"Is then one chaste, one last embrace denied? Shall I not lay me by his clay-cold side?"—Rowe cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—OF PASSIVE VERBS TRANSITIVE.
"The preposition TO is used before nouns of place, when they follow verbs or participles of motion."—Murray et al. cor. "They were not allowed to enter the house."—Mur. cor. "Their separate signification has been overlooked."—Tooke cor. "But, whenever YE is used, it must be in the nominative case, and not in the objective."—Cobbett cor. "It is said, that more persons than one receive handsome salaries, to see that acts of parliament are properly worded."—Churchill cor. "The following Rudiments of English Grammar have been used in the University of Pennsylvania."—Dr. Rogers cor. "It never should be forgotten."— Newman cor. "A very curious fact has been noticed by those expert metaphysicians."—Campbell cor. "The archbishop interfered that Michelet's lectures might be stopped."—The Friend cor. "The disturbances in Gottengen have been entirely quelled."—Daily Adv. cor. "Besides those which are noticed in these exceptions."—Priestley cor. "As one, two, or three auxiliary verbs are employed."—Id. "The arguments which have been used."—Addison cor. "The circumstance is properly noticed by the author."—Blair cor. "Patagonia has never been taken into possession by any European nation."—Cumming cor. "He will be censured no more."—Walker cor. "The thing was to be terminated somehow."—Hunt cor. "In 1798, the Papal Territory was seized by the French."—Pinnock cor. "The idea has not for a moment escaped the attention of the Board."—C. S. Journal cor. "I shall easily be excused from the labour of more transcription."—Johnson cor. "If I may be allowed to use that expression."—Campbell cor. "If without offence I may make the observation."—Id. "There are other characters, which are frequently used in composition."—Mur. et al. cor. "Such unaccountable infirmities might be overcome, in many cases, and perhaps in most."—Beattie cor. "Which ought never to be employed, or resorted to."—Id. "That care may be taken of the widows." Or: "That the widows may be provided for."—Barclay cor. "Other cavils will yet be noticed."—Pope cor. "Which implies, that to all Christians is eternal salvation offered."—West cor. "Yet even the dogs are allowed to eat the crumbs which fall from their master's table."—Campbell cor. "For we say, the light within must be heeded."—Barclay cor. "This sound of a is noticed in Steele's Grammar."—J. Walker cor. "One came to receive ten guineas for a pair of silver buckles."—M. Edgeworth cor. "Let therefore the application of the several questions in the table be carefully shown [to] him."—Nutting cor. "After a few times, it is no longer noticed by the hearers."—Sheridan cor. "It will not admit of the same excuse, nor receive the same indulgence, from people of any discernment."—Id. "Of inanimate things, property may be made." Or: "Inanimate things may be made property;" i.e., "may become property."—Beattie cor.
"And, when some rival bids a higher price,
Will not be sluggish in the work, or nice."—Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—OF PERFECT PARTICIPLES.
"All the words employed to denote spiritual or intellectual things, are in their origin metaphors."—Dr. Campbell cor. "A reply to an argument commonly brought forward by unbelievers."—Dr. Blair cor. "It was once the only form used in the past tenses."—Dr. Ash cor. "Of the points and other characters used in writing."—Id. "If THY be the personal pronoun adopted."—Walker cor. "The Conjunction is a word used to connect [words or] sentences."—Burn cor. "The points which answer these purposes, are the four following."—Harrison cor. "INCENSE signifies perfume exhaled by fire, and used in religious ceremonies."—L. Mur. cor. "In most of his orations, there is too much art; he carries it even to ostentation."—Blair cor. "To illustrate the great truth, so often overlooked in our times."—C. S. Journal cor. "The principal figures calculated to affect the heart, are Exclamation, Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation."—Formey cor. "Disgusted at the odious artifices employed by the judge."—Junius cor. "All the reasons for which there was allotted to us a condition out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise."—Bp. Butler cor. "Some characteristical circumstance being generally invented or seized upon."—Ld. Kames cor.
"And BY is likewise used with names that shew
The method or the means of what we do."—Ward cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.
"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as do adjectives."—Priestley cor. "But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, did more than any one else, to bring our language into its present state, was Dryden."—Blair cor. "In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor do courts of chancery employ any at all."—Webster cor. "I feel grateful to my friend."—Murray cor. "This requires a writer to have in his own mind a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us."—Blair cor. "Sense has its own harmony, which naturally contributes something to the harmony of sound."—Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which gave to the word an additional syllable."—Priestley cor. "There are few to whom I can refer with more advantage than to Mr. Addison."—Blair cor. "DEATH, (in theology,) is a perpetual separation from God, a state of eternal torments."—Webster cor. "That could inform the traveller as well as could the old man himself!"—O. B. Peirce cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—OF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.
"Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth."—SCOTT, FRIENDS, and the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE: Jer., xlix, 3. "Wash you, make you clean."—SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, i, 16. "Strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins."—SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, xxxii, 11. "Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me."—SCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY: Job, xix, 3. "If ye knew the gift of God." Or: "If thou knew the gift of God."—See John, iv, 10. "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know you not."—Penington cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF PROPER IDENTITY.
"Who would not say, 'If it be I,' rather than, 'If it be me?"—Priestley cor. "Who is there? It is I."—Id. "It is he."—Id. "Are these the houses you were speaking of? Yes; they are the same."—Id. "It is not I, that you are in love with."—Addison cor. "It cannot be I."—Swift cor. "To that which once was thou."—Prior cor. "There is but one man that she can have, and that man is myself."—Priestley cor. "We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure he." Or, better:—"and become in some measure identified with him."—A. Smith and Priestley cor. "Art thou proud yet? Ay, that I am not thou."—Shak. cor. "He knew not who they were."—Milnes cor. "Whom do you think me to be?"—Dr. Lowth's Gram., p. 17. "Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?"—Bible cor. "But who say ye that I am?"—Id. "Who think ye that I am? I am not he."—Id. "No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person that I supposed it was."—Winter in London cor. "And while it is He that I serve, life is not without value."—Ware cor. "Without ever dreaming it was he."—Charles XII cor. "Or he was not the illiterate personage that he affected to be."—Montgom. cor. "Yet was he the man who was to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles."—Barclay cor. "Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or thou."—J. Hogg cor. "Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was I."—Dryden cor. "No matter where the vanquished be, or who."—Rowe cor. "No; I little thought it had been he."—Gratton cor. "That reverence, that godly fear, which is ever due to 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.'"—Maturin cor. "It is we that they seek to please, or rather to astonish."—J. West cor. "Let the same be her that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac."—Bible cor. "Although I knew it to be him."—Dickens cor. "Dear gentle youth, is't none but thou?"—Dorset cor. "Who do they say it is?"—Fowler cor.
"These are her garb, not she; they but express
Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress."—More cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—OF THE CASE DOUBTFUL.
"I had no knowledge of any connexion between them."—Col. Stone cor. "To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing, as to be the actors of it ourselves." (That is, "For us to promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing as for us to be the actors of it ourselves.")—Murray cor. "It must arise from a delicate feeling in ourselves."—Blair and Murray cor. "Because there has not been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."—Mass. Legisl. cor. "PUPILAGE, n. The state of a pupil, or scholar."—Dictionaries cor. "Then the other part, being the definition, would include all verbs, of every description."—Peirce cor. "John's friendship for me saved me from inconvenience."—Id. "William's judgeship"—or, "William's appointment to the office of judge,—changed his whole demeanour."—Id. "William's practical acquaintance with teaching, was the cause of the interest he felt."—Id. "To be but one among many, stifleth the chidings of conscience."—Tupper cor. "As for the opinion that it is a close translation, I doubt not that many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."—Pope cor. "All presumption that death is the destruction of living beings, must go upon the supposition that they are compounded, and therefore discerptible."—Bp. Butler cor. "This argues rather that they are proper names."—Churchill cor. "But may it not be retorted, that this gratification itself, is that which excites our resentment?"—Campbell cor. "Under the common notion, that it is a system of the whole poetical art."—Blair cor. "Whose want of time, or whose other circumstances, forbid them to become classical scholars."—Lit. Jour. cor. "It would prove him not to have been a mere fictitious personage." Or: "It would preclude the notion that he was merely a fictitious personage."—Phil. Mu. cor. "For heresy, or under pretence that they are heretics or infidels."—Oath cor. "We may here add Dr. Horne's sermon on Christ, as being the Object of religious adoration."—Rel. World cor. "To say nothing of Dr. Priestley, as being a strenuous advocate," &c.—Id. "Through the agency of Adam, as being their public head." Or: "Because Adam was their public head."—Id. "Objections against the existence of any such moral plan as this."—Butler cor. "A greater instance of a man being a blockhead."—Spect. cor. "We may insure or promote what will make it a happy state of existence to ourselves."—Gurney cor. "Since it often undergoes the same kind of unnatural treatment."—Kirkham cor. "Their apparent foolishness"—"Their appearance of foolishness"—or, "That they appear foolishness,—is no presumption against this."—Butler cor. "But what arises from them as being offences; i.e., from their liability to be perverted."—Id. "And he went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one that worshiped God."—Acts cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.
"But popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word."—Blair cor. "The infinitive mood, a phrase, or a sentence, is often made the subject of a verb."—Murray cor. "When any person, in speaking, introduces his name after the pronoun I, it is of the first person; as, 'I, James, of the city of Boston.'"—R. C. Smith cor. "The name of the person spoken to, is of the second person; as, 'James, come to me.'"—Id. "The name of the person or thing merely spoken of, or about, is of the third person; as, 'James has come.'"—Id. "The passive verb has no object, because its subject or nominative always represents what is acted upon, and the object of a verb must needs be in the objective case."—Id. "When a noun is in the nominative to an active verb, it denotes the actor."—Kirkham cor. "And the pronoun THOU or YE, standing for the name of the person or persons commanded, is its nominative."—Ingersoll cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker."—Brown's Institutes, p. 32. "The conjugation of a verb is a regular arrangement of its different variations or inflections throughout the moods and tenses."—Wright cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer."—G. BROWN: for the correction of Parker and Fox, Hiley, and Sanborn. "The second person is that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed."—Id.: for the same. "The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of."—Id.: for the same, "I is of the first person, singular; WE, of the first person, plural."—Mur. et al. cor. "THOU is of the second person, singular; YE or You, of the second person, plural."—Iid. "HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person, singular; THEY, of the third person, plural."—Iid. "The nominative case denotes the actor, and is the subject of the verb."—Kirkham cor. "John is the actor, therefore the noun JOHN is in the nominative case."—Id. "The actor is always expressed by the nominative case, unless the verb be passive."—R. C. Smith cor. "The nominative case does not always denote an agent or actor."—Mack cor. "In mentioning each name, tell the part of speech."—John Flint cor. "Of what number is boy? Why?"—Id. "Of what number is pens? Why?"—Id. "The speaker is denoted by the first person; the person spoken to is denoted by the second person; and the person or thing spoken of is denoted by the third person."—Id. "What nouns are of the masculine gender? The names of all males are of the masculine gender."—Id. "An interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind."—G. Brown's Grammars.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VII; OF OBJECTIVES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM.
"But I do not remember whom they were for."—Abbott cor. "But if you can't help it, whom do you complain of?"—Collier cor. "Whom was it from? and what was it about?"—M. Edgeworth cor. "I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and me, something in a corner."—Day cor. "The upper one, whom I am now about to speak of."—Leigh Hunt cor. "And to poor us, thy enmity is most capital."—Shak. cor. "Which, thou dost confess, 'twere fit for thee to use, as them to claim." That is,—"as for them to claim."—Id. "To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thee of them." That is,—"than for thee to beg of them."—Id. "There are still a few, who, like thee and me, drink nothing but water."—Gil Bias cor. "Thus, 'I shall fall,'—'Thou shalt love thy neighbour,'—'He shall be rewarded,'—express no resolution on the part of me, thee, or him." Or better:—"on the part of the persons signified by the nominatives, I, Thou, He."—Lennie and Bullions cor. "So saucy with the hand of her here—what's her name?"—Shak. cor. "All debts are cleared between you and me."—Id. "Her price is paid, and she is sold like thee."—HARRISON'S E. Lang., p. 172. "Search through all the most flourishing eras of Greece."—Dr. Brown cor. "The family of the Rudolphs has been long distinguished."—The Friend cor. "It will do well enough for you and me."—Edgeworth cor. "The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and him who is the teacher."—Chazotte cor. "We are still much at a loss to determine whom civil power belongs to."—Locke cor. "What do you call it? and to whom does it belong?"—Collier cor. "He had received no lessons from the Socrateses, the Platoes, and the Confuciuses of the age."—Haller cor. "I cannot tell whom to compare them to."—Bunyan cor. "I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and me."—Id. "They, by those means, have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know whom."—Id. "But at length she said, there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and us."—Hutch. Hist. cor. "So you must ride on horseback after us."—Mrs. Gilpin cor. "A separation must soon take place between our minister and me,"—Werter cor. "When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and me."—Shak. cor. "To whom? to thee? What art thou?"—Id. "That they should always bear the certain marks of him from whom they came."—Bp. Butler cor.
"This life has joys for you and me,
And joys that riches ne'er could buy."—Burns cor.
UNDER THE NOTE.—OF TIME OR MEASURE.
"Such as almost every child, ten years old, knows."—Town cor. "Four months' schooling will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years of age, completely through this book."—Id. "A boy of six years of age may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman senate."—Webster cor. "A lad about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians."—Id. "Of nothing else than that individual white figure of five inches in length, which is before him."—Campbell cor. "Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years of age are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles?"—Guy cor. "Where language three centuries old is employed."—Booth cor. "Let a gallows be made, of fifty cubits in height." Or: "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made."—Bible cor. "I say to this child, nine years old, 'Bring me that hat.' He hastens, and brings it me."—Osborn cor. "'He laid a floor, twelve feet long, and nine feet wide:' that is, the floor was long to the extent of twelve feet, and wide to the extent of nine feet."—Merchant cor. "The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand in strength." Or: "The Goulah people are a tribe about fifty thousand strong."—Examiner cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VIII; NOM. ABSOLUTE.
"He having ended his discourse, the assembly dispersed."—Inst. of E. G., p. 190. "I being young, they deceived me."—Ib., p. 279. "They refusing to comply, I withdrew."—Ib. "Thou being present, he would not tell what he knew."—Ib. "The child is lost; and I, whither shall I go?"—Ib. "O happy we! surrounded with so many blessings."—Ib. "'Thou too! Brutus, my son!' cried Cæsar, overcome."—Ib. "Thou! Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?"—Mirror cor. "How swiftly our time passes away! and ah! we, how little concerned to improve it!"—Greenleaf's False Syntax, Gram., p. 47.
"There all thy gifts and graces we display, Thou, only thou, directing all our way."—Pope, Dunciad.
CHAPTER IV.—ADJECTIVES.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE IX.
UNDER NOTE I.—OF AGREEMENT.
"I am not recommending this kind of sufferings to your liking."—Sherlock cor. "I have not been to London these five years."—Webster cor. "Verbs of this kind are more expressive than their radicals."—Dr. Murray cor. "Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with those vermin."—Kames cor. "But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours."—R. Random cor. "If I had not left off troubling myself about things of that kind."—Swift cor. "For things of this sort are usually joined to the most noted fortune."—Bacon cor. "The nature of those riches and that long-suffering, is, to lead to repentance."—Barclay cor. "I fancy it is this kind of gods, that Horace mentions."—Addison cor. "During those eight days, they are prohibited from touching the skin."—Hope of Is. cor. "Besides, he had but a small quantity of provisions left for his army."—Goldsmith cor. "Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than those of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?"—Murray's Sequel, p. 115. "It distinguishes still more remarkably the feelings of the former from those of the latter."—Kames cor. "And these good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world."—Campbell cor. "These twenty years have I been with thee."—Gen. cor. "In this kind of expressions, some words seem to be understood."—W. Walker cor. "He thought this kind of excesses indicative of greatness."—Hunt cor. "This sort of fellows is very numerous." Or thus: "Fellows of this sort are very numerous."—Spect. cor. "Whereas men of this sort cannot give account of their faith." Or: "Whereas these men cannot give account of their faith."—Barclay cor. "But the question is, whether those are the words."—Id. "So that expressions of this sort are not properly optative."—R. Johnson cor. "Many things are not such as they appear to be."—Sanborn cor. "So that all possible means are used."—Formey cor.
"We have strict statutes, and most biting laws,
Which for these nineteen years we have let sleep."—Shak. cor.
"They could not speak, and so I left them both,
To bear these tidings to the bloody king."—Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—OF FIXED NUMBERS.
"Why, I think she cannot be above six feet two inches high."—Spect. cor. "The world is pretty regular for about forty rods east and ten west."—Id. "The standard being more than two feet above it."—Bacon cor. "Supposing, among other things, that he saw two suns, and two Thebeses."—Id. "On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty-three feet by thirty-nine."—Sheffield cor. "Three pounds of gold went to one shield."—1 Kings cor. "Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that session."—The Friend cor. "And, truly, he has saved me from this labour."—Barclay cor. "Within these three miles may you see it coming."—Shak. cor. "Most of the churches, not all, had one ruling elder or more."—Hutch. cor. "While a Minute Philosopher, not six feet high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe."—Berkley cor. "The wall is ten feet high."—Harrison cor. "The stalls must be ten feet broad."—Walker cor. "A close prisoner in a room twenty feet square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty feet southward, not to walk twenty feet northward."—Locke cor. "Nor, after all this care and industry, did they think themselves qualified."—C. Orator cor. "No fewer than thirteen Gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assize, and executed."—Webster cor. "The king was petitioned to appoint one person or more."—Mrs. Macaulay cor. "He carries weight! he rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pounds."—Cowper cor. "They carry three tiers of guns at the head, and at the stern, two tiers"—Joh. Dict. cor. "The verses consist of two sorts of rhymes."—Formey cor. "A present of forty camel-loads of the most precious things of Syria."—Wood's Dict. cor. "A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutia"—S. Barrett cor.
"So many spots, like næves on Venus' soil,
One gem set off with many a glitt'ring foil."—Dryden cor.
"For, off the end, a double handful
It had devour'd, it was so manful."—Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—OF RECIPROCALS.
"That shall and will might be substituted one for the other."—Priestley cor. "We use not shall and will promiscuously the one for the other."—Brightland cor. "But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from one an other also."—Fowle cor. "Or on some other relation which two objects bear to each other."—Blair cor. "Yet the two words lie so near to each other in meaning, that, in the present case, perhaps either of them would have been sufficient."—Id. "Both orators use great liberties in their treatment of each other."—Id. "That greater separation of the two sexes from each other."—Id. "Most of whom live remote from one an other."—Webster cor. "Teachers like to see their pupils polite to one an other"—Id. "In a little time, he and I must keep company with each other only."—Spect. cor. "Thoughts and circumstances crowd upon one an other."—Kames cor. "They cannot perceive how the ancient Greeks could understand one an other."—Lit. Conv. cor. "The poet, the patriot, and the prophet, vied with one an other in his breast."—Hazlitt cor. "Athamas and Ino loved each other."—C. Tales cor. "Where two things are compared or contrasted one with the other." Or: "Where two things, are compared or contrasted with each other."—Blair and Mur. cor. "In the classification of words, almost all writers differ from one an other."—Bullions cor.
"I will not trouble thee, my child. Farewell;
We'll no more meet; we'll no more see each other."—Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.—OF COMPARATIVES.
"Errors in education should be less indulged than any others."—Locke cor. "This was less his case than any other man's that ever wrote."—Pref. to Waller cor. "This trade enriched some other people more than it enriched them."—Mur. cor. "The Chaldee alphabet, in which the Old Testament has reached us, is more beautiful than any other ancient character known."—Wilson cor. "The Christian religion gives a more lovely character of God, than any other religion ever did."—Murray cor. "The temple of Cholula was deemed more holy than any other in New Spain."—Robertson cor. "Cibber grants it to be a better poem of its kind than any other that ever was written"—Pope cor. "Shakspeare is more faithful to the true language of nature, than any other writer."—Blair cor. "One son I had—one, more than all my other sons, the strength of Troy." Or: "One son I had—one, the most of all my sons, the strength of Troy."—Cowper cor. "Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his other children, because he was the son of his old age."—Bible cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—OF SUPERLATIVES.
"Of all simpletons, he was the greatest"—Nutting cor. "Of all beings, man has certainly the greatest reason for gratitude."—Id. "This lady is prettier than any of her sisters."—Peyton cor. "The relation which, of all the class, is by far the most fruitful of tropes, I have not yet mentioned."—Blair cor. "He studied Greek the most of all noblemen."—W. Walker cor. "And indeed that was the qualification which was most wanted at that time."—Goldsmith cor. "Yet we deny that the knowledge of him as outwardly crucified, is the best of all knowledge of him."—Barclay cor. "Our ideas of numbers are, of all our conceptions, the most accurate and distinct"—Duncan cor. "This indeed is, of all cases, the one in which it is least necessary to name the agent"—J. Q. Adams cor. "The period to which you have arrived, is perhaps the most critical and important moment of your lives."—Id. "Perry's royal octavo is esteemed the best of all the pronouncing dictionaries yet known."—D. H. Barnes cor. "This is the tenth persecution, and, of all the ten the most bloody."—Sammes cor. "The English tongue is the most susceptible of sublime imagery, of all the languages in the world."—Bucke cor. "Of all writers whatever, Homer is universally allowed to have had the greatest Invention."—Pope cor. "In a version of this particular work, which, more than any other, seems to require a venerable, antique cast."—Id. "Because I think him the best-informed naturalist that has ever written."—Jefferson cor. "Man is capable of being the most social of all animals."—Sheridan cor. "It is, of all signs (or expressions) that which most moves us."—Id. "Which, of all articles, is the most necessary."—Id.
"Quoth he, 'This gambol thou advisest,
Is, of all projects, the unwisest.'"—S. Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—OF INCLUSIVE TERMS.
"Noah and his family were the only antediluvians who survived the flood."—Webster cor. "I think it superior to any other grammar that we have yet had."—Blair cor. "We have had no other grammarian who has employed so much labour and judgement upon our native language, as has the author of these volumes."—British Critic cor. "Those persons feel most for the distresses of others, who have experienced distresses themselves."—L. Murray cor. "Never was any other people so much infatuated as the Jewish nation."—Id. et al. cor. "No other tongue is so full of connective particles as the Greek."—Blair cor. "Never was sovereign so much beloved by the people." Or: "Never was any other sovereign so much beloved by his people."—L. Murray cor. "Nothing else ever affected her so much as this misconduct of her child."—Id. et al. cor. "Of all the figures of speech, no other comes so near to painting as does metaphor."—Blair et al. cor. "I know no other writer so happy in his metaphors as is Mr. Addison."—Blair cor. "Of all the English authors, none is more happy in his metaphors than Addison."—Jamieson cor. "Perhaps no other writer in the world was ever so frugal of his words as Aristotle."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Never was any other writer so happy in that concise and spirited style, as Mr. Pope."—Blair cor. "In the harmonious structure and disposition of his periods, no other writer whatever, ancient or modern, equals Cicero."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Nothing else delights me so much as the works of nature."—L. Mur. cor. "No person was ever more perplexed than he has been to-day."—Id. "In no other case are writers so apt to err, as in the position of the word only."—Maunder cor. "For nothing is more tiresome than perpetual uniformity."—Blair cor.
"Naught else sublimes the spirit, sets it free, Like sacred and soul-moving poesy."—Sheffield cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—EXTRA COMPARISONS.
"How much better are ye than the fowls!"—Bible cor. "Do not thou hasten above the Most High."—Esdras cor. "This word, PEER, is principally used for the nobility of the realm."—Cowell cor. "Because the same is not only most generally received, &c."—Barclay cor. "This is, I say, not the best and most important evidence."—Id. "Offer unto God thanksgiving, and pay thy vows unto the Most High."—The Psalter cor. "The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High."—Id. "As boys should be educated with temperance, so the first great lesson that should be taught them, is, to admire frugality."—Goldsmith cor. "More general terms are put for such as are more restricted."—Rev. J. Brown cor. "This, this was the unkindest cut of all."—Enfield's Speaker, p. 353. "To take the basest and most squalid shape."—Shak. cor. "I'll forbear: I have fallen out with my more heady will."—Id. "The power of the Most High guard thee from sin."—Percival cor. "Which title had been more true, if the dictionary had been in Latin and Welsh."—Verstegan cor. "The waters are frozen sooner and harder, than further upward, within the inlands."—Id. "At every descent, the worst may become more depraved."—Mann cor.
"Or as a moat defensive to a house
Against the envy of less happy lands."—Shak. cor.
"A dreadful quiet felt, and worse by far
Than arms, a sullen interval of war."—Dryden cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.
"It breaks forth in its highest, most energetic, and most impassioned strain."—Kirkham cor. "He has fallen into the vilest and grossest sort of railing."—Barclay cor. "To receive that higher and more general instruction which the public affords."—J. O. Taylor cor. "If the best things have the best and most perfect operations."—Hooker cor. "It became the plainest and most elegant, the richest and most splendid, of all languages."—Bucke cor. "But the principal and most frequent use of pauses, is, to mark the divisions of the sense."—Blair cor. "That every thing belonging to ourselves is the best and the most perfect."— Clarkson cor. "And to instruct their pupils in the best and most thorough manner."—School Committee cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.—ADJECTIVES SUPERADDED.
"The Father is figured out as a venerable old man."—Brownlee cor. "There never was exhibited an other such masterpiece of ghostly assurance."—Id. "After the first three sentences, the question is entirely lost."—Spect. cor. "The last four parts of speech are commonly called particles."—Al. Murray cor. "The last two chapters will not be found deficient in this respect."—Todd cor. "Write upon your slates a list of the first ten nouns."—J. Abbott cor. "We have a few remains of two other Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and Bion."—Blair cor. "The first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical."—Id. "For, of these five heads, only the first two have any particular relation to the sublime."—Id. "The resembling sounds of the last two syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole."—Kames cor. "The last three are arbitrary."—Id. "But in the sentence, 'She hangs the curtains,' hangs is an active-transitive verb."—Comly cor. "If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of active-transitive, active-intransitive, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood."—Id. "These last two lines have an embarrassing construction."—Rush cor. "God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah and seven other persons."—Wood cor. "The first six books of the Æneid are extremely beautiful."—Formey cor. "Only a few instances more can here be given."—Murray cor. "A few years more will obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form."—Nutting cor. "Some define them to be verbs devoid of the first two persons."—Crombie cor. "In an other such Essay-tract as this."—White cor. "But we fear that not an other such man is to be found."—Edward Irving cor. "O for an other such sleep, that I might see an other such man!" Or, to preserve poetic measure, say:—
"O for such sleep again, that I might see An other such man, though but in a dream!"—Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE X.—ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.
"The is an article, relating to the noun balm, agreeably to Rule 11th."—Comly cor. "Wise is an adjective, relating to the noun man's, agreeably to Rule 11th."—Id. "To whom I observed, that the beer was extremely good."—Goldsmith cor. "He writes very elegantly." Or: "He writes with remarkable elegance."—O. B. Peirce cor. "John behaves very civilly (or, with true civility) to all men."—Id. "All the sorts of words hitherto considered, have each of them some meaning, even when taken separately."—Beattie cor. "He behaved himself conformably to that blessed example."—Sprat cor. "Marvellously graceful."— Clarendon cor. "The Queen having changed her ministry, suitably to her wisdom."—Swift cor. "The assertions of this author are more easily detected."—Id. "The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no more strongly than that."—Bentley cor. "If one author had spoken more nobly and loftily than an other."—Id. "Xenophon says expressly."— Id. "I can never think so very meanly of him."—Id. "To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed."—Bible cor. "I think it very ably written." Or: "I think it written in a very masterly manner."—Swift cor. "The whole design must refer to the golden age, which it represents in a lively manner."—Addison cor. "Agreeably to this, we read of names being blotted out of God's book."—Burder et al. cor. "Agreeably to the law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent parents."—Paley. "Words taken independently of their meaning, are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender."—Maltby cor.
"Conceit in weakest bodies strongliest works."—Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE XI.—THEM FOR THOSE.
"Though he was not known by those letters, or the name CHRIST."—Bayly cor. "In a gig, or some of those things." Better: "In a gig, or some such vehicle."—M. Edgeworth cor. "When cross-examined by those lawyers."—Same. "As the custom in those cases is."—Same. "If you had listened to those slanders."—Same. "The old people were telling stories about those fairies; but, to the best of my judgement, there is nothing in them."—Same. "And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no better authority to substantiate their principles, than the testimony of those old Pharisees?"—Hibbard cor.
UNDER NOTE XII.—THIS AND THAT.
"Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear: that is the anticipation of good, this of evil."—Inst., p. 265. "The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account these happy, and those miserable."—Inst., p. 266.
"Ellen and Margaret, fearfully,
Sought comfort in each other's eye;
Then turned their ghastly look each one,
That to her sire, this to her son."—Scott cor.
"Six youthful sons, as many blooming maids, In one sad day beheld the Stygian shades; Those by Apollo's silver bow were slain, These Cynthia's arrows stretch'd upon the plain."—Pope cor.
"Memory and forecast just returns engage, That pointing back to youth, this on to age."—Pope, on Man.
UNDER NOTE XIII.—EITHER AND NEITHER.
"These make the three great subjects of discussion among mankind; namely, truth, duty, and interest: but the arguments directed towards any of them are generically distinct."—Dr. Blair cor. "A thousand other deviations may be made, and still any of the accounts may be correct in principle; for all these divisions, and their technical terms, are arbitrary."—R. W. Green cor. "Thus it appears, that our alphabet is deficient; as it has but seven vowels to represent thirteen different sounds; and has no letter to represent any of five simple consonant sounds."—Churchill cor. "Then none of these five verbs can be neuter."—O. B. Peirce cor. "And the assertor[534] is in none of the four already mentioned."—Id. "As it is not in any of these four."—Id. "See whether or not the word comes within the definition of any of the other three simple cases."—Id. "No one of the ten was there."—Frazee cor. "Here are ten oranges, take any one of them."—Id. "There are three modes, by any of which recollection will generally be supplied; inclination, practice, and association."—Rippingham cor. "Words not reducible to any of the three preceding heads."—Fowler cor. "Now a sentence may be analyzed in reference to any of these four classes."—Id.
UNDER NOTE XIV.—WHOLE, LESS, MORE, AND MOST.
"Does not all proceed from the law, which regulates all the departments of the state?"—Blair cor. "A messenger relates to Theseus all the particulars."—Ld. Kames cor. "There are no fewer than twenty-nine diphthongs in the English language."—Ash cor. "The Redcross Knight runs through all the steps of the Christian life."—Spect. cor. "There were not fewer than fifty or sixty persons present."—Mills and Merchant cor. "Greater experience, and a more cultivated state of society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression."—Blair and Murray cor. "By which means, knowledge, rather than oratory, has become the principal requisite."—Blair cor. "No fewer than seven illustrious cities disputed the right of having given birth to the greatest of poets."—Lempriere cor. "Temperance, rather than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases."—Murray cor. "I do not suppose, that we Britons are more deficient in genius than our neighbours."—Id. "In which, he says, he has found no fewer than twelve untruths."—Barclay cor. "The several places of rendezvous were concerted, and all the operations were fixed."—Hume cor. "In these rigid opinions, all the sectaries concurred."—Id. "Out of whose modifications have been made nearly all complex modes."—Locke cor. "The Chinese vary each of their words on no fewer than five different tones."—Blair cor. "These people, though they possess brighter qualities, are not so proud as he is, nor so vain as she."—Murray cor. "It is certain, that we believe our own judgements more firmly, after we have made a thorough inquiry into the things."—Brightland cor. "As well as the whole course and all the reasons of the operation."—Id. "Those rules and principles which are of the greatest practical advantage."—Newman cor. "And all curse shall be no more."—Rev. cor.—(See the Greek.) "And death shall be no more."—Id. "But, in recompense, we have pleasanter pictures of ancient manners."—Blair cor. "Our language has suffered a greater number of injurious changes in America, since the British army landed on our shores, than it had suffered before, in the period of three centuries."—Webster cor. "All the conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in society."—Ld. Kames cor.
UNDER NOTE XV.—PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES.
"To such as think the nature of it deserving of their attention."—Bp. Butler cor. "In all points, more deserving of the approbation of their readers."—Keepsake cor. "But to give way to childish sensations, was unbecoming to our nature."—Lempriere cor. "The following extracts are deserving of the serious perusal of all."—The Friend cor. "No inquiry into wisdom, however superficial, is undeserving of attention."—Bulwer cor. "The opinions of illustrious men are deserving of great consideration."—Porter cor. "And resolutely keep its laws. Uncaring for consequences." Or:—"Not heeding consequences."—Burns cor. "This is an item that is deserving of more attention."—Goodell cor.
"Leave then thy joys, unsuiting to such age:"—Or,
"Leave then thy joys not suiting such an age,
To a fresh comer, and resign the stage."—Dryden cor.
UNDER NOTE XVI.—FIGURE OF ADJECTIVES.
"The tall dark mountains and the deep-toned seas."—Dana. "O! learn from him To station quick-eyed Prudence at the helm."—Frost cor. "He went in a one-horse chaise."—David Blair cor. "It ought to be, 'in a one-horse chaise.'"—Crombie cor. "These are marked with the above-mentioned letters."—Folker cor. "A many-headed faction."—Ware cor. "Lest there should be no authority in any popular grammar, for the perhaps heaven-inspired effort."—Fowle cor. "Common-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables. They were formerly written in two fourteen-syllable lines."—Goodenow cor. "Short-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; the third of eight, the rest of six syllables."—Id. "Particular-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the third and sixth of six syllables, the rest of eight."—Id. "Hallelujah-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the last two of eight syllables, and the rest of six."—Id. "Long-metre stanzas are merely the union of four iambic lines, of ten syllables each."—Id. "A majesty more commanding than is to be found among the rest of the Old-Testament poets."—Blair cor.
"You, sulphurous and thought-executed fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world!"—Lear, Act iii, Sc. 2.
CHAPTER V.—PRONOUNS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE X AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF AGREEMENT.
"The subject is to be joined with its predicate."—Wilkins cor. "Every one must judge of his own feelings."—Byron cor. "Every one in the family should know his or her duty."—Penn cor. "To introduce its possessor into that way in which he should go."—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Do not they say, that every true believer has the Spirit of God in him?"—Barclay cor. "There is none in his natural state righteous; no, not one."—Wood cor. "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own."—Bible cor. "His form had not yet lost all its original brightness."—Milton cor. "No one will answer as if I were his friend or companion."—Steele cor. "But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself."—Bible cor. "And let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his neighbour."—Id. "For every tree is known by its own fruit."—Id. "But she fell to laughing, like one out of his right mind."—M. Edgeworth cor. "Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make them worse."—Wayland cor. "And nobody else would make that city his refuge any more."—Josephus cor. "What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words? It is the time which a speaker occupies in pronouncing them."—Bradley cor. "In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that it is usually parsed as such."—Bullions cor. "The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight he carries." Or thus: "The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight it carries, the faster it runs."—Addison, Murray, et al. cor. "As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with his jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets."—Newspaper cor. "Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which he thinks worthy of recording."—Duchess D'Ab. cor. "Every body trembled, for himself, or for his friends."—Goldsmith cor.
"A steed comes at morning: no rider is there;
But his bridle is red with the sign of despair."—Campbell cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—PRONOUNS WRONG—OR NEEDLESS.
"Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle."—Merchant cor. "Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?"—Bible cor. "Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief."—Tillotson cor. "Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate."—Bible cor. "Whom, when they had washed her, they laid in an upper chamber."—Id. "Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."—Id. "Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 93. "But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action."—Murray's Gram., i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."—Barclay cor. "George Fox's Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."—Title cor. "According to the advice of the author of the Postcript [sic—KTH]."—Barclay cor. "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians that were pictured on Nemesis's pitcher."—Bacon cor. "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with the Sphynx's enigmas."—Id. "Whoever believeth not therein, shall perish."—Koran cor. "When, at Sestius's entreaty, I had been at his house."—W. Walker cor.
"There high on Sipylus's shaggy brow,
She stands, her own sad monument of wo."—Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE II.—CHANGE OF NUMBER.
"So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you."—Bible cor. "Why do you plead so much for it? why do you preach it up?" Or: "Why do ye plead so much for it? why do ye preach it up?"—Barclay cor. "Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, thy darling."—Edward's Gram. cor. "You have my book, and I have yours; i.e., your book." Or thus: "Thou hast my book, and I have thine; i.e., thy book."—Chandler cor. "Neither art thou such a one as to be ignorant of what thou art."—Bullions cor. "Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon thee."—Bible cor. "The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give thee warning."—Ld. Kames cor. "Wast thou born only for pleasure? wast thou never to do any thing?"—Collier cor. "Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and to give up thy account."—Barnes cor. "And canst thou expect to behold the resplendent glow of the Creator? would not such a sight annihilate thee?"—Milton cor. "If the prophet had commanded thee to do some great thing, wouldst thou have refused?"—C. S. Journal cor. "Art thou a penitent? evince thy sincerity, by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance."—Vade-Mecum cor. "I will call thee my dear son: I remember all thy tenderness."—C. Tales cor. "So do thou, my son: open thy ears, and thy eyes."—Wright cor. "I promise you, this was enough to discourage you."—Bunyan cor. "Ere you remark an other's sin, Bid your own conscience look within."—Gay cor. "Permit that I share in thy wo, The privilege canst thou refuse?"—Perfect cor. "Ah! Strephon, how canst thou despise Her who, without thy pity, dies?"—Swift cor.
"Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff;
And I must own, thou'st measured out enough."—Shenst. cor.
"This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity;
Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it thee."—Swift cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—WHO AND WHICH.
"Exactly like so many puppets, which are moved by wires."—Blair cor. "They are my servants, whom I brought forth[535] out of the land of Egypt."—Leviticus, xxv, 55. "Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me."—See Isaiah, viii, 18. "And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe."—Isaiah, xxxvii, 2. "In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses which filled them."—M'Ilvaine cor. "They are not of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."—Barclay cor. "As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; which, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces."—Bible cor. "Frequented by every fowl which nature has taught to dip the wing in water."—Johnson cor. "He had two sons, one of whom was adopted by the family of Maximus."—Lempriere cor. "And the ants, which are collected by the smell, are burned with fire."—The Friend cor. "They being the agents to whom this thing was trusted."—Nixon cor. "A packhorse which is driven constantly one way and the other, to and from market."—Locke cor. "By instructing children, whose affection will be increased."—Nixon cor. "He had a comely young woman, who travelled with him."—Hutchinson cor. "A butterfly, who thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive."—Inst., p. 267. "It is an enormous elephant of stone, which disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower."—Ware cor. "He was met by a dolphin, which sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him."—Edward's Gram. cor.
"That Cæsar's horse, which, as fame goes,
Had corns upon his feet and toes,
Was not by half so tender-hoof'd,
Nor trod upon the ground so soft."—Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
"He instructed and fed the crowds that surrounded him."—Murray's Key. "The court, which gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary." p. 187. "Nor does he describe classes of sinners that do not exist."—Mag. cor. "Because the nations among which they took their rise, were not savage."—Murray cor. "Among nations that are in the first and rude periods of society."—Blair cor. "The martial spirit of those nations among which the feudal government prevailed."—Id. "France, which was in alliance with Sweden."—Priestley's Gram., p. 97. "That faction, in England, which most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions."—Ib. "We may say, 'the crowd which was going up the street.'"—Cobbett's E. Gram., ¶ 204. "Such members of the Convention which formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution."—N. Y. Lyceum cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—CONFUSION OF SENSES.
"The name of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its case."—Kirkham cor. "Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no noun, properly so called, implies the presence of the thing named."—Harris cor. "Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes the city of Boston from other cities."—Sanborn cor. "The word CONJUNCTION means union, or the act of joining together. Conjunctions are used to join or connect either words or sentences."—Id. "The word INTERJECTION means the act of throwing between. Interjections are interspersed among other words, to express strong or sudden emotion."—Id. "Indeed is composed of in and deed. The words may better be written separately, as they formerly were."—Cardell cor. "Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is employed to distinguish an individual only."—Jamieson cor. "As an indication that nature itself had changed its course." Or:—"that Nature herself had changed her course."—History cor. "Of removing from the United States and their territories the free people of colour."—Jenifer cor. "So that gh may be said not to have its proper sound." Or thus: "So that the letters, g and h, may be said not to have their proper sounds."—Webster cor. "Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce her to our children?"—Maturin cor. "The first question is this: 'Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity's sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform, [i. e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in its decisions?"—Campbell cor. "In personifications, Time is always masculine, on account of his mighty efficacy; Virtue, feminine, by reason of her beauty and loveliness."—Murray, Blair, et al. cor. "When you speak to a person or thing, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Bartlett cor. "You now know the noun; for noun means name."—Id. "T. What do you see? P. A book. T. Spell book."—R. W. Green cor. "T. What do you see now? P. Two books. T. Spell books."—Id. "If the United States lose their rights as a nation."—Liberator cor. "When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."—Frost cor. "When a person or thing is merely spoken of, the noun or pronoun is in the third person."—Id. "The word OX also, taking the same plural termination, makes OXEN."—Bucke cor.
"Hail, happy States! yours is the blissful seat
Where nature's gifts and art's improvements meet."—Everett cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—THE RELATIVE THAT.
(1.) "This is the most useful art that men possess."—L. Murray cor. "The earliest accounts that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts."—Blair et al. cor. "Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste."—Blair cor. "One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu."—Murray cor. "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced."—Blair cor. "The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."—Hart cor.
(2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived."—Murray's Gram., p. 200. Better thus: "The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that," &c.—Priestley cor. "The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building."—Kames cor. "The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple."—Murray cor. "The same that John saw also in the sun."—Milton cor.
(3.) "Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?"—T. à Kempis cor. "Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?"—Inst., p. 267. "Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?"—G. Brown.
(4.) "The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to."—Kirkham cor. "The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of."—Id. "A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative."—Id. "The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power."—Bolingbroke cor. "The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse."—Hiley cor.
(5.) "Authors that deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty."—Blair cor. "Writers that deal," &c.—Murray cor. "The neuter gender denotes objects that are neither male nor female."—Merchant cor. "The neuter gender denotes things that have no sex."—Kirkham cor. "Nouns that denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells's Gram. of late, p. 55. Better thus: "Those nouns which denote objects that are neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."—Wells cor. "Objects and ideas that have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties."—Blair cor. "Cases that custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian's province."—L. Murray cor. "Substantives that end in ery, signify action or habit."—Id. "After all that can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate."—Id. "Possibly, all that I have said, is known and taught."—A. B. Johnson cor.
(6.) "It is a strong and manly style that should chiefly be studied."—Blair cor. "It is this [viz., precision] that chiefly makes a division appear neat and elegant."—Id. "I hope it is not I that he is displeased with."—L. Murray cor. "When it is this alone that renders the sentence obscure."—Campbell cor. "This sort of full and ample assertion, 'It is this that,' is fit to be used when a proposition of importance is laid down."—Blair cor. "She is not the person that I understood it to have been."—L. Murray cor. "Was it thou, or the wind, that shut the door?"—Inst., p. 267. "It was not I that shut it."—Ib.
(7.) "He is not the person that he seemed to be."—Murray and Ingersoll cor. "He is really the person that he appeared to be."—Iid. "She is not now the woman that they represented her to have been."—Iid. "An only child is one that has neither brother nor sister; a child alone is one that is left by itself, or unaccompanied."—Blair, Jam., and Mur., cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—RELATIVE CLAUSES CONNECTED.
(1.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of a thing; (i. e.,) of whatever we conceive to subsist, or of whatever we merely imagine."—Lowth cor. (2.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have any notion."—Murray et al. cor. (3.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any person, place, or thing, that exists, or that we can have an idea of."—Frost cor. (4.) "A noun is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we form an idea."—Hallock cor. (5.) "A Noun is the name of any person, place, object, or thing, that exists, or that we may conceive to exist."—D. C. Allen cor. (6.) "The name of every thing which exists, or of which we can form a notion, is a noun."—Fisk cor. (7.) "An allegory is the representation of some one thing by an other that resembles it, and that is made to stand for it."—Blair's Rhet., p. 150. (8.) "Had he exhibited such sentences as contained ideas inapplicable to young minds, or such as were of a trivial or injurious nature."—L. Murray cor. (9.) "Man would have others obey him, even his own kind; but he will not obey God, who is so much above him, and who made him."—Penn cor. (10.) "But what we may consider here, and what few persons have noticed, is," &c.—Brightland cor. (11.) "The compiler has not inserted those verbs which are irregular only in familiar writing or discourse, and which are improperly terminated by t in stead of ed."—Murray, Fisk, Hart, Ingersoll et al., cor. (12.) "The remaining parts of speech, which are called the indeclinable parts, and which admit of no variations, (or, being words that admit of no variations,) will not detain us long."—Dr. Blair cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—THE RELATIVE AND PREPOSITION.
"In the temper of mind in which he was then."—Lowth's Gram., p. 102. "To bring them into the condition in which I am at present."—Add. cor. "In the posture in which I lay."—Lowth's Gram., p. 102. "In the sense in which it is sometimes taken."—Barclay cor. "Tools and utensils are said to be right, when they answer well the uses for which they were made."—Collier cor. "If, in the extreme danger in which I now am," &c. Or: "If, in my present extreme danger," &c.—Murray's Sequel, p. 116. "News was brought, that Dairus [sic—KTH] was but twenty miles from the place in which they then were."—Goldsmith cor. "Alexander, upon hearing this news, continued four days where he then was:" or—"in the place in which he then was."—Id. "To read in the best manner in which reading is now taught."—L. Murray cor. "It may be expedient to give a few directions as to the manner in which it should be studied."—Hallock cor. "Participles are words derived from verbs, and convey an idea of the acting of an agent, or the suffering of an object, with the time at which it happens." [536]—A. Murray cor.
"Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal With which I serv'd my king, he would not thus, In age, have left me naked to my foes."—Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.—ADVERBS FOR RELATIVES. "In compositions that are not designed to be delivered in public."—Blair cor. "They framed a protestation in which they repeated their claims."—Priestley's Gram., p. 133; Murray's, 197. "Which have reference to inanimate substances, in which sex has no existence."—Harris cor. "Which denote substances in which sex never had existence."—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 26. "There is no rule given by which the truth may be found out."—W. Walker cor. "The nature of the objects from which they are taken."—Blair cor. "That darkness of character, through which we can see no heart:" [i. e., generous emotion.]—L. Murray cor. "The states with which [or between which] they negotiated."—Formey cor. "Till the motives from which men act, be known."—Beattie cor. "He assigns the principles from which their power of pleasing flows."—Blair cor. "But I went on, and so finished this History, in that form in which it now appears."—Sewel cor. "By prepositions we express the cause for which, the instrument by which, and the manner in which, a thing is done."—A. Murray cor. "They are not such in the language from which they are derived."—Town cor. "I find it very hard to persuade several, that their passions are affected by words from which they have no ideas."—Burke cor. "The known end, then, for which we are placed in a state of so much affliction, hazard, and difficulty, is our improvement in virtue and piety."—Bp. Butler cor.
"Yet such his acts as Greeks unborn shall tell,
And curse the strife in which their fathers fell."—Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE X.—REPEAT THE NOUN.
"Youth may be thoughtful, but thoughtfulness in the young is not very common."—Webster cor. "A proper name is a name given to one person or thing."—Bartlett cor. "A common name is a name given to many things of the same sort."—Id. "This rule is often violated; some instances of its violation are annexed."—L. Murray et al. cor. "This is altogether careless writing. Such negligence respecting the pronouns, renders style often obscure, and always inelegant."—Blair cor. "Every inversion which is not governed by this rule, will be disrelished by every person of taste."—Kames cor. "A proper diphthong, is a diphthong in which both the vowels are sounded."—Brown's Institutes, p. 18. "An improper diphthong, is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels is sounded."—Ib. "Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the descendants of Jacob, are called Hebrews."—Wood cor. "In our language, every word of more than one syllable, has one of its syllables distinguished from the rest in this manner."—L. Murray cor. "Two consonants proper to begin a word, must not be separated; as, fa-ble, sti-fle. But when two consonants come between two vowels, and are such as cannot begin a word, they must be divided, as, ut-most, un-der."—Id. "Shall the intellect alone feel no pleasures in its energy, when we allow pleasures to the grossest energies of appetite and sense?"—Harris and Murray cor. "No man has a propensity to vice as such: on the contrary, a wicked deed disgusts every one, and makes him abhor the author."—Ld. Kames cor. "The same grammatical properties that belong to nouns, belong also to pronouns."—Greenleaf cor. "What is language? It is the means of communicating thoughts from one person to an other."—O. B. Peirce cor. "A simple word is a word which is not made up of other words."—Adam and Gould cor. "A compound word is a word which is made up of two or more words."—Iid. "When a conjunction is to be supplied, the ellipsis is called Asyndeton."—Adam cor.