avoid it altogether, if _to avoid_ it _were practicable_."--_Kames cor._
"Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic; and
_it_ must elevate the mind to the greatest height _to which it can be
raised_ by a single expression."--_Id._ "Successive images, _thus_ making
deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate _the mind_ more than any single
image can."--_Id._ "Besides making a deeper impression than can be _made_
by cool reasoning."--_Id._ "Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, _may_
rise higher than a public speaker _can_." Or:--"than _can_ a public
speaker."--_Blair cor._ "And the very same reason that has induced several
grammarians to go so far as they have _gone_, should have induced them to
go farther."--_Priestley cor._ "The pupil should commit the first section
_to memory_ perfectly, before he _attempts_ (or _enters upon_) the second
part of grammar."--_Bradley cor._ "The Greek _ch_ was pronounced hard, as
we now _pronounce it_ in _chord_."--_Booth cor._ "They pronounce the
syllables in a different manner from what they _adopt_ (or, in a _manner
different_ from _that which_ they _are accustomed to use_) at other
times."--_L. Murray cor._ "And give him the _cool and formal_ reception
that Simon had _given_."--_Scott cor._ "I do not say, as some have
_said_."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "If he suppose the first, he _may_ the
last."--_Barclay cor._ "Who are now despising Christ in his inward
appearance, as the Jews of old _despised_ him in his outward
[advent]."--_Id._ "That text of Revelations must not be understood as he
_understands_ it."--_Id._ "Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar
to him that he can _parse_ it readily."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "Perhaps it is
running the same course _that_ Rome had _run_ before."--_Middleton cor._
"It ought even on this ground to be avoided; _and it_ easily _may be_, by a
different construction."--_Churchill cor._ "These two languages are now
pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe _pronounces
them_."--_Creighton cor._ "Germany ran the same risk that Italy had
_run_."--_Bolingbroke, Murray, et al., cor._
UNDER NOTE XI.--PRETERITS AND PARTICIPLES.
"The beggars themselves will be _broken_ in a trice."--_Swift cor._ "The
hoop is _hoisted_ above his nose."--_Id._ "And _his_ heart was _lifted_ up
in the ways of the Lord."--_2 Chron._, xvii, 6. "Who sin so oft have
mourned, Yet to temptation _run_."--_Burns cor._ "Who would not have let
them _appear_."--_Steele cor._ "He would have had you _seek_ for ease at
the hands of Mr. Legality."--_Bunyan cor._ "From me his madding mind is
_turned: He woos_ the widow's daughter, of the glen."--_Spenser cor._ "The
man has _spoken_, and _he_ still speaks."--_Ash cor._ "For you have but
_mistaken_ me all this while."--_Shak. cor._ "And will you _rend_ our
ancient love asunder?"--_Id._ "Mr. Birney has _pled_ (or _pleaded_) the
inexpediency of passing such resolutions."--_Liberator cor._ "Who have
_worn_ out their years in such most painful labours."--_Littleton cor._
"And in the conclusion you were _chosen_ probationer."--_Spectator cor._
"How she was lost, _ta'en_ captive, made a slave;
And how against him set that should her save."--_Bunyan cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.--OF VERBS CONFOUNDED.
"But Moses preferred to _while_ away his time."--_Parker cor._ "His face
shone with the rays of the sun."--_John Allen cor._ "Whom they had _set_ at
defiance so lately."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "And when he _had sat down_, his
disciples came unto him."--_Bible cor._ "When he _had sat down_ on the
judgement-seat." Or: "_While_ he _was sitting_ on the judgement-seat."--
_Id._ "And, _they having kindled_ a fire in the midst of the hall and _sat_
down together, Peter sat down among them."--_Id._ "So, after he had washed
their feet, and had taken his garments, and _had sat_ down again,[or,
literally,'_sitting down again_,'] he said _to_ them, _Do_ ye _know_ what I
have done to you?"--_Id._ "Even as I also overcame, and _sat_ down with my
Father in his throne."--_Id._ Or: (rather less literally:) "Even as I _have
overcome_, and _am sitting_ with my Father _on_ his throne."--_Id._ "We
have such a high priest, who _sitteth_ on the right hand of the throne of
the Majesty in the heavens."--_Id._ "And _is now sitting_ at the right hand
of the throne of God."--_Id._ "He _set_ on foot a furious persecution."--
_Payne cor._ "There _lieth_ (or _lies_) an obligation upon the saints to
help such."--_Barclay cor._ "There let him _lie_."--_Byron cor._ "Nothing
but moss, and shrubs, and _stunted_ trees, can grow upon it."--_Morse cor._
"Who had _laid_ out considerable sums purely to distinguish themselves."--
_Goldsmith cor._ "Whereunto the righteous _flee_ and are safe."--_Barclay
cor._ "He _rose_ from supper, and laid aside his garments."--_Id._
"Whither--_oh!_ whither--shall I _flee_?"--_L. Murray cor._ "_Fleeing_ from
an adopted murderer."--_Id._ "To you I _flee_ for refuge."--_Id._ "The sign
that should warn his disciples to _flee_ from _the_ approaching ruin."--
_Keith cor._ "In one she _sits_ as a prototype for exact imitation."--_Rush
cor._ "In which some only bleat, bark, mew, _whinny_, and bray, a little
better than others."--_Id._ "Who represented to him the unreasonableness of
being _affected_ with such unmanly fears."--_Rollin cor._ "Thou _sawest_
every action." Or, familiarly: "Thou _saw_ every action."--_Guy cor._ "I
taught, thou _taughtest_, or _taught_, he or she taught."--_Coar cor._
"Valerian was taken by Sapor and _flayed_ alive, A. D. 260."--_Lempriere
cor._ "What a fine vehicle _has_ it now become, for all conceptions of the
mind!"--_Blair cor._ "What _has_ become of so many productions?"--_Volney
cor._ "What _has_ become of those ages of abundance and of life?"--_Keith
cor._ "The Spartan admiral _had_ sailed to the Hellespont."--_Goldsmith
cor._ "As soon as he _landed_, the multitude thronged about him."--_Id._
"Cyrus _had_ arrived at Sardis."--_Id._ "Whose year _had_ expired."--_Id._
"It _might_ better have been, 'that faction which,'" Or; "'That faction
which,' _would_ have been better."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 157. "This people
_has_ become a great nation."--_Murray and Ingersoll cor._ "And here we
_enter_ the region of ornament."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The ungraceful
parenthesis which follows, _might_ far better have been avoided." "Who
forced him under water, and there held him until _he was drowned_."--_Hist.
cor._
"I _would_ much rather be myself the slave,
And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him."--_Cowper cor._
UNDER NOTE XIII.--WORDS THAT EXPRESS TIME.
"I _finished_ my letter _before_ my brother arrived." Or: "I _had finished_
my letter _when_ my brother arrived."--_Kirkham cor._ "I _wrote_ before I
received his letter."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "From what _was formerly_
delivered."--_Id._ "Arts _were at length_ introduced among them." Or: "Arts
_have been of late_ introduced among them."--_Id._ [But the latter reading
suits not the Doctor's context.] "I am not of opinion that such rules _can
be_ of much use, unless persons _see_ them exemplified." Or:--"_could be_,"
and "_saw_."--_Id._ "If we _use_ the noun itself, we _say_, (or _must
say_,) 'This composition is John's.'" Or: "If we _used_ the noun itself, we
_should say_," &c.--_L. Murray cor._ "But if the assertion _refer_ to
something that _was transient_, or _to something that is not_ supposed to
be _always the same_, the past tense must be preferred:" [as,] "They told
him that Jesus of Nazareth _was passing_ by."--_Luke and L. Murray cor._
"There is no particular intimation but that I _have continued_ to work,
even to the present moment."--_R. W. Green cor._ "Generally, as _has been_
observed already, it is but hinted in a single word or phrase."--_Campbell
cor._ "The wittiness of the passage _has been_ already illustrated."--_Id._
"As was observed _before_."--_Id._ Or: "As _has been_ observed
_already_"--_Id._ "It _has been_ said already in general _terms_."--_Id._
"As I hinted _before_."--_Id._ Or: "As I _have hinted already_."--_Id._
"What, I believe, was hinted once _before_."--_Id._ "It is obvious, as
_was_ hinted formerly, that this is but an artificial and arbitrary
connexion."--_Id._ "They _did_ anciently a great deal of hurt."--
_Bolingbroke cor._ "Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he _was_ the
high priest."--See _Acts_, xxiii, 5; _Webster cor._ "Most prepositions
originally _denoted_ the _relations_ of place; and _from these_ they _were_
transferred, to denote, by similitude, other relations."--_Lowth and
Churchill cor._ "His gift was but a poor offering, _in comparison with_ his
_great_ estate."--_L. Murray cor._ "If he should succeed, and obtain his
end, he _would_ not be the happier for it." Or, better: "If he _succeed_,
and _fully attain_ his end, he will not be the happier for it."--_Id._
"These are torrents that swell to-day, and _that will_ have spent
themselves by to-morrow."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Who have called that wheat _on
one day_, which they have called tares _on the next_."--_Barclay cor._ "He
thought it _was_ one of his tenants."--_Id._ "But if one went unto them
from the dead, they _would_ repent."--_Bible cor._ "Neither _would_ they be
persuaded, though one rose from the dead."--_Id._ "But it is while men
_sleep_, that the arch-enemy always _sows_ his tares."--_The Friend cor._
"Crescens would not _have failed_ to _expose_ him."--_Addison cor._
"Bent _is_ his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound;
Fierce as he _moves_, his silver shafts resound."--_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE XIV.--VERBS OF COMMANDING, &C.
"Had I commanded you to _do_ this, you would have thought hard of it."--_G.
B_. "I found him better than I expected to _find_ him."--_L Murray's
Gram._, i, 187. "There are several smaller faults which I at first intended
to _enumerate_."--_Webster cor._ "Antithesis, therefore, may, on many
occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression
which we intend that any object _shall_ make."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The girl
said, if her master would but have let her _have_ money, she might have
been well long ago."--_Priestley et al. cor._ "Nor is there the least
ground to fear that we _shall here_ be cramped within too narrow
limits."--_Campbell cor._ "The Romans, flushed with success, expected to
_retake_ it."--_Hooke cor._ "I would not have let _fall_ an unseasonable
pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the
wit that ever Rabelais scattered."--_Sterne cor._ "We expected that he
_would arrive_ last night."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 282. "Our friends intended
to _meet_ us."--_Ib._ "We hoped to _see_ you."--_Ib._ "He would not have
been allowed to _enter_."--_Ib._
UNDER NOTE XV.--PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.
"Cicero maintained, that whatsoever _is_ useful _is_ good."--_G. B_. "I
observed that love _constitutes_ the whole moral character of
God."--_Dwight cor._ "Thinking that one _gains_ nothing by being a good
man."--_Voltaire cor._ "I have already told you, that I _am_ a
gentleman."--_Fontaine cor._ "If I should ask, whether ice and water _are_
two distinct species of things."--_Locke cor._ "A stranger to the poem
would not easily discover that this _is_ verse."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, i,
260. "The doctor affirmed that fever always _produces_ thirst."--_Brown's
Inst._, p. 282. "The ancients asserted, that virtue _is_ its own
reward."--_Ib._ "They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that
the infinitive _is_ a mere noun."--_Tooke cor._ "It was observed in Chap.
III, that the distinctive OR _has_ a double use."--_Churchill cor._ "Two
young gentlemen, who have made a discovery that there _is_ no
God."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 206.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVIII; INFINITIVES.
INSTANCES DEMANDING THE PARTICLE TO.
"William, please _to_ hand me that pencil."--_Smith cor._ "Please _to_
insert points so as to make sense."--_P. Davis cor._ "I have known lords
_to_ abbreviate almost half of their words."--_Cobbett cor._ "We shall find
the practice perfectly _to_ accord with the theory."--_Knight cor._ "But it
would tend to obscure, rather than _to_ elucidate, the subject."--_L.
Murray cor._ "Please _to_ divide it for them, as it should be
_divided_"--_J. Willetts cor._ "So as neither to embarrass nor _to_ weaken
the sentence."--_Blair and Mur. cor._ "Carry her to his table, to view his
poor fare, and _to_ hear his heavenly discourse."--_Same_. "That we need
not be surprised to find this _to_ hold [i.e., to find _the same to be
true_, or to find _it so_] in eloquence."--_Blair cor._ "Where he has no
occasion either to divide or _to_ explain" [_the topic in debate_.]--_Id._
"And they will find their pupils _to_ improve by hasty and pleasant
steps."--_Russell cor._ "The teacher, however, will please _to_ observe,"
&c.--_Inf. S. Gr. cor._ "Please _to_ attend to a few rules in what is
called syntax."--_Id._ "They may dispense with the laws, to favour their
friends, or _to_ secure their office."--_Webster cor._ "To take back a
gift, or _to_ break a contract, is a wanton abuse."--_Id._ "The legislature
_has_ nothing to do, but _to_ let it bear its own price."--_Id._ "He is not
to form, but _to_ copy characters."--_Rambler cor._ "I have known a woman
_to_ make use of a shoeing-horn."--_Spect. cor._ "Finding this experiment
_to_ answer, in every respect, their wishes."--_Day cor._ "In fine, let him
cause his arrangement _to_ conclude in the term of the question."--_Barclay
cor._
"That he permitted not the winds of heaven
_To visit her_ too roughly."
[Omit "_face_," to keep the measure: or say,]
"That he _did never let_ the winds of heaven
_Visit her face_ too roughly."--_Shak. cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIX.--OF INFINITIVES.
Instances after Bid, Dare, Feel, Hear, Let, Make, Need, See.
"I dare not proceed so hastily, lest I give offence."--See _Murray's Key_,
Rule xii. "Their character is formed, and made _to_ appear."--_Butler cor._
"Let there be but matter and opportunity offered, and you shall see them
quickly revive again."--_Bacon cor._ "It has been made _to_ appear, that
there is no presumption against a revelation."--_Bp. Butler cor._
"MANIFEST, v. t. To reveal; to make appear; to show plainly."--_Webster
cor._ "Let him reign, like good Aurelius, or let him bleed like _Seneca_:"
[Socrates did not bleed, he was poisoned.]--_Kirkham's transposition of
Pope cor._ "_Sing_ I could not; _complain_ I durst not."--_Fothergill cor._
"If T. M. be not so frequently heard _to_ pray by them."--_Barclay cor._
"How many of your own church members were never heard _to_ pray?"--_Id._
"Yea, we are bidden _to_ pray one for an other."--_Id._ "He was made _to_
believe that neither the king's death nor _his_ imprisonment would help
him."--_Sheffield cor._ "I felt a chilling sensation creep over
me."--_Inst._, p. 279. "I dare say he has not got home yet."--_Ib._ "We
sometimes see bad men honoured."--_Ib._ "I saw him move"--_Felch cor._ "For
see thou, ah! see thou, a hostile world its _terrors_ raise."--_Kirkham
cor._ "But that he make him rehearse so."--_Lily cor._ "Let us
rise."--_Fowle cor._
"Scripture, you know, exhorts us to it;
It bids us 'seek peace, and ensue it.'"--_Swift cor._
"Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel
_Bedash_ the rags of Lazarus?
Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel,
Confessing heaven that ruled it thus."--_Christmas Book cor._
CHAPTER VII.--PARTICIPLES.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XX.
UNDER NOTE I.--EXPUNGE OF.
"In forming his sentences, he was very exact."--_L. Murray_. "For not
believing which, I condemn them."--_Barclay cor._ "To prohibit his hearers
from reading that book."--_Id._ "You will please them exceedingly in crying
down ordinances."--_Mitchell cor._ "The warwolf subsequently became an
engine for casting stones." Or:--"for _the_ casting of stones."--_Cons.
Misc. cor._ "The art of dressing hides and working in leather was
practised."--_Id._ "In the choice they had made of him for restoring
order."--_Rollin cor._ "The Arabians exercised themselves by composing
orations and poems."--_Sale cor._ "Behold, the widow-woman was there,
gathering sticks."--_Bible cor._ "The priests were busied in offering
burnt-offerings."--_Id._ "But Asahel would not turn aside from following
him."--_Id._ "He left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."--_Id._
"Those who accuse us of denying it, belie us."--_Barclay cor._ "And
breaking bread from house to house."--_Acts_, iv, 46. "Those that set about
repairing the walls."--_Barclay cor._ "And secretly begetting
divisions."--_Id._ "Whom he has made use of in gathering his
church."--_Id._ "In defining and distinguishing the _acceptations_ and uses
of those particles."--_W. Walker cor._
"In _making this a crime_, we overthrow
The laws of nations and of nature too."--_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--ARTICLES REQUIRE OF.
"The mixing _of_ them makes a miserable jumble of truth and
fiction."--_Kames cor._ "The same objection lies against the employing _of_
statues."--_Id._ "More efficacious than the venting _of_ opulence upon the
fine arts."--_Id._ "It is the giving _of_ different names to the same
object."--_Id._ "When we have in view the erecting _of_ a column."--_Id._
"The straining _of_ an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so
frequent."--_Id._ "The cutting _of_ evergreens in the shape of animals, is
very ancient."--_Id._ "The keeping _of_ juries without _meat_, drink, or
fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea."--_Webster cor._ "The
writing _of_ the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful
exercise."--_Beck cor._ "The avoiding _of_ them is not an object of any
moment."--_Sheridan cor._ "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing _of_
the signification of a word by degrees."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "Comparison is
the increasing or decreasing _of_ the quality by degrees."--_Buchanan cor._
"The placing _of_ a circumstance before the word with which it is connected
is the easiest of all inversion."--_Id._ "What is emphasis? It is the
emitting _of_ a stronger and fuller sound of voice," &c.--_Bradley cor._
"Besides, the varying _of_ the terms will render the use of them more
familiar."--_A. Mur. cor._ "And yet the confining _of_ themselves to this
true principle, has misled them."--_Tooke cor._ "What is here commanded, is
merely the relieving _of_ his misery."--_Wayland cor._ "The accumulating
_of_ too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind _in
stead_ of adorning it."--_Formey cor._ "For the compassing _of_ his
point."--_Rollin cor._ "To the introducing _of_ such an inverted order of
things."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Which require only the doing _of_ an external
action."--_Id._ "The imprisoning _of_ my body is to satisfy your
wills."--_Fox cor._ "Who oppose the conferring _of_ such extensive command
on one person."--_Duncan cor._ "Luxury contributed not a little to the
enervating _of_ their forces."--_Sale cor._ "The keeping _of_ one day of
the week for a sabbath."--_Barclay cor._ "The doing _of_ a thing is
contrary to the forbearing of it."--_Id._ "The doubling _of_ the Sigma is,
however, sometimes regular."--_Knight cor._ "The inserting _of_ the common
aspirate too, is improper."--_Id._ "But in Spenser's time the pronouncing
_of_ the _ed_ [as a separate syllable,] seems already to have been
something of an archaism."--_Phil. Mu. cor._ "And to the reconciling _of_
the effect of their verses on the eye."--_Id._ "When it was not in their
power to hinder the taking _of_ the whole."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "He had
indeed given the orders himself for the shutting _of_ the gates."--_Id._
"So his whole life was a doing _of_ the will of the Father."--_Penington
cor._ "It signifies the suffering or receiving _of_ the action
expressed."--_Priestley cor._ "The pretended crime therefore was the
declaring _of_ himself to be the Son of God."--_West cor._ "Parsing is the
resolving _of_ a sentence into its different parts of speech."--_Beck cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.
"There is _no_ expecting _of_ the admiration of beholders."--_Baxter cor._
"There is no hiding _of_ you in the house."--_Shak. cor._ "For the better
regulating _of_ government in the province of Massachusetts."--_Brit. Parl.
cor._ "The precise marking _of_ the shadowy boundaries of a complex
government."--_Adams cor._ "This state of discipline requires the voluntary
foregoing _of_ many things which we desire, and _the_ setting _of_
ourselves to what we have no inclination to."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "This
amounts to an active setting _of_ themselves against religion."--_Id._
"Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing _of_ our
Christian discipline."--_Friends cor._ "Some men are so unjust that there
is no securing _of_ our own property or life, but by opposing force to
force."--_Rev. John Brown cor._ "An Act for the better securing _of_ the
Rights and Liberties of the Subject."--_Geo. III cor._ "Miraculous curing
_of_ the sick is discontinued."--_Barclay cor._ "It would have been no
transgressing _of_ the apostle's rule."--_Id._ "As far as consistent with
the proper conducting _of_ the business of the House."--_Elmore cor._
"Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning _of_ them at
that day." Or:--"at _their just condemnation_ at that day."--_Bunyan cor._
"That transferring _of_ this natural manner will insure propriety."--_Rush
cor._ "If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old [i.e.,
frequent] turning _of_ the key."--_Singer's Shakspeare cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.
"So very simple a thing as a man's wounding _of_ himself."--_Dr. Blair
cor., and Murray_. "Or with that man's avowing _of_ his
designs."--_Blair, Mur., et al. cor._ "On his putting _of_ the
question."--_Adams cor._ "The importance of teachers' requiring _of_ their
pupils to read each section many times over."--_Kirkham cor._ "Politeness
is a kind of forgetting _of_ one's self, in order to be agreeable to
others."--_Ramsay cor._ "Much, therefore, of the merit and the
agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing _of_ us
into some acquaintance with the writer."--_Blair and Mack cor._ "Richard's
restoration to respectability depends on his paying _of_ his debts."--_O.
B. Peirce cor._ "Their supplying _of_ ellipses where none ever existed;
their parsing _of the_ words of sentences already full and perfect, as
though depending on words understood."--_Id._ "Her veiling _of_ herself,
and shedding _of_ tears, &c., her upbraiding _of_ Paris for his cowardice,"
&c.--_Blair cor._ "A preposition may be made known by its admitting _of_ a
personal pronoun after it, in the objective case."--_Murray et al. cor._
"But this forms no just objection to its denoting _of_ time."--_L. Mur.
cor._ "Of men's violating or disregarding _of_ the relations _in_ which God
has _here_ placed them."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Success, indeed, no more
decides for the right, than a man's killing _of_ his antagonist in a
duel."--_Campbell cor._ "His reminding _of_ them."--_Kirkham cor._ "This
mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing _of_ him to plant some
beans."--_Id._ "Their neglecting _of_ this was ruinous."--_Frost cor._
"That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing _of_ the others as
'finite.'"--_Felch cor._ "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing
_of_ it." Or:--"_that he does_ it."--_Sheridan cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.
"An allegory is _a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not
literal_; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying _of_ only one thing,
_when we have_ two in view."--_Phil. Mu. cor._ "A verb may generally be
distinguished by _the sense which it makes_ with any of the personal
pronouns, or _with_ the word TO, before it."--_Murray et al. cor._ "A noun
may in general be distinguished by _the article which comes_ before it, or
by _the sense which it makes_ of itself."--_Merchant et al. cor._ "An
adjective may usually be known by _the sense which it makes_ with the word
_thing_; as, a _good_ thing, a _bad_ thing."--_Iid._ "It is seen _to be_ in
the objective case, _because it denotes_ the object affected by the act of
leaving."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "It is seen _to be_ in the possessive case,
_because it denotes_ the possessor of something."--_Id._ "The _noun_ MAN is
caused by the _adjective_ WHATEVER to _seem like_ a twofold _nominative, as
if it denoted_, of itself, one person as the subject of the two
remarks."--_Id._ "WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, _because
it joins_ that line to the other part of the sentence."--_Id._ "_Because
they denote_ reciprocation."--_Id._ "To allow them _to make_ use of that
liberty;"--"To allow them _to use_ that liberty;"--or, "To allow them that
liberty."--_Sale cor._ "The worst effect of it is, _that it fixes_ on your
mind a habit of indecision."--_Todd cor._ "And you groan the more deeply,
as you reflect that _you have not power to shake_ it off."--_Id._ "I know
of nothing that can justify the _student in_ having recourse to a Latin
translation of a Greek writer."--_Coleridge cor._ "Humour is the _conceit
of_ making others act or talk absurdly."--_Hazlitt cor._ "There are
remarkable instances _in which they do not affect_ each other."--_Bp.
Butler cor._ "_That Cæsar was left out_ of the commission, was not from any
slight."--_Life cor._ "Of the _thankful reception_ of this toleration, I
shall say no more," Or: "Of the _propriety of_ receiving this toleration
thankfully, I shall say no more."--_Dryden cor._ "Henrietta was delighted
with Julia's _skill in_ working lace."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "And it is
_because each of them represents_ two different words, that the confusion
has arisen."--_Booth cor._ "Æschylus died of a fracture of his skull,
caused by an eagle's _dropping of_ a tortoise on his head." Or:--"caused by
_a tortoise which an eagle let fall_ on his head."--_Biog. Dict. cor._ "He
doubted _whether they had_ it."--_Felch cor._ "_To make_ ourselves clearly
understood, is the chief end of speech."--_Sheridan cor._ "_One cannot
discover_ in their countenances any signs which are the natural
concomitants of the feelings of the heart."--_Id._ "Nothing can be more
common or less proper, than to speak of a _river as emptying
itself_."--_Campbell cor._ "Our _non-use of_ the former expression, is
owing to this."--_Bullions cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.
"To this generally succeeds the division, or the _laying-down_ of the
method of the discourse."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "To the _pulling-down_ of
strong holds."--_Bible cor._ "Can a mere _buckling-on of_ a military weapon
infuse courage?"--_Dr. Brown cor._ "_Expensive_ and _luxurious_ living
destroys health."--_L. Murray cor._ "By _frugal_ and _temperate_ living,
health is preserved." Or: "By living frugally and temperately, _we preserve
our_ health."--_Id._ "By the _doing-away_ of the necessity."--_The Friend
cor._ "He recommended to them, however, the _immediate_ calling of--(or,
_immediately to call_--) the whole community to the church."--_Gregory
cor._ "The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly
facilitates the _right_ reading _of_ them."--_Churchill cor._ "From their
_mere_ admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."--_Phil. Mu. cor._
"His _grave_ lecturing _of_ his friend about it."--_Id._ "For the
_blotting-out_ of sin."--_Gurney cor._ "From the _not-using_ of water."--
_Barclay cor._ "By the gentle _dropping-in_ of a pebble."--_Sheridan cor._
"To the _carrying-on_ of a great part of that general course of
nature."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Then the _not-interposing_ is so far from
being a ground of complaint."--_Id._ "The bare omission, (or rather, the
_not-employing_,) of what is used."--_Campbell and Jamieson cor._ "The
_bringing-together_ of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."--
_Churchill cor._ "This is a presumptive proof _that it does_ not _proceed_
from them."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "It represents him in a character to which
_any injustice_ is peculiarly unsuitable."--_Campbell cor._ "They will aim
at something higher than _a mere dealing-out_ of harmonious sounds."--
_Kirkham cor._ "This is intelligible and sufficient; and _any further
account of the matter_ seems beyond the reach of our faculties."--_Bp.
Butler cor._ "Apostrophe is a _turning-off_ from the regular course of the
subject."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to
assent to the _sending-out_ of a commission to investigate his
conduct."--_Life of Columbus cor._ "For the _turning-away_ of the simple
shall slay them."--_Bible cor._
"Thick fingers always should command
Without _extension_ of the hand."--_King cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--OF PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.
"Is there any Scripture _which_ speaks of the _light_ as being
inward?"--_Barclay cor._ "For I believe not _positiveness_ therein
essential to salvation."--_Id._ "Our _inability_ to act _a uniformly_ right
part without some thought and care."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "_On the_
supposition _that it is reconcilable_ with the constitution of
nature."--_Id._ "_On the ground that it is_ not discoverable by reason or
experience."--_Id._ "_On the ground that they are_ unlike the known course
of nature."--_Id._ "Our _power_ to discern reasons for them, gives a
positive credibility to the history of them."--_Id._ "From its _lack of
universality_."--_Id._ "That they may be turned into passive _participles_
in _dus_, is no decisive argument _to prove them_ passive."--_Grant cor._
"With the implied idea _that St. Paul was_ then absent from the
Corinthians."--_Kirkham cor._ "_Because it becomes_ gradually weaker, until
it finally dies away into silence."--_Id._ "Not without the author's _full
knowledge_."--_Id._ "_Wit_ out of season is one sort of folly."--_Sheffield
cor._ "Its _general susceptibility_ of a much stronger evidence."--
_Campbell cor._ "At least, _that they are_ such, rarely enhances our
opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."--_Id._ "Which were
the ground of our _unity_."--_Barclay cor._ "But they may be distinguished
from it by their _intransitiveness_."--_L. Murray cor._ "To distinguish the
higher degree of our persuasion of a thing's _possibility_."--_Churchill
cor._
"_That he was_ idle, and dishonest too,
Was that which caused his utter overthrow."--_Tobitt cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--OF COMPOUND VERBAL NOUNS.
"When it denotes _subjection_ to the exertion of an other."--_Booth cor._
"In the passive sense, it signifies _a subjection_ to the influence of the
action."--_Felch cor._ "_To be_ abandoned by our friends, is very
deplorable."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Without waiting _to be_ attacked by the
Macedonians."--_Id._ "In progress of time, words were wanted to express
men's _connexion_ with certain conditions of fortune."--_Dr. Blair cor._
"Our _acquaintance_ with pain and sorrow has a tendency to bring us to a
settled moderation."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "The chancellor's _attachment_ to
the king, secured _to the monarch_ his crown."--_L. Murray et al. cor._
"The general's _failure_ in this enterprise occasioned his disgrace."--
_Iid._ "John's _long application to_ writing had wearied him."--_Iid._ "The
sentence _may_ be, 'John's _long application_ to writing has wearied
him.'"--_Wright cor._ "Much depends on _the observance of_ this _rule_."--
_L. Murray cor._ "He mentioned _that a boy had been_ corrected for his
faults."--_Alger and Merchant cor._ "The boy's _punishment_ is shameful to
him."--_Iid._ "The greater the difficulty of remembrance is, and the more
important the _being-remembered_ is to the attainment of the ultimate
end."--_Campbell cor._ "If the parts in the composition of similar objects
were always in equal quantity, their _being-compounded_ (or their
_compounding_) would make no odds."--_Id._ "Circumstances, not of such
importance as that the scope of the relation is affected by their
_being-known_"--or, "by the _mention of them_."--_Id._ "A passive verb
expresses the receiving of an action, or _represents its subject as_ being
acted upon; as, 'John is beaten.'"--_Frost cor._ "So our language has an
other great advantage; namely, _that it is little_ diversified by
genders."--_Buchanan cor._ "The _slander concerning Peter_ is no fault of
_his_."--_Frost cor._ "Without _faith in Christ_, there is no
_justification_."--_Penn cor._ "_Habituation_ to danger begets intrepidity;
i.e., lessens fear."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "It is not _affection of any kind_,
but _action that_ forms those habits."--_Id._ "In order _that we may be_
satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox."--_Campbell cor._ "_A trope
consists_ in _the employing of a word_ to signify something that is
different from its original _or usual_ meaning."--_Blair, Jamieson, Murray,
and Kirkham cor._; also _Hiley_. "The scriptural view of our _salvation_
from punishment."--_Gurney cor._ "To submit and obey, is not a renouncing
_of_ the _Spirit's leading_."--_Barclay cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &c.
"_To teach_ little children is a pleasant employment." Or: "_The_ teaching
_of_ little children," &c.--_Bartlett cor._ "_To deny_ or _compromise the_
principles of truth, is virtually _to deny_ their divine
Author."--_Reformer cor._ "A severe critic might point out some expressions
that would bear _retrenching_"--"_retrenchment_"--or, "_to be
retrenched_."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Never attempt _to prolong_ the pathetic
too much."--_Id._ "I now recollect _to have_ mentioned--(or, _that I_
mentioned--) a report of that nature."--_Whiting cor._ "Nor of the
necessity which there is, for their _restraint_--(or, for _them to be_
restrained--) in them."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "But, _to do_ what God commands
because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or
fear."--_Id._ "Simply _to close_ the nostrils, does not so entirely prevent
resonance."--_Gardiner cor._ "Yet they absolutely refuse _to do_
so."--_Harris cor._ "But Artaxerxes could not refuse _to pardon_
him."--_Goldsmith cor._ "_The_ doing _of_ them in the best manner, is
signified by the _names_ of these arts."--_Rush cor._ "_To behave_ well for
the time to come, may be insufficient."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "The compiler
proposed _to publish_ that part by itself."--_Adam cor._ "To smile _on_
those _whom_ we should censure, is, _to bring_ guilt upon
ourselves."--_Kirkham cor._ "But it would be great injustice to that
illustrious orator, to bring his genius down to the same level."--_Id._
"_The doubt that_ things go ill, often hurts more, than to be sure they
do."--_Shak. cor._ "This is called _the_ straining _of_ a metaphor."--
_Blair and Murray cor._ "This is what Aristotle calls _the_ giving _of_
manners to the poem."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The painter's _entire confinement_
to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of
exhibiting various stages of the same action."--_L. Mur. cor._ "It imports
_the retrenchment of_ all superfluities, and _a_ pruning _of_ the
expression."--_Blair et al. cor._ "The necessity for _us to be_ thus
exempted is further apparent."--_Jane West cor._ "Her situation in life
does not allow _her to be_ genteel in every thing."--_Same_. "Provided you
do not dislike _to be_ dirty when you are invisible."--_Same_. "There is
now an imperious necessity for her _to be_ acquainted with her title to
eternity."--_Same_. "_Disregard to_ the restraints of virtue, is misnamed
ingenuousness."--_Same_. "The legislature prohibits _the_ opening _of shops
on_ Sunday."--_Same_. "To attempt _to prove_ that any thing is right."--_O.
B. Peirce cor._ "The comma directs _us to make_ a pause of a second in
duration, or less."--_Id._ "The rule which directs _us to put_ other words
into the place of it, is wrong."--_Id._ "They direct _us to_ call the
specifying adjectives, or adnames, adjective pronouns."--_Id._ "William
dislikes _to attend_ court."--_Frost cor._ "It may perhaps be worth while
_to remark_, that Milton makes a distinction."--_Phil. Mu. cor._ "_To
profess_ regard and _act injuriously, discovers_ a base mind."--_Murray et
al. cor._ "_To profess_ regard and _act_ indifferently, _discovers_ a base
mind."--_Weld cor._ "You have proved beyond contradiction, that _this
course of action_ is the sure way to procure such an object."--_Campbell
cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &c.
"Irony is _a figure in which the speaker sneeringly utters the direct
reverse of what he intends shall be understood_."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 235.
[Correct by this the four false definitions of "Irony" cited from _Murray,
Peirce, Fisher_, and _Sanborn_.] "This is, in a great measure, _a_
delivering _of_ their own compositions."--_Buchanan cor._ "But purity is _a
right use of_ the words of the language."--_Jamieson cor._ "But the most
important object is _the_ settling _of_ the English quantity."--_Walker
cor._ "When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to an
other is a very wide step _taken_."--_Campbell cor._ "It will be _a loss
of_ time, to attempt further to illustrate it."--_Id._ "This _leaves_ the
sentence too bare, and _makes_ it to be, if not nonsense, hardly
sense."--_Cobbett cor._ "This is _a_ requiring _of_ more labours from every
private member."--_J. West cor._ "Is not this, _to use_ one measure for our
neighbours and _an other_ for ourselves?"--_Same_. "_Do we_ not _charge_
God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human
nature?"--_Same_. "This is not, _to endure_ the cross, as a disciple of
Jesus Christ; but, _to snatch_ at it, like a _partisan_ of Swift's
Jack."--_Same_. "What is spelling? It is _the_ combining _of_ letters to
form syllables and words."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "It is _the_ choosing _of_
such letters to compose words," &c.--_Id._ "What is parsing? (1.) It is _a_
describing _of_ the nature, use, and powers of words."--_Id._ (2.) "For
Parsing is _a_ describing _of_ the words of a sentence as they are
used."--_Id._ (3.) "Parsing is only _a_ describing _of_ the nature and
relations of words as they are used."--_Id._ (4.) "Parsing, let the pupil
understand and remember, is a _statement of_ facts concerning words; or _a_
describing _of words_ in their offices and relations as they are."--_Id._
(5.) "Parsing is _the_ resolving and explaining _of_ words according to the
rules of grammar."--_Id._ Better: "Parsing is _the_ resolving _or_
explaining _of a sentence_ according to the _definitions and_ rules of
grammar."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 28. (6.) "_The_ parsing _of_ a word,
remember, is _an_ enumerating and describing _of_ its various qualities,
and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence."--_Peirce
cor._ (7.) "For the parsing _of_ a word is _an_ enumerating and describing
_of_ its various properties, and [_its_] relations to [_other words in_]
the sentence."--_Id._ (8.) "_The_ parsing _of_ a noun is _an explanation_
of _its_ person, number, gender, and case; and also of its grammatical
_relation_ in a sentence, with respect to _some_ other _word or_
words."--_Ingersoll cor._ (9.) "_The_ parsing _of_ any part of speech is
_an explanation of_ all its properties and relations."--_Id._ (10.)"
Parsing is _the_ resolving _of_ a sentence into its elements."--_Fowler
cor._ "The highway of the _upright_ is, _to depart_ from evil."--_Prov._,
xvi, 17. "Besides, the first step towards exhibiting _the_ truth, should
be, _to remove_ the veil of error."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "Punctuation is
_the_ dividing _of_ sentences, and the words of sentences, by _points for_
pauses."--_Id._ "_An other_ fault is _the_ using _of_ the imperfect _tense_
SHOOK _in stead_ of the participle SHAKEN."--_Churchill cor._ "Her
employment is _the_ drawing _of_ maps."--_Alger cor._ "_To go_ to the play,
according to his notion, is, _to lead_ a sensual life, and _to expose
one's_ self to the strongest temptations. This is _a_ begging _of_ the
question, and _therefore_ requires no answer."--_Formey cor._ "It is _an_
overvaluing _of_ ourselves, to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of
our capacities."--_Comly's Key, in his Gram._, p. 188; _Fisk's Gram._, p.
135. "What is vocal language? It is _speech_, or _the_ expressing of ideas
by the human voice."--_C. W. Sanders cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.--VERBS OF PREVENTING.
"The annulling power of the constitution prevented that _enactment from_
becoming a law."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "Which prevents the _manner from_
being brief."--_Id._ "This close prevents _them from_ bearing forward as
nominatives."--_Rush cor._ "Because this prevents _it from_ growing
_drowsy_."--_Formey cor._ "Yet this does not prevent _him from_ being
great."--_Id._ "To prevent _it from_ being insipid."--_Id._ "Or whose
interruptions did not prevent its _continuance_." Or thus: "Whose
interruptions did not prevent _it from_ being continued."--_Id._ "This by
no means prevents _them from_ being also punishments."--_Wayland cor._
"This hinders _them_ not _from_ being also, in the strictest sense,
punishments."--_Id._ "The noise made by the rain and wind, prevented _them
from_ being heard."--_Goldsmith cor._ "He endeavoured to prevent _it from_
taking effect."--_Id._ "So sequestered as to prevent _them from_ being
explored."--_Jane West cor._ "Who prevented her _from_ making a more
pleasant party."--_Same_. "To prevent _us from_ being tossed about by every
wind of doctrine."--_Same_. "After the infirmities of age prevented _him
from_ bearing his part of official duty."--_R. Adam cor._ "To prevent
splendid trifles _from_ passing for matters of importance."--_Kames cor._
"Which prevents _him from_ exerting himself to any good purpose."--_Beattie
cor._ "The _nonobservance_ of this rule very frequently prevents _us from_
being punctual in the performance of our duties."--_Todd cor._ "Nothing
will prevent _him from_ being a student, and possessing the means of
study."--_Id._ "Does the present accident hinder _you from_ being honest
and brave?"--_Collier cor._ "The _e_ is omitted to prevent two _Ees from_
coming together."--_Fowle cor._ "A pronoun is used for, or in place of, a
noun,--to prevent _a repetition of_ the noun."--_Sanborn cor._ "Diversity
in the style relieves the ear, and prevents _it from_ being tired with the
frequent recurrence of the rhymes."--_Campbell cor._; also _Murray_.
"Timidity and false shame prevent _us from_ opposing vicious
customs."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "To prevent _them from_ being moved by
such."--_Campbell cor._ "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents _it
from_ taking place."--_Priestley cor._ "Which prevents _us from_ making a
progress towards perfection."--_Sheridan cor._ "This method of
distinguishing words, must prevent any regular proportion of time _from_
being settled."--_Id._ "That nothing but affectation can prevent _it from_
always taking place."--_Id._ "This did not prevent _John from_ being
acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy." Or:
"_Notwithstanding_ this, _John was_ acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated
Duke of Normandy."--_Henry, Webster, Sanborn, and Fowler cor._
UNDER NOTE X.--THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.
"This would _make it impossible for a noun_, or any other _word_, ever _to
be_ in the possessive case."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "A great part of our
pleasure arises from _finding_ the plan or story well conducted."--_Dr.
Blair cor._ "And we have no reason to wonder _that this was_ the
case."--_Id._ "She objected only, (as Cicero says,) to Oppianicus _as_
having two sons by his present wife."--_Id._ "_The subjugation of_ the
Britons by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their _calling of_
these Saxons to their assistance."--_Id._ "What he had there said
concerning the Saxons, _that they expelled_ the Britons, and _changed_ the
customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and a
good reason _why_ our present language _is_ Saxon, rather than
British."--_Id._ "The only material difference between them, _except that_
the one _is_ short and the other _more_ prolonged, is, that a metaphor _is
always explained_ by the words that are connected with it."--_Id. et Mur.
cor._ "The description of _Death_, advancing to meet Satan on his
arrival."--_Rush cor._ "Is not the bare fact, _that_ God _is_ the witness
of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?"--_Chalmers
cor._ "As in the case of one _who is_ entering upon a new study."--_Beattie
cor._ "The manner _in which_ these _affect_ the copula, is called the
imperative _mood_."--_Wilkins cor._ "We are freed from the trouble,
_because_ our nouns _have scarcely any_ diversity of endings."--_Buchanan
cor._ "The verb is rather indicative of the _action as_ being doing, or
done, than _of_ the time _of the event_; but indeed the ideas are
undistinguishable."--_Booth cor._ "Nobody would doubt _that_ this _is_ a
sufficient proof."--_Campbell cor._ "Against the doctrine here maintained,
_that_ conscience as well as reason, _is_ a natural faculty."--_Beattie
cor._ "It is one cause _why_ the Greek and English languages _are_ much
more easy to learn, than the Latin."--_Bucke cor._ "I have not been able to
make out a solitary instance _in which_ such _has been_ the fact."--_Lib.
cor._ "An _angel_, forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king's
condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with
terror."--_Wood cor._ "The _prisoners, in attempting_ to escape, aroused
the keepers."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "I doubt not, in the least, _that_ this
_has_ been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen
world."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "From the general rule he lays down, _that the
verb is_ the parent word of all language."--_Tooke cor._ "He was accused of
being idle." Or: "He was accused of _idleness_."--_Felch cor._ "Our meeting
is generally dissatisfied with him _for_ so removing." Or: "with _the
circumstances of his removal_."--_Edmondson cor._ "The spectacle is too
rare, of _men_ deserving solid fame while not seeking it."--_Bush cor._
"What further need was there _that_ an other priest _should
rise_?"--_Heb._, vii, 11.
UNDER NOTE XI.--REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.
"Viewing them separately, _we experience_ different emotions." Or:
"_Viewed_ separately, _they produce_ different emotions."--_Kames cor._
"But, _this being left_ doubtful, an other objection occurs."--_Id._ "_As
he proceeded_ from one particular to an other, the subject grew under his
hand."--_Id._ "But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain
_is_ broken."--_Id._ "After some _days_' hunting,--(or, After some days
_spent in_ hunting,)--Cyrus communicated his design to his
officers."--_Rollin cor._ "But it is made, without the appearance of _being
made_ in form."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "These would have had a better effect,
_had they been_ disjoined, thus."--_Blair and Murray cor._ "_In_ an
improper diphthong, but one of the vowels _is_ sounded."--_Murray, Alger,
et al. cor._ "And _I_ being led to think of both together, my view is
rendered unsteady."--_Blair, Mur., and Jam. cor._ "By often doing the same
thing, _we make the action_ habitual." Or: "_What is_ often _done_, becomes
habitual."--_L. Murray cor._ "They remain with us in our dark and solitary
hours, no less than when _we are_ surrounded with friends and cheerful
society."--_Id._ "Besides _showing_ what is right, _one may further
explain_ the matter by pointing out what is wrong."--_Lowth cor._ "The
former teaches the true pronunciation of words, _and comprises_ accent,
quantity, emphasis, _pauses_, and _tones_."--_L. Murray cor._ "_A person
may reprove others_ for their negligence, by saying, 'You have taken great
care indeed.'"--_Id._ "The _word_ preceding and _the word_ following it,
are in apposition to each other."--_Id._ "_He_ having finished his speech,
the assembly dispersed."--_Cooper cor._ "Were the voice to fall at the
close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of _allowing it to
do_."--_Kirkham cor._ "The misfortunes of his countrymen were but
negatively the effects of his wrath, _which only deprived_ them of his
assistance."--_Kames cor._ "Taking them as nouns, _we may explain_ this
construction thus."--_Grant cor._ "These have an active signification,
_except_ those which come from neuter verbs."--_Id._ "From _its evidence_
not being universal." Or: "From the _fact that its evidence is not_
universal."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "And this faith will continually grow, _as
we acquaint_ ourselves with our own nature."--_Channing cor._
"Monosyllables ending with any consonant but _f, l_, or _s_, never double
the final consonant, _when it is preceded by a single vowel_; except _add,
ebb_," &c.--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 23. Or: "_Words_ ending with any
consonant except _f, l_, or _s_, do not double the final letter.
Exceptions. Add, ebb, &c."--_Bullions's E. Gram._, p. 3. (See my 2d Rule
for Spelling, of which this is a partial copy.) "The relation of _Maria as_
being the object of the action, is expressed by the change of the noun
_Maria_ to _Mariam_;" [i. e., in the _Latin_ language.]--_Booth cor._ "In
analyzing a proposition, _one must_ first _divide it_ into its logical
subject and predicate."--_Andrews and Stoddard cor._ "In analyzing a simple
sentence, _one_ should first _resolve it_ into its logical subject and
logical predicate."--_Wells cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.--OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.
"The _instant discovery of_ passions at their birth, is essential to our
well-being."--_Kames cor._ "I am now to enter on _a consideration of_ the
sources of the pleasures of taste."--_Blair cor._ "The varieties in _the
use of_ them are indeed many."--_Murray cor._ "_The_ changing _of_ times
and seasons, _the_ removing and _the setting-up_ of kings, belong to
Providence alone."--_Id._ "_Adherence_ to the partitions, seemed the cause
of France; _acceptance of_ the will, that of the house of
Bourbon."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "An other source of darkness in
_composition_, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and
phrases."--_Campbell cor._ "These are the rules of grammar; by observing
which, you may avoid mistakes."--_L. Murray et al. cor._ "By observing the
rules, you may avoid mistakes."--_Alger cor._ "By observing these rules, he
succeeded."--_Frost cor._ "_The praise bestowed on him_ was his
ruin."--_Id._ "_Deception_ is not _convincement_."--_Id._ "He never feared
_the loss_ of a friend."--_Id._ "_The_ making _of_ books is his
amusement."--_Alger cor._ "We call it _the_ declining--(or, _the
declension_--) _of_ a noun."--_Ingersoll cor._ "Washington, however,
pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly _the_ taking _of_
any part in the wars of Europe."--_Hall and Baker cor._ "The following is a
note of Interrogation, or _of a_ question: (?)."--_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ "The
following is a note of Admiration, or _of_ wonder: (!)."--_Id._ "_The use
or omission of_ the article A forms a nice distinction in the
sense."--_Murray cor._ "_The_ placing _of_ the preposition before the word,
_which_ it governs, is more graceful."--_Churchill cor._ (See _Lowth's
Gram._, p. 96; _Murray's_, i, 200; _Fisk's_, 141; _Smith's_, 167.)
"Assistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and _the_ retrieving
_of_ their affairs."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Which termination, [_ish_,] when
added to adjectives, imports diminution, or _a_ lessening of the
quality."--_Mur. and Kirkham cor._ "After what _has been_ said, will it be
thought _an excess of refinement_, to suggest that the different orders are
qualified for different purposes?"--_Kames cor._ "Who has nothing to think
of, but _the_ killing _of_ time."--_West cor._ "It requires no nicety of
ear, as in the distinguishing of tones, or _the_ measuring _of_
time."--_Sheridan cor._ "The _possessive case_ [is that form or state of a
noun or pronoun, which] denotes possession, or _the relation of
property_."--_S. R. Hall cor._
UNDER NOTE XIII.--PERFECT PARTICIPLES.
"Garcilasso was master of the language _spoken_ by the Incas."--_Robertson
cor._ "When an interesting story is _broken_ off in the middle."--_Kames
cor._ "Speaking of Hannibal's elephants _driven_ back by the enemy."--_Id._
"If Du Ryer had not _written_ for bread, he would have equalled
them."--_Formey cor._ "Pope describes a rock _broken_ off from a mountain,
and hurling to the plain."--_Kames cor._ "I have written, Thou hast
written, He hath or has written; &c."--_Ash and Maltby cor._ "This was
_spoken_ by a pagan."--_Webster cor._ "But I have _chosen_ to follow the
common arrangement."--_Id._ "The language _spoken_ in Bengal."--_Id._ "And
sound sleep thus _broken_ off with _sudden_ alarms, is apt enough to
discompose any one."--_Locke cor._ "This is not only the case of those open
sinners before _spoken_ of."--_Leslie cor._ "Some grammarians have written
a very perplexed and difficult doctrine on Punctuation."--_Ensell cor._
"There hath a pity _arisen_ in me towards thee."--_G. Fox Jun. cor._ "Abel
is the only man that has _undergone_ the awful change of death."--_De
Genlis, Death of Adam_.
"Meantime, on Afric's glowing sands,
_Smit_ with keen heat, the traveller stands."--_Ode cor._
CHAPTER VIII.--ADVERBS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXI.
UNDER NOTE I.--THE PLACING OF ADVERBS.
"_Not_ all that is favoured by good use, is proper to be retained."--_L.
Murray corrected._ "_Not_ everything favoured by good use, is on that
account worthy to be retained."--_Campbell cor._ "Most men dream, but _not_
all."--_Beattie cor._ "By hasty composition, we shall _certainly_ acquire a
very bad style."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The comparisons are short, touching on
_only_ one point of resemblance."--_Id._ "Having _once_ had some
considerable object set before us."--_Id._ "The positive seems to be
_improperly_ called a degree." [543]--_Adam and Gould cor._ "In some
phrases, the genitive _only_ is used."--_Iid._ "This blunder is said to
have _actually_ occurred."--_Smith cor._ "But _not_ every man is called
James, nor every woman, Mary."--_Buchanan cor._ "Crotchets are employed for
_nearly_ the same purpose as the parenthesis."--_Churchill cor._ "There is
a _still_ greater impropriety in a double comparative."--_Priestley cor._
"We often have occasion to speak of time."--_Lowth cor._ "The following
sentence cannot _possibly_ be understood."--_Id._ "The words must
_generally_ be separated from the context."--_Comly cor._ "Words ending in
_ator, generally_ have the accent on the penultimate."--_L. Mur. cor._ "The
learned languages, with respect to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in
general, constructed _differently_ from the English tongue."--_Id._
"Adverbs seem to have been _originally_ contrived to express compendiously,
in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more."--_Id._ "But it
is so, _only_ when the expression can be converted into the regular form of
the possessive case."--_Id._ "'Enter _boldly_,' says he, 'for here too
there are gods.'"--_Harris cor._ "For none _ever_ work for so little a
pittance that some cannot be found to work for less."--_Sedgwick cor._ "For
sinners also lend to sinners, to receive _again_ as much."--_Bible cor._
Or, as Campbell has it in his version:--"_that they may_ receive as much
_in return_."--_Luke_, vi, 34. "They must be viewed in _exactly_ the same
light."--_L. Murray cor._ "If he _speaks but_ to display his abilities, he
is unworthy of attention."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE II.--ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.
"_Upward_ motion is commonly more agreeable than motion _downward_."--_Dr.
Blair cor._ "There are but two _possible_ ways of justification before
God."--_Cox cor._ "This construction sounds rather _harsh_."--_Mur. and
Ing. cor._ "A clear conception, in the mind of the learner, of _regular_
and well-formed letters."--_C. S. Jour. cor._ "He was a great hearer of * *
* Attalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes _frequent_
mention."--_L'Estrange cor._ "It is only the _frequent_ doing of a thing,
that makes it a custom."--_Leslie cor._ "Because W. R. takes _frequent_
occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and things."--_Barclay
cor._ "Yet _frequent_ touching will wear gold."--_Shak. cor._ "Uneducated
persons frequently use an _adverb_ when they ought to use an _adjective_:
as, 'The country looks _beautifully_;' in stead of _beautiful_." [544]--
_Bucke cor._ "The adjective is put _absolute_, or without its
substantive."--_Ash cor._ "A noun or _a_ pronoun in the second person, may
be put _absolute_ in the nominative case."--_Harrison cor._ "A noun or _a_
pronoun, when put _absolute_ with a participle," &c.--_Id. and Jaudon cor._
"A verb in the infinitive mood absolute, stands _independent_ of the
remaining part of the sentence."--_Wilbur and Liv. cor._ "At my _late_
return into England, I met a book _entitled_, 'The Iron Age.'"--_Cowley
cor._ "But he can discover no better foundation for any of them, than the
_mere_ practice of Homer and Virgil."--_Kames cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--HERE FOR HITHER, &C.
"It is reported, that the _governor_ will come _hither_
to-morrow."--_Kirkham cor._ "It has been reported that the _governor_ will
come _hither_ to-morrow."--_Id._ "To catch a prospect of that lovely land
_whither_ his steps are tending."--_Maturin cor._ "Plautus makes one of his
characters ask _an other, whither_ he is going with that Vulcan shut up in
a horn; that is, with a _lantern_ in his hand."--_Adams cor._ "When we left
Cambridge we intended to return _thither_ in a few days."--_Anon. cor._
"Duncan comes _hither_ to-night."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 323. "They
talked of returning _hither_ last week."--See _J. M. Putnam's Gram._, p.
129.
UNDER NOTE IV.--FROM HENCE, &C.
"Hence he concludes, that no inference can be drawn from the meaning of the
word, that a _constitution_ has a higher authority than a law or
statute,"--_Webster cor._ "Whence we may likewise date the period of this
event."--_L. Murray cor._ "Hence it becomes evident that LANGUAGE, taken in
the most comprehensive view, implies certain sounds, [or certain written
signs,] having certain meanings."--_Harris cor._ "They returned to the city
whence they came out."--_A. Murray cor._ "Respecting ellipses, some
grammarians differ strangely in their ideas; and thence has arisen a very
whimsical diversity in their systems of grammar."--_G. Brown_. "What am I,
and whence? That is, What am I, and whence _am I_?"--_Jaudon cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--THE ADVERB HOW.
"It is strange, _that_ a writer so accurate as Dean Swift, should have
stumbled on so improper an application of this particle."--_Dr. Blair cor._
"Ye know, _that_ a good while ago God made choice among us," &c.--_Bible
cor._ "Let us take care _lest_ we sin; i.e.,--_that_ we _do not_
sin."--_Priestley cor._ "We see by these instances, _that_ prepositions may
be necessary, to connect _such_ words _as_ are not naturally connected _by_
their _own_ signification."--_L. Murray cor._ "Know ye not your own selves,
_that_ Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"--_Bible cor._
"That thou _mayst_ know _that_ the earth is the Lord's."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE VI.--WHEN, WHILE, OR WHERE.
"ELLIPSIS is _the omission of some word or_ words _which are necessary to
complete the construction, but not_ requisite to complete the
sense."--_Adam, Gould, and Fisk, cor._ "PLEONASM is _the insertion of some
word or words_ more than _are_ absolutely necessary _either to complete the
construction, or_ to express the sense."--_Iid. cor._ "HYSTERON-PROTERON is
a _figure in which_ that is put in the former part of the sentence, which,
according to the sense, should be in the latter."--_Adam and Gould cor._
"HYSTERON-PROTERON is a rhetorical figure _in which_ that is said last,
which was done first."--_Webster cor._ "A BARBARISM is a foreign or strange
word, _an expression contrary to the pure idiom of the language_."--_Adam
and Gould cor._ "A SOLECISM is _an impropriety in respect to_ syntax, _an
absurdity or incongruity in speech_."--_Iid. cor._ "An IDIOTISM is _a_
manner of expression peculiar to one language _childishly transferred to an
other_."--_Iid. cor._ "TAUTOLOGY is _a disagreeable repetition_, either
_of_ the same words, or _of_ the same sense in different words."--_Iid.
cor._ "BOMBAST, _or_ FUSTIAN, is _an inflated or ambitious style, in which
high-sounding_ words are used, _with little or no_ meaning, or upon a
trifling occasion."--_Iid. cor._ "AMPHIBOLOGY is ambiguity of construction,
_phraseology which_ may be taken in two different senses."--_Iid. cor._
"IRONY is _a figure in which_ one means the contrary of what is
said."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "PERIPHRASIS, _or_ CIRCUMLOCUTION, is _the
use of_ several words, to express what might be _said_ in fewer."--_Iid.
cor._ "HYPERBOLE is _a figure in which_ a thing is magnified above the
truth."--_Iid. cor._ "PERSONIFICATION is _a figure which ascribes human_
life, sentiments, or actions, to inanimate beings, or to abstract
qualities."--_Iid. cor._ "APOSTROPHE is a _turning from the tenor of one's_
discourse, _into an animated address_ to some person, present or absent,
living or dead, or _to some object personified_."--_Iid. cor._ "A SIMILE is
_a simple and express comparison; and is generally introduced by_ LIKE, AS,
_or_ so."--_G. B., Inst._, p. 233; Kirkham cor.; also Adam and Gould.
"ANTITHESIS is a placing of things in opposition, to heighten their effect
by contrast."--_Inst._, p. 234; _Adam and Gould corrected_. "VISION, or
IMAGERY, _is a figure in which what is present only to the mind, is
represented as actually before one's eyes, and present_ to the
senses."--_G. B.; Adam cor._ "EMPHASIS is a particular stress _of voice_
laid on some word in a sentence."--_Gould's Adam's Gram._, p. 241.
"EPANORTHOSIS, or CORRECTION, is _the recalling or correcting by the
speaker_, of what he last said."--_Ibid._ "PARALIPSIS, or OMISSION, is _the
pretending_ to omit or pass by, what one at the same time
declares."--_Ibid._ "INCREMENTUM, or CLIMAX in sense, is the _rising_ of
one member above an other to the highest."--_Ibid._ "METONYMY is _a change
of names: as when_ the cause is _mentioned_ for the effect, or the effect
for the cause; the container for the thing contained, or the sign for the
thing signified."--_Kirkham cor._ "_The_ Agreement _of words_ is _their
similarity_ in person, number, gender, case, _mood, tense, or
form_."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 104. "_The_ Government _of words is that power
which one_ word has _over an other, to cause it to assume some particular
modification_."--_Ib._ "Fusion is _the converting of_ some solid substance
into a fluid by heat."--_G. B_. "A proper diphthong is _a diphthong in
which_ both the vowels are sounded together; as, _oi_ in _voice, ou_ in
_house_."--_Fisher cor._ "An improper diphthong is _a diphthong in which_
the sound of but one of the two vowels is heard; as, _eo_ in
_people_."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE VII.--THE ADVERB NO FOR NOT.
"An adverb is _added_ to a verb to show how, or when, or where, or whether
or _not_, one is, does, or suffers."--_Buchanan cor._ "We must be immortal,
whether we will or _not_."--_Maturin cor._ "He cares not whether the world
was made for Cæsar or _not_."--_A. Q. Rev. cor._ "I do not know whether
they are out or _not_."--_Byron cor._ "Whether it can be proved or _not_,
is not the thing."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Whether he makes use of the means
commanded by God, or _not_."--_Id._ "Whether it pleases the world or _not_,
the care is taken."--_L'Estrange cor._ "How comes this to be never heard
of, nor in the least questioned, whether the Law was undoubtedly of Moses's
writing or _not_?"--_Tomline cor._ "Whether he be a sinner or _not_, I _do
not know_." Or, as the text is more literally translated by Campbell:
"Whether he be a sinner, I know not."--_Bible cor._ "Can I make men live,
whether they will or _not_?"--_Shak. cor._
"Can hearts not free, be _tried_ whether they serve
Willing or _not_, who will but what they must?"--_Milton cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--OF DOUBLE NEGATIVES.
"We need not, nor do _we_, confine the purposes of God." Or: "We need not,
_and_ do not, confine," &c.--_Bentley cor._ "I cannot by _any_ means allow
him that."--_Id._ "We must try whether or _not_ we _can_ increase the
attention by the help of the senses."--_Brightland cor._ "There is nothing
more admirable _or_ more useful."--_Tooke cor._ "And what in time to come
he can never be said to have done, he can never be supposed to do."--_R.
Johnson cor._ "No skill could obviate, no remedy dispel, the terrible
infection."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Prudery cannot be an indication _either_ of
sense _or_ of taste."--_Spurzheim cor._ "But _neither_ that scripture, nor
_any_ other, speaks of imperfect faith."--_Barclay cor._ "But _neither_
this scripture, nor _any_ other, proves that faith was or is always
accompanied with doubting."--_Id._ "The light of Christ is not, _and_
cannot be, darkness."--_Id._ "Doth not the Scripture, which cannot lie,
give _some_ of the saints this testimony?"--_Id._ "Which do not continue,
_and_ are not binding."--_Id._ "It not being perceived directly, _any_ more
than the air."--_Campbell cor._ "Let us be no Stoics, _and_ no stocks, I
pray."--_Shak. cor._ "Where there is no marked _or_ peculiar character in
the style."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "There can be no rules laid down, nor _any_
manner recommended."--_Sheridan cor._
"_Bates_. 'He hath not told his thought to the king?'
_K. Henry_. 'No; _and_ it is not meet he should.'"
Or thus: "'No; nor _is it_ meet he should.'"--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.--EVER AND NEVER.
"The prayer of Christ is more than sufficient both to strengthen us, be we
_everso_ weak; and to overthrow all adversary power, be it _everso_
strong."--_Hooker cor._ "He is like to have no share in it, or to be
_never_ the better for it." Or: "He is _not likely_ to have any share in
it, or to be _ever_ the better for it."--_Bunyan cor._ "In some parts of
Chili it seldom or _never_ rains."--_Willetts cor._ "If Pompey shall but
_everso_ little seem to like it."--_W. Walker cor._ "Though _everso_ great
a posse of dogs and hunters pursue him."--_Id._ "Though you be _everso_
excellent."--_Id._ "If you do amiss _everso_ little."--_Id._ "If we cast
our eyes _everso_ little down."--_Id._ "A wise man scorneth nothing, be it
_everso_ small or homely."--_M. F. Tupper cor._ "Because they have seldom
_if_ ever an opportunity of learning them at all."--_Clarkson cor._ "We
seldom or _never_ see those forsaken who trust in God."--_Atterbury cor._
"Where, playing with him at bo-peep,
He solved all problems, _e'erso_ deep."--_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE X.--OF THE FORM OF ADVERBS.
"One can _scarcely_ think that Pope was capable of epic or tragic poetry;
but, within a certain limited region, he has been outdone by no
poet."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "I who now read, have _nearly_ finished this
chapter."--_Harris cor._ "And yet, to refine our taste with respect to
beauties of art or of nature, is _scarcely_ endeavoured in any seminary of
learning."--_Kames cor._ "The numbers being confounded, and the possessives
_wrongly_ applied, the passage is neither English nor grammar."--_Buchanan
cor._ "The letter G is _wrongly_ named _Jee_."--_Creighton cor._ "_Lastly_,
remember that in science, as in morals, authority cannot make right what in
itself is wrong."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "They regulate our taste even where
we are _scarcely_ sensible of them."--_Kames cor._ "Slow action, for
example, is imitated by words pronounced _slowly_."--_Id._ "_Surely_, if it
be to profit withal, it must be in order to save."--_Barclay cor._ "Which
is _scarcely_ possible at best."--_Sheridan cor._ "Our wealth being
_nearly_ finished."--_Harris cor._
CHAPTER IX.--CONJUNCTIONS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXII.
UNDER NOTE I.--OF TWO TERMS WITH ONE.
"The first proposal was essentially different _from_ the second, and
inferior _to it._"--_Inst_. "A neuter verb _expresses_ the state _which_ a
subject is in, without acting upon _any other thing_, or being acted upon
by an other."--_A. Murray cor._ "I answer, You _may use_ stories and
anecdotes, and ought to _do_ so."--_Todd cor._ "ORACLE, _n._ Any person
_from whom_, or place _at which_, certain decisions are
obtained."--_Webster cor._ "Forms of government may, and _occasionally
must, be_ changed."--_Lyttelton cor._ "I have _been_, and _I still_ pretend
to be, a tolerable judge."--_Sped. cor._ "Are we not lazy in our duties, or
_do we not_ make a Christ of them?"--_Baxter cor._ "They may not express
that idea which the author intends, but some other which only resembles
_it_, or is _akin_ to it."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "We may _therefore read them_,
we ought to read them, with a distinguishing eye."--_Ib._ "Compare their
poverty with what they might _possess_, and ought to possess."--_Sedgwick
cor._ "He is much better _acquainted with grammar_ than they are."--_L.
Murray cor._ "He was more beloved _than Cinthio_, but [he was] not so much
admired."--_L. Murray's Gram._, i, 222. "Will it be urged, that the four
gospels are as old _as tradition, and even_ older?"--_Campbell's Rhet._, p.
207. "The court of chancery frequently mitigates and _disarms_ the common
law."--_Spect. and Ware cor._ "Antony, coming along side of her ship,
entered it without seeing _her_, or being seen by her."--_Goldsmith cor._
"_Into_ candid minds, truth _enters as_ a welcome _guest_."--_L. Murray
cor._ "_There are_ many designs _in which_ we may succeed, _to our ultimate
ruin_."--_Id._ "_From_ many pursuits _in which_ we embark with pleasure,
_we are destined to_ land sorrowfully."--_Id._ "They _gain_ much _more_
than I, by this unexpected event."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE II.--OF HETEROGENEOUS TERMS.
"Athens saw them entering her gates and _filling_ her
academies."--_Chazotte cor._ "_Neither_ have we forgot his past
_achievements_, nor _do we_ despair of his future success."--_Duncan cor._
"Her monuments and temples had long been shattered, or _had_ crumbled into
dust."--_Journal cor._ "Competition is excellent; _it is_ the vital
principle in all these things."--_Id._ "Whether provision should, or
_should_ not, be made, _in order_ to meet this exigency."--_Ib._. "That our
Saviour was divinely inspired, and _that he was_ endued with supernatural
powers, are positions that are here taken for granted."--_L. Mur. cor._ "It
would be much more eligible, to contract or enlarge their extent by
explanatory notes and observations, than _to sweep_ away our ancient
landmarks and _set_ up others."--_Id._ "It is certainly much better to
supply defects and abridge superfluities by occasional notes and
observations, than _to disorganize_ or _greatly alter_ a system which has
been so long established."--_Id._ "To have only one tune, or measure, is
not much better than _to have_ none at all."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Facts too
well known and _too_ obvious to be insisted on."--_Id._ "In proportion as
all these circumstances are happily chosen, and _are_ of a sublime
kind."--_Id._ "If the description be too general, and _be_ divested of
circumstances."--_Id._ "He gained nothing _but commendation_."--_L. Mur.
cor._ "I cannot but think its application somewhat strained and
_misplaced_."--_Vethake cor._ "Two negatives _standing_ in the same clause,
or referring to the same thing, destroy each other, and leave the sense
affirmative."--_Maunder cor._ "Slates are _thin plates of stone_, and _are
often_ used to cover _the_ roofs of houses."--_Webster cor._ "Every man of
taste, and _of_ an elevated mind, ought to feel almost the necessity of
apologizing for the power he possesses."--_Translator of De Staël cor._
"They very seldom trouble themselves with _inquiries_, or _make any_ useful
observations of their own."--_Locke cor._
"We've both the field and honour won;
_Our foes_ are profligate, and run."--_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--IMPORT OF CONJUNCTIONS.
"THE is sometimes used before adverbs in the comparative _or the_
superlative degree."--_Lennie, Bullions, and Brace cor._ "The definite
article THE is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative _or the_
superlative degree."--_Lowth. Murray, et al, cor._ "Conjunctions usually
connect verbs in the same mood _and_ tense." Or, more truly: "Verbs
connected by _a conjunction, are_ usually in the same mood _and_
tense."--_Sanborn cor._ "Conjunctions connect verbs in the same style, and
usually in the same mood, tense, _and_ form." Or better: "Verbs connected
by _a conjunction_, are usually _of_ the same mood, tense, _and_ form, _as
well as_ style."--_Id._ "The ruins of Greece _or_ Rome are but the
monuments of her former greatness."--_P. E. Day cor._ "It is not
improbably, _that in many of these cases_ the articles were used
originally."--_Priestley cor._ "I cannot doubt that these objects are
really what they appear to be."--_Kames cor._ "I question not _that_ my
reader will be as much pleased with it."--_Spect. cor._ "It is ten to one
_that_ my friend Peter is among them."--_Id._ "I doubt not _that_ such
objections as these will be made"--_Locke cor._ "I doubt not _that_ it will
appear in the perusal of the following sheets."--_Buchanan cor._ "It is not
improbable, that in time these different constructions maybe appropriated
to different uses."--_Priestley cor._ "But to forget _and_ to remember at
pleasure, are equally beyond the power of man."--_Idler cor._ "The
nominative case follows the verb, in interrogative _or_ imperative
sentences."--_L. Mur. cor._ "Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive
berries? _or_ a vine, figs?"--_Bible cor._ "Whose characters are too
profligate _for_ the managing of them _to_ be of any consequence."--_Swift
cor._ "You, that are a step higher than a philosopher, a divine, yet have
too much grace and wit to be a bishop."--_Pope cor._ "The terms _rich and
poor_ enter not into their language."--_Robertson cor._ "This pause is but
seldom, _if_ ever, sufficiently dwelt upon." Or: "This pause is seldom _or
never_ sufficiently dwelt upon."--_Gardiner cor._ "There would be no
possibility of any such thing as human life _or_ human happiness."--_Bp.
Butler cor._ "The multitude rebuked them, _that_ they should hold their
peace."--_Bible cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--THE CONJUNCTION THAN.
"A metaphor is nothing _else than_ a short comparison." Or: "A metaphor is
nothing _but_ a short comparison."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "There being no
other dictator here _than_ use."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 364. "This
construction is no otherwise known in English, _than_ by supplying the
first or _the_ second person plural."--_Buchanan cor._ "Cyaxares was no
sooner _on_ the throne, _than_ he was engaged in a terrible war."--_Rollin
cor._ "Those classics contain little else _than_ histories of
murders."--_Am. Mu. cor._ "Ye shall not worship any other _than_
God."--_Sale cor._ "Their relation, therefore, is not otherwise to be
ascertained, _than_ by their place."--_Campbell cor._ "For he no sooner
accosted her, _than_ he gained his point."--_Burder cor._ "And all the
modern writers on this subject, have done little else _than_ translate
them."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "One who had no other aim _than_ to talk copiously
and plausibly."--_Id._ "We can refer it to no other cause _than_ the
structure of the eye."--_Id._ "No more is required _than_ singly an act of
vision."--_Kames cor._ "We find no more in its composition, _than_ the
particulars now mentioned."--_Id._ "_He does not pretend_ to say, that it
_has_ any other effect _than_ to raise surprise."--_Id._ "No sooner was the
princess dead, _than_ he freed himself."--_Dr. S. Johnson cor._ "OUGHT is
an imperfect verb, for it has no modification besides this
one."--_Priestley cor._ "The verb is palpably nothing else _than_ the
tie."--_Neef cor._ "Does he mean that theism is capable of nothing else
_than_ of being opposed to polytheism or atheism?"--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Is it
meant that theism is capable of nothing else _than of_ being opposed to
polytheism or atheism?"--_L. Murray cor._ "There is no other method of
teaching that of which any one is ignorant, _than_ by means of something
already known."--_Ingersoll's Grammar, Titlepage: Dr. Johnson cor._ "O
fairest flower, no sooner blown _than_ blasted!"--_Milton cor._
"Architecture and gardening cannot otherwise entertain the mind, than by
raising certain agreeable emotions or feelings."--_Kames cor._ "Or, rather,
they are nothing else _than_ nouns."--_Brit. Gram. cor._
"As if religion were intended
For nothing else than to be mended."--_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--RELATIVES EXCLUDE CONJUNCTIONS.
"To prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than _himself,
a teacher_ whose shoes he was not worthy to bear."--_Anon, or Mur. cor._
"Has this word, which represents an action, an object after it, on which
_the action_ terminates?"--_Osborne cor._ "The stores of literature lie
before him, from which he may collect for use many lessons of wisdom."--
_Knapp cor._ "Many and various great advantages of this grammar _over_
others, might be enumerated."--_Greenleaf cor._ "The custom which still
prevails, of writing in lines from left to right, is said to have been
introduced about the time of Solon, the Athenian legislator."--_Jamieson
cor._ "The fundamental rule _for_ the construction of sentences, _the rule_
into which all others might be resolved, undoubtedly is, to communicate, in
the clearest and most natural order, the ideas which we mean to
_express_."--_Blair and Jamieson cor._ "He left a son of a singular
character, who behaved so ill that he was put in prison."--_L. Murray cor._
"He discovered in the youth some disagreeable qualities which to him were
wholly unaccountable."--_Id._ "An emphatical pause is made after something
_of_ peculiar moment has been said, on which we _wish_ to fix the hearer's
attention." Or: "An emphatical pause is made after something has been said
_which is_ of peculiar moment, _and_ on which we _wish_ to fix the hearer's
attention."--_Blair and Murray cor._ "But we have duplicates of each,
agreeing in movement, though differing in measure, and _making_ different
impressions on the ear,"--_Murray cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--OF THE WORD THAT.
"It will greatly facilitate the labours of the teacher, _and_, at the same
time, it will relieve the pupil _from_ many difficulties."--_Frost cor._
"_While_ the pupil is engaged in the exercises just mentioned, it will be
proper _for him_ to study the whole grammar in course."--_Bullions cor._
"On the same ground _on which_ a participle and _an_ auxiliary are allowed
to form a tense."--_Beattie and Murray cor._ "On the same ground _on which_
the voices, moods, and tenses, are admitted into the English tongue."--_L.
Murray cor._ "The five examples last mentioned, are corrected on the same
principle that _is applied to the errors_ preceding _them_."--_Murray and
Ingersoll cor._ "The brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted
till Rome was taken by the Goths."--_Gould cor._ "The introduction to the
duodecimo edition is retained in this volume, for the same reason _for
which_ the original introduction to the Grammar is retained in the first
volume."--_L. Murray cor._ "The verb must also _agree in person with its
subject or_ nominative."--_Ingersoll cor._ "The personal pronoun 'THEIR' is
plural for the same reason _for which_ 'WHO' is plural."--_Id._ "The
Sabellians could not justly be called Patripassians, in the same sense _in
which_ the Noëtians were so called."--_R. Adam cor._ "This is one reason
_why_ we pass over such smooth language without suspecting that it contains
little or no meaning."--_L. Murray cor._ "The first place _at which the
two_ armies came _within_ sight of each other, was on the opposite banks of
the river Apsus."--_Goldsmith cor._ "At the very time _at which_ the author
gave him the first book for his perusal."--_Campbell cor._ "Peter will sup
at the time _at which_ Paul will dine."--_Fosdick cor._ "Peter will be
supping _when_ Paul will enter."--_Id._ "These, _while_ they may serve as
models to those who may wish to imitate them, will give me an opportunity
to cast more light upon the principles of this book."--_Id._
"Time was, like thee, they life _possess'd_,
And time shall be, _when_ thou shalt rest."--_Parnell cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.
"Our manners should be _neither_ gross nor excessively refined."--_Murray's
Key_, ii, 165. "A neuter verb expresses neither action _nor_ passion, but
being, or a state of being."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "The old books are
neither English grammars, _nor in any sense_ grammars of the English
language."--_Id._ "The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet _so_
accurate and _so_ much simplified as it may be."--_Kirkham cor._ "The
writer could not treat some _topics so_ extensively as [it] was desirable
[to treat them]."--_Id._ "Which would be a matter of such nicety, _that_ no
degree of human wisdom could regulate _it_."--_L. Murray cor._ "No
undertaking is so great or difficult, _that_ he cannot direct
_it_."--_Duncan cor._ "It is a good which depends _neither_ on the will of
others, nor on the affluence of external fortune."--_Harris cor._ "Not only
his estate, _but_ his reputation too, has suffered by his
misconduct."--_Murray and Ingersoll cor._ "Neither do they extend _so_ far
as might be imagined at first view."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "There is no
language so poor, but _that_ it _has_ (or, _as not to have_) two or three
past tenses."--_Id. "So_ far as this system is founded in truth, language
appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin."--_Id._ "I have not
_such_ command of these convulsions as is necessary." Or: "I have not
_that_ command of these convulsions _which_ is necessary."--_Spect. cor._
"Conversation with such _as_ (or, _those who_) know no arts _that_ polish
life."--_Id._ "And which cannot be _either_ very lively or very
forcible."--_Jamieson cor._ "To _such a_ degree as to give proper names to
rivers."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "In the utter overthrow of such _as_ hate to be
reformed."--_Barclay cor._ "But still so much of it is retained, _that it_
greatly injures the uniformity of the whole."--_Priestley cor._ "Some of
them have gone to _such a_ height of extravagance, as to assert,"
&c.--_Id._ "A teacher is confined, not more than a merchant, and probably
not _so_ much."--_Abbott cor._ "It shall not be forgiven him, neither in
this world, _nor_ in the world to come." Or: "It shall not be forgiven him,
_either_ in this world, _or_ in the world to come."--_Bible cor._ "Which
_nobody_ presumes, or is so sanguine _as_ to hope."--_Swift cor._ "For the
torrent of the voice left neither time, _nor_ power in the organs, to shape
the words properly."--_Sheridan cor._ "That he may neither unnecessarily
waste his voice by throwing out too much, _nor_ diminish his power by using
too little."--_Id._ "I have retained only such _as_ appear most agreeable
to the measures of analogy."--_Littleton cor._ "He is a man both prudent
and industrious."--_P. E. Day cor._ "Conjunctions connect either words or
sentences."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 169.
"Such silly girls _as_ love to chat and play,
Deserve no care; their time is thrown away."--_Tobitt cor._
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
_That_ to be hated _she_ but needs be seen."--_Pope cor._
"Justice must punish the rebellious deed;
Yet punish so _that_ pity shall exceed."--_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
"THAT, WHOSE, and AS, relate either to persons or _to_ things." Or
better:--"relate _as well_ to persons _as to_ things."--_Sanborn cor._
"WHICH and WHAT, as adjectives, relate either to persons or _to_ things."
Or better:--"relate to persons _as well as to_ things."--_Id._ "Whether of
a public or _of a_ private nature."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "Which are included
_among both_ the public and _the_ private wrongs."--_Id._ "I might extract,
both from the Old and _from the_ New Testament, numberless examples of
induction."--_Id._ "Many verbs are used both in an active and _in a_ neuter
signification." Or thus: "Many verbs are used _in both_ an active and _a_
neuter signification."--_Lowth, Mur., et al., cor._ "Its influence is
likely to be considerable, both on the morals and _on the_ taste of a
nation."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The subject afforded a variety of scenes, both
of the awful and _of the_ tender kind."--_Id._ "Restlessness of mind
disqualifies us both for the enjoyment of peace, and _for_ the performance
of our duty."--_Mur. and Ing. cor. "Pronominal adjectives_ are of a mixed
nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and _of_
adjectives."--_Mur. et al. cor. "Pronominal adjectives_ have the nature
both of the adjective and _of_ the pronoun."--_Frost cor._ Or: "[Pronominal
adjectives] partake of the properties _of both_ adjectives _and_
pronouns."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 55. "Pronominal adjectives are a kind of
compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of pronouns and _of_
adjectives."--_Nutting cor._ "Nouns are used either in the singular or _in
the_ plural number." Or perhaps better: "Nouns are used _in either_ the
singular or _the_ plural number."--_David Blair cor._ "The question is not,
whether the nominative or _the_ accusative ought to follow the particles
THAN and AS; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to
be regarded as conjunctions or _as_ prepositions"--_Campbell cor._ "In
English, many verbs are used both as transitives and _as_
intransitives."--_Churchill cor._ "He sendeth rain both on the just and _on
the_ unjust."--See _Matt._, v, 45. "A foot consists either of two or _of_
three syllables."--_David Blair cor._ "Because they participate the nature
both of adverbs and _of_ conjunctions."--_L. Murray cor._ "Surely, Romans,
what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted, nor _to_ pass
without notice."--_Duncan cor._ "Their language frequently amounts, not
only to bad sense, but _to nonsense_."--_Kirkham cor._ "Hence arises the
necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and _for the_
exerting, of his nobler faculties."--_Sheridan cor._ "Whether the subject
be of the real or _of the_ feigned kind."--_Dr. H. Blair cor._ "Not only
was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power _was_ felt in its
heaviest and most oppressive weight."--_Id._ "This rule is _also_
applicable both to verbal Critics and _to_ Grammarians."--_Hiley cor._
"Both the rules and _the_ exceptions of a language must have obtained the
sanction of good usage."--_Id._
CHAPTER X.--PREPOSITIONS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXIII.
UNDER NOTE I.--CHOICE OF PREPOSITIONS.
"You have bestowed your favours _upon_ the most deserving persons."--_Swift
corrected._ "But, to rise _above_ that, and overtop the crowd, is given to
few."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "This [also is a good] sentence [, and] gives
occasion _for_ no material remark."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 203. "Though
Cicero endeavours to give some reputation _to_ the elder Cato, and those
who were his _contemporaries._" Or:--"to give some _favourable account_ of
the elder Cato," &c.--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The change that was produced _in_
eloquence, is beautifully described in the dialogue."--_Id._ "Without
carefully attending to the variation which they make _in_ the idea."--_Id._
"All _on_ a sudden, you are transported into a lofty palace."--_Hazlitt
cor._ "Alike independent of one _an other._" Or: "Alike independent _one of
an other_."--_Campbell cor._ "You will not think of them as distinct
processes going on independently _of_ each other."--_Channing cor._ "Though
we say to _depend on, dependent on_, and _dependence on_, we say,
_independent of_, and _independently of._"--_Churchill cor._ "Independently
_of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 80; _Buchanan's_, 83;
_Bullions's_, 110; _Churchill's_, 348.[545] "Because they stand independent
_of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Allen Fisk cor._ "When a substantive is
joined with a participle, in English, independently _of_ the rest of the
sentence."--_Dr. Adam cor._ "CONJUNCTION comes _from_ the two Latin words
_con_, together, and _jungo_, to join."--_Merchant cor._ "How different
_from_ this is the life of Fulvia!"--_Addison cor._ "LOVED is a participle
or adjective, derived _from_ the word _love_."--_Ash cor._ "But I would
inquire _of_ him, what an office is."--_Barclay cor._ "For the capacity is
brought _into_ action."--_Id._ "In this period, language and taste arrive
_at_ purity."--_Webster cor._ "And, should you not aspire _to_ (or _after_)
distinction in the _republic_ of letters."--_Kirkham cor._ "Delivering you
up to the synagogues, and _into_ prisons."--_Luke_, xxi, 12. "_He_ that is
kept from falling _into_ a ditch, is as truly saved, as he that is taken
out of one."--_Barclay cor._ "The best _of_ it is, they are but a sort of
French Hugonots."--_Addison cor._ "These last ten examples are indeed of a
different nature _from_ the former."--_R. Johnson cor._ "For the initiation
of students _into_ the principles of the English language."--_Ann. Rev.
cor._ "Richelieu profited _by_ every circumstance which the conjuncture
afforded."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "In the names of drugs and plants, the
mistake _of_ a word may endanger life."--_Merchant's Key_, p. 185. Or
better: "In _naming_ drugs _or_ plants, _to mistake_ a word, may endanger
life."--_L. Murray cor._ "In order to the carrying _of_ its several parts
into execution."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "His abhorrence _of_ the superstitious
figure."--_Priestley._ "Thy prejudice _against_ my cause."--_Id._ "Which is
found _in_ every species of liberty."--_Hume cor._ "In a hilly region _on_
the north of Jericho."--_Milman cor._ "Two or more singular nouns coupled
_by_ AND require a verb _or_ pronoun in the plural."--_Lennie cor._
"Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
_To_ wisdom, piety, delight, or use."--_Denham cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--TWO OBJECTS OR MORE.
"The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarrelled _among_ themselves for
precedence."--_Const. Misc. cor._ "The distinctions _among_ the principal
parts of speech are founded in nature."--_Webster cor._ "I think I now
understand the difference between the active verbs and those _which are_
passive _or_ neuter."--_Ingersoll cor._ "Thus a figure including a space
_within_ three lines, is the real as well as nominal essence of a
triangle."--_Locke cor._ "We must distinguish between an imperfect phrase
_and_ a simple sentence, _and between a simple sentence_ and a compound
sentence."--_Lowth, Murray, et al., cor._ "The Jews are strictly forbidden
by their law to exercise usury _towards one an_ other."--_Sale cor._ "All
the writers have distinguished themselves among _themselves_."--_Addison
cor._ "This expression also better secures the systematic uniformity _of_
the three cases."--_Nutting cor._ "When two or more _infinitives_ or
clauses _are connected disjunctively as the subjects of an affirmation_,
the verb must be singular."--_Jaudon cor._ "Several nouns or pronouns
together in the same case, require a comma _after_ each; [except the last,
which must sometimes be followed by a greater point.]"--_David Blair cor._
"The difference between _one vowel and an other_ is produced by opening the
mouth differently, and placing the tongue in a different manner for
each."--_Churchill cor._ "Thus feet composed of syllables, being pronounced
with a sensible interval between _one foot and an other_, make a more
lively impression than can be made by a continued sound."--_Kames cor._
"The superlative degree implies a comparison, _sometimes_ between _two, but
generally among_ three or more."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "They are used to mark
a distinction _among_ several objects."--_Lévizac cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.
"This would have been less worthy _of_ notice."--_Churchill cor._ "But I
passed it, as a thing unworthy _of_ my notice."--_Werter cor._ "Which, in
compliment to me, perhaps you may one day think worthy _of_ your
attention."--_Bucke cor._ "To think this small present worthy _of_ an
introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment."--
_Id._ "There are but a few miles _of_ portage."--_Jefferson cor._ "It is
worthy _of_ notice, that our mountains are not solitary."--_Id._ "It is
_about_ one hundred feet _in_ diameter." [546]--_Id._ "Entering a hill a
quarter or half _of_ a mile."--_Id._ "And herself seems passing to _an_
awful dissolution, whose issue _it_ is not given _to_ human foresight to
scan."--_Id._ "It was of a spheroidical form, _about_ forty feet _in_
diameter at the base, and had been _about_ twelve feet _in_
altitude."--_Id._ "Before this, it was covered with trees of twelve inches
_in_ diameter; and, round the base, _there_ was an excavation of five feet
_in_ depth and _five in_ width."--_Id._ "Then thou _mayst_ eat grapes _to_
thy fill, at thine own pleasure."--_Bible cor._ "Then he brought me back
_by_ the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary."--_Id._ "They will bless
God, that he has peopled one half _of_ the world with a race of
freemen."--_Webster cor._ "_Of_ what use can these words be, till their
meaning is known?"--_Town cor._ "The tents of the Arabs now are black, or
_of_ a very dark colour."--_The Friend cor._ "They may not be unworthy _of_
the attention of young men."--_Kirkham cor._ "The pronoun THAT is
frequently applied to persons as well as _to_ things."--_Merchant cor._
"And '_who_' is in the same case that '_man_' is _in_."--_Sanborn cor._ "He
saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet _in_ diameter."--_The
Friend cor._ "Pliny informs us, that this stone was _of_ the size of a
cart."--_Id._ "Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of
Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled _from_ Rome."--_L'Estrange cor._ "I
was prevented _from_ reading a letter which would have undeceived
me."--_Hawkesworth cor._ "If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned
_for_ the inaccuracy of its demonstration."--_Booth cor._ "The army must of
necessity be the school, not of honour, but _of_ effeminacy."--_Dr. Brown
cor._ "Afraid of the virtue of a nation in its opposing _of_ bad measures:"
or,--"in its _opposition to_ bad measures."--_Id._ "The uniting _of_ them
in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy."--_Gardiner cor._ "I
might be excused _from_ taking any more notice of it."--_Watson cor._
"Watch therefore; for ye know not _at_ what hour your Lord _will_
come."--_Bible cor._ "Here, not even infants were spared _from_ the
sword."--_M'Ilvaine cor._ "To prevent men _from_ turning aside to _false_
modes of worship."--_John Allen cor._ "God expelled them _from_ the garden
of Eden."--_Burder cor._ "Nor could he refrain _from_ expressing to the
senate the agonies of his mind."--_Hume cor._ "Who now so strenuously
opposes the granting _to_ him _of_ any new powers."--_Duncan cor._ "That
the laws of the censors have banished him _from_ the forum."--_Id._ "We
read not that he was degraded _from_ his office _in_ any other
way."--_Barclay cor._ "To all _to_ whom these presents shall come,
greeting."--_Hutchinson cor._ "On the 1st _of_ August, 1834."--_Brit. Parl.
cor._
"Whether you had not some time in your life
Err'd in this point _on_ which you censure him."--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.
"And the apostles and elders came together to consider this
matter."--_Barclay cor._; also _Acts_. "Adjectives, in our language, have
neither case, _nor_ gender, nor number; the only variation they have, is
comparison."--_Buchanan cor._ "'It is to you that I am indebted for this
privilege;' that is, 'To you am I indebted;' or, 'It is you to whom I am
indebted.'"--_Sanborn cor._ "BOOKS is a _common_ noun, of the third person,
plural number, _and_ neuter gender."--_Ingersoll cor._ "BROTHER'S is a
common _noun_, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and
possessive case."--_L. Murray cor._ "VIRTUE'S is a common _noun_, of the
third person, singular number, [neuter gender,] and possessive
case."--_Id._ "When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is
vain to oppose the prevailing usage."--_Campbell and Murray cor._ "A
captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering
Rome."--_Collier cor._ "And, notwithstanding its verbal power, we have
added the TO and other signs of exertion."--_Booth cor._ "Some of these
situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the noun,
_in stead of_ separate words:" or,--"_and not by_ separate words."--_Id._
"Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul
for a day, and bow down his head like a bulrush?"--_Bacon cor._ Compare
_Isa._, lviii, 5. "And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by
the accidental _in stead of_ the necessary antecedent."--_Wayland cor._
"About the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed."--_Balbi
cor._ "God divided between the light and the darkness."--_Burder cor._
"Notwithstanding this, we are not against outward significations of
honour."--_Barclay cor._ "Whether these words and practices of Job's
friends, _ought_ to be our rule."--_Id._ "Such verb cannot admit an
objective case after it."--_Lowth cor._ "For which, God is now visibly
punishing these nations."--_C. Leslie cor._ "In this respect, Tasso yields
to no poet, except Homer."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Notwithstanding the numerous
panegyrics on the ancient English liberty."--_Hume cor._ "Their efforts
seemed to anticipate the spirit which became so general afterwards."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE V.--THE PLACING OF THE WORDS.
"But how short _of_ its excellency are my expressions!"--_Baxter cor._
"_In_ his style, there is a remarkable union _of_ harmony with ease."--_Dr.
H. Blair cor._ "It disposes _of_ the light and shade _in_ the most
artificial manner, _that_ every thing _may be viewed_ to the best
advantage."--_Id._ "_For_ brevity, Aristotle too holds an eminent rank
among didactic writers."--_Id._ "In an introduction, correctness _of_
expression should be carefully studied."--_Id._ "_In_ laying down a method,
_one ought_ above all things _to study_ precision."--_Id._ "Which shall
make _on_ the mind the impression _of_ something that is one, whole, and
entire."--_Id._ "At the same time, there are _in_ the Odyssey some defects
which must be acknowledged." Or: "At the same time, _it_ must be
acknowledged _that_ there are some defects in the Odyssey."--_Id._ "_In_
the concluding books, however, there are beauties _of_ the tragic
kind."--_Id._ "These forms of conversation multiplied _by_ degrees, and
grew troublesome."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 44. "When she has made her
own choice, she sends, _for_ form's sake, a congé-d'élire to her
friends."--_Ib._, ii, 46. "Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an
interest in him who holds _in_ his hand the reins of the whole
creation."--_Spectator cor._; also _Kames_. "Next to this, the measure most
frequent _in_ English poetry, is that of eight syllables."--_David Blair
cor._ "To introduce as great a variety _of_ cadences as possible."--
_Jamieson cor._ "He addressed _to_ them several exhortations, suitable to
their circumstances."--_L. Murray cor._ "Habits _of_ temperance and
self-denial must be acquired."--_Id._ "In reducing _to_ practice the rules
prescribed."--_Id._ "But these parts must be so closely bound together, as
to make _upon_ the mind the impression _of_ one object, not of
many."--_Blair and Mur. cor._ "Errors _with_ respect to the use of _shall_
and _will_, are sometimes committed by the most distinguished
writers."--_N. Butler cor._
CHAPTER XI.--PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES.
CORRECTIONS OF THE PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES.
LESSON I.--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.
"Such _a_ one, I believe, yours will be proved to be."--_Peet and Farnum
cor._ "Of the distinction between the imperfect and the perfect _tense_, it
may be observed," &c.--_L. Ainsworth cor._ "The subject is certainly worthy
_of_ consideration."--_Id._ "By this means, all ambiguity and controversy
_on this point are avoided_."--_Bullions cor._ "The perfect participle, in
English, has both an active and _a_ passive signification." Better: "The
perfect participle, in English, has _sometimes_ an active, and _sometimes_
a passive, signification."--_Id._ "The old house _has_ at length fallen
down."--_Id._ "The king, the lords, and _the_ commons, constitute the
English form of government."--_Id._ "The verb in the singular agrees with
the person next _to_ it." Better: "The singular verb agrees _in_ person
with _that nominative which is_ next _to_ it."--_Id._ "Jane found Seth's
gloves in _James's_ hat."--_O. C. Felton cor._ "_Charles's_ task is too
great."--_Id._ "The conjugation of a verb is the naming _of_ its several
_moods_, tenses, numbers, and persons, _in regular order_."--_Id._ "The
_long-remembered_ beggar was his guest."--_Id._ "Participles refer to nouns
_or_ pronouns."--_Id._ "F has _a_ uniform sound, in every position, except
in OF." Better: "F has _one unvaried_ sound, in every position, except in
OF."--_E. J. Hallock cor._ "There are three genders; the masculine, the
feminine, and _the_ neuter."--_Id._ "When SO _and_ THAT occur together,
sometimes the particle SO is taken as an adverb."--_Id._ "The definition of
the articles _shows_ that they modify [the import of] the words to which
they belong."--_Id._ "The _auxiliary_, SHALL, WILL, or SHOULD, is
implied."--_Id. "Single-rhymed_ trochaic omits the final short
syllable."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 237. "_Agreeably_ to this, we read of names
being blotted out of God's book."--_Burder, Hallock, and Webster, cor._
"The first person is _that which denotes the speaker_."--_Inst._, p. 32.
"Accent is the laying _of_ a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain
letter or syllable in a word."--_L. Murray's Gram._, p. 235; _Felton's_,
134. "_Thomas's_ horse was caught."--_Felton cor._ "You _were_
loved."--_Id._ "The nominative and _the_ objective end _alike_."--_T. Smith
cor._ "The _numbers_ of pronouns, like those of substantives, are two; the
singular and the plural."--_Id._ "_I_ is called the pronoun of the first
person, _because it represents_ the person speaking."--_Frost cor._ "The
essential elements of the phrase _are_ an intransitive gerundive and an
adjective."--_Hazen cor._ "_Wealth_ is no justification for such
impudence."--_Id._ "_That he was_ a soldier in the revolution, is not
doubted."--_Id._ "_Fishing_ is the chief employment of the
inhabitants."--_Id._ "The chief employment of the inhabitants, is _the_
catching _of_ fish."--_Id._ "The cold weather did not prevent the _work
from_ being finished at the time specified."--_Id._ "The _man's_ former
viciousness caused _him to be_ suspected of this crime."--_Id._ "But person
and number, applied to verbs, _mean_ certain terminations."--_Barrett cor._
"Robert _felled_ a tree."--_Id._ "Charles raised _himself_ up."--_Id._ "It
might not be _a_ useless waste of time."--_Id._ "Neither will you have that
implicit faith in the writings and works of others, which _characterizes_
the vulgar."--_Id._ "_I_ is _of_ the first person, because it denotes the
speaker."--_Ib._ "I would refer the student to _Hedge's_ or _Watts's_
Logic."--_Id._ "Hedge's _Watts's_, Kirwin's, and Collard's Logic."--_Parker
and Fox cor._ "Letters _that_ make a full and perfect sound of themselves,
are called vowels." Or: "_The_ letters _which_ make," &c.--_Cutler cor._
"It has both a singular and _a_ plural construction."--_Id._ "For he
_beholds_ (or _beholdeth_) thy beams no more."--_Id. Carthon._ "To this
sentiment the Committee _have_ the candour to incline, as it will appear by
their _summing-up_."--_Macpherson cor._ "This _reduces_ the point at issue
to a narrow compass."--_Id._ "Since the English _set_ foot upon the
soil."--_Exiles cor._ "The arrangement of its different parts _is_ easily
retained by the memory."--_Hiley cor._ "The words employed are the most
appropriate _that_ could have been selected."--_Id._ "To prevent it _from_
launching!"--_Id._ "Webster has been followed in preference to others,
where _he_ differs from them." Or: "_Webster's Grammar_ has been followed
in preference to others, where _it_ differs from them."--_Frazee cor._
"Exclamation and interrogation are often mistaken _the_ one _for the_
other."--_Buchanan cor._ "When all nature is hushed in sleep, and neither
love nor guilt _keeps its_ vigils."--_Felton cor._ Or thus:--
"When all nature's hush'd asleep.
Nor love, nor guilt, _doth_ vigils keep."
LESSON II.--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.
"A _Versifier_ and _a_ Poet are two different things."--_Brightland cor._
"Those qualities will arise from the _well-expressing_ of the
subject."--_Id._ "Therefore the explanation of NETWORK is _not noticed_
here."--_Mason cor._ "When emphasis or pathos _is_ necessary to be
expressed."--_Humphrey cor._ "Whether this mode of punctuation is correct,
_or_ whether it _is_ proper to close the sentence with the mark of
admiration, may be made a question."--_Id._ "But not every writer in those
days _was_ thus correct."--_Id._ "The sounds of A, in English orthoepy, are
no _fewer_ than four."--_Id._ "Our present code of rules _is_ thought to be
generally correct." Or: "_The rules in_ our present code are thought to be
generally correct."--_Id._ "To prevent _it from_ running into _an
other_"--_Id._ "_Shakspeare_, perhaps, the greatest poetical genius _that_
England has produced."--_Id._ "This I will illustrate by example; but,
_before doing so_, a few preliminary remarks may be necessary."--_Id._ "All
such are entitled to two accents each, and some of _them_ to two accents
nearly equal."--_Id._ "But some cases of the kind are so plain, that no one
_needs_ to exercise (or, need exercise) his _judgement_ therein."--_Id._ "I
have _forborne_ to use the word."--_Id._ "The propositions, 'He may study,'
'He might study,' 'He could study,' _affirm_ an ability or power to
study."--_E. J. Hallock cor._ "The divisions of the tenses _have_
occasioned grammarians much trouble and perplexity."--_Id._ "By adopting a
familiar, inductive method of presenting this subject, _one may render it_
highly attractive to young learners."--_Wells cor._ "The definitions and
rules of different grammarians were carefully compared with _one an_
other:" or--"_one_ with _an_ other."--_Id._ "So as not wholly to prevent
some _sound from_ issuing."--_Sheridan cor._ "Letters of the Alphabet, not
yet _noticed_."--_Id._ "'IT _is sad_,' 'IT _is strange_,' &c., _seem_ to
express only that _the thing_ is sad, strange, &c."--_Well-Wishers cor._
"The winning is easier than the preserving _of_ a conquest."--_Same_. "The
United States _find themselves_ the _owners_ of a vast region of country at
the west."--_H. Mann cor._ "One or more letters placed before a word _are_
a prefix."--_S. W. Clark cor._ "One or more letters added to a word, _are_
a Suffix."--_Id._ "_Two thirds_ of my hair _have_ fallen off." Or: "My hair
has, two thirds of it, fallen off."--_Id._ "'Suspecting' describes _us,
the speakers_, by expressing, incidentally, an act of _ours_."--_Id._
"Daniel's predictions are now _about_ being fulfilled." Or thus: "Daniel's
predictions are now _receiving their fulfillment_"--_Id._ "His
_scholarship_ entitles him to respect."--_Id._ "I doubted _whether he had_
been a soldier."--_Id._ "_The_ taking _of_ a madman's sword to prevent _him
from_ doing mischief, cannot be regarded as _a robbery_."--_Id._ "I thought
it to be him; but it was not _he_."--_Id._ "It was not _I_ that you
saw."--_Id._ "Not to know what happened before you _were_ born, is always
to be a boy."--_Id._ "How long _were_ you going? Three days."--_Id._ "The
qualifying adjective is placed next _to_ the noun."--_Id._ "All went but
_I_."--_Id._ "This is _a_ parsing _of_ their own language, and not _of_ the
author's."--_Wells cor._ "_Those_ nouns which denote males, are of the
masculine gender." Or: "Nouns _that_ denote males, are of the masculine
gender."--_Wells, late Ed._ "_Those_ nouns which denote females, are of the
feminine gender." Or: "Nouns _that_ denote females, are of the feminine
gender."--_Wells, late Ed._ "When a comparison _among_ more than two
objects of the same class is expressed, the superlative degree is
employed."--_Wells cor._ "Where _d_ or _t goes_ before, the additional
letter _d_ or _t_, in this contracted form, _coalesces_ into one letter
with the radical _d_ or _t_."--_Dr. Johnson cor._ "Write words which will
show what kind of _house_ you live in--what kind of _book_ you hold in your
hand--what kind of _day_ it is."--_Weld cor._ "One word or more _are_ often
joined to nouns or pronouns to modify their meaning."--_Id._ "_Good_ is an
adjective; it explains the quality or character of every person _to whom_,
or thing to which, it is applied." Or:--"of every person or thing _that_ it
is applied to."--_Id._ "A great public as well as private advantage arises
from every one's devoting _of_ himself to that occupation which he prefers,
and for which he is specially fitted."--_Wayland, Wells, and Weld, cor._
"There was a chance _for_ him _to recover_ his senses." Or: "There was a
chance _that he might recover_ his senses."--_Wells and Macaulay cor._
"This may be known by _the absence of_ any connecting word immediately
preceding it."--_Weld cor._ "There are irregular expressions occasionally
to be met with, which usage, or custom, rather than analogy,
_sanctions_."--_Id._ "He added an anecdote of _Quin_ relieving Thomson from
prison." Or: "He added an anecdote of _Quin_ as relieving Thomson from
prison." Or: "He added an anecdote of Quin's relieving _of_ Thomson from
prison." Or better: "He _also told how Quin relieved_ Thomson from
prison."--_Id._ "The daily labour of her hands _procures_ for her all that
is necessary."--_Id._ "_That it is I, should_ make no change in your
determination."--_Hart cor._ "The classification of words into what _are_
called the Parts of Speech."--_Weld cor._ "Such licenses may be explained
_among_ what _are_ usually termed Figures."--_Id._
"Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature's _hand_."--_Beattie_.
"They fall successive, and successive _rise_."--_Pope_.
LESSON III.--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.
"A Figure of Etymology is _an_ intentional deviation _from_ the usual form
of a word."--_See Brown's Institutes_, p. 229. "A Figure of Syntax is _an_
intentional deviation _from_ the usual construction of a word."--_See
Brown's Inst._, p. 230. "Synecdoche is _the naming_ of the whole of _any
thing_ for a part, or a part for the whole."--_Weld cor._ "Apostrophe is a
_turning-off_[547] from the regular course of the subject, to address some
person or thing."--_Id._ "Even young pupils will perform such exercises
with surprising interest and facility, and will unconsciously gain, in a
little time, more knowledge of the structure of _language_, than _they_ can
acquire by a drilling of several years in the usual routine of
parsing."--_Id._ "A few _rules_ of construction are employed in this
_part_, to guide _the pupil_ in the exercise of parsing."--_Id._ "The name
of _any_ person, object, or thing, _that_ can be thought of, or spoken of,
is a noun."--_Id._ "A dot, resembling our period, is used between every
_two words_, as well as at the close of _each verse_."--_W. Day cor._
"_The_ casting _of_ types in matrices was invented by Peter Schoeffer, in
1452."--_Id._ "On perusing it, he said, that, so far [_was it_] _from_
showing the prisoner's guilt [that] it positively established his
innocence."--_Id._ "By printing the nominative and verb in Italic letters,
_we shall enable_ the reader to distinguish them at a glance."--_Id._ "It
is well, no doubt, to avoid unnecessary words."--_Id._ "_I_ meeting a
friend the other day, he said to me, 'Where are you going?'"--_Id._ "To
John, apples _were_ first denied; then _they were_ promised _to him_; then
_they were_ offered _to him_."--_Lennie cor._ "Admission was denied
_him_."--_Wells cor._ "A pardon _was_ offered _to them_."--_L. Murray's
Gram._, 8vo, p. 183. "A new _potato_ was this day shown me."--_Darwin,
Webster, Frazee, and Weld, cor._ "_Those_ nouns or pronouns which denote
males, are of the masculine gender."--_S. S. Greene, cor._ "There are three
degrees of comparison; the positive, _the_ comparative, and _the_
superlative."--_Id._ "The first two refer to direction; the third _refers_
to locality."--_Id._ "The following are some of the verbs which take a
direct and _an_ indirect object."--_Id._ "I was not aware _that he was_ the
judge of the supreme court."--_Id._ "An indirect question may refer to
_any_ of the five elements of a declarative sentence."--_Id._ "I am not
sure that he will be present."--_Id._ "We left _New York_ on
Tuesday."--_Id._ "He left _the city_, as he told me, before the arrival of
the steamer."--_Id._ "We told him that he must leave _us_;"--_Id._ "We told
him to leave _us_."--_Id._ "Because he was unable to persuade the
multitude, he left _the place_, in disgust."--_Id._ "He left _the company_,
and took his brother with him."--_Id._ "This stating, or declaring, or
denying _of_ any thing, is called the indicative _mood_, or manner of
speaking."--_Weld cor._ "This took place at our friend Sir Joshua
_Reynolds's_."--_Id._ "The manner _in which_ a young _lady may employ_
herself usefully in reading, will be the subject of _an other_
paper."--_Id._ "Very little time is necessary for _Johnson to conclude_ a
treaty with the bookseller."--_Id._ "My father is not now sick; but if he
_were_, your services would be welcome."--_Chandler's Common School Gram.,
Ed. of 1847_, p. 79. "_Before_ we begin to write or speak, we ought to fix
in our minds a clear conception of the end to be aimed at."--_Dr. Blair
cor._ "Length of days _is_ in her right hand; and, in her left hand, _are_
riches and honour."--See _Proverbs_, iii, 16. "The active and _the_ passive
present express different ideas."--_Bullions cor._ "An _Improper
Diphthong_, (_sometimes called a_ Digraph,) is a diphthong in which only
one of the vowels _is_ sounded."--_Fowler cor._ (See G. Brown's
definition.) "The real origin of the words _is_ to be sought in the
Latin."--_Fowler cor._ "What sort of alphabet the Gothic languages possess,
we know; what sort of alphabet they require, we can determine."--_Id._ "The
Runic alphabet, whether borrowed or invented by the early Goths, is of
greater antiquity than either the oldest Teutonic or the Moeso-Gothic
_alphabet_."--_Id._ "Common to the masculine and neuter genders."--_Id._
"In the Anglo-Saxon, HIS was common to both the masculine and _the_ Neuter
_Gender_."--_Id._ "When time, number, or dimension, _is_ specified, the
adjective follows the substantive."--_Id._ "Nor pain, nor grief nor anxious
fear, _Invades_ thy bounds."--_Id._ "To Brighton, the Pavilion lends a
_lath-and-plaster_ grace."--_Fowler cor._ "From this consideration, _I have
given to nouns_ but one person, the THIRD."--_D. C. Allen cor._
"For it seems to guard and cherish
E'en the wayward dreamer--_me_."--_Anon. cor._
CHAPTER XII.--GENERAL REVIEW.
CORRECTIONS UNDER ALL THE PRECEDING RULES AND NOTES.
LESSON I.--ARTICLES.
"And they took stones, and made _a_ heap."--ALGER'S BIBLE: _Gen._, xxxi,
46. "And I do know many fools, that stand in better place."--_Shak. cor._
"It is a strong antidote to the turbulence of passion, and _the_ violence
of pursuit."--_Kames cor._ "The word NEWS may admit of either a singular or
_a_ plural application."--_Wright cor._ "He has gained a fair and
honourable reputation."--_Id._ "There are two general forms, called the
solemn and _the_ familiar style." Or:--"called the solemn and familiar
_styles_."--_Sanborn cor._ "Neither the article nor _the_ preposition can
be omitted."--_Wright cor._ "A close union is also observable between the
subjunctive and _the_ potential _mood_."--_Id._ "Should we render service
equally to a friend, _a_ neighbour, and an enemy?"--_Id._ "Till _a_ habit
is obtained, of aspirating strongly."--_Sheridan cor._ "There is _a_
uniform, steady use of the same signs."--_Id._ "A traveller remarks most
_of the_ objects _which_ he sees."--_Jamieson cor._ "What is the name of
the river on which London stands? _Thames_."--_G. B._ "We sometimes find
the last line of a couplet or _a_ triplet stretched out to twelve
syllables."--_Adam cor._ "_The_ nouns which follow active verbs, are not in
the nominative case."--_David Blair cor._ "It is a solemn duty to speak
plainly of _the_ wrongs which good men perpetrate."--_Channing cor._ "_The_
gathering of riches is a pleasant torment."--_L. Cobb cor._ "It is worth
being quoted." Or better: "It is worth quoting."--_Coleridge cor._ "COUNCIL
is a noun which admits of a singular and _a_ plural form."--_Wright cor._
"To exhibit the connexion between the Old _Testament_ and the New."--_Keith
cor._ "An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or _of_
letters."--_Guy cor._ "He is immediately ordained, or rather acknowledged,
_a_ hero."--_Pope cor._ "Which is the same in both the leading and _the_
following state."--_Brightland cor._ "Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter,
have _three_ distinct _cases; the_ nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_
objective."--_D. Blair cor._ "A word of many syllables is called _a_
polysyllable."--_Beck cor._ "Nouns have two numbers; _the_ singular and
_the_ plural."--_Id._ "They have three genders; _the_ masculine, _the_
feminine, and _the_ neuter."--_Id._ "They have three cases; _the_
nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective."--_Id._ "Personal
pronouns have, like nouns, two numbers; _the_ singular and _the_
plural;--three genders; _the_ masculine, _the_ feminine, and _the_
neuter;--_three_ cases; _the_ nominative, _the possessive_, and _the_
objective."--_Id._ "He must be wise enough to know the singular from _the_
plural"--_Id._ "Though they may be able to meet every reproach which any
one of their fellows may prefer."--_Chalmers cor._ "Yet for love's sake I
rather beseech thee, being such _a_ one as Paul the aged."--_Bible cor._;
also _Webster_. "A people that jeoparded their lives unto death."--_Bible
cor._ "By preventing too great _an_ accumulation of seed within too narrow
_a_ compass."--_The Friend cor._ "Who fills up the middle space between the
animal and _the_ intellectual nature, the visible and _the_ invisible
world."--_Addison cor._ "The Psalms abound with instances of _the_
harmonious arrangement of words."--_Murray cor._ "On _an_ other table, were
_a_ ewer and _a_ vase, likewise of gold."--_Mirror cor._ "TH is said to
have two sounds, _a_ sharp and _a_ flat."--_Wilson cor._ "_The_ SECTION (§)
is _sometimes_ used in _the_ subdividing of a chapter into lesser
parts."--_Brightland cor._ "Try it in a dog, or _a_ horse, or any other
creature."--_Locke cor._ "But particularly in _the_ learning of languages,
there is _the_ least occasion _to pose_ children."--_Id._ "_Of_ what kind
is _the_ noun RIVER, and why?"--_R. C. Smith cor._ "Is WILLIAM'S a proper
or _a_ common noun?"--_Id._ "What kind of article, then, shall we call
_the_?" Or better: "What then shall we call the article _the_?"--_Id._
"Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write,
Or with a rival's, or _a_ eunuch's spite."--_Pope cor._
LESSON II.--NOUNS, OR CASES.
"And there _are_ stamped upon their imaginations _ideas_ that follow them
with terror and _affright_."--_Locke cor._ "There's not a wretch that lives
on common charity, but's happier than _I_."--_Ven. Pres. cor._ "But they
overwhelm _every one who_ is ignorant of them."--_H. Mann cor._ "I have
received a letter from my cousin, _her_ that was here last week."--_Inst._,
p. 129. "_Gentlemen's_ houses are seldom without variety of
company."--_Locke cor._ "Because Fortune has laid them below the level of
others, at their _masters_' feet."--_Id._ "We blamed neither _John's_ nor
Mary's delay."--_Nixon cor._ "The book was written by order _of Luther_ the
_reformer_."--_Id._ "I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's sermons, and
_somebody's_ else, (I forget _whose_,) and [_about the room_] a set of
noisy children."--_Byron cor._ "Or saith he it altogether for our
_sake_?"--_Bible cor._ "He was not aware _that the Duke was_ his
competitor."--_Sanborn cor._ "It is no condition of an adjective, that _the
word_ must be placed before a noun." Or: "It is no condition _on which a
word becomes_ an adjective, that it must be placed before a noun."--_Id.,
and Fowle cor._ "Though their reason corrected the wrong _ideas which_ they
had taken in."--_Locke cor._ "It was _he that_ taught me to hate
slavery."--_Morris cor._ "It is _he_ and his kindred, who live upon the
labour of others."--_Id._ "Payment of tribute is an acknowledgement of _him
as_ being King--(of _him as_ King--or, _that he is_ King--) to whom we
think it due."--_C. Leslie cor._ "When we comprehend what _is taught
us_."--_Ingersoll cor._ "The following words, and parts of words, must be
_noticed_."--_Priestley cor._ "Hence tears and commiseration are so often
_employed_."--_Dr. H. Blair cor._ "JOHN-A-NOKES, _n._ A fictitious name
_used_ in law proceedings."--_A. Chalmers cor._ "The construction of _words
denoting_ matter, and _the_ part _grasped_."--_B. F. Fisk cor._ "And such
other names as carry with them the _idea_ of _something_ terrible and
hurtful."--_Locke cor._ "Every learner then would surely be glad to be
spared _from_ the trouble and fatigue."--_Pike cor._ "_It_ is not the
owning of _one's_ dissent from _an other_, that I speak against."--_Locke
cor._ "A man that cannot fence, will be more careful to keep out of bullies
and _gamesters'_ company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon
_punctilios_."--_Id._ "From such persons it is, _that_ one may learn more
in one day, than in a _year's_ rambling from one inn to _an other_."--_Id._
"A long syllable is generally considered to be twice _as long as_ a short
one."--_D. Blair cor._ "I is of the first person, and _the_ singular
number. THOU is _of the_ second person singular. HE, SHE, or IT, is _of
the_ third person singular. WE is _of the_ first person plural. YE or YOU
is _of the_ second person plural. THEY is _of the_ third person
plural."--_Kirkham cor._ "This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is
_denoted by some word in_ the nominative _case_."--_Id._ "_Nobody_ can
think, _that_ a boy of three or seven years _of age_ should be argued with
as a grown man."--_Locke cor._ "This was in _the house of_ one of the
Pharisees, not in Simon the leper's."--_Hammond cor._ "Impossible! it can't
be _I_."--_Swift cor._ "Whose grey top shall tremble, _He_
descending."--_Milton, P. L._, xii, 227. "_Of_ what gender is _woman_, and
why?"--_R. C. Smith cor._ "_Of_ what gender, then, is _man_, and
why?"--_Id._ "Who is _this I; whom_ do you mean when you say _I_?"--_R. W.
Green cor._ "It _has_ a pleasant air, but _the soil_ is barren."--_Locke
cor._ "You may, in three _days'_ time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem."--_W.
Whiston cor._ "And that which is left of the meat-offering, shall be
Aaron's and his _sons'_."--FRIENDS' BIBLE.
"For none in all the world, without a lie,
Can say _of_ this, '_'T_is mine,' but _Bunyan_, I."--_Bunyan cor._
LESSON III.--ADJECTIVES.
"When he can be their remembrancer and advocate _at all assizes_ and
sessions."--_Leslie cor._ "DOING denotes _every_ manner of action; as, to
dance, to play, to write, &c."--_Buchanan cor._ "Seven _feet_
long,"--"eight _feet_ long,"--"fifty _feet_ long."--_W. Walker cor._
"Nearly the whole of _these_ twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss
to the nation."--_Fowler cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each_ other."--_R.
W. Green cor._ "We are warned against excusing sin in ourselves, or in _one
an_ other."--_Friend cor._ "The Russian empire is more extensive than any
_other_ government in the world."--_Inst._, p. 265. "You will always have
the satisfaction to think it, of all _your expenses_, the money best laid
out."--_Locke cor._ "There is no _other_ passion which all mankind so
naturally _indulge_, as pride."--_Steele cor._ "O, throw away the _viler_
part of it."--_Shak. cor._ "He showed us _an easier_ and _more agreeable_
way."--_Inst._, p. 265. "And the _last four_ are to point out those further
improvements."--_Jamieson and Campbell cor._ "Where he has not clear
_ideas_, distinct and different."--_Locke cor._ "Oh, when shall we have _an
other such_ Rector of Laracor!"--_Hazlitt cor._ "Speech must have been
absolutely necessary _previously_ to the formation of society." Or better
thus: "Speech must have been absolutely necessary to the formation of
society."--_Jamieson cor._ "Go and tell _those_ boys to be
still."--_Inst._, p. 265. "Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on
sand: _those_ are apt to be requited; _these_, forgot."--_G. B._ "_None_ of
these several interpretations is the true one."--_G. B._ "My friend
indulged himself in some freaks _not befitting_ the gravity of a
clergyman."--_G. B._ "And their pardon is all that _any_ of their
impropriators will have to plead."--_Leslie cor._ "But the time usually
chosen to send young men abroad, is, I think, of all _periods_, that _at_
which _they are_ least capable of reaping those advantages."--_Locke cor._
"It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the
_transcendently_ unintelligible."--_Jamieson cor._ "It contains a greater
assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures, than is perhaps
_anywhere else_ to be met with."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The order in which the
_last two_ words are placed should have been reversed."--_Dr. Blair cor._;
also _L. Murray_. "In Demosthenes, eloquence _shone_ forth with higher
splendour, than perhaps in any _other_ that ever bore the name of
_orator_."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The circumstance of his _poverty_ (or, _that
he is_ poor) is decidedly favourable."--_Todd cor._ "The temptations to
dissipation are greatly lessened by his _poverty_."--_Id._ "For, with her
death, _those_ tidings came."--_Shak. cor._ "The next objection is, that
_authors of this sort_ are poor."--_Cleland cor._ "Presenting Emma, as Miss
Castlemain, to these _acquaintances_:" or,--"to these _persons of her_
acquaintance."--_Opie cor._ "I doubt not _that_ it will please more
_persons_ than the opera:" or,--"that it will be _more pleasing_ than the
opera."--_Spect. cor._ "The world knows only two; _these are_ Rome and
I."--_Ben Jonson cor._ "I distinguish these two things from _each_
other."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "And, in this case, mankind reciprocally claim
and allow indulgence to _one an_ other."--_Sheridan cor._ "The _last six_
books are said not to have received the finishing hand of the
author."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The _best-executed_ part of the work, is the
first six books."--_Id._
"To reason how can we be said to rise?
So _hard the task for mortals to be_ wise!"--_Sheffield cor._
LESSON IV.--PRONOUNS.