sistible tendencies: only by establishing counter - tendencies, which may combine with those tendencies, and modify them. [From MACAULAY's History of England. New York: Harper & Brothers. 1878.] When this had been done it would be impossible for our rulers to misunderstand the law: but, unless something more were done, it was by no means improbable that they might violate it. Unhappily the Church had long taught the nation that hereditary monarchy, alone among our institutions, was divine and inviolable; that the right of the House of Commons to a share in the legislative power was a right merely human, but that the right of the King to the obedience of his people was from above; that the Great Charter was a statute which might be repealed by those who had made it, but that the rule. which called the princes of the blood-royal to the throne in order of succession was of celestial origin, and that any Act of Parliament inconsistent with that rule was a nullity. [From THOMAS CARLYLE's Inaugural Address, in Critical and Miscellaneous Essays. New York: Scribner, Welford & Co. 1872.] Finally, Gentlemen, I have one advice to give you, which is practically of very great importance, though a very humble one. In the midst of your zeal and ardor,-for such, I foresee, will rise high enough, in spite of all the counsels to moderate it that I can give you,-remember the care of health. I have no doubt you have among you young souls ardently bent to consider life cheap, for the purpose of getting forward in what they are aiming at of high; but you are to consider throughout, much more than is done at present, and what it would have been a very great thing for me if I had been able to consider, that health is a thing to be attended to continually; that you are to regard that as the very highest of all temporal things for you [Applause]. There is no kind of achievement you could make in the world that is equal to perfect health. What to it are nuggets and millions? The French financier said, “Why, is there no sleep to be sold!" Sleep was not in the market at any quotation. [From HAWTHORNE'S Blithedale Romance. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co 1875.] "You mistake the matter completely," rejoined Westervelt. "What, then, is your own view of it?" I asked. "Her mind was active, and various in its powers," said he. "Her heart had a manifold adaptation; her constitution an infinite buoyancy, which (had she possessed only a little patience to await the reflux of her troubles) would have borne her upward, triumphantly, for twenty years to come. Her beauty would not have waned or scarcely so, and surely not beyond the reach of art to restore it-in all that time. She had life's summer all before her, and a hundred varieties of brilliant success. What an actress Zenobia might have been! It was one of her least valuable capabilities. How forcibly she might have wrought upon the world, either directly in her own person, or by her influence upon some man, or a series of men, of controlling genius! Every prize that could be worth a woman's having and many prizes which other women are too timid to desire-lay within Zenobia's reach." "In all this," I observed, "there would be nothing to satisfy her heart." "Her heart!" answered Westervelt, contemptuously. [Those who wish still further to pursue the study of Punctuation are re ferred to WILSON's Treatise on the subject.] INDEX Advent, 29. Affaire du cœur, 181. Agone, 31. Ain't, 81. Accredit, for credit, 109; for impute, All for each, 70. 109. Accurate for accurately, 120. Active or passive voice, 235-238. ADDISON, JOSEPH, 138, 176, 193. Advance or advancement, 54. Allow, for assert or declare, 28; for Almost, as adjective, 130. 143. An. See A. Analogy for comparison, 163. And which, 208–211. Antecedent, defined, 10; lack of, 218. Antithesis, 248-249; in paragraphs, Any one or either, 69–70. Arose for rose, 109. As though for as if, 156. Au contraire, 182. Au fait, 182, 183. a Au grand sérieux, 182, 183. Avocation for vocation, 54. Back of for behind, 143. Bas-bleu, 29. BEACONSFIELD, Lord, 237, 288. Being built or building, 236. Between or among, 143. Big words. See Words. Both, for each, 125; of three or more, BROWNE, SIR THOMAS, 176. BROWNING, ELIZABETH BARRETT, 195. But, for and, 153; in double nega- By, redundant, 150. BYRON, LORD, 188, 189, 190. CICERO, 205. CLARENDON, LORD, 291. Climax, 249-252; from less to more Closure, as verb, 116. Coast, to, on sled or bicycle, 28. Collective nouns, defined, 6; with Comparison, of adjectives, 19-20; of Compound personal pronouns, 9. Concision for conciseness, 55. Concession for grant, 29. Concrete, as verb, 116. Concrete nouns, 6. Condottieri, 184-185. Confess for admit, 111-112. Connectives, 4. Conscious or aware, 130. Construction, English and un-Eng- Corner of the fire, 185. Creditable for credible, 127. Culture, as verb, 115-116; an over- Dangling participles, 235, 247, 261. DE QUINCEY, THOMAS, 138, 176, 299. Definite for definitive, 127. Demonstrative pronouns, 9. Dice, one, 79. Conduct, without reflexive pronoun, Different than, 146-147. 77-78. Dicta, a, 47. Different to, 146-147. |