"There never was exhibited _an other such_ masterpiece of ghostly
assurance."--_Id._ "After the _first three_ sentences, the question is
entirely lost."--_Spect. cor._ "The _last four_ parts of speech are
commonly called particles."--_Al. Murray cor._ "The _last two_ chapters
will not be found deficient in this respect."--_Todd cor._ "Write upon your
slates a list of the _first ten_ nouns."--_J. Abbott cor._ "We have a few
remains of _two other_ Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and
Bion."--_Blair cor._ "The _first nine_ chapters of the book of Proverbs are
highly poetical."--_Id._ "For, of these five heads, only the _first two_
have any particular relation to the sublime."--_Id._ "The resembling sounds
of the _last two_ syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole."--_Kames
cor._ "The _last three_ are arbitrary."--_Id._ "But in the _sentence_, 'She
hangs the curtains,' _hangs_ is an _active-transitive_ verb."--_Comly cor._
"If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of _active-transitive,
active-intransitive_, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly
understood."--_Id._ "These _last two lines_ have an embarrassing
construction."--_Rush cor._ "God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah
and _seven other_ persons."--_Wood cor._ "The _first six_ books of the
Æneid are extremely beautiful."--_Formey cor._ "_Only_ a few instances
_more_ can _here_ be given."--_Murray cor._ "A few years _more_ will
obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form."--_Nutting cor._ "Some
define them to be verbs devoid of the _first two_ persons."--_Crombie cor._
"In _an other such_ Essay-tract as this."--_White cor._ "But we fear that
not _an other such_ man is to be found."--_Edward Irving cor._ "_O for an
other such_ sleep, that I might see _an other such_ man!" Or, to preserve
poetic measure, say:--
"_O for such_ sleep _again_, that I might see
_An other such_ man, _though but in a dream_!"--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE X.--ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.
"_The_ is an article, relating to the noun _balm, agreeably_ to Rule
11th."--_Comly cor._ "_Wise_ is an adjective, relating to the noun _man's,
agreeably_ to Rule 11th."--_Id._ "To whom I observed, that the beer was
_extremely_ good."--_Goldsmith cor._ "He writes _very elegantly_." Or: "He
writes _with remarkable elegance_."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "John behaves
_very civilly_ (or, _with true civility_) to all men."--_Id._ "All the
sorts of words hitherto considered, have each of them some meaning, even
when taken _separately_."--_Beattie cor._ "He behaved himself _conformably_
to that blessed example."--_Sprat cor._ "_Marvellously_ graceful."--
_Clarendon cor._ "The Queen having changed her ministry, _suitably_ to her
wisdom."--_Swift cor._ "The assertions of this author are _more easily_
detected."--_Id._ "The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no
_more strongly_ than that."--_Bentley cor._ "If one author had spoken _more
nobly_ and _loftily_ than an other."--_Id._ "Xenophon says _expressly_."--
_Id._ "I can never think so very _meanly_ of him."--_Id._ "To convince all
that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have
_impiously_ committed."--_Bible cor._ "I think it very _ably_ written." Or:
"I think it written _in a_ very masterly _manner_."--_Swift cor._ "The
whole design must refer to the golden age, which it represents _in a_
lively _manner_."--_Addison cor._ "_Agreeably_ to this, we read of names
being blotted out of God's book."--_Burder et al. cor._ "_Agreeably_ to the
law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent
parents."--_Paley_. "Words taken _independently_ of their meaning, are
parsed as nouns of the neuter gender."--_Maltby cor._
"Conceit in weakest bodies _strongliest_ works."--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE XI.--THEM FOR THOSE.
"Though he was not known by _those_ letters, or the name CHRIST."--_Bayly
cor._ "In a gig, or some of _those_ things." Better: "In a gig, or _some
such vehicle_."--_M. Edgeworth cor._ "When cross-examined by _those_
lawyers."--_Same_. "As the custom in _those_ cases is."--_Same_. "If you
_had_ listened to _those_ slanders."--_Same_. "The old people were telling
stories about _those_ fairies; but, to the best of my _judgement_, there is
nothing in _them_."--_Same_. "And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no
better authority to substantiate their principles, than the testimony of
_those_ old Pharisees?"--_Hibbard cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.--THIS AND THAT.
"Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear: _that_ is the
anticipation of good, _this_ of evil."--_Inst._, p. 265. "The poor want
some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account
_these_ happy, and _those_ miserable."--_Inst._, p. 266.
"Ellen and Margaret, fearfully,
Sought comfort in each other's eye;
Then turned their ghastly look each one,
_That_ to her sire, _this_ to her son."--_Scott cor._
"Six youthful sons, as many blooming maids,
In one sad day beheld the Stygian shades;
_Those_ by Apollo's silver bow were slain,
_These_ Cynthia's arrows stretch'd upon the plain."--_Pope cor._
"Memory and forecast just returns engage,
_That_ pointing back to youth, _this_ on to age."--_Pope, on Man_.
UNDER NOTE XIII.--EITHER AND NEITHER.
"These make the three great subjects of discussion among mankind; _namely_,
truth, duty, and interest: but the arguments directed towards _any_ of them
are generically distinct."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "A thousand other deviations
may be made, and still _any_ of _the accounts_ may be correct in principle;
for _all_ these divisions, and their technical terms, are arbitrary."--_R.
W. Green cor._ "Thus it appears, that our alphabet is deficient; as it has
but seven vowels to represent thirteen different sounds; and has no letter
to represent _any_ of five simple consonant sounds."--_Churchill cor._
"Then _none_ of these five verbs can be neuter."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "And
the _assertor_[534] is in _none_ of the four already mentioned."--_Id._ "As
it is not in any of these four."--_Id._ "See whether or not the word comes
within the definition of _any_ of the other three simple cases."--_Id._ "No
one of the ten was there."--_Frazee cor._ "Here are ten oranges, take _any
one_ of them."--_Id._ "There are three modes, by _any_ of which
recollection will generally be supplied; inclination, practice, and
association."--_Rippingham cor._ "Words not reducible to _any_ of the three
preceding heads."--_Fowler cor._ "Now a sentence may be analyzed in
reference to _any_ of these four classes."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE XIV.--WHOLE, LESS, MORE, AND MOST.
"Does not all proceed from the law, which regulates _all the_ departments
of the state?"--_Blair cor._ "A messenger relates to Theseus _all the_
particulars."--_Ld. Kames cor._ "There are no _fewer_ than twenty-_nine_
diphthongs in the English language."--_Ash cor._ "The Redcross Knight runs
through _all the_ steps of the Christian life."--_Spect. cor._ "There were
not _fewer_ than fifty or sixty persons present."--_Mills and Merchant
cor._ "Greater experience, and _a_ more cultivated _state of_ society,
abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of
expression."--_Blair and Murray cor._ "By which means, knowledge, _rather_
than oratory, _has_ become the principal requisite."--_Blair cor._ "No
_fewer_ than seven illustrious cities disputed the right of having given
birth to the greatest of poets."--_Lempriere cor._ "Temperance, _rather_
than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases."--_Murray
cor._ "I do not suppose, that we Britons _are more deficient_ in genius
than our neighbours."--_Id._ "In which, he _says_, he has found no _fewer_
than twelve untruths."--_Barclay cor._ "The several places of rendezvous
were concerted, and _all the_ operations _were_ fixed."--_Hume cor._ "In
these rigid opinions, _all the_ sectaries concurred."--_Id._ "Out of whose
modifications have been made _nearly all_ complex modes."--_Locke cor._
"The Chinese vary each of their words on no _fewer_ than five different
tones."--_Blair cor._ "These people, though they possess _brighter_
qualities, are not so proud as he is, nor so vain as she."--_Murray cor._
"It is certain, _that_ we believe _our own judgements_ more _firmly_, after
we have made a thorough inquiry into the _things_."--_Brightland cor._ "As
well as the whole course and _all the_ reasons of the operation."--_Id._
"Those rules and principles which are of _the greatest_ practical
advantage."--_Newman cor._ "And _all_ curse shall be _no more_."--_Rev.
cor._--(See _the Greek_.) "And death shall be _no more_."--_Id._ "But, in
recompense, we have _pleasanter_ pictures of ancient manners."--_Blair
cor._ "Our language has suffered _a greater number of_ injurious changes in
America, since the British army landed on our shores, than it had suffered
before, in the period of three centuries."--_Webster cor. "All the_
conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in
society."--_Ld. Kames cor._
UNDER NOTE XV.--PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES.
"To such as think the nature of it deserving _of_ their attention."--_Bp.
Butler cor._ "In all points, more deserving _of_ the approbation of their
readers."--_Keepsake cor._ "But to give way to childish sensations, was
unbecoming _to_ our nature."--_Lempriere cor._ "The following extracts are
deserving _of_ the serious perusal of all."--_The Friend cor._ "No inquiry
into wisdom, however superficial, is undeserving _of_ attention."--_Bulwer
cor._ "The opinions of illustrious men are deserving _of_ great
consideration."--_Porter cor._ "And resolutely keep its laws. Uncaring
_for_ consequences." Or:--"_Not heeding_ consequences."--_Burns cor._ "This
is an item that is deserving _of_ more attention."--_Goodell cor._
"Leave then thy joys, unsuiting _to_ such age:"--Or,
"Leave then thy joys _not suiting_ such an age,
To a fresh comer, and resign the stage."--_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE XVI.--FIGURE OF ADJECTIVES.
"The tall dark mountains and the _deep-toned_ seas."--_Dana_. "O! learn
from him To station _quick-eyed_ Prudence at the helm."--_Frost cor._ "He
went in a _one-horse_ chaise."--_David Blair cor._ "It ought to be, 'in a
_one-horse_ chaise.'"--_Crombie cor._ "These are marked with the
_above-mentioned_ letters."--_Folker cor._ "A _many-headed_
faction."--_Ware cor._ "Lest there should be no authority in any popular
grammar, for the perhaps _heaven-inspired_ effort."--_Fowle cor.
"Common-metre_ stanzas consist of four iambic lines; one of eight, and the
next of six syllables. They were formerly written in two
_fourteen-syllable_ lines."--_Goodenow cor. "Short-metre_ stanzas consist
of four iambic lines; the third of eight, the rest of six
syllables."--_Id._ "_Particular-metre_ stanzas consist of six iambic lines;
the third and sixth of six syllables, the rest of eight."--_Id.
"Hallelujah-metre_ stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the last two of
eight syllables, and the rest of six."--_Id. "Long-metre_ stanzas are
merely the union of four iambic lines, of ten syllables each."--_Id._ "A
majesty more commanding than is to be found among the rest of the
_Old-Testament_ poets."--_Blair cor._
"You, sulphurous and _thought-executed_ fires,
_Vaunt-couriers_ to _oak-cleaving_ thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, _all-shaking_ thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world!"--_Lear_, Act iii, Sc. 2.
CHAPTER V.--PRONOUNS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE X AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF AGREEMENT.
"The subject is to be joined with _its_ predicate."--_Wilkins cor._ "Every
one must judge of _his_ own feelings."--_Byron cor._ "Every one in the
family should know _his or her_ duty."--_Penn cor._ "To introduce its
possessor into that way in which _he_ should go."--_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ "Do
not they say, _that_ every true believer has the Spirit of God in
_him_?"--_Barclay cor._ "There is none in _his_ natural state righteous;
no, not one."--_Wood cor._ "If ye were of the world, the world would love
_its_ own."--_Bible cor._ "His form had not yet lost all _its_ original
brightness."--_Milton cor._ "No one will answer as if I were _his_ friend
or companion."--_Steele cor._ "But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem
_others_ better than _himself_."--_Bible cor._ "And let none of you imagine
evil in _his heart_ against his neighbour."--_Id._ "For every tree is known
by _its_ own fruit."--_Id._ "But she fell to laughing, like one out of
_his_ right mind."--_M. Edgeworth cor._ "Now these systems, so far from
having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make
_them_ worse."--_Wayland cor._ "And nobody else would make that city _his_
refuge any more."--_Josephus cor._ "What is quantity, as it respects
syllables or words? It is _the_ time which _a speaker occupies_ in
pronouncing _them_."--_Bradley cor._ "In such expressions, the adjective so
much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that _it is_ usually parsed as
such."--_Bullions cor._ "The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the
faster, the less weight _he_ carries." Or thus: "The tongue is like a
racehorse; the less weight _it_ carries, the faster _it_ runs."--_Addison,
Murray, et al. cor._ "As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which
could lift the greatest weight with _his_ jaws, one of them had several of
his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets."--_Newspaper cor._ "Every
body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which _he
thinks_ worthy of recording."--_Duchess D'Ab. cor._ "Every body trembled,
for _himself_, or _for his_ friends."--_Goldsmith cor._
"A steed comes at morning: no rider is there;
But _his_ bridle is red with the sign of despair."--_Campbell cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--PRONOUNS WRONG--OR NEEDLESS.
"Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle."--_Merchant cor._
"Or what man is there of you, _who_, if his son ask bread, will give him a
stone?"--_Bible cor._ "Who, in stead of going about doing good, are
perpetually intent upon doing mischief."--_Tillotson cor._ "Whom ye
delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate."--_Bible cor._
"Whom, when they had washed _her_, they laid in an upper chamber."--_Id._
"Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."--_Id._ "Whatever a man
conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct
propositions, and express clearly to others."--See _Blair's Rhet._, p. 93.
"But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has
chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action."--_Murray's
Gram._, i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."--_Barclay
cor._ "George _Fox's_ Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."--_Title cor._
"According to the _advice of the_ author of the Postcript
[sic--KTH]."--_Barclay cor._ "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their
meditations, as those Ethiopians _that were_ pictured _on Nemesis's_
pitcher."--_Bacon cor._ "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition
propounded with _the Sphynx's enigmas_."--_Id._ "Whoever believeth not
therein, shall perish."--_Koran cor._ "When, at _Sestius's_ entreaty, I had
been at his house."--_W. Walker cor._
"There high on _Sipylus's_ shaggy brow,
She stands, her own sad monument of wo."--_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--CHANGE OF NUMBER.
"So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave
_you_."--_Bible cor._ "Why do you plead so much for it? why do _you_ preach
it up?" Or: "Why do _ye_ plead so much for it? why do _ye_ preach it
up?"--_Barclay cor._ "Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, _thy_
darling."--_Edward's Gram. cor._ "You have my book, and I have _yours_;
i.e., _your_ book." Or thus: "_Thou hast_ my book, and I have _thine_;
i.e., _thy_ book."--_Chandler cor._ "Neither art thou such a one as to be
ignorant of what _thou_ art."--_Bullions cor._ "Return, thou backsliding
Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon
_thee_."--_Bible cor._ "The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the
fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give _thee_ warning."--_Ld. Kames cor.
"Wast_ thou born only for pleasure? _wast thou_ never to do any
thing?"--_Collier cor._ "Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and
_to_ give up _thy_ account."--_Barnes cor._ "And canst thou expect to
behold the resplendent glow of the Creator? would not such a sight
annihilate _thee_?"--_Milton cor._ "If the prophet had commanded thee to do
some great thing, _wouldst thou_ have refused?"--_C. S. Journal cor._ "Art
thou a penitent? evince _thy_ sincerity, by bringing forth fruits meet for
repentance."--_Vade-Mecum cor._ "I will call thee my dear son: I remember
all _thy_ tenderness."--_C. Tales cor._ "So do thou, my son: open _thy_
ears, and _thy_ eyes."--_Wright cor._ "I promise you, this was enough to
discourage _you_."--_Bunyan cor._ "Ere you remark an other's sin, Bid
_your_ own conscience look within."--_Gay cor._ "Permit that I share in thy
wo, The privilege _canst thou_ refuse?"--_Perfect cor._ "Ah! Strephon, how
_canst thou_ despise Her who, without thy pity, _dies_?"--_Swift cor._
"Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff;
And I must own, _thou'st_ measured out enough."--_Shenst. cor._
"This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity;
Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it _thee_."--_Swift cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--WHO AND WHICH.
"Exactly like so many puppets, _which_ are moved by wires."--_Blair cor._
"They are my servants, _whom_ I brought forth[535] out of the land of
Egypt."--_Leviticus_, xxv, 55. "Behold, I and the children _whom_ God hath
given me."--See _Isaiah_, viii, 18. "And he sent Eliakim, _who_ was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe."--_Isaiah_, xxxvii, 2. "In a short
time the streets were cleared of the corpses _which_ filled
them."--_M'Ilvaine cor._ "They are not of those _who_ teach things _that_
they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."--_Barclay cor._ "As a lion among
the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep;
_which_, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in
pieces."--_Bible cor._ "Frequented by every fowl _which_ nature has taught
to dip the wing in water."--_Johnson cor._ "He had two sons, one of _whom_
was adopted by the family of Maximus."--_Lempriere cor._ "And the ants,
_which_ are collected by the smell, are burned _with_ fire."--_The Friend
cor._ "They being the agents to _whom_ this thing was trusted."--_Nixon
cor._ "A packhorse _which_ is driven constantly _one way and the other_, to
_and from_ market."--_Locke cor._ "By instructing children, _whose_
affection will be increased."--_Nixon cor._ "He had a comely young woman,
_who_ travelled with him."--_Hutchinson cor._ "A butterfly, _who_ thought
himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a
beehive."--_Inst._, p. 267. "It is an enormous elephant of stone, _which_
disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower."--_Ware cor._
"He was met by a dolphin, _which_ sometimes swam before him, and sometimes
behind him."--_Edward's Gram. cor._
"That Cæsar's horse, _which_, as fame goes,
Had corns upon his feet and toes,
Was not by half so tender-hoof'd,
Nor trod upon the ground so soft."--_Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
"He instructed and fed the crowds _that_ surrounded him."--_Murray's Key_.
"The court, _which_ gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary." p.
187. "Nor does he describe classes of sinners _that_ do not exist."--_Mag.
cor._ "Because the nations among _which_ they took their rise, were not
savage."--_Murray cor._ "Among nations _that_ are in the first and rude
periods of society."--_Blair cor._ "The martial spirit of those nations
among _which_ the feudal government prevailed."--_Id._ "France, _which_ was
in alliance with Sweden."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 97. "That faction, in
England, _which_ most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions."--_Ib._
"We may say, 'the crowd _which_ was going up the street.'"--_Cobbett's E.
Gram._, ¶ 204. "Such members of the Convention _which_ formed this Lyceum,
as have subscribed this Constitution."--_N. Y. Lyceum cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--CONFUSION OF SENSES.
"_The name_ of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its
case."--_Kirkham cor._ "Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no
noun, properly so called, implies _the_ presence _of the thing
named_."--_Harris cor._ "_Boston_ is a proper noun, which distinguishes
_the city of Boston_ from other cities."--_Sanborn cor._ "_The word_
CONJUNCTION means union, or _the act of_ joining together. _Conjunctions
are_ used to join or _connect_ either words or sentences."--_Id._ "The word
INTERJECTION means _the act of throwing between. Interjections are_
interspersed among other words, to express _strong or sudden_
emotion."--_Id._ "_Indeed_ is composed of _in_ and _deed. The words_ may
better be written separately, as they formerly were."--_Cardell cor._
"_Alexander_, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is _employed_ to
distinguish _an individual only_."--_Jamieson cor._ "As an indication that
nature itself had changed _its_ course." Or:--"that _Nature herself_ had
changed her course."--_History cor._ "Of removing from the United States
and _their_ territories the free people of colour."--_Jenifer cor._ "So
that _gh_ may be said not to have _its_ proper sound." Or thus: "So that
_the letters, g_ and _h_, may be said not to have their proper
_sounds_."--_Webster cor._ "Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and
introduce _her_ to our children?"--_Maturin cor._ "The first question is
this: 'Is reputable, national, and present use, _which_, for brevity's
sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate _good use_, always uniform, [i.
e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in _its_ decisions?"--_Campbell cor._ "_In
personifications_, Time is always masculine, on account of _his_ mighty
efficacy; Virtue, feminine, _by reason of her_ beauty and
_loveliness_."--_Murray, Blair, et al. cor._ "When you speak to a person or
thing, the _noun or pronoun_ is in the second person."--_Bartlett cor._
"You now know the noun; for _noun_ means _name_."--_Id._ "_T_. What do you
see? _P_. A book. _T_. Spell _book_."--_R. W. Green cor._ "_T_. What do you
see now? _P_. Two books. _T_. Spell _books_."--_Id._ "If the United States
lose _their_ rights as a nation."--_Liberator cor._ "When a person or thing
is addressed or spoken to, the _noun or pronoun_ is in the second
person."--_Frost cor._ "When a person or thing is _merely_ spoken of, the
_noun or pronoun_ is in the third person."--_Id._ "The _word_ OX _also,
taking_ the same plural termination, _makes_ OXEN."--_Bucke cor._
"Hail, happy States! _yours_ is the blissful seat
Where nature's gifts and art's improvements meet."--_Everett cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--THE RELATIVE THAT.
(1.) "This is the most useful art _that_ men possess."--_L. Murray cor._
"The earliest accounts _that_ history gives us, concerning all nations,
bear testimony to these facts."--_Blair et al. cor._ "Mr. Addison was the
first _that_ attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of
taste."--_Blair cor._ "One of the first _that_ introduced it, was
Montesquieu."--_Murray cor._ "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent
_sermonizer that_ modern times have produced."--_Blair cor._ "The greatest
barber _that_ ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."--_Hart cor._
(2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same
_that_ are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are
derived."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 200. Better thus: "_The_ prepositions
_which_ are subjoined to nouns, _are_ generally the same _that_,"
&c.--_Priestley cor._ "The same proportions _that_ are agreeable in a
model, are not agreeable in a large building."--_Kames cor._ "The same
ornaments _that_ we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a
temple."--_Murray cor._ "The same _that_ John saw also in the
sun."--_Milton cor._
(3.) "Who can ever be easy, _that_ is reproached with his own ill
conduct?"--_T. à Kempis cor._ "Who is she _that_ comes clothed in a robe of
green?"--_Inst._, p. 267. "Who _that_ has either sense or civility, does
not perceive the vileness of profanity?"--_G. Brown_.
(4.) "The second person denotes the person or thing _that_ is spoken
to."--_Kirkham cor._ "The third person denotes the person or thing _that_
is spoken of."--_Id._ "A passive verb denotes action received, or endured
by the person or thing _that is signified by_ its nominative."--_Id._ "The
princes and states _that_ had neglected or favoured the growth of this
power."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "The nominative expresses the name of the
person or thing _that_ acts, or _that_ is the subject of
discourse."--_Hiley cor._
(5.) "Authors _that_ deal in long sentences, are very apt to be
faulty."--_Blair cor._ "Writers _that_ deal," &c.--_Murray cor._ "The
neuter gender denotes objects _that_ are neither male nor
female."--_Merchant cor._ "The neuter gender denotes things _that_ have no
sex."--_Kirkham cor._ "Nouns _that_ denote objects neither male nor female,
are of the neuter gender."--_Wells's Gram. of late_, p. 55. Better thus:
"_Those_ nouns _which_ denote objects _that are_ neither male nor female,
are of the neuter gender."--_Wells cor._ "Objects and ideas _that_ have
been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable
exercise to our faculties."--_Blair cor._ "Cases _that_ custom has left
dubious, are certainly within the grammarian's province."--_L. Murray cor._
"Substantives _that_ end in _ery_, signify action or habit."--_Id._ "After
all _that_ can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar
accurate."--_Id._ "Possibly, all _that_ I have said, is known and
taught."--_A. B. Johnson cor._
(6.) "It is a strong and manly style _that_ should chiefly be
studied."--_Blair cor._ "It is this [viz., _precision] that_ chiefly makes
a division appear neat and elegant."--_Id._ "I hope it is not I _that_ he
is displeased with."--_L. Murray cor._ "When it is this alone _that_
renders the sentence obscure."--_Campbell cor._ "This sort of full and
ample assertion, '_It is this that_,' is fit to be used when a proposition
of importance is laid down."--_Blair cor._ "She is not the person _that_ I
understood it to have been."--_L. Murray cor._ "Was it thou, or the wind,
_that_ shut the door?"--_Inst._, p. 267. "It was not I _that_ shut
it."--_Ib._
(7.) "He is not the person _that he_ seemed _to be_."--_Murray and
Ingersoll cor._ "He is really the person _that_ he appeared to be."--_Iid._
"She is not now the woman _that_ they represented her to have
been."--_Iid._ "An _only child_ is one _that_ has neither brother nor
sister; a _child alone_ is one _that_ is left by itself, _or
unaccompanied_."--_Blair, Jam., and Mur., cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--RELATIVE CLAUSES CONNECTED.
(1.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of a thing; (i. e.,) of whatever
we conceive to subsist, or of _whatever_ we _merely imagine_."--_Lowth
cor._ (2.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing _which_
exists, or of which we have any notion."--_Murray et al. cor._ (3.) "A
Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any person, place, or thing, that
exists, or _that_ we can have an idea _of_."--_Frost cor._ (4.) "A noun is
the name of any thing _which_ exists, or of which we form an
idea."--_Hallock cor._ (5.) "A Noun is the name of any person, place,
object, or thing, that exists, or _that_ we may conceive to exist."--_D. C.
Allen cor._ (6.) "The name of every thing _which_ exists, or of which we
can form a notion, is a noun."--_Fisk cor._ (7.) "An allegory is the
representation of some one thing by an other that resembles it, and _that_
is made to stand for it."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 150. (8.) "Had he exhibited
such sentences as contained ideas inapplicable to young minds, or _such as_
were of a trivial or injurious nature."--_L. Murray cor._ (9.) "Man would
have others obey him, even his own kind; but he will not obey God, _who_ is
so much above him, and who made him."--_Penn cor._ (10.) "But what we may
consider here, and _what_ few persons have _noticed_, is," &c.--_Brightland
cor._ (11.) "The compiler has not inserted _those_ verbs _which_ are
irregular only in familiar writing or discourse, and which are improperly
terminated by _t in stead_ of _ed_."--_Murray, Fisk, Hart, Ingersoll et
al., cor._ (12.) "The remaining parts of speech, which are called the
indeclinable parts, _and which_ admit of no variations, (or, _being words
that_ admit of no variations,) will not detain us long."--_Dr. Blair cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--THE RELATIVE AND PREPOSITION.
"In the temper of mind _in which_ he was then."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 102.
"To bring them into the condition _in which_ I am at present."--_Add. cor._
"In the posture _in which_ I lay."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 102. "In the sense
_in which_ it is sometimes taken."--_Barclay cor._ "Tools and utensils are
said to be right, when they _answer well_ the uses _for which_ they were
made."--_Collier cor._ "If, in the extreme danger _in which_ I now am," &c.
Or: "If, in _my present_ extreme danger," &c.--_Murray's Sequel_, p. 116.
"News was brought, that Dairus [sic--KTH] was but twenty miles from the
place _in which_ they then were."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Alexander, upon
hearing this news, continued four days _where_ he then was:" or--"_in the
place in which_ he then was."--_Id._ "To read in the best manner _in which
reading_ is now taught."--_L. Murray cor._ "It may be expedient to give a
few directions as to the manner _in which_ it should be studied."--_Hallock
cor._ "Participles are words derived from verbs, and convey an idea of the
acting of an agent, or the suffering of an object, with the time _at which_
it happens." [536]--_A. Murray cor._
"Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
_With which_ I serv'd my king, he would not _thus_,
In age, have left me naked to _my foes_."--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.--ADVERBS FOR RELATIVES. "In compositions _that are not
designed to be delivered in public_."--_Blair cor._ "They framed a
protestation _in which_ they repeated their claims."--_Priestley's Gram._,
p. 133; _Murray's_, 197. "Which have reference to _inanimate_ substances,
_in which_ sex _has no_ existence."--_Harris cor._ "Which denote substances
_in which_ sex never had existence."--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 26. "There is
no rule given _by which_ the truth may be found out."--_W. Walker cor._
"The nature of the objects _from which_ they are taken."--_Blair cor._
"That darkness of character, _through which_ we can see no heart:" [i. e.,
generous emotion.]--_L. Murray cor._ "The states _with which_ [or _between
which_] they negotiated."--_Formey cor._ "Till the motives _from which_ men
act, be known."--_Beattie cor._ "He assigns the principles _from which_
their power of pleasing flows."--_Blair cor._ "But I went on, and so
finished this History, in that form _in which_ it now appears."--_Sewel
cor._ "By prepositions we express the cause _for which_, the instrument by
which, _and_ the manner _in which_, a thing is done."--_A. Murray cor._
"They are not such in the language _from which_ they are derived."--_Town
cor._ "I find it very hard to persuade several, that their passions are
affected by words from _which_ they have no ideas."--_Burke cor._ "The
known end, then, _for which_ we are placed in a state of so much
affliction, hazard, and difficulty, is our improvement in virtue and
piety."--_Bp. Butler cor._
"Yet such his acts as Greeks unborn shall tell,
And curse the _strife in which_ their fathers fell."--_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE X.--REPEAT THE NOUN.
"Youth may be thoughtful, but _thoughtfulness in the young_ is not very
common."--_Webster cor._ "A proper name is _a name_ given to one person or
thing."--_Bartlett cor._ "A common name is _a name_ given to many things of
the same sort."--_Id._ "This rule is often violated; some instances of _its
violation_ are annexed."--_L. Murray et al. cor._ "This is altogether
careless writing. _Such negligence respecting the pronouns_, renders style
often obscure, and always inelegant."--_Blair cor._ "Every inversion which
is not governed by this rule, will be disrelished by every _person_ of
taste."--_Kames cor._ "A proper diphthong, is _a diphthong_ in which both
the vowels are sounded."--_Brown's Institutes_, p. 18. "An improper
diphthong, is _a diphthong_ in which only one of the vowels is
sounded."--_Ib._ "Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and _the_ descendants _of Jacob_,
are called Hebrews."--_Wood cor._ "In our language, _every word_ of more
than one syllable, has one of _its syllables_ distinguished from the rest
in this manner."--_L. Murray cor._ "Two consonants proper to begin a word,
must not be separated; as, fa-ble, sti-fle. But when _two consonants_ come
between two vowels, and are such as cannot begin a word, they must be
divided, as, ut-most, un-der."--_Id._ "Shall the intellect alone feel no
pleasures in its energy, when we allow _pleasures_ to the grossest energies
of appetite and sense?"--_Harris and Murray cor._ "No man has a propensity
to vice as such: on the contrary, a wicked deed disgusts _every one_, and
makes him abhor the author."--_Ld. Kames cor._ "The same _grammatical
properties_ that belong to nouns, belong also to pronouns."--_Greenleaf
cor._ "What is language? It is the means of communicating thoughts from one
_person_ to an other."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "A simple word is _a word_
which is not made up of _other words_."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "A compound
word is _a word_ which is made up of two or more words."--_Iid_. "When a
conjunction is to be supplied, _the ellipsis_ is called Asyndeton."--_Adam
cor._
UNDER NOTE XI.--PLACE OF THE RELATIVE.
"It gives _to words a meaning which_ they would not have."--_L. Murray
cor._ "There are in the English language many _words, that_ are sometimes
used as adjectives, and sometimes as adverbs."--_Id._ "Which do not more
effectually show the varied intentions of the mind, than do the
_auxiliaries which_ are used to form the potential mood."--_Id._ "These
_accents, which_ will be the subject of a following speculation, make
different impressions on the mind."--_Ld. Kames cor._ "And others differed
very much from the words _of the writers to whom_ they were
ascribed."--_John Ward cor._ "Where there is in the sense _nothing which_
requires the last sound to be elevated, an easy fall will be
proper."--_Murray and Bullions cor._ "In the last clause there is an
ellipsis of the verb; _and_, when you supply _it_, you find it necessary to
use the adverb _not, in lieu of no_."--_Campbell and Murray cor._ "_Study_
is _of the_ singular number, because _the_ nominative _I, with which_ it
agrees, _is singular_."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "John is the _person who_ is in
error, or thou art."--_Wright cor._ "For he hath made him, who knew no sin,
to be sin for us."--_Harrison's E. Lang._, p. 197.
"My friend, take that of _me, who_ have the power
To seal th' accuser's lips."--_Shakspeare cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.--WHAT FOR THAT.
"I had no idea but _that_ the story was true."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 268.
"The postboy is not so weary but _that_ he can whistle."--_Ib._ "He had no
intimation but _that_ the men were honest."--_Ib._ "Neither Lady Haversham
nor Miss Mildmay will ever believe but _that_ I have been entirely to
blame."--_Priestley cor._ "I am not satisfied but _that_ the integrity of
our friends is more essential to our welfare than their knowledge of the
world."--_Id._ "Indeed, there is in poetry nothing so entertaining or
descriptive, but _that an ingenious_ didactic writer may introduce _it_ in
some part of his work."--_Blair cor._ "Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he
had catched, let it slip out of his fingers: 'No creature,' says he, 'is so
contemptible but _that it_ may provide for its own safety, if it have
courage.'"--_Ld. Kames cor._
UNDER NOTE XIII.--ADJECTIVES FOR ANTECEDENTS.
"In narration, Homer is, at all times, remarkably concise, _and therefore_
lively and agreeable."--_Blair cor._ "It is usual to talk of a nervous, a
feeble, or a spirited style; which _epithets_ plainly _indicate the_
writer's manner of thinking."--_Id._ "It is too violent an alteration, if
any alteration were necessary, _whereas_ none is."--_Knight cor._ "Some men
are too ignorant to be humble; _and_ without _humility_ there can be no
docility."--_Berkley cor._ "Judas declared him innocent; _but innocent_ he
could not be, had he in any respect deceived the disciples."--_Porteus
cor._ "They supposed him to be innocent, _but_ he certainly was not
_so_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "They accounted him honest, _but_ he certainly
was not _so_."--_Felch cor._ "Be accurate in all you say or do; for
_accuracy_ is important in all the concerns of life."--_Brown's Inst._, p.
268. "Every law supposes the transgressor to be wicked; _and_ indeed he is
_so_, if the law is just."--_Ib._ "To be pure in heart, pious, and
benevolent, (_and_ all may be _so_,) constitutes human happiness."--_Murray
cor._ "To be dexterous in danger, is a virtue; but to court danger to show
_our dexterity_, is _a_ weakness."--_Penn cor._
UNDER NOTE XIV.--SENTENCES FOR ANTECEDENTS.
"This seems not so allowable in prose; which _fact_ the following erroneous
examples will demonstrate."--_L. Murray cor._ "The accent is laid upon the
last syllable of a word; which _circumstance_ is favourable to the
melody."--_Kames cor._ "Every line consists of ten syllables, five short
and five long; from which _rule_ there are but two exceptions, both of them
rare."--_Id._ "The soldiers refused obedience, _as_ has been
explained."--_Nixon cor._ "Caesar overcame Pompey--_a circumstance_ which
was lamented."--_Id._ "The crowd hailed William, _agreeably to the
expectations of his friends_."--_Id._ "The tribunes resisted Scipio, _who
knew their malevolence towards him_."--_Id._ "The censors reproved vice,
_and were held in great honour_."--_Id._ "The generals neglected
discipline, which _fact_ has been proved."--_Id._ "There would be two
nominatives to the verb _was, and such a construction_ is improper."--_Adam
and Gould cor._ "His friend bore the abuse very patiently; _whose
forbearance, however_, served _only_ to increase his rudeness; it produced,
at length, contempt and insolence."--_Murray and Emmons cor._ "Almost all
_compound_ sentences are more or less elliptical; _and_ some examples of
_ellipsis_ may be _found_, under _nearly all_ the different parts of
speech."--_Murray, Guy, Smith, Ingersoll, Fisk, et al. cor._
UNDER NOTE XV.--REPEAT THE PRONOUN.
"In things of Nature's workmanship, whether we regard their internal or
_their_ external structure, beauty and design are equally
conspicuous."--_Kames cor._ "It puzzles the reader, by making him doubt
whether the word ought to be taken in its proper, or _in its_ figurative
sense."--_Id._ "Neither my obligations to the muses, nor _my_ expectations
from them, are so great."--_Cowley cor._ "The Fifth Annual Report of the
_Antislavery_ Society of Ferrisburgh and _its_ vicinity."--_Title cor._
"Meaning taste in its figurative as well as _its_ proper sense."--_Kames
cor._ "Every measure in which either your personal or _your_ political
character is concerned."--_Junius cor._ "A jealous _and_ righteous God has
often punished such in themselves or _in their_ offspring."--_Extracts
cor._ "Hence their civil and _their_ religious history are
inseparable."--_Milman cor._ "Esau thus carelessly threw away both his
civil and _his_ religious inheritance."--_Id._ "This intelligence excited
not only our hopes, but _our_ fears likewise."--_Jaudon cor._ "In what way
our defect of principle, and _our_ ruling manners, have completed the ruin
of the national spirit of union."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Considering her
descent, her connexion, and _her_ present intercourse."--_Webster cor._
"His own and _his_ wife's wardrobe are packed up in a firkin."--_Parker and
Fox cor._
UNDER NOTE XVI.--CHANGE THE ANTECEDENT.
"The _sounds_ of _e_ and _o_ long, in _their_ due degrees, will be
preserved, and clearly distinguished."--_L. Murray cor._ "If any _persons_
should be inclined to think," &c., "the author takes the liberty to suggest
to _them_," &c.--_Id._ "And he walked in all the _way_ of Asa his father;
he turned not aside from _it_."--_Bible cor._ "If ye from your hearts
forgive not every one his _brethren their_ trespasses."--_Id._ "_None_ ever
fancied _they_ were slighted by him, or had the courage to think
_themselves_ his _betters_."--_Collier cor._ "And _Rebecca_ took _some very
good clothes_ of her eldest son _Esau's_, which _were_ with her in the
house, and put _them_ upon Jacob her younger son."--_Gen. cor._ "Where all
the attention of _men_ is given to _their_ own indulgence."--_Maturin cor._
"The idea of a _father_ is a notion superinduced to _that of_ the
substance, or man--let _one's idea of_ man be what _it_ will."--_Locke
cor._ "Leaving _all_ to do as they _list_."--_Barclay cor._ "Each _person_
performed his part handsomely."--_J. Flint cor._ "This block of marble
rests on two layers of _stones_, bound together with lead, which, however,
has not prevented the Arabs from forcing out several of _them_."--_Parker
and Fox cor._
"Love gives to _all our powers_ a double power,
Above their functions and their offices." Or:--
"Love gives to every power a double power,
_Exalts all_ functions and _all_ offices."--_Shak. cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XI; OF PRONOUNS.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.
"The jury will be confined till _they_ agree on a verdict."--_Brown's
Inst._, p. 145. "And mankind directed _their_ first cares towards the
needful."--_Formey cor._ "It is difficult to deceive a free people
respecting _their_ true interest."--_Life of Charles XII cor._ "All the
virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but _their_
follies and vices are innumerable."--_Swift cor._ "Every sect saith, 'Give
_us_ liberty:' but give it _them_, and to _their_ power, _and they_ will
not yield it to any body else."--_Cromwell cor._ "Behold, the people shall
rise up as a great lion, and lift up _themselves_ as a young lion."--_Bible
cor._ "For all flesh had corrupted _their_ way upon the earth."--_Id._
"There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put _them_ in
great consternation."--_Goldsmith cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--THE IDEA OF UNITY.
"The meeting went on _with its_ business as a united body."--_Foster cor._
"Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for
_itself_."--_Gould cor._ "It would therefore be extremely difficult to
raise an insurrection in that state against _its_ own government."--_Dr.
Webster cor._ "The mode in which a lyceum can apply _itself_ in effecting a
reform in common schools."--_N. Y. Lyc. cor._ "Hath a nation changed _its_
gods, which yet are no gods?"--_Jer. cor._ "In the holy Scriptures, each of
the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch
from whom _it_ descended." Or better:--"from whom _the tribe_
descended."--_Adams cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER.
"A nation, by the reparation of _the wrongs which it has done_, achieves a
triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give."--_Adams cor._
"The English nation, from _whom_ we descended, have been gaining their
liberties inch by inch."--_Webster cor._ "If a Yearly Meeting should
undertake to alter _its_ fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the
society to prevent _it from_ doing so?"--_Foster's Rep. cor._ "There
is[537] a generation that _curse_ their father, and _do_ not bless their
mother."--_Bible cor._ "There is[537] a generation that are pure in their
own eyes, and yet _are_ not washed from their filthiness."--_Id._ "He hath
not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel:
the Lord _their_ God is with _them_, and the shout of a king is among
them."--_Id._ "My people _have_ forgotten me, they have burnt incense to
vanity."--_Id._ "When a quarterly meeting _has_ come to a _judgement_
respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to
_it_" &c.--_Discip. cor._ "The number of such compositions is every day
increasing, and it _appears_ to be limited only by the pleasure or _the
convenience_ of _writers_."--_Booth cor._ "The Church of Christ _has_ the
same power now as ever, and _is_ led by the same spirit into the same
practices."--_Barclay cor._ "The army, whom _their_ chief had thus
abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march." Or thus: "The army,
_which its_ chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile _its_ miserable
march."--_Lockhart cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY AND.
"Discontent and sorrow manifested _themselves_ in his
countenance."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 146. "Both conversation and public
speaking became more simple and plain, such as we now find _them_."--_Blair
cor._ "Idleness and ignorance, _if they_ be suffered to proceed,
&c."--_Johnson and Priestley cor._ "Avoid questions and strife: _they show_
a busy and contentious disposition."--_Penn cor._ "To receive the gifts and
benefits of God with thanksgiving, and witness _them_ blessed and
sanctified to us by the word and prayer, is owned by us."--_Barclay cor._
"Both minister and magistrate are compelled to choose between _their_ duty
and _their_ reputation."--_Junius cor._ "All the sincerity, truth, and
faithfulness, or disposition of heart or conscience to approve _them_,
found among rational creatures, necessarily originate from God."--_Rev. J.
Brown cor._ "Your levity and heedlessness, if _they_ continue, will prevent
all substantial improvement."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 269. "Poverty and
obscurity will oppress him only who esteems _them_ oppressive."--_Ib._
"Good sense and refined policy are obvious to few, because _they_ cannot be
discovered but by a train of reflection."--_Ib._ "Avoid haughtiness of
behaviour, and affectation of manners: _they imply_ a want of solid
merit."--_Ib._ "If love and unity continue, _they_ will make you partakers
of one an other's joy."--_Ib._ "Suffer not jealousy and distrust to enter:
_they_ will destroy, like a canker, every germ of friendship."--_Ib._
"Hatred and animosity are inconsistent with Christian charity: guard,
therefore, against the slightest indulgence of _them_."--_Ib._ "Every man
is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does
not pervert _them_ to the injury of others."--_Ib._
"With the azure and vermilion
_Which are_ mix'd for my pavilion."--_Byron cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.
"Neither prelate nor priest can give _his_ [flock or] flocks any decisive
evidence that you are lawful pastors."--_Brownlee cor._ "And is there a
heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within _him_?"--
_Maturin cor._ "This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a
salary for _its_ service to the body."--_Collier cor._ "If thy hand or thy
foot offend thee, cut _it_ off, and cast _it_ from thee."--_Bible cor._
"The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose
general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to _his_
reputation."--_Pope cor._ "Either James or John,--one _or the other_,--will
come."--_Smith cor._ "Even a rugged rock or _a_ barren heath, though in
_itself_ disagreeable, _contributes_, by contrast, to the beauty of the
whole."--_Kames cor._ "That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager
had behaved _himself_ right in this affair."--_Spect. cor._ "If an
Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, _suffers_ for _his_ opinions, _he is
a 'martyr.'_"--_Fuller cor._ "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that _he or
she_ die; then the ox _shall surely_ be stoned."--_Exod. cor._ "She was
calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring
_him_."--_Johnson cor._ "Here is a task put upon children, _which_ neither
this author _himself_, nor any other, _has_ yet undergone."--_R. Johnson
cor._ "Hence, if an adjective or _a_ participle be subjoined to the verb
when _the construction is singular, it_ will agree both in gender and _in_
number with the collective noun."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "And if you can
find a diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point _that_ out
too."--_Bucke cor._ "And if you can find a trissyllable or a polysyllable,
point _it_ out."--_Id._ "The false refuges in which the atheist or the
sceptic _has_ intrenched _himself_."--_Chr. Spect. cor._ "While the man or
woman thus assisted by art, expects _his_ charms _or hers_ will be imputed
to nature alone."--_Opie cor._ "When you press a watch, or pull a clock,
_it answers_ your question with precision; for _it repeats_ exactly the
hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to
know."--_Bolingbroke cor._
"Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy,
Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary,
_Is_ in _his mansion_ monarch more than I."--_King cor._
CHAPTER VI.--VERBS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.
"Before you left Sicily, you _were reconciled_ to Verres."--_Duncan cor._
"Knowing that you _were_ my old master's good friend."--_Spect. cor._ "When
the judge _dares_ not act, where is the loser's remedy?"--_Webster cor._
"Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb
_extends_."--_Mur. cor._ "They presently dry without hurt, as myself _have_
often proved."--_R. Williams cor._ "Whose goings-forth _have_ been from of
old, from everlasting."--_Micah_, v, 2. "You _were_ paid to fight against
Alexander, not to rail at him."--_Porter cor._ "Where more than one part of
speech _are_ almost always concerned."--_Churchill cor._ "Nothing less than
murders, rapines, and conflagrations, _employs_ their thoughts." Or: "_No
less things_ than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, _employ_ their
thoughts."--_Duncan cor._ "I wondered where you _were_, my dear."--_Lloyd
cor._ "When thou most sweetly _singst_."--_Drummond cor._ "Who _dares_, at
the present day, avow himself equal to the task?"--_Gardiner cor._
"Every body _is_ very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."--_Byron
cor._ "As to what thou _sayst_ respecting the diversity of opinions."--_M.
B. cor._ "Thy nature, Immortality, who _knows_?"--_Everest cor._ "The
natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar,
_are_ called genders."--_Id._ "Some pains _have_ likewise been
taken."--_Scott cor._ "And many a steed in his stables _was_
seen."--_Penwarne cor._ "They _were_ forced to eat what never was esteemed
food."--_Josephus cor._ "This that _you_ yourself _have_ spoken, I desire
that they may take their oaths upon."--_Hutchinson cor._ "By men whose
experience best _qualifies_ them to judge."--_Committee cor._ "He _dares_
venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."--_Walton cor._
"If a gudgeon meet a roach, He _ne'er will_ venture to approach." Or thus:
"If a gudgeon _meets_ a roach, He _dares_ not venture to approach."--_Swift
cor._ "Which thou _endeavourst_ to establish to thyself."--_Barclay cor._
"But they pray together much oftener than thou _insinuat'st_."--_Id._ "Of
people of all denominations, over whom thou _presidest_."--_N. Waln cor._
"I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress _has_ been
astonishing."--_Chazotte cor._ "Which of these two kinds of vice _is the_
more criminal?"--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Every twenty-four hours _afford_ to us
the vicissitudes of day and night."--_Smith's False Syntax, New Gram._, p.
103. Or thus: "Every _period_ of twenty-four hours _affords_ to us the
vicissitudes of day and night."--_Smith cor._ "Every four years _add_ an
other day."--_Smith's False Syntax, Gram._, p. 103. Better thus: "Every
_fourth year adds_ an other day."--_Smith cor._ "Every error I could find,
_Has_ my busy muse employed."--_Swift cor._ "A studious scholar _deserves_
the approbation of his teacher."--_Sanborn cor._ "Perfect submission to the
rules of a school _indicates_ good breeding."--_Id._ "A comparison in which
more than two _are_ concerned."--_Lennie's Gram._, p. 78. "By the
facilities which artificial language _affords_ them."--_O. B. Peirce cor._
"Now thyself _hast_ lost both lop and top."--_Spencer cor._ "Glad tidings
_are_ brought to the poor."--_Campbell cor._ "Upon which, all that is
pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly _depends._"--_Sher. cor._
"No pains _have_ been spared to render this work complete."--_Bullions
cor._ "The United States _contain_ more than a twentieth part of the land
of this globe."--_Clinton cor._ "I am mindful that myself _am_
strong."--_Fowler cor._ "Myself _am_ (not _is_) weak;"--"Thyself _art_ (not
_is_) weak."--_Id._
"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest
Rises from clerical or city feast!"--_Pope cor._
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.
"Where _were_ you born? In London."--_Buchanan cor._ "There _are_ frequent
occasions for commas."--_Ingersoll cor._ "There necessarily _follow_ from
thence these plain and unquestionable consequences."--_Priestley cor._ "And
to this impression _contributes_ the redoubled effort."--_Kames cor._ "Or,
if he was, _were_ there no spiritual men then?"--_Barclay cor._ "So, by
these two also, _are_ signified their contrary principles."--_Id._ "In the
motions made with the hands, _consists_ the chief part of gesture in
speaking."--_Blair cor._ "_Dares_ he assume the name of a popular
magistrate?"--_Duncan cor._ "There _were_ no damages as in England, and so
Scott lost his wager."--_Byron cor._ "In fact, there _exist_ such
resemblances."--_Kames cor._ "To him _give_ all the prophets
witness."--_Acts_, x, 43. "That there _were_ so many witnesses and
actors."--_Addison cor._ "How _do_ this man's definitions stand
affected?"--_Collier cor._ "Whence _come_ all the powers and prerogatives
of rational beings?"--_Id._ "Nor _do_ the scriptures cited by thee prove
thy intent."--_Barclay cor._ "Nor _does_ the scripture cited by thee prove
the contrary."--_Id._ "Why then _citest_ thou a scripture which is so plain
and clear for it?"--_Id._ "But what _say_ the Scriptures as to respect of
persons among Christians?"--_Id._ "But in the mind of man, while in the
savage state, there _seem_ to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the
senses;"--_Robertson cor._ "What sounds _has_ each of the
vowels?"--_Griscom cor._ "Out of this _have_ grown up aristocracies,
monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies."--_Brownson cor._ "And there _were_
taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."--_Bible
cor._ "There _seem_ to be but two general classes."--_Day cor._ "Hence
_arise_ the six forms of expressing time."--_Id._ "There _seem_ to be no
other words required."--_Chandler cor._ "If there _are_ two, the second
increment is the syllable next to the last."--_Bullions cor._ "Hence
_arise_ the following advantages."--_Id._ "There are no data by which it
can be estimated."--_Calhoun cor._ "To this class, _belongs_ the Chinese
language, in which we have nothing but naked _primitives_."--_Fowler cor._
[[Fist] "Nothing but naked _roots_" is faulty; because no word is a _root_,
except some derivative spring from it."--G. B.] "There _were_ several other
grotesque figures that presented themselves."--_Spect. cor._ "In these
_consists_ that sovereign good which ancient sages so much
extol."--_Percival cor._ "Here _come_ those I have done good to against my
will."--_Shak. cor._ "Where there _are_ more than one auxiliary." Or:
"Where there _are_ more _auxiliaries_ than one."--_O. B. Peirce cor._
"On me to cast those eyes where _shines_ nobility."
--_Sidney cor._
"Here _are_ half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty."
--_Swift cor._
"Ah, Jockey, ill _advisest_ thou. I wis,
To think of songs at such a time as this."
--_Churchill cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--THE RELATIVE AND VERB.
"Thou, who _lovest_ us, wilt protect us still."--_A. Murray cor._ "To use
that endearing language, 'Our Father, who _art_ in heaven.'"--_Bates cor._
"Resembling the passions that _produce_ these actions."--_Kames cor._
"Except _dwarf, grief, hoof, muff_, &c., which _take s_ to make the
plural."--_Ash cor._ "As the cattle that _go_ before me, and the children,
be able to endure."--_Gen. cor._ "Where is the man who _dares_ affirm that
such an action is mad?"--_Dr. Pratt cor._ "The ninth book of Livy affords
one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that
_are_ anywhere to be met with."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "In some studies, too,
that relate to taste and fine writing, which _are_ our object," &c.--_Id._
"Of those affecting situations which _make_ man's heart feel for
man."--_Id._ "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore
that _speaks_."--_Id._ "It should assume that briskness and ease which
_are_ suited to the freedom of dialogue."--_Id._ "Yet they grant, that none
ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as _are_ truly
pious."--_Barclay cor._ "This letter is one of the best that _have_ been
written about Lord Byron."--_Hunt cor._ "Thus, besides what _were_ sunk,
the Athenians took above two hundred ships."--_Goldsmith cor._ "To have
made and declared such orders as _were_ necessary."--_Hutchinson cor._ "The
idea of such a collection of men as _makes_ an army."--_Locke cor._ "I'm
not the first that _has_ been wretched."--_Southern cor._ "And the faint
sparks of it which _are_ in the angels, are concealed from our
view."--_Calvin cor._ "The subjects are of such a nature, as _allows_ room
(or, as to _allow_ room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."--_Dr.
Blair cor._ "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as _is_
not to be found in the real examples of society."--_Formey cor._ "I do not
believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as _have_ been
attributed to him."--_Id._ "That shepherd, who first _taught_ the chosen
seed."--_Milton, P. L._, B. i, l. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and
warmth which _are_ allowed in popular eloquence."--_Dr. Blair cor._
"Ambition is one of those passions that _are_ never to be
satisfied."--_Home cor._ "Thou wast he that _led_ out and _brought_ in
Israel."--_Bible cor._ "Art thou the man of God, that _came_ from
Judah?"--_Id._
"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace
And wisdom, which alone _are_ truly fair."--_Milton cor._
"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,
While others sleep, thus _roamst_ the camp alone?"--_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.
"The literal sense of the words _is_, that the action had been done."--_Dr.
Murray cor._ "The rapidity of his movements _was_ beyond example."--_Wells
cor._ "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, _has_ nearly
superseded every thing else of the kind."--_Murray's Rec. cor._ "The
mechanism of clocks and watches _was_ totally unknown."--_Hume cor._ "The
_it_, together with the verb _to be, expresses a state_ of
being."--_Cobbett cor._ "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects
in some natural landscapes, _occasions neither_ confusion nor
fatigue."--_Kames cor._ "Such a clatter of sounds _indicates_ rage and
ferocity."--_Gardiner cor._ "One of the fields _makes_ threescore square
yards, and the other, only fifty-five."--_Duncan cor._ "The happy effects
of this fable _are_ worth attending to."--_Bailey cor._ "Yet the glorious
serenity of its parting rays, still _lingers_ with us."--_Gould cor._
"Enough of its form and force _is_ retained to render them
uneasy."--_Maturin cor._ "The works of nature, in this respect, _are_
extremely regular."--_Pratt cor._ "No small addition of exotic and foreign
words and phrases, _has_ been made by commerce."--_Bicknell cor._ "The
dialect of some nouns _is noticed_ in the notes."--_Milnes cor._ "It has
been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, _affords_
the means of debasement, or of perversion."--_Rush cor._ "By which means,
the order of the words _is_ disturbed."--_Holmes cor._ "The two-fold
influence of these and the others, _requires_ the _verb_ to be in the
plural form."--_Peirce cor._ "And each of these _affords_
employment."--_Percival cor._ "The pronunciation of the vowels _is_ best
explained under the rules relative to the consonants."--_Coar cor._ "The
judicial power of these courts _extends_ to all cases in law and
equity."--_Hall and Baker cor._ "One of you _has_ stolen my
money."--_Humorist cor._ "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of
pleasing, _produces_ satiety and disgust."--_Kames cor._ "It has been
alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, _tends_ to cramp the
mind."--_Hiley cor._ "Each of these _is_ presented to us in different
relations."--_Hendrick cor._ "The past tense of these verbs, (_should,
would, might, could_,) _is_ very indefinite with respect to
time."--_Bullions cor._ "The power of the words which are said to govern
this mood, _is_ distinctly understood."--_Chandler cor._
"And now, at length, the fated term of years
The world's desire _hath_ brought, and lo! the God appears."
--_Lowth cor._
"Variety of numbers still _belongs_
To the soft melody of _odes_, or _songs_."
--_Brightland cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.
"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, _is_
hardly granted to the same man."--_Johnson cor._ "To lay down rules for
these, _is_ as inefficacious."--_Pratt cor._ "To profess regard and act
_injuriously, discovers_ a base mind."--_L. Murray et al. cor._ "To magnify
to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely
_pleases_ the mind of man."--_Fisher cor._ "In this passage, '_according
as_' _is_ used in a manner which is very common."--_Webster cor._ "A CAUSE
DE, _is_ called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."--_Webster cor._
"To these _it is_ given to speak in the name of the Lord."--_The Friend
cor._ "While _wheat_ has no plural, _oats has_ seldom any
singular."--_Cobbett cor._ "He cannot assert that _ll_ (i.e., _double Ell_)
_is_ inserted in _fullness_ to denote the sound of _u_"--_Cobb cor._ "_Ch_,
in Latin, _has_ the power of _k_."--_Gould cor._ "_Ti_, before a vowel, and
unaccented, _has_ the sound of _si_ or _ci_."--_Id._ "In words derived from
French, as _chagrin, chicanery_, and _chaise, ch is sounded_ like
_sh_."--_Bucke cor._ "But, in the _words schism, schismatic_, &c., the _ch
is_ silent."--_Id._ "_Ph_, at the beginning of words, _is_ always sounded
like _f_."--_Bucke cor._ "_Ph has_ the sound of _f_ as in
_philosophy_."--_Webster cor._ "_Sh has_ one sound only, as in
_shall_."--_Id._ "_Th has_ two sounds."--_Id._ "_Sc_, before _a, o, u, or
r, has_ the sound of _sk_."--_Id._ "_Aw has_ the sound of _a_ in
_hall_."--_Bolles cor._ "_Ew sounds_ like _u_"--_Id._ "_Ow_, when both
_vowels are_ sounded, _has_ the _power_ of _ou in thou_."--_Id._ "_Ui_,
when both _vowels are_ pronounced in one syllable, _sounds_ like _wi short,
as_ in _languid_."--_Id._
"_Ui_ three _other sounds at least expresses_,
As _who hears_ GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, _confesses_."
--_Brightland cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.
"When each of the letters which compose this word, _has_ been
learned."--_Dr. Weeks cor._ "As neither of us _denies_ that both Homer and
Virgil have great beauties."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Yet neither of them _is_
remarkable for precision."--_Id._ "How far each of the three great epic
poets _has_ distinguished _himself_."--_Id._ "Each of these _produces_ a
separate, agreeable sensation."--_Id._ "On the Lord's day, every one of us
Christians _keeps_ the sabbath."--_Tr. of Iren. cor._ "And each of them
_bears_ the image of purity and holiness."--_Hope of Is. cor._ "_Was_
either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"--_Foster cor._
"Whilst neither of these letters _exists_ in the Eugubian
inscription."--_Knight cor._ "And neither of them _is_ properly termed
indefinite."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "As likewise of the several subjects, which
have in effect _their several verbs_:" or,--"_each of which has_ in effect
_its own verb_."--_Lowth cor._ "Sometimes, when the word ends in _s_,
neither of the signs _is_ used."--_A. Mur. cor._ "And as neither of these
manners _offends_ the ear."--_J. Walker cor._ "Neither of these two tenses
_is_ confined to this signification only."--_R. Johnson cor._ "But neither
of these circumstances _is_ intended here."--_Tooke cor._ "So that all are
indebted to each, and each _is_ dependent upon all."--_Bible Rep. cor._
"And yet neither of them _expresses_ any more action in this case, than
_it_ did in the other."--_Bullions cor._ "Each of these expressions
_denotes_ action."--_Hallock cor._ "Neither of these moods _seems_ to be
defined by distinct boundaries."--_Butler cor._ "Neither of these solutions
_is_ correct."--_Bullions cor._ "Neither _bears_ any sign of case at
all."--_Fowler cor._
"Each in _his_ turn, like Banquo's monarchs, _stalks._" Or:--
"_All_ in _their_ turn, like Banquo's monarchs, _stalk_."--_Byron cor._
"And tell what each _doth_ by _the_ other lose."--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.
"The quarrels of lovers _are but_ a renewal of love."--_Adam et al. cor._
"Two dots, one placed above the other, _are_ called _a Sheva."--Wilson
cor._ "A few centuries more or less _are_ a matter of small
consequence."--_Id._ "Pictures were the first step towards the art of
writing; _hieroglyphics were_ the second step."--_Parker cor._ "The
comeliness of youth _is_ modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and
dignity." Or, much better: "The _great ornaments_ of youth are,"
&c.--_Murray cor._ "Merit and good works _are_ the end of man's
motion."--_Bacon cor._ "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips _are_
parcel of the mind."--_Shak. cor._ "The clothing of the natives _was_ the
skins of wild beasts." Or thus: "The _clothes_ of the natives _were_ skins
of wild beasts."--_Hist. cor._ "Prepossessions in _favour_ of our _native_
town, _are_ not a matter of surprise."--_Webster cor._ "Two shillings and
sixpence _are_ half a crown, but not a half crown."--_Priestley and
Bicknell cor._ "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice,
and uniting in one sound, _are_ called a _diphthong_."--_Cooper cor._ "Two
or more sentences united together _are_ called a Compound Sentence."--_Day
cor._ "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire
proposition, _are_ called a Phrase."--_Id._ "But the common number of times
_is_ five." Or, to state the matter truly: "But the common number of
_tenses is six_."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "Technical terms, injudiciously
introduced, _are an other_ source of darkness in composition."--_Jamieson
cor._ "The United States _are_ the great middle division of North
America."--_Morse cor._ "A great cause of the low state of industry, _was_
the restraints put upon it."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 199; _Churchill's_,
414. "Here two tall ships _become_ the victor's prey."--_Rowe cor._ "The
expenses incident to an outfit _are_ surely no object."--_The Friend cor._
"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,
_Were_ all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."--_Milt. cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.
"Much _care_ has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."--_Inf. S.
Gr. cor._ "Not _fewer_ [years] than three years, are spent in attaining
this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three _years' time, is_
spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less _time_ than three
years, _is_ spent," &c.--_Gardiner cor._ "Where this night are met in state
Many _friends_ to gratulate His wish'd presence."--_Milton cor._ "Peace! my
darling, here's no danger, Here's no _ox anear_ thy bed."--_Watts cor._
"But _all_ of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy
ones."--_Coleridge cor._ "The old theorists' _practice_ of calling the
Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system
of naming words."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "Where _several sentences_ occur,
place them in the order _of the facts_."--_Id._ "And that _all the events_
in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."--_Kames cor.
"In regard to their_ origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though
equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events,
present one remarkable distinction."--_Adams cor._ "In these respects,
_man_ is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."--_Bp. Butler
cor._ "The _Scriptures_ are the oracles of God himself."--_Hooker cor._
"And at our gates are all _kinds_ of pleasant fruits."--_S. Song cor._ "The
_preterits_ of _pluck, look_, and _toss_, are, in speech, pronounced
_pluckt, lookt, tosst_."--_Fowler corrected_.
"Severe the doom that days _prolonged impose_,
To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!"--_Melmoth cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.
_1. Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style._ "Was it thou[538] that
_built_ that house?"--_Brown's Institutes_, Key, p. 270. "That boy _writes_
very elegantly."--_Ib. "Could_ not thou write without blotting thy
book?"--_Ib. "Dost_ not thou think--or, _Don't_ thou think, it will rain
to-day?"--_Ib. "Does_ not--or, _Don't_ your cousin intend to visit
you?"--_Ib._ "That boy _has_ torn my book."--_Ib._ "Was it thou that
_spread_ the hay?"--_Ib._ "Was it James, or thou, that _let_ him
in?"--_Ib._ "He _dares_ not say a word."--_Ib._ "Thou _stood_ in my way and
_hindered_ me."--_Ib._
"Whom _do_ I _see_?--Whom _dost_ thou _see_ now?--Whom _does_ he
_see_?--Whom _dost_ thou _love_ most?--What _art_ thou _doing_
to-day?--What person _dost_ thou _see_ teaching that boy?--He _has_ two new
knives.--Which road _dost_ thou _take_?--What child is he
_teaching_?"--_Ingersoll cor._ "Thou, who _mak'st_ my shoes, _sellst_ many
more." Or thus: "_You_, who _make_ my shoes, _sell_ many more."--_Id._
"The English language _has_ been much cultivated during the last two
hundred years. It _has_ been considerably polished and refined."--_Lowth
cor._ "This _style_ is ostentatious, and _does_ not suit grave
writing."--_Priestley cor._ "But custom _has_ now appropriated _who_ to
persons, and _which_ to things" [and brute animals].--_Id._ "The indicative
mood _shows_ or _declares something_; as, _Ego amo_, I love; or else _asks_
a question; as, _Amas tu_? Dost thou love?"--_Paul's Ac. cor._ "Though thou
_cannot_ do much for the cause, thou _may_ and _should_ do
something."--_Murray cor._ "The support of so many of his relations, was a
heavy tax: but thou _knowst_ (or, _you know_) he paid it
cheerfully."--_Id._ "It may, and often _does_, come short of
it."--_Murray^s Gram._, p. 359.
"'Twas thou, who, while thou _seem'd_ to chide,
To give me all thy pittance _tried_."--_Mitford cor._
2. _Forms adapted to the Solemn or Biblical Style_. "The Lord _hath
prepared_ his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom _ruleth_ over
all."--_Psalms_, ciii, 19. "Thou _answeredst_ them, O Lord our God; thou
_wast_ a God that forgave[539] them, though thou _tookest_ vengeance of
their inventions."--See _Psalms_, xcix, 8. "Then thou _spakest_ in vision
to thy Holy One, and _saidst_, I have laid help upon one that is
mighty."--_Ib._, lxxxix, 19. "'So then, it is not of him that _willeth_,
nor of him that _runneth_, but of God that _showeth_ mercy;' who
_dispenseth_ his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as _seemeth_
good in his sight."--_Christian Experience of St. Paul_, p. 344; see
_Rom._, ix, 16.
"Thou, the mean while, _wast_ blending with my thought;
Yea, with my life, and life's own secret joy."--_Coleridge cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.
"Who is here so base, that _he_ would be a bondman?"--_Shak. cor._ "Who is
here so rude, _he_ would not be a _Roman_?"--_Id._ "There is not a sparrow
_which_ falls to the ground without his notice." Or better: "_Not a
sparrow_ falls to the ground, without his notice."--_Murray cor._ "In order
to adjust them _in such a manner_ as shall consist equally with the
perspicuity and the strength of the period."--_Id. and Blair cor._ "But
sometimes there is a verb _which_ comes in." Better: "But sometimes there
is a verb _introduced_."--_Cobbett cor._ "Mr. Prince has a genius _which_
would prompt him to better things."--_Spect. cor._ "It is this _that_
removes that impenetrable mist."--_Harris cor._ "By the praise _which_ is
given him for his courage."--_Locke cor._ "There is no man _who_ would be
more welcome here."--_Steele cor._ "Between an antecedent and a consequent,
or what goes before, and _what_ immediately follows."--_Blair cor._ "And as
connected with what goes before and _what_ follows."--_Id._ "No man doth a
wrong for the wrong's sake."--_Bacon cor._ "All the various miseries of
life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence _or_ folly, and
_which_ might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of
this."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in
_favour_ of morality, so far at least as _it respects_ justice and goodness
towards our fellow-creatures."--_Fuller cor._ "Indeed, if there be any
such, _who_ have been, or _who_ appear to be of us, as suppose there is not
a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt
his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their _matters_."--_Barclay
cor._ "There were _some_ that drew back; there were _some_ that made
shipwreck of faith; yea, there were _some_ that brought in damnable
heresies."--_Id._ "The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether
proper; and, _under_ similar _circumstances, the orator's method_ is fit to
be imitated."--_Blair cor._ "This is an idiom to which our language is
strongly inclined, and _which_ was formerly very prevalent."--_Churchill
cor._ "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and _he_ seeth the place of
stones."--_Bible cor._
"New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.
Dear friend,
_I_ am sorry to hear of thy loss; but _I_ hope it may be retrieved. I
should be happy to render thee any assistance in my power. _I_ shall call
to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept assurances of my regard. A. B."
"New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.
Dear sir,
_I_ have just received the kind note _you_ favoured me with this morning;
and _I_ cannot forbear to express my gratitude to you. On further
information, _I_ find _I_ have not lost so much as _I_ at first supposed;
and _I_ believe _I_ shall still be able to meet all my engagements. _I_
should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial
thanks. C. D."
See _Brown's Institutes_, p. 271.
"Will martial flames forever fire thy mind,
And _wilt thou_ never be to Heaven resign'd?"--_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.--APPLICATION OF MOODS.
_First Clause of the Note.--The Subjunctive Present_.
"He will not be pardoned unless he _repent_."--_Inst._, p. 191. "If thou
_find_ any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me."--_Neef cor._
"If thou _leave_ the room, do not forget to shut that drawer."--_Id._ "If
thou _grasp_ it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt:" or, (familiarly,)--"thou
_will_ not be hurt."--_Id._ "On condition that he _come_, I will consent to
stay."--_Murray's Key_, p. 208. "If he _be_ but discreet, he will
succeed."--_Inst._, p. 280. "Take heed that thou _speak_ not to
Jacob."--_Gen._, xxxi, 24. "If thou _cast_ me off, I shall be
miserable."--_Inst._, p. 280. "Send them to me, if thou _please_."--_Ib._
"Watch the door of thy lips, lest thou _utter_ folly."--_Ib._ "Though a
liar _speak_ the truth, he will hardly be believed."--_Bartlett cor._ "I
will go, unless I _be_ ill."--_L. Murray cor._ "If the word or words
understood _be_ supplied, the true construction will be apparent."--_Id._
"Unless thou _see_ the propriety of the measure, we shall not desire thy
support."--_Id._ "Unless thou _make_ a timely retreat, the danger will be
unavoidable."--_Id._ "We may live happily, though our possessions _be_
small."--_Id._ "If they _be_ carefully studied, they will enable the
student to parse all the exercises."--_Id._ "If the accent _be_ fairly
preserved on the proper syllable, this drawling sound will never be
heard."--_Id._ "One phrase may, in point of sense, be equivalent to an
other, though its grammatical nature _be_ essentially different."--_Id._
"If any man _obey_ not our word by this epistle, note that man."--_2
Thess._, iii, 14. "Thy skill will be the greater, if thou _hit_
it."--_Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor._ "We shall overtake him, though he
_run_."--_Priestley et al. cor._ "We shall be disgusted, if he _give_ us
too much."--_Blair cor._
"What is't to thee, if he _neglect_ thy urn,
Or without spices _let_ thy body burn?"--_Dryden cor._
_Second Clause of Note IX.--The Subjunctive Imperfect_.[540]
"And so would I, if I _were_ he."--_Inst._, p. 191. "If I _were_ a Greek, I
should resist Turkish despotism."--_Cardell cor._ "If he _were_ to go, he
would attend to your business."--_Id._ "If thou _felt_ as I do, we should
soon decide."--_Inst._, p. 280. "Though thou _shed_ thy blood in the cause,
it would but prove thee sincerely a fool."--_Ib._ "If thou _loved_ him,
there would be more evidence of it."--_Ib._ "If thou _convinced_ him, he
would not act accordingly."--_Murray cor._ "If there _were_ no liberty,
there would be no real crime."--_Formey cor._ "If the house _were_ burnt
down, the case would be the same."--_Foster cor._ "As if the mind _were_
not always in action, when it prefers any thing."--_West cor._ "Suppose I
_were_ to say, 'Light is a body.'"--_Harris cor._ "If either oxygen or
azote _were_ omitted, life would be destroyed."--_Gurney cor._ "The verb
_dare is_ sometimes used as if it _were_ an auxiliary."--_Priestley cor._
"A certain lady, whom I could name, if it _were_ necessary."--_Spect. cor._
"If the _e were_ dropped, _c_ and _g_ would assume their hard
sounds."--_Buchanan cor._ "He would no more comprehend it, than if it
_were_ the speech of a Hottentot."--_Neef cor._ "If thou _knew_ the gift of
God," &c.--_Bible cor._ "I wish I _were_ at home."--_O. B. Peirce cor._
"Fact alone does not constitute right: if it _did_, general warrants were
lawful."--_Junius cor._ "Thou _lookst_ upon thy boy, as though thou
_guessed_ it."--_Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor._ "He fought as if he
_contended_ for life."--_Hiley cor._ "He fought as if he _were contending_
for his life."--_Id._
"The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf,
As if thou _shed for me_ a tear;
As if thou _knew_ my tale of grief,
_Felt_ all my sufferings severe."--_Letham cor._
_Last Clause of Note IX.--The Indicative Mood_.
"If he _knows_ the way, he does not need a guide."--_Inst._, p. 191. "And
if there _is_ no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to
be rejected."--_Murray cor._ "I cannot say that I admire this construction
though it _is_ much used."--_Priestley cor._ "We are disappointed, if the
verb _does_ not immediately follow it."--_Id._ "If it _was_ they, _that_
acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault."--_Murray cor._ "If art
_becomes_ apparent, it disgusts the reader."--_Jamieson cor._ "Though
perspicuity _is_ more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I
thought it better to include it in this book."--_Campbell cor._ "Although
the efficient cause _is_ obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies
open."--_Blair cor._ "Although the barrenness of language, or the want of
words, _is_ doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes."--_Id._ "Though
it _enforces_ not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater
variety."--_Id._ "In other cases, though the idea _is_ one, the words
remain quite separate."--_Priestley cor._ "Though the form of our language
_is_ more simple, and has that peculiar beauty."--_Buchanan cor._ "Human
works are of no significancy till they _are_ completed."--_Kames cor._ "Our
disgust lessens gradually till it _vanishes_ altogether."--_Id._ "And our
relish improves by use, till it _arrives_ at perfection."--_Id._ "So long
as he _keeps_ himself in his own proper element."--_Coke cor._ "Whether
this translation _was_ ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant."--_Sale
cor._ "It is false to affirm, 'As it is day, it is light,' unless it
actually _is_ day."--_Harris cor._ "But we may at midnight affirm, 'If it
_is_ day, it is light.'"--_Id._ "If the Bible _is_ true, it is a volume of
unspeakable interest."--_Dickinson cor._ "Though he _was_ a son, yet
learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."--_Bible cor._ "If
David then _calleth_ (or _calls_) him Lord, how is he his son?"--_Id._
"'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill
_Appears_ in writing, or in judging, ill."--_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE X.--FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.
"If a man _has built_ a house, the house is his."--_Wayland cor._ "If God
_has required_ them of him, as is the fact, he has time."--_Id._ "Unless a
previous understanding to the contrary _has been had_ with the
principal."--_Berrian cor._ "O! if thou _hast hid_ them in some flowery
cave."--_Milton cor._ "O! if Jove's will _has linked_ that amorous power to
thy soft lay."--_Id._ "SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou
loved."--_Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and
others_. "Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, _hath_ lent thee her
unfathomable coil."--_Tupper cor._ "Whether nature or art _contributes_
most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry."--_Blair cor._ "Year after
year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric _totters_ of
itself, and _at length crumbles_ into dust."--_Murray cor._ "If spiritual
pride _has_ not entirely vanquished humility."--_West cor._ "Whether he
_has_ gored a son, or _has_ gored a daughter."--_Bible cor._ "It is
doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, _relates_ to what
goes before or to what follows."--_Kames cor._
"And bridle in thy headlong wave,
Till thou our summons answer'd _hast_." Or:--
"And bridle in thy headlong wave,
Till thou _hast granted what we crave_."--_Milt. cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.
"The gentry _are_ punctilious in their etiquette."--_G. B_. "In France, the
peasantry _go_ barefoot, and the middle sort _make_ use of wooden
shoes."--_Harvey cor._ "The people _rejoice_ in that which should cause
sorrow."--_Murray varied_. "My people _are_ foolish, they have not known
me."--_Bible and Lowth cor._ "For the people _speak_, but _do_ not
write."--_Phil. Mu. cor._ "So that all the people that _were_ in the camp,
trembled."--_Bible cor._ "No company _like_ to confess that they are
ignorant."--_Todd cor._ "Far the greater part of their captives _were_
anciently sacrificed."--_Robertson cor._ "_More than_ one half of them
_were_ cut off before the return of spring."--_Id._ "The other class,
termed Figures of Thought, _suppose_ the words to be used in their proper
and literal meaning."--_Blair and Mur. cor._ "A multitude of words in their
dialect _approach_ to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent
assistance."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "A great majority of our authors _are_
defective in manner."--_J. Brown cor._ "The greater part of these
new-coined words _have_ been rejected."--_Tooke cor._ "The greater part of
the words it contains, _are_ subject to certain modifications _or_
inflections."--_The Friend cor._ "While all our youth _prefer_ her to the
rest."--_Waller cor._ "Mankind _are_ appointed to live in a future
state."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "The greater part of human kind _speak_ and
_act_ wholly by imitation."--_Rambler_, No. 146. "The greatest part of
human gratifications _approach_ so nearly to vice."--_Id._, No. 160.
"While still the busy world _are_ treading o'er
The paths they trod five thousand years before."--_Young cor._
UNDER THE NOTE.--THE IDEA OF UNITY.
"In old English, this species of words _was_ numerous."--_Dr. Murray cor._
"And a series of exercises in false grammar _is_ introduced towards the
end."--_Frost cor._ "And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, _was_
anciently called _homagium_, the homage, or manhood."--_Webster cor._ "With
respect to the former, there _is_ indeed _a_ plenty of means."--_Kames
cor._ "The number of school districts _has_ increased since the last
year."--_Throop cor._ "The Yearly Meeting _has_ purchased with its funds
these publications."--_Foster cor._ "_Has_ the legislature power to
prohibit assemblies?"--_Sullivan cor._ "So that the whole number of the
streets _was_ fifty."--_Rollin cor._ "The number of inhabitants _was_ not
more than four millions."--_Smollett cor._ "The house of Commons _was_ of
small weight."--_Hume cor._ "The assembly of the wicked _hath_ (or _has_)
inclosed me."--_Psal. cor._ "Every kind of convenience and comfort _is_
provided."--_C. S. Journal cor._ "Amidst the great decrease of the
inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy _has_ suffered no diminution;
but _it_ has rather been gradually increasing."--_Payne cor._ "Small as the
number of inhabitants _is_, yet their poverty is extreme."--_Id._ "The
number of the names _was_ about one hundred and twenty."--_Ware and Acts
cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF--THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.
"So much ability and [so much] merit _are_ seldom found."--_Mur. et al.
cor._ "The _etymology and syntax_ of the language _are_ thus spread before
the learner."--_Bullions cor._ "Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English
poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables _are_ the same
thing."--_Adams cor._ "Their general scope and tendency, having never been
clearly apprehended, _are_ not remembered at all."--_L. Murray cor._ "The
soil and sovereignty _were_ not purchased of the natives."--_Knapp cor._
"The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, _are_ infinitely
more favourable to _sublimity of style_, than [are the constraint and
uniformity of] rhyme."--_Blair cor._ "The vivacity and sensibility of the
Greeks _seem_ to have been much greater than ours."--_Id._ "For sometimes
the mood and tense _are_ signified by the verb, sometimes they are
signified of the verb by something else."--_R. Johnson cor._ "The verb and
the noun making a complete sense, _whereas_ the participle and the noun
_do_ not."--_Id._ "The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced
through all their mazes, _are_ a subject too extensive for an undertaking
like the present."--_Kames cor._ "The true meaning and etymology of some of
his words _were_ lost."--_Knight cor._ "When the force and direction of
personal satire _are_ no longer understood."--_Junius cor._ "The frame and
condition of man _admit_ of no other principle."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Some
considerable time and care _were_ necessary."--_Id._ "In consequence of
this idea, much ridicule and censure _have_ been thrown upon
Milton."--_Blair cor._ "With rational beings, nature and reason _are_ the
same thing."--_Collier cor._ "And the flax and the barley _were_
smitten."--_Bible cor._ "The colon and semicolon _divide_ a period; this
with, and that without, a connective."--_Ware cor._ "Consequently, wherever
space and time _are_ found, there God must also be."--_Newton cor._ "As the
past tense and perfect participle of LOVE _end_ in ED, it is
regular."--_Chandler cor._ "But the usual arrangement and nomenclature
_prevent_ this from being readily seen."--_N. Butler cor._ "_Do_ and _did_
simply _imply_ opposition or emphasis."--_A. Murray cor._ "_I_ and _an
other_ make the plural WE; _thou_ and _an other are equivalent to_ YE; _he,
she_, or _it_, and _an other_, make THEY."--_Id._ "_I_ and _an other_ or
_others are_ the same as WE, the first person plural; _thou_ and _an other_
or _others are_ the same as YE, the second person plural; _he, she_, or
_it_, and _an other_ or _others, are_ the same as THEY, the third person
plural."--_Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor._ "God and thou _are_ two, and thou
and thy neighbour are two."--_Love Conquest cor._ "Just as AN and A _have_
arisen out of the numeral ONE."--_Fowler cor._ "The tone and style of _all_
of them, particularly _of_ the first and the last, _are_ very
different."--_Blair cor._ "Even as the roebuck and the hart _are_
eaten."--_Bible cor._ "Then I may conclude that two and three _do not make_
five."--_Barclay cor._ "Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren
_have_ received from us."--_Id._ "Two and two _are_ four, and one is five:"
i, e., "and _one, added to four, is five_."--_Pope cor._ "Humility and
knowledge with poor apparel, _excel_ pride and ignorance under costly
array."--See _Murray's Key_, Rule 2d. "A page and a half _have_ been added
to the section on composition."--_Bullions cor._ "Accuracy and expertness
in this exercise _are_ an important acquisition."--_Id._
"Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
Hill and dale _proclaim_ thy blessing." Or thus:--
"Hill and _valley_ boast thy blessing."--_Milton cor._
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.
"There _are_ a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other
things."--_Blair cor._ "Whence _have_ arisen much stiffness and
affectation."--_Id._ "To this error, _are_ owing, in a great measure, that
intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before
_noticed_."--_Blair and Jamieson cor._ "Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there
_prevail_ an obscurity and _a_ hardness _of_ style."--_Blair cor._ See
_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 167. "There _are_, however, in that work, much good
sense and excellent criticism."--_Blair cor._ "There _are_ too much low wit
and scurrility in Plautus." Or: "There _is, in Plautus_, too much _of_ low
wit and scurrility."--_Id._ "There _are_ too much reasoning and refinement,
too much pomp and studied beauty, in them." Or: "There _is_ too much _of_
reasoning and refinement, too much _of_ pomp and studied beauty, in
them."--_Id._ "Hence _arise_ the structure and characteristic expression of
exclamation."--_Rush cor._ "And such pilots _are_ he and his brethren,
according to their own confession."--_Barclay cor._ "Of whom _are_ Hymeneus
and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred."--_Bible cor._ "Of whom
_are_ Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan."--_Id._
"And so _were_ James and John, the sons of Zebedee."--_Id._ "Out of the
same mouth, _proceed_ blessing and cursing."--_Id._ "Out of the mouth of
the Most High, _proceed_ not evil and good."--_Id._ "In which there _are_
most plainly a right and a wrong."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "In this sentence,
there _are_ both an actor and an object."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "In the
breastplate, _were_ placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim."--_Milman cor._
"What _are_ the gender, number, and person, _of the pronoun_[541] in the
first _example_?"--_R. C. Smith cor._ "There _seem_ to be a familiarity and
_a_ want of dignity in it."--_Priestley cor._ "It has been often asked,
what _are_ Latin and Greek?"--_Lit. Journal cor._ "For where _do_ beauty
and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?"--_Sam. Butler cor._ "Thence
to the land where _flow_ Ganges and Indus."--_Milton cor._ "On these
foundations, _seem_ to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern
assemblies."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "But what _have_ disease, deformity, and
filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?"--_Dr. Johnson
cor._ "How _are_ the gender and number of the relative known?"--_Bullions
cor._
"High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust,
And feebler _speed_ the blow and thrust."--_Scott cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.
"In every language, there prevails a certain structure, _or_ analogy of
parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable
usage."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "There runs through his whole manner a stiffness,
_an_ affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be
considered a general model."--_Id._ "But where declamation _for_
improvement in speech is the sole aim."--_Id._ "For it is by these,
chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole
progress of the mind, in continued discourse of _any kind_, is laid
open."--_Lowth cor._ "In all writing and discourse, the proper composition
_or_ structure of sentences is of the highest importance."--_Dr. Blair
cor._ "Here the wishful _and expectant_ look of the beggar naturally leads
to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his
thoughts."--_Campbell cor._ "Who say, that the outward naming of Christ,
_with the sign of_ the cross, puts away devils."--_Barclay cor._ "By which
an oath _with a_ penalty was to be imposed _on_ the members."--_Junius
cor._ "Light, _or_ knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally
from God."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "For instance, sickness _or_ untimely death
is the consequence of intemperance."--_Id._ "When grief _or_ blood
ill-tempered _vexeth_ him." Or: "When grief, _with_ blood ill-tempered,
_vexes_ him"--_Shak. cor._ "Does continuity, _or_ connexion, create
sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?"--_Collier cor._ "His
greatest concern, _his_ highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight
of his Creator."--_L. Murray cor._ "Know ye not that there is[542] a
prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?"--_Bible cor._ "What is
vice, _or_ wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it."--_Collier cor._
"There is also the fear _or_ apprehension of it."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "The
apostrophe _with s_ (_'s_) is an abbreviation for _is_, the termination of
the old English genitive."--_Bullions cor._ "_Ti, ce_, OR _ci_, when
followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of _sh_; as in _partial, ocean,
special_."--_Weld cor._
"Bitter constraint _of_ sad occasion dear
Compels me to disturb your season due."--_Milton cor._
"_Debauch'ry, or_ excess, though with less noise,
As great a portion of mankind destroys."--_Waller cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.
"Wisdom, and not wealth, _procures_ esteem."--_Inst., Key_, p. 272.
"Prudence, and not pomp, _is_ the basis of his fame."--_Ib._ "Not fear, but
labour _has_ overcome him."--_Ib._ "The decency, and not the abstinence,
_makes_ the difference."--_Ib._ "Not her beauty, but her talents _attract_
attention."--_Ib._ "It is her talents, and not her beauty, _that attract_
attention."--_Ib._ "It is her beauty, and not her talents, _that attracts_
attention."--_Ib._
"His belly, not his brains, this impulse _gives_:
He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live." Or thus:--
"His _bowels_, not his brains, this impulse give:
He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live."--_Young cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.
"Common sense, as well as piety, _tells_ us these are proper."--_Fam. Com.
cor._ "For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of
any rule, _has_ nothing left but to abandon _himself_ to chance."--_Kames
cor._ "And accordingly hatred, as well as love, _is_ extinguished by long
absence'."--_Id._ "But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the
sublimest sentiments, _is_ conspicuous."--_Id._ "But it, as well as the
lines immediately subsequent, _defies_ all translation."--_Coleridge cor._
"But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, _was_ strangely
misrepresented."--_Bolingbroke, on History_, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93.
"But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, _was_
conspicuous."--_Robertson cor._ "When their extent, as well as their value,
_was_ unknown."--_Id._ "The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more
difficult parts of speech, _is_ reserved for his attention at a later
period."--_Parker and Fox cor._ "What I myself owe to him, no one but
myself _knows_."--_Wright cor._ "None, but thou, O mighty prince! _can_
avert the blow."--_Inst., Key_, p. 272. "Nothing, but frivolous amusements,
_pleases_ the indolent."--_Ib._
"Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, _was_ heard."--_G. B._
"All songsters, save the hooting owl, _were_ mute."--_G. B._
UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, EVERY, OR NO.
"Give every word, and every member, _its_ due weight and force."--_Murray's
Gram._, Vol. i, p. 316. "And to one of these _belongs_ every noun, and
every third person of every verb."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "No law, no
restraint, no regulation, _is_ required to keep him _within_
bounds."--_Lit. Journal cor._ "By that time, every window and every door in
the street _was_ full of heads."--_Observer cor._ "Every system of
religion, and every school of philosophy, _stands_ back from this field,
and _leaves_ Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example." Or: "_All systems_
of religion, and _all schools_ of philosophy, _stand_ back from this
field, and _leave_ Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example."--_Abbott
cor._ "Each day, and each hour, _brings its_ portion of duty."--_Inst.,
Key_, p. 272. "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was
in debt, and every one that was discontented, _resorted_ unto him."--_Bible
cor._ "Every private Christian, _every_ member of the church, ought to read
and peruse the Scriptures, that _he_ may know _his_ faith and belief _to
be_ founded upon them."--_Barclay cor._ "And every mountain and _every_
island was moved out of _its place_."--_Bible cor._
"No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
No cavern'd hermit _rests_ self-satisfied."--_Pope_.
UNDER NOTE V.--WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND.
"The _sides_, A, B, _and_ C, compose the triangle."--_Tobitt, Felch_, and
_Ware cor._ "The stream, the rock, _and_ the tree, must each of them stand
forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "While
this, with euphony, _constitutes_, finally, the whole."--_O. B. Peirce
cor._ "The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, _was_
stolen."--_Cobbett cor._ "Sobriety, with great industry and talent,
_enables_ a man to perform great deeds." Or: "Sobriety, industry, and
talent, _enable_ a man to perform great deeds."--_Id._ "The _it_, together
with the verb, _expresses a state_ of being."--_Id._ "Where Leonidas the
Spartan king, _and_ his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut
off to the last man."--_Kames cor._. "And Leah also, and _her_ children,
came near and bowed themselves."--_Bible cor._ "The First _and_ the Second
will either of them, by _itself_, coalesce with the Third, but _they do_
not _coalesce_ with each other."--_Harris cor._ "The whole must centre in
the query, whether Tragedy _and_ Comedy are hurtful and dangerous
representations."--_Formey cor._ "_Both_ grief _and_ joy are infectious:
the emotions _which_ they raise in the spectator, resemble them
perfectly."--_Kames cor._ "But, in all other words, the _q and u_ are both
sounded."--_Ensell cor._ "_Q and u_ (which are always together) have the
sound of _kw_, as in _queen_; or _of k only_, as in _opaque_." Or, better:
"_Q_ has always the sound of _k_; and the _u_ which follows it, that of
_w_; except in French words, in which the _u_ is silent."--_Goodenow cor._
"In this selection, the _a and i_ form distinct syllables."--_Walker cor._
"And a considerable village, with gardens, fields, &c., _extends_ around on
each side of the square."--_Lib. cor._ "Affection _and_ interest guide our
notions and behaviour in the affairs of life; imagination and passion
affect the sentiments that we entertain in matters of taste."--_Jamieson
cor._ "She heard none of those intimations of her defects, which envy,
petulance, _and_ anger, produce among children."--_Johnson cor._ "The King,
Lords, and Commons, constitute an excellent form of government."--_Crombie
et al. cor._ "If we say, 'I am the man who commands you,' the relative
clause, with the antecedent _man, forms_ the predicate."--_Crombie cor._
"The spacious firmament on high,
The blue ethereal _vault_ of sky,
And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim."--_Addison cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
"There _are_ a reputable and a disreputable practice." Or: "There is a
reputable, and _there is_ a disreputable practice."--_Adams cor._ "This
_man_ and this _were_ born in her."--_Milton cor._ "This _man_ and that
_were_ born in her."--_Bible cor._ "This and that man _were_ born
there."--_Hendrick cor._ "Thus _le_ in _l~ego_, and _le_ in _l=egi_, seem
to be sounded equally long."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "A distinct and an
accurate articulation _form_ the groundwork of good delivery." Or: "A
distinct and accurate articulation _forms_ the groundwork of good
delivery."--_Kirkham cor._ "How _are_ vocal and written language
understood?"--_Sanders cor._ "The good, the wise, and the learned man, _are
ornaments_ to human society." Or: "The good, wise, and learned man is an
ornament to human society."--_Bartlett cor._ "_In_ some points, the
expression of song and _that of_ speech _are_ identical."--_Rush cor._ "To
every room, there _were_ an open and _a_ secret passage."--_Johnson cor._
"There _are_ such _things as a true_ and _a_ false taste; and the latter
_as_ often directs fashion, _as_ the former."--_Webster cor._ "There _are_
such _things_ as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with
regard to our health and our affairs."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "The lot of the
outcasts of Israel, and _that of_ the dispersed of Judah, however different
in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful
exactness."--_Hope of Israel cor._ "On these final syllables, the radical
and _the_ vanishing movement _are_ performed."--_Rush cor._ "To be young or
old, _and to be_ good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral
events."--_Spurzheim cor., and Felch._ "The eloquence of George Whitfield
and _that_ of John Wesley _were_ very different _in_ character each from
the other."--_Dr. Sharp cor._ "The affinity of _m_ for the series
_beginning with b_, and _that_ of _n_ for the series _beginning with t_,
give occasion for other euphonic changes."--_Fowler cor._
"Pylades' soul, and mad Orestes', _were_
In these, if _right the Greek philosopher_." Or thus:--
"Pylades' and Orestes' soul _did pass
To_ these, if we believe Pythagoras." Or, without ellipsis:--
"Pylades and Orestes' _souls_ did pass
To these, if we believe Pythagoras."--_Cowley corrected._
UNDER NOTE VII.--DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
"To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of
them, _are_ the best _ways_ to ensure success."--_L. Murray cor._ "To be of
any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, _are both_
one."--_Locke cor._ "With whom, to will, and to do, _are_ the same."--_Dr.
Jamieson cor._ "To profess, and to possess, _are_ very different
things."--_Inst., Key_, p. 272. "To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk
humbly with God, _are_ duties of universal obligation."--_Ib._ "To be round
or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved
swiftly or slowly, _are_ all equally alien from the nature of
thought."--_Dr. Johnson._ "The resolving of a sentence into its elements,
or parts of speech, and [_a_] stating [_of_] the accidents which belong to
these, _are_ called PARSING." Or, according to Note 1st above: "The
resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, _with_ [a]
stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, _is_ called
PARSING."--_Bullions cor._ "To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew,
_were_ once a girl's _employments_; but now, to dress, and _to_ catch a
beau, _are_ all she calls _enjoyments_."--_Kimball cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR.
"We do not know in what either reason or instinct _consists_."--_Johnson
corrected._ "A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, _constitutes_ a
nominative case absolute."--_Bicknell cor._ "The relative will be of that
case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before,
_uses_ to govern:" or,--"usually _governs_."--_Adam, Gould, et al., cor._
"In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice _gives_
rise to."--_Knight cor._ "By which he, or his deputy, _was_ authorized to
cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest."--_Junius cor._ "Wherever objects
were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, _was_ concerned, the
imitation by words was abundantly obvious."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The pleasure
or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances,
_is_ a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."--_Kames
cor._ "Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition,
_represents_ the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely
perfect."--_D. Boileau cor._ "Hence naturally _arises_ indifference or
aversion between the parties."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "A penitent unbeliever, or
an impenitent believer, _is a character nowhere_ to be found."--_Tract
cor._ "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or
fortune _entitles_ them to imitation."--_Johnson cor._ "Where love, hatred,
fear, or contempt, _is_ often of decisive influence."--_Duncan cor._ "A
lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, _relieves_ the folio
page."--_D'Israeli cor._ "For outward matter or event _fashions_ not the
character within." Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book
of proverbs:)--"_fashioneth_ not the character within."--_Tupper cor._ "Yet
sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, _has_ warmed cold
brains."--_Dryden cor._ "Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight
or that flight _is an individual_."--_Harris cor._ "When _et, aut, vel,
sive_, or _nec, is repeated before_ different members of the same
sentence."--_Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor._ "Wisdom or folly _governs_
us."--_Fisk cor._ "_A_ or _an is_ styled _the_ indefinite article"--_Folker
cor._ "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, _shoots_ up into _a
prodigy_."--_Spect. cor._ "_Is_ either the subject or the predicate in the
second sentence modified?"--_Prof. Fowler cor._
"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
_Is_ lost on hearers that our merits know."--_Pope cor._
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.
"Neither he nor she _has_ spoken to him."--_Perrin cor._ "For want of a
process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance _preserves_ the reader
from weariness."--_Johnson cor._ "Neither history nor tradition _furnishes_
such information."--_Robertson cor._ "Neither the form nor _the_ power of
the liquids _has_ varied materially."--_Knight cor._ "Where neither noise
nor motion _is_ concerned."--_Blair cor._ "Neither Charles nor his brother
_was_ qualified to support such a system."--_Junius cor._ "When, therefore,
neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion
_serves_, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the
beaten track."--_Campbell cor._ "In many countries called Christian,
neither Christianity, nor its evidence, _is_ fairly laid before men."--_Bp.
Butler cor._ "Neither the intellect nor the heart _is_ capable of being
driven."--_Abbott cor._ "Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana
_is_ in any way connected with the Sun or Moon."--_Coleridge cor._ "Of
which, neither he, nor this grammar, _takes_ any notice."--_R. Johnson
cor._ "Neither their solicitude nor their foresight _extends_ so
far."--_Robertson cor._ "Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera,
_considers_ Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first _discoverer_ of
the continent of America."--_Id._ "Neither the general situation of our
colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of
Boston to take up arms, _has_ been thought worthy of a moment's
consideration."--_Junius cor._
"Nor war nor wisdom _yields_ our Jews delight,
They will not study, and they dare not fight."--_Crabbe cor._
"Nor time nor chance _breeds_ such confusions yet,
Nor are the mean so rais'd, nor sunk the great."--_Rowe cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.
"The definite article, _the_, designates what particular thing or things
_are_ meant."--_Merchant cor._ "Sometimes a word, or _several_ words,
necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, _are_ not
expressed, but _are_ omitted by ellipsis."--_Burr cor._ "Ellipsis, (better,
_Ellipses_,) or abbreviations, _are_ the wheels of language."--_Maunder
cor._ "The conditions or tenor of none of them _appears_ at this day." Or:
"The _tenor or conditions_ of none of them _appear_ at this day."--
_Hutchinson cor._ "Neither men nor money _was_ wanting for the service."
Or: "Neither _money nor men were_ wanting for the service."--_Id._ "Either
our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, _requires_
emphatic distinction _to be frequent_."--_Dr. Barber cor._ "Either Atoms
and Chance, or Nature, _is_ uppermost: now I am for the latter part of the
disjunction."--_Collier cor._ "Their riches or poverty _is_ generally
proportioned to their activity or indolence."--_Cox cor._ "Concerning the
other part of him, neither _he nor you_ seem to have entertained an
idea."--_Horne cor._ "Whose earnings or income _is_ so small."--_Discip.
cor._ "Neither riches nor fame _renders_ a man happy."--_Day cor._ "The
references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the
Exercises or Key _is_ mentioned." Or, better:--"unless _mention is made of_
the Exercises or Key." Or: "unless the Exercises or Key _be named_."--_L.
Murray cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--COMPLETE THE CONCORD.
"My lord, you wrong my father; _neither is_ he, nor _am_ I, capable of
harbouring a thought against your peace."--_Walpole cor._ "There was no
division of acts; _there were_ no pauses, or _intervals, in the
performance_; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the
actors, or _by_ the chorus."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Every word ending in _b,
p_, or _f, is_ of this order, as also _are_ many _that end_ in _v_."--_Dr.
Murray cor._ "Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd
than _is_ the general system of human life and human knowledge."--
_Bolingbroke cor._ "By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we
_are_ cleansed."--_Barclay_ cor. "And those were already converted, and
regeneration _was_ begun in them."--_Id._ "For I am an old man, and my wife
_is_ well _advanced_ in years."--_Bible cor._ "Who is my mother? or _who
are_ my brethren?"--See _Matt._, xii, 48. "Lebanon is not sufficient to
burn, nor _are_ the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering."--
_Bible cor._ "Information has been obtained, and some trials _have been_
made."--_Martineau cor._ "It is as obvious, and its causes _are_ more
easily understood."--_Webster cor._ "All languages furnish examples of this
kind, and the English _contains_ as many as any other."--_Priestley cor._
"The winters are long, and the cold _is_ intense."--_Morse cor._ "How have
I hated instruction, and _how hath_ my heart despised reproof!"--_Prov.
cor._ "The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of
Vesta _was_ extinguished."--_Lempriere cor._ "Riches beget pride; pride
_begets_ impatience."--_Bullions cor._ "Grammar is not reasoning, any more
than organization is thought, or letters _are_ sounds."--_Enclytica cor._
"Words are implements, and grammar _is_ a machine."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE III.--PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.
"_Thou or I_ must undertake the business."--_L. Murray cor._ "_He and I_
were there."--_Ash cor._ "And we dreamed a dream in one night, _he and
I_."--_Bible cor._ "If my views remain the same as _his and mine_ were in
1833."--_Goodell cor._ "_My father and I_ were riding out."--_Inst., Key_,
p. 273. "The premiums were given to _George and me_."--_Ib._ "_Jane and I_
are invited."--_Ib._ "They ought to invite _my sister and me_."--_Ib._
"_You and I_ intend to go."--_Guy cor._ "_John and I_ are going to
town."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "_He and I are_ sick."--_James Brown cor._
"_Thou and I_ are well."--_Id._ "_He and I are_."--_Id._ "_Thou and I
are_."--_Id._ "_He, and I write_."--_Id._ "_They and I_ are well."--_Id._
"_She, and thou, and I_, were walking."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE IV.--DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
"To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, _is_ great
injustice."--_Inst., Key_, p. 273. "To reveal secrets, or to betray one's
friends, _is_ contemptible perfidy."--_Id._ "To write all substantives with
capital letters, or to exclude _capitals_ from adjectives derived from
proper names, may perhaps be thought _an offence_ too small for
animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something."--_Dr.
Barrow cor._ "To live in such families, or to have such servants, _is a
blessing_ from God."--_Fam. Com. cor._ "How they portioned out the country,
what revolutions they experienced, _or_ what wars they maintained, _is_
utterly unknown." Or: "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions
they experienced, _and_ what wars they maintained, _are things_ utterly
unknown."--_Goldsmith cor._ "To speak or to write perspicuously and
agreeably, _is an attainment_ of the utmost consequence to all who purpose,
either by speech or _by_ writing, to address the public."--_Dr. Blair cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.
"Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and _go_ into the mountains, and
_seek_ that which is gone astray?"--_Bible cor._ "Did he not fear the Lord,
and _beseech_ the Lord, and _did not_ the Lord _repent_ of the evil which
he had pronounced?"--_Id._ "And dost thou open thine eyes upon such _a_
one, and _bring_ me into judgement with thee?"--_Id._ "If any man among you
_seemeth_ to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his
own heart, this man's religion is vain."--_Id._ "If thou sell aught unto
thy neighbour, or _buy_ aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress
one an other."--_Id._ "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee, _become_
poor, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a
bond-servant."--_Id._ "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there
_remember_ that thy brother hath aught against thee," &c.--_Id._ "Anthea
was content to call a coach, and _so to cross_ the brook." Or:--"and _in
that she crossed_ the brook."--_Johnson cor._ "It is either totally
suppressed, or _manifested only_ in its lowest and most imperfect
form."--_Blair cor._ "But if any man _is_ a worshiper of God, and doeth his
will, him he heareth." Or: "If any man _be_ a worshiper of God, and _do_
his will, him _will_ he _hear_."--_Bible cor._ "Whereby his righteousness
and obedience, death and sufferings without, become profitable unto us, and
_are made_ ours."--_Barclay cor._ "Who ought to have been here before thee,
and _to have objected_, if they had _any thing_ against me."--_Bible cor._
"Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see,
That man _has_ yet a soul, and _dares_ be free."--_Campbell cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--USE SEPARATE NOMINATIVES.
"_H_ is only an aspiration, or breathing; and sometimes, at the beginning
of a word, _it_ is not sounded at all."--_Lowth cor._ "Man was made for
society, and _he_ ought to extend his good will to all men."--_Id._ "There
is, and must be, a Supreme Being, of infinite goodness, power, and wisdom,
who created, and _who_ supports them."--_Beattie cor._ "Were you not
affrighted, and _did you not mistake_ a spirit for a body?"--_Bp. Watson
cor._ "The latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction _than_
or _as_, but _it either_ agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb
or the preposition, expressed or understood."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "He had
mistaken his true _interest_, and _he_ found himself forsaken."--_Murray
cor._ "The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and _it_ saved the
patient's life."--_Id._ "The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay,
of many, might have been, and probably _they_ were, good."--_Id._ "This may
be true, and yet _it_ will not justify the practice."--_Webster cor._ "From
the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and _who_ are
therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things."--_Campbell
cor._ "For those energies and bounties which created, and _which_ preserve,
the universe."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "I shall make it once for all, and _I_
hope it will be remembered."--_Blair cor._ "This consequence is drawn too
abruptly. _The argument_ needed more explanation." Or: "This consequence is
drawn too abruptly, and _without sufficient_ explanation."--_Id._ "They
must be used with more caution, and _they_ require more
preparation."--_Id._ "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an _i_, which
was formerly inserted, and _which_ made an addition of a syllable to the
word."--_Priestley cor._ "The succession may be rendered more various or
more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, _it_ is unavoidable."--_Kames
cor._ "It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is _it_ agreeable in
any respect."--_Id._
"Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords
No flight for thoughts,--_they_ poorly stick at words."--_Denham cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.
"Let us read the living page, whose every character _delights_ and
instructs us."--_Maunder cor._ "For if it _is_ in any degree obscure, it
puzzles, and _does_ not please."--_Kames cor._ "When a speaker _addresses_
himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his
hearers."--_Campbell cor._ "As the wine which strengthens and _refreshes_
the heart."--_H. Adams cor._ "This truth he _wraps_ in an allegory, and
feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the
other."--_Pope cor._ "God searcheth and _understandeth_ the heart." Or:
"God _searches_ and _understands_ the heart."--_T. à. Kempis cor._ "The
grace of God, that _bringeth_ salvation, hath appeared to all
men."--_Titus_, ii, 11. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which
man's wisdom _teacheth_, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."--_1 Cor._, ii,
13. "But he _has_ an objection, which he _urges_, and by which he thinks to
overturn all."--_Barclay cor._ "In that it gives them not that comfort and
joy which it _gives to_ them who love it."--_Id._ "Thou here misunderstood
the place and _misapplied_ it." Or: "Thou here _misunderstoodst_ the place
and _misappliedst_ it."--_Id._ Or: (as many of our grammarians will have
it:) "Thou here _misunderstoodest_ the place and _misappliedst_ it."--_Id._
"Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good
_cometh_."--See _Jer._, xvii, 6. "It _speaks_ of the time past, _and shows_
that something was then doing, but not quite finished."--_Devis cor._ "It
subsists in spite of them; it _advances_ unobserved."--_Pascal cor._
"But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?--
Methinks he _lingers_ late and tarries long."--_Byron cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--CONFUSION OF MOODS.
"If a man _have_ a hundred sheep, and one of them _go_ (or _be gone_)
astray," &c.--_Matt._, xviii, 12. Or: "If a man _has_ a hundred sheep, and
one of them _goes_ (or _is gone_) astray," &c. Or: "If a man _hath_ a
hundred sheep, and one of them _goeth_ (or _is gone_) astray,"
&c.--_Kirkham cor._ "As a speaker _advances_ in his discourse, and
_increases_ in energy and earnestness, a higher and a louder tone will
naturally steal upon him."--_Id._ "If one man _esteem one_ day above an
other, and an other _esteem_ every day alike; let every man be fully
persuaded in his own mind."--_Barclay cor._ See _Rom._, xiv, 5. "If there
be but one body of legislators, it _will be_ no better than a tyranny; if
there _be_ only two, there will want a casting voice."--_Addison cor._
"Should you come up this way, and I _be_ still here, you need not be
assured how glad I _should_ be to see you."--_Byron cor._ "If he repent and
_become_ holy, let him enjoy God and heaven."--_Brownson cor._ "If thy
fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou _say_ unto him, 'Depart
in peace, be warmed and filled,' and yet _thou give_ him not those things
_which_ are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy
conduct?"--_Kirkham cor._
"Get on your nightgown, lest occasion _call_ us,
And _show_ us to be watchers."--_Singer's Shakspeare_.
"But if it _climb_, with your assisting _hand_,
The Trojan walls, and in the city _stand_."--_Dryden cor._
----------------"Though Heaven's King
_Ride_ on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers,
Used to the yoke, _draw_ his triumphant wheels."--_Milton cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.--IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
"Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as
he has _left them_."--_Reporter cor._ "Which they neither have _done_ nor
can do."--_Barclay cor._ "The Lord hath _revealed_, and doth and will
reveal, his will to his people; and hath _raised up_, and doth raise up,
members of his body," &c.--_Id._ "We see, then, that the Lord hath _given_,
and doth give, such."--_Id._ "Towards those that have _declared_, or do
declare, themselves members."--_Id._ "For which we can _give_, and have
given, our sufficient reasons."--_Id._ "When we mention the several
properties of the different words in sentences, as we have _mentioned_
those of _the word William's_ above, what is the exercise called?"--_R. C.
Smith cor._ "It is however to be doubted, whether this Greek idiom ever has
_obtained_, or _ever_ will obtain, extensively, in English."--_Nutting
cor._ "Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much
as we _do_?"--_Murray cor._ "Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as
they ought to be _delivered_ in order to move and persuade."--_Kirkham
cor._
UNDER NOTE X.--DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.