A paragraph is a group of sentences related to each other and to one central idea.

The whole paragraph which I have quoted is simply a series of inconsequent sentences, all quite untrue in themselves and all quite irrelevant to each other.

The paragraph below is an illustration of the method of development described in Section 47.

The paragraph in page 453 and 454, is not a specimen of the worst.

Mr. Charles Robert Rivington, the present clerk to the Company, has written a pamphlet, full of very interesting records of this ancient and worshipful corporation, from which the following paragraph is a quotation:"The first meeting of the court after the fire was held at Cook's Hall, and the subsequent courts, until the hall was re-built, at the Lame Hospital Hall, i.e., St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

The 246th paragraph of his English Grammar is a long and fruitless attempt to fix a rule for the guidance of the learner in this matter.

I constantly peruse your Paper as I smoke my Morning's Pipe, (tho' I can't forbear reading the Motto before I fill and light) and really it gives a grateful Relish to every Whif; each Paragraph is freight either with useful or delightful Notions, and I never fail of being highly diverted or improved.

This paragraph is no exception to the general rule that the statements of this author will not bear analysis.

This would be specific description if the purpose was to have the reader picture some particular village; but if the purpose was to give the reader a clear conception of the general characteristics of all New England villages, the paragraph would become a general description.

In it I find such touching paragraphs as, 'Cursed be Canaan!'

If these instances are given for the purpose of explanation merely, the paragraph is exposition.

Castiglione's indebtedness to the De oratore is well known, but few notice that his first paragraphs are a close paraphrase of Cicero's dedicatory paragraphs of the Orator.

E. This paragraph is an addition to the text of Castaneda from Osorius Clarke, I. 342 [10] From the circumstances in the text, this watering-place of St Blaze is probably what is now called St Katherines or St Sebastians Bay; yet that place hardly exceeds forty-seven Portuguese leagues east from the cape.

This paragraph was the third place in which Lamb recorded his terror of this picture of the Witch of Endor in Stackhouse's Bible, but the first occasion in which he took it to himself.

Throughout the first four chapters the paragraph is the unit of composition, but for the sake of added interest some themes of greater length have been included.

Aegina was behind me, Megara before," &c., and so on, down to the final reflection of the philosopher, "Remember that thou art but a man;" at which point Sterne remarks coolly, "Now, my Uncle Toby knew not that this last paragraph was an extract of Servius Sulpicius's consolatory letter to Tully"the thing to be really known being that the paragraph was, in fact, Servius Sulpicius filtered through Burton.

The succeeding paragraphs are a summary of the account by the learned Professor Mackeldey, who has investigated Roman law with the most minute diligence.

This paragraph was a footnote in the Englishman's Magazine.