Progressive Exercises in English Grammar, Part I

13. How general soever may be the words, in which a covenant is expressed, it comprehends those things only, on which it appears that the parties intended to contract, and not those, which they had not in view. But when the object of the covenant is a universality of things, it comprehends all the particular things which compose that universality even those, of which the parties had no knowledge.

14. Whatever is obscure or doubtful, in the covenant should be interpreted by the intention of the parties. If the intention of the parties does not appear from the words of the covenant, it should be inferred from the existing customs and usages of the place, in which it was made. If the words of a covenant contradict the well known intention of the parties, this intention must be regarded rather than the words.

FINIS.

LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED BY THE AUTHORS

IN PREPARING THIS GRAMMAR.

1. The treatises on English Grammar, which bear the names of Lowth, Johnson, Murray, (Grammar and Exercises, 8vo.) McCulloch, Locke, Colburn, Brown, Barrett, Comly, Dearborn, Staniford, Greenleaf, Kirkham, Walker, Putnam, Sanborn, Smith, Frost, Ingersoll, Fowle, Fitch, Nutting, Richardson, Lenne and Hamlin.

"Lon

2. The following anonymous treatises: "A new Grammar of the English Language," Boston, 1837: "An Essay on Punctuation, don 1786: "6 The Little Grammarian," Boston, 1822: Inductive Gram

mar.

3. The Latin Grammars of the following authors: Adams, ( Gould's edition,) Andrews and Stoddard, Bayley's English and Latin Exercises, Hudson's Introduction to the Latin Tongue.

4. The Greek Grammars of Valpy, Buttman, The Messeurs Port Royal, Hackenburgh, The Gloucester Greek Grammar.

5. Carey's English Prosody, and key to the same, Hartley's Punctuation, Parson's Analytical Vocabulary, Pinnock's Elements of Punctuation, Pickbourne's Dissertation ou the English Verb, Parker's Exercises in Rhetorical Reading. Porter's Analysis of Rhetorical Delivery, Rush on the Voice, Roe's Elements of English Metre, Value's Rational System of Teaching Modern Languages, Steele's Prosodia Rationalis, Steele's Elements of Punctuation, Town's Analysis of Derivative words, Fitch's Comprehensive Guide, Fisher's Young Man's Best Companion, Gradus ad Parnassum, Lectures before the American Institute of Instruction, Mulkey's Ortheopy, Sequel to Worcester's Spelling Book, Watt's Art of Reading, Walker's Rhetorical Grammar, Walker's Teacher's Assistant, Rippingham's Composition, Rice's Composition, Parker's Exercises in Composition, Pierpont's First Class Book, and National Reader, Bailey's Young Ladies' Class Book, Sheridan's Art of Reading, Barber's Grammar of Elocution, Johnson's, Walker's, Bailey's Richardson's, Perry's, and Webster's Dictionaries, Bigelow's Technology, Diction ary of the Arts and Sciences, (4 vols. 8vo. London, 1764.) Chambers Dictionary, (4 vols. folio.) Encyclopedia Americana, Ree's Cyclopedia, Crabbe's Synonymes, Blair's, Newman's, and Whateley's Rhetoric, Hedge's, Watt's, Kirwin's, and Collard's Logic, Edinburgh Review, London Literary Gazette, Locke's Essay on the Understanding, Watts on the Mind, Stewart's Philosophy of the Human Mind, Taylor's Elements of Thought.

INDEX

TO THE

THREE PARTS OF THIS GRAMMAR.

is par-

In this Index reference is made to the numbers, unless the page
ticularly mentioned, and Part 1, is meant where no other is given. The ab-
breviation Ap., means Appendix.

Articles, 10, and ap. 8, joined to
adverbs, ap. 12, when omitted,
ii, 5, 73, 93, 94.
Adjectives 29, how distinguished
from participles, 91, 2nd Rule of
Syntax, of one syllable, how com-
pared 33, and ap. 41, &c. of two
syllables how compared, ap. 45,
and ii, 24, used as nouns 35, im-
properly used as adverbs ii, 27,
when to be used ii, p. 60, the note,
which have no comp. and super.
degrees, ii, 30.

Adjective pronouns 54, 2nd rule of
Syntax ap. 54, how subdivided p.
93, note ii, 35.

Active verbs, 68, 69, 12th rule of
Syntax, ii, 45.
Adverbs, 93, and 16th rule of
Syntax, comparison of, 94 and
95, how known and how parsed,
96, exercises in parsing of, p. 65,
list of, p. 96, improperly used as
adjectives, ii, 28, proper position,
ii, 100, improperly used as nouns,
ii, 104, when to be used, ii, p. 60.
Adverbial phrases, 99 and 103.
Antecedent, 105.

Auxiliary 117, verbs 118, ellipses of,
119, ii, 97, 98,
Appendix p, 87, iii, p. 77.

A, and An, 1st rule of Syntax,
when used 8, 9, 10, ii, 1 to 6.
And, 10th rule of Syntax, ii, 36, 38,

55.

ap.

Apposition 8th rule of Syntax, ii,
71,
Absolute, 27th rule of Syntax.

Answer, ii, 66.

Abbreviations have led into errors,
ii, p. 53.
Alphabet, iii, 2 and 20.
Apostrophe, iii, 71, 216, 217, 240.
Accents, iii, 76.
Acute (see accent.)
Asterisk, iii 80.

Abbreviations, list of, iii, p. 35.
Affix, iii, 99, and p. 43 and 44.
Accent, iii, 118 and 134.
Antepenult, iii, 121.
Amphibrach, iii, 167.
Anapest, iii, 167.

Alexandrine verse, iii, 175.
Anapæstic verse, iii, 179.
Abbreviations of words, iii, 207.
Apheresis, iii, 209, 210.
Apocope, iii, 209, 212.
Allegory, iii, 231.
Antonomasia, iii, 237.
Antithesis, iii, 246, 147 note.
Anticlimax, iii, 249.
Allusion, iii, 250.

Accuracy, study of iii, 264, 265.
Arrangement of sentences, prin-
cipal rule for, iii, 294, rules re-
lating to, 297,&c.
Affected style, see style.
Appetites, iii, p. 106, note.
Attention,
Abstraction,
Association,
Analysis,

iii, p. 107.

Absolute terms, see Terms.
Abstract terms, see Terms.
Affirmative propositions, iii, 411.
Arguing in a circle, iii, 430.

Compound adjective pronouns, 53.
Conjunctions, 59, and ap. 61, their
connexion, ap. 62, 5th rule of
Syntax, ii, 84, 85. 86.
Conjugation of a verb, 79.
Compound words ap. 7, iii, 98, 145.
Compound tenses, ap. 89.
Case absolute, 27th rule of Syntax.
Complex sentence, ii, p. 24, note.
Compound active verbs, ii, 80.
Capital letters, iii, 21 to 30.
Comma, iii, 51, meaning of, ib. note.
rules relating to, 50, exercises in
the use of, iii, p. 25, and 27.
Colon, in, 60, 61, exercises in the
use of, p. 27.
Crotchets, iii, p. 30.
Cedilla or Cerilla, iii, 75.
Circumflex, (See Accent.)
Caret, iii, p. 33.

Catch word, iii, 91.

Common metre, iii, 162, note.

Cæsura, iii, 183, proper position of
184.

Climax, iii, 248.

Clearness, iii, 287, 292, &c.

Concise style, See Style.

Consciousness, iii, 357.

Comparison, iii, 362.

Conception, iii, 363.

Complex terms,
Collective terms,
Concrete terms,

See Terms.

Comprehension of a term, iii, 385,
maxim, 387.

Copula, iii, 398, 399, 401.
Complex proposition, iii, 405, 407.

Compound Syllogism, iii, 425.
Controversy, rules of, iii, 433.

Decline, 26, 82.

Derivative words, p. 87, iii, 96, 100.
Definite article, ap. 8.

Distributive adjective pronouns, p.
93, note.

Demonstrative adjective pronouns,
p. 93, note.

Defective verbs, ap. 67.
Do and did, ap. 90.
Definitely, a noun used, ii, 73.
Diphthongs, iii, 9, 11, 12.
Dash, iii, 67, 68.

Diæresis, iii, 73, 208, 216, 218.
Double obelisk, iii, 80.
Duodecimo, See Folio's.
Dissyllable, iii, 93, 123.
Derivation, iii, 103 to 112.
Distich, iii, 161.
Dactyle, iii, 167.

Difference or distinction between
Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic,
iii, 260.

Diffuse style, See Style.
Dry style.

Definitions are of two kinds, iii, 389,
nominal, 390, real 391, how
divided 392.
Division, iii, 393.

Discourse how resolved, iii, p. 110,

Either, improperly used for each,
ii, 33.

Ever, improperly used for never, ii,

101.
Exclamation, iii, 64 and note, exer-

cises on p. 29, and No. 241.
Etymology, principles of, iii, p. 40.
Euphonic letters, iii, 100, 101.
Emphasis, iii, 146, how it differs
from accent, 147, affects the
meaning of sentences, 148, is of
two kinds, primary and sec-
ondary, 149, is the great regu-
lator of quantity, 150, changes the
seat of accent, 151.
Elision, iii, 208, 209.

Feminine gender, 20.
Future tense, ap. 87.
Future perfect tense, ap. 88.
Folio, iii, 86.
Frontispiece, iii, 88.

Feet, (poetical) iii, 164, 165, prin-
cipal and secondary, 168. differ-
ent kinds of, occur in all kinds of
verse, 168, 181.

Figures, iii, 214, etymological 216,
syntactical, 221, rhetorical, 227,
230, of words, and of thought,
227, figures of speech, of the use
of 327.

Feeble style,See Style.
Flowery style, S

Fallacia accidentis, iii, 432.

Impersonal verbs, ap. 68.
Imperfect tense, ap. 84.

Interjections, (continued,) ii, 65.
Infinitive, its signs omitted, ii, 72.
Indefinitely, a noun used, ii, 73.
Infinitive mood, which tense to be
used, ii, p. 49, note.
I, dipthongal, iii, p. 6, note.
Italic letters, iii, 21.
Index, iii, 80.

Italic letters used in Scripture, iii,

91.

Letters, how divided, 7, iii, 2.
Love, conjugation of 82, synop-
sis of 83, exercises, pp. 38, 45.
Lest and that, ii, 86.
Liquids, iii, 8.

Longsyllables, iii, 137, 139.
Long metre, iii, 162, note.
Language, departments of, iii, 256.
Logic, iii, 259, 353, maxim in, 387.
Logical terms, iii, 369.

List of authorities consulted in the
preparation of this Grammar, iii,
p. 116.

Masculine gender, 19.

Moods, 72, 73, 75, ap. 69. 70.
Multitude, nouns of 113, 25th and
26th rules of Syntax, ii, 44, 58.

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