government is the most free and perfect _that_ exists on the earth."--_Dr.
Allen cor._ "Children _that_ are dutiful to their parents, enjoy great
prosperity."--_Sanborn cor._ "The scholar _that_ improves his time, sets an
example worthy of imitation."--_Id._ "Nouns and pronouns _that_ signify the
same person, place, or thing, agree in case."--_Cooper cor._ "An
interrogative sentence is one _that_ asks a question."--_Id._ "In the use
of words and phrases _that_ in point of time relate to each other, _the
order of time_ should be _duly regarded_."--_Id._ "The same observations
_that show_ the effect of the article _upon_ the participle, appear to be
applicable [also] to the pronoun and participle."--_Murray cor._ "The
reason _why_ they have not the same use of them in reading, may be traced
to the very defective and erroneous method in which the art of reading is
taught."--_Id._ "_Ever since_ reason began to exert her powers, thought,
during our waking hours, has been active in every breast, without a
moment's suspension or pause."--_Id. et al. cor._ "In speaking of _such as_
greatly delight in the same."--_Pope cor._ "Except _him to whom_ the king
shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live."--_Bible cor._ "But
the same day _on which_ Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone
from heaven, and destroyed them all."--_Bible cor._ "In the next place, I
will explain several _constructions_ of nouns and pronouns, _that_ have not
yet come under our notice."--_Kirkham cor._ "Three natural distinctions of
time are all _that_ can exist."--_Hall cor._ "We have exhibited such only
as are obviously distinct; and _these_ seem to be sufficient, and not more
than sufficient."--_Murray et al. cor._ "_The parenthesis_ encloses a
_phrase or clause that_ may be omitted without materially injuring the
connexion of the other members."--_Hall cor._ "Consonants are letters
_that_ cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."--_Bucke cor._ "Words
are not _mere_ sounds, but sounds _that_ convey a meaning to the
mind."--_Id._ "Nature's postures are always easy; and, _what_ is more,
nothing but your own will can put you out of them."--_Collier cor._
"Therefore ought we to examine our _own selves_, and prove our _own
selves_."--_Barclay cor._ "Certainly, it had been much more natural, to
have divided Active verbs into _Immanent_, or _those whose_ action is
terminated _within itself_, and _Transient_, or _those whose_ action is
terminated in something without _itself_."--_R. Johnson cor._ "This is such
an advantage _as_ no other lexicon will afford."--_Dr. Taylor cor._ "For
these reasons, such liberties are taken in the Hebrew tongue, with those
words _which_ are of the most general and frequent use."--_Pike cor._
"_While_ we object to the _laws which_ the antiquarian in language would
impose on us, we must _also_ enter our protest against those _authors who_
are too fond of innovations."--_L. Murray cor._
CHAPTER VI.--VERBS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF VERBS.
LESSON I.--PRETERITS.
"In speaking on a matter which _touched_ their hearts."--_Phil. Museum
cor._ "Though Horace _published_ it some time after."--_Id._ "The best
subjects with which the Greek models _furnished_ him."--_Id._ "Since he
_attached_ no thought to it."--_Id._ "By what slow steps the Greek alphabet
_reached_ its perfection."--_Id._ "Because Goethe _wished_ to erect an
affectionate memorial."--_Id._ "But the Saxon forms soon _dropped_
away."--_Id._ "It speaks of all the towns that _perished_ in the age of
Philip."--_Id._ "This _enriched_ the written language with new
words."--_Id._ "He merely _furnished_ his friend with matter for
laughter."--_Id._ "A cloud arose, and _stopped_ the light."--_Swift cor._
"She _slipped_ spadillo in her breast."--_Id._ "I _guessed_ the
hand."--_Id._ "The tyrant _stripped_ me to the skin; My skin he _flayed_,
my hair he _cropped_; At head and foot my body _lopped_."--_Id._ "I see the
greatest owls in you, That ever _screeched_ or ever flew."--_Id._ "I _sat_
with delight, From morning till night."--_Id._ "Dick nimbly _skipped_ the
gutter."--_Id._ "In at the pantry door this morn I _slipped_."--_Id._"
Nobody living ever _touched_ me, but you."--_W. Walker cor._ "_Present_, I
ship; _Preterit_, I shipped; _Perf. Participle_, shipped."--_A. Murray
cor._ "Then the king arose, and _tore_ his garments."--_Bible cor._ "When
he _lifted_ up his foot, he knew not where he should set it next."--_Bunyan
cor._ "He _lifted_ up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one
time."--_Bible cor._ "Upon this chaos _rode_ the distressed ark."--_Burnet
cor._ "On whose foolish honesty, my practices _rode_ easy."--_Shakspeare
cor._ "That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which _rose_
immediately out of chaos."--_Burnet cor._ "Sir, how _came_ it, you have
_helped_ to make this rescue?"--_Shak. cor._ "He _swore_ he _would_ rather
lose all his father's images, than that table."--_Peacham cor._ "When our
language _dropped_ its ancient terminations."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "When
themselves they _vilified_."--_Milton cor._ "But I _chose_ rather to do
thus."--_Barclay cor._ "When he _pleaded_ (or _pled_) against the
parsons."--_Hist. cor._ "And he that saw it, _bore_ record." Or: "And he
that saw it, _bare_ record."--_John_, xix, 35. "An irregular verb has one
more variation; as, drive, drivest, [_driveth_,] drives, drove, _drovest_,
driving, driven."--_Matt. Harrison cor._ "Beside that village, Hannibal
_pitched_ his camp."--_W. Walker cor._ "He _fetched_ it from
Tmolus."--_Id._ "He _supped_ with his morning-gown on."--_Id._ "There
_stamped_ her sacred name."--_Barlow cor._
"_Fix'd_[530] on the view the great discoverer stood;
And thus _address'd_ the messenger of good."--_Barlow cor._
LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.
"Three freemen _were on trial_"--or, "_were receiving their trial_--at the
date of our last information."--_Editor cor._ "While the house _was
building_, many of the tribe arrived."--_Cox cor._ "But a foundation has
been laid in Zion, and the church _is built_--(or, _continues to be
built_--) upon it."--_The Friend cor._ "And one fourth of the people are
_receiving education_."--_E. I. Mag. cor._ "The present [_tense_,] or that
[_form of the verb_] which [_expresses what_] is now _doing_."--_Beck cor._
"A new church, called the Pantheon, is _about_ being completed, in an
expensive style."--_Thompson cor._ "When I last saw him, he _had_ grown
considerably."--_Murray cor._ "I know what a rugged and dangerous path I
_have_ got into."--_Duncan cor._ "You _might_ as _well_ preach ease to one
on the rack."--_Locke cor._ "Thou hast heard me, and _hast_ become my
salvation."--_Bible cor._ "While the Elementary Spelling-Book _was
preparing_ (or, _was in progress of preparation_) for the press."--_Cobb
cor._ "Language _has_ become, in modern times, more correct."--_Jamieson
cor._ "If the plan _has_ been executed in any measure answerable to the
author's wishes."--_Robbins cor._ "The vial of wrath is still _pouring_ out
on the seat of the beast."--_Christian Ex. cor._ "Christianity _had_ become
the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman
Empire."--_Gurney cor._ "Who wrote before the first century _had_
elapsed."--_Id._ "The original and analogical form _has_ grown quite
obsolete."--_Lowth cor._ "Their love, and their hatred, and their envy,
_have_ perished."--_Murray cor._ "The poems _had_ got abroad, and _were_ in
a great many hands."--_Waller cor._ "It is more harmonious, as well as more
correct, to say, 'The bubble _is ready to burst._'"--_Cobbett cor._ "I
_drove_ my suitor from his mad humour of love."--_Shak. cor._ "Se viriliter
expedivit."--_Cic._ "He _has played_ the man."--_Walker cor._ "Wilt thou
kill me, as thou _didst_ the Egyptian yesterday?"--_Bible cor._ "And we,
_methought_, [or _thought I_] looked up to him from our hill"--_Cowley
cor._ "I fear thou _dost_ not think _so_ much of _the_ best things as thou
_ought_."--_Memoir cor._ "When this work was commenced."--_Wright cor._
"Exercises and _a_ Key to this work are _about_ being prepared."--_Id._
"James is loved by John."--_Id._ "Or that which is exhibited."--_Id._ "He
was smitten."--_Id._ "In the passive _voice_ we say, 'I am loved.'"--_Id._
"Subjunctive Mood: If I _be_ smitten, If thou _be_ smitten, If he _be_
smitten."--_Id._ "I _shall_ not be able to convince you how superficial the
reformation is."--_Chalmers cor._ "I said to myself, I _shall_ be obliged
to expose the folly."--_Chazotte cor._ "When Clodius, had he meant to
return that day to Rome, must have arrived."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "That the
fact has been done, _is doing_, or will be done."--_Peirce cor._ "Am I _to
be_ instructed?"--_Wright cor._ "I _choose_ him."--_Id._ "John, who
_respected_ his father, was obedient to his commands."--_Barrett cor._
"The region _echoes_ to the clash of arms."--_Beattie cor._
"And _sitst_ on high, and mak'st creation's top
Thy footstool; and _beholdst_ below thee--all."--_Pollok cor._
"And see if thou _canst_ punish sin and let
Mankind go free. Thou _failst_--be not surprised."--_Idem._
LESSON III--MIXED EXAMPLES.
"What follows, _might better have been_ wanting altogether."--_Dr. Blair
cor._ "This member of the sentence _might_ much better have been omitted
altogether."--_Id._ "One or _the_ other of them, therefore, _might_ better
have been omitted."--_Id._ "The whole of this last member of the sentence
_might_ better have been dropped."--_Id._ "In this case, they _might_ much
better be omitted."--_Id._ "He _might_ better have said 'the
_productions_.'"--_Id._ "The Greeks _ascribed_ the origin of poetry to
Orpheus, Linus, and Musæus."--_Id._ "It _was_ noticed long ago, that all
these fictitious names have the same number of syllables."--_Phil. Museum
cor._ "When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I
_determined_ to send him."--_Bible cor._ "I _would_ rather be a doorkeeper
in the house of my God."--_Id._ "As for such, I wish the Lord _would open_
their eyes." Or, better: "_May_ the Lord _open_ (or, I _pray_ the Lord _to_
open) their eyes."--_Barclay cor._ "It would _have_ made our _passage_ over
the river very difficult."--_Walley cor._ "We should not _have_ been able
to _carry_ our great guns."--_Id._ "Others would _have_ questioned our
prudence, if _we_ had."--_Id._ "Beware thou _be_ not BECÆSARED; i.e.,
Beware that thou _do_ not dwindle--or, _lest thou dwindle_--into a mere
Cæsar."--_Harris cor._ "Thou _raisedst_ (or, familiarly, thou _raised_) thy
voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes."--_Arbuthnot cor._ "Life
_hurries_ off apace; thine is almost _gone_ already."--_Collier cor._ "'How
unfortunate has this accident made me!' _cries_ such a one."--_Id._ "The
muse that soft and sickly _woos_ the ear."--_Pollok cor._ "A man _might_
better relate himself to a statue."--_Bacon cor._ "I heard thee say but
now, thou _liked_ not that."--_Shak. cor._ "In my whole course of wooing,
thou _criedst_, (or, familiarly, thou _cried_,) _Indeed!_"--_Id._ "But our
ears _have_ grown familiar with '_I have wrote_, '_I have drank_,' &c.,
which are altogether as ungrammatical."--_Lowth et al. cor._ "The court was
_in session_ before Sir Roger came"--_Addison cor._ "She _needs_--(or, if
you please, _need_,--) be no more with the jaundice _possessed_"--_Swift
cor._ "Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day _when_ you _were_
here."--_Id._ "If spirit of other sort, So minded, _hath_ (or _has_)
o'erleaped these earthy bounds."--_Milton cor._ "It _would_ have been more
rational to have _forborne_ this."--_Barclay cor._ "A student is not master
of it till he _has_ seen all these."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "The said justice
shall _summon_ the party."--_Brevard cor._ "Now what _has_ become of thy
former wit and humour?"--_Spect. cor._ "Young stranger, whither _wanderst_
thou?"--_Burns cor._ "SUBJ. _Pres._ If I love, If thou _love_, If he love.
_Imp._ If I loved, If thou _loved_, If he loved."--_Merchant cor._ "SUBJ.
If I do not love, If thou _do_ not love, If he _do_ not love."--_Id._ "If
he _has_ committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."--_Bible cor._
"Subjunctive Mood of the verb _to call_, second person singular: If thou
_call_, (rarely, If thou _do call_,) If thou _called_."--_Hiley cor._
"Subjunctive Mood of the verb _to love_, second person singular: If thou
love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou _loved_."--_Bullions cor._ "I was;
thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were."--_White cor._
"I taught, thou _taughtest_, (familiarly, thou _taught_,) he taught."--
_Coar cor._ "We say, '_If it rain,' 'Suppose it rain?' 'Lest it rain,'
'Unless it rain._' This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE
MOOD."--_Weld cor._ "He _has_ arrived at what is deemed the age of
manhood."--_Priestley cor._ "He _might_ much better have let it
alone."--_Tooke cor._ "He were better without it. Or: He _would be better_
without it."--_Locke cor._ "_Hadst_ thou not been by. Or: _If_ thou _hadst_
not been by. Or, in the familiar style: _Had_ not thou been by,"--_Shak.
cor._ "I learned geography. Thou _learned arithmetic_. He learned
grammar."--_Fuller cor._ "Till the sound _has_ ceased."--_Sheridan cor._
"Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, _died_."--_Six English
Grammars corrected_.
"Thou _bow'dst_ thy glorious head to none, _fear'dst_ none." Or:--
"Thou _bowed_ thy glorious head to none, _feared_ none."
--_Pollok cor._
"Thou _lookst_ upon thy boy as though thou _guess'd_ it."
--_Knowles cor._
"As once thou _slept_, while she to life was formed."
--_Milton cor._
"Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
But may imagine how the bird was _killed?_"
--_Shak. cor._
"Which might have well _become_ the best of men."
--_Idem cor._
CHAPTER VII.--PARTICIPLES.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.
LESSON I.--IRREGULARS.
"Many of your readers have _mistaken_ that passage."--_Steele cor._ "Had
not my dog of a steward _run_ away."--_Addison cor._ "None should be
admitted, except he had _broken_ his collarbone thrice."--_Id._ "We could
not know what was _written_ at twenty."--_Waller cor._ "I have _written_,
thou hast _written_, he has _written_; we have _written_, you have
_written_, they have _written_."--_Ash cor._ "As if God had _spoken_ his
last words there to his people."--_Barclay cor._ "I had like to have _come_
in that ship myself."--_Observer cor._ "Our ships and vessels being
_driven_ out of the harbour by a storm."--_Hutchinson cor._ "He will
endeavour to write as the ancient author would have _written_, had he
_written_ in the same language."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "When his doctrines
grew too strong to be _shaken_ by his enemies."--_Atterbury cor._ "The
immortal mind that hath _forsaken_ her mansion."--_Milton cor._ "Grease
that's _sweated_ (or _sweat_) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the
flame."--_Shak. cor._ "The court also was _chidden_ (or _chid_) for
allowing such questions to be put."--_Stone cor._ "He would have
_spoken_."--_Milton cor._ "Words _interwoven_ (or _interweaved_) with sighs
found out their way."--_Id._ "Those kings and potentates who have _strived_
(or _striven_.)"--_Id._ "That even Silence was _taken_."--_Id._ "And
envious Darkness, ere they could return, had _stolen_ them from
me."--_Id._ "I have _chosen_ this perfect man."--_Id._ "I _shall scarcely_
think you have _swum_ in a gondola."--_Shak. cor._ "The fragrant brier was
_woven_ (or _weaved_) between."--_Dryden cor._ "Then finish what you have
_begun_."--_Id._ "But now the years a numerous train have _run_."--_Pope
cor._ "Repeats your verses _written_ (or _writ_) on glasses."--_Prior cor._
"Who by turns have _risen_."--_Id._ "Which from great authors I have
taken."--_Id._ "Even there he should have _fallen_."--_Id._
"The sun has _ris'n_, and gone to bed.
Just as if Partridge were not dead."--_Swift cor._
"And, though no marriage words are _spoken_,
They part not till the ring is _broken_."--_Swift cor._
LESSON II.--REGULARS.
"When the word is _stripped_ of all the terminations."--_Dr. Murray cor._
"Forgive him, Tom; his head is _cracked_."--_Swift cor._ "For 'tis the
sport, to have the engineer _hoised_ (or _hoisted_) with his own
petar."--_Shak. cor._ "As great as they are, I was _nursed_ by their
mother."--_Swift cor._ "If he should now be _cried_ down since his
change."--_Id. "Dipped_ over head and ears--in debt."--_Id._ "We see the
nation's credit _cracked_."--_Id._ "Because they find their pockets
_picked_."--_Id._ "O what a pleasure _mixed_ with pain!"--_Id._ "And only
with her brother _linked_."--_Id._ "Because he ne'er a thought allowed,
That might not be _confessed_."--_Id._ "My love to Sheelah is more firmly
_fixed_."--_Id._ "The observations _annexed_ to them will be
intelligible."--_Phil. Mus. cor._ "Those eyes are always _fixed_ on the
general principles."--_Id._ "Laborious conjectures will be _banished_ from
our commentaries."--_Id._ "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was
_reestablished_, in his stead."--_Id._ "A Roman who was _attached_ to
Augustus."--_Id._ "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had
_talked_ about two such."--_Id._ "And the reformers of language have
generally _rushed_ on."--_Id._ "Three centuries and a half had then
_elapsed_ since the date,"--_Ib._ "Of such criteria, as has been _remarked_
already, there is an abundance."--_Id._ "The English have _surpassed_ every
other nation in their services."--_Id._ "The party _addressed_ is next in
dignity to the speaker."--_Harris cor._ "To which we are many times
_helped_."--_W. Walker cor._ "But for him, I should have _looked_ well
enough to myself."--_Id._ "Why are you _vexed_, Lady? why do
frown?"--_Milton cor._ "Obtruding false rules _pranked_ in reason's
garb."--_Id._ "But, like David _equipped_ in Saul's armour, it is
encumbered and oppressed."--_Campbell cor._
"And when their merchants are blown up, and _cracked_,
Whole towns are cast away in storms, and _wrecked_."--_Butler cor._
LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.
"The lands are _held_ in free and common soccage."--_Trumbull cor._ "A
stroke is _drawn_ under such words."--_Cobbett's Gr._, 1st Ed. "It is
_struck_ even, with a strickle."--_W. Walker cor._ "Whilst I was
_wandering_, without any care, beyond my bounds."--_Id._ "When one would do
something, unless _hindered_ by something present."--_B. Johnson cor._ "It
is used potentially, but not so as to be _rendered_ by these signs."--_Id._
"Now who would dote upon things _hurried_ down the stream thus
fast?"--_Collier cor._ "Heaven hath timely _tried_ their growth."--_Milton
cor._ "O! ye mistook, ye should have _snatched_ his wand."--_Id._ "Of true
virgin here _distressed_."--_Id._ "So that they have at last come to be
_substituted_ in the stead of it."--_Barclay cor._ "Though ye have _lain_
among the pots."--_Bible cor._ "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf
_plucked_ off."--_Scott's Bible, and Alger's_. "Brutus and Cassius _Have
ridden_, (or _rode_,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."--_Shak.
cor._ "He shall be _spit upon_."--_Bible cor._ "And are not the countries
so _overflowed_ still _situated_ between the tropics?"--_Bentley_. "Not
_tricked_ and _frounced_ as she was wont, But _kerchiefed_ in a comely
cloud."--_Milton cor._ "To satisfy his rigour, _Satisfied_ never."--_Id._
"With him there _crucified_."--_Id._ "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd
air _darked_ with plumes."--_Id._ "And now their way to Earth they had
_descried_."--_Id._ "Not so thick swarmed once the soil _Bedropped_ with
blood of Gorgon."--_Id._ "And in a troubled sea of passion
_tossed_."--_Id._ "The cause, alas! is quickly _guessed_."--_Swift cor._
"The kettle to the top was _hoised_, or _hoisted_."--_Id._ "In chains thy
syllables are _linked_."--_Id._ "Rather than thus be _overtopped_, Would
you not wish their laurels _cropped_."--_Id._ "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is
a little line _drawn_ to connect words, or parts of words."--_Cobbett cor._
"In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes
_broken_."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered
transitive by means of a preposition _prefixed_ to them."--_Grant cor._
"Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of _Valerius_,
would set every body _a laughing_."--_J. Walker cor._ "Being mocked,
scourged, _spit upon_, and crucified."--_Gurney cor._
"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
Till _barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown_."--_Roscommon cor._
"In my own Thames may I be _drowned_,
If e'er I stoop beneath _the crowned_." Or thus:--
"In my own Thames may I be _drown'd dead_,
If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."--_Swift cor._
CHAPTER VIII.--ADVERBS.
CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.
"We can much _more easily_ form the conception of a fierce combat."--_Blair
corrected_. "When he was restored _agreeably_ to the treaty, he was a
perfect savage."--_Webster cor._ "How I shall acquit myself _suitably_ to
the importance of the trial."--_Duncan cor._ "Can any thing show your
Holiness how _unworthily_ you treat mankind?"--_Spect. cor._ "In what
other, _consistently_ with reason and common sense, can you go about to
explain it to him?"--_Lowth cor._ "_Agreeably_ to this rule, the short
vowel Sheva has two characters."--_Wilson cor._ "We shall give a
_remarkably_ fine example of this figure."--See _Blair's Rhet._, p. 156.
"All of which is most _abominably_ false."--_Barclay cor._ "He heaped up
great riches, but passed his time _miserably_."--_Murray cor._ "He is never
satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and _simply_."--_Dr. Blair
cor._ "Attentive only to exhibit his ideas _clearly_ and _exactly_, he
appears dry."--_Id._ "Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide
the _most softly_." Or: "Where liquids and vowels most abound, the
utterance is softest."--_Id._ "The simplest points, such as are _most
easily_ apprehended."--_Id._ "Too historical to be accounted a _perfectly_
regular epic poem."--_Id._ "Putting after them the oblique case,
_agreeably_ to the French construction."--_Priestley cor._ "Where the train
proceeds with an _extremely_ slow pace."--_Kames cor._ "So as _scarcely_ to
give an appearance of succession."--_Id._ "That concord between sound and
sense, which is perceived in some expressions, _independently_ of artful
pronunciation."--_Id._ "Cornaro had become very corpulent, _previously_ to
the adoption of his temperate habits."--_Hitchcock cor._ "Bread, which is a
solid, and _tolerably_ hard, substance."--_Day cor._ "To command every body
that was not dressed as _finely_ as himself."--_Id._ "Many of them have
_scarcely_ outlived their authors."--_J. Ward cor._ "Their labour, indeed,
did not penetrate very _deeply_."--_Wilson cor._ "The people are
_miserably_ poor, and subsist on fish."--_Hume cor._ "A scale, which I took
great pains, some years _ago_, to make."--_Bucke cor._ "There is no truth
on earth _better_ established _than_ the truth of the Bible."--_Taylor
cor._ "I know of no work _more_ wanted _than_ the one _which_ Mr. Taylor
has now furnished."--_Dr. Nott cor._ "And therefore their requests are
_unfrequent_ and reasonable."--_Taylor cor._ "Questions are _more easily_
proposed, than answered rightly."--_Dillwyn cor._ "Often reflect on the
advantages you possess, and on the source _from which_ they are all
derived."--_Murray cor._ "If there be no special rule which requires it to
be put _further forward_."--_Milnes cor._ "The masculine and _the_ neuter
have the same dialect in all _the_ numbers, especially when they end
_alike_."--_Id._
"And children are more busy in their play
Than those that _wiseliest_ pass their time away."--_Butler cor._
CHAPTER IX.--CONJUNCTIONS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF CONJUNCTIONS.
"A _Verb_ is so called from the Latin _verbum_, a word."--_Bucke cor._
"References are often marked by letters _or_ figures."--_Adam and Gould
cor._ (1.) "A Conjunction is a word which joins words _or_ sentences
together."--_Lennie, Bullions and Brace, cor._ (2.) "A Conjunction is used
to connect words _or_ sentences together."--_R. C. Smith cor._ (3.) "A
Conjunction is used to connect words _or_ sentences."--_Maunder cor._ (4.)
"Conjunctions are words used to join words _or_ sentences."--_Wilcox cor._
(5.) "A Conjunction is a word used to connect words _or_
sentences."--_M'Culloch, Hart, and Day, cor._ (6.) "A Conjunction joins
words _or_ sentences together."--_Macintosh and Hiley cor._ (7.) "The
Conjunction joins words _or_ sentences together."--_L. Murray cor._ (8.)
"Conjunctions connect words _or_ sentences to each other."--_Wright cor._
(9.) "Conjunctions connect words _or_ sentences."--_Wells and Wilcox cor._
(10.) "The conjunction is a part of speech, used to connect words _or_
sentences."--_Weld cor._ (11.) "A conjunction is a word used to connect
words _or_ sentences together."--_Fowler cor._ (12.) "Connectives are
_particles that_ unite words _or_ sentences in construction."--_Webster
cor._ "English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the
teachers know _little or nothing_ about it."--_J. O. Taylor cor._ "_Lest_,
instead of preventing _diseases_, you draw _them_ on."--_Locke cor._ "The
definite article _the_ is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative
_or the_ superlative degree."--_Murray et al. cor._ "When nouns naturally
neuter are _assumed to be_ masculine _or_ feminine."--_Murray cor._ "This
form of the perfect tense represents an action _as_ completely past,
_though_ often _as done_ at no great distance _of time, or at a time_ not
specified."--_Id._ "The _Copulative Conjunction_ serves to connect _words
or clauses, so as_ to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a
supposition, a cause, _or a consequence_."--_Id._ "The _Disjunctive
Conjunction_ serves, not only to continue a sentence _by connecting its
parts_, but also to express opposition of meaning, _either real or
nominal_."--_Id._ "_If_ we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers,
historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms
necessary to communicate _the_ observations and discoveries _of their
authors._"--_Id._ "When a disjunctive _conjunction_ occurs between a
singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with
the plural noun _or_ pronoun."--_Murray et al. cor._ "Pronouns must always
agree with their antecedents, _or_ the nouns for which they stand, in
gender and number."--_Murray cor._ "Neuter verbs do not _express action,
and consequently do not_ govern nouns or pronouns."--_Id._ "And the
auxiliary of the past imperfect _as well as of the_ present
_tense_."--_Id._ "If this rule should not appear to apply to every example
_that_ has been produced, _or_ to others which might be cited."--_Id._ "An
emphatical pause is made, after something of peculiar moment has been said,
on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention."--_Murray and Hart cor._
"An imperfect[531] phrase contains no assertion, _and_ does not amount to a
proposition, or sentence."--_Murray cor._ "The word was in the mouth of
every one, _yet_ its meaning may still be a secret."--_Id._ "This word was
in the mouth of every one, _and yet_, as to its precise and definite idea,
this may still be a secret,"--_Harris cor._ "It cannot be otherwise,
_because_ the French prosody differs from that of every other European
language."--_Smollet cor._ "So gradually _that it may be_ engrafted on a
subtonic."--_Rush cor._ "Where the Chelsea _and_ Malden bridges now are."
Or better: "Where the Chelsea _or the_ Malden _bridge_ now _is_."--_Judge
Parker cor._ "Adverbs are words _added_ to verbs, _to_ participles, _to_
adjectives, _or to_ other adverbs."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "I could not have
told you who the hermit was, _or_ on what mountain he lived."--_Bucke cor._
"AM _and_ BE (for they are the same _verb_) naturally, or in themselves,
signify _being_."--_Brightland cor._ "Words are _signs, either oral or
written_, by which we express our thoughts, _or_ ideas."--_Mrs. Bethune
cor._ "His fears will detect him, _that_ he shall not escape."--_Comly
cor._ "_Whose_ is equally applicable to persons _and to_ things"--_Webster
cor._ "One negative destroys an other, _so that two are_ equivalent to an
affirmative."--_Bullions cor._
"No sooner does he peep into the world,
_Than_ he has done his do."--_Hudibras cor._
CHAPTER X.--PREPOSITIONS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.
"Nouns are often formed _from_ participles."--_L. Murray corrected_. "What
tenses are formed _from_ the perfect participle?"--_Ingersoll cor._ "Which
tense is formed _from_ the _present_, or root of the verb?"--_Id._ "When a
noun or _a_ pronoun is placed before a participle, independently _of_ the
rest of the sentence."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 348. "If the addition
consists _of_ two or more words."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "The infinitive mood
is often made absolute, or used independently _of_ the rest of the
sentence."--_Lowth's Gram._, 80; _Churchill's_, 143; _Bucke's_, 96;
_Merchant's_, 92. "For the great satisfaction of the reader, we _shall
present a variety_ of false constructions."--_Murray cor._ "For your
satisfaction, I _shall present you a variety_ of false constructions."--
_Ingersoll cor._ "I shall here _present [to] you a scale_ of derivation."--
_Bucke cor._ "These two manners of representation in respect _to_
number."--_Lowth and Churchill cor._ "There are certain adjectives which
seem to be derived _from verbs, without_ any variation."--_Lowth cor._ "Or
disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof _from_ others."--_Murray
cor._ "For being more studious than any other pupil _in_ the school."--
_Id._ "Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."--_Id._ "These
people reduced the greater part of the island _under_ their own power."--
_Id._ "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable _of_ a word from the
rest."--_Id._ "Just numbers are in unison _with_ the human mind."--_Id._
"We must accept of sound _in stead_ of sense."--_Id._ "Also, _in stead of
consultation_, he uses _consult_."--_Priestley cor._ "This ablative seems
to be governed _by_ a preposition understood."--_W. Walker cor._ "_Lest_ my
father _hear of it_, by some means or other."--_Id._ "And, besides, my wife
would hear _of it_ by some means."--_Id._ "For insisting _on_ a requisition
so odious to them."--_Robertson cor._ "Based _on_ the great self-evident
truths of liberty and equality."--_Manual cor._ "Very little knowledge of
their nature is acquired _from_ the spelling-book."--_Murray cor._ "They do
not cut it off: except _from_ a few words; as, _due, duly_, &c."--_Id._
"Whether passing _at_ such time, or then finished."--_Lowth cor._ "It hath
disgusted hundreds _with_ that confession."--_Barclay cor._ "But they have
egregiously fallen _into_ that inconveniency."--_Id._ "For is not this, to
set nature _at_ work?"--_Id._ "And, surely, that which should set all its
springs _at_ work, is God."--_Atterbury cor._ "He could not end his
treatise without a panegyrie _on_ modern learning."--_Temple cor._ "These
are entirely independent _of_ the modulation of the voice."--_J. Walker
cor._ "It is dear _at_ a penny. It is cheap _at_ twenty pounds."--_W.
Walker cor._ "It will be despatched, _on_ most occasions, without
resting."--_Locke cor._ "_Oh_ the pain, the bliss of dying!"--_Pope_. "When
the objects or the facts are presented _to him_."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "I
will now present you a synopsis."--_Id._ "The disjunctive conjunction
connects _words or_ sentences, _and suggests an_ opposition of meaning,
_more or less direct_."--_Id._ "I shall now present _to_ you a few
lines."--_Bucke cor._ "Common names, _or_ substantives, are those which
stand for things _assorted_."--_Id._ "Adjectives, in the English language,
_are not varied by_ genders, numbers, or cases; _their only inflection is
for_ the degrees of comparison."--_Id._ "Participles are [little more than]
adjectives formed _from_ verbs."--_Id._ "I do love to walk out _on_ a fine
_summer_ evening."--_Id._ "_Ellipsis_, when applied to grammar, is the
elegant omission of one or more words _of_ a sentence."--_Merchant cor._
"The _preposition to_ is generally _required_ before verbs in the
infinitive mood, but _after_ the following verbs it is properly omitted;
namely, _bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see_: as, 'He _bid_ me
_do_ it;' not, 'He _bid_ me _to_ do it.'"--_Id._ "The infinitive sometimes
follows _than, for the latter term of_ a comparison; as, ['Murray should
have known _better than to write_, and Merchant, _better than to copy_, the
text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to
it.']"--_Id._ "Or, by prefixing the _adverb more_ or _less, for_ the
comparative, and _most_ or _least, for_ the superlative."--_Id._ "A pronoun
is a word used _in stead_ of a noun."--_Id._ "From monosyllables, the
comparative is regularly formed by adding _r_ or _er_."--_Perley cor._ "He
has particularly named these, in distinction _from_ others."--_Harris cor._
"To revive the decaying taste _for ancient_ literature."--_Id._ "He found
the greatest difficulty _in_ writing."--_Hume cor._
"And the tear, that is wiped with a little address,
May be followed perhaps _by_ a smile."--_Cowper_, i, 216.
CHAPTER XI.--INTERJECTIONS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.
"Of chance or change, _O_ let not man complain."--_Beattie's Minstrel_, B.
ii, l. 1. "O thou persecutor! _O_ ye hypocrites!"--_Russell's Gram._, p.
92. "_O_ thou my voice inspire, Who _touch'd_ Isaiah's hallow'd lips with
fire!"--_Pope's Messiah_. "_O happy we_! surrounded by so many
blessings!"--_Merchant cor._ "_O thou who_ art so unmindful of thy
duty!"--_Id._ "If I am wrong, _O_ teach my heart To find that better
way."--_Murray's Reader_, p. 248. "Heus! evocate huc Davum."--_Ter_. "Ho!
call Davus out hither."--_W. Walker cor._ "It was represented by an analogy
(_O_ how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the _ceremonies_ of
paganism."--_Murray cor._ "_O_ that Ishmael might live before
thee!"--_Friends' Bible_, and _Scott's_. "And he said unto him, _O_ let not
the Lord be angry, and I will speak."--_Alger's Bible_, and _Scott's_. "And
he said, _O_ let not the Lord be angry."--_Alger; Gen._, xviii. 32. "_O_ my
Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."--_Scott's Bible_. "_O_
Virtue! how amiable thou art!"--_Murray's Gram._, p. 128. "_Alas_! I fear
for life."--See _Ib._ "_Ah_ me! they little know How dearly I abide that
boast so vain!"--See _Bucke's Gram._, p. 87. "_O_ that I had digged myself
a cave!"--_Fletcher cor._ "_Oh_, my good lord! thy comfort comes too
late."--_Shak. cor._ "The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished
thus: _O Pedro_! O Peter! _O Dios_! O God!"--_Bucke cor._ "_Oho_! But, the
relative is always the same."--_Cobbett cor._ "_All-hail_, ye happy
men!"--_Jaudon cor._ "_O_ that I had wings like a dove!'--_Scott's Bible_.
"_O glorious_ hope! O _bless'd_ abode!"--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 304.
"_Welcome_ friends! how joyous is your presence!"--_T. Smith cor._ "_O_
blissful days!--_but, ah_! how soon ye pass!"--_Parker and Fox cor._
"_O_ golden days! _O_ bright unvalued hours!--
What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!"--_Barbauld cor._
"_Ah_ me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!"--_Hudibras cor._
THE KEY.--PART III.--SYNTAX.
CHAPTER I.--SENTENCES.
The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this
part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the
several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal
rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of
course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the title, which
is here inserted for form's sake.
CHAPTER II.--ARTICLES.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE I.
UNDER NOTE I.--AN OR A.
"I have seen _a_ horrible thing in the house of Israel."--_Bible cor._
"There is _a_ harshness in the following sentences."--_Murray's Gram._,
8vo, p. 152. "Indeed, such _a_ one is not to be looked for."--_Dr. Blair
cor._ "If each of you will be disposed to approve himself _a_ useful
citizen."--_Id._ "Land with them had acquired almost _a_ European
value."--_Webster cor._ "He endeavoured to find out _a_ wholesome
remedy."--_Neef cor._ "At no time have we attended _a_ yearly meeting more
to our own satisfaction."--_The Friend cor._ "Addison was not _a humorist_
in character."--_Kames cor._ "Ah me! what _a_ one was he!"--_Lily cor._ "He
was such _a_ one as I never saw before"--_Id._ "No man can be a good
preacher, who is not _a_ useful one."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "_A_ usage which is
too frequent with Mr. Addison."--_Id._ "Nobody joins the voice of a sheep
with the shape of _a_ horse."--_Locke cor._ "_A_ universality seems to be
aimed at by the omission of the article."--_Priestley cor._ "Architecture
is _a_ useful as well as a fine art."--_Kames cor._ "Because the same
individual conjunctions do not preserve _a_ uniform signification."--
_Nutting cor._ "Such a work required the patience and assiduity of _a_
hermit."--_Johnson cor._ "Resentment is _a_ union of sorrow with
malignity."--_Id._ "His bravery, we know, was _a_ high courage of
blasphemy."--_Pope cor._ "HYSSOP; _an_ herb of bitter taste."--_Pike cor._
"On each enervate string they taught the note
To pant, or tremble through _a eunuch's_ throat."--_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--AN OR A WITH PLURALS.
"At a _session_ of the court, in March, it was moved," &c.--_Hutchinson
cor._ "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda."--_D.
D'Ab. cor._ "I took _an other_ dictionary, and with a _pair of_ scissors
cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."--_A. B. Johnson cor._ "A person
very meet seemed he for the purpose, _and about_ forty-five years
old."--_Gardiner cor._ "And it came to pass, about eight days after these
sayings."--_Bible cor._ "There were slain of them about three thousand
men."--_1 Macc. cor._ "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains,
which seemed _other_ Alps of snow."--_Addison cor._ "To make them
satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."--_Goldsmith
cor._ "As a _first-fruit_ of many that shall be gathered."--_Barclay cor._
"It makes indeed a little _amend_, (or _some amends_,) by inciting us to
oblige people."--_Sheffield cor._ "A large and lightsome _back stairway_
(or _flight of backstairs_) leads up to an entry above."--_Id._ "Peace of
mind is an _abundant recompense_ for _any_ sacrifices of
interest."--_Murray et al. cor._ "With such a spirit, and _such_
sentiments, were hostilities carried on."--_Robertson cor._ "In the midst
of a thick _wood_, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."--_G. B_. "The
flats look almost like a young _forest_."--_Chronicle cor._ "As we went on,
the country for a little _way_ improved, but scantily."--_Freeman cor._
"Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after _a
captivity of seventy years_ at Babylon."--_Rollin cor._ "He did not go a
great _way_ into the country."--_Gilbert cor._
"A large _amend_ by fortune's hand is made,
And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."--_Rowe cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--NOUNS CONNECTED.
"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and _the_ odour
of flowers."--_Kames cor._ "The last order resembles the second in the
mildness of its accent, and _the_ softness of its pause."--_Id._ "Before
the use of the loadstone, or _the_ knowledge of the compass."--_Dryden
cor._ "The perfect participle and _the_ imperfect tense ought not to be
confounded."--_Murray cor._ "In proportion as the taste of a poet or _an_
orator becomes more refined."--_Blair cor._ "A situation can never be more
intricate, _so_ long as there is an angel, _a_ devil, or _a_ musician, to
lend a helping hand."--_Kames cor._ "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon
lost, or _a_ bone broken."--_Inst._, p. 262. "Not a word was uttered, nor
_a_ sign given."--_Ib._ "I despise not the doer, but _the_ deed."--_Ib._
"For the sake of an easier pronunciation and _a_ more agreeable
sound."--_Lowth cor._ "The levity as well as _the_ loquacity of the Greeks
made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."--
_Bolingbroke cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.
"It is proper that the vowels be a long and _a_ short one."--_Murray cor._
"Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or _a_ short
time before."--_Id. et al_. "There are three genders; _the_ masculine,
_the_ feminine, and _the_ neuter."--_Adam cor._ "The numbers are two; _the_
singular and _the_ plural."--_Id. et al_. "The persons are three; _the_
first, _the_ second, and _the_ third."--_Iidem_. "Nouns and pronouns have
three cases; the nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective."--
_Comly and Ing. cor._ "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, _the_
indicative, _the_ potential, _the_ subjunctive, and _the_ imperative."--
_Bullions et al. cor._ "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular
and _the_ plural."--_Bradley cor._ "To distinguish between an interrogative
and _an_ exclamatory sentence."--_Murray et al. cor._ "The first and _the_
last of which are _compound_ members."--_Lowth cor._ "In the last lecture,
I treated of the concise and _the_ diffuse, the nervous and _the_ feeble
manner."--_Blair cor._ "The passive and _the_ neuter verbs I shall reserve
for some future conversation."--_Ingersoll cor._ "There are two voices; the
active and _the_ passive."--_Adam et al. cor._ "WHOSE is rather the
poetical than _the_ regular genitive of WHICH."--_Johnson cor._ "To feel
the force of a compound or _a_ derivative word."--_Town cor._ "To preserve
the distinctive uses of the copulative and _the_ disjunctive
conjunctions."--_Murray et al. cor._ "E has a long and _a_ short sound in
most languages."--_Bicknell cor._ "When the figurative and _the_ literal
sense are mixed and jumbled together."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The Hebrew, with
which the Canaanitish and _the_ Phoenician stand in connexion."--_Conant_
and _Fowler cor._ "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and
_the_ Swedish."--_Fowler cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.
"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."--_Murray cor._ "Directions
for acquiring a just and happy elocution."--_Kirkham cor._ "Its leading
object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."--_Id._ "How can it choose
but wither in a long and sharp winter?"--_Cowley cor._ "Into a dark and
distant unknown."--_Dr. Chalmers cor._ "When the bold and strong enslaved
his fellow man."--_Chazotte cor._ "We now proceed to consider the things
most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."--_Murray cor._ "And
hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of
taste."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and
agreeable emotion."--_Id._ "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is
_that of_ the separation."--_Dr. M'Rie cor._ "A great and good man looks
beyond time."--See _Brown's Inst._, p. 263. "They made but a weak and
ineffectual resistance."--_Ib._ "The light and worthless kernels will
float."--_Ib._ "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."--_Ib._
"For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the _public an
other and better_ edition."--_Kirkham cor._ "He hoped that this title would
secure _to_ him an ample and independent authority."--_L. Murray cor. et
al_. "There is, however, _an other and more limited sense_."--_J. Q. Adams
cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--ARTICLES OR PLURALS.
"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse _style_ and the
concise."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished
at first by the denominations of _the Attic manner_ and _the
Asiatic_."--_Adams cor._ "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and
French monarchies under the former, was laid."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "In the
solemn and poetic styles, it [_do_ or _did_] is often rejected."--_Allen
cor._ "They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ the objective _case_ and
the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ the
objective and the nominative _case_." Or: "They cannot be, at the same
time, in the nominative _case_, and _also in the_ objective." Or: "They
cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective
cases."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the
same time, in _both_ cases, the nominative and _the_ objective."--_Murray
et al. cor._ "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative
degrees."--_Smart cor._ "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an
inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative
degrees."--_Fowler cor._ "In the subjunctive mood, the present and
imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."--_Murray et al.
cor._ "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future
_tense_, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the
indicative."--_Kirkham bettered_. "What rules apply in parsing personal
pronouns of the second and third _persons_?"--_Id._ "Nouns are sometimes in
the nominative or _the_ objective case after the neuter verb _be_, or after
an active-intransitive or _a_ passive verb." "The verb varies its _ending_
in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first,
second, and third _persons_."--_Id._ "They are identical in effect with the
radical and the vanishing _stress_."--_Rush cor._ "In a sonnet, the first,
_the_ fourth, _the_ fifth, and _the_ eighth line, _usually_ rhyme to _one
an_ other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh _lines_; the ninth,
eleventh, and thirteenth _lines_; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth
_lines_."--_Churchill cor._ "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and
manhood are departed."--_Wright cor._ "If, as you say, the iron and the
golden _age_ are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."--_Id._ "An
Exposition of the Old and New _Testaments_."--_Henry cor._ "The names and
order of the books of the Old and _the_ New Testament."--_Bible cor._ "In
the second and third _persons_ of that tense."--_Murray cor._ "And who
still unites in himself the human and the divine _nature_."--_Gurney cor._
"Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English
languages."--_Murray cor._ "Whence arise these two _numbers_, the singular
and the plural."--_Burn cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--CORRESPONDENT TERMS.
"Neither the definitions nor _the_ examples are entirely the same _as_
his."--_Ward cor._ "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and
_the_ expression."--_Kames cor._ "Between the adjective and _the_ following
substantive."--_Id._ "Thus Athens became both the repository and _the_
nursery of learning."--_Chazotte cor._ "But the French pilfered from both
the Greek and _the_ Latin."--_Id._ "He shows that Christ is both the power
and _the_ wisdom of God."--_The Friend cor._ "That he might be Lord both of
the dead and _of the_ living."--_Bible cor._ "This is neither the obvious
nor _the_ grammatical meaning of his words."--_Blair cor._ "Sometimes both
the accusative and _the_ infinitive are understood."--_Adam and Gould cor._
"In some cases, we can use either the nominative or _the_ accusative,
promiscuously."--_Iidem_. "Both the former and _the_ latter substantive are
sometimes to be understood."--_Iidem_. "Many _of_ which have escaped both
the commentator and _the_ poet himself."--_Pope cor._ "The verbs MUST and
OUGHT, have both a present and _a_ past signification."--_L. Murray cor._
"How shall we distinguish between the friends and _the_ enemies of the
government?"--_Dr. Webster cor._ "Both the _ecclesiastical_ and _the_
secular powers concurred in those measures."--_Dr. Campbell cor._ "As the
period has a beginning and _an_ end within itself, it implies an
_inflection_."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "Such as ought to subsist between a
principal and _an_ accessory."--_Ld. Kames cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.
"When both the upward and the downward _slide_ occur in _the sound of one_
syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE."--_Kirkham cor._ "The word
THAT is used both in the nominative and _in the objective case_."--_Sanborn
cor._ "But _in_ all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and _of
the_ passive _voice_ [the verbs] are conjugated at large."--_Murray cor._
"Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future _tense into_ the
indicative mood, _reject it from the_ subjunctive."--_Id._ "_After_ the
same conjunction, _to use_ both the indicative and the subjunctive _mood_
in the same sentence, and _under_ the same circumstances, seems to be a
great impropriety."--_Id._ "The true distinction between the subjunctive
and the indicative _mood_ in this tense."--_Id._ "I doubt of his capacity
to teach either the French or _the_ English _language_."--_Chazotte cor._
"It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and
the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and _the_
passive."--_Nixon cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.--A SERIES OF TERMS.
"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and _the_
husbandman."--_Chazotte cor._ "They may be divided into four classes; the
Humanists, _the_ Philanthropists, _the Pestalozzians_, and the
_Productives_."--_Smith cor._ "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the
imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the _first-future_, and the
_second-future_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "Is it an irregular _neuter_ verb
[from _be, was, being, been_; found in] _the_ indicative mood, present
tense, third person, and singular number."--_Murray cor._ "SHOULD GIVE is
an irregular _active-transitive_ verb [from _give, gave, given, giving_;
found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural
number."--_Id._ "US is a personal pronoun, _of the_ first person, plural
number, _masculine gender_, and objective case."--_Id._ "THEM is a personal
pronoun, of the third person, plural number, _masculine gender_, and
objective case."--_Id._ "It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with
all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to
invent a point of interrogation, _a point_ of admiration, or a
parenthesis."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth
_verses_." Or: "The fifth, _the_ sixth, _the_ seventh, and the eighth
verse."--_O. B. Peirce cor_. "Substitutes have three persons; the First,
_the_ Second, and the Third."--_Id._ "JOHN'S is a proper noun, of the third
person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and _is_
governed by 'WIFE,' _according to_ Rule" [4th, _which says_, &c.]--_Smith
cor_. "Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative,
the possessive, and _the_ objective."--_Bar. and Alex. cor._ "The potential
mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and
_the_ pluperfect."--_Ingersoll cor._
"Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend,
And own the patron, patriot, and friend."--_Savage cor._
UNDER NOTE X.--SPECIES AND GENUS.
"_The_ pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for _the_ noun."--_Paul's Ac.
cor._ "_The_ verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."--_Id._
"_The_ participle is a part of speech derived _from the_ verb."--_Id._
"_The_ adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles,
adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification."--_Id._
"_The_ conjunction is a part of speech that _joins words or_ sentences
together."--_Id._ "_The_ preposition is a part of speech most commonly set
before other parts."--_Id._ "_The_ interjection is a part of speech which
_betokens_ a sudden _emotion_ or passion of the mind."--_Id._ "_The_
enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory."--_Blair and Murray cor._
"We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of _the_
allegory."--_Iidem_. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of
art."--_Harris cor._ "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,' as Mr.
Harris acutely observes."--_Churchill cor._ "But, before entering on these,
I shall give one instance of _metaphor, very beautiful_, (or, one _very
beautiful_ instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full
advantage."--_Blair cor._ "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses _metaphor_ in
this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as
_the_ whole put for _a_ part, or a part for _the_ whole; _a_ species for
the genus, or _the_ genus for a species."--_Id._ "It shows what kind of
apple it is of which we are speaking."--_Kirkham cor._ "Cleon was _an
other_ sort of man."--_Goldsmith cor._ "To keep off his right wing, as a
kind of reserved body."--_Id._ "This part of speech is called _the_
verb."--_Mack cor._ "What sort of thing is it?"--_Hiley cor._ "What sort of
charm do they possess?"--_Bullions cor._
"Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole,
That painful animal, _the_ mole."--_Dunciad cor._
UNDER NOTE XI.--ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.
"Either thou or the boys were in fault."--_Comly cor._ "It may, at first
view, appear to be too general."--_Murray et al. cor._ "When the verb has
reference to future time."--_Iidem_. "No; they are the language of
imagination, rather than of passion."--_Blair cor._ "The dislike of English
Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can be attributed _only_ to the
intricacy of [our] syntax."--_Russell cor._ "Is that ornament in good
taste?"--_Kames cor._ "There are not many fountains in good taste." Or:
"Not many fountains are [ornamented] in good taste."--_Id._ "And I
persecuted this way unto death."--_Bible cor._ "The sense of feeling can,
indeed, give us a notion of extension."--_Addison, Spect._, No. 411. "The
distributive _adjectives, each, every, either_, agree with nouns, pronouns,
_or_ verbs, of the singular number only."--_Murray cor._ "Expressing by one
word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words
belonging to other parts of speech."--_Blair cor._ "By certain muscles
which operate [in harmony, and] all at the same time."--_Murray cor._ "It
is sufficient here to have observed thus much in general concerning
them."--_Campbell cor._ "Nothing disgusts us sooner than empty pomp of
language."--_Murray cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.--TITLES AND NAMES.
"He is entitled to the appellation of _gentleman_."--_G. Brown_. "Cromwell
assumed the title of Protector"--_Id._ "Her father is honoured with the
title of _Earl_."--_Id._ "The chief magistrate is styled _President_."--
_Id._ "The highest title in the state is that of _Governor_."--_Id._ "That
boy is known by the name of _Idler_."--_Murray cor._ "The one styled
_Mufti_, is the head of the ministers of law and religion."--_Balbi cor._
"Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole
class _tree_."--_Blair cor._ "For _oak, pine_, and _ash_, were names of
whole classes of objects."--_Id._ "It is of little importance whether we
give to some particular mode of expression the name of _trope_, or of
_figure_."--_Id._ "The collision of a vowel with itself is the most
ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation
under the name of _hiatus_."--_Adams cor._ "We hesitate to determine,
whether _Tyrant_ alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative
includes the _word Spy_."--_Cobbett cor._ "Hence originated the customary
abbreviation of _twelve months_ into _twelvemonth_; of _seven nights_ into
_sennight_; of _fourteen nights_ into _fortnight_."--_Webster cor._
UNDER NOTE XIII.--COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.
"He is a better writer than reader."--_W. Allen_. "He was an abler
mathematician than linguist."--_Id._ "I should rather have an orange than
_an_ apple."--_G. Brown_. "He was no less able _as_ a negotiator, than
courageous _as_ a warrior."--_Smollett cor._ "In an epic poem, we pardon
many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or _an_
epigram."--_Kames cor._ "That figure is a sphere, globe, or
ball."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 357.
UNDER NOTE XIV.--ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.
"_The_ carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."--_Key to
Inst_. "The place is not mentioned by _the_ geographers who wrote at that
time."--_Ib._ "Those questions which a person _puts to_ himself in
contemplation, ought to be terminated _with_ points of interrogation."--
_Mur. et al. cor._ "The work is designed for the use of _those_ persons who
may think it merits a place in their libraries."--_Mur. cor._ "That _those_
who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be
wondered at."--_Id._ "_Those_ grammarians who limit the number to two, or
three, do not reflect."--_Id._ "_The_ substantives which end in _ian_, are
those that signify profession." Or: "_Those_ substantives which end in
_ian_, are _such as_ signify profession."--_Id._ "To these may be added
_those_ verbs which, among the poets, _usually_ govern the dative."--_Adam
and Gould cor._ "_The_ consonants are _those_ letters which cannot be
sounded without the aid of a vowel."--_Bucke cor._ "To employ the curiosity
of persons _skilled_ in grammar:"--"of _those_ who are skilled in
grammar:"--"of persons _that_ are skilled in grammar:"--"of _such_ persons
_as_ are skilled in grammar:" or--"of _those_ persons _who_ are skilled in
grammar."--_L. Murray cor._ "This rule refers only to _those_ nouns and
pronouns which have the same bearing, or relation."--_Id._ "So that _the_
things which are seen, were not made of things _that_ do appear."--_Bible
cor._ "Man is an imitative creature; he may utter _again_ the sounds which
he has heard."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "But _those_ men whose business is wholly
domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own."--_Dr.
Webster cor._
UNDER NOTE XV.--PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.
"Great benefit may be reaped from _the_ reading of histories."--_Sewel
cor._ "And some attempts were made towards _the_ writing of
history."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "It is _an_ invading of the priest's office,
for any other to offer it"--_Leslie cor._ "And thus far of _the_ forming of
verbs."--_W. Walker cor._ "And without _the_ shedding of blood _there_ is
no remission."--_Bible cor._ "For _the_ making of measures, we have the
best method here in England."--_Printer's Gram. cor._ "This is really both
_an_ admitting and _a_ denying at once."--_Butler cor._ "And hence the
origin of _the_ making of parliaments."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Next thou
objectest, that _the_ having of saving light and grace presupposes
conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion _presupposes
the_ having _of_ light and grace."--_Barclay cor._ "They cried down _the_
wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do."--_Id._ "Whose
adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of _the_ plaiting _of_ the
hair, and of _the_ wearing of gold, or of _the putting-on_ of
apparel."--_Bible cor._ "In _the_ spelling of derivative words, the
_primitives_ must be kept whole."--_Brit. Gram. and Buchanan's cor._ "And
the princes offered for _the_ dedicating of the altar."--_Numb. cor._
"Boasting is not only _a_ telling of lies, but also _of_ many unseemly
truths."--_Sheffield cor._ "We freely confess that _the_ forbearing of
prayer in the wicked is sinful."--_Barclay cor._ "For _the_ revealing of a
secret, there is no remedy."--_G. Brown_. "He turned all his thoughts to
_the_ composing of laws for the good of the State."--_Rollin cor._
UNDER NOTE XVI.--PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.
"It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be
taken out of it after falling in."--_Barclay cor._ "For in receiving and
embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased."--_Id._
"True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing
every thing to conform to it."--_Phil. Museum cor._ "To the man of the
world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth
attending to."--_Say cor._ "To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by
ordering their temple to be rebuilt," &c.--_Rollin cor._ "And for
preserving them from being defiled."--_Discip. cor._ "A wise man will
_forbear to show_ any excellence in trifles."--_Kames cor._ "Hirsutus had
no other reason for valuing a book."--_Johnson, and Wright, cor._ "To being
heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver
himself with ease." Perhaps better: "_To be_ heard, &c." Or: "_In order to
be_ heard, &c."--_Sheridan cor._ "And, to the _end of_ being well heard and
clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than
_can even the greatest_ power of voice."--_Id._
"_Potential_ purports, _having power or will_;
As, If you _would_ improve, you _should_ be still."--_Tobitt cor._
UNDER NOTE XVII.--VARIOUS ERRORS.
"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."--_Lowth cor._
"_A_ period is _a_ whole sentence complete in itself."--_Id._ "_A_ colon,
or member, is a chief constructive part, or _the greatest_ division, of a
sentence."--_Id._ "_A_ semicolon, or half-member, is a _smaller_
constructive part, or _a_ subdivision, of a sentence or _of_ a
member."--_Id._ "A sentence or _a_ member is again subdivided into commas,
or segments."--_Id._ "The first error that I would mention is, too general
_an_ attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own
_tongue_."--_Webster cor._ "One third of the importations would supply the
demands of _the_ people."--_Id._ "And especially in _a_ grave
_style_."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 178. "By too eager _a_ pursuit, he ran a
great risk of being disappointed."--_Murray cor._ "_The_ letters are
divided into vowels and consonants."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "_The_ consonants
are divided into mutes and semivowels."--_Iidem_. "The first of these forms
is _the_ most agreeable to the English idiom."--_Murray cor._ "If they
gain, it is _at_ too dear _a_ rate."--_Barclay cor._ "A pronoun is a word
used _in stead_ of a noun, to prevent too frequent _a_ repetition of
it."--_Maunder cor._ "This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too
partial _a_ fondness for the Latin."--_Ash cor._ "The groans which too
heavy _a_ load extorts from her."--_Hitchcock cor._ "The numbers of a verb
are, of course, _the_ singular and _the_ plural."--_Bucke cor._ "To brook
no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great
mind."--_Murray cor._ "This mode of expression rather suits _the_ familiar
than _the_ grave style."--_Id._ "This use of the word _best_ suits _a_
familiar and low style."--_Priestley cor._ "According to the nature of the
composition, the one or _the_ other may be predominant."--_Blair cor._ "Yet
the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early _an_
expectation of the end."--_Campbell cor._ "A eulogy or a philippic may be
pronounced by an individual of one nation upon _a_ subject of _an_
other."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "A French sermon is, for _the_ most part, a
warm animated exhortation."--_Blair cor._ "I do not envy those who think
slavery no very pitiable lot."--_Channing cor._ "The auxiliary and _the_
principal united constitute a tense."--_Murray cor._ "There are some verbs
which are defective with respect to _the_ persons."--_Id._ "In youth,
habits of industry are _the_ most easily acquired."--_Id._ "_The_
apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out."--_Bullions cor._
CHAPTER III.--CASES, OR NOUNS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES.
"The whole need not a physician, but _they_ that are sick."--_Bunyan cor._
"He will in no wise cast out _whosoever_ cometh unto him." Better: "He will
in no wise cast out _any that come_ unto him."--_Hall cor._ "He feared the
enemy might fall upon his men, _who_, he saw, were off their
guard."--_Hutchinson cor._ "_Whosoever_ shall compel thee to go a mile, go
with him twain."--_Matt._, v, 41. "The _ideas_ of the author have been
conversant with the faults of other writers."--_Swift cor._ "You are a much
greater loser than _I_, by his death." Or: "_Thou art_ a much greater loser
by his death than _I_."--_Id._ "Such _peccadilloes_ pass with him for pious
frauds."--_Barclay cor._ "In whom I am nearly concerned, and _who_, I know,
would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."--_Id._ "Do not think such
a man as _I_ contemptible for my garb."--_Addison cor._ "His wealth and
_he_ bid adieu to each other."--_Priestley cor._ "So that, 'He is greater
than _I_,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than
_me_.'"--_Id._ "The Jesuits had more interests at court than _he_."--_Id.
and Smollett cor._ "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than
_he_."--_Iid._ "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than
_he_."--_Iid._ "My father and _he_ have been very intimate since."--_Fair
Am. cor._ "Who was the agent, and _who_, the object struck or
kissed?"--_Mrs. Bethune cor._ "To find the person _who_, he imagined, was
concealed there."--_Kirkham cor._ "He offered a great recompense to
_whosoever_ would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to _any
one who_ would help him."--_Hume and Pr. cor._ "They would be under the
dominion, absolute and unlimited, of _whosoever_ (or _any one who_) might
exercise the right of judgement."--_Haynes cor._ "They had promised to
accept _whosoever_ (or _any one who_) should be born in Wales."--_Croker
cor._ "We sorrow not as _they_ that have no hope."--_Maturin cor._ "If he
suffers, he suffers as _they_ that have no hope."--_Id._ "We acknowledge
that he, and _he_ only, hath been our peacemaker."--_Gratton cor._ "And
what can be better than _he_ that made it?"--_Jenks cor._ "None of his
school-fellows is more beloved than _he_."--_Cooper cor._ "Solomon, who was
wiser than _they_ all."--_Watson cor._ "Those _who_ the Jews thought were
the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."--_Tract cor._ "A
stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than
both."--_Bible cor._ "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more
insupportable, than _she whom_ they call a notable woman."--_Steele cor._
"The king of the Sarmatians, _who_ we may imagine was no small prince,
restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."--_Life of Anton. cor._
"Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and
fanatics as mad as _they_."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 203. "Unless, as I
said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not _I_."--_Hall cor._ "We had
drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as _we_
to escape."--_Burnes cor._ "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and
that of better judges than _they_, she turned to their literature with
redoubled energy."--_Quarterly Rev. cor._ "I know not _who_ else are
expected."--_Scott cor._ "He is great, but truth is greater than _we_ all."
Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than _any of us_."--_H. Mann cor._.
"_He_ I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus:
"_Whom_ I accuse has entered."--_Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare._
"Scotland and _thou_ did each in other live."--_Dryden cor._
"We are alone; here's none but _thou_ and I."--_Shak. cor._
"_I_ rather _would_, my heart might feel your love,
Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy."--_Shak. cor._
"Tell me, in sadness, _who_ is she you love?"--_Shak. cor._
"Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire
Too high a fame, when _he_ we serve's away."--_Shak. cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE III; OF APPOSITION.
"Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, _thee_ and
_me_."--_Bible cor._ "Now, therefore, come thou, we will make a covenant,
_thou_ and _I_."--_Variation corrected_. "The word came not to Esau, the
hunter, that stayed not at home; but to Jacob, the plain man, _him_ that
dwelt in tents."--_Penn cor._ "Not to every man, but to the man of God,
(i.e.,) _him_ that is led by the spirit of God."--_Barclay cor._ "For,
admitting God to be a creditor, or _him_ to whom the debt should be paid,
and Christ _him_ that satisfies or pays it on behalf of man the debtor,
this question will arise, whether he paid that debt as God, or man, or
both?"--_Penn cor._ "This Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Man, the
Emmanuel, God with us, we own and believe in: _him_ whom the high priests
raged against," &c.--_Fox cor._ "Christ, and _He_ crucified, was the Alpha
and Omega of all his addresses, the fountain and foundation of his hope and
trust."--_Exp. cor._ "Christ, and _He_ crucified, is the head, and the only
head, of the church."--_Denison cor._ "But if Christ, and _He_ crucified,
_is_ the burden of the ministry, such disastrous results are all
avoided."--_Id._ "He never let fall the least intimation, that himself, or
any other person _whosoever_, was the object of worship."--_View cor._ "Let
the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially
_them_ who labour in the word and doctrine."--_Bible cor._ "Our Shepherd,
_he_ who is styled King of saints, will assuredly give his saints the
victory."--_Sermon cor._ "It may seem odd, to talk of _us_
subscribers."--_Fowle cor._ "And they shall have none to bury them: _they_,
their wives, nor their sons, nor[533] their daughters; for I will pour
their wickedness upon them."--_Bible cor._ "Yet I supposed it necessary to
send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and
fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and _him_ that ministered to my
wants."--_Bible cor._
"Amidst the tumult of the routed train,
The sons of false Antimachus were slain;
_Him_ who for bribes his faithless counsels sold,
And voted Helen's stay for Paris' gold."--_Pope cor._
"See the vile King his iron sceptre bear--
His only praise attends the pious heir;
_Him_ in whose soul the virtues all conspire,
The best good son, from the worst wicked sire."--_Lowth cor._
"Then from thy lips poured forth a joyful song
To thy Redeemer!--yea, it poured along
In most melodious energy of praise,
To God, the Saviour, _him_ of ancient days."--_Arm Chair cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE IV; OF POSSESSIVES.
UNDER NOTE I.--THE POSSESSIVE FORM.
"_Man's_ chief good is an upright mind."--_Key to Inst_. "The translator of
_Mallet's_ History _has_ the following note."--_Webster cor._ "The act,
while it gave five _years'_ full pay to the officers, allowed but one
year's pay to the privates."--_Id._ "For the study of English is preceded
by several _years'_ attention to Latin and Greek."--_Id._ "The first, the
_Court-Baron_, is the _freeholders'_ or _freemen's_ court."--_Coke cor._ "I
affirm that _Vaugelas's_ definition labours under an essential
defect."--_Campbell cor.; and also Murray_. "There is a chorus in
_Aristophanes's_ plays."--_Blair cor._ "It denotes the same perception in
my mind as in _theirs_."--_Duncan cor._ "This afterwards enabled him to
read _Hickes's_ Saxon Grammar."--_Life of Dr. Mur. cor._ "I will not do it
for _ten's_ sake."--_Ash cor._ Or: "I will not _destroy_ it for _ten's_
sake."--_Gen._, xviii, 32. "I arose, and asked if those charming infants
were _hers_."--_Werter cor._ "They divide their time between _milliners_'
shops and _the_ taverns."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "The _angels_' adoring of Adam
is also mentioned in the Talmud."--_Sale cor._ "Quarrels arose from the
_winners_' insulting of those who lost."--_Id._ "The vacancy occasioned by
Mr. _Adams's_ resignation."--_Adv. to Adams's Rhet. cor._ "Read, for
instance, _Junius's_ address, commonly called his _Letter to the
King_."--_Adams cor._ "A perpetual struggle against the tide of
_Hortensius's_ influence."--_Id._ "Which, for _distinction's_ sake, I shall
put down severally."--_R. Johnson cor._ "The fifth case is in a clause
signifying the matter of _one's_ fear."--_Id._ "And they took counsel, and
bought with them the _potter's_ field."--_Alger cor._ "Arise for thy
_servants_' help, and redeem them for thy mercy's sake."--_Jenks cor._
"Shall not their cattle, their substance, and every beast of _theirs_, be
_ours_?"--COM. BIBLE: _Gen._, xxxiv, 23. "_Its_ regular plural, _bullaces_,
is used by Bacon."--_Churchill cor._ "Mordecai walked every day before the
court of the _women's_ house."--_Scott cor._ "Behold, they that wear soft
clothing, are in _kings_' houses."--_Alger's Bible_. "Then Jethro,
_Moses's_ father-in-law, took Zipporah, _Moses's_ wife, and her two sons;
and Jethro, _Moses's_ father-in-law, came, with his sons and his wife, unto
Moses."--_Scott's Bible_. "King _James's_ translators merely revised former
translations."--_Frazee cor._ "May they be like corn on _houses_'
tops."--_White cor._
"And for his Maker's _image'_ sake exempt."--_Milton cor._
"By all the fame acquired in ten _years'_ war."--_Rowe cor._
"Nor glad vile poets with true _critics'_ gore."--_Pope cor._
"Man only of a softer mold is made,
Not for his _fellows'_ ruin, but their aid."--_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--POSSESSIVES CONNECTED.
"It was necessary to have both the _physician's_ and the surgeon's
advice."--_L. Murray's False Syntax_, Rule 10. "This _outside_
fashionableness of the _tailor's_ or _the tirewoman's_ making."--_Locke
cor._ "Some pretending to be of Paul's party, others of _Apollos's_, others
of _Cephas's_, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of
Christ's."--_Wood cor._ "Nor is it less certain, that _Spenser and
Milton's_ spelling agrees better with our pronunciation."--_Phil. Museum
cor._ "Law's, _Edwards's_, and _Watts's Survey_ of the Divine
Dispensations." Or thus: "_Law, Edwards_, and _Watts's_, Surveys of the
Divine Dispensations."--_Burgh cor._ "And who was Enoch's Saviour, and the
_prophets'_?"--_Bayly cor._ "Without any impediment but his own, his
_parents'_, or his _guardian's_ will."--_Journal corrected_. "James
relieves neither the _boy's_ nor the girl's distress."--_Nixon cor._ "John
regards neither the _master's_ nor the pupil's advantage."--_Id._ "You
reward neither the _man's_ nor the woman's labours."--_Id._ "She examines
neither _James's_ nor John's conduct."--_Id._ "Thou pitiest neither the
_servant's_ nor the master's injuries."--_Id._ "We promote _England's_ or
Ireland's happiness."--_Id._ "Were _Cain's_ and Abel's occupation the
same?"--_G. Brown_. "Were _Cain_ and Abel's occupations the same?"--_Id._
"What was _Simon_ and Andrew's employment?"--_Id._ "Till he can read _for_
himself _Sanctius's_ Minerva with _Scioppius's_ and Perizonius's
Notes."--_Locke cor._
"And _love_ and friendship's finely-pointed dart
Falls blunted from each indurated heart." Or:--
"And _love's_ and friendship's finely-pointed dart
_Fall_ blunted from each indurated heart."--_Goldsmith cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--CHOICE OF FORMS.
"But some degree of trouble is the portion _of all men_."--_L. Murray et
al. cor._ "With the names _of his father and mother_ upon the blank
leaf."--_Abbott cor._ "The general, in the name _of the army_, published a
declaration."--_Hume cor._ "The vote _of the Commons_."--_Id._ "The _House
of Lords_."--_Id._ "A collection of _the faults of writers_;"--or, "A
collection _of literary faults_."--_Swift cor._ "After ten _years of_
wars."--_Id._ "Professing his detestation of such practices as _those of_
his predecessors."--_Pope cor._ "By that time I shall have ended my _year
of_ office."--_W. Walker cor._ "For the sake _of Herodias_, the wife of
_his brother Philip_."--_Bible and Mur. cor._ "I endure all things for _the
sake of the elect_, that they may also obtain salvation."--_Bibles cor._
"He was _heir to the son of_ Louis the Sixteenth."--_W. Allen_. "The throne
we honour is the _people's choice_."--_Rolla_. "An account of the
proceedings of _Alexander's court_."--_Inst._ "An excellent tutor _for the
child of a person of fashion_!"--_Gil Blas cor._ "It is curious enough,
that this sentence of the _Bishop's_ is, itself, ungrammatical."--_Cobbett
cor._ "The troops broke into the palace _of_ the _Emperor_
Leopold."--_Nixon cor._ "The meeting was called by desire _of_ Eldon the
_Judge_."--_Id._ "The occupation _of Peter, John_, and _Andrew_, was that
of fishermen."--_Murray's Key_, R. 10. "The _debility of_ the venerable
president of the Royal _Academy_, has lately increased."--_Maunder cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.
"God hath not given us our _reason_ to no purpose."--_Barclay cor._ "For
our _sake_, no doubt, this is written."--_Bible cor._ "Are not health and
strength of body desirable for their own _sake_?"--_Harris and Murray cor._
"Some sailors who were boiling their _dinner_ upon the shore."--_Day cor._
"And they, in their _turn_, were subdued by others."--_Pinnock cor._
"Industry on our _part_ is not superseded by God's grace."--_Arrowsmith
cor._ "Their _health_ perhaps may be pretty well secured."--_Locke cor._
"Though he was rich, yet for _your sake_ he became poor."--See _2 Cor._,
viii, 9. "It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their
_part_."--_Harris cor._ "The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being
most exact to their _word_, and respctful to their kindred."--_Sale cor._
"That is, as a reward of some exertion on our _part_."--_Gurney cor._ "So
that it went ill with Moses for their _sake_."--_Ps. cor._ "All liars shall
have their _part_ in the burning lake."--_Watts cor._ "For our own _sake_
as well as for thine."--_Pref. to Waller cor._ "By discovering their
_ability_ to detect and amend errors."--_L. Murray cor._
"This world I do renounce; and, in your _sight_,
Shake patiently my great affliction off."--_Shak. cor._
"If your relenting _anger_ yield to treat,
Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet."--_Rowe cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.
"This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the
prejudice."--_Smith cor._ "And the notice which they give of an _action as_
being completed or not completed."--_L. Mur. et al. cor._ "Some obstacle,
or impediment, that prevents _it from_ taking place."--_Priestley and A.
Mur. cor._ "They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the
seeking of the Spirit."--_The Friend cor._ "Here then is a wide field for
_reason to exert_ its powers in relation to the objects of taste."--_Dr.
Blair cor._ "Now this they derive altogether from their greater capacity of
imitation and description."--_Id._ "This is one clear reason _why they
paid_ a greater attention to that construction."--_Id._ "The dialogue part
had also a modulation of its own, which was capable of being set to
notes."--_Id._ "_Why are we so often_ frigid and unpersuasive in public
discourse?"--_Id._ "Which is only a preparation for leading his forces
directly upon us."--_Id._ "The nonsense about _which, as_ relating to
things only, and having no declension, needs no refutation."--_Fowle cor._
"Who, upon breaking it open, found nothing but the following
inscription."--_Rollin cor._ "A prince will quickly have reason to repent
_of_ having exalted one person so high."--_Id._ "Notwithstanding _it is_
the immediate subject of his discourse."--_Churchill cor._ "With our
definition of _it, as_ being synonymous with _time_."--_Booth cor._ "It
will considerably increase _our danger of_ being deceived."--_Campbell
cor._ "His beauties can never be mentioned without suggesting his blemishes
also."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "No example has ever been adduced, of a _man_
conscientiously approving an action, because of its badness." Or:--"of a
_man who_ conscientiously _approved_ of an action because of its
badness."--_Gurney cor._ "The last episode, of the _angel_ showing to Adam
the fate of his posterity, is happily imagined."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "And the
news came to my son, _that he_ and the bride _were_ in Dublin."--_M.
Edgeworth cor._ "There is no room for the _mind to exert_ any great
effort."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "One would imagine, that these _critics_ never
so much as heard _that Homer wrote_ first."--_Pope cor._ "Condemn the book,
for not being a geography;" or,--"_because it is not_ a
geography."--_Peirce cor._ "There will be in many words a transition from
being the figurative to being the proper signs of certain
ideas."--_Campbell cor._ "The doctrine _that the Pope is_ the only source
of ecclesiastical power."--_Rel. World cor._ "This _was_ the more
expedient, _because_ the work _was_ designed for the benefit of private
learners."--_L. Murray cor._ "This was _done, because_ the _Grammar, being
already in type, did not admit_ of enlargement."--_Id._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE V; OF OBJECTIVES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE OBJECTIVE FORM.
"_Whom_ should I meet the other day but my old friend!"--_Spect. cor._ "Let
not him boast that puts on his armour, but _him_ that takes it
off."--_Barclay cor._ "Let none touch it, but _them_ who are clean."--_Sale
cor._ "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and _them_
that dwell therein."--_Ps. cor._ "Pray be private, and careful _whom_ you
trust."--_Mrs. Goffe cor._ "How shall the people know _whom_ to entrust
with their property and their liberties?"--_J. O. Taylor cor._ "The
chaplain entreated my comrade and _me_ to dress as well as
possible."--_World cor._ "And _him_ that cometh _to_ me, I will in no wise
cast out."--_John_, vi, 37. "_Whom_, during this preparation, they
constantly and solemnly invoke."--_Hope of Is. cor._ "Whoever or whatever
owes us, is Debtor; _and whomever_ or whatever we owe, is
Creditor."--_Marsh cor._ "Declaring the curricle was his, and he should
have _in it whom_ he chose."--_A. Ross cor._ "The fact is, Burke is the
only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries, _whom_ we can rank as
a first-rate orator."--_Knickerb. cor._ "Thus you see, how naturally the
Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the _Messalinas_ of our
time."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "They would find in the Roman list both the
_Scipios_."--_Id._ "He found his wife's clothes on fire, and _her_ just
expiring."--_Observer cor._ "To present _you_ holy, and _unblamable_, and
_unreprovable_ in his sight."--_Colossians_, i, 22. "Let the distributer do
his duty with simplicity; the superintendent, with diligence; _him_ who
performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness."--_Stuart cor._ "If the
crew rail at the master of the vessel, _whom_ will they mind?"--_Collier
cor._ "He having none but them, they having none but him"--_Drayton cor._
"Thee, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
Of thy caprice maternal I complain."--_Burns cor._
"_Nor weens he who it is, whose charms consume_
_His longing soul_, but loves he knows not _whom_"--_Addison cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.
"When it gives that sense, and also connects _sentences_, it is a
conjunction."--_L. Murray cor._ "Though thou wilt not acknowledge _thyself
to--be guilty_, thou canst not deny the fact _stated_."--_Id._ "They
specify _some object_, like many other adjectives, and _also_ connect
sentences."--_Kirkham cor._ "A violation of this rule tends so much to
perplex _the reader_ and obscure _the sense_, that it is safer to err by
_using_ too many short sentences."--_L. Murray cor._ "A few exercises are
subjoined to each important definition, for him [the pupil] to _practise_
upon as he proceeds in committing _the grammar to memory._"--_Nutting cor._
"A verb signifying _an action directly transitive_, governs the
accusative."--_Adam et al. cor._ "Or, any word _that can be conjugated_, is
a verb."--_Kirkham cor._ "In these two concluding sentences, the author,
hastening to _a close_, appears to write rather carelessly."--_Dr. Blair
cor._ "He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then _leaves
it._"--_Id._" Praise to God teaches _us_ to be humble and lowly
ourselves."--_Atterbury cor._ "This author has endeavoured to surpass _his
rivals._"--_R. W. Green cor._ "Idleness and _pleasure fatigue a man as_
soon _as business._"--_Webster cor._" And, in conjugating _any verb_,"--or,
"And in _learning conjugations_, you must pay particular attention to the
manner in which these signs are applied."--_Kirkham cor._ "He said Virginia
would have emancipated _her slaves_ long ago."--_Lib. cor._ "And having a
readiness"--or, "And holding ourselves in readiness"--or," And being in
readiness--to revenge all disobedience."--_Bible cor._ "However, in these
cases, custom generally determines _what is right._"--_Wright cor._ "In
proof, let the following cases _be taken._"--_Id._ "We must _marvel_ that
he should so speedily have forgotten his first principles."--_Id._ "How
should we _wonder_ at the expression, 'This is a _soft_ question!' "--_Id._
"And such as prefer _this course_, can parse it as a possessive
adjective."--_Goodenow cor._ "To assign all the reasons that induced _the
author_ to deviate from other grammarians, would lead to a needless
prolixity."--_Alexander cor._ "The Indicative Mood simply indicates or
declares _a thing._"--_L. Murray's Gram._, p. 63.
UNDER NOTE II.--OF VERBS INTRANSITIVE.
"In his seventh chapter _he expatiates_ at great length."--_Barclay cor._
"He _quarrels with me for adducing_ some _ancient_ testimonies agreeing
with what I say."--_Id._ "Repenting of his design."--_Hume cor._ "Henry
knew, that an excommunication could not fail _to produce_ the most
dangerous effects."--_Id._ "The popular lords did not fail to enlarge on
the subject,"--_Mrs. Macaulay cor._ "He is always master of his subject,
and seems to _play_ with it:" or,--"seems to _sport himself_ with
it."--_Blair cor._ "But as soon as it _amounts to real_ disease, all his
secret infirmities _show_ themselves."--_Id._ "No man repented of his
wickedness."--_Bible cor._ "Go one way or other, either on the right hand,
or on the left,"--_Id._ "He lies down by the _river's edge._" Or: "He _lays
himself_ down _on_ the _river's brink_"--_W. Walker cor._ "For some years
past, _I have had an ardent wish_ to retire to some of our American
plantations."--_Cowley cor._ "I fear thou wilt shrink from the payment of
it."--_Ware cor._ "_We never retain_ an idea, without acquiring some
combination."--_Rippingham cor._
"Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide,
Then lies _he_ meekly down, fast by his brethren's side."
--_Milton cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--OF VERBS MISAPPLIED.
"_The_ parliament _confiscated the property of_ all those who had borne
arms _against_ the king."--_Hume cor._ "The practice of _confiscating_
ships _that_ had been wrecked"'--_Id._ "The nearer his military successes
_brought_ him to the throne." Or: "The nearer, _through_ his military
successes, _he approached_ the throne."--_Id._ "In the next example, _'you'
represents 'ladies;'_ therefore it is plural."--_Kirkham cor._ "The first
_'its' stands for 'vale;'_ the second _'its'_ represents _'stream'_."--
_Id._ "Pronouns do not always _prevent_ the repetition of nouns."--_Id._
"Very is an adverb of _degree_; it _relates_ to the adjective
_good_"--_Id._ "You will please to commit to _memory_ the following
paragraph."--_Id._ "Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs _form_ some of
their tenses _by means of auxiliaries._"--_L. Mur. cor._ "The deponent
verbs in Latin _also employ auxiliaries_ to _form_ several of their
tenses."--_Id._ "I have no doubt he made as wise and true proverbs, as any
body has _made_ since."--_Id._ "_Monotonous delivery_ assumes as many set
forms, as _ever_ Proteus _did of fleeting_ shapes."--_Kirkham cor._ "When
words in apposition _are uttered_ in quick succession."--_Nixon cor._
"Where _many_ such sentences _occur in succession._"--_L. Mur. cor._
"Wisdom leads us to speak and _do_ what is most proper."--_Blair and L.
Murray cor._
"_Jul._ Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
_Rom._ Neither, fair saint, if either thee _displease._" Or:--
"Neither, fair saint, if either _thou_ dislike."--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--OF PASSIVE VERBS.
"_To us_, too, must be allowed the privilege of forming our own laws." Or:
"_We_ too must _have_ the privilege," &c.--_L. Murray cor._ "For not only
_is_ the use of all the ancient poetic feet _allowed_ [to] us," &c.--_Id.
et al. cor._ "By what code of morals _is the right or privilege denied
me_?"--_Bartlett cor._ "To the children of Israel alone, _has_ the
possession of it been denied."--_Keith cor._ "At York, all quarter _was
refused_ to fifteen hundred Jews."--_Id._ "He would teach the French
language in three lessons, provided _there were paid him_ fifty-five
dollars in advance."--_Prof. Chazotte cor._ "And when _it_ was demanded of
_him by_ the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come." Or: "And when
the _Pharisees demanded_ of him," &c.--_Bible cor._ "A book _has been
shown_ me."--_Dr. Campbell cor._ "To John Horne Tooke _admission was
refused_, only because he had been in holy orders."--_W. Duane cor._ "Mr.
Horne Tooke having taken orders, admission to the bar was refused
_him_."--_Churchill cor._ "Its reference to place is _disregarded_."--_Dr.
Bullions cor._ "What striking lesson _is taught_ by the tenor of this
history?"--_Bush cor._ "No less _a sum_ than eighty thousand pounds had
been left _him_ by a friend."--_Dr. Priestley cor._ "Where there are many
things to be done, _there_ must be allowed _to each_ its share of time and
labour."--_Dr. Johnson cor._ "Presenting the subject in a far more
practical form, than _has heretofore been given it_."--_Kirkham cor._ "If
_to_ a being of entire impartiality should be shown the two
companies."--_Dr. Scott cor._ "The command of the British army was offered
_to him_."--_Grimshaw cor._ "_To whom_ a considerable sum had been
unexpectedly left."--_Johnson cor._ "Whether such a privilege may be
granted _to_ a maid or a widow."--_Spect. cor._ "Happily, _to_ all these
affected terms, the public suffrage _has_ been denied."--_Campbell cor._
"Let the _parsing table_ next be _shown him_."--_Nutting cor._ "_Then_ the
use of the _analyzing table_ may be _explained to him_."--_Id._ "_To_
Pittacus _there_ was offered a great sum of money."--_Sanborn cor._ "More
time for study had been allowed _him_."--_Id._ "If a little care were
_bestowed on the walks_ that lie between them."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 222.
"Suppose an office or a bribe _be_ offered _me_."--_Pierpont cor._
"_Is then_ one chaste, one last embrace _denied_?
Shall I not lay me by his clay-cold side?"--_Rowe cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--OF PASSIVE VERBS TRANSITIVE.
"The preposition TO is _used_ before nouns of place, when they follow verbs
_or_ participles of motion."--_Murray et al. cor._ "They were _not allowed
to enter_ the house."--_Mur. cor._ "Their separate signification has been
_overlooked_."--_Tooke cor._ "But, whenever YE is _used_, it must be in the
nominative case, and _not_ in the objective."--_Cobbett cor._ "It is said,
that more persons than one _receive_ handsome salaries, to see _that_ acts
of parliament _are_ properly worded."--_Churchill cor._ "The following
Rudiments of English Grammar have been _used_ in the University of
Pennsylvania."--_Dr. Rogers cor._ "It never should be _forgotten_."--
_Newman cor._ "A very curious fact _has been noticed_ by those expert
metaphysicians."--_Campbell cor._ "The archbishop interfered that
Michelet's lectures might be _stopped_."--_The Friend cor._ "The
disturbances in Gottengen have been entirely _quelled_."--_Daily Adv. cor._
"Besides those _which are noticed_ in these exceptions."--_Priestley cor._
"As one, two, or three auxiliary verbs are _employed_."--_Id._ "The
arguments which have been _used_."--_Addison cor._ "The circumstance is
properly _noticed_ by the author."--_Blair cor._ "Patagonia has never been
taken _into possession_ by any European nation."--_Cumming cor._ "He will
be _censured_ no more."--_Walker cor._ "The thing was to be _terminated_
somehow."--_Hunt cor._ "In 1798, the Papal Territory was _seized_ by the
French."--_Pinnock cor._ "The idea has not for a moment _escaped the
attention_ of the Board."--_C. S. Journal cor._ "I shall easily be excused
_from_ the labour of more transcription."--_Johnson cor._ "If I may be
allowed _to use_ that expression."--_Campbell cor._ "If without offence I
may _make_ the observation."--_Id._ "There are other characters, which are
frequently _used_ in composition."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "Such unaccountable
infirmities might be _overcome_, in many cases, _and_ perhaps in
most."--_Beattie cor._ "Which ought never to be _employed_, or _resorted
to_."--_Id._ "That _care_ may be taken _of the widows_." Or: "That the
widows may be _provided for_."--_Barclay cor._ "Other cavils will yet be
_noticed_."--_Pope cor._ "Which implies, that _to_ all Christians _is_
eternal salvation _offered_."--_West cor._ "Yet even the dogs are allowed
_to eat_ the crumbs which fall from their master's table."--_Campbell cor._
"For we say, the light within must be _heeded_."--_Barclay cor._ "This
sound of _a_ is _noticed_ in Steele's Grammar."--_J. Walker cor._ "One came
to _receive_ ten guineas for a pair of silver buckles."--_M. Edgeworth
cor._ "Let therefore the application of the several questions in the table
be carefully _shown_ [to] _him_."--_Nutting cor._ "After a few times, it is
no longer _noticed_ by the hearers."--_Sheridan cor._ "It will not admit of
the same excuse, nor _receive_ the same indulgence, _from_ people of any
discernment."--_Id._ "Of inanimate things, property may be made." Or:
"Inanimate things may be made property;" i.e., "may _become_
property."--_Beattie cor._
"And, when _some rival bids a higher_ price,
Will not be sluggish in the work, _or_ nice."--_Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--OF PERFECT PARTICIPLES.
"All the words _employed_ to denote spiritual _or_ intellectual things, are
in their origin _metaphors_."--_Dr. Campbell cor._ "A reply to an argument
commonly _brought forward_ by unbelievers."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "It was once
the only form _used_ in the _past_ tenses."--_Dr. Ash cor._ "Of the points
and other characters _used_ in writing."--_Id._ "If THY be the personal
pronoun _adopted_."--_Walker cor._ "The Conjunction is a word _used_ to
connect [words or] sentences."--_Burn cor._ "The points _which_ answer
these purposes, are the four following."--_Harrison cor._ "INCENSE
signifies _perfume_ exhaled by fire, and _used_ in religious
ceremonies."--_L. Mur. cor._ "In most of his orations, there is too much
art; _he carries it even to_ ostentation."--_Blair cor._ "To illustrate the
great truth, so often _overlooked_ in our times."--_C. S. Journal cor._
"The principal figures _calculated_ to affect the heart, are Exclamation,
Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation."--_Formey cor._
"Disgusted at the odious artifices _employed_ by the judge."--_Junius cor._
"_All the_ reasons _for which there was allotted to us_ a condition out of
which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise."--_Bp. Butler
cor._ "Some characteristical circumstance being generally invented or
_seized upon_."--_Ld. Kames cor._
"And BY is likewise used with names that shew
The method or the means of _what we do_."--_Ward cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.
"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as _do_
adjectives."--_Priestley cor._ "But the author who, by the number and
reputation of his works, _did_ more than any one _else, to bring_ our
language into its present state, _was_ Dryden."--_Blair cor._ "In some
states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor _do_ courts of chancery
_employ any_ at all."--_Webster cor._ "I feel grateful to my
friend."--_Murray cor._ "This requires a writer to have _in his own mind_ a
very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to
us."--_Blair cor._ "Sense has its own harmony, _which naturally contributes
something to the harmony of_ sound."--_Id._ "The apostrophe denotes the
omission of an _i_, which was formerly inserted, and _which gave to the
word an additional_ syllable."--_Priestley cor._ "There are few _to whom_ I
can refer with more advantage than _to_ Mr. Addison."--_Blair cor._ "DEATH,
(in _theology_,) is a perpetual separation from God, a _state of_ eternal
torments."--_Webster cor._ "That could inform the _traveller_ as well as
_could_ the old man himself!"--_O. B. Peirce cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--OF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.
"Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird _you_ with sackcloth."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, and
the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE: _Jer._, xlix, 3. "Wash _you_, make you
clean."--SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: _Isaiah_, i, 16. "Strip _you_, and
make _you_ bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET
AL.: _Isaiah_, xxxii, 11. "_Ye_ are not ashamed that _ye_ make yourselves
strange to me."--SCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY: _Job_, xix, 3. "If _ye_ knew
the gift of God." Or: "If _thou_ knew the gift of God."--See _John_, iv,
10. "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know _you_ not."--_Penington
cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF PROPER IDENTITY.
"Who would not say, 'If it be _I_,' rather than, 'If it be
_me_?"--_Priestley cor._ "Who is there? It is _I_."--_Id._ "It is
_he_."--_Id._ "Are these the houses you were speaking of? Yes; they are
_the same_."--_Id._ "It is not _I, that_ you are in love with."--_Addison
cor._ "It cannot be _I_."--_Swift cor._ "To that which once was
_thou_."--_Prior cor._ "There is but one man that she can have, and that
_man_ is _myself_."--_Priestley cor._ "We enter, as it were, into his body,
and become in some measure _he_." Or, better:--"and become in some measure
_identified_ with him."--_A. Smith and Priestley cor._ "Art thou proud
yet? Ay, that I am not _thou_."--_Shak. cor._ "He knew not _who_ they
were."--_Milnes cor._ "_Whom_ do you think me to be?"--_Dr. Lowth's Gram._,
p. 17. "_Who_ do men say that I, the Son of man, am?"--_Bible cor._ "But
_who_ say ye that I am?"--_Id._ "_Who_ think ye that I am? I am not
he."--_Id._ "No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person _that_ I
supposed it was."--_Winter in London cor._ "And while it is _He that_ I
serve, life is not without value."--_Ware cor._ "Without ever dreaming it
was _he_."--_Charles XII cor._ "Or he was not the illiterate personage
_that_ he affected to be."--_Montgom. cor._ "Yet was he _the man_ who was
to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles."--_Barclay cor._ "Sweet was the
thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or _thou_."--_J. Hogg cor._
"Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was _I_."--_Dryden cor._ "No
matter where the vanquished be, _or who_."--_Rowe cor._ "No; I little
thought it had been _he_."--_Gratton cor._ "That reverence, that godly
fear, _which is ever due to_ 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in
hell.'"--_Maturin cor._ "It is _we_ that they seek to please, or rather to
astonish."--_J. West cor._ "Let the same be _her_ that thou hast appointed
for thy servant Isaac."--_Bible cor._ "Although I knew it to be
_him_."--_Dickens cor._ "Dear gentle youth, is't none but _thou_?"--_Dorset
cor._ "Who do they say it is?"--_Fowler cor._
"These are her garb, not _she_; they but express
Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress."--_More cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--OF THE CASE DOUBTFUL.
"I had no knowledge of _any connexion_ between them."--_Col. Stone cor._
"To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same _thing_, as _to be_ the
actors of it ourselves." (That is, "_For us_ to promote iniquity in others,
is nearly the same _thing_ as _for us_ to be the actors of it
_ourselves_.")--_Murray cor._ "It must arise from _a delicate_ feeling _in_
ourselves."--_Blair and Murray cor._ "_Because there has not_ been
exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."--_Mass.
Legisl. cor._ "PUPILAGE, _n._ The state of a _pupil_, or
scholar."--_Dictionaries cor._ "Then the other _part_, being the
_definition, would include_ all verbs, of every description."--_Peirce
cor._ "John's _friendship for me_ saved me from inconvenience."--_Id._
"William's _judgeship_"--or, "William's _appointment to the office of_
judge,--changed his whole demeanour."--_Id._ "William's _practical
acquaintance with teaching_, was the cause of the interest he felt."--_Id._
"_To be_ but one among many, stifleth the chidings of conscience."--_Tupper
cor._ "As for _the opinion that it is_ a close translation, I doubt not
that many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."--_Pope
cor._ "All presumption _that death is_ the destruction of living beings,
must go upon _the_ supposition that they are compounded, and _therefore_
discerptible."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "This argues rather _that they are_
proper names."--_Churchill cor._ "But may it not be retorted, that _this
gratification itself_, is that which excites our resentment?"--_Campbell
cor._ "Under the common notion, _that it is_ a system of the whole poetical
art."--_Blair cor._ "Whose _want of_ time, or _whose_ other circumstances,
forbid _them to become_ classical scholars."--_Lit. Jour. cor._ "It would
_prove him not to have been a mere_ fictitious personage." Or: "It would
preclude the notion _that he was merely a_ fictitious personage."--_Phil.
Mu. cor._ "For _heresy_, or under pretence _that they are_ heretics or
infidels."--_Oath cor._ "We may here add Dr. Horne's sermon on _Christ, as
being_ the Object of religious adoration."--_Rel. World cor._ "To say
nothing of Dr. _Priestley, as being_ a strenuous advocate," &c.--_Id._
"_Through the agency of Adam, as being_ their public head." Or: "_Because
Adam was_ their public head."--_Id._ "Objections against _the existence of_
any such moral plan as this."--_Butler cor._ "A greater instance of a _man_
being a blockhead."--_Spect. cor._ "We may insure or promote _what will
make it_ a happy state of existence to ourselves."--_Gurney cor._ "_Since
it often undergoes_ the same kind of unnatural treatment."--_Kirkham cor._
"Their _apparent_ foolishness"--"Their _appearance of foolishness_"--or,
"_That they appear_ foolishness,--is no presumption against this."--_Butler
cor._ "But what arises from _them_ as being offences; i.e., from their
_liability_ to be perverted."--_Id._ "And he _went_ into _the_ house _of_ a
certain man named Justus, one that _worshiped_ God."--_Acts cor._
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 Cæsar, 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 næves 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.