... Grammar is a knowledge of the rules, by observing which the English Language is spoken and written correctly. Now, we may speak of Grammar as an art or a science, but not as a i1o7wedge. The same clumsiness is to be found in many of the other definitions ...

... wvorkl an additional charm. The simplicity of his cpistolar-y style--the unpretending daily notices contain- ed in his diary---speak so distinctly clod directly from thre writer to thre reader-, that we feel at once we have him presented to uts ais lie was ...

... roady to swarif wi' friclht, When they stopp'd at the Loch o' Skone. There a fearfnl ban upon himi ho laid, tf he offerd to speak, or to turn his head, He would sleep that nidet in a dreary bed, In the touch o' the Loch o' Skeno. Syne, as o'er the lee wP' ...

... which has frequently beeis questioned, but in which Ave are inclined to think he has the right side of the argument-tlat in speaking, the voice ranges between tones of various acute- ness and gravity, and might be regulated on principles as seientifie as ...

... perhaps induce us to listen to him more r'eadily than to an eiitire stranger. But the circume- stances that qualify him most to speak on the topic on which he has ~nndertake~n to enlighten the country, as'o that, from' 182(1 to 1838, he united in his person ...

... not have a namne in any particular science, yet in most pf them we are constrained to feel that lie is of age, and call speak for himself:' while his philosoplcicl nacmees, alid even poetical seesibilit-, emphatically disthiigaish his work as onie of ...

... afford their poor neighbours the benefit of their culinary erudition. The enthusiasm with which the chef makes his ladies speak of new inventions in their favorite art is truly edifying. As a specimen, we may give the following anecdote respecting the ...

... of love, of idnocence, and taste, Ie smoking ruins, plundered, and laid waste; Do not all thesc a feeling d(ep impart, And speak in volumes to the Christian's heart ? Throw then the dazzling pompous voil aside, That War's dark horrors from the eye would ...

... Twice qid he spvipg forward to. grapple with bun, but theI neighbours held fhil-baek, auid_-everiu---time he essayed to I speak, his wiords-miassed And ,tang1~d'tokgether, lilie'*relathff~, of seaweed In ?? hurricane-stuck in his throat. He con- tinufed ...

... mid that, while -every -where British capital has been invested in foreign railways, no amount ofF foreign capitalI worth speaking of has been isivested in Grecat Britain. The expense attencling the construction of railwvays in I this country is far greater ...

... the kindness and attention paid to their wants and wishes by Captain' Howvling and his crew; and on this point we can also speak from personal experience.-lncernesa Courier. STRATHPEFvIiteK Sc's. - hiis lobveelny nook in ai beautiful flow freshly and freely ...

... woulda reduce the false quantities to a moere pleasing measunrement. As for the choruses, and ?? nu' w~ cassitof 'wih h rofso speaks, their appearance in a proes dresswsonid be nearliallied t to a burlesque; ?? 'at tines, evenD a verse translation is V next ...