2. Imperfect nutrition is less to be deprecated than privation of aliment;—a new way of putting an old proverb, which we need not again insert, respecting half a loaf.
3. Perfect callidity was the distinguishing attribute of the Curved Pedestrian.
Callidity is another word for craftiness; but for the exercise of the reader’s ingenuity, we forbear to mention the person alluded to as so remarkable for his astutious qualities.
Q. What species of writing is most conducive to morality?
A. Text-hand.
SECTION V.
the conjugation of the auxiliary verbs To Have and To Be.
We have observed that boys, in conjugating verbs, give no indications of delight, except that which an ingenuous disposition always feels in the acquisition of knowledge. Now, having arrived at that part of the Grammar in which it becomes necessary that these same verbs should be considered, we feel ourselves in an awkward dilemma. The omission of the conjugations is a serious omission—which, of course, is objectionable in a comic work—and the insertion of them would be equally serious, and therefore quite as improper. What shall we do? We will adopt a middle course; referring the reader to Murray and other talented authors for full information on these matters; and requesting him to be content with our confining ourselves to what is more especially suitable to these pages—a short summary of the Comicalities of verbs.
The Conjugation of a verb is the combination and arrangement of its numbers, persons, moods, and tenses.
The Comicalities of verbs consist in certain liberties taken with their numbers, persons, moods, and tenses.