LESSON II.—CASES.
"For whose name's sake, I have been made willing."—Penn cor. "Be governed by your conscience, and never ask any body's leave to be honest."—Collier cor. "To overlook nobody's merit or misbehaviour."— Id. "And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of Ajax's ship."—Coleridge cor. "Nothing is lazier, than to keep one's eye upon words without heeding their meaning."—Museum cor. "Sir William Jones's division of the day."—Id. "I need only refer here to Voss's excellent account of it."—Id. "The beginning of Stesichorus's palinode has been preserved."—Id. "Though we have Tibullus's elegies, there is not a word in them about Glyc~era."—Id. "That Horace was at Thaliarchus's country-house."—Id. "That Sisyphus's foot-tub should have been still in existence."—Id. "How everything went on in Horace's closet, and Mecenas's antechamber."—Id. "Who, for elegant brevity's sake, put a participle for a verb."—W. Walker cor. "The country's liberty being oppressed, we have no more to hope."—Id. "A brief but true account of this people's principles."—Barclay cor. "As, The Church's peace, or, The peace of the Church; Virgil's Æneid, or, The Æneid of Virgil."—Brit. Gram. cor. "As, Virgil's Æneid, for, The Æneid of Virgil; The Church's peace, for, The peace of the Church."—Buchanan cor. "Which, with Hubner's Compend, and Well's Geographia Classica, will be sufficient."—Burgh cor. "Witness Homer's speaking horses, scolding goddesses, and Jupiter enchanted with Venus's girdle."—Id. "Dr. Watts's Logic may with success be read to them and commented on."—Id. "Potter's Greek, and Kennet's Roman Antiquities, Strauchius's and Helvicus's Chronology."—Id. "SING. Alice's friends, Felix's property; PLUR. The Alices' friends, the Felixes' property."—Peirce cor. "Such as Bacchus's company—at Bacchus's festivals."—Ainsworih cor. "Burns's inimitable Tam o' Shanter turns entirely upon such a circumstance."—Scott cor. "Nominative, men; Genitive, [or Possessive,] men's; Objective, men."—Cutler cor. "Men's happiness or misery is mostly of their own making."—Locke cor. "That your son's clothes be never made strait, especially about the breast."—Id. "Children's minds are narrow and weak."—Id. "I would not have little children much tormented about punctilios, or niceties of breeding."—Id. "To fill his head with suitable ideas."—Id. "The Burgusdisciuses and the Scheiblers did not swarm in those days, as they do now."—Id. "To see the various ways of dressing—a calf's head!"—Shenstone cor.
"He puts it on, and for decorum's sake
Can wear it e'en as gracefully as she."—Cowper cor.