"The spacious firmament on high,
The blue ethereal vault of sky,
And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim."—Addison cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
"There are a reputable and a disreputable practice." Or: "There is a reputable, and there is a disreputable practice."—Adams cor. "This man and this were born in her."—Milton cor. "This man and that were born in her."—Bible cor. "This and that man were born there."—Hendrick cor. "Thus le in l~ego, and le in l=egi, seem to be sounded equally long."—Adam and Gould cor. "A distinct and an accurate articulation form the groundwork of good delivery." Or: "A distinct and accurate articulation forms the groundwork of good delivery."—Kirkham cor. "How are vocal and written language understood?"—Sanders cor. "The good, the wise, and the learned man, are ornaments to human society." Or: "The good, wise, and learned man is an ornament to human society."—Bartlett cor. "In some points, the expression of song and that of speech are identical."—Rush cor. "To every room, there were an open and a secret passage."—Johnson cor. "There are such things as a true and a false taste; and the latter as often directs fashion, as the former."—Webster cor. "There are such things as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs."—Bp. Butler cor. "The lot of the outcasts of Israel, and that of the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful exactness."—Hope of Israel cor. "On these final syllables, the radical and the vanishing movement are performed."—Rush cor. "To be young or old, and to be good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events."—Spurzheim cor., and Felch. "The eloquence of George Whitfield and that of John Wesley were very different in character each from the other."—Dr. Sharp cor. "The affinity of m for the series beginning with b, and that of n for the series beginning with t, give occasion for other euphonic changes."—Fowler cor.
"Pylades' soul, and mad Orestes', were
In these, if right the Greek philosopher." Or thus:—
"Pylades' and Orestes' soul did pass
To these, if we believe Pythagoras." Or, without ellipsis:—
"Pylades and Orestes' souls did pass
To these, if we believe Pythagoras."—Cowley corrected.
UNDER NOTE VII.—DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
"To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of them, are the best ways to ensure success."—L. Murray cor. "To be of any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, are both one."—Locke cor. "With whom, to will, and to do, are the same."—Dr. Jamieson cor. "To profess, and to possess, are very different things."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, are duties of universal obligation."—Ib. "To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved swiftly or slowly, are all equally alien from the nature of thought."—Dr. Johnson. "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, and [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, are called PARSING." Or, according to Note 1st above: "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, with [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, is called PARSING."—Bullions cor. "To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, were once a girl's employments; but now, to dress, and to catch a beau, are all she calls enjoyments."—Kimball cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR.
"We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists."—Johnson corrected. "A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, constitutes a nominative case absolute."—Bicknell cor. "The relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, uses to govern:" or,—"usually governs."—Adam, Gould, et al., cor. "In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice gives rise to."—Knight cor. "By which he, or his deputy, was authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest."—Junius cor. "Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, was concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious."—Dr. Blair cor. "The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, is a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."—Kames cor. "Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, represents the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect."—D. Boileau cor. "Hence naturally arises indifference or aversion between the parties."—Dr. Brown cor. "A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, is a character nowhere to be found."—Tract cor. "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitles them to imitation."—Johnson cor. "Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, is often of decisive influence."—Duncan cor. "A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, relieves the folio page."—D'Israeli cor. "For outward matter or event fashions not the character within." Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)—"fashioneth not the character within."—Tupper cor. "Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, has warmed cold brains."—Dryden cor. "Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight is an individual."—Harris cor. "When et, aut, vel, sive, or nec, is repeated before different members of the same sentence."—Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor. "Wisdom or folly governs us."—Fisk cor. "A or an is styled the indefinite article"—Folker cor. "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoots up into a prodigy."—Spect. cor. "Is either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?"—Prof. Fowler cor.
"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Is lost on hearers that our merits know."—Pope cor.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.
"Neither he nor she has spoken to him."—Perrin cor. "For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserves the reader from weariness."—Johnson cor. "Neither history nor tradition furnishes such information."—Robertson cor. "Neither the form nor the power of the liquids has varied materially."—Knight cor. "Where neither noise nor motion is concerned."—Blair cor. "Neither Charles nor his brother was qualified to support such a system."—Junius cor. "When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion serves, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track."—Campbell cor. "In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, is fairly laid before men."—Bp. Butler cor. "Neither the intellect nor the heart is capable of being driven."—Abbott cor. "Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana is in any way connected with the Sun or Moon."—Coleridge cor. "Of which, neither he, nor this grammar, takes any notice."—R. Johnson cor. "Neither their solicitude nor their foresight extends so far."—Robertson cor. "Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, considers Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first discoverer of the continent of America."—Id. "Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, has been thought worthy of a moment's consideration."—Junius cor.
"Nor war nor wisdom yields our Jews delight,
They will not study, and they dare not fight."—Crabbe cor.
"Nor time nor chance breeds such confusions yet,
Nor are the mean so rais'd, nor sunk the great."—Rowe cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.
"The definite article, the, designates what particular thing or things are meant."—Merchant cor. "Sometimes a word, or several words, necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, are not expressed, but are omitted by ellipsis."—Burr cor. "Ellipsis, (better, Ellipses,) or abbreviations, are the wheels of language."—Maunder cor. "The conditions or tenor of none of them appears at this day." Or: "The tenor or conditions of none of them appear at this day."— Hutchinson cor. "Neither men nor money was wanting for the service." Or: "Neither money nor men were wanting for the service."—Id. "Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, requires emphatic distinction to be frequent."—Dr. Barber cor. "Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature, is uppermost: now I am for the latter part of the disjunction."—Collier cor. "Their riches or poverty is generally proportioned to their activity or indolence."—Cox cor. "Concerning the other part of him, neither he nor you seem to have entertained an idea."—Horne cor. "Whose earnings or income is so small."—Discip. cor. "Neither riches nor fame renders a man happy."—Day cor. "The references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key is mentioned." Or, better:—"unless mention is made of the Exercises or Key." Or: "unless the Exercises or Key be named."—L. Murray cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—COMPLETE THE CONCORD.
"My lord, you wrong my father; neither is he, nor am I, capable of harbouring a thought against your peace."—Walpole cor. "There was no division of acts; there were no pauses, or intervals, in the performance; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or by the chorus."—Dr. Blair cor. "Every word ending in b, p, or f, is of this order, as also are many that end in v."—Dr. Murray cor. "Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd than is the general system of human life and human knowledge."— Bolingbroke cor. "By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we are cleansed."—Barclay cor. "And those were already converted, and regeneration was begun in them."—Id. "For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."—Bible cor. "Who is my mother? or who are my brethren?"—See Matt., xii, 48. "Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor are the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering."— Bible cor. "Information has been obtained, and some trials have been made."—Martineau cor. "It is as obvious, and its causes are more easily understood."—Webster cor. "All languages furnish examples of this kind, and the English contains as many as any other."—Priestley cor. "The winters are long, and the cold is intense."—Morse cor. "How have I hated instruction, and how hath my heart despised reproof!"—Prov. cor. "The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of Vesta was extinguished."—Lempriere cor. "Riches beget pride; pride begets impatience."—Bullions cor. "Grammar is not reasoning, any more than organization is thought, or letters are sounds."—Enclytica cor. "Words are implements, and grammar is a machine."—Id.
UNDER NOTE III.—PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.
"Thou or I must undertake the business."—L. Murray cor. "He and I were there."—Ash cor. "And we dreamed a dream in one night, he and I."—Bible cor. "If my views remain the same as his and mine were in 1833."—Goodell cor. "My father and I were riding out."—Inst., Key, p. 273. "The premiums were given to George and me."—Ib. "Jane and I are invited."—Ib. "They ought to invite my sister and me."—Ib. "You and I intend to go."—Guy cor. "John and I are going to town."—Brit. Gram. cor. "He and I are sick."—James Brown cor. "Thou and I are well."—Id. "He and I are."—Id. "Thou and I are."—Id. "He, and I write."—Id. "They and I are well."—Id. "She, and thou, and I, were walking."—Id.
UNDER NOTE IV.—DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
"To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, is great injustice."—Inst., Key, p. 273. "To reveal secrets, or to betray one's friends, is contemptible perfidy."—Id. "To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude capitals from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought an offence too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something."—Dr. Barrow cor. "To live in such families, or to have such servants, is a blessing from God."—Fam. Com. cor. "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, is utterly unknown." Or: "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, and what wars they maintained, are things utterly unknown."—Goldsmith cor. "To speak or to write perspicuously and agreeably, is an attainment of the utmost consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or by writing, to address the public."—Dr. Blair cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.
"Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?"—Bible cor. "Did he not fear the Lord, and beseech the Lord, and did not the Lord repent of the evil which he had pronounced?"—Id. "And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgement with thee?"—Id. "If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain."—Id. "If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one an other."—Id. "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee, become poor, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant."—Id. "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee," &c.—Id. "Anthea was content to call a coach, and so to cross the brook." Or:—"and in that she crossed the brook."—Johnson cor. "It is either totally suppressed, or manifested only in its lowest and most imperfect form."—Blair cor. "But if any man is a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." Or: "If any man be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him will he hear."—Bible cor. "Whereby his righteousness and obedience, death and sufferings without, become profitable unto us, and are made ours."—Barclay cor. "Who ought to have been here before thee, and to have objected, if they had any thing against me."—Bible cor.
"Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see,
That man has yet a soul, and dares be free."—Campbell cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—USE SEPARATE NOMINATIVES.
"H is only an aspiration, or breathing; and sometimes, at the beginning of a word, it is not sounded at all."—Lowth cor. "Man was made for society, and he ought to extend his good will to all men."—Id. "There is, and must be, a Supreme Being, of infinite goodness, power, and wisdom, who created, and who supports them."—Beattie cor. "Were you not affrighted, and did you not mistake a spirit for a body?"—Bp. Watson cor. "The latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction than or as, but it either agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood."—Mur. et al. cor. "He had mistaken his true interest, and he found himself forsaken."—Murray cor. "The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and it saved the patient's life."—Id. "The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might have been, and probably they were, good."—Id. "This may be true, and yet it will not justify the practice."—Webster cor. "From the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and who are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things."—Campbell cor. "For those energies and bounties which created, and which preserve, the universe."—J. Q. Adams cor. "I shall make it once for all, and I hope it will be remembered."—Blair cor. "This consequence is drawn too abruptly. The argument needed more explanation." Or: "This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and without sufficient explanation."—Id. "They must be used with more caution, and they require more preparation."—Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which made an addition of a syllable to the word."—Priestley cor. "The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, it is unavoidable."—Kames cor. "It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is it agreeable in any respect."—Id.
"Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords
No flight for thoughts,—they poorly stick at words."—Denham cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.
"Let us read the living page, whose every character delights and instructs us."—Maunder cor. "For if it is in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and does not please."—Kames cor. "When a speaker addresses himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers."—Campbell cor. "As the wine which strengthens and refreshes the heart."—H. Adams cor. "This truth he wraps in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other."—Pope cor. "God searcheth and understandeth the heart." Or: "God searches and understands the heart."—T. à. Kempis cor. "The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men."—Titus, ii, 11. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."—1 Cor., ii, 13. "But he has an objection, which he urges, and by which he thinks to overturn all."—Barclay cor. "In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it gives to them who love it."—Id. "Thou here misunderstood the place and misapplied it." Or: "Thou here misunderstoodst the place and misappliedst it."—Id. Or: (as many of our grammarians will have it:) "Thou here misunderstoodest the place and misappliedst it."—Id. "Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good cometh."—See Jer., xvii, 6. "It speaks of the time past, and shows that something was then doing, but not quite finished."—Devis cor. "It subsists in spite of them; it advances unobserved."—Pascal cor.
"But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?—
Methinks he lingers late and tarries long."—Byron cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—CONFUSION OF MOODS.
"If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go (or be gone) astray," &c.—Matt., xviii, 12. Or: "If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes (or is gone) astray," &c. Or: "If a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them goeth (or is gone) astray," &c.—Kirkham cor. "As a speaker advances in his discourse, and increases in energy and earnestness, a higher and a louder tone will naturally steal upon him."—Id. "If one man esteem one day above an other, and an other esteem every day alike; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."—Barclay cor. See Rom., xiv, 5. "If there be but one body of legislators, it will be no better than a tyranny; if there be only two, there will want a casting voice."—Addison cor. "Should you come up this way, and I be still here, you need not be assured how glad I should be to see you."—Byron cor. "If he repent and become holy, let him enjoy God and heaven."—Brownson cor. "If thy fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou say unto him, 'Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,' and yet thou give him not those things which are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy conduct?"—Kirkham cor.
"Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,
And show us to be watchers."—Singer's Shakspeare.
"But if it climb, with your assisting hand,
The Trojan walls, and in the city stand."—Dryden cor.
————————"Though Heaven's King
Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers,
Used to the yoke, draw his triumphant wheels."—Milton cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.—IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
"Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as he has left them."—Reporter cor. "Which they neither have done nor can do."—Barclay cor. "The Lord hath revealed, and doth and will reveal, his will to his people; and hath raised up, and doth raise up, members of his body," &c.—Id. "We see, then, that the Lord hath given, and doth give, such."—Id. "Towards those that have declared, or do declare, themselves members."—Id. "For which we can give, and have given, our sufficient reasons."—Id. "When we mention the several properties of the different words in sentences, as we have mentioned those of the word William's above, what is the exercise called?"—R. C. Smith cor. "It is however to be doubted, whether this Greek idiom ever has obtained, or ever will obtain, extensively, in English."—Nutting cor. "Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much as we do?"—Murray cor. "Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be delivered in order to move and persuade."—Kirkham cor.
UNDER NOTE X.—DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.
"And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be avoided." Or: "I would 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.