of the consonants, being in number twenty-two."--_Murray's Gram._,
p. 6; _Fisk's_, 36. "And is the ignorance of these peasants a reason for
others to remain ignorant; or to render the subject a less becoming
inquiry?"--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 293; _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 288. "He is
one of the most correct, and perhaps the best, of our prose
writers."--_Lowth's Gram., Pref._, p. iv., "The motions of a vortex and a
whirlwind are perfectly similar."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 131. "What I have
been saying throws light upon one important verse in the Bible, which I
should like to have read."--_Abbott's Teacher_, p. 182. "When there are any
circumstances of time, place, or other limitations, which the principal
object of our sentence requires to have connected with it."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 115; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 98; _Murray's Gram._, i, 322.
"Interjections are words used to express emotion, affection, or passion,
and imply suddenness."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 77. "But the genitive is only
used to express the measure of things in the plural number."--_Adam's
Gram._, p. 200; _Gould's_, 198. "The buildings of the institution have been
enlarged; the expense of which, added to the increased price of provisions,
renders it necessary to advance the terms of admission."--_Murray's Key_,
8vo, p. 183. "These sentences are far less difficult than complex."--_S. S.
Greene's Analysis, or Grammar_, 1st Ed., p. 179.

"Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife,
Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray."--_Gray's Elegy_.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE III.--OF DEFINITIONS.

(1.) "_Definition_ is such a description of things as exactly describes the
thing and that thing only."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 135.

[FORMULE.--Not
proper, because this definition of a _definition_ is not accurately adapted
to the thing. But, according to Critical Note 3d, "A definition, in order
to be perfect, must include the whole thing, or class of things, which it
pretends to define, and