UNDER NOTE II.—OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.

"But popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word."—Blair cor. "The infinitive mood, a phrase, or a sentence, is often made the subject of a verb."—Murray cor. "When any person, in speaking, introduces his name after the pronoun I, it is of the first person; as, 'I, James, of the city of Boston.'"—R. C. Smith cor. "The name of the person spoken to, is of the second person; as, 'James, come to me.'"—Id. "The name of the person or thing merely spoken of, or about, is of the third person; as, 'James has come.'"—Id. "The passive verb has no object, because its subject or nominative always represents what is acted upon, and the object of a verb must needs be in the objective case."—Id. "When a noun is in the nominative to an active verb, it denotes the actor."—Kirkham cor. "And the pronoun THOU or YE, standing for the name of the person or persons commanded, is its nominative."—Ingersoll cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker."—Brown's Institutes, p. 32. "The conjugation of a verb is a regular arrangement of its different variations or inflections throughout the moods and tenses."—Wright cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer."—G. BROWN: for the correction of Parker and Fox, Hiley, and Sanborn. "The second person is that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed."—Id.: for the same. "The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of."—Id.: for the same, "I is of the first person, singular; WE, of the first person, plural."—Mur. et al. cor. "THOU is of the second person, singular; YE or You, of the second person, plural."—Iid. "HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person, singular; THEY, of the third person, plural."—Iid. "The nominative case denotes the actor, and is the subject of the verb."—Kirkham cor. "John is the actor, therefore the noun JOHN is in the nominative case."—Id. "The actor is always expressed by the nominative case, unless the verb be passive."—R. C. Smith cor. "The nominative case does not always denote an agent or actor."—Mack cor. "In mentioning each name, tell the part of speech."—John Flint cor. "Of what number is boy? Why?"—Id. "Of what number is pens? Why?"—Id. "The speaker is denoted by the first person; the person spoken to is denoted by the second person; and the person or thing spoken of is denoted by the third person."—Id. "What nouns are of the masculine gender? The names of all males are of the masculine gender."—Id. "An interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind."—G. Brown's Grammars.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VII; OF OBJECTIVES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM.

"But I do not remember whom they were for."—Abbott cor. "But if you can't help it, whom do you complain of?"—Collier cor. "Whom was it from? and what was it about?"—M. Edgeworth cor. "I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and me, something in a corner."—Day cor. "The upper one, whom I am now about to speak of."—Leigh Hunt cor. "And to poor us, thy enmity is most capital."—Shak. cor. "Which, thou dost confess, 'twere fit for thee to use, as them to claim." That is,—"as for them to claim."—Id. "To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thee of them." That is,—"than for thee to beg of them."—Id. "There are still a few, who, like thee and me, drink nothing but water."—Gil Bias cor. "Thus, 'I shall fall,'—'Thou shalt love thy neighbour,'—'He shall be rewarded,'—express no resolution on the part of me, thee, or him." Or better:—"on the part of the persons signified by the nominatives, I, Thou, He."—Lennie and Bullions cor. "So saucy with the hand of her here—what's her name?"—Shak. cor. "All debts are cleared between you and me."—Id. "Her price is paid, and she is sold like thee."—HARRISON'S E. Lang., p. 172. "Search through all the most flourishing eras of Greece."—Dr. Brown cor. "The family of the Rudolphs has been long distinguished."—The Friend cor. "It will do well enough for you and me."—Edgeworth cor. "The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and him who is the teacher."—Chazotte cor. "We are still much at a loss to determine whom civil power belongs to."—Locke cor. "What do you call it? and to whom does it belong?"—Collier cor. "He had received no lessons from the Socrateses, the Platoes, and the Confuciuses of the age."—Haller cor. "I cannot tell whom to compare them to."—Bunyan cor. "I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and me."—Id. "They, by those means, have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know whom."—Id. "But at length she said, there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and us."—Hutch. Hist. cor. "So you must ride on horseback after us."—Mrs. Gilpin cor. "A separation must soon take place between our minister and me,"—Werter cor. "When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and me."—Shak. cor. "To whom? to thee? What art thou?"—Id. "That they should always bear the certain marks of him from whom they came."—Bp. Butler cor.

"This life has joys for you and me, And joys that riches ne'er could buy."—Burns cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.—OF TIME OR MEASURE.

"Such as almost every child, ten years old, knows."—Town cor. "Four months' schooling will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years of age, completely through this book."—Id. "A boy of six years of age may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman senate."—Webster cor. "A lad about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians."—Id. "Of nothing else than that individual white figure of five inches in length, which is before him."—Campbell cor. "Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years of age are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles?"—Guy cor. "Where language three centuries old is employed."—Booth cor. "Let a gallows be made, of fifty cubits in height." Or: "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made."—Bible cor. "I say to this child, nine years old, 'Bring me that hat.' He hastens, and brings it me."—Osborn cor. "'He laid a floor, twelve feet long, and nine feet wide:' that is, the floor was long to the extent of twelve feet, and wide to the extent of nine feet."—Merchant cor. "The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand in strength." Or: "The Goulah people are a tribe about fifty thousand strong."—Examiner cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VIII; NOM. ABSOLUTE.

"He having ended his discourse, the assembly dispersed."—Inst. of E. G., p. 190. "I being young, they deceived me."—Ib., p. 279. "They refusing to comply, I withdrew."—Ib. "Thou being present, he would not tell what he knew."—Ib. "The child is lost; and I, whither shall I go?"—Ib. "O happy we! surrounded with so many blessings."—Ib. "'Thou too! Brutus, my son!' cried Caesar, overcome."—Ib. "Thou! Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?"—Mirror cor. "How swiftly our time passes away! and ah! we, how little concerned to improve it!"—Greenleaf's False Syntax, Gram., p. 47.

"There all thy gifts and graces we display, Thou, only thou, directing all our way."—Pope, Dunciad.

CHAPTER IV.—ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE IX.

UNDER NOTE I.—OF AGREEMENT.

"I am not recommending this kind of sufferings to your liking."—Sherlock cor. "I have not been to London these five years."—Webster cor. "Verbs of this kind are more expressive than their radicals."—Dr. Murray cor. "Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with those vermin."—Kames cor. "But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours."—R. Random cor. "If I had not left off troubling myself about things of that kind."—Swift cor. "For things of this sort are usually joined to the most noted fortune."—Bacon cor. "The nature of those riches and that long-suffering, is, to lead to repentance."—Barclay cor. "I fancy it is this kind of gods, that Horace mentions."—Addison cor. "During those eight days, they are prohibited from touching the skin."—Hope of Is. cor. "Besides, he had but a small quantity of provisions left for his army."—Goldsmith cor. "Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than those of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?"—Murray's Sequel, p. 115. "It distinguishes still more remarkably the feelings of the former from those of the latter."—Kames cor. "And these good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world."—Campbell cor. "These twenty years have I been with thee."—Gen. cor. "In this kind of expressions, some words seem to be understood."—W. Walker cor. "He thought this kind of excesses indicative of greatness."—Hunt cor. "This sort of fellows is very numerous." Or thus: "Fellows of this sort are very numerous."—Spect. cor. "Whereas men of this sort cannot give account of their faith." Or: "Whereas these men cannot give account of their faith."—Barclay cor. "But the question is, whether those are the words."—Id. "So that expressions of this sort are not properly optative."—R. Johnson cor. "Many things are not such as they appear to be."—Sanborn cor. "So that all possible means are used."—Formey cor.

"We have strict statutes, and most biting laws, Which for these nineteen years we have let sleep."—Shak. cor.

"They could not speak, and so I left them both, To bear these tidings to the bloody king."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—OF FIXED NUMBERS.

"Why, I think she cannot be above six feet two inches high."—Spect. cor. "The world is pretty regular for about forty rods east and ten west."—Id. "The standard being more than two feet above it."—Bacon cor. "Supposing, among other things, that he saw two suns, and two Thebeses."—Id. "On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty-three feet by thirty-nine."—Sheffield cor. "Three pounds of gold went to one shield."—1 Kings cor. "Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that session."—The Friend cor. "And, truly, he has saved me from this labour."—Barclay cor. "Within these three miles may you see it coming."—Shak. cor. "Most of the churches, not all, had one ruling elder or more."—Hutch. cor. "While a Minute Philosopher, not six feet high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe."—Berkley cor. "The wall is ten feet high."—Harrison cor. "The stalls must be ten feet broad."—Walker cor. "A close prisoner in a room twenty feet square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty feet southward, not to walk twenty feet northward."—Locke cor. "Nor, after all this care and industry, did they think themselves qualified."—C. Orator cor. "No fewer than thirteen Gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assize, and executed."—Webster cor. "The king was petitioned to appoint one person or more."—Mrs. Macaulay cor. "He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pounds."—Cowper cor. "They carry three tiers of guns at the head, and at the stern, two tiers"—Joh. Dict. cor. "The verses consist of two sorts of rhymes."—Formey cor. "A present of forty camel-loads of the most precious things of Syria."—Wood's Dict. cor. "A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutia"—S. Barrett cor.

"So many spots, like naeves on Venus' soil, One gem set off with many a glitt'ring foil."—Dryden cor.

"For, off the end, a double handful It had devour'd, it was so manful."—Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—OF RECIPROCALS.

"That shall and will might be substituted one for the other."—Priestley cor. "We use not shall and will promiscuously the one for the other."—Brightland cor. "But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from one an other also."—Fowle cor. "Or on some other relation which two objects bear to each other."—Blair cor. "Yet the two words lie so near to each other in meaning, that, in the present case, perhaps either of them would have been sufficient."—Id. "Both orators use great liberties in their treatment of each other."—Id. "That greater separation of the two sexes from each other."—Id. "Most of whom live remote from one an other."—Webster cor. "Teachers like to see their pupils polite to one an other"—Id. "In a little time, he and I must keep company with each other only."—Spect. cor. "Thoughts and circumstances crowd upon one an other."—Kames cor. "They cannot perceive how the ancient Greeks could understand one an other."—Lit. Conv. cor. "The poet, the patriot, and the prophet, vied with one an other in his breast."—Hazlitt cor. "Athamas and Ino loved each other."—C. Tales cor. "Where two things are compared or contrasted one with the other." Or: "Where two things, are compared or contrasted with each other."—Blair and Mur. cor. "In the classification of words, almost all writers differ from one an other."—Bullions cor.

"I will not trouble thee, my child. Farewell; We'll no more meet; we'll no more see each other."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—OF COMPARATIVES.

"Errors in education should be less indulged than any others."—Locke cor. "This was less his case than any other man's that ever wrote."—Pref. to Waller cor. "This trade enriched some other people more than it enriched them."—Mur. cor. "The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any other ancient character known."—Wilson cor. "The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God, than any other religion ever did."—Murray cor. "The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any other in New Spain."—Robertson cor. "Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than any other that ever was written"—Pope cor. "Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any other writer."—Blair cor. "One son I had—one, more than all my other sons, the strength of Troy." Or: "One son I had—one, the most of all my sons, the strength of Troy."—Cowper cor. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other children, because he was the son of his old age."—Bible cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—OF SUPERLATIVES.

"Of all simpletons, he was the greatest"—Nutting cor. "Of all beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude."—Id. "This lady is prettier than any of her sisters."—Peyton cor. "The relation which, of all the class, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned."—Blair cor. "He studied Greek the most of all noblemen."—W. Walker cor. "And indeed that was the qualification which was most wanted at that time."—Goldsmith cor. "Yet we deny that the knowledge of him as outwardly crucified, is the best of all knowledge of him."—Barclay cor. "Our ideas of numbers are, of all our conceptions, the most accurate and distinct"—Duncan cor. "This indeed is, of all cases, the one in which it is least necessary to name the agent"—J. Q. Adams cor. "The period to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important moment of your lives."—Id. "Perry's royal octavo is esteemed the best of all the pronouncing dictionaries yet known."—D. H. Barnes cor. "This is the tenth persecution, and, of all the ten the most bloody."—Sammes cor. "The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of all the languages in the world."—Bucke cor. "Of all writers whatever, Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention."—Pope cor. "In a version of this particular work, which, more than any other, seems to require a venerable, antique cast."—Id. "Because I think him the best-informed naturalist that has ever written."—Jefferson cor. "Man is capable of being the most social of all animals."—Sheridan cor. "It is, of all signs (or expressions) that which most moves us."—Id. "Which, of all articles, is the most necessary."—Id.

"Quoth he, 'This gambol thou advisest, Is, of all projects, the unwisest.'"—S. Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—OF INCLUSIVE TERMS.

"Noah and his family were the only antediluvians who survived the flood."—Webster cor. "I think it superior to any other grammar that we have yet had."—Blair cor. "We have had no other grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgement upon our native language, as has the author of these volumes."—British Critic cor. "Those persons feel most for the distresses of others, who have experienced distresses themselves."—L. Murray cor. "Never was any other people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation."—Id. et al. cor. "No other tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek."—Blair cor. "Never was sovereign so much beloved by the people." Or: "Never was any other sovereign so much beloved by his people."—L. Murray cor. "Nothing else ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child."—Id. et al. cor. "Of all the figures of speech, no other comes so near to painting as does metaphor."—Blair et al. cor. "I know no other writer so happy in his metaphors as is Mr. Addison."—Blair cor. "Of all the English authors, none is more happy in his metaphors than Addison."—Jamieson cor. "Perhaps no other writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Never was any other writer so happy in that concise and spirited style, as Mr. Pope."—Blair cor. "In the harmonious structure and disposition of his periods, no other writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Nothing else delights me so much as the works of nature."—L. Mur. cor. "No person was ever more perplexed than he has been to-day."—Id. "In no other case are writers so apt to err, as in the position of the word only."—Maunder cor. "For nothing is more tiresome than perpetual uniformity."—Blair cor.

"Naught else sublimes the spirit, sets it free, Like sacred and soul-moving poesy."—Sheffield cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—EXTRA COMPARISONS.

"How much better are ye than the fowls!"—Bible cor. "Do not thou hasten above the Most High."—Esdras cor. "This word, PEER, is principally used for the nobility of the realm."—Cowell cor. "Because the same is not only most generally received, &c."—Barclay cor. "This is, I say, not the best and most important evidence."—Id. "Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High."—The Psalter cor. "The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High."—Id. "As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first great lesson that should be taught them, is, to admire frugality."—Goldsmith cor. "More general terms are put for such as are more restricted."—Rev. J. Brown cor. "This, this was the unkindest cut of all."—Enfield's Speaker, p. 353. "To take the basest and most squalid shape."—Shak. cor. "I'll forbear: I have fallen out with my more heady will."—Id. "The power of the Most High guard thee from sin."—Percival cor. "Which title had been more true, if the dictionary had been in Latin and Welsh."—Verstegan cor. "The waters are frozen sooner and harder, than further upward, within the inlands."—Id. "At every descent, the worst may become more depraved."—Mann cor.

"Or as a moat defensive to a house Against the envy of less happy lands."—Shak. cor.

"A dreadful quiet felt, and worse by far Than arms, a sullen interval of war."—Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"It breaks forth in its highest, most energetic, and most impassioned strain."—Kirkham cor. "He has fallen into the vilest and grossest sort of railing."—Barclay cor. "To receive that higher and more general instruction which the public affords."—J. O. Taylor cor. "If the best things have the best and most perfect operations."—Hooker cor. "It became the plainest and most elegant, the richest and most splendid, of all languages."—Bucke cor. "But the principal and most frequent use of pauses, is, to mark the divisions of the sense."—Blair cor. "That every thing belonging to ourselves is the best and the most perfect."— Clarkson cor. "And to instruct their pupils in the best and most thorough manner."—School Committee cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—ADJECTIVES SUPERADDED.

"The Father is figured out as a venerable old man."—Brownlee cor. "There never was exhibited an other such masterpiece of ghostly assurance."—Id. "After the first three sentences, the question is entirely lost."—Spect. cor. "The last four parts of speech are commonly called particles."—Al. Murray cor. "The last two chapters will not be found deficient in this respect."—Todd cor. "Write upon your slates a list of the first ten nouns."—J. Abbott cor. "We have a few remains of two other Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and Bion."—Blair cor. "The first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical."—Id. "For, of these five heads, only the first two have any particular relation to the sublime."—Id. "The resembling sounds of the last two syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole."—Kames cor. "The last three are arbitrary."—Id. "But in the sentence, 'She hangs the curtains,' hangs is an active-transitive verb."—Comly cor. "If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of active-transitive, active-intransitive, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood."—Id. "These last two lines have an embarrassing construction."—Rush cor. "God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah and seven other persons."—Wood cor. "The first six books of the AEneid are extremely beautiful."—Formey cor. "Only a few instances more can here be given."—Murray cor. "A few years more will obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form."—Nutting cor. "Some define them to be verbs devoid of the first two persons."—Crombie cor. "In an other such Essay-tract as this."—White cor. "But we fear that not an other such man is to be found."—Edward Irving cor. "O for an other such sleep, that I might see an other such man!" Or, to preserve poetic measure, say:—

"O for such sleep again, that I might see An other such man, though but in a dream!"—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.

"The is an article, relating to the noun balm, agreeably to Rule 11th."—Comly cor. "Wise is an adjective, relating to the noun man's, agreeably to Rule 11th."—Id. "To whom I observed, that the beer was extremely good."—Goldsmith cor. "He writes very elegantly." Or: "He writes with remarkable elegance."—O. B. Peirce cor. "John behaves very civilly (or, with true civility) to all men."—Id. "All the sorts of words hitherto considered, have each of them some meaning, even when taken separately."—Beattie cor. "He behaved himself conformably to that blessed example."—Sprat cor. "Marvellously graceful."— Clarendon cor. "The Queen having changed her ministry, suitably to her wisdom."—Swift cor. "The assertions of this author are more easily detected."—Id. "The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no more strongly than that."—Bentley cor. "If one author had spoken more nobly and loftily than an other."—Id. "Xenophon says expressly."— Id. "I can never think so very meanly of him."—Id. "To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed."—Bible cor. "I think it very ably written." Or: "I think it written in a very masterly manner."—Swift cor. "The whole design must refer to the golden age, which it represents in a lively manner."—Addison cor. "Agreeably to this, we read of names being blotted out of God's book."—Burder et al. cor. "Agreeably to the law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent parents."—Paley. "Words taken independently of their meaning, are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender."—Maltby cor.

"Conceit in weakest bodies strongliest works."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.—THEM FOR THOSE.

"Though he was not known by those letters, or the name CHRIST."—Bayly cor. "In a gig, or some of those things." Better: "In a gig, or some such vehicle."—M. Edgeworth cor. "When cross-examined by those lawyers."—Same. "As the custom in those cases is."—Same. "If you had listened to those slanders."—Same. "The old people were telling stories about those fairies; but, to the best of my judgement, there is nothing in them."—Same. "And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no better authority to substantiate their principles, than the testimony of those old Pharisees?"—Hibbard cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—THIS AND THAT.

"Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear: that is the anticipation of good, this of evil."—Inst., p. 265. "The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account these happy, and those miserable."—Inst., p. 266.

"Ellen and Margaret, fearfully, Sought comfort in each other's eye;

Then turned their ghastly look each one, That to her sire, this to her son."—Scott cor.

"Six youthful sons, as many blooming maids, In one sad day beheld the Stygian shades; Those by Apollo's silver bow were slain, These Cynthia's arrows stretch'd upon the plain."—Pope cor.

"Memory and forecast just returns engage, That pointing back to youth, this on to age."—Pope, on Man.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—EITHER AND NEITHER.

"These make the three great subjects of discussion among mankind; namely, truth, duty, and interest: but the arguments directed towards any of them are generically distinct."—Dr. Blair cor. "A thousand other deviations may be made, and still any of the accounts may be correct in principle; for all these divisions, and their technical terms, are arbitrary."—R. W. Green cor. "Thus it appears, that our alphabet is deficient; as it has but seven vowels to represent thirteen different sounds; and has no letter to represent any of five simple consonant sounds."—Churchill cor. "Then none of these five verbs can be neuter."—O. B. Peirce cor. "And the assertor[534] is in none of the four already mentioned."—Id. "As it is not in any of these four."—Id. "See whether or not the word comes within the definition of any of the other three simple cases."—Id. "No one of the ten was there."—Frazee cor. "Here are ten oranges, take any one of them."—Id. "There are three modes, by any of which recollection will generally be supplied; inclination, practice, and association."—Rippingham cor. "Words not reducible to any of the three preceding heads."—Fowler cor. "Now a sentence may be analyzed in reference to any of these four classes."—Id.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—WHOLE, LESS, MORE, AND MOST.

"Does not all proceed from the law, which regulates all the departments of the state?"—Blair cor. "A messenger relates to Theseus all the particulars."—Ld. Kames cor. "There are no fewer than twenty-nine diphthongs in the English language."—Ash cor. "The Redcross Knight runs through all the steps of the Christian life."—Spect. cor. "There were not fewer than fifty or sixty persons present."—Mills and Merchant cor. "Greater experience, and a more cultivated state of society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression."—Blair and Murray cor. "By which means, knowledge, rather than oratory, has become the principal requisite."—Blair cor. "No fewer than seven illustrious cities disputed the right of having given birth to the greatest of poets."—Lempriere cor. "Temperance, rather than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases."—Murray cor. "I do not suppose, that we Britons are more deficient in genius than our neighbours."—Id. "In which, he says, he has found no fewer than twelve untruths."—Barclay cor. "The several places of rendezvous were concerted, and all the operations were fixed."—Hume cor. "In these rigid opinions, all the sectaries concurred."—Id. "Out of whose modifications have been made nearly all complex modes."—Locke cor. "The Chinese vary each of their words on no fewer than five different tones."—Blair cor. "These people, though they possess brighter qualities, are not so proud as he is, nor so vain as she."—Murray cor. "It is certain, that we believe our own judgements more firmly, after we have made a thorough inquiry into the things."—Brightland cor. "As well as the whole course and all the reasons of the operation."—Id. "Those rules and principles which are of the greatest practical advantage."—Newman cor. "And all curse shall be no more."—Rev. cor.—(See the Greek.) "And death shall be no more."—Id. "But, in recompense, we have pleasanter pictures of ancient manners."—Blair cor. "Our language has suffered a greater number of injurious changes in America, since the British army landed on our shores, than it had suffered before, in the period of three centuries."—Webster cor. "All the conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in society."—Ld. Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.—PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES.

"To such as think the nature of it deserving of their attention."—Bp. Butler cor. "In all points, more deserving of the approbation of their readers."—Keepsake cor. "But to give way to childish sensations, was unbecoming to our nature."—Lempriere cor. "The following extracts are deserving of the serious perusal of all."—The Friend cor. "No inquiry into wisdom, however superficial, is undeserving of attention."—Bulwer cor. "The opinions of illustrious men are deserving of great consideration."—Porter cor. "And resolutely keep its laws. Uncaring for consequences." Or:—"Not heeding consequences."—Burns cor. "This is an item that is deserving of more attention."—Goodell cor.

"Leave then thy joys, unsuiting to such age:"—Or,

"Leave then thy joys not suiting such an age, To a fresh comer, and resign the stage."—Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.—FIGURE OF ADJECTIVES.

"The tall dark mountains and the deep-toned seas."—Dana. "O! learn from him To station quick-eyed Prudence at the helm."—Frost cor. "He went in a one-horse chaise."—David Blair cor. "It ought to be, 'in a one-horse chaise.'"—Crombie cor. "These are marked with the above-mentioned letters."—Folker cor. "A many-headed faction."—Ware cor. "Lest there should be no authority in any popular grammar, for the perhaps heaven-inspired effort."—Fowle cor. "Common-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables. They were formerly written in two fourteen-syllable lines."—Goodenow cor. "Short-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; the third of eight, the rest of six syllables."—Id. "Particular-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the third and sixth of six syllables, the rest of eight."—Id. "Hallelujah-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the last two of eight syllables, and the rest of six."—Id. "Long-metre stanzas are merely the union of four iambic lines, of ten syllables each."—Id. "A majesty more commanding than is to be found among the rest of the Old-Testament poets."—Blair cor.

"You, sulphurous and thought-executed fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world!"—Lear, Act iii, Sc. 2.

CHAPTER V.—PRONOUNS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE X AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF AGREEMENT.

"The subject is to be joined with its predicate."—Wilkins cor. "Every one must judge of his own feelings."—Byron cor. "Every one in the family should know his or her duty."—Penn cor. "To introduce its possessor into that way in which he should go."—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Do not they say, that every true believer has the Spirit of God in him?"—Barclay cor. "There is none in his natural state righteous; no, not one."—Wood cor. "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own."—Bible cor. "His form had not yet lost all its original brightness."—Milton cor. "No one will answer as if I were his friend or companion."—Steele cor. "But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself."—Bible cor. "And let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his neighbour."—Id. "For every tree is known by its own fruit."—Id. "But she fell to laughing, like one out of his right mind."—M. Edgeworth cor. "Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make them worse."—Wayland cor. "And nobody else would make that city his refuge any more."—Josephus cor. "What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words? It is the time which a speaker occupies in pronouncing them."—Bradley cor. "In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that it is usually parsed as such."—Bullions cor. "The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight he carries." Or thus: "The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight it carries, the faster it runs."—Addison, Murray, et al. cor. "As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with his jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets."—Newspaper cor. "Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which he thinks worthy of recording."—Duchess D'Ab. cor. "Every body trembled, for himself, or for his friends."—Goldsmith cor.

"A steed comes at morning: no rider is there; But his bridle is red with the sign of despair."—Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—PRONOUNS WRONG—OR NEEDLESS.

"Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle."—Merchant cor. "Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?"—Bible cor. "Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief."—Tillotson cor. "Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate."—Bible cor. "Whom, when they had washed her, they laid in an upper chamber."—Id. "Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."—Id. "Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 93. "But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action."—Murray's Gram., i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."—Barclay cor. "George Fox's Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."—Title cor. "According to the advice of the author of the Postcript [sic—KTH]."—Barclay cor. "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians that were pictured on Nemesis's pitcher."—Bacon cor. "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with the Sphynx's enigmas."—Id. "Whoever believeth not therein, shall perish."—Koran cor. "When, at Sestius's entreaty, I had been at his house."—W. Walker cor.

"There high on Sipylus's shaggy brow, She stands, her own sad monument of wo."—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—CHANGE OF NUMBER.

"So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you."—Bible cor. "Why do you plead so much for it? why do you preach it up?" Or: "Why do ye plead so much for it? why do ye preach it up?"—Barclay cor. "Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, thy darling."—Edward's Gram. cor. "You have my book, and I have yours; i.e., your book." Or thus: "Thou hast my book, and I have thine; i.e., thy book."—Chandler cor. "Neither art thou such a one as to be ignorant of what thou art."—Bullions cor. "Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon thee."—Bible cor. "The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give thee warning."—Ld. Kames cor. "Wast thou born only for pleasure? wast thou never to do any thing?"—Collier cor. "Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and to give up thy account."—Barnes cor. "And canst thou expect to behold the resplendent glow of the Creator? would not such a sight annihilate thee?"—Milton cor. "If the prophet had commanded thee to do some great thing, wouldst thou have refused?"—C. S. Journal cor. "Art thou a penitent? evince thy sincerity, by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance."—Vade-Mecum cor. "I will call thee my dear son: I remember all thy tenderness."—C. Tales cor. "So do thou, my son: open thy ears, and thy eyes."—Wright cor. "I promise you, this was enough to discourage you."—Bunyan cor. "Ere you remark an other's sin, Bid your own conscience look within."—Gay cor. "Permit that I share in thy wo, The privilege canst thou refuse?"—Perfect cor. "Ah! Strephon, how canst thou despise Her who, without thy pity, dies?"—Swift cor.

"Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff; And I must own, thou'st measured out enough."—Shenst. cor.

"This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity; Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it thee."—Swift cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—WHO AND WHICH.

"Exactly like so many puppets, which are moved by wires."—Blair cor. "They are my servants, whom I brought forth[535] out of the land of Egypt."—Leviticus, xxv, 55. "Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me."—See Isaiah, viii, 18. "And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe."—Isaiah, xxxvii, 2. "In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses which filled them."—M'Ilvaine cor. "They are not of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."—Barclay cor. "As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; which, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces."—Bible cor. "Frequented by every fowl which nature has taught to dip the wing in water."—Johnson cor. "He had two sons, one of whom was adopted by the family of Maximus."—Lempriere cor. "And the ants, which are collected by the smell, are burned with fire."—The Friend cor. "They being the agents to whom this thing was trusted."—Nixon cor. "A packhorse which is driven constantly one way and the other, to and from market."—Locke cor. "By instructing children, whose affection will be increased."—Nixon cor. "He had a comely young woman, who travelled with him."—Hutchinson cor. "A butterfly, who thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive."—Inst., p. 267. "It is an enormous elephant of stone, which disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower."—Ware cor. "He was met by a dolphin, which sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him."—Edward's Gram. cor.

"That Caesar's horse, which, as fame goes, Had corns upon his feet and toes, Was not by half so tender-hoof'd, Nor trod upon the ground so soft."—Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.

"He instructed and fed the crowds that surrounded him."—Murray's Key. "The court, which gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary." p. 187. "Nor does he describe classes of sinners that do not exist."—Mag. cor. "Because the nations among which they took their rise, were not savage."—Murray cor. "Among nations that are in the first and rude periods of society."—Blair cor. "The martial spirit of those nations among which the feudal government prevailed."—Id. "France, which was in alliance with Sweden."—Priestley's Gram., p. 97. "That faction, in England, which most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions."—Ib. "We may say, 'the crowd which was going up the street.'"—Cobbett's E. Gram., 204. "Such members of the Convention which formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution."—N. Y. Lyceum cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—CONFUSION OF SENSES.

"The name of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its case."—Kirkham cor. "Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no noun, properly so called, implies the presence of the thing named."—Harris cor. "Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes the city of Boston from other cities."—Sanborn cor. "The word CONJUNCTION means union, or the act of joining together. Conjunctions are used to join or connect either words or sentences."—Id. "The word INTERJECTION means the act of throwing between. Interjections are interspersed among other words, to express strong or sudden emotion."—Id. "Indeed is composed of in and deed. The words may better be written separately, as they formerly were."—Cardell cor. "Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is employed to distinguish an individual only."—Jamieson cor. "As an indication that nature itself had changed its course." Or:—"that Nature herself had changed her course."—History cor. "Of removing from the United States and their territories the free people of colour."—Jenifer cor. "So that gh may be said not to have its proper sound." Or thus: "So that the letters, g and h, may be said not to have their proper sounds."—Webster cor. "Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce her to our children?"—Maturin cor. "The first question is this: 'Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity's sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform, [i. e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in its decisions?"—Campbell cor. "In personifications, Time is always masculine, on account of his mighty efficacy; Virtue, feminine, by reason of her beauty and loveliness."—Murray, Blair, et al. cor. "When you speak to a person or thing, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Bartlett cor. "You now know the noun; for noun means name."—Id. "T. What do you see? P. A book. T. Spell book."—R. W. Green cor. "T. What do you see now? P. Two books. T. Spell books."—Id. "If the United States lose their rights as a nation."—Liberator cor. "When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Frost cor. "When a person or thing is merely spoken of, the noun or pronoun is in the third person."—Id. "The word OX also, taking the same plural termination, makes OXEN."—Bucke cor.

"Hail, happy States! yours is the blissful seat Where nature's gifts and art's improvements meet."—Everett cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—THE RELATIVE THAT.

(1.) "This is the most useful art that men possess."—L. Murray cor. "The earliest accounts that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts."—Blair et al. cor. "Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste."—Blair cor. "One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu."—Murray cor. "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced."—Blair cor. "The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."—Hart cor.

(2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived."—Murray's Gram., p. 200. Better thus: "The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that," &c.—Priestley cor. "The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building."—Kames cor. "The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple."—Murray cor. "The same that John saw also in the sun."—Milton cor.

(3.) "Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?"—T. a Kempis cor. "Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?"—Inst., p. 267. "Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?"—G. Brown.

(4.) "The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to."—Kirkham cor. "The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of."—Id. "A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative."—Id. "The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power."—Bolingbroke cor. "The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse."—Hiley cor.

(5.) "Authors that deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty."—Blair cor. "Writers that deal," &c.—Murray cor. "The neuter gender denotes objects that are neither male nor female."—Merchant cor. "The neuter gender denotes things that have no sex."—Kirkham cor. "Nouns that denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells's Gram. of late, p. 55. Better thus: "Those nouns which denote objects that are neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells cor. "Objects and ideas that have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties."—Blair cor. "Cases that custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian's province."—L. Murray cor. "Substantives that end in ery, signify action or habit."—Id. "After all that can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate."—Id. "Possibly, all that I have said, is known and taught."—A. B. Johnson cor.

(6.) "It is a strong and manly style that should chiefly be studied."—Blair cor. "It is this [viz., precision] that chiefly makes a division appear neat and elegant."—Id. "I hope it is not I that he is displeased with."—L. Murray cor. "When it is this alone that renders the sentence obscure."—Campbell cor. "This sort of full and ample assertion, 'It is this that,' is fit to be used when a proposition of importance is laid down."—Blair cor. "She is not the person that I understood it to have been."—L. Murray cor. "Was it thou, or the wind, that shut the door?"—Inst., p. 267. "It was not I that shut it."—Ib.

(7.) "He is not the person that he seemed to be."—Murray and Ingersoll cor. "He is really the person that he appeared to be."—Iid. "She is not now the woman that they represented her to have been."—Iid. "An only child is one that has neither brother nor sister; a child alone is one that is left by itself, or unaccompanied."—Blair, Jam., and Mur., cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—RELATIVE CLAUSES CONNECTED.

(1.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of a thing; (i. e.,) of whatever we conceive to subsist, or of whatever we merely imagine."—Lowth cor. (2.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have any notion."—Murray et al. cor. (3.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any person, place, or thing, that exists, or that we can have an idea of."—Frost cor. (4.) "A noun is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we form an idea."—Hallock cor. (5.) "A Noun is the name of any person, place, object, or thing, that exists, or that we may conceive to exist."—D. C. Allen cor. (6.) "The name of every thing which exists, or of which we can form a notion, is a noun."—Fisk cor. (7.) "An allegory is the representation of some one thing by an other that resembles it, and that is made to stand for it."—Blair's Rhet., p. 150. (8.) "Had he exhibited such sentences as contained ideas inapplicable to young minds, or such as were of a trivial or injurious nature."—L. Murray cor. (9.) "Man would have others obey him, even his own kind; but he will not obey God, who is so much above him, and who made him."—Penn cor. (10.) "But what we may consider here, and what few persons have noticed, is," &c.—Brightland cor. (11.) "The compiler has not inserted those verbs which are irregular only in familiar writing or discourse, and which are improperly terminated by t in stead of ed."—Murray, Fisk, Hart, Ingersoll et al., cor. (12.) "The remaining parts of speech, which are called the indeclinable parts, and which admit of no variations, (or, being words that admit of no variations,) will not detain us long."—Dr. Blair cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—THE RELATIVE AND PREPOSITION.

"In the temper of mind in which he was then."—Lowth's Gram., p. 102. "To bring them into the condition in which I am at present."—Add. cor. "In the posture in which I lay."—Lowth's Gram., p. 102. "In the sense in which it is sometimes taken."—Barclay cor. "Tools and utensils are said to be right, when they answer well the uses for which they were made."—Collier cor. "If, in the extreme danger in which I now am," &c. Or: "If, in my present extreme danger," &c.—Murray's Sequel, p. 116. "News was brought, that Dairus [sic—KTH] was but twenty miles from the place in which they then were."—Goldsmith cor. "Alexander, upon hearing this news, continued four days where he then was:" or—"in the place in which he then was."—Id. "To read in the best manner in which reading is now taught."—L. Murray cor. "It may be expedient to give a few directions as to the manner in which it should be studied."—Hallock cor. "Participles are words derived from verbs, and convey an idea of the acting of an agent, or the suffering of an object, with the time at which it happens." [536]—A. Murray cor.

"Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal With which I serv'd my king, he would not thus, In age, have left me naked to my foes."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—ADVERBS FOR RELATIVES. "In compositions that are not designed to be delivered in public."—Blair cor. "They framed a protestation in which they repeated their claims."—Priestley's Gram., p. 133; Murray's, 197. "Which have reference to inanimate substances, in which sex has no existence."—Harris cor. "Which denote substances in which sex never had existence."—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 26. "There is no rule given by which the truth may be found out."—W. Walker cor. "The nature of the objects from which they are taken."—Blair cor. "That darkness of character, through which we can see no heart:" [i. e., generous emotion.]—L. Murray cor. "The states with which [or between which] they negotiated."—Formey cor. "Till the motives from which men act, be known."—Beattie cor. "He assigns the principles from which their power of pleasing flows."—Blair cor. "But I went on, and so finished this History, in that form in which it now appears."—Sewel cor. "By prepositions we express the cause for which, the instrument by which, and the manner in which, a thing is done."—A. Murray cor. "They are not such in the language from which they are derived."—Town cor. "I find it very hard to persuade several, that their passions are affected by words from which they have no ideas."—Burke cor. "The known end, then, for which we are placed in a state of so much affliction, hazard, and difficulty, is our improvement in virtue and piety."—Bp. Butler cor.

"Yet such his acts as Greeks unborn shall tell, And curse the strife in which their fathers fell."—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—REPEAT THE NOUN.

"Youth may be thoughtful, but thoughtfulness in the young is not very common."—Webster cor. "A proper name is a name given to one person or thing."—Bartlett cor. "A common name is a name given to many things of the same sort."—Id. "This rule is often violated; some instances of its violation are annexed."—L. Murray et al. cor. "This is altogether careless writing. Such negligence respecting the pronouns, renders style often obscure, and always inelegant."—Blair cor. "Every inversion which is not governed by this rule, will be disrelished by every person of taste."—Kames cor. "A proper diphthong, is a diphthong in which both the vowels are sounded."—Brown's Institutes, p. 18. "An improper diphthong, is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels is sounded."—Ib. "Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the descendants of Jacob, are called Hebrews."—Wood cor. "In our language, every word of more than one syllable, has one of its syllables distinguished from the rest in this manner."—L. Murray cor. "Two consonants proper to begin a word, must not be separated; as, fa-ble, sti-fle. But when two consonants come between two vowels, and are such as cannot begin a word, they must be divided, as, ut-most, un-der."—Id. "Shall the intellect alone feel no pleasures in its energy, when we allow pleasures to the grossest energies of appetite and sense?"—Harris and Murray cor. "No man has a propensity to vice as such: on the contrary, a wicked deed disgusts every one, and makes him abhor the author."—Ld. Kames cor. "The same grammatical properties that belong to nouns, belong also to pronouns."—Greenleaf cor. "What is language? It is the means of communicating thoughts from one person to an other."—O. B. Peirce cor. "A simple word is a word which is not made up of other words."—Adam and Gould cor. "A compound word is a word which is made up of two or more words."—Iid. "When a conjunction is to be supplied, the ellipsis is called Asyndeton."—Adam cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.—PLACE OF THE RELATIVE.

"It gives to words a meaning which they would not have."—L. Murray cor. "There are in the English language many words, that are sometimes used as adjectives, and sometimes as adverbs."—Id. "Which do not more effectually show the varied intentions of the mind, than do the auxiliaries which are used to form the potential mood."—Id. "These accents, which will be the subject of a following speculation, make different impressions on the mind."—Ld. Kames cor. "And others differed very much from the words of the writers to whom they were ascribed."—John Ward cor. "Where there is in the sense nothing which requires the last sound to be elevated, an easy fall will be proper."—Murray and Bullions cor. "In the last clause there is an ellipsis of the verb; and, when you supply it, you find it necessary to use the adverb not, in lieu of no."—Campbell and Murray cor. "Study is of the singular number, because the nominative I, with which it agrees, is singular."—R. C. Smith cor. "John is the person who is in error, or thou art."—Wright cor. "For he hath made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us."—Harrison's E. Lang., p. 197.

"My friend, take that of me, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips."—Shakspeare cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—WHAT FOR THAT.

"I had no idea but that the story was true."—Brown's Inst., p. 268. "The postboy is not so weary but that he can whistle."—Ib. "He had no intimation but that the men were honest."—Ib. "Neither Lady Haversham nor Miss Mildmay will ever believe but that I have been entirely to blame."—Priestley cor. "I am not satisfied but that the integrity of our friends is more essential to our welfare than their knowledge of the world."—Id. "Indeed, there is in poetry nothing so entertaining or descriptive, but that an ingenious didactic writer may introduce it in some part of his work."—Blair cor. "Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he had catched, let it slip out of his fingers: 'No creature,' says he, 'is so contemptible but that it may provide for its own safety, if it have courage.'"—Ld. Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—ADJECTIVES FOR ANTECEDENTS.

"In narration, Homer is, at all times, remarkably concise, and therefore lively and agreeable."—Blair cor. "It is usual to talk of a nervous, a feeble, or a spirited style; which epithets plainly indicate the writer's manner of thinking."—Id. "It is too violent an alteration, if any alteration were necessary, whereas none is."—Knight cor. "Some men are too ignorant to be humble; and without humility there can be no docility."—Berkley cor. "Judas declared him innocent; but innocent he could not be, had he in any respect deceived the disciples."—Porteus cor. "They supposed him to be innocent, but he certainly was not so."—Murray et al. cor. "They accounted him honest, but he certainly was not so."—Felch cor. "Be accurate in all you say or do; for accuracy is important in all the concerns of life."—Brown's Inst., p. 268. "Every law supposes the transgressor to be wicked; and indeed he is so, if the law is just."—Ib. "To be pure in heart, pious, and benevolent, (and all may be so,) constitutes human happiness."—Murray cor. "To be dexterous in danger, is a virtue; but to court danger to show our dexterity, is a weakness."—Penn cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—SENTENCES FOR ANTECEDENTS.

"This seems not so allowable in prose; which fact the following erroneous examples will demonstrate."—L. Murray cor. "The accent is laid upon the last syllable of a word; which circumstance is favourable to the melody."—Kames cor. "Every line consists of ten syllables, five short and five long; from which rule there are but two exceptions, both of them rare."—Id. "The soldiers refused obedience, as has been explained."—Nixon cor. "Caesar overcame Pompey—a circumstance which was lamented."—Id. "The crowd hailed William, agreeably to the expectations of his friends."—Id. "The tribunes resisted Scipio, who knew their malevolence towards him."—Id. "The censors reproved vice, and were held in great honour."—Id. "The generals neglected discipline, which fact has been proved."—Id. "There would be two nominatives to the verb was, and such a construction is improper."—Adam and Gould cor. "His friend bore the abuse very patiently; whose forbearance, however, served only to increase his rudeness; it produced, at length, contempt and insolence."—Murray and Emmons cor. "Almost all compound sentences are more or less elliptical; and some examples of ellipsis may be found, under nearly all the different parts of speech."—Murray, Guy, Smith, Ingersoll, Fisk, et al. cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.—REPEAT THE PRONOUN.

"In things of Nature's workmanship, whether we regard their internal or their external structure, beauty and design are equally conspicuous."—Kames cor. "It puzzles the reader, by making him doubt whether the word ought to be taken in its proper, or in its figurative sense."—Id. "Neither my obligations to the muses, nor my expectations from them, are so great."—Cowley cor. "The Fifth Annual Report of the Antislavery Society of Ferrisburgh and its vicinity."—Title cor. "Meaning taste in its figurative as well as its proper sense."—Kames cor. "Every measure in which either your personal or your political character is concerned."—Junius cor. "A jealous and righteous God has often punished such in themselves or in their offspring."—Extracts cor. "Hence their civil and their religious history are inseparable."—Milman cor. "Esau thus carelessly threw away both his civil and his religious inheritance."—Id. "This intelligence excited not only our hopes, but our fears likewise."—Jaudon cor. "In what way our defect of principle, and our ruling manners, have completed the ruin of the national spirit of union."—Dr. Brown cor. "Considering her descent, her connexion, and her present intercourse."—Webster cor. "His own and his wife's wardrobe are packed up in a firkin."—Parker and Fox cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.—CHANGE THE ANTECEDENT.

"The sounds of e and o long, in their due degrees, will be preserved, and clearly distinguished."—L. Murray cor. "If any persons should be inclined to think," &c., "the author takes the liberty to suggest to them," &c.—Id. "And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it."—Bible cor. "If ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brethren their trespasses."—Id. "None ever fancied they were slighted by him, or had the courage to think themselves his betters."—Collier cor. "And Rebecca took some very good clothes of her eldest son Esau's, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son."—Gen. cor. "Where all the attention of men is given to their own indulgence."—Maturin cor. "The idea of a father is a notion superinduced to that of the substance, or man—let one's idea of man be what it will."—Locke cor. "Leaving all to do as they list."—Barclay cor. "Each person performed his part handsomely."—J. Flint cor. "This block of marble rests on two layers of stones, bound together with lead, which, however, has not prevented the Arabs from forcing out several of them."—Parker and Fox cor.

"Love gives to all our powers a double power, Above their functions and their offices." Or:— "Love gives to every power a double power, Exalts all functions and all offices."—Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XI; OF PRONOUNS.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.

"The jury will be confined till they agree on a verdict."—Brown's Inst., p. 145. "And mankind directed their first cares towards the needful."—Formey cor. "It is difficult to deceive a free people respecting their true interest."—Life of Charles XII cor. "All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but their follies and vices are innumerable."—Swift cor. "Every sect saith, 'Give us liberty:' but give it them, and to their power, and they will not yield it to any body else."—Cromwell cor. "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up themselves as a young lion."—Bible cor. "For all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."—Id. "There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put them in great consternation."—Goldsmith cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—THE IDEA OF UNITY.

"The meeting went on with its business as a united body."—Foster cor. "Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for itself."—Gould cor. "It would therefore be extremely difficult to raise an insurrection in that state against its own government."—Dr. Webster cor. "The mode in which a lyceum can apply itself in effecting a reform in common schools."—N. Y. Lyc. cor. "Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?"—Jer. cor. "In the holy Scriptures, each of the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch from whom it descended." Or better:—"from whom the tribe descended."—Adams cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER.

"A nation, by the reparation of the wrongs which it has done, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give."—Adams cor. "The English nation, from whom we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch."—Webster cor. "If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter its fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent it from doing so?"—Foster's Rep. cor. "There is[537] a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother."—Bible cor. "There is[537] a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness."—Id. "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them."—Id. "My people have forgotten me, they have burnt incense to vanity."—Id. "When a quarterly meeting has come to a judgement respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to it" &c.—Discip. cor. "The number of such compositions is every day increasing, and it appears to be limited only by the pleasure or the convenience of writers."—Booth cor. "The Church of Christ has the same power now as ever, and is led by the same spirit into the same practices."—Barclay cor. "The army, whom their chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march." Or thus: "The army, which its chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile its miserable march."—Lockhart cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XII; OF PRONOUNS.

ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY AND.

"Discontent and sorrow manifested themselves in his countenance."—Brown's Inst., p. 146. "Both conversation and public speaking became more simple and plain, such as we now find them."—Blair cor. "Idleness and ignorance, if they be suffered to proceed, &c."—Johnson and Priestley cor. "Avoid questions and strife: they show a busy and contentious disposition."—Penn cor. "To receive the gifts and benefits of God with thanksgiving, and witness them blessed and sanctified to us by the word and prayer, is owned by us."—Barclay cor. "Both minister and magistrate are compelled to choose between their duty and their reputation."—Junius cor. "All the sincerity, truth, and faithfulness, or disposition of heart or conscience to approve them, found among rational creatures, necessarily originate from God."—Rev. J. Brown cor. "Your levity and heedlessness, if they continue, will prevent all substantial improvement."—Brown's Inst., p. 269. "Poverty and obscurity will oppress him only who esteems them oppressive."—Ib. "Good sense and refined policy are obvious to few, because they cannot be discovered but by a train of reflection."—Ib. "Avoid haughtiness of behaviour, and affectation of manners: they imply a want of solid merit."—Ib. "If love and unity continue, they will make you partakers of one an other's joy."—Ib. "Suffer not jealousy and distrust to enter: they will destroy, like a canker, every germ of friendship."—Ib. "Hatred and animosity are inconsistent with Christian charity: guard, therefore, against the slightest indulgence of them."—Ib. "Every man is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does not pervert them to the injury of others."—Ib.

"With the azure and vermilion Which are mix'd for my pavilion."—Byron cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.

ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.

"Neither prelate nor priest can give his [flock or] flocks any decisive evidence that you are lawful pastors."—Brownlee cor. "And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within him?"— Maturin cor. "This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for its service to the body."—Collier cor. "If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee."—Bible cor. "The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to his reputation."—Pope cor. "Either James or John,—one or the other,—will come."—Smith cor. "Even a rugged rock or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes, by contrast, to the beauty of the whole."—Kames cor. "That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved himself right in this affair."—Spect. cor. "If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffers for his opinions, he is a 'martyr.'"—Fuller cor. "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he or she die; then the ox shall surely be stoned."—Exod. cor. "She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring him."—Johnson cor. "Here is a task put upon children, which neither this author himself, nor any other, has yet undergone."—R. Johnson cor. "Hence, if an adjective or a participle be subjoined to the verb when the construction is singular, it will agree both in gender and in number with the collective noun."—Adam and Gould cor. "And if you can find a diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point that out too."—Bucke cor. "And if you can find a trissyllable or a polysyllable, point it out."—Id. "The false refuges in which the atheist or the sceptic has intrenched himself."—Chr. Spect. cor. "While the man or woman thus assisted by art, expects his charms or hers will be imputed to nature alone."—Opie cor. "When you press a watch, or pull a clock, it answers your question with precision; for it repeats exactly the hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to know."—Bolingbroke cor.

"Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy, Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary, Is in his mansion monarch more than I."—King cor.

CHAPTER VI.—VERBS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.

"Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres."—Duncan cor. "Knowing that you were my old master's good friend."—Spect. cor. "When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"—Webster cor. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends."—Mur. cor. "They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved."—R. Williams cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."—Micah, v, 2. "You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him."—Porter cor. "Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned."—Churchill cor. "Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts." Or: "No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts."—Duncan cor. "I wondered where you were, my dear."—Lloyd cor. "When thou most sweetly singst."—Drummond cor. "Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?"—Gardiner cor. "Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."—Byron cor. "As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions."—M. B. cor. "Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?"—Everest cor. "The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders."—Id. "Some pains have likewise been taken."—Scott cor. "And many a steed in his stables was seen."—Penwarne cor. "They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food."—Josephus cor. "This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."—Hutchinson cor. "By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge."—Committee cor. "He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."—Walton cor. "If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach." Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach."—Swift cor. "Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself."—Barclay cor. "But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat'st."—Id. "Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest."—N. Waln cor. "I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing."—Chazotte cor. "Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?"—Dr. Brown cor. "Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith's False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103. Or thus: "Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith cor. "Every four years add an other day."—Smith's False Syntax, Gram., p. 103. Better thus: "Every fourth year adds an other day."—Smith cor. "Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed."—Swift cor. "A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher."—Sanborn cor. "Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicates good breeding."—Id. "A comparison in which more than two are concerned."—Lennie's Gram., p. 78. "By the facilities which artificial language affords them."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Now thyself hast lost both lop and top."—Spencer cor. "Glad tidings are brought to the poor."—Campbell cor. "Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends."—Sher. cor. "No pains have been spared to render this work complete."—Bullions cor. "The United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe."—Clinton cor. "I am mindful that myself am strong."—Fowler cor. "Myself am (not is) weak;"—"Thyself art (not is) weak."—Id.

"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest Rises from clerical or city feast!"—Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.

"Where were you born? In London."—Buchanan cor. "There are frequent occasions for commas."—Ingersoll cor. "There necessarily follow from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences."—Priestley cor. "And to this impression contributes the redoubled effort."—Kames cor. "Or, if he was, were there no spiritual men then?"—Barclay cor. "So, by these two also, are signified their contrary principles."—Id. "In the motions made with the hands, consists the chief part of gesture in speaking."—Blair cor. "Dares he assume the name of a popular magistrate?"—Duncan cor. "There were no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager."—Byron cor. "In fact, there exist such resemblances."—Kames cor. "To him give all the prophets witness."—Acts, x, 43. "That there were so many witnesses and actors."—Addison cor. "How do this man's definitions stand affected?"—Collier cor. "Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?"—Id. "Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent."—Barclay cor. "Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary."—Id. "Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?"—Id. "But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?"—Id. "But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;"—Robertson cor. "What sounds has each of the vowels?"—Griscom cor. "Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies."—Brownson cor. "And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."—Bible cor. "There seem to be but two general classes."—Day cor. "Hence arise the six forms of expressing time."—Id. "There seem to be no other words required."—Chandler cor. "If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last."—Bullions cor. "Hence arise the following advantages."—Id. "There are no data by which it can be estimated."—Calhoun cor. "To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives."—Fowler cor. [[Fist] "Nothing but naked roots" is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it."—G. B.] "There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves."—Spect. cor. "In these consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol."—Percival cor. "Here come those I have done good to against my will."—Shak. cor. "Where there are more than one auxiliary." Or: "Where there are more auxiliaries than one."—O. B. Peirce cor.

"On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility." —Sidney cor.

"Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty." —Swift cor.

"Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou. I wis, To think of songs at such a time as this." —Churchill cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—THE RELATIVE AND VERB.

"Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still."—A. Murray cor. "To use that endearing language, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.'"—Bates cor. "Resembling the passions that produce these actions."—Kames cor. "Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural."—Ash cor. "As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure."—Gen. cor. "Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad?"—Dr. Pratt cor. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with."—Dr. Blair cor. "In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object," &c.—Id. "Of those affecting situations which make man's heart feel for man."—Id. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks."—Id. "It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue."—Id. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious."—Barclay cor. "This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron."—Hunt cor. "Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."—Goldsmith cor. "To have made and declared such orders as were necessary."—Hutchinson cor. "The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army."—Locke cor. "I'm not the first that has been wretched."—Southern cor. "And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view."—Calvin cor. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."—Dr. Blair cor. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society."—Formey cor. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him."—Id. "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed."—Milton, P. L., B. i, l. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence."—Dr. Blair cor. "Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied."—Home cor. "Thou wast he that led out and brought in Israel."—Bible cor. "Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?"—Id.

"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace And wisdom, which alone are truly fair."—Milton cor.

"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown, While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?"—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

"The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done."—Dr. Murray cor. "The rapidity of his movements was beyond example."—Wells cor. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."—Murray's Rec. cor. "The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown."—Hume cor. "The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being."—Cobbett cor. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue."—Kames cor. "Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity."—Gardiner cor. "One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five."—Duncan cor. "The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to."—Bailey cor. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us."—Gould cor. "Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy."—Maturin cor. "The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular."—Pratt cor. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce."—Bicknell cor. "The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes."—Milnes cor. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion."—Rush cor. "By which means, the order of the words is disturbed."—Holmes cor. "The two-fold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form."—Peirce cor. "And each of these affords employment."—Percival cor. "The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."—Coar cor. "The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity."—Hall and Baker cor. "One of you has stolen my money."—Humorist cor. "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust."—Kames cor. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind."—Hiley cor. "Each of these is presented to us in different relations."—Hendrick cor. "The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time."—Bullions cor. "The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood."—Chandler cor.

"And now, at length, the fated term of years The world's desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears." —Lowth cor.

"Variety of numbers still belongs To the soft melody of odes, or songs." —Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man."—Johnson cor. "To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious."—Pratt cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."—L. Murray et al. cor. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man."—Fisher cor. "In this passage, 'according as' is used in a manner which is very common."—Webster cor. "A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."—Webster cor. "To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord."—The Friend cor. "While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular."—Cobbett cor. "He cannot assert that ll (i.e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u"—Cobb cor. "Ch, in Latin, has the power of k."—Gould cor. "Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci."—Id. "In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh."—Bucke cor. "But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent."—Id. "Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f."—Bucke cor. "Ph has the sound of f as in philosophy."—Webster cor. "Sh has one sound only, as in shall."—Id. "Th has two sounds."—Id. "Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk."—Id. "Aw has the sound of a in hall."—Bolles cor. "Ew sounds like u"—Id. "Ow, when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou."—Id. "Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid."—Id.

"Ui three other sounds at least expresses, As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses." —Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.

"When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned."—Dr. Weeks cor. "As neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."—Dr. Blair cor. "Yet neither of them is remarkable for precision."—Id. "How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself."—Id. "Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation."—Id. "On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath."—Tr. of Iren. cor. "And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness."—Hope of Is. cor. "Was either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"—Foster cor. "Whilst neither of these letters exists in the Eugubian inscription."—Knight cor. "And neither of them is properly termed indefinite."—Dr. Wilson cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect their several verbs:" or,—"each of which has in effect its own verb."—Lowth cor. "Sometimes, when the word ends in s, neither of the signs is used."—A. Mur. cor. "And as neither of these manners offends the ear."—J. Walker cor. "Neither of these two tenses is confined to this signification only."—R. Johnson cor. "But neither of these circumstances is intended here."—Tooke cor. "So that all are indebted to each, and each is dependent upon all."—Bible Rep. cor. "And yet neither of them expresses any more action in this case, than it did in the other."—Bullions cor. "Each of these expressions denotes action."—Hallock cor. "Neither of these moods seems to be defined by distinct boundaries."—Butler cor. "Neither of these solutions is correct."—Bullions cor. "Neither bears any sign of case at all."—Fowler cor.

"Each in his turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalks." Or:— "All in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalk."—Byron cor.

"And tell what each doth by the other lose."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.

"The quarrels of lovers are but a renewal of love."—Adam et al. cor. "Two dots, one placed above the other, are called a Sheva."—Wilson cor. "A few centuries more or less are a matter of small consequence."—Id. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; hieroglyphics were the second step."—Parker cor. "The comeliness of youth is modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity." Or, much better: "The great ornaments of youth are," &c.—Murray cor. "Merit and good works are the end of man's motion."—Bacon cor. "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips are parcel of the mind."—Shak. cor. "The clothing of the natives was the skins of wild beasts." Or thus: "The clothes of the natives were skins of wild beasts."—Hist. cor. "Prepossessions in favour of our native town, are not a matter of surprise."—Webster cor. "Two shillings and sixpence are half a crown, but not a half crown."—Priestley and Bicknell cor. "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong."—Cooper cor. "Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence."—Day cor. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, are called a Phrase."—Id. "But the common number of times is five." Or, to state the matter truly: "But the common number of tenses is six."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition."—Jamieson cor. "The United States are the great middle division of North America."—Morse cor. "A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it."—Priestley's Gram., p. 199; Churchill's, 414. "Here two tall ships become the victor's prey."—Rowe cor. "The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object."—The Friend cor.

"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Were all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."—Milt. cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.

"Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."—Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Not fewer [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three years' time, is spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less time than three years, is spent," &c.—Gardiner cor. "Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish'd presence."—Milton cor. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed."—Watts cor. "But all of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."—Coleridge cor. "The old theorists' practice of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming words."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Where several sentences occur, place them in the order of the facts."—Id. "And that all the events in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."—Kames cor. "In regard to their origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction."—Adams cor. "In these respects, man is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."—Bp. Butler cor. "The Scriptures are the oracles of God himself."—Hooker cor. "And at our gates are all kinds of pleasant fruits."—S. Song cor. "The preterits of pluck, look, and toss, are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst."—Fowler corrected.

"Severe the doom that days prolonged impose, To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!"—Melmoth cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.

1. Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style. "Was it thou[538] that built that house?"—Brown's Institutes, Key, p. 270. "That boy writes very elegantly."—Ib. "Could not thou write without blotting thy book?"—Ib. "Dost not thou think—or, Don't thou think, it will rain to-day?"—Ib. "Does not—or, Don't your cousin intend to visit you?"—Ib. "That boy has torn my book."—Ib. "Was it thou that spread the hay?"—Ib. "Was it James, or thou, that let him in?"—Ib. "He dares not say a word."—Ib. "Thou stood in my way and hindered me."—Ib.