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unpleasant words that ever blotted paper."--Shakespeare cor. "With the most easy and obliging transitions."--Broome cor. "Fear is, of all affections, the least apt to admit any conference with reason."--Hooker cor. "Most chymists think glass a body less destructible than gold itself."--Boyle cor. "To part with unhacked edges, and bear back our barge undinted."--Shak. cor. "Erasmus, who was an unbigoted Roman Catholic, was transported with this passage."--Addison cor. "There are no fewer than five words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated."--Campbell cor. "The ones preach Christ of contention; but the others, of love." Or, "The one party preach," &c.--Bible cor. "Hence we find less discontent and fewer heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally burdened."--H. Home, Ld. Kames, cor.

   "The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field."
         --Milton, P. L., B. ix, l. 86.

    "Thee, Serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,
    I knew, but not with human voice indued."
        --Id., P. L., B. ix, l. 560.

    "How much more grievous would our lives appear.
    To reach th' eight-hundredth, than the eightieth year!"
         --Denham cor.

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced each other at the same time."--Lempriere cor. "Her two brothers were, one after the other, turned into stone."--Kames cor. "Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A gold ring, a silver cup."--Lennie cor. "Fire and water destroy each other"--Wanostrocht cor. "Two negatives, in English, destroy each other, or are equivalent to an affirmative."--Lowth, Murray, et al. cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative."--Kirkham and Felton cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, and make an affirmative."--Flint cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, being equivalent to an affirmative."--Frost cor. "Two objects, resembling each other, are presented to the imagination."--Parker cor. "Mankind, in order to hold converse with one an other, found it necessary to give names to objects."--Kirkham cor. "Derivative words are formed from their primitives in various ways."--Cooper cor. "There are many different ways of deriving words one from an other."--Murray cor. "When several verbs have a joint construction in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually expressed with the first only."--Frost cor. "Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and coming in immediate succession, are also separated by the comma."--Murray et al. cor. "Two or more adverbs, coming in immediate succession, must be separated by the comma."--Iidem. "If, however, the two members are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary."--Iidem. "Gratitude, when exerted towards others, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a generous man."--L. Murray cor. "Several verbs in the infinitive mood, coming in succession, and having a common dependence, are also divided by commas."--Comly cor. "The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation one to an other."--Murray et al. cor. "When two or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] occur in immediate succession, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by the comma."--Comly cor. "One noun frequently follows an other, both meaning the same thing."--Sanborn cor. "And these two tenses may thus answer each other."--R. Johnson cor. "Or some other relation which two objects bear to each other."--Jamieson cor. "That the heathens tolerated one an other is allowed."--A. Fuller cor. "And yet these two persons love each other tenderly."--E. Reader cor. "In the six hundred and first year."--Bible cor. "Nor is this arguing of his, any thing but a reiterated clamour."--Barclay cor. "In several of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found."--Ib. "Though Alvarez, Despauter, and others, do not allow it to be plural."--R. Johnson cor. "Even the most dissipated and shameless blushed at the sight."--Lempriere cor. "We feel a higher satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, than [in contemplating] that of vegetables."-- Jamieson cor. "But this man is so full-fraught with malice."--Barclay cor. "That I suggest some things concerning the most proper means."--Dr. Blair cor.

   "So, hand in hand, they passed, the loveliest pair
    That ever yet in love's embraces met."--Milton cor.

    "Aim at supremacy; without such height,
     Will be for thee no sitting, or not long."--Id. cor.

CHAPTER V.--PRONOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF PRONOUNS.

LESSON I.--RELATIVES.

"While we attend to this pause, every appearance of singsong must be carefully avoided."--Murray cor. "For thou shalt go to all to whom I shall send thee."--Bible cor. "Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years during which I have possessed my kingdom."--Sanborn cor. "In the same manner in which relative pronouns and their antecedents are usually parsed."--Id. "Parse or explain all the other nouns contained in the examples, after the very manner of the word which is parsed for you."--Id. "The passive verb will always have the person and number that belong to the verb be, of which it is in part