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"In what regards the laws of grammatical purity," says Dr. Campbell, "the violation is much more conspicuous than the observance."--See Philosophy of Rhetoric, p. 190. It therefore falls in with my main purpose, to present to the public, in the following ample work, a condensed mass of special criticism, such as is not elsewhere to be found in
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"Art thou so bare and full of wretchedness,
And fears to die? famine is in thy cheeks,
Need and oppression starveth in thy eyes."βBeaut. of Shak., p. 317.
"The silver age is reckoned to have commenced on the death of Augustus, and continued to the end of Trajan's reign."βGould's Lat. Gram., p. 277. "Language is become, in modern times, more correct, indeed, and accurate."βBlair's Rhet., p. 65. "It is evident, that words are most agreeable to the ear which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, where there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants."βIb., p. 121. See Murray's Gram., i, 325. "It would have had no other effect, but to add a word unnecessarily to the sentence."βBlair's Rhet., p. 194. "But as rumours arose of the judges having been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave occasions to much popular clamour, and had thrown a heavy odium on Cluentius."βIb., p. 273. "A Participle is derived of a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and the adjective."βDr. Ash's Gram., p. 39; E. Devis's, 9. "I will have learned my grammar before you learn your's."βWilbur and Liv. Gram., p. 14. "There is no earthly object capable of making such various and such forcible impressions upon the human mind as a complete speaker."βPerry's Dict., Pref. "It was not the carrying the bag which made Judas a thief and an hireling."βSouth. "As the reasonable soul and flesh is one man, so God and man is one Christ."βAthanasian Creed. "And I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God."βHosea, ii, 23. "Where there is nothing in the sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is finished, will be proper."βMurray's Gram., i, 250. "Each party produces words where the letter a is sounded in the manner they contend for."βWalker's Dict., p. 1. "To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove from actually committing them."βMurray's Gram., i, 233. "'To countenance persons who are guilty of bad actions,' is part of a sentence, which is the nominative case to the verb 'is.'"βIbid. "What is called splitting of particles, or separating a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided."βBlair's Rhet., p. 112; Jamieson's, 93. See Murray's Gram., i, 319. "There is, properly, no more than one pause or rest in the sentence, falling betwixt the two members into which it is divided."βBlair's Rhet., p. 125; Jamieson's, 126; Murray's Gram., i, 329. "Going barefoot does not at all help on the way to heaven."βSteele, Spect., No. 497. "There is no Body but condemns this in others, though they overlook it in themselves."βLocke, on Ed., Β§145. "In the same sentence, be careful not to use the same word too frequently, nor in different senses."βMurray's Gram., i, 296. "Nothing could have made her so unhappy, as marrying a man who possessed such principles."βMurray's Key, ii, 200. "A warlike, various, and a tragical age is best to write of, but worst to write in."βCowley's Pref., p. vi. "When thou instances Peter his baptizing Cornelius."βBarclay's Works, i, 188. "To introduce two or more leading thoughts or agents, which have no natural relation to, or dependence on one another."βMurray's Gram., i, 313. "Animals, again, are fitted to one another, and to the elements where they live, and to which they are as appendices."βIbid. "This melody, or varying the sound of each word so often, is a proof of nothing, however, but of the fine ear of that people."βJamieson's Rhet., p. 5. "They can each in their turns be made use of upon occasion."βDuncan's Logic, p. 191. "In this reign lived the poet Chaucer, who, with Gower, are the first authors who can properly be said to have written English."βBucke's Gram., p. 144. "In the translating these kind of expressions, consider the IT IS, as if it were they, or they are."βWalker's Particles, p. 179. "The chin has an important office to perform; for upon its activity we either disclose a polite or vulgar pronunciation."βMusic of Nature, p. 27. "For no other reason, but his being found in bad company."βWebster's Amer. Spelling-Book, p. 96. "It is usual to compare them in the same manner as Polisyllables."βPriestley's Gram., p. 77. "The infinitive mood is recognised easier than any others, because the preposition to precedes it."βBucke's Gram., p, 95. "Prepositions, you recollect, connect words as well as conjunctions: how, then, can you tell the one from the other?"βSmith's New Gram., p. 38.
"No kind of work requires so nice a touch,
And if well finish'd, nothing shines so much"
βSheffield, Duke of Buck.
"It is the final pause which alone, on many occasions, marks the difference between prose and verse; which will be evident from the following arrangement of a few poetical lines."βMurray's Gram., i, 260. "I shall do all I can to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have."βGUARDIAN: see Campbell's Rhet., p. 207. "I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure which I have taken."βMurray's Key, ii, 215. "It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and [or an] it were but to roast their eggs."βLd. Bacon. "Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause where both his honour and life are concerned?"βDuncan's Cicero, p. 15. "So the rests and pauses, between sentences and their parts, are marked by points."βLowth's Gram., p. 114. "Yet the case and mode is not influenced by them, but determined by the nature of the sentence."βIb., p. 113. "By not attending to this rule, many errors have been committed: a number of which is subjoined, as a further caution and direction to the learner."βMurray's Gram., i, 114. "Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair."βJeremiah, iv, 30. "But that the doing good to others will make us happy, is not so evident; feeding the hungry, for example, or clothing the naked."βKames, El. of Crit., i, 161. "There is no other God but him, no other light but his."βWilliam Penn. "How little reason to wonder, that a perfect and accomplished orator, should be one of the characters that is most rarely found?"βBlair's Rhet., p. 337. "Because they neither express doing nor receiving an action."βInfant School Gram., p. 53. "To find the answers, will require an effort of mind, and when given, will be the result of reflection, showing that the subject is understood."βIb., p. vii. "To say, that 'the sun rises,' is trite and common; but it becomes a magnificent image when expressed as Mr. Thomson has done."βBlair's Rhet., p. 137. "The declining a word is the giving it different endings."βWare's Gram., p. 7. "And so much are they for every one's following their own mind."βBarclay's Works, i, 462. "More than one overture for a peace was made, but Cleon prevented their taking effect."βGoldsmith's Greece, i, 121. "Neither in English or in any other language is this word, and that which corresponds to it in other languages, any more an article, than two, three, four."βDR. WEBSTER: Knickerbocker of 1836. "But the most irksome conversation of all others I have met within the neighbourhood, has been among two or three of your travellers."βSpect., No. 474. "Set down the two first terms of supposition under each other in the first place."βSmiley's Arithmetic, p. 79. "It is an useful rule too, to fix our eye on some of the most distant persons in the assembly."βBlair's Rhet., p. 328. "He will generally please most, when pleasing is not his sole nor chief aim."βIb., p. 336. "At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform them they could receive no other terms but that of surrendering their arms, and passing under the yoke."βIb., p. 360. "Nor is mankind so much to blame, in his choice thus determining him."βSWIFT: Crombie's Treatise, p 360. "These forms are what is called Number."βFosdick's De Sacy, p. 62. "In languages which admit but two Genders, all Nouns are either Masculine or Feminine, even though they designate beings which are neither male or female."βIb., p. 66. "It is called a Verb or Word by way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence, without which the other parts of speech can form no complete sense."βGould's Adam's Gram., p. 76. "The sentence will consist of two members, which are commonly separated from one another by a comma."βJamieson's Rhet., p. 7. "Loud and soft in speaking, is like the fortΓ¨ and piano in music, it only refers to the different degrees of force used in the same key; whereas high and low imply a change of key."βSheridan's Elocution, p. 116. "They are chiefly three: the acquisition of knowledge; the assisting the memory to treasure up this knowledge; or the communicating it to others."βIb., p. 11.
"These kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness,
Harbour more craft, and more corrupter ends,
Than twenty silly ducking observants."βBeauties of Shak., p. 261.
"A man will be forgiven, even great errors, in a foreign language; but in his own, even the least slips are justly laid hold of, and ridiculed."βAmerican Chesterfield, p 83. "Let does not only express permission; but praying, exhorting, commanding."βLowth's Gram., p. 41. "Let, not only expresses permission, but entreating, exhorting, commanding."βMurray's Gram., p. 88; Ingersoll's, 135. "That death which is our leaving this world, is nothing else but putting off these bodies."βSherlock. "They differ from the saints recorded both in the Old and New Testaments."βNewton. "The nature therefore
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