"It gives to words a meaning which they would not have."—L. Murray cor. "There are in the English language many words, that are sometimes used as adjectives, and sometimes as adverbs."—Id. "Which do not more effectually show the varied intentions of the mind, than do the auxiliaries which are used to form the potential mood."—Id. "These accents, which will be the subject of a following speculation, make different impressions on the mind."—Ld. Kames cor. "And others differed very much from the words of the writers to whom they were ascribed."—John Ward cor. "Where there is in the sense nothing which requires the last sound to be elevated, an easy fall will be proper."—Murray and Bullions cor. "In the last clause there is an ellipsis of the verb; and, when you supply it, you find it necessary to use the adverb not, in lieu of no."—Campbell and Murray cor. "Study is of the singular number, because the nominative I, with which it agrees, is singular."—R. C. Smith cor. "John is the person who is in error, or thou art."—Wright cor. "For he hath made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us."—Harrison's E. Lang., p. 197.
"My friend, take that of me, who have the power
To seal th' accuser's lips."—Shakspeare cor.
UNDER NOTE XII.—WHAT FOR THAT.
"I had no idea but that the story was true."—Brown's Inst., p. 268. "The postboy is not so weary but that he can whistle."—Ib. "He had no intimation but that the men were honest."—Ib. "Neither Lady Haversham nor Miss Mildmay will ever believe but that I have been entirely to blame."—Priestley cor. "I am not satisfied but that the integrity of our friends is more essential to our welfare than their knowledge of the world."—Id. "Indeed, there is in poetry nothing so entertaining or descriptive, but that an ingenious didactic writer may introduce it in some part of his work."—Blair cor. "Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he had catched, let it slip out of his fingers: 'No creature,' says he, 'is so contemptible but that it may provide for its own safety, if it have courage.'"—Ld. Kames cor.
UNDER NOTE XIII.—ADJECTIVES FOR ANTECEDENTS.
"In narration, Homer is, at all times, remarkably concise, and therefore lively and agreeable."—Blair cor. "It is usual to talk of a nervous, a feeble, or a spirited style; which epithets plainly indicate the writer's manner of thinking."—Id. "It is too violent an alteration, if any alteration were necessary, whereas none is."—Knight cor. "Some men are too ignorant to be humble; and without humility there can be no docility."—Berkley cor. "Judas declared him innocent; but innocent he could not be, had he in any respect deceived the disciples."—Porteus cor. "They supposed him to be innocent, but he certainly was not so."—Murray et al. cor. "They accounted him honest, but he certainly was not so."—Felch cor. "Be accurate in all you say or do; for accuracy is important in all the concerns of life."—Brown's Inst., p. 268. "Every law supposes the transgressor to be wicked; and indeed he is so, if the law is just."—Ib. "To be pure in heart, pious, and benevolent, (and all may be so,) constitutes human happiness."—Murray cor. "To be dexterous in danger, is a virtue; but to court danger to show our dexterity, is a weakness."—Penn cor.
UNDER NOTE XIV.—SENTENCES FOR ANTECEDENTS.
"This seems not so allowable in prose; which fact the following erroneous examples will demonstrate."—L. Murray cor. "The accent is laid upon the last syllable of a word; which circumstance is favourable to the melody."—Kames cor. "Every line consists of ten syllables, five short and five long; from which rule there are but two exceptions, both of them rare."—Id. "The soldiers refused obedience, as has been explained."—Nixon cor. "Caesar overcame Pompey—a circumstance which was lamented."—Id. "The crowd hailed William, agreeably to the expectations of his friends."—Id. "The tribunes resisted Scipio, who knew their malevolence towards him."—Id. "The censors reproved vice, and were held in great honour."—Id. "The generals neglected discipline, which fact has been proved."—Id. "There would be two nominatives to the verb was, and such a construction is improper."—Adam and Gould cor. "His friend bore the abuse very patiently; whose forbearance, however, served only to increase his rudeness; it produced, at length, contempt and insolence."—Murray and Emmons cor. "Almost all compound sentences are more or less elliptical; and some examples of ellipsis may be found, under nearly all the different parts of speech."—Murray, Guy, Smith, Ingersoll, Fisk, et al. cor.
UNDER NOTE XV.—REPEAT THE PRONOUN.
"In things of Nature's workmanship, whether we regard their internal or their external structure, beauty and design are equally conspicuous."—Kames cor. "It puzzles the reader, by making him doubt whether the word ought to be taken in its proper, or in its figurative sense."—Id. "Neither my obligations to the muses, nor my expectations from them, are so great."—Cowley cor. "The Fifth Annual Report of the Antislavery Society of Ferrisburgh and its vicinity."—Title cor. "Meaning taste in its figurative as well as its proper sense."—Kames cor. "Every measure in which either your personal or your political character is concerned."—Junius cor. "A jealous and righteous God has often punished such in themselves or in their offspring."—Extracts cor. "Hence their civil and their religious history are inseparable."—Milman cor. "Esau thus carelessly threw away both his civil and his religious inheritance."—Id. "This intelligence excited not only our hopes, but our fears likewise."—Jaudon cor. "In what way our defect of principle, and our ruling manners, have completed the ruin of the national spirit of union."—Dr. Brown cor. "Considering her descent, her connexion, and her present intercourse."—Webster cor. "His own and his wife's wardrobe are packed up in a firkin."—Parker and Fox cor.
UNDER NOTE XVI.—CHANGE THE ANTECEDENT.
"The sounds of e and o long, in their due degrees, will be preserved, and clearly distinguished."—L. Murray cor. "If any persons should be inclined to think," &c., "the author takes the liberty to suggest to them," &c.—Id. "And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it."—Bible cor. "If ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brethren their trespasses."—Id. "None ever fancied they were slighted by him, or had the courage to think themselves his betters."—Collier cor. "And Rebecca took some very good clothes of her eldest son Esau's, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son."—Gen. cor. "Where all the attention of men is given to their own indulgence."—Maturin cor. "The idea of a father is a notion superinduced to that of the substance, or man—let one's idea of man be what it will."—Locke cor. "Leaving all to do as they list."—Barclay cor. "Each person performed his part handsomely."—J. Flint cor. "This block of marble rests on two layers of stones, bound together with lead, which, however, has not prevented the Arabs from forcing out several of them."—Parker and Fox cor.
"Love gives to all our powers a double power,
Above their functions and their offices." Or:—
"Love gives to every power a double power,
Exalts all functions and all offices."—Shak. cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XI; OF PRONOUNS.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.
"The jury will be confined till they agree on a verdict."—Brown's Inst., p. 145. "And mankind directed their first cares towards the needful."—Formey cor. "It is difficult to deceive a free people respecting their true interest."—Life of Charles XII cor. "All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but their follies and vices are innumerable."—Swift cor. "Every sect saith, 'Give us liberty:' but give it them, and to their power, and they will not yield it to any body else."—Cromwell cor. "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up themselves as a young lion."—Bible cor. "For all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."—Id. "There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put them in great consternation."—Goldsmith cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—THE IDEA OF UNITY.
"The meeting went on with its business as a united body."—Foster cor. "Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for itself."—Gould cor. "It would therefore be extremely difficult to raise an insurrection in that state against its own government."—Dr. Webster cor. "The mode in which a lyceum can apply itself in effecting a reform in common schools."—N. Y. Lyc. cor. "Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?"—Jer. cor. "In the holy Scriptures, each of the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch from whom it descended." Or better:—"from whom the tribe descended."—Adams cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER.
"A nation, by the reparation of the wrongs which it has done, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give."—Adams cor. "The English nation, from whom we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch."—Webster cor. "If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter its fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent it from doing so?"—Foster's Rep. cor. "There is[537] a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother."—Bible cor. "There is[537] a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness."—Id. "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them."—Id. "My people have forgotten me, they have burnt incense to vanity."—Id. "When a quarterly meeting has come to a judgement respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to it" &c.—Discip. cor. "The number of such compositions is every day increasing, and it appears to be limited only by the pleasure or the convenience of writers."—Booth cor. "The Church of Christ has the same power now as ever, and is led by the same spirit into the same practices."—Barclay cor. "The army, whom their chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march." Or thus: "The army, which its chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile its miserable march."—Lockhart cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY AND.
"Discontent and sorrow manifested themselves in his countenance."—Brown's Inst., p. 146. "Both conversation and public speaking became more simple and plain, such as we now find them."—Blair cor. "Idleness and ignorance, if they be suffered to proceed, &c."—Johnson and Priestley cor. "Avoid questions and strife: they show a busy and contentious disposition."—Penn cor. "To receive the gifts and benefits of God with thanksgiving, and witness them blessed and sanctified to us by the word and prayer, is owned by us."—Barclay cor. "Both minister and magistrate are compelled to choose between their duty and their reputation."—Junius cor. "All the sincerity, truth, and faithfulness, or disposition of heart or conscience to approve them, found among rational creatures, necessarily originate from God."—Rev. J. Brown cor. "Your levity and heedlessness, if they continue, will prevent all substantial improvement."—Brown's Inst., p. 269. "Poverty and obscurity will oppress him only who esteems them oppressive."—Ib. "Good sense and refined policy are obvious to few, because they cannot be discovered but by a train of reflection."—Ib. "Avoid haughtiness of behaviour, and affectation of manners: they imply a want of solid merit."—Ib. "If love and unity continue, they will make you partakers of one an other's joy."—Ib. "Suffer not jealousy and distrust to enter: they will destroy, like a canker, every germ of friendship."—Ib. "Hatred and animosity are inconsistent with Christian charity: guard, therefore, against the slightest indulgence of them."—Ib. "Every man is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does not pervert them to the injury of others."—Ib.
"With the azure and vermilion Which are mix'd for my pavilion."—Byron cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.
"Neither prelate nor priest can give his [flock or] flocks any decisive evidence that you are lawful pastors."—Brownlee cor. "And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within him?"— Maturin cor. "This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for its service to the body."—Collier cor. "If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee."—Bible cor. "The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to his reputation."—Pope cor. "Either James or John,—one or the other,—will come."—Smith cor. "Even a rugged rock or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes, by contrast, to the beauty of the whole."—Kames cor. "That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved himself right in this affair."—Spect. cor. "If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffers for his opinions, he is a 'martyr.'"—Fuller cor. "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he or she die; then the ox shall surely be stoned."—Exod. cor. "She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring him."—Johnson cor. "Here is a task put upon children, which neither this author himself, nor any other, has yet undergone."—R. Johnson cor. "Hence, if an adjective or a participle be subjoined to the verb when the construction is singular, it will agree both in gender and in number with the collective noun."—Adam and Gould cor. "And if you can find a diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point that out too."—Bucke cor. "And if you can find a trissyllable or a polysyllable, point it out."—Id. "The false refuges in which the atheist or the sceptic has intrenched himself."—Chr. Spect. cor. "While the man or woman thus assisted by art, expects his charms or hers will be imputed to nature alone."—Opie cor. "When you press a watch, or pull a clock, it answers your question with precision; for it repeats exactly the hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to know."—Bolingbroke cor.
"Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy, Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary, Is in his mansion monarch more than I."—King cor.
CHAPTER VI.—VERBS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.
"Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres."—Duncan cor. "Knowing that you were my old master's good friend."—Spect. cor. "When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"—Webster cor. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends."—Mur. cor. "They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved."—R. Williams cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."—Micah, v, 2. "You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him."—Porter cor. "Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned."—Churchill cor. "Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts." Or: "No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts."—Duncan cor. "I wondered where you were, my dear."—Lloyd cor. "When thou most sweetly singst."—Drummond cor. "Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?"—Gardiner cor. "Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."—Byron cor. "As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions."—M. B. cor. "Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?"—Everest cor. "The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders."—Id. "Some pains have likewise been taken."—Scott cor. "And many a steed in his stables was seen."—Penwarne cor. "They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food."—Josephus cor. "This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."—Hutchinson cor. "By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge."—Committee cor. "He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."—Walton cor. "If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach." Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach."—Swift cor. "Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself."—Barclay cor. "But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat'st."—Id. "Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest."—N. Waln cor. "I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing."—Chazotte cor. "Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?"—Dr. Brown cor. "Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith's False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103. Or thus: "Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith cor. "Every four years add an other day."—Smith's False Syntax, Gram., p. 103. Better thus: "Every fourth year adds an other day."—Smith cor. "Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed."—Swift cor. "A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher."—Sanborn cor. "Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicates good breeding."—Id. "A comparison in which more than two are concerned."—Lennie's Gram., p. 78. "By the facilities which artificial language affords them."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Now thyself hast lost both lop and top."—Spencer cor. "Glad tidings are brought to the poor."—Campbell cor. "Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends."—Sher. cor. "No pains have been spared to render this work complete."—Bullions cor. "The United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe."—Clinton cor. "I am mindful that myself am strong."—Fowler cor. "Myself am (not is) weak;"—"Thyself art (not is) weak."—Id.
"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest
Rises from clerical or city feast!"—Pope cor.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.
"Where were you born? In London."—Buchanan cor. "There are frequent occasions for commas."—Ingersoll cor. "There necessarily follow from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences."—Priestley cor. "And to this impression contributes the redoubled effort."—Kames cor. "Or, if he was, were there no spiritual men then?"—Barclay cor. "So, by these two also, are signified their contrary principles."—Id. "In the motions made with the hands, consists the chief part of gesture in speaking."—Blair cor. "Dares he assume the name of a popular magistrate?"—Duncan cor. "There were no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager."—Byron cor. "In fact, there exist such resemblances."—Kames cor. "To him give all the prophets witness."—Acts, x, 43. "That there were so many witnesses and actors."—Addison cor. "How do this man's definitions stand affected?"—Collier cor. "Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?"—Id. "Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent."—Barclay cor. "Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary."—Id. "Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?"—Id. "But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?"—Id. "But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;"—Robertson cor. "What sounds has each of the vowels?"—Griscom cor. "Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies."—Brownson cor. "And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."—Bible cor. "There seem to be but two general classes."—Day cor. "Hence arise the six forms of expressing time."—Id. "There seem to be no other words required."—Chandler cor. "If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last."—Bullions cor. "Hence arise the following advantages."—Id. "There are no data by which it can be estimated."—Calhoun cor. "To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives."—Fowler cor. [[Fist] "Nothing but naked roots" is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it."—G. B.] "There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves."—Spect. cor. "In these consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol."—Percival cor. "Here come those I have done good to against my will."—Shak. cor. "Where there are more than one auxiliary." Or: "Where there are more auxiliaries than one."—O. B. Peirce cor.
"On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility."
—Sidney cor.
"Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty."
—Swift cor.
"Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou. I wis,
To think of songs at such a time as this."
—Churchill cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—THE RELATIVE AND VERB.
"Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still."—A. Murray cor. "To use that endearing language, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.'"—Bates cor. "Resembling the passions that produce these actions."—Kames cor. "Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural."—Ash cor. "As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure."—Gen. cor. "Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad?"—Dr. Pratt cor. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with."—Dr. Blair cor. "In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object," &c.—Id. "Of those affecting situations which make man's heart feel for man."—Id. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks."—Id. "It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue."—Id. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious."—Barclay cor. "This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron."—Hunt cor. "Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."—Goldsmith cor. "To have made and declared such orders as were necessary."—Hutchinson cor. "The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army."—Locke cor. "I'm not the first that has been wretched."—Southern cor. "And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view."—Calvin cor. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."—Dr. Blair cor. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society."—Formey cor. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him."—Id. "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed."—Milton, P. L., B. i, l. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence."—Dr. Blair cor. "Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied."—Home cor. "Thou wast he that led out and brought in Israel."—Bible cor. "Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?"—Id.
"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace
And wisdom, which alone are truly fair."—Milton cor.
"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,
While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?"—Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.
"The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done."—Dr. Murray cor. "The rapidity of his movements was beyond example."—Wells cor. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."—Murray's Rec. cor. "The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown."—Hume cor. "The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being."—Cobbett cor. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue."—Kames cor. "Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity."—Gardiner cor. "One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five."—Duncan cor. "The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to."—Bailey cor. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us."—Gould cor. "Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy."—Maturin cor. "The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular."—Pratt cor. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce."—Bicknell cor. "The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes."—Milnes cor. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion."—Rush cor. "By which means, the order of the words is disturbed."—Holmes cor. "The two-fold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form."—Peirce cor. "And each of these affords employment."—Percival cor. "The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."—Coar cor. "The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity."—Hall and Baker cor. "One of you has stolen my money."—Humorist cor. "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust."—Kames cor. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind."—Hiley cor. "Each of these is presented to us in different relations."—Hendrick cor. "The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time."—Bullions cor. "The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood."—Chandler cor.
"And now, at length, the fated term of years
The world's desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears."
—Lowth cor.
"Variety of numbers still belongs
To the soft melody of odes, or songs."
—Brightland cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.
"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man."—Johnson cor. "To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious."—Pratt cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."—L. Murray et al. cor. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man."—Fisher cor. "In this passage, 'according as' is used in a manner which is very common."—Webster cor. "A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."—Webster cor. "To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord."—The Friend cor. "While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular."—Cobbett cor. "He cannot assert that ll (i.e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u"—Cobb cor. "Ch, in Latin, has the power of k."—Gould cor. "Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci."—Id. "In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh."—Bucke cor. "But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent."—Id. "Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f."—Bucke cor. "Ph has the sound of f as in philosophy."—Webster cor. "Sh has one sound only, as in shall."—Id. "Th has two sounds."—Id. "Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk."—Id. "Aw has the sound of a in hall."—Bolles cor. "Ew sounds like u"—Id. "Ow, when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou."—Id. "Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid."—Id.
"Ui three other sounds at least expresses,
As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses."
—Brightland cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.
"When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned."—Dr. Weeks cor. "As neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."—Dr. Blair cor. "Yet neither of them is remarkable for precision."—Id. "How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself."—Id. "Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation."—Id. "On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath."—Tr. of Iren. cor. "And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness."—Hope of Is. cor. "Was either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"—Foster cor. "Whilst neither of these letters exists in the Eugubian inscription."—Knight cor. "And neither of them is properly termed indefinite."—Dr. Wilson cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect their several verbs:" or,—"each of which has in effect its own verb."—Lowth cor. "Sometimes, when the word ends in s, neither of the signs is used."—A. Mur. cor. "And as neither of these manners offends the ear."—J. Walker cor. "Neither of these two tenses is confined to this signification only."—R. Johnson cor. "But neither of these circumstances is intended here."—Tooke cor. "So that all are indebted to each, and each is dependent upon all."—Bible Rep. cor. "And yet neither of them expresses any more action in this case, than it did in the other."—Bullions cor. "Each of these expressions denotes action."—Hallock cor. "Neither of these moods seems to be defined by distinct boundaries."—Butler cor. "Neither of these solutions is correct."—Bullions cor. "Neither bears any sign of case at all."—Fowler cor.
"Each in his turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalks." Or:— "All in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalk."—Byron cor.
"And tell what each doth by the other lose."—Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.
"The quarrels of lovers are but a renewal of love."—Adam et al. cor. "Two dots, one placed above the other, are called a Sheva."—Wilson cor. "A few centuries more or less are a matter of small consequence."—Id. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; hieroglyphics were the second step."—Parker cor. "The comeliness of youth is modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity." Or, much better: "The great ornaments of youth are," &c.—Murray cor. "Merit and good works are the end of man's motion."—Bacon cor. "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips are parcel of the mind."—Shak. cor. "The clothing of the natives was the skins of wild beasts." Or thus: "The clothes of the natives were skins of wild beasts."—Hist. cor. "Prepossessions in favour of our native town, are not a matter of surprise."—Webster cor. "Two shillings and sixpence are half a crown, but not a half crown."—Priestley and Bicknell cor. "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong."—Cooper cor. "Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence."—Day cor. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, are called a Phrase."—Id. "But the common number of times is five." Or, to state the matter truly: "But the common number of tenses is six."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition."—Jamieson cor. "The United States are the great middle division of North America."—Morse cor. "A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it."—Priestley's Gram., p. 199; Churchill's, 414. "Here two tall ships become the victor's prey."—Rowe cor. "The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object."—The Friend cor.
"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Were all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."—Milt. cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.
"Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."—Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Not fewer [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three years' time, is spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less time than three years, is spent," &c.—Gardiner cor. "Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish'd presence."—Milton cor. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed."—Watts cor. "But all of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."—Coleridge cor. "The old theorists' practice of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming words."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Where several sentences occur, place them in the order of the facts."—Id. "And that all the events in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."—Kames cor. "In regard to their origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction."—Adams cor. "In these respects, man is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."—Bp. Butler cor. "The Scriptures are the oracles of God himself."—Hooker cor. "And at our gates are all kinds of pleasant fruits."—S. Song cor. "The preterits of pluck, look, and toss, are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst."—Fowler corrected.
"Severe the doom that days prolonged impose,
To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!"—Melmoth cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.
1. Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style. "Was it thou[538] that built that house?"—Brown's Institutes, Key, p. 270. "That boy writes very elegantly."—Ib. "Could not thou write without blotting thy book?"—Ib. "Dost not thou think—or, Don't thou think, it will rain to-day?"—Ib. "Does not—or, Don't your cousin intend to visit you?"—Ib. "That boy has torn my book."—Ib. "Was it thou that spread the hay?"—Ib. "Was it James, or thou, that let him in?"—Ib. "He dares not say a word."—Ib. "Thou stood in my way and hindered me."—Ib.
"Whom do I see?—Whom dost thou see now?—Whom does he see?—Whom dost thou love most?—What art thou doing to-day?—What person dost thou see teaching that boy?—He has two new knives.—Which road dost thou take?—What child is he teaching?"—Ingersoll cor. "Thou, who mak'st my shoes, sellst many more." Or thus: "You, who make my shoes, sell many more."—Id.
"The English language has been much cultivated during the last two hundred years. It has been considerably polished and refined."—Lowth cor. "This style is ostentatious, and does not suit grave writing."—Priestley cor. "But custom has now appropriated who to persons, and which to things" [and brute animals].—Id. "The indicative mood shows or declares something; as, Ego amo, I love; or else asks a question; as, Amas tu? Dost thou love?"—Paul's Ac. cor. "Though thou cannot do much for the cause, thou may and should do something."—Murray cor. "The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy tax: but thou knowst (or, you know) he paid it cheerfully."—Id. "It may, and often does, come short of it."—Murray^s Gram., p. 359.
"'Twas thou, who, while thou seem'd to chide,
To give me all thy pittance tried."—Mitford cor.
2. Forms adapted to the Solemn or Biblical Style. "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all."—Psalms, ciii, 19. "Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God; thou wast a God that forgave[539] them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions."—See Psalms, xcix, 8. "Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty."—Ib., lxxxix, 19. "'So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy;' who dispenseth his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seemeth good in his sight."—Christian Experience of St. Paul, p. 344; see Rom., ix, 16.
"Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought;
Yea, with my life, and life's own secret joy."—Coleridge cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.
"Who is here so base, that he would be a bondman?"—Shak. cor. "Who is here so rude, he would not be a Roman?"—Id. "There is not a sparrow which falls to the ground without his notice." Or better: "Not a sparrow falls to the ground, without his notice."—Murray cor. "In order to adjust them in such a manner as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period."—Id. and Blair cor. "But sometimes there is a verb which comes in." Better: "But sometimes there is a verb introduced."—Cobbett cor. "Mr. Prince has a genius which would prompt him to better things."—Spect. cor. "It is this that removes that impenetrable mist."—Harris cor. "By the praise which is given him for his courage."—Locke cor. "There is no man who would be more welcome here."—Steele cor. "Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and what immediately follows."—Blair cor. "And as connected with what goes before and what follows."—Id. "No man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake."—Bacon cor. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence or folly, and which might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this."—Bp. Butler cor. "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least as it respects justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures."—Fuller cor. "Indeed, if there be any such, who have been, or who appear to be of us, as suppose there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their matters."—Barclay cor. "There were some that drew back; there were some that made shipwreck of faith; yea, there were some that brought in damnable heresies."—Id. "The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper; and, under similar circumstances, the orator's method is fit to be imitated."—Blair cor. "This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined, and which was formerly very prevalent."—Churchill cor. "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and he seeth the place of stones."—Bible cor.
"New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.
Dear friend,
I am sorry to hear of thy loss; but I hope it may be retrieved. I should be happy to render thee any assistance in my power. I shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept assurances of my regard. A. B."
"New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.
Dear sir,
I have just received the kind note you favoured me with this morning; and I cannot forbear to express my gratitude to you. On further information, I find I have not lost so much as I at first supposed; and I believe I shall still be able to meet all my engagements. I should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks. C. D."
See Brown's Institutes, p. 271.
"Will martial flames forever fire thy mind,
And wilt thou never be to Heaven resign'd?"—Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.—APPLICATION OF MOODS.
First Clause of the Note.—The Subjunctive Present.
"He will not be pardoned unless he repent."—Inst., p. 191. "If thou find any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me."—Neef cor. "If thou leave the room, do not forget to shut that drawer."—Id. "If thou grasp it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt:" or, (familiarly,)—"thou will not be hurt."—Id. "On condition that he come, I will consent to stay."—Murray's Key, p. 208. "If he be but discreet, he will succeed."—Inst., p. 280. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob."—Gen., xxxi, 24. "If thou cast me off, I shall be miserable."—Inst., p. 280. "Send them to me, if thou please."—Ib. "Watch the door of thy lips, lest thou utter folly."—Ib. "Though a liar speak the truth, he will hardly be believed."—Bartlett cor. "I will go, unless I be ill."—L. Murray cor. "If the word or words understood be supplied, the true construction will be apparent."—Id. "Unless thou see the propriety of the measure, we shall not desire thy support."—Id. "Unless thou make a timely retreat, the danger will be unavoidable."—Id. "We may live happily, though our possessions be small."—Id. "If they be carefully studied, they will enable the student to parse all the exercises."—Id. "If the accent be fairly preserved on the proper syllable, this drawling sound will never be heard."—Id. "One phrase may, in point of sense, be equivalent to an other, though its grammatical nature be essentially different."—Id. "If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man."—2 Thess., iii, 14. "Thy skill will be the greater, if thou hit it."—Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "We shall overtake him, though he run."—Priestley et al. cor. "We shall be disgusted, if he give us too much."—Blair cor.
"What is't to thee, if he neglect thy urn,
Or without spices let thy body burn?"—Dryden cor.
Second Clause of Note IX.—The Subjunctive Imperfect.[540]
"And so would I, if I were he."—Inst., p. 191. "If I were a Greek, I should resist Turkish despotism."—Cardell cor. "If he were to go, he would attend to your business."—Id. "If thou felt as I do, we should soon decide."—Inst., p. 280. "Though thou shed thy blood in the cause, it would but prove thee sincerely a fool."—Ib. "If thou loved him, there would be more evidence of it."—Ib. "If thou convinced him, he would not act accordingly."—Murray cor. "If there were no liberty, there would be no real crime."—Formey cor. "If the house were burnt down, the case would be the same."—Foster cor. "As if the mind were not always in action, when it prefers any thing."—West cor. "Suppose I were to say, 'Light is a body.'"—Harris cor. "If either oxygen or azote were omitted, life would be destroyed."—Gurney cor. "The verb dare is sometimes used as if it were an auxiliary."—Priestley cor. "A certain lady, whom I could name, if it were necessary."—Spect. cor. "If the e were dropped, c and g would assume their hard sounds."—Buchanan cor. "He would no more comprehend it, than if it were the speech of a Hottentot."—Neef cor. "If thou knew the gift of God," &c.—Bible cor. "I wish I were at home."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Fact alone does not constitute right: if it did, general warrants were lawful."—Junius cor. "Thou lookst upon thy boy, as though thou guessed it."—Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "He fought as if he contended for life."—Hiley cor. "He fought as if he were contending for his life."—Id.
"The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf,
As if thou shed for me a tear;
As if thou knew my tale of grief,
Felt all my sufferings severe."—Letham cor.
Last Clause of Note IX.—The Indicative Mood.
"If he knows the way, he does not need a guide."—Inst., p. 191. "And if there is no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected."—Murray cor. "I cannot say that I admire this construction though it is much used."—Priestley cor. "We are disappointed, if the verb does not immediately follow it."—Id. "If it was they, that acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault."—Murray cor. "If art becomes apparent, it disgusts the reader."—Jamieson cor. "Though perspicuity is more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to include it in this book."—Campbell cor. "Although the efficient cause is obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies open."—Blair cor. "Although the barrenness of language, or the want of words, is doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes."—Id. "Though it enforces not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater variety."—Id. "In other cases, though the idea is one, the words remain quite separate."—Priestley cor. "Though the form of our language is more simple, and has that peculiar beauty."—Buchanan cor. "Human works are of no significancy till they are completed."—Kames cor. "Our disgust lessens gradually till it vanishes altogether."—Id. "And our relish improves by use, till it arrives at perfection."—Id. "So long as he keeps himself in his own proper element."—Coke cor. "Whether this translation was ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant."—Sale cor. "It is false to affirm, 'As it is day, it is light,' unless it actually is day."—Harris cor. "But we may at midnight affirm, 'If it is day, it is light.'"—Id. "If the Bible is true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest."—Dickinson cor. "Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."—Bible cor. "If David then calleth (or calls) him Lord, how is he his son?"—Id.
"'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appears in writing, or in judging, ill."—Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE X.—FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.
"If a man has built a house, the house is his."—Wayland cor. "If God has required them of him, as is the fact, he has time."—Id. "Unless a previous understanding to the contrary has been had with the principal."—Berrian cor. "O! if thou hast hid them in some flowery cave."—Milton cor. "O! if Jove's will has linked that amorous power to thy soft lay."—Id. "SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou loved."—Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and others. "Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, hath lent thee her unfathomable coil."—Tupper cor. "Whether nature or art contributes most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry."—Blair cor. "Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust."—Murray cor. "If spiritual pride has not entirely vanquished humility."—West cor. "Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter."—Bible cor. "It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, relates to what goes before or to what follows."—Kames cor.
"And bridle in thy headlong wave,
Till thou our summons answer'd hast." Or:—
"And bridle in thy headlong wave,
Till thou hast granted what we crave."—Milt. cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.
"The gentry are punctilious in their etiquette."—G. B. "In France, the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes."—Harvey cor. "The people rejoice in that which should cause sorrow."—Murray varied. "My people are foolish, they have not known me."—Bible and Lowth cor. "For the people speak, but do not write."—Phil. Mu. cor. "So that all the people that were in the camp, trembled."—Bible cor. "No company like to confess that they are ignorant."—Todd cor. "Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed."—Robertson cor. "More than one half of them were cut off before the return of spring."—Id. "The other class, termed Figures of Thought, suppose the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning."—Blair and Mur. cor. "A multitude of words in their dialect approach to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance."—Dr. Murray cor. "A great majority of our authors are defective in manner."—J. Brown cor. "The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected."—Tooke cor. "The greater part of the words it contains, are subject to certain modifications or inflections."—The Friend cor. "While all our youth prefer her to the rest."—Waller cor. "Mankind are appointed to live in a future state."—Bp. Butler cor. "The greater part of human kind speak and act wholly by imitation."—Rambler, No. 146. "The greatest part of human gratifications approach so nearly to vice."—Id., No. 160.
"While still the busy world are treading o'er
The paths they trod five thousand years before."—Young cor.
UNDER THE NOTE.—THE IDEA OF UNITY.
"In old English, this species of words was numerous."—Dr. Murray cor. "And a series of exercises in false grammar is introduced towards the end."—Frost cor. "And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, was anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood."—Webster cor. "With respect to the former, there is indeed a plenty of means."—Kames cor. "The number of school districts has increased since the last year."—Throop cor. "The Yearly Meeting has purchased with its funds these publications."—Foster cor. "Has the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?"—Sullivan cor. "So that the whole number of the streets was fifty."—Rollin cor. "The number of inhabitants was not more than four millions."—Smollett cor. "The house of Commons was of small weight."—Hume cor. "The assembly of the wicked hath (or has) inclosed me."—Psal. cor. "Every kind of convenience and comfort is provided."—C. S. Journal cor. "Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy has suffered no diminution; but it has rather been gradually increasing."—Payne cor. "Small as the number of inhabitants is, yet their poverty is extreme."—Id. "The number of the names was about one hundred and twenty."—Ware and Acts cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF—THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.
"So much ability and [so much] merit are seldom found."—Mur. et al. cor. "The etymology and syntax of the language are thus spread before the learner."—Bullions cor. "Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables are the same thing."—Adams cor. "Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, are not remembered at all."—L. Murray cor. "The soil and sovereignty were not purchased of the natives."—Knapp cor. "The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, are infinitely more favourable to sublimity of style, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme."—Blair cor. "The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seem to have been much greater than ours."—Id. "For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else."—R. Johnson cor. "The verb and the noun making a complete sense, whereas the participle and the noun do not."—Id. "The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, are a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present."—Kames cor. "The true meaning and etymology of some of his words were lost."—Knight cor. "When the force and direction of personal satire are no longer understood."—Junius cor. "The frame and condition of man admit of no other principle."—Dr. Brown cor. "Some considerable time and care were necessary."—Id. "In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure have been thrown upon Milton."—Blair cor. "With rational beings, nature and reason are the same thing."—Collier cor. "And the flax and the barley were smitten."—Bible cor. "The colon and semicolon divide a period; this with, and that without, a connective."—Ware cor. "Consequently, wherever space and time are found, there God must also be."—Newton cor. "As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE end in ED, it is regular."—Chandler cor. "But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevent this from being readily seen."—N. Butler cor. "Do and did simply imply opposition or emphasis."—A. Murray cor. "I and an other make the plural WE; thou and an other are equivalent to YE; he, she, or it, and an other, make THEY."—Id. "I and an other or others are the same as WE, the first person plural; thou and an other or others are the same as YE, the second person plural; he, she, or it, and an other or others, are the same as THEY, the third person plural."—Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor. "God and thou are two, and thou and thy neighbour are two."—Love Conquest cor. "Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE."—Fowler cor. "The tone and style of all of them, particularly of the first and the last, are very different."—Blair cor. "Even as the roebuck and the hart are eaten."—Bible cor. "Then I may conclude that two and three do not make five."—Barclay cor. "Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren have received from us."—Id. "Two and two are four, and one is five:" i, e., "and one, added to four, is five."—Pope cor. "Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance under costly array."—See Murray's Key, Rule 2d. "A page and a half have been added to the section on composition."—Bullions cor. "Accuracy and expertness in this exercise are an important acquisition."—Id.
"Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
Hill and dale proclaim thy blessing." Or thus:—
"Hill and valley boast thy blessing."—Milton cor.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.
"There are a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things."—Blair cor. "Whence have arisen much stiffness and affectation."—Id. "To this error, are owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before noticed."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevail an obscurity and a hardness of style."—Blair cor. See Jamieson's Rhet., p. 167. "There are, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism."—Blair cor. "There are too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus." Or: "There is, in Plautus, too much of low wit and scurrility."—Id. "There are too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them." Or: "There is too much of reasoning and refinement, too much of pomp and studied beauty, in them."—Id. "Hence arise the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation."—Rush cor. "And such pilots are he and his brethren, according to their own confession."—Barclay cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred."—Bible cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan."—Id. "And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee."—Id. "Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing."—Id. "Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceed not evil and good."—Id. "In which there are most plainly a right and a wrong."—Bp. Butler cor. "In this sentence, there are both an actor and an object."—R. C. Smith cor. "In the breastplate, were placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim."—Milman cor. "What are the gender, number, and person, of the pronoun[541] in the first example?"—R. C. Smith cor. "There seem to be a familiarity and a want of dignity in it."—Priestley cor. "It has been often asked, what are Latin and Greek?"—Lit. Journal cor. "For where do beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?"—Sam. Butler cor. "Thence to the land where flow Ganges and Indus."—Milton cor. "On these foundations, seem to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies."—Dr. Brown cor. "But what have disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?"—Dr. Johnson cor. "How are the gender and number of the relative known?"—Bullions cor.
"High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust,
And feebler speed the blow and thrust."—Scott cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.
"In every language, there prevails a certain structure, or analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage."—Dr. Blair cor. "There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, an affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model."—Id. "But where declamation for improvement in speech is the sole aim."—Id. "For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of any kind, is laid open."—Lowth cor. "In all writing and discourse, the proper composition or structure of sentences is of the highest importance."—Dr. Blair cor. "Here the wishful and expectant look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts."—Campbell cor. "Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, with the sign of the cross, puts away devils."—Barclay cor. "By which an oath with a penalty was to be imposed on the members."—Junius cor. "Light, or knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God."—Bp. Butler cor. "For instance, sickness or untimely death is the consequence of intemperance."—Id. "When grief or blood ill-tempered vexeth him." Or: "When grief, with blood ill-tempered, vexes him"—Shak. cor. "Does continuity, or connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?"—Collier cor. "His greatest concern, his highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator."—L. Murray cor. "Know ye not that there is[542] a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?"—Bible cor. "What is vice, or wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it."—Collier cor. "There is also the fear or apprehension of it."—Bp. Butler cor. "The apostrophe with s ('s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive."—Bullions cor. "Ti, ce, OR ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, ocean, special."—Weld cor.
"Bitter constraint of sad occasion dear
Compels me to disturb your season due."—Milton cor.
"Debauch'ry, or excess, though with less noise,
As great a portion of mankind destroys."—Waller cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.
"Wisdom, and not wealth, procures esteem."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "Prudence, and not pomp, is the basis of his fame."—Ib. "Not fear, but labour has overcome him."—Ib. "The decency, and not the abstinence, makes the difference."—Ib. "Not her beauty, but her talents attract attention."—Ib. "It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attract attention."—Ib. "It is her beauty, and not her talents, that attracts attention."—Ib.
"His belly, not his brains, this impulse gives:
He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live." Or thus:—
"His bowels, not his brains, this impulse give:
He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live."—Young cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.
"Common sense, as well as piety, tells us these are proper."—Fam. Com. cor. "For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, has nothing left but to abandon himself to chance."—Kames cor. "And accordingly hatred, as well as love, is extinguished by long absence'."—Id. "But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, is conspicuous."—Id. "But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defies all translation."—Coleridge cor. "But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, was strangely misrepresented."—Bolingbroke, on History, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93. "But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, was conspicuous."—Robertson cor. "When their extent, as well as their value, was unknown."—Id. "The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, is reserved for his attention at a later period."—Parker and Fox cor. "What I myself owe to him, no one but myself knows."—Wright cor. "None, but thou, O mighty prince! can avert the blow."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "Nothing, but frivolous amusements, pleases the indolent."—Ib.
"Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, was heard."—G. B.
"All songsters, save the hooting owl, were mute."—G. B.
UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, EVERY, OR NO.
"Give every word, and every member, its due weight and force."—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 316. "And to one of these belongs every noun, and every third person of every verb."—Dr. Wilson cor. "No law, no restraint, no regulation, is required to keep him within bounds."—Lit. Journal cor. "By that time, every window and every door in the street was full of heads."—Observer cor. "Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stands back from this field, and leaves Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example." Or: "All systems of religion, and all schools of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example."—Abbott cor. "Each day, and each hour, brings its portion of duty."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, resorted unto him."—Bible cor. "Every private Christian, every member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that he may know his faith and belief to be founded upon them."—Barclay cor. "And every mountain and every island was moved out of its place."—Bible cor.
"No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
No cavern'd hermit rests self-satisfied."—Pope.
UNDER NOTE V.—WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND.
"The sides, A, B, and C, compose the triangle."—Tobitt, Felch, and Ware cor. "The stream, the rock, and the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination."—Dr. Blair cor. "While this, with euphony, constitutes, finally, the whole."—O. B. Peirce cor. "The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, was stolen."—Cobbett cor. "Sobriety, with great industry and talent, enables a man to perform great deeds." Or: "Sobriety, industry, and talent, enable a man to perform great deeds."—Id. "The it, together with the verb, expresses a state of being."—Id. "Where Leonidas the Spartan king, and his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut off to the last man."—Kames cor.. "And Leah also, and her children, came near and bowed themselves."—Bible cor. "The First and the Second will either of them, by itself, coalesce with the Third, but they do not coalesce with each other."—Harris cor. "The whole must centre in the query, whether Tragedy and Comedy are hurtful and dangerous representations."—Formey cor. "Both grief and joy are infectious: the emotions which they raise in the spectator, resemble them perfectly."—Kames cor. "But, in all other words, the q and u are both sounded."—Ensell cor. "Q and u (which are always together) have the sound of kw, as in queen; or of k only, as in opaque." Or, better: "Q has always the sound of k; and the u which follows it, that of w; except in French words, in which the u is silent."—Goodenow cor. "In this selection, the a and i form distinct syllables."—Walker cor. "And a considerable village, with gardens, fields, &c., extends around on each side of the square."—Lib. cor. "Affection and interest guide our notions and behaviour in the affairs of life; imagination and passion affect the sentiments that we entertain in matters of taste."—Jamieson cor. "She heard none of those intimations of her defects, which envy, petulance, and anger, produce among children."—Johnson cor. "The King, Lords, and Commons, constitute an excellent form of government."—Crombie et al. cor. "If we say, 'I am the man who commands you,' the relative clause, with the antecedent man, forms the predicate."—Crombie cor.