II. ARTICLES
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE I.
UNDER NOTE I.--AN OR A.
"I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel."--Bible cor. "There is a harshness in the following sentences."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 152. "Indeed, such a one is not to be looked for."--Dr. Blair cor. "If each of you will be disposed to approve himself a useful citizen."--Id. "Land with them had acquired almost a European value."--Webster cor. "He endeavoured to find out a wholesome remedy."--Neef cor. "At no time have we attended a yearly meeting more to our own satisfaction."--The Friend cor. "Addison was not a humorist in character."--Kames cor. "Ah me! what a one was he!"--Lily cor. "He was such a one as I never saw before"--Id. "No man can be a good preacher, who is not a useful one."--Dr. Blair cor. "A usage which is too frequent with Mr. Addison."--Id. "Nobody joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of a horse."--Locke cor. "A universality seems to be aimed at by the omission of the article."--Priestley cor. "Architecture is a useful as well as a fine art."--Kames cor. "Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve a uniform signification."-- Nutting cor. "Such a work required the patience and assiduity of a hermit."--Johnson cor. "Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity."--Id. "His bravery, we know, was a high courage of blasphemy."--Pope cor. "HYSSOP; an herb of bitter taste."--Pike cor.
"On each enervate string they taught the note To pant, or tremble through a eunuch's throat."--Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--AN OR A WITH PLURALS.
"At a session of the court, in March, it was moved," &c.--Hutchinson cor. "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda."--D. D'Ab. cor. "I took an other dictionary, and with a pair of scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."--A. B. Johnson cor. "A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, and about forty-five years old."--Gardiner cor. "And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings."--Bible cor. "There were slain of them about three thousand men."--1 Macc. cor. "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed other Alps of snow."--Addison cor. "To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."--Goldsmith cor. "As a first-fruit of many that shall be gathered."--Barclay cor. "It makes indeed a little amend, (or some amends,) by inciting us to oblige people."--Sheffield cor. "A large and lightsome back stairway (or flight of backstairs) leads up to an entry above."--Id. "Peace of mind is an abundant recompense for any sacrifices of interest."--Murray et al. cor. "With such a spirit, and such sentiments, were hostilities carried on."--Robertson cor. "In the midst of a thick wood, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."--G. B. "The flats look almost like a young forest."--Chronicle cor. "As we went on, the country for a little way improved, but scantily."--Freeman cor. "Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a captivity of seventy years at Babylon."--Rollin cor. "He did not go a great way into the country."--Gilbert cor.
"A large amend by fortune's hand is made, And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."--Rowe cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--NOUNS CONNECTED.
"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and the odour of flowers."--Kames cor. "The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and the softness of its pause."--Id. "Before the use of the loadstone, or the knowledge of the compass."--Dryden cor. "The perfect participle and the imperfect tense ought not to be confounded."--Murray cor. "In proportion as the taste of a poet or an orator becomes more refined."--Blair cor. "A situation can never be more intricate, so long as there is an angel, a devil, or a musician, to lend a helping hand."--Kames cor. "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken."--Inst., p. 262. "Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given."--Ib. "I despise not the doer, but the deed."--Ib. "For the sake of an easier pronunciation and a more agreeable sound."--Lowth cor. "The levity as well as the loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."-- Bolingbroke cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.
"It is proper that the vowels be a long and a short one."--Murray cor. "Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or a short time before."--Id. et al. "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."--Adam cor. "The numbers are two; the singular and the plural."--Id. et al. "The persons are three; the first, the second, and the third."--Iidem. "Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."-- Comly and Ing. cor. "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, the indicative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the imperative."-- Bullions et al. cor. "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and the plural."--Bradley cor. "To distinguish between an interrogative and an exclamatory sentence."--Murray et al. cor. "The first and the last of which are compound members."--Lowth cor. "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and the diffuse, the nervous and the feeble manner."--Blair cor. "The passive and the neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation."--Ingersoll cor. "There are two voices; the active and the passive."--Adam et al. cor. "WHOSE is rather the poetical than the regular genitive of WHICH."--Johnson cor. "To feel the force of a compound or a derivative word."--Town cor. "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions."--Murray et al. cor. "E has a long and a short sound in most languages."--Bicknell cor. "When the figurative and the literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."--Dr. Blair cor. "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and the Phoenician stand in connexion."--Conant and Fowler cor. "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish."--Fowler cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.
"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."--Murray cor. "Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution."--Kirkham cor. "Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."--Id. "How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?"--Cowley cor. "Into a dark and distant unknown."--Dr. Chalmers cor. "When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man."--Chazotte cor. "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."--Murray cor. "And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste."--Dr. Blair cor. "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion."--Id. "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is that of the separation."--Dr. M'Rie cor. "A great and good man looks beyond time."--See Brown's Inst., p. 263. "They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance."--Ib. "The light and worthless kernels will float."--Ib. "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."--Ib. "For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the public an other and better edition."--Kirkham cor. "He hoped that this title would secure to him an ample and independent authority."--L. Murray cor. et al. "There is, however, an other and more limited sense."--J. Q. Adams cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.--ARTICLES OR PLURALS.
"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise."--Dr. Blair cor. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic."--Adams cor. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."--Bolingbroke cor. "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."--Allen cor. "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective."--Murray et al. cor. "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."--Smart cor. "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."--Fowler cor. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."--Murray et al. cor. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."--Kirkham bettered. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?"--Id. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb." "The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons."--Id. "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress."--Rush cor. "In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines."--Churchill cor. "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."--Wright cor. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."--Id. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments."--Henry cor. "The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament."--Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."--Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."--Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."--Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural."--Burn cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.--CORRESPONDENT TERMS.
"Neither the definitions nor the examples are entirely the same as his."--Ward cor. "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and the expression."--Kames cor. "Between the adjective and the following substantive."--Id. "Thus Athens became both the repository and the nursery of learning."--Chazotte cor. "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and the Latin."--Id. "He shows that Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God."--The Friend cor. "That he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."--Bible cor. "This is neither the obvious nor the grammatical meaning of his words."--Blair cor. "Sometimes both the accusative and the infinitive are understood."--Adam and Gould cor. "In some cases, we can use either the nominative or the accusative, promiscuously."--Iidem. "Both the former and the latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."--Iidem. "Many of which have escaped both the commentator and the poet himself."--Pope cor. "The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and a past signification."--L. Murray cor. "How shall we distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the government?"--Dr. Webster cor. "Both the ecclesiastical and the secular powers concurred in those measures."--Dr. Campbell cor. "As the period has a beginning and an end within itself, it implies an inflection."--J. Q. Adams cor. "Such as ought to subsist between a principal and an accessory."--Ld. Kames cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.--CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.
"When both the upward and the downward slide occur in the sound of one syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE."--Kirkham cor. "The word THAT is used both in the nominative and in the objective case."--Sanborn cor. "But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large."--Murray cor. "Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future tense into the indicative mood, reject it from the subjunctive."--Id. "After the same conjunction, to use both the indicative and the subjunctive mood in the same sentence, and under the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety."--Id. "The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative mood in this tense."--Id. "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or the English language."--Chazotte cor. "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and the passive."--Nixon cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.--A SERIES OF TERMS.
"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and the husbandman."--Chazotte cor. "They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, the Philanthropists, the Pestalozzians, and the Productives."--Smith cor. "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future."--Murray et al. cor. "Is it an irregular neuter verb [from be, was, being, been; found in] the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number."--Murray cor. "SHOULD GIVE is an irregular active-transitive verb [from give, gave, given, giving; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number."--Id. "US is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."--Id. "THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."--Id. "It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, a point of admiration, or a parenthesis."--Dr. Wilson cor. "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth verses." Or: "The fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth verse."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Substitutes have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third."--Id. "JOHN'S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and is governed by 'WIFE,' according to Rule" [4th, which says, &c.]--Smith cor. "Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Bar. and Alex. cor. "The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and the pluperfect."--Ingersoll cor.
"Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend, And own the patron, patriot, and friend."--Savage cor.
UNDER NOTE X.--SPECIES AND GENUS.
"The pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for the noun."--Paul's Ac. cor. "The verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."--Id. "The participle is a part of speech derived from the verb."--Id. "The adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles, adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification."--Id. "The conjunction is a part of speech that joins words or sentences together."--Id. "The preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts."--Id. "The interjection is a part of speech which betokens a sudden emotion or passion of the mind."--Id. "The enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory."--Blair and Murray cor. "We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of the allegory."--Iidem. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of art."--Harris cor. "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,' as Mr. Harris acutely observes."--Churchill cor. "But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of metaphor, very beautiful, (or, one very beautiful instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full advantage."--Blair cor. "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as the whole put for a part, or a part for the whole; a species for the genus, or the genus for a species."--Id. "It shows what kind of apple it is of which we are speaking."--Kirkham cor. "Cleon was an other sort of man."--Goldsmith cor. "To keep off his right wing, as a kind of reserved body."--Id. "This part of speech is called the verb."--Mack cor. "What sort of thing is it?"--Hiley cor. "What sort of charm do they possess?"--Bullions cor.
"Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole, That painful animal, the mole."--Dunciad cor.
UNDER NOTE XI.--ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.
"Either thou or the boys were in fault."--Comly cor. "It may, at first view, appear to be too general."--Murray et al. cor. "When the verb has reference to future time."--Iidem. "No; they are the language of imagination, rather than of passion."--Blair cor. "The dislike of English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can be attributed only to the intricacy of [our] syntax."--Russell cor. "Is that ornament in good taste?"--Kames cor. "There are not many fountains in good taste." Or: "Not many fountains are [ornamented] in good taste."--Id. "And I persecuted this way unto death."--Bible cor. "The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension."--Addison, Spect., No. 411. "The distributive adjectives, each, every, either, agree with nouns, pronouns, or verbs, of the singular number only."--Murray cor. "Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to other parts of speech."--Blair cor. "By certain muscles which operate [in harmony, and] all at the same time."--Murray cor. "It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in general concerning them."--Campbell cor. "Nothing disgusts us sooner than empty pomp of language."--Murray cor.
UNDER NOTE XII.--TITLES AND NAMES.
"He is entitled to the appellation of gentleman."--G. Brown. "Cromwell assumed the title of Protector"--Id. "Her father is honoured with the title of Earl."--Id. "The chief magistrate is styled President."-- Id. "The highest title in the state is that of Governor."--Id. "That boy is known by the name of Idler."--Murray cor. "The one styled Mufti, is the head of the ministers of law and religion."--Balbi cor. "Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class tree."--Blair cor. "For oak, pine, and ash, were names of whole classes of objects."--Id. "It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of trope, or of figure."--Id. "The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of hiatus."--Adams cor. "We hesitate to determine, whether Tyrant alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the word Spy."--Cobbett cor. "Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into twelvemonth; of seven nights into sennight; of fourteen nights into fortnight."--Webster cor.
UNDER NOTE XIII.--COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.
"He is a better writer than reader."--W. Allen. "He was an abler mathematician than linguist."--Id. "I should rather have an orange than an apple."--G. Brown. "He was no less able as a negotiator, than courageous as a warrior."--Smollett cor. "In an epic poem, we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or an epigram."--Kames cor. "That figure is a sphere, globe, or ball."--Churchill's Gram., p. 357.
UNDER NOTE XIV.--ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.
"The carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."--Key to Inst. "The place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time."--Ib. "Those questions which a person puts to himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated with points of interrogation."-- Mur. et al. cor. "The work is designed for the use of those persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries."--Mur. cor. "That those who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at."--Id. "Those grammarians who limit the number to two, or three, do not reflect."--Id. "The substantives which end in ian, are those that signify profession." Or: "Those substantives which end in ian, are such as signify profession."--Id. "To these may be added those verbs which, among the poets, usually govern the dative."--Adam and Gould cor. "The consonants are those letters which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."--Bucke cor. "To employ the curiosity of persons skilled in grammar:"--"of those who are skilled in grammar:"--"of persons that are skilled in grammar:"--"of such persons as are skilled in grammar:" or--"of those persons who are skilled in grammar."--L. Murray cor. "This rule refers only to those nouns and pronouns which have the same bearing, or relation."--Id. "So that the things which are seen, were not made of things that do appear."--Bible cor. "Man is an imitative creature; he may utter again the sounds which he has heard."--Dr. Wilson cor. "But those men whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own."--Dr. Webster cor.
UNDER NOTE XV.--PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.
"Great benefit may be reaped from the reading of histories."--Sewel cor. "And some attempts were made towards the writing of history."--Bolingbroke cor. "It is an invading of the priest's office, for any other to offer it"--Leslie cor. "And thus far of the forming of verbs."--W. Walker cor. "And without the shedding of blood there is no remission."--Bible cor. "For the making of measures, we have the best method here in England."--Printer's Gram. cor. "This is really both an admitting and a denying at once."--Butler cor. "And hence the origin of the making of parliaments."--Dr. Brown cor. "Next thou objectest, that the having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion presupposes the having of light and grace."--Barclay cor. "They cried down the wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do."--Id. "Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of the plaiting of the hair, and of the wearing of gold, or of the putting-on of apparel."--Bible cor. "In the spelling of derivative words, the primitives must be kept whole."--Brit. Gram. and Buchanan's cor. "And the princes offered for the dedicating of the altar."--Numb. cor. "Boasting is not only a telling of lies, but also of many unseemly truths."--Sheffield cor. "We freely confess that the forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful."--Barclay cor. "For the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy."--G. Brown. "He turned all his thoughts to the composing of laws for the good of the State."--Rollin cor.
UNDER NOTE XVI.--PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.
"It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after falling in."--Barclay cor. "For in receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased."--Id. "True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it."--Phil. Museum cor. "To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth attending to."--Say cor. "To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by ordering their temple to be rebuilt," &c.--Rollin cor. "And for preserving them from being defiled."--Discip. cor. "A wise man will forbear to show any excellence in trifles."--Kames cor. "Hirsutus had no other reason for valuing a book."--Johnson, and Wright, cor. "To being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver himself with ease." Perhaps better: "To be heard, &c." Or: "In order to be heard, &c."--Sheridan cor. "And, to the end of being well heard and clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than can even the greatest power of voice."--Id.
"Potential purports, having power or will; As, If you would improve, you should be still."--Tobitt cor.
UNDER NOTE XVII.--VARIOUS ERRORS.
"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."--Lowth cor. "A period is a whole sentence complete in itself."--Id. "A colon, or member, is a chief constructive part, or the greatest division, of a sentence."--Id. "A semicolon, or half-member, is a smaller constructive part, or a subdivision, of a sentence or of a member."--Id. "A sentence or a member is again subdivided into commas, or segments."--Id. "The first error that I would mention is, too general an attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own tongue."--Webster cor. "One third of the importations would supply the demands of the people."--Id. "And especially in a grave style."--Murray's Gram., i, 178. "By too eager a pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed."--Murray cor. "The letters are divided into vowels and consonants."--Mur. et al. cor. "The consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels."--Iidem. "The first of these forms is the most agreeable to the English idiom."--Murray cor. "If they gain, it is at too dear a rate."--Barclay cor. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it."--Maunder cor. "This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too partial a fondness for the Latin."--Ash cor. "The groans which too heavy a load extorts from her."--Hitchcock cor. "The numbers of a verb are, of course, the singular and the plural."--Bucke cor. "To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great mind."--Murray cor. "This mode of expression rather suits the familiar than the grave style."--Id. "This use of the word best suits a familiar and low style."--Priestley cor. "According to the nature of the composition, the one or the other may be predominant."--Blair cor. "Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end."--Campbell cor. "A eulogy or a philippic may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon a subject of an other."--J. Q. Adams cor. "A French sermon is, for the most part, a warm animated exhortation."--Blair cor. "I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable lot."--Channing cor. "The auxiliary and the principal united constitute a tense."--Murray cor. "There are some verbs which are defective with respect to the persons."--Id. "In youth, habits of industry are the most easily acquired."--Id. "The apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out."--Bullions cor.
III. CASES, OR NOUNS
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES.
"The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."--Bunyan cor. "He will in no wise cast out whosoever cometh unto him." Better: "He will in no wise cast out any that come unto him."--Hall cor. "He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, who, he saw, were off their guard."--Hutchinson cor. "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."--Matt., v, 41. "The ideas of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers."--Swift cor. "You are a much greater loser than I, by his death." Or: "Thou art a much greater loser by his death than I."--Id. "Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds."--Barclay cor. "In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."--Id. "Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb."--Addison cor. "His wealth and he bid adieu to each other."--Priestley cor. "So that, 'He is greater than I,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than me.'"--Id. "The Jesuits had more interests at court than he."--Id. and Smollett cor. "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he."--Iid. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he."--Iid. "My father and he have been very intimate since."--Fair Am. cor. "Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed?"--Mrs. Bethune cor. "To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there."--Kirkham cor. "He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him."--Hume and Pr. cor. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement."--Haynes cor. "They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales."--Croker cor. "We sorrow not as they that have no hope."--Maturin cor. "If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope."--Id. "We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker."--Gratton cor. "And what can be better than he that made it?"--Jenks cor. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he."--Cooper cor. "Solomon, who was wiser than they all."--Watson cor. "Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."--Tract cor. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both."--Bible cor. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman."--Steele cor. "The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."--Life of Anton. cor. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 203. "Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I."--Hall cor. "We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape."--Burnes cor. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy."--Quarterly Rev. cor. "I know not who else are expected."--Scott cor. "He is great, but truth is greater than we all." Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than any of us."--H. Mann cor.. "He I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus: "Whom I accuse has entered."--Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.
"Scotland and thou did each in other live."--Dryden cor.
"We are alone; here's none but thou and I."--Shak. cor.
"I rather would, my heart might feel your love, Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy."--Shak. cor.
"Tell me, in sadness, who is she you love?"--Shak. cor.
"Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire Too high a fame, when he we serve's away."--Shak. cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE III; OF APPOSITION.
"Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, thee and me."--Bible cor. "Now, therefore, come thou, we will make a covenant, thou and I."--Variation corrected. "The word came not to Esau, the hunter, that stayed not at home; but to Jacob, the plain man, him that dwelt in tents."--Penn cor. "Not to every man, but to the man of God, (i.e.,) him that is led by the spirit of God."--Barclay cor. "For, admitting God to be a creditor, or him to whom the debt should be paid, and Christ him that satisfies or pays it on behalf of man the debtor, this question will arise, whether he paid that debt as God, or man, or both?"--Penn cor. "This Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Man, the Emmanuel, God with us, we own and believe in: him whom the high priests raged against," &c.--Fox cor. "Christ, and He crucified, was the Alpha and Omega of all his addresses, the fountain and foundation of his hope and trust."--Exp. cor. "Christ, and He crucified, is the head, and the only head, of the church."--Denison cor. "But if Christ, and He crucified, is the burden of the ministry, such disastrous results are all avoided."--Id. "He never let fall the least intimation, that himself, or any other person whosoever, was the object of worship."--View cor. "Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially them who labour in the word and doctrine."--Bible cor. "Our Shepherd, he who is styled King of saints, will assuredly give his saints the victory."--Sermon cor. "It may seem odd, to talk of us subscribers."--Fowle cor. "And they shall have none to bury them: they, their wives, nor their sons, nor[533] their daughters; for I will pour their wickedness upon them."--Bible cor. "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my wants."--Bible cor.
"Amidst the tumult of the routed train, The sons of false Antimachus were slain; Him who for bribes his faithless counsels sold, And voted Helen's stay for Paris' gold."--Pope cor.
"See the vile King his iron sceptre bear-- His only praise attends the pious heir; Him in whose soul the virtues all conspire, The best good son, from the worst wicked sire."--Lowth cor.
"Then from thy lips poured forth a joyful song To thy Redeemer!--yea, it poured along In most melodious energy of praise, To God, the Saviour, him of ancient days."--Arm Chair cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE IV; OF POSSESSIVES.
UNDER NOTE I.--THE POSSESSIVE FORM.
"Man's chief good is an upright mind."--Key to Inst. "The translator of Mallet's History has the following note."--Webster cor. "The act, while it gave five years' full pay to the officers, allowed but one year's pay to the privates."--Id. "For the study of English is preceded by several years' attention to Latin and Greek."--Id. "The first, the Court-Baron, is the freeholders' or freemen's court."--Coke cor. "I affirm that Vaugelas's definition labours under an essential defect."--Campbell cor.; and also Murray. "There is a chorus in Aristophanes's plays."--Blair cor. "It denotes the same perception in my mind as in theirs."--Duncan cor. "This afterwards enabled him to read Hickes's Saxon Grammar."--Life of Dr. Mur. cor. "I will not do it for ten's sake."--Ash cor. Or: "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."--Gen., xviii, 32. "I arose, and asked if those charming infants were hers."--Werter cor. "They divide their time between milliners' shops and the taverns."--Dr. Brown cor. "The angels' adoring of Adam is also mentioned in the Talmud."--Sale cor. "Quarrels arose from the winners' insulting of those who lost."--Id. "The vacancy occasioned by Mr. Adams's resignation."--Adv. to Adams's Rhet. cor. "Read, for instance, Junius's address, commonly called his Letter to the King."--Adams cor. "A perpetual struggle against the tide of Hortensius's influence."--Id. "Which, for distinction's sake, I shall put down severally."--R. Johnson cor. "The fifth case is in a clause signifying the matter of one's fear."--Id. "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field."--Alger cor. "Arise for thy servants' help, and redeem them for thy mercy's sake."--Jenks cor. "Shall not their cattle, their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours?"--COM. BIBLE: Gen., xxxiv, 23. "Its regular plural, bullaces, is used by Bacon."--Churchill cor. "Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house."--Scott cor. "Behold, they that wear soft clothing, are in kings' houses."--Alger's Bible. "Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife, and her two sons; and Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, came, with his sons and his wife, unto Moses."--Scott's Bible. "King James's translators merely revised former translations."--Frazee cor. "May they be like corn on houses' tops."--White cor.
"And for his Maker's image' sake exempt."--Milton cor.
"By all the fame acquired in ten years' war."--Rowe cor.
"Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore."--Pope cor.
"Man only of a softer mold is made, Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid."--Dryden cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--POSSESSIVES CONNECTED.
"It was necessary to have both the physician's and the surgeon's advice."--L. Murray's False Syntax, Rule 10. "This outside fashionableness of the tailor's or the tirewoman's making."--Locke cor. "Some pretending to be of Paul's party, others of Apollos's, others of Cephas's, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of Christ's."--Wood cor. "Nor is it less certain, that Spenser and Milton's spelling agrees better with our pronunciation."--Phil. Museum cor. "Law's, Edwards's, and Watts's Survey of the Divine Dispensations." Or thus: "Law, Edwards, and Watts's, Surveys of the Divine Dispensations."--Burgh cor. "And who was Enoch's Saviour, and the prophets'?"--Bayly cor. "Without any impediment but his own, his parents', or his guardian's will."--Journal corrected. "James relieves neither the boy's nor the girl's distress."--Nixon cor. "John regards neither the master's nor the pupil's advantage."--Id. "You reward neither the man's nor the woman's labours."--Id. "She examines neither James's nor John's conduct."--Id. "Thou pitiest neither the servant's nor the master's injuries."--Id. "We promote England's or Ireland's happiness."--Id. "Were Cain's and Abel's occupation the same?"--G. Brown. "Were Cain and Abel's occupations the same?"--Id. "What was Simon and Andrew's employment?"--Id. "Till he can read for himself Sanctius's Minerva with Scioppius's and Perizonius's Notes."--Locke cor.
"And love and friendship's finely-pointed dart Falls blunted from each indurated heart." Or:--
"And love's and friendship's finely-pointed dart Fall blunted from each indurated heart."--Goldsmith cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--CHOICE OF FORMS.
"But some degree of trouble is the portion of all men."--L. Murray et al. cor. "With the names of his father and mother upon the blank leaf."--Abbott cor. "The general, in the name of the army, published a declaration."--Hume cor. "The vote of the Commons."--Id. "The House of Lords."--Id. "A collection of the faults of writers;"--or, "A collection of literary faults."--Swift cor. "After ten years of wars."--Id. "Professing his detestation of such practices as those of his predecessors."--Pope cor. "By that time I shall have ended my year of office."--W. Walker cor. "For the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip."--Bible and Mur. cor. "I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain salvation."--Bibles cor. "He was heir to the son of Louis the Sixteenth."--W. Allen. "The throne we honour is the people's choice."--Rolla. "An account of the proceedings of Alexander's court."--Inst. "An excellent tutor for the child of a person of fashion!"--Gil Blas cor. "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop's is, itself, ungrammatical."--Cobbett cor. "The troops broke into the palace of the Emperor Leopold."--Nixon cor. "The meeting was called by desire of Eldon the Judge."--Id. "The occupation of Peter, John, and Andrew, was that of fishermen."--Murray's Key, R. 10. "The debility of the venerable president of the Royal Academy, has lately increased."--Maunder cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.
"God hath not given us our reason to no purpose."--Barclay cor. "For our sake, no doubt, this is written."--Bible cor. "Are not health and strength of body desirable for their own sake?"--Harris and Murray cor. "Some sailors who were boiling their dinner upon the shore."--Day cor. "And they, in their turn, were subdued by others."--Pinnock cor. "Industry on our part is not superseded by God's grace."--Arrowsmith cor. "Their health perhaps may be pretty well secured."--Locke cor. "Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor."--See 2 Cor., viii, 9. "It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their part."--Harris cor. "The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being most exact to their word, and respctful to their kindred."--Sale cor. "That is, as a reward of some exertion on our part."--Gurney cor. "So that it went ill with Moses for their sake."--Ps. cor. "All liars shall have their part in the burning lake."--Watts cor. "For our own sake as well as for thine."--Pref. to Waller cor. "By discovering their ability to detect and amend errors."--L. Murray cor.
"This world I do renounce; and, in your sight, Shake patiently my great affliction off."--Shak. cor.
"If your relenting anger yield to treat, Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet."--Rowe cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.
"This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the prejudice."--Smith cor. "And the notice which they give of an action as being completed or not completed."--L. Mur. et al. cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."--Priestley and A. Mur. cor. "They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the seeking of the Spirit."--The Friend cor. "Here then is a wide field for reason to exert its powers in relation to the objects of taste."--Dr. Blair cor. "Now this they derive altogether from their greater capacity of imitation and description."--Id. "This is one clear reason why they paid a greater attention to that construction."--Id. "The dialogue part had also a modulation of its own, which was capable of being set to notes."--Id. "Why are we so often frigid and unpersuasive in public discourse?"--Id. "Which is only a preparation for leading his forces directly upon us."--Id. "The nonsense about which, as relating to things only, and having no declension, needs no refutation."--Fowle cor. "Who, upon breaking it open, found nothing but the following inscription."--Rollin cor. "A prince will quickly have reason to repent of having exalted one person so high."--Id. "Notwithstanding it is the immediate subject of his discourse."--Churchill cor. "With our definition of it, as being synonymous with time."--Booth cor. "It will considerably increase our danger of being deceived."--Campbell cor. "His beauties can never be mentioned without suggesting his blemishes also."--Dr. Blair cor. "No example has ever been adduced, of a man conscientiously approving an action, because of its badness." Or:--"of a man who conscientiously approved of an action because of its badness."--Gurney cor. "The last episode, of the angel showing to Adam the fate of his posterity, is happily imagined."--Dr. Blair cor. "And the news came to my son, that he and the bride were in Dublin."--M. Edgeworth cor. "There is no room for the mind to exert any great effort."--Dr. Blair cor. "One would imagine, that these critics never so much as heard that Homer wrote first."--Pope cor. "Condemn the book, for not being a geography;" or,--"because it is not a geography."--Peirce cor. "There will be in many words a transition from being the figurative to being the proper signs of certain ideas."--Campbell cor. "The doctrine that the Pope is the only source of ecclesiastical power."--Rel. World cor. "This was the more expedient, because the work was designed for the benefit of private learners."--L. Murray cor. "This was done, because the Grammar, being already in type, did not admit of enlargement."--Id.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE V; OF OBJECTIVES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE OBJECTIVE FORM.
"Whom should I meet the other day but my old friend!"--Spect. cor. "Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but him that takes it off."--Barclay cor. "Let none touch it, but them who are clean."--Sale cor. "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and them that dwell therein."--Ps. cor. "Pray be private, and careful whom you trust."--Mrs. Goffe cor. "How shall the people know whom to entrust with their property and their liberties?"--J. O. Taylor cor. "The chaplain entreated my comrade and me to dress as well as possible."--World cor. "And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."--John, vi, 37. "Whom, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke."--Hope of Is. cor. "Whoever or whatever owes us, is Debtor; and whomever or whatever we owe, is Creditor."--Marsh cor. "Declaring the curricle was his, and he should have in it whom he chose."--A. Ross cor. "The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries, whom we can rank as a first-rate orator."--Knickerb. cor. "Thus you see, how naturally the Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the Messalinas of our time."--Dr. Brown cor. "They would find in the Roman list both the Scipios."--Id. "He found his wife's clothes on fire, and her just expiring."--Observer cor. "To present you holy, and unblamable, and unreprovable in his sight."--Colossians, i, 22. "Let the distributer do his duty with simplicity; the superintendent, with diligence; him who performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness."--Stuart cor. "If the crew rail at the master of the vessel, whom will they mind?"--Collier cor. "He having none but them, they having none but him"--Drayton cor.
"Thee, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain."--Burns cor.
"Nor weens he who it is, whose charms consume His longing soul, but loves he knows not whom"--Addison cor.
UNDER NOTE I.--OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.
"When it gives that sense, and also connects sentences, it is a conjunction."--L. Murray cor. "Though thou wilt not acknowledge thyself to--be guilty, thou canst not deny the fact stated."--Id. "They specify some object, like many other adjectives, and also connect sentences."--Kirkham cor. "A violation of this rule tends so much to perplex the reader and obscure the sense, that it is safer to err by using too many short sentences."--L. Murray cor. "A few exercises are subjoined to each important definition, for him [the pupil] to practise upon as he proceeds in committing the grammar to memory."--Nutting cor. "A verb signifying an action directly transitive, governs the accusative."--Adam et al. cor. "Or, any word that can be conjugated, is a verb."--Kirkham cor. "In these two concluding sentences, the author, hastening to a close, appears to write rather carelessly."--Dr. Blair cor. "He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then leaves it."--Id." Praise to God teaches us to be humble and lowly ourselves."--Atterbury cor. "This author has endeavoured to surpass his rivals."--R. W. Green cor. "Idleness and pleasure fatigue a man as soon as business."--Webster cor." And, in conjugating any verb,"--or, "And in learning conjugations, you must pay particular attention to the manner in which these signs are applied."--Kirkham cor. "He said Virginia would have emancipated her slaves long ago."--Lib. cor. "And having a readiness"--or, "And holding ourselves in readiness"--or," And being in readiness--to revenge all disobedience."--Bible cor. "However, in these cases, custom generally determines what is right."--Wright cor. "In proof, let the following cases be taken."--Id. "We must marvel that he should so speedily have forgotten his first principles."--Id. "How should we wonder at the expression, 'This is a soft question!' "--Id. "And such as prefer this course, can parse it as a possessive adjective."--Goodenow cor. "To assign all the reasons that induced the author to deviate from other grammarians, would lead to a needless prolixity."--Alexander cor. "The Indicative Mood simply indicates or declares a thing."--L. Murray's Gram., p. 63.
UNDER NOTE II.--OF VERBS INTRANSITIVE.
"In his seventh chapter he expatiates at great length."--Barclay cor. "He quarrels with me for adducing some ancient testimonies agreeing with what I say."--Id. "Repenting of his design."--Hume cor. "Henry knew, that an excommunication could not fail to produce the most dangerous effects."--Id. "The popular lords did not fail to enlarge on the subject,"--Mrs. Macaulay cor. "He is always master of his subject, and seems to play with it:" or,--"seems to sport himself with it."--Blair cor. "But as soon as it amounts to real disease, all his secret infirmities show themselves."--Id. "No man repented of his wickedness."--Bible cor. "Go one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,"--Id. "He lies down by the river's edge." Or: "He lays himself down on the river's brink"--W. Walker cor. "For some years past, I have had an ardent wish to retire to some of our American plantations."--Cowley cor. "I fear thou wilt shrink from the payment of it."--Ware cor. "We never retain an idea, without acquiring some combination."--Rippingham cor.
"Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide, Then lies he meekly down, fast by his brethren's side." --Milton cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--OF VERBS MISAPPLIED.
"The parliament confiscated the property of all those who had borne arms against the king."--Hume cor. "The practice of confiscating ships that had been wrecked"'--Id. "The nearer his military successes brought him to the throne." Or: "The nearer, through his military successes, he approached the throne."--Id. "In the next example, 'you' represents 'ladies;' therefore it is plural."--Kirkham cor. "The first 'its' stands for 'vale;' the second 'its' represents 'stream'."-- Id. "Pronouns do not always prevent the repetition of nouns."--Id. "Very is an adverb of degree; it relates to the adjective good"--Id. "You will please to commit to memory the following paragraph."--Id. "Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs form some of their tenses by means of auxiliaries."--L. Mur. cor. "The deponent verbs in Latin also employ auxiliaries to form several of their tenses."--Id. "I have no doubt he made as wise and true proverbs, as any body has made since."--Id. "Monotonous delivery assumes as many set forms, as ever Proteus did of fleeting shapes."--Kirkham cor. "When words in apposition are uttered in quick succession."--Nixon cor. "Where many such sentences occur in succession."--L. Mur. cor. "Wisdom leads us to speak and do what is most proper."--Blair and L. Murray cor.
"Jul. Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague? Rom. Neither, fair saint, if either thee displease." Or:-- "Neither, fair saint, if either thou dislike."--Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--OF PASSIVE VERBS.
"To us, too, must be allowed the privilege of forming our own laws." Or: "We too must have the privilege," &c.--L. Murray cor. "For not only is the use of all the ancient poetic feet allowed [to] us," &c.--Id. et al. cor. "By what code of morals is the right or privilege denied me?"--Bartlett cor. "To the children of Israel alone, has the possession of it been denied."--Keith cor. "At York, all quarter was refused to fifteen hundred Jews."--Id. "He would teach the French language in three lessons, provided there were paid him fifty-five dollars in advance."--Prof. Chazotte cor. "And when it was demanded of him by the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come." Or: "And when the Pharisees demanded of him," &c.--Bible cor. "A book has been shown me."--Dr. Campbell cor. "To John Horne Tooke admission was refused, only because he had been in holy orders."--W. Duane cor. "Mr. Horne Tooke having taken orders, admission to the bar was refused him."--Churchill cor. "Its reference to place is disregarded."--Dr. Bullions cor. "What striking lesson is taught by the tenor of this history?"--Bush cor. "No less a sum than eighty thousand pounds had been left him by a friend."--Dr. Priestley cor. "Where there are many things to be done, there must be allowed to each its share of time and labour."--Dr. Johnson cor. "Presenting the subject in a far more practical form, than has heretofore been given it."--Kirkham cor. "If to a being of entire impartiality should be shown the two companies."--Dr. Scott cor. "The command of the British army was offered to him."--Grimshaw cor. "To whom a considerable sum had been unexpectedly left."--Johnson cor. "Whether such a privilege may be granted to a maid or a widow."--Spect. cor. "Happily, to all these affected terms, the public suffrage has been denied."--Campbell cor. "Let the parsing table next be shown him."--Nutting cor. "Then the use of the analyzing table may be explained to him."--Id. "To Pittacus there was offered a great sum of money."--Sanborn cor. "More time for study had been allowed him."--Id. "If a little care were bestowed on the walks that lie between them."--Blair's Rhet., p. 222. "Suppose an office or a bribe be offered me."--Pierpont cor.
"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.
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.
V. PRONOUNS
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE X AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF AGREEMENT.
"The subject is to be joined with its predicate."--Wilkins cor. "Every one must judge of his own feelings."--Byron cor. "Every one in the family should know his or her duty."--Penn cor. "To introduce its possessor into that way in which he should go."--Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Do not they say, that every true believer has the Spirit of God in him?"--Barclay cor. "There is none in his natural state righteous; no, not one."--Wood cor. "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own."--Bible cor. "His form had not yet lost all its original brightness."--Milton cor. "No one will answer as if I were his friend or companion."--Steele cor. "But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself."--Bible cor. "And let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his neighbour."--Id. "For every tree is known by its own fruit."--Id. "But she fell to laughing, like one out of his right mind."--M. Edgeworth cor. "Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make them worse."--Wayland cor. "And nobody else would make that city his refuge any more."--Josephus cor. "What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words? It is the time which a speaker occupies in pronouncing them."--Bradley cor. "In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that it is usually parsed as such."--Bullions cor. "The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight he carries." Or thus: "The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight it carries, the faster it runs."--Addison, Murray, et al. cor. "As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with his jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets."--Newspaper cor. "Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which he thinks worthy of recording."--Duchess D'Ab. cor. "Every body trembled, for himself, or for his friends."--Goldsmith cor.
"A steed comes at morning: no rider is there; But his bridle is red with the sign of despair."--Campbell cor.
UNDER NOTE I.--PRONOUNS WRONG--OR NEEDLESS.
"Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle."--Merchant cor. "Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?"--Bible cor. "Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief."--Tillotson cor. "Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate."--Bible cor. "Whom, when they had washed her, they laid in an upper chamber."--Id. "Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."--Id. "Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others."--See Blair's Rhet., p. 93. "But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action."--Murray's Gram., i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."--Barclay cor. "George Fox's Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."--Title cor. "According to the advice of the author of the Postcript [sic--KTH]."--Barclay cor. "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians that were pictured on Nemesis's pitcher."--Bacon cor. "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with the Sphynx's enigmas."--Id. "Whoever believeth not therein, shall perish."--Koran cor. "When, at Sestius's entreaty, I had been at his house."--W. Walker cor.
"There high on Sipylus's shaggy brow, She stands, her own sad monument of wo."--Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--CHANGE OF NUMBER.
"So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you."--Bible cor. "Why do you plead so much for it? why do you preach it up?" Or: "Why do ye plead so much for it? why do ye preach it up?"--Barclay cor. "Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, thy darling."--Edward's Gram. cor. "You have my book, and I have yours; i.e., your book." Or thus: "Thou hast my book, and I have thine; i.e., thy book."--Chandler cor. "Neither art thou such a one as to be ignorant of what thou art."--Bullions cor. "Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon thee."--Bible cor. "The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give thee warning."--Ld. Kames cor. "Wast thou born only for pleasure? wast thou never to do any thing?"--Collier cor. "Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and to give up thy account."--Barnes cor. "And canst thou expect to behold the resplendent glow of the Creator? would not such a sight annihilate thee?"--Milton cor. "If the prophet had commanded thee to do some great thing, wouldst thou have refused?"--C. S. Journal cor. "Art thou a penitent? evince thy sincerity, by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance."--Vade-Mecum cor. "I will call thee my dear son: I remember all thy tenderness."--C. Tales cor. "So do thou, my son: open thy ears, and thy eyes."--Wright cor. "I promise you, this was enough to discourage you."--Bunyan cor. "Ere you remark an other's sin, Bid your own conscience look within."--Gay cor. "Permit that I share in thy wo, The privilege canst thou refuse?"--Perfect cor. "Ah! Strephon, how canst thou despise Her who, without thy pity, dies?"--Swift cor.
"Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff; And I must own, thou'st measured out enough."--Shenst. cor.
"This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity; Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it thee."--Swift cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--WHO AND WHICH.
"Exactly like so many puppets, which are moved by wires."--Blair cor. "They are my servants, whom I brought forth[535] out of the land of Egypt."--Leviticus, xxv, 55. "Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me."--See Isaiah, viii, 18. "And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe."--Isaiah, xxxvii, 2. "In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses which filled them."--M'Ilvaine cor. "They are not of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."--Barclay cor. "As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; which, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces."--Bible cor. "Frequented by every fowl which nature has taught to dip the wing in water."--Johnson cor. "He had two sons, one of whom was adopted by the family of Maximus."--Lempriere cor. "And the ants, which are collected by the smell, are burned with fire."--The Friend cor. "They being the agents to whom this thing was trusted."--Nixon cor. "A packhorse which is driven constantly one way and the other, to and from market."--Locke cor. "By instructing children, whose affection will be increased."--Nixon cor. "He had a comely young woman, who travelled with him."--Hutchinson cor. "A butterfly, who thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive."--Inst., p. 267. "It is an enormous elephant of stone, which disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower."--Ware cor. "He was met by a dolphin, which sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him."--Edward's Gram. cor.
"That Cæsar's horse, which, as fame goes, Had corns upon his feet and toes, Was not by half so tender-hoof'd, Nor trod upon the ground so soft."--Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
"He instructed and fed the crowds that surrounded him."--Murray's Key. "The court, which gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary." p. 187. "Nor does he describe classes of sinners that do not exist."--Mag. cor. "Because the nations among which they took their rise, were not savage."--Murray cor. "Among nations that are in the first and rude periods of society."--Blair cor. "The martial spirit of those nations among which the feudal government prevailed."--Id. "France, which was in alliance with Sweden."--Priestley's Gram., p. 97. "That faction, in England, which most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions."--Ib. "We may say, 'the crowd which was going up the street.'"--Cobbett's E. Gram., ¶ 204. "Such members of the Convention which formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution."--N. Y. Lyceum cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--CONFUSION OF SENSES.
"The name of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its case."--Kirkham cor. "Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no noun, properly so called, implies the presence of the thing named."--Harris cor. "Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes the city of Boston from other cities."--Sanborn cor. "The word CONJUNCTION means union, or the act of joining together. Conjunctions are used to join or connect either words or sentences."--Id. "The word INTERJECTION means the act of throwing between. Interjections are interspersed among other words, to express strong or sudden emotion."--Id. "Indeed is composed of in and deed. The words may better be written separately, as they formerly were."--Cardell cor. "Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is employed to distinguish an individual only."--Jamieson cor. "As an indication that nature itself had changed its course." Or:--"that Nature herself had changed her course."--History cor. "Of removing from the United States and their territories the free people of colour."--Jenifer cor. "So that gh may be said not to have its proper sound." Or thus: "So that the letters, g and h, may be said not to have their proper sounds."--Webster cor. "Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce her to our children?"--Maturin cor. "The first question is this: 'Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity's sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform, [i. e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in its decisions?"--Campbell cor. "In personifications, Time is always masculine, on account of his mighty efficacy; Virtue, feminine, by reason of her beauty and loveliness."--Murray, Blair, et al. cor. "When you speak to a person or thing, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."--Bartlett cor. "You now know the noun; for noun means name."--Id. "T. What do you see? P. A book. T. Spell book."--R. W. Green cor. "T. What do you see now? P. Two books. T. Spell books."--Id. "If the United States lose their rights as a nation."--Liberator cor. "When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."--Frost cor. "When a person or thing is merely spoken of, the noun or pronoun is in the third person."--Id. "The word OX also, taking the same plural termination, makes OXEN."--Bucke cor.
"Hail, happy States! yours is the blissful seat Where nature's gifts and art's improvements meet."--Everett cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.--THE RELATIVE THAT.
(1.) "This is the most useful art that men possess."--L. Murray cor. "The earliest accounts that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts."--Blair et al. cor. "Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste."--Blair cor. "One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu."--Murray cor. "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced."--Blair cor. "The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."--Hart cor.
(2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived."--Murray's Gram., p. 200. Better thus: "The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that," &c.--Priestley cor. "The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building."--Kames cor. "The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple."--Murray cor. "The same that John saw also in the sun."--Milton cor.
(3.) "Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?"--T. à Kempis cor. "Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?"--Inst., p. 267. "Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?"--G. Brown.
(4.) "The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to."--Kirkham cor. "The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of."--Id. "A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative."--Id. "The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power."--Bolingbroke cor. "The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse."--Hiley cor.
(5.) "Authors that deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty."--Blair cor. "Writers that deal," &c.--Murray cor. "The neuter gender denotes objects that are neither male nor female."--Merchant cor. "The neuter gender denotes things that have no sex."--Kirkham cor. "Nouns that denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."--Wells's Gram. of late, p. 55. Better thus: "Those nouns which denote objects that are neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."--Wells cor. "Objects and ideas that have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties."--Blair cor. "Cases that custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian's province."--L. Murray cor. "Substantives that end in ery, signify action or habit."--Id. "After all that can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate."--Id. "Possibly, all that I have said, is known and taught."--A. B. Johnson cor.
(6.) "It is a strong and manly style that should chiefly be studied."--Blair cor. "It is this [viz., precision] that chiefly makes a division appear neat and elegant."--Id. "I hope it is not I that he is displeased with."--L. Murray cor. "When it is this alone that renders the sentence obscure."--Campbell cor. "This sort of full and ample assertion, 'It is this that,' is fit to be used when a proposition of importance is laid down."--Blair cor. "She is not the person that I understood it to have been."--L. Murray cor. "Was it thou, or the wind, that shut the door?"--Inst., p. 267. "It was not I that shut it."--Ib.
(7.) "He is not the person that he seemed to be."--Murray and Ingersoll cor. "He is really the person that he appeared to be."--Iid. "She is not now the woman that they represented her to have been."--Iid. "An only child is one that has neither brother nor sister; a child alone is one that is left by itself, or unaccompanied."--Blair, Jam., and Mur., cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.--RELATIVE CLAUSES CONNECTED.
(1.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of a thing; (i. e.,) of whatever we conceive to subsist, or of whatever we merely imagine."--Lowth cor. (2.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have any notion."--Murray et al. cor. (3.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any person, place, or thing, that exists, or that we can have an idea of."--Frost cor. (4.) "A noun is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we form an idea."--Hallock cor. (5.) "A Noun is the name of any person, place, object, or thing, that exists, or that we may conceive to exist."--D. C. Allen cor. (6.) "The name of every thing which exists, or of which we can form a notion, is a noun."--Fisk cor. (7.) "An allegory is the representation of some one thing by an other that resembles it, and that is made to stand for it."--Blair's Rhet., p. 150. (8.) "Had he exhibited such sentences as contained ideas inapplicable to young minds, or such as were of a trivial or injurious nature."--L. Murray cor. (9.) "Man would have others obey him, even his own kind; but he will not obey God, who is so much above him, and who made him."--Penn cor. (10.) "But what we may consider here, and what few persons have noticed, is," &c.--Brightland cor. (11.) "The compiler has not inserted those verbs which are irregular only in familiar writing or discourse, and which are improperly terminated by t in stead of ed."--Murray, Fisk, Hart, Ingersoll et al., cor. (12.) "The remaining parts of speech, which are called the indeclinable parts, and which admit of no variations, (or, being words that admit of no variations,) will not detain us long."--Dr. Blair cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.--THE RELATIVE AND PREPOSITION.
"In the temper of mind in which he was then."--Lowth's Gram., p. 102. "To bring them into the condition in which I am at present."--Add. cor. "In the posture in which I lay."--Lowth's Gram., p. 102. "In the sense in which it is sometimes taken."--Barclay cor. "Tools and utensils are said to be right, when they answer well the uses for which they were made."--Collier cor. "If, in the extreme danger in which I now am," &c. Or: "If, in my present extreme danger," &c.--Murray's Sequel, p. 116. "News was brought, that Dairus [sic--KTH] was but twenty miles from the place in which they then were."--Goldsmith cor. "Alexander, upon hearing this news, continued four days where he then was:" or--"in the place in which he then was."--Id. "To read in the best manner in which reading is now taught."--L. Murray cor. "It may be expedient to give a few directions as to the manner in which it should be studied."--Hallock cor. "Participles are words derived from verbs, and convey an idea of the acting of an agent, or the suffering of an object, with the time at which it happens." [536]--A. Murray cor.
"Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal With which I serv'd my king, he would not thus, In age, have left me naked to my foes."--Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.--ADVERBS FOR RELATIVES. "In compositions that are not designed to be delivered in public."--Blair cor. "They framed a protestation in which they repeated their claims."--Priestley's Gram., p. 133; Murray's, 197. "Which have reference to inanimate substances, in which sex has no existence."--Harris cor. "Which denote substances in which sex never had existence."--Ingersoll's Gram., p. 26. "There is no rule given by which the truth may be found out."--W. Walker cor. "The nature of the objects from which they are taken."--Blair cor. "That darkness of character, through which we can see no heart:" [i. e., generous emotion.]--L. Murray cor. "The states with which [or between which] they negotiated."--Formey cor. "Till the motives from which men act, be known."--Beattie cor. "He assigns the principles from which their power of pleasing flows."--Blair cor. "But I went on, and so finished this History, in that form in which it now appears."--Sewel cor. "By prepositions we express the cause for which, the instrument by which, and the manner in which, a thing is done."--A. Murray cor. "They are not such in the language from which they are derived."--Town cor. "I find it very hard to persuade several, that their passions are affected by words from which they have no ideas."--Burke cor. "The known end, then, for which we are placed in a state of so much affliction, hazard, and difficulty, is our improvement in virtue and piety."--Bp. Butler cor.
"Yet such his acts as Greeks unborn shall tell, And curse the strife in which their fathers fell."--Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE X.--REPEAT THE NOUN.
"Youth may be thoughtful, but thoughtfulness in the young is not very common."--Webster cor. "A proper name is a name given to one person or thing."--Bartlett cor. "A common name is a name given to many things of the same sort."--Id. "This rule is often violated; some instances of its violation are annexed."--L. Murray et al. cor. "This is altogether careless writing. Such negligence respecting the pronouns, renders style often obscure, and always inelegant."--Blair cor. "Every inversion which is not governed by this rule, will be disrelished by every person of taste."--Kames cor. "A proper diphthong, is a diphthong in which both the vowels are sounded."--Brown's Institutes, p. 18. "An improper diphthong, is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels is sounded."--Ib. "Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the descendants of Jacob, are called Hebrews."--Wood cor. "In our language, every word of more than one syllable, has one of its syllables distinguished from the rest in this manner."--L. Murray cor. "Two consonants proper to begin a word, must not be separated; as, fa-ble, sti-fle. But when two consonants come between two vowels, and are such as cannot begin a word, they must be divided, as, ut-most, un-der."--Id. "Shall the intellect alone feel no pleasures in its energy, when we allow pleasures to the grossest energies of appetite and sense?"--Harris and Murray cor. "No man has a propensity to vice as such: on the contrary, a wicked deed disgusts every one, and makes him abhor the author."--Ld. Kames cor. "The same grammatical properties that belong to nouns, belong also to pronouns."--Greenleaf cor. "What is language? It is the means of communicating thoughts from one person to an other."--O. B. Peirce cor. "A simple word is a word which is not made up of other words."--Adam and Gould cor. "A compound word is a word which is made up of two or more words."--Iid. "When a conjunction is to be supplied, the ellipsis is called Asyndeton."--Adam cor.
UNDER NOTE XI.--PLACE OF THE RELATIVE.
"It gives to words a meaning which they would not have."--L. Murray cor. "There are in the English language many words, that are sometimes used as adjectives, and sometimes as adverbs."--Id. "Which do not more effectually show the varied intentions of the mind, than do the auxiliaries which are used to form the potential mood."--Id. "These accents, which will be the subject of a following speculation, make different impressions on the mind."--Ld. Kames cor. "And others differed very much from the words of the writers to whom they were ascribed."--John Ward cor. "Where there is in the sense nothing which requires the last sound to be elevated, an easy fall will be proper."--Murray and Bullions cor. "In the last clause there is an ellipsis of the verb; and, when you supply it, you find it necessary to use the adverb not, in lieu of no."--Campbell and Murray cor. "Study is of the singular number, because the nominative I, with which it agrees, is singular."--R. C. Smith cor. "John is the person who is in error, or thou art."--Wright cor. "For he hath made him, who knew no sin, to be sin for us."--Harrison's E. Lang., p. 197.
"My friend, take that of me, who have the power To seal th' accuser's lips."--Shakspeare cor.
UNDER NOTE XII.--WHAT FOR THAT.
"I had no idea but that the story was true."--Brown's Inst., p. 268. "The postboy is not so weary but that he can whistle."--Ib. "He had no intimation but that the men were honest."--Ib. "Neither Lady Haversham nor Miss Mildmay will ever believe but that I have been entirely to blame."--Priestley cor. "I am not satisfied but that the integrity of our friends is more essential to our welfare than their knowledge of the world."--Id. "Indeed, there is in poetry nothing so entertaining or descriptive, but that an ingenious didactic writer may introduce it in some part of his work."--Blair cor. "Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he had catched, let it slip out of his fingers: 'No creature,' says he, 'is so contemptible but that it may provide for its own safety, if it have courage.'"--Ld. Kames cor.
UNDER NOTE XIII.--ADJECTIVES FOR ANTECEDENTS.
"In narration, Homer is, at all times, remarkably concise, and therefore lively and agreeable."--Blair cor. "It is usual to talk of a nervous, a feeble, or a spirited style; which epithets plainly indicate the writer's manner of thinking."--Id. "It is too violent an alteration, if any alteration were necessary, whereas none is."--Knight cor. "Some men are too ignorant to be humble; and without humility there can be no docility."--Berkley cor. "Judas declared him innocent; but innocent he could not be, had he in any respect deceived the disciples."--Porteus cor. "They supposed him to be innocent, but he certainly was not so."--Murray et al. cor. "They accounted him honest, but he certainly was not so."--Felch cor. "Be accurate in all you say or do; for accuracy is important in all the concerns of life."--Brown's Inst., p. 268. "Every law supposes the transgressor to be wicked; and indeed he is so, if the law is just."--Ib. "To be pure in heart, pious, and benevolent, (and all may be so,) constitutes human happiness."--Murray cor. "To be dexterous in danger, is a virtue; but to court danger to show our dexterity, is a weakness."--Penn cor.
UNDER NOTE XIV.--SENTENCES FOR ANTECEDENTS.
"This seems not so allowable in prose; which fact the following erroneous examples will demonstrate."--L. Murray cor. "The accent is laid upon the last syllable of a word; which circumstance is favourable to the melody."--Kames cor. "Every line consists of ten syllables, five short and five long; from which rule there are but two exceptions, both of them rare."--Id. "The soldiers refused obedience, as has been explained."--Nixon cor. "Caesar overcame Pompey--a circumstance which was lamented."--Id. "The crowd hailed William, agreeably to the expectations of his friends."--Id. "The tribunes resisted Scipio, who knew their malevolence towards him."--Id. "The censors reproved vice, and were held in great honour."--Id. "The generals neglected discipline, which fact has been proved."--Id. "There would be two nominatives to the verb was, and such a construction is improper."--Adam and Gould cor. "His friend bore the abuse very patiently; whose forbearance, however, served only to increase his rudeness; it produced, at length, contempt and insolence."--Murray and Emmons cor. "Almost all compound sentences are more or less elliptical; and some examples of ellipsis may be found, under nearly all the different parts of speech."--Murray, Guy, Smith, Ingersoll, Fisk, et al. cor.
UNDER NOTE XV.--REPEAT THE PRONOUN.
"In things of Nature's workmanship, whether we regard their internal or their external structure, beauty and design are equally conspicuous."--Kames cor. "It puzzles the reader, by making him doubt whether the word ought to be taken in its proper, or in its figurative sense."--Id. "Neither my obligations to the muses, nor my expectations from them, are so great."--Cowley cor. "The Fifth Annual Report of the Antislavery Society of Ferrisburgh and its vicinity."--Title cor. "Meaning taste in its figurative as well as its proper sense."--Kames cor. "Every measure in which either your personal or your political character is concerned."--Junius cor. "A jealous and righteous God has often punished such in themselves or in their offspring."--Extracts cor. "Hence their civil and their religious history are inseparable."--Milman cor. "Esau thus carelessly threw away both his civil and his religious inheritance."--Id. "This intelligence excited not only our hopes, but our fears likewise."--Jaudon cor. "In what way our defect of principle, and our ruling manners, have completed the ruin of the national spirit of union."--Dr. Brown cor. "Considering her descent, her connexion, and her present intercourse."--Webster cor. "His own and his wife's wardrobe are packed up in a firkin."--Parker and Fox cor.
UNDER NOTE XVI.--CHANGE THE ANTECEDENT.
"The sounds of e and o long, in their due degrees, will be preserved, and clearly distinguished."--L. Murray cor. "If any persons should be inclined to think," &c., "the author takes the liberty to suggest to them," &c.--Id. "And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it."--Bible cor. "If ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brethren their trespasses."--Id. "None ever fancied they were slighted by him, or had the courage to think themselves his betters."--Collier cor. "And Rebecca took some very good clothes of her eldest son Esau's, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son."--Gen. cor. "Where all the attention of men is given to their own indulgence."--Maturin cor. "The idea of a father is a notion superinduced to that of the substance, or man--let one's idea of man be what it will."--Locke cor. "Leaving all to do as they list."--Barclay cor. "Each person performed his part handsomely."--J. Flint cor. "This block of marble rests on two layers of stones, bound together with lead, which, however, has not prevented the Arabs from forcing out several of them."--Parker and Fox cor.
"Love gives to all our powers a double power, Above their functions and their offices." Or:-- "Love gives to every power a double power, Exalts all functions and all offices."--Shak. cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XI; OF PRONOUNS.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.
"The jury will be confined till they agree on a verdict."--Brown's Inst., p. 145. "And mankind directed their first cares towards the needful."--Formey cor. "It is difficult to deceive a free people respecting their true interest."--Life of Charles XII cor. "All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but their follies and vices are innumerable."--Swift cor. "Every sect saith, 'Give us liberty:' but give it them, and to their power, and they will not yield it to any body else."--Cromwell cor. "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up themselves as a young lion."--Bible cor. "For all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."--Id. "There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put them in great consternation."--Goldsmith cor.
UNDER NOTE I.--THE IDEA OF UNITY.
"The meeting went on with its business as a united body."--Foster cor. "Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for itself."--Gould cor. "It would therefore be extremely difficult to raise an insurrection in that state against its own government."--Dr. Webster cor. "The mode in which a lyceum can apply itself in effecting a reform in common schools."--N. Y. Lyc. cor. "Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?"--Jer. cor. "In the holy Scriptures, each of the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch from whom it descended." Or better:--"from whom the tribe descended."--Adams cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER.
"A nation, by the reparation of the wrongs which it has done, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give."--Adams cor. "The English nation, from whom we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch."--Webster cor. "If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter its fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent it from doing so?"--Foster's Rep. cor. "There is[537] a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother."--Bible cor. "There is[537] a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness."--Id. "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them."--Id. "My people have forgotten me, they have burnt incense to vanity."--Id. "When a quarterly meeting has come to a judgement respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to it" &c.--Discip. cor. "The number of such compositions is every day increasing, and it appears to be limited only by the pleasure or the convenience of writers."--Booth cor. "The Church of Christ has the same power now as ever, and is led by the same spirit into the same practices."--Barclay cor. "The army, whom their chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march." Or thus: "The army, which its chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile its miserable march."--Lockhart cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY AND.
"Discontent and sorrow manifested themselves in his countenance."--Brown's Inst., p. 146. "Both conversation and public speaking became more simple and plain, such as we now find them."--Blair cor. "Idleness and ignorance, if they be suffered to proceed, &c."--Johnson and Priestley cor. "Avoid questions and strife: they show a busy and contentious disposition."--Penn cor. "To receive the gifts and benefits of God with thanksgiving, and witness them blessed and sanctified to us by the word and prayer, is owned by us."--Barclay cor. "Both minister and magistrate are compelled to choose between their duty and their reputation."--Junius cor. "All the sincerity, truth, and faithfulness, or disposition of heart or conscience to approve them, found among rational creatures, necessarily originate from God."--Rev. J. Brown cor. "Your levity and heedlessness, if they continue, will prevent all substantial improvement."--Brown's Inst., p. 269. "Poverty and obscurity will oppress him only who esteems them oppressive."--Ib. "Good sense and refined policy are obvious to few, because they cannot be discovered but by a train of reflection."--Ib. "Avoid haughtiness of behaviour, and affectation of manners: they imply a want of solid merit."--Ib. "If love and unity continue, they will make you partakers of one an other's joy."--Ib. "Suffer not jealousy and distrust to enter: they will destroy, like a canker, every germ of friendship."--Ib. "Hatred and animosity are inconsistent with Christian charity: guard, therefore, against the slightest indulgence of them."--Ib. "Every man is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does not pervert them to the injury of others."--Ib.
"With the azure and vermilion Which are mix'd for my pavilion."--Byron cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.
"Neither prelate nor priest can give his [flock or] flocks any decisive evidence that you are lawful pastors."--Brownlee cor. "And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within him?"-- Maturin cor. "This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for its service to the body."--Collier cor. "If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee."--Bible cor. "The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to his reputation."--Pope cor. "Either James or John,--one or the other,--will come."--Smith cor. "Even a rugged rock or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes, by contrast, to the beauty of the whole."--Kames cor. "That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved himself right in this affair."--Spect. cor. "If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffers for his opinions, he is a 'martyr.'"--Fuller cor. "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he or she die; then the ox shall surely be stoned."--Exod. cor. "She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring him."--Johnson cor. "Here is a task put upon children, which neither this author himself, nor any other, has yet undergone."--R. Johnson cor. "Hence, if an adjective or a participle be subjoined to the verb when the construction is singular, it will agree both in gender and in number with the collective noun."--Adam and Gould cor. "And if you can find a diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point that out too."--Bucke cor. "And if you can find a trissyllable or a polysyllable, point it out."--Id. "The false refuges in which the atheist or the sceptic has intrenched himself."--Chr. Spect. cor. "While the man or woman thus assisted by art, expects his charms or hers will be imputed to nature alone."--Opie cor. "When you press a watch, or pull a clock, it answers your question with precision; for it repeats exactly the hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to know."--Bolingbroke cor.
"Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy, Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary, Is in his mansion monarch more than I."--King cor.
VI. VERBS
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.
"Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres."--Duncan cor. "Knowing that you were my old master's good friend."--Spect. cor. "When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"--Webster cor. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends."--Mur. cor. "They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved."--R. Williams cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."--Micah, v, 2. "You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him."--Porter cor. "Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned."--Churchill cor. "Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts." Or: "No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts."--Duncan cor. "I wondered where you were, my dear."--Lloyd cor. "When thou most sweetly singst."--Drummond cor. "Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?"--Gardiner cor. "Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."--Byron cor. "As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions."--M. B. cor. "Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?"--Everest cor. "The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders."--Id. "Some pains have likewise been taken."--Scott cor. "And many a steed in his stables was seen."--Penwarne cor. "They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food."--Josephus cor. "This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."--Hutchinson cor. "By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge."--Committee cor. "He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."--Walton cor. "If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach." Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach."--Swift cor. "Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself."--Barclay cor. "But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat'st."--Id. "Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest."--N. Waln cor. "I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing."--Chazotte cor. "Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?"--Dr. Brown cor. "Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night."--Smith's False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103. Or thus: "Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night."--Smith cor. "Every four years add an other day."--Smith's False Syntax, Gram., p. 103. Better thus: "Every fourth year adds an other day."--Smith cor. "Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed."--Swift cor. "A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher."--Sanborn cor. "Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicates good breeding."--Id. "A comparison in which more than two are concerned."--Lennie's Gram., p. 78. "By the facilities which artificial language affords them."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Now thyself hast lost both lop and top."--Spencer cor. "Glad tidings are brought to the poor."--Campbell cor. "Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends."--Sher. cor. "No pains have been spared to render this work complete."--Bullions cor. "The United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe."--Clinton cor. "I am mindful that myself am strong."--Fowler cor. "Myself am (not is) weak;"--"Thyself art (not is) weak."--Id.
"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest Rises from clerical or city feast!"--Pope cor.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.
"Where were you born? In London."--Buchanan cor. "There are frequent occasions for commas."--Ingersoll cor. "There necessarily follow from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences."--Priestley cor. "And to this impression contributes the redoubled effort."--Kames cor. "Or, if he was, were there no spiritual men then?"--Barclay cor. "So, by these two also, are signified their contrary principles."--Id. "In the motions made with the hands, consists the chief part of gesture in speaking."--Blair cor. "Dares he assume the name of a popular magistrate?"--Duncan cor. "There were no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager."--Byron cor. "In fact, there exist such resemblances."--Kames cor. "To him give all the prophets witness."--Acts, x, 43. "That there were so many witnesses and actors."--Addison cor. "How do this man's definitions stand affected?"--Collier cor. "Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?"--Id. "Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent."--Barclay cor. "Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary."--Id. "Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?"--Id. "But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?"--Id. "But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;"--Robertson cor. "What sounds has each of the vowels?"--Griscom cor. "Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies."--Brownson cor. "And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."--Bible cor. "There seem to be but two general classes."--Day cor. "Hence arise the six forms of expressing time."--Id. "There seem to be no other words required."--Chandler cor. "If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last."--Bullions cor. "Hence arise the following advantages."--Id. "There are no data by which it can be estimated."--Calhoun cor. "To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives."--Fowler cor. [[Fist] "Nothing but naked roots" is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it."--G. B.] "There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves."--Spect. cor. "In these consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol."--Percival cor. "Here come those I have done good to against my will."--Shak. cor. "Where there are more than one auxiliary." Or: "Where there are more auxiliaries than one."--O. B. Peirce cor.
"On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility." --Sidney cor.
"Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty." --Swift cor.
"Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou. I wis, To think of songs at such a time as this." --Churchill cor.
UNDER NOTE I.--THE RELATIVE AND VERB.
"Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still."--A. Murray cor. "To use that endearing language, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.'"--Bates cor. "Resembling the passions that produce these actions."--Kames cor. "Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural."--Ash cor. "As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure."--Gen. cor. "Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad?"--Dr. Pratt cor. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with."--Dr. Blair cor. "In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object," &c.--Id. "Of those affecting situations which make man's heart feel for man."--Id. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks."--Id. "It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue."--Id. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious."--Barclay cor. "This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron."--Hunt cor. "Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."--Goldsmith cor. "To have made and declared such orders as were necessary."--Hutchinson cor. "The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army."--Locke cor. "I'm not the first that has been wretched."--Southern cor. "And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view."--Calvin cor. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."--Dr. Blair cor. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society."--Formey cor. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him."--Id. "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed."--Milton, P. L., B. i, l. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence."--Dr. Blair cor. "Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied."--Home cor. "Thou wast he that led out and brought in Israel."--Bible cor. "Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?"--Id.
"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace And wisdom, which alone are truly fair."--Milton cor.
"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown, While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?"--Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.
"The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done."--Dr. Murray cor. "The rapidity of his movements was beyond example."--Wells cor. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."--Murray's Rec. cor. "The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown."--Hume cor. "The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being."--Cobbett cor. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue."--Kames cor. "Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity."--Gardiner cor. "One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five."--Duncan cor. "The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to."--Bailey cor. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us."--Gould cor. "Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy."--Maturin cor. "The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular."--Pratt cor. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce."--Bicknell cor. "The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes."--Milnes cor. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion."--Rush cor. "By which means, the order of the words is disturbed."--Holmes cor. "The two-fold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form."--Peirce cor. "And each of these affords employment."--Percival cor. "The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."--Coar cor. "The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity."--Hall and Baker cor. "One of you has stolen my money."--Humorist cor. "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust."--Kames cor. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind."--Hiley cor. "Each of these is presented to us in different relations."--Hendrick cor. "The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time."--Bullions cor. "The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood."--Chandler cor.
"And now, at length, the fated term of years The world's desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears." --Lowth cor.
"Variety of numbers still belongs To the soft melody of odes, or songs." --Brightland cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.
"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man."--Johnson cor. "To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious."--Pratt cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."--L. Murray et al. cor. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man."--Fisher cor. "In this passage, 'according as' is used in a manner which is very common."--Webster cor. "A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."--Webster cor. "To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord."--The Friend cor. "While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular."--Cobbett cor. "He cannot assert that ll (i.e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u"--Cobb cor. "Ch, in Latin, has the power of k."--Gould cor. "Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci."--Id. "In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh."--Bucke cor. "But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent."--Id. "Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f."--Bucke cor. "Ph has the sound of f as in philosophy."--Webster cor. "Sh has one sound only, as in shall."--Id. "Th has two sounds."--Id. "Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk."--Id. "Aw has the sound of a in hall."--Bolles cor. "Ew sounds like u"--Id. "Ow, when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou."--Id. "Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid."--Id.
"Ui three other sounds at least expresses, As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses." --Brightland cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.
"When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned."--Dr. Weeks cor. "As neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."--Dr. Blair cor. "Yet neither of them is remarkable for precision."--Id. "How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself."--Id. "Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation."--Id. "On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath."--Tr. of Iren. cor. "And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness."--Hope of Is. cor. "Was either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"--Foster cor. "Whilst neither of these letters exists in the Eugubian inscription."--Knight cor. "And neither of them is properly termed indefinite."--Dr. Wilson cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect their several verbs:" or,--"each of which has in effect its own verb."--Lowth cor. "Sometimes, when the word ends in s, neither of the signs is used."--A. Mur. cor. "And as neither of these manners offends the ear."--J. Walker cor. "Neither of these two tenses is confined to this signification only."--R. Johnson cor. "But neither of these circumstances is intended here."--Tooke cor. "So that all are indebted to each, and each is dependent upon all."--Bible Rep. cor. "And yet neither of them expresses any more action in this case, than it did in the other."--Bullions cor. "Each of these expressions denotes action."--Hallock cor. "Neither of these moods seems to be defined by distinct boundaries."--Butler cor. "Neither of these solutions is correct."--Bullions cor. "Neither bears any sign of case at all."--Fowler cor.
"Each in his turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalks." Or:-- "All in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalk."--Byron cor.
"And tell what each doth by the other lose."--Shak. cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.
"The quarrels of lovers are but a renewal of love."--Adam et al. cor. "Two dots, one placed above the other, are called a Sheva."--Wilson cor. "A few centuries more or less are a matter of small consequence."--Id. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; hieroglyphics were the second step."--Parker cor. "The comeliness of youth is modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity." Or, much better: "The great ornaments of youth are," &c.--Murray cor. "Merit and good works are the end of man's motion."--Bacon cor. "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips are parcel of the mind."--Shak. cor. "The clothing of the natives was the skins of wild beasts." Or thus: "The clothes of the natives were skins of wild beasts."--Hist. cor. "Prepossessions in favour of our native town, are not a matter of surprise."--Webster cor. "Two shillings and sixpence are half a crown, but not a half crown."--Priestley and Bicknell cor. "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong."--Cooper cor. "Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence."--Day cor. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, are called a Phrase."--Id. "But the common number of times is five." Or, to state the matter truly: "But the common number of tenses is six."--Brit. Gram. cor. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition."--Jamieson cor. "The United States are the great middle division of North America."--Morse cor. "A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it."--Priestley's Gram., p. 199; Churchill's, 414. "Here two tall ships become the victor's prey."--Rowe cor. "The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object."--The Friend cor.
"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Were all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."--Milt. cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.--CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.
"Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."--Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Not fewer [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three years' time, is spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less time than three years, is spent," &c.--Gardiner cor. "Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish'd presence."--Milton cor. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed."--Watts cor. "But all of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."--Coleridge cor. "The old theorists' practice of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming words."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Where several sentences occur, place them in the order of the facts."--Id. "And that all the events in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."--Kames cor. "In regard to their origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction."--Adams cor. "In these respects, man is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."--Bp. Butler cor. "The Scriptures are the oracles of God himself."--Hooker cor. "And at our gates are all kinds of pleasant fruits."--S. Song cor. "The preterits of pluck, look, and toss, are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst."--Fowler corrected.
"Severe the doom that days prolonged impose, To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!"--Melmoth cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.--FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.
1. Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style. "Was it thou[538] that built that house?"--Brown's Institutes, Key, p. 270. "That boy writes very elegantly."--Ib. "Could not thou write without blotting thy book?"--Ib. "Dost not thou think--or, Don't thou think, it will rain to-day?"--Ib. "Does not--or, Don't your cousin intend to visit you?"--Ib. "That boy has torn my book."--Ib. "Was it thou that spread the hay?"--Ib. "Was it James, or thou, that let him in?"--Ib. "He dares not say a word."--Ib. "Thou stood in my way and hindered me."--Ib.
"Whom do I see?--Whom dost thou see now?--Whom does he see?--Whom dost thou love most?--What art thou doing to-day?--What person dost thou see teaching that boy?--He has two new knives.--Which road dost thou take?--What child is he teaching?"--Ingersoll cor. "Thou, who mak'st my shoes, sellst many more." Or thus: "You, who make my shoes, sell many more."--Id.
"The English language has been much cultivated during the last two hundred years. It has been considerably polished and refined."--Lowth cor. "This style is ostentatious, and does not suit grave writing."--Priestley cor. "But custom has now appropriated who to persons, and which to things" [and brute animals].--Id. "The indicative mood shows or declares something; as, Ego amo, I love; or else asks a question; as, Amas tu? Dost thou love?"--Paul's Ac. cor. "Though thou cannot do much for the cause, thou may and should do something."--Murray cor. "The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy tax: but thou knowst (or, you know) he paid it cheerfully."--Id. "It may, and often does, come short of it."--Murray^s Gram., p. 359.
"'Twas thou, who, while thou seem'd to chide, To give me all thy pittance tried."--Mitford cor.
2. Forms adapted to the Solemn or Biblical Style. "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all."--Psalms, ciii, 19. "Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God; thou wast a God that forgave[539] them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions."--See Psalms, xcix, 8. "Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty."--Ib., lxxxix, 19. "'So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy;' who dispenseth his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seemeth good in his sight."--Christian Experience of St. Paul, p. 344; see Rom., ix, 16.
"Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought; Yea, with my life, and life's own secret joy."--Coleridge cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.--EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.
"Who is here so base, that he would be a bondman?"--Shak. cor. "Who is here so rude, he would not be a Roman?"--Id. "There is not a sparrow which falls to the ground without his notice." Or better: "Not a sparrow falls to the ground, without his notice."--Murray cor. "In order to adjust them in such a manner as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period."--Id. and Blair cor. "But sometimes there is a verb which comes in." Better: "But sometimes there is a verb introduced."--Cobbett cor. "Mr. Prince has a genius which would prompt him to better things."--Spect. cor. "It is this that removes that impenetrable mist."--Harris cor. "By the praise which is given him for his courage."--Locke cor. "There is no man who would be more welcome here."--Steele cor. "Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and what immediately follows."--Blair cor. "And as connected with what goes before and what follows."--Id. "No man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake."--Bacon cor. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence or folly, and which might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this."--Bp. Butler cor. "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least as it respects justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures."--Fuller cor. "Indeed, if there be any such, who have been, or who appear to be of us, as suppose there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their matters."--Barclay cor. "There were some that drew back; there were some that made shipwreck of faith; yea, there were some that brought in damnable heresies."--Id. "The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper; and, under similar circumstances, the orator's method is fit to be imitated."--Blair cor. "This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined, and which was formerly very prevalent."--Churchill cor. "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and he seeth the place of stones."--Bible cor.
"New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.
Dear friend,
I am sorry to hear of thy loss; but I hope it may be retrieved. I should be happy to render thee any assistance in my power. I shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept assurances of my regard. A. B."
"New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.
Dear sir,
I have just received the kind note you favoured me with this morning; and I cannot forbear to express my gratitude to you. On further information, I find I have not lost so much as I at first supposed; and I believe I shall still be able to meet all my engagements. I should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks. C. D."
See Brown's Institutes, p. 271.
"Will martial flames forever fire thy mind, And wilt thou never be to Heaven resign'd?"--Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.--APPLICATION OF MOODS.
First Clause of the Note.--The Subjunctive Present.
"He will not be pardoned unless he repent."--Inst., p. 191. "If thou find any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me."--Neef cor. "If thou leave the room, do not forget to shut that drawer."--Id. "If thou grasp it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt:" or, (familiarly,)--"thou will not be hurt."--Id. "On condition that he come, I will consent to stay."--Murray's Key, p. 208. "If he be but discreet, he will succeed."--Inst., p. 280. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob."--Gen., xxxi, 24. "If thou cast me off, I shall be miserable."--Inst., p. 280. "Send them to me, if thou please."--Ib. "Watch the door of thy lips, lest thou utter folly."--Ib. "Though a liar speak the truth, he will hardly be believed."--Bartlett cor. "I will go, unless I be ill."--L. Murray cor. "If the word or words understood be supplied, the true construction will be apparent."--Id. "Unless thou see the propriety of the measure, we shall not desire thy support."--Id. "Unless thou make a timely retreat, the danger will be unavoidable."--Id. "We may live happily, though our possessions be small."--Id. "If they be carefully studied, they will enable the student to parse all the exercises."--Id. "If the accent be fairly preserved on the proper syllable, this drawling sound will never be heard."--Id. "One phrase may, in point of sense, be equivalent to an other, though its grammatical nature be essentially different."--Id. "If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man."--2 Thess., iii, 14. "Thy skill will be the greater, if thou hit it."--Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "We shall overtake him, though he run."--Priestley et al. cor. "We shall be disgusted, if he give us too much."--Blair cor.
"What is't to thee, if he neglect thy urn, Or without spices let thy body burn?"--Dryden cor.
Second Clause of Note IX.--The Subjunctive Imperfect.[540]
"And so would I, if I were he."--Inst., p. 191. "If I were a Greek, I should resist Turkish despotism."--Cardell cor. "If he were to go, he would attend to your business."--Id. "If thou felt as I do, we should soon decide."--Inst., p. 280. "Though thou shed thy blood in the cause, it would but prove thee sincerely a fool."--Ib. "If thou loved him, there would be more evidence of it."--Ib. "If thou convinced him, he would not act accordingly."--Murray cor. "If there were no liberty, there would be no real crime."--Formey cor. "If the house were burnt down, the case would be the same."--Foster cor. "As if the mind were not always in action, when it prefers any thing."--West cor. "Suppose I were to say, 'Light is a body.'"--Harris cor. "If either oxygen or azote were omitted, life would be destroyed."--Gurney cor. "The verb dare is sometimes used as if it were an auxiliary."--Priestley cor. "A certain lady, whom I could name, if it were necessary."--Spect. cor. "If the e were dropped, c and g would assume their hard sounds."--Buchanan cor. "He would no more comprehend it, than if it were the speech of a Hottentot."--Neef cor. "If thou knew the gift of God," &c.--Bible cor. "I wish I were at home."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Fact alone does not constitute right: if it did, general warrants were lawful."--Junius cor. "Thou lookst upon thy boy, as though thou guessed it."--Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "He fought as if he contended for life."--Hiley cor. "He fought as if he were contending for his life."--Id.
"The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf, As if thou shed for me a tear; As if thou knew my tale of grief, Felt all my sufferings severe."--Letham cor.
Last Clause of Note IX.--The Indicative Mood.
"If he knows the way, he does not need a guide."--Inst., p. 191. "And if there is no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected."--Murray cor. "I cannot say that I admire this construction though it is much used."--Priestley cor. "We are disappointed, if the verb does not immediately follow it."--Id. "If it was they, that acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault."--Murray cor. "If art becomes apparent, it disgusts the reader."--Jamieson cor. "Though perspicuity is more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to include it in this book."--Campbell cor. "Although the efficient cause is obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies open."--Blair cor. "Although the barrenness of language, or the want of words, is doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes."--Id. "Though it enforces not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater variety."--Id. "In other cases, though the idea is one, the words remain quite separate."--Priestley cor. "Though the form of our language is more simple, and has that peculiar beauty."--Buchanan cor. "Human works are of no significancy till they are completed."--Kames cor. "Our disgust lessens gradually till it vanishes altogether."--Id. "And our relish improves by use, till it arrives at perfection."--Id. "So long as he keeps himself in his own proper element."--Coke cor. "Whether this translation was ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant."--Sale cor. "It is false to affirm, 'As it is day, it is light,' unless it actually is day."--Harris cor. "But we may at midnight affirm, 'If it is day, it is light.'"--Id. "If the Bible is true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest."--Dickinson cor. "Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."--Bible cor. "If David then calleth (or calls) him Lord, how is he his son?"--Id.
"'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appears in writing, or in judging, ill."--Pope cor.
UNDER NOTE X.--FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.
"If a man has built a house, the house is his."--Wayland cor. "If God has required them of him, as is the fact, he has time."--Id. "Unless a previous understanding to the contrary has been had with the principal."--Berrian cor. "O! if thou hast hid them in some flowery cave."--Milton cor. "O! if Jove's will has linked that amorous power to thy soft lay."--Id. "SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou loved."--Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and others. "Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, hath lent thee her unfathomable coil."--Tupper cor. "Whether nature or art contributes most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry."--Blair cor. "Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust."--Murray cor. "If spiritual pride has not entirely vanquished humility."--West cor. "Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter."--Bible cor. "It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, relates to what goes before or to what follows."--Kames cor.
"And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd hast." Or:-- "And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou hast granted what we crave."--Milt. cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.
"The gentry are punctilious in their etiquette."--G. B. "In France, the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes."--Harvey cor. "The people rejoice in that which should cause sorrow."--Murray varied. "My people are foolish, they have not known me."--Bible and Lowth cor. "For the people speak, but do not write."--Phil. Mu. cor. "So that all the people that were in the camp, trembled."--Bible cor. "No company like to confess that they are ignorant."--Todd cor. "Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed."--Robertson cor. "More than one half of them were cut off before the return of spring."--Id. "The other class, termed Figures of Thought, suppose the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning."--Blair and Mur. cor. "A multitude of words in their dialect approach to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance."--Dr. Murray cor. "A great majority of our authors are defective in manner."--J. Brown cor. "The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected."--Tooke cor. "The greater part of the words it contains, are subject to certain modifications or inflections."--The Friend cor. "While all our youth prefer her to the rest."--Waller cor. "Mankind are appointed to live in a future state."--Bp. Butler cor. "The greater part of human kind speak and act wholly by imitation."--Rambler, No. 146. "The greatest part of human gratifications approach so nearly to vice."--Id., No. 160.
"While still the busy world are treading o'er The paths they trod five thousand years before."--Young cor.
UNDER THE NOTE.--THE IDEA OF UNITY.
"In old English, this species of words was numerous."--Dr. Murray cor. "And a series of exercises in false grammar is introduced towards the end."--Frost cor. "And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, was anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood."--Webster cor. "With respect to the former, there is indeed a plenty of means."--Kames cor. "The number of school districts has increased since the last year."--Throop cor. "The Yearly Meeting has purchased with its funds these publications."--Foster cor. "Has the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?"--Sullivan cor. "So that the whole number of the streets was fifty."--Rollin cor. "The number of inhabitants was not more than four millions."--Smollett cor. "The house of Commons was of small weight."--Hume cor. "The assembly of the wicked hath (or has) inclosed me."--Psal. cor. "Every kind of convenience and comfort is provided."--C. S. Journal cor. "Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy has suffered no diminution; but it has rather been gradually increasing."--Payne cor. "Small as the number of inhabitants is, yet their poverty is extreme."--Id. "The number of the names was about one hundred and twenty."--Ware and Acts cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF--THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.
"So much ability and [so much] merit are seldom found."--Mur. et al. cor. "The etymology and syntax of the language are thus spread before the learner."--Bullions cor. "Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables are the same thing."--Adams cor. "Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, are not remembered at all."--L. Murray cor. "The soil and sovereignty were not purchased of the natives."--Knapp cor. "The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, are infinitely more favourable to sublimity of style, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme."--Blair cor. "The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seem to have been much greater than ours."--Id. "For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else."--R. Johnson cor. "The verb and the noun making a complete sense, whereas the participle and the noun do not."--Id. "The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, are a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present."--Kames cor. "The true meaning and etymology of some of his words were lost."--Knight cor. "When the force and direction of personal satire are no longer understood."--Junius cor. "The frame and condition of man admit of no other principle."--Dr. Brown cor. "Some considerable time and care were necessary."--Id. "In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure have been thrown upon Milton."--Blair cor. "With rational beings, nature and reason are the same thing."--Collier cor. "And the flax and the barley were smitten."--Bible cor. "The colon and semicolon divide a period; this with, and that without, a connective."--Ware cor. "Consequently, wherever space and time are found, there God must also be."--Newton cor. "As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE end in ED, it is regular."--Chandler cor. "But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevent this from being readily seen."--N. Butler cor. "Do and did simply imply opposition or emphasis."--A. Murray cor. "I and an other make the plural WE; thou and an other are equivalent to YE; he, she, or it, and an other, make THEY."--Id. "I and an other or others are the same as WE, the first person plural; thou and an other or others are the same as YE, the second person plural; he, she, or it, and an other or others, are the same as THEY, the third person plural."--Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor. "God and thou are two, and thou and thy neighbour are two."--Love Conquest cor. "Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE."--Fowler cor. "The tone and style of all of them, particularly of the first and the last, are very different."--Blair cor. "Even as the roebuck and the hart are eaten."--Bible cor. "Then I may conclude that two and three do not make five."--Barclay cor. "Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren have received from us."--Id. "Two and two are four, and one is five:" i, e., "and one, added to four, is five."--Pope cor. "Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance under costly array."--See Murray's Key, Rule 2d. "A page and a half have been added to the section on composition."--Bullions cor. "Accuracy and expertness in this exercise are an important acquisition."--Id.
"Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale proclaim thy blessing." Or thus:-- "Hill and valley boast thy blessing."--Milton cor.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.
"There are a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things."--Blair cor. "Whence have arisen much stiffness and affectation."--Id. "To this error, are owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before noticed."--Blair and Jamieson cor. "Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevail an obscurity and a hardness of style."--Blair cor. See Jamieson's Rhet., p. 167. "There are, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism."--Blair cor. "There are too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus." Or: "There is, in Plautus, too much of low wit and scurrility."--Id. "There are too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them." Or: "There is too much of reasoning and refinement, too much of pomp and studied beauty, in them."--Id. "Hence arise the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation."--Rush cor. "And such pilots are he and his brethren, according to their own confession."--Barclay cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred."--Bible cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan."--Id. "And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee."--Id. "Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing."--Id. "Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceed not evil and good."--Id. "In which there are most plainly a right and a wrong."--Bp. Butler cor. "In this sentence, there are both an actor and an object."--R. C. Smith cor. "In the breastplate, were placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim."--Milman cor. "What are the gender, number, and person, of the pronoun[541] in the first example?"--R. C. Smith cor. "There seem to be a familiarity and a want of dignity in it."--Priestley cor. "It has been often asked, what are Latin and Greek?"--Lit. Journal cor. "For where do beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?"--Sam. Butler cor. "Thence to the land where flow Ganges and Indus."--Milton cor. "On these foundations, seem to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies."--Dr. Brown cor. "But what have disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?"--Dr. Johnson cor. "How are the gender and number of the relative known?"--Bullions cor.
"High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust, And feebler speed the blow and thrust."--Scott cor.
UNDER NOTE I.--CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.
"In every language, there prevails a certain structure, or analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage."--Dr. Blair cor. "There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, an affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model."--Id. "But where declamation for improvement in speech is the sole aim."--Id. "For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of any kind, is laid open."--Lowth cor. "In all writing and discourse, the proper composition or structure of sentences is of the highest importance."--Dr. Blair cor. "Here the wishful and expectant look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts."--Campbell cor. "Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, with the sign of the cross, puts away devils."--Barclay cor. "By which an oath with a penalty was to be imposed on the members."--Junius cor. "Light, or knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God."--Bp. Butler cor. "For instance, sickness or untimely death is the consequence of intemperance."--Id. "When grief or blood ill-tempered vexeth him." Or: "When grief, with blood ill-tempered, vexes him"--Shak. cor. "Does continuity, or connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?"--Collier cor. "His greatest concern, his highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator."--L. Murray cor. "Know ye not that there is[542] a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?"--Bible cor. "What is vice, or wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it."--Collier cor. "There is also the fear or apprehension of it."--Bp. Butler cor. "The apostrophe with s ('s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive."--Bullions cor. "Ti, ce, OR ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, ocean, special."--Weld cor.
"Bitter constraint of sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due."--Milton cor.
"Debauch'ry, or excess, though with less noise, As great a portion of mankind destroys."--Waller cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.
"Wisdom, and not wealth, procures esteem."--Inst., Key, p. 272. "Prudence, and not pomp, is the basis of his fame."--Ib. "Not fear, but labour has overcome him."--Ib. "The decency, and not the abstinence, makes the difference."--Ib. "Not her beauty, but her talents attract attention."--Ib. "It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attract attention."--Ib. "It is her beauty, and not her talents, that attracts attention."--Ib.
"His belly, not his brains, this impulse gives: He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live." Or thus:-- "His bowels, not his brains, this impulse give: He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live."--Young cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.
"Common sense, as well as piety, tells us these are proper."--Fam. Com. cor. "For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, has nothing left but to abandon himself to chance."--Kames cor. "And accordingly hatred, as well as love, is extinguished by long absence'."--Id. "But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, is conspicuous."--Id. "But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defies all translation."--Coleridge cor. "But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, was strangely misrepresented."--Bolingbroke, on History, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93. "But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, was conspicuous."--Robertson cor. "When their extent, as well as their value, was unknown."--Id. "The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, is reserved for his attention at a later period."--Parker and Fox cor. "What I myself owe to him, no one but myself knows."--Wright cor. "None, but thou, O mighty prince! can avert the blow."--Inst., Key, p. 272. "Nothing, but frivolous amusements, pleases the indolent."--Ib.
"Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, was heard."--G. B.
"All songsters, save the hooting owl, were mute."--G. B.
UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, EVERY, OR NO.
"Give every word, and every member, its due weight and force."--Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 316. "And to one of these belongs every noun, and every third person of every verb."--Dr. Wilson cor. "No law, no restraint, no regulation, is required to keep him within bounds."--Lit. Journal cor. "By that time, every window and every door in the street was full of heads."--Observer cor. "Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stands back from this field, and leaves Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example." Or: "All systems of religion, and all schools of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example."--Abbott cor. "Each day, and each hour, brings its portion of duty."--Inst., Key, p. 272. "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, resorted unto him."--Bible cor. "Every private Christian, every member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that he may know his faith and belief to be founded upon them."--Barclay cor. "And every mountain and every island was moved out of its place."--Bible cor.
"No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, No cavern'd hermit rests self-satisfied."--Pope.
UNDER NOTE V.--WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND.
"The sides, A, B, and C, compose the triangle."--Tobitt, Felch, and Ware cor. "The stream, the rock, and the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination."--Dr. Blair cor. "While this, with euphony, constitutes, finally, the whole."--O. B. Peirce cor. "The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, was stolen."--Cobbett cor. "Sobriety, with great industry and talent, enables a man to perform great deeds." Or: "Sobriety, industry, and talent, enable a man to perform great deeds."--Id. "The it, together with the verb, expresses a state of being."--Id. "Where Leonidas the Spartan king, and his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut off to the last man."--Kames cor.. "And Leah also, and her children, came near and bowed themselves."--Bible cor. "The First and the Second will either of them, by itself, coalesce with the Third, but they do not coalesce with each other."--Harris cor. "The whole must centre in the query, whether Tragedy and Comedy are hurtful and dangerous representations."--Formey cor. "Both grief and joy are infectious: the emotions which they raise in the spectator, resemble them perfectly."--Kames cor. "But, in all other words, the q and u are both sounded."--Ensell cor. "Q and u (which are always together) have the sound of kw, as in queen; or of k only, as in opaque." Or, better: "Q has always the sound of k; and the u which follows it, that of w; except in French words, in which the u is silent."--Goodenow cor. "In this selection, the a and i form distinct syllables."--Walker cor. "And a considerable village, with gardens, fields, &c., extends around on each side of the square."--Lib. cor. "Affection and interest guide our notions and behaviour in the affairs of life; imagination and passion affect the sentiments that we entertain in matters of taste."--Jamieson cor. "She heard none of those intimations of her defects, which envy, petulance, and anger, produce among children."--Johnson cor. "The King, Lords, and Commons, constitute an excellent form of government."--Crombie et al. cor. "If we say, 'I am the man who commands you,' the relative clause, with the antecedent man, forms the predicate."--Crombie cor.
"The spacious firmament on high, The blue ethereal vault of sky, And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim."--Addison cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.--ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
"There are a reputable and a disreputable practice." Or: "There is a reputable, and there is a disreputable practice."--Adams cor. "This man and this were born in her."--Milton cor. "This man and that were born in her."--Bible cor. "This and that man were born there."--Hendrick cor. "Thus le in l~ego, and le in l=egi, seem to be sounded equally long."--Adam and Gould cor. "A distinct and an accurate articulation form the groundwork of good delivery." Or: "A distinct and accurate articulation forms the groundwork of good delivery."--Kirkham cor. "How are vocal and written language understood?"--Sanders cor. "The good, the wise, and the learned man, are ornaments to human society." Or: "The good, wise, and learned man is an ornament to human society."--Bartlett cor. "In some points, the expression of song and that of speech are identical."--Rush cor. "To every room, there were an open and a secret passage."--Johnson cor. "There are such things as a true and a false taste; and the latter as often directs fashion, as the former."--Webster cor. "There are such things as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs."--Bp. Butler cor. "The lot of the outcasts of Israel, and that of the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful exactness."--Hope of Israel cor. "On these final syllables, the radical and the vanishing movement are performed."--Rush cor. "To be young or old, and to be good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events."--Spurzheim cor., and Felch. "The eloquence of George Whitfield and that of John Wesley were very different in character each from the other."--Dr. Sharp cor. "The affinity of m for the series beginning with b, and that of n for the series beginning with t, give occasion for other euphonic changes."--Fowler cor.
"Pylades' soul, and mad Orestes', were In these, if right the Greek philosopher." Or thus:-- "Pylades' and Orestes' soul _did pass To_ these, if we believe Pythagoras." Or, without ellipsis:-- "Pylades and Orestes' souls did pass To these, if we believe Pythagoras."--Cowley corrected.
UNDER NOTE VII.--DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
"To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of them, are the best ways to ensure success."--L. Murray cor. "To be of any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, are both one."--Locke cor. "With whom, to will, and to do, are the same."--Dr. Jamieson cor. "To profess, and to possess, are very different things."--Inst., Key, p. 272. "To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, are duties of universal obligation."--Ib. "To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved swiftly or slowly, are all equally alien from the nature of thought."--Dr. Johnson. "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, and [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, are called PARSING." Or, according to Note 1st above: "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, with [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, is called PARSING."--Bullions cor. "To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, were once a girl's employments; but now, to dress, and to catch a beau, are all she calls enjoyments."--Kimball cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR.
"We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists."--Johnson corrected. "A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, constitutes a nominative case absolute."--Bicknell cor. "The relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, uses to govern:" or,--"usually governs."--Adam, Gould, et al., cor. "In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice gives rise to."--Knight cor. "By which he, or his deputy, was authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest."--Junius cor. "Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, was concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious."--Dr. Blair cor. "The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, is a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."--Kames cor. "Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, represents the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect."--D. Boileau cor. "Hence naturally arises indifference or aversion between the parties."--Dr. Brown cor. "A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, is a character nowhere to be found."--Tract cor. "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitles them to imitation."--Johnson cor. "Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, is often of decisive influence."--Duncan cor. "A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, relieves the folio page."--D'Israeli cor. "For outward matter or event fashions not the character within." Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)--"fashioneth not the character within."--Tupper cor. "Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, has warmed cold brains."--Dryden cor. "Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight is an individual."--Harris cor. "When et, aut, vel, sive, or nec, is repeated before different members of the same sentence."--Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor. "Wisdom or folly governs us."--Fisk cor. "A or an is styled the indefinite article"--Folker cor. "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoots up into a prodigy."--Spect. cor. "Is either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?"--Prof. Fowler cor.
"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Is lost on hearers that our merits know."--Pope cor.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.
"Neither he nor she has spoken to him."--Perrin cor. "For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserves the reader from weariness."--Johnson cor. "Neither history nor tradition furnishes such information."--Robertson cor. "Neither the form nor the power of the liquids has varied materially."--Knight cor. "Where neither noise nor motion is concerned."--Blair cor. "Neither Charles nor his brother was qualified to support such a system."--Junius cor. "When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion serves, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track."--Campbell cor. "In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, is fairly laid before men."--Bp. Butler cor. "Neither the intellect nor the heart is capable of being driven."--Abbott cor. "Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana is in any way connected with the Sun or Moon."--Coleridge cor. "Of which, neither he, nor this grammar, takes any notice."--R. Johnson cor. "Neither their solicitude nor their foresight extends so far."--Robertson cor. "Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, considers Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first discoverer of the continent of America."--Id. "Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, has been thought worthy of a moment's consideration."--Junius cor.
"Nor war nor wisdom yields our Jews delight, They will not study, and they dare not fight."--Crabbe cor.
"Nor time nor chance breeds such confusions yet, Nor are the mean so rais'd, nor sunk the great."--Rowe cor.
UNDER NOTE I.--NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.
"The definite article, the, designates what particular thing or things are meant."--Merchant cor. "Sometimes a word, or several words, necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, are not expressed, but are omitted by ellipsis."--Burr cor. "Ellipsis, (better, Ellipses,) or abbreviations, are the wheels of language."--Maunder cor. "The conditions or tenor of none of them appears at this day." Or: "The tenor or conditions of none of them appear at this day."-- Hutchinson cor. "Neither men nor money was wanting for the service." Or: "Neither money nor men were wanting for the service."--Id. "Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, requires emphatic distinction to be frequent."--Dr. Barber cor. "Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature, is uppermost: now I am for the latter part of the disjunction."--Collier cor. "Their riches or poverty is generally proportioned to their activity or indolence."--Cox cor. "Concerning the other part of him, neither he nor you seem to have entertained an idea."--Horne cor. "Whose earnings or income is so small."--Discip. cor. "Neither riches nor fame renders a man happy."--Day cor. "The references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key is mentioned." Or, better:--"unless mention is made of the Exercises or Key." Or: "unless the Exercises or Key be named."--L. Murray cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--COMPLETE THE CONCORD.
"My lord, you wrong my father; neither is he, nor am I, capable of harbouring a thought against your peace."--Walpole cor. "There was no division of acts; there were no pauses, or intervals, in the performance; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or by the chorus."--Dr. Blair cor. "Every word ending in b, p, or f, is of this order, as also are many that end in v."--Dr. Murray cor. "Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd than is the general system of human life and human knowledge."-- Bolingbroke cor. "By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we are cleansed."--Barclay cor. "And those were already converted, and regeneration was begun in them."--Id. "For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."--Bible cor. "Who is my mother? or who are my brethren?"--See Matt., xii, 48. "Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor are the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering."-- Bible cor. "Information has been obtained, and some trials have been made."--Martineau cor. "It is as obvious, and its causes are more easily understood."--Webster cor. "All languages furnish examples of this kind, and the English contains as many as any other."--Priestley cor. "The winters are long, and the cold is intense."--Morse cor. "How have I hated instruction, and how hath my heart despised reproof!"--Prov. cor. "The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of Vesta was extinguished."--Lempriere cor. "Riches beget pride; pride begets impatience."--Bullions cor. "Grammar is not reasoning, any more than organization is thought, or letters are sounds."--Enclytica cor. "Words are implements, and grammar is a machine."--Id.
UNDER NOTE III.--PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.
"Thou or I must undertake the business."--L. Murray cor. "He and I were there."--Ash cor. "And we dreamed a dream in one night, he and I."--Bible cor. "If my views remain the same as his and mine were in 1833."--Goodell cor. "My father and I were riding out."--Inst., Key, p. 273. "The premiums were given to George and me."--Ib. "Jane and I are invited."--Ib. "They ought to invite my sister and me."--Ib. "You and I intend to go."--Guy cor. "John and I are going to town."--Brit. Gram. cor. "He and I are sick."--James Brown cor. "Thou and I are well."--Id. "He and I are."--Id. "Thou and I are."--Id. "He, and I write."--Id. "They and I are well."--Id. "She, and thou, and I, were walking."--Id.
UNDER NOTE IV.--DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
"To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, is great injustice."--Inst., Key, p. 273. "To reveal secrets, or to betray one's friends, is contemptible perfidy."--Id. "To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude capitals from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought an offence too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something."--Dr. Barrow cor. "To live in such families, or to have such servants, is a blessing from God."--Fam. Com. cor. "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, is utterly unknown." Or: "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, and what wars they maintained, are things utterly unknown."--Goldsmith cor. "To speak or to write perspicuously and agreeably, is an attainment of the utmost consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or by writing, to address the public."--Dr. Blair cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.
"Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?"--Bible cor. "Did he not fear the Lord, and beseech the Lord, and did not the Lord repent of the evil which he had pronounced?"--Id. "And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgement with thee?"--Id. "If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain."--Id. "If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one an other."--Id. "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee, become poor, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant."--Id. "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee," &c.--Id. "Anthea was content to call a coach, and so to cross the brook." Or:--"and in that she crossed the brook."--Johnson cor. "It is either totally suppressed, or manifested only in its lowest and most imperfect form."--Blair cor. "But if any man is a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." Or: "If any man be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him will he hear."--Bible cor. "Whereby his righteousness and obedience, death and sufferings without, become profitable unto us, and are made ours."--Barclay cor. "Who ought to have been here before thee, and to have objected, if they had any thing against me."--Bible cor.
"Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see, That man has yet a soul, and dares be free."--Campbell cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.--USE SEPARATE NOMINATIVES.
"H is only an aspiration, or breathing; and sometimes, at the beginning of a word, it is not sounded at all."--Lowth cor. "Man was made for society, and he ought to extend his good will to all men."--Id. "There is, and must be, a Supreme Being, of infinite goodness, power, and wisdom, who created, and who supports them."--Beattie cor. "Were you not affrighted, and did you not mistake a spirit for a body?"--Bp. Watson cor. "The latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction than or as, but it either agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood."--Mur. et al. cor. "He had mistaken his true interest, and he found himself forsaken."--Murray cor. "The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and it saved the patient's life."--Id. "The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might have been, and probably they were, good."--Id. "This may be true, and yet it will not justify the practice."--Webster cor. "From the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and who are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things."--Campbell cor. "For those energies and bounties which created, and which preserve, the universe."--J. Q. Adams cor. "I shall make it once for all, and I hope it will be remembered."--Blair cor. "This consequence is drawn too abruptly. The argument needed more explanation." Or: "This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and without sufficient explanation."--Id. "They must be used with more caution, and they require more preparation."--Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which made an addition of a syllable to the word."--Priestley cor. "The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, it is unavoidable."--Kames cor. "It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is it agreeable in any respect."--Id.
"Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts,--they poorly stick at words."--Denham cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.--MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.
"Let us read the living page, whose every character delights and instructs us."--Maunder cor. "For if it is in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and does not please."--Kames cor. "When a speaker addresses himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers."--Campbell cor. "As the wine which strengthens and refreshes the heart."--H. Adams cor. "This truth he wraps in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other."--Pope cor. "God searcheth and understandeth the heart." Or: "God searches and understands the heart."--T. à. Kempis cor. "The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men."--Titus, ii, 11. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."--1 Cor., ii, 13. "But he has an objection, which he urges, and by which he thinks to overturn all."--Barclay cor. "In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it gives to them who love it."--Id. "Thou here misunderstood the place and misapplied it." Or: "Thou here misunderstoodst the place and misappliedst it."--Id. Or: (as many of our grammarians will have it:) "Thou here misunderstoodest the place and misappliedst it."--Id. "Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good cometh."--See Jer., xvii, 6. "It speaks of the time past, and shows that something was then doing, but not quite finished."--Devis cor. "It subsists in spite of them; it advances unobserved."--Pascal cor.
"But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?-- Methinks he lingers late and tarries long."--Byron cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.--CONFUSION OF MOODS.
"If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go (or be gone) astray," &c.--Matt., xviii, 12. Or: "If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes (or is gone) astray," &c. Or: "If a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them goeth (or is gone) astray," &c.--Kirkham cor. "As a speaker advances in his discourse, and increases in energy and earnestness, a higher and a louder tone will naturally steal upon him."--Id. "If one man esteem one day above an other, and an other esteem every day alike; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."--Barclay cor. See Rom., xiv, 5. "If there be but one body of legislators, it will be no better than a tyranny; if there be only two, there will want a casting voice."--Addison cor. "Should you come up this way, and I be still here, you need not be assured how glad I should be to see you."--Byron cor. "If he repent and become holy, let him enjoy God and heaven."--Brownson cor. "If thy fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou say unto him, 'Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,' and yet thou give him not those things which are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy conduct?"--Kirkham cor.
"Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, And show us to be watchers."--Singer's Shakspeare.
"But if it climb, with your assisting hand, The Trojan walls, and in the city stand."--Dryden cor.
----------------"Though Heaven's King Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw his triumphant wheels."--Milton cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.--IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
"Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as he has left them."--Reporter cor. "Which they neither have done nor can do."--Barclay cor. "The Lord hath revealed, and doth and will reveal, his will to his people; and hath raised up, and doth raise up, members of his body," &c.--Id. "We see, then, that the Lord hath given, and doth give, such."--Id. "Towards those that have declared, or do declare, themselves members."--Id. "For which we can give, and have given, our sufficient reasons."--Id. "When we mention the several properties of the different words in sentences, as we have mentioned those of the word William's above, what is the exercise called?"--R. C. Smith cor. "It is however to be doubted, whether this Greek idiom ever has obtained, or ever will obtain, extensively, in English."--Nutting cor. "Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much as we do?"--Murray cor. "Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be delivered in order to move and persuade."--Kirkham cor.
UNDER NOTE X.--DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.
"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.