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._
CHAPTER 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 Caesar, overcome.”–_Ib._ “_Thou!_ Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?”–_Mirror cor._ “How swiftly our time passes away! and ah! _we_, how little concerned to improve it!”–_Greenleaf’s False Syntax, Gram._, p. 47.
“There all thy gifts and graces we display, _Thou_, only _thou_, directing all our way.”–_Pope, Dunciad_.
CHAPTER IV.–ADJECTIVES.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE IX.
UNDER NOTE I.–OF AGREEMENT.
“I am not recommending _this_ kind of sufferings to your liking.”–_Sherlock cor._ “I have not been to London _these_ five years.”–_Webster cor._ “_Verbs of this kind_ are more expressive than their radicals.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with _those_ vermin.”–_Kames cor._ “But it seems _these_ literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours.”–_R. Random cor._ “If I had not left off troubling myself about _things of that kind_.”–_Swift cor._ “For _things of this sort_ are usually joined to the most noted fortune.”–_Bacon cor._ “The nature of _those_ riches and _that_ long-suffering, is, to lead to repentance.”–_Barclay cor._ “I fancy _it is this_ kind of gods, _that_ Horace mentions.”–_Addison cor._ “During _those_ eight days, they are prohibited from touching the skin.”–_Hope of Is. cor._ “Besides, he had _but a small quantity of_ provisions left for his army.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than _those_ of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?”–_Murray’s Sequel_, p. 115. “It _distinguishes_ still more remarkably the feelings of the former from _those_ of the latter.”–_Kames cor._ “And _these_ good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world.”–_Campbell cor._ “_These_ twenty years have I been with thee.”–_Gen. cor._ “In _this_ kind of expressions, some words seem to be understood.”–_W. Walker cor._ “He thought _this_ kind of excesses indicative of greatness.”–_Hunt cor._ “_This_ sort of fellows _is_ very numerous.” Or thus: “_Fellows of this sort_ are very numerous.”–_Spect. cor._ “Whereas _men of this sort_ cannot give account of their faith.” Or: “Whereas _these men_ cannot give account of their faith.”–_Barclay cor._ “But the question is, whether _those are_ the words.”–_Id._ “So that _expressions of this sort_ are not properly optative.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “Many things are not _such as_ they appear to be.”–_Sanborn cor._ “So that _all_ possible means are used.”–_Formey cor._
“We have strict statutes, and most biting laws, Which for _these_ nineteen years we have let sleep.”–_Shak. cor._
“They could not speak, and so I left them both, To bear _these_ tidings to the bloody king.”–_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–OF FIXED NUMBERS.
“Why, I think she cannot be above six _feet_ two inches high.”–_Spect. cor._ “The world is pretty regular for about forty _rods_ east and ten west.”–_Id._ “The standard being more than two _feet_ above it.”–_Bacon cor._ “Supposing, among other things, _that_ he saw two suns, and two _Thebeses_.”–_Id._ “On the right hand we go into a parlour _thirty-three feet_ by _thirty-nine_.”–_Sheffield cor._ “Three _pounds_ of gold went to one shield.”–_1 Kings cor._ “Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that _session_.”–_The Friend cor._ “And, truly, he _has_ saved me _from_ this _labour_.”–_Barclay cor._ “Within _these_ three _miles_ may you see it coming.”–_Shak. cor._ “Most of the churches, not all, had one _ruling elder or more_.”–_Hutch. cor._ “While a Minute Philosopher, not six _feet_ high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe.”–_Berkley cor._ “The wall is ten _feet_ high.”–_Harrison cor._ “The stalls must be ten _feet_ broad.”–_Walker cor._ “A close prisoner in a room twenty _feet_ square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty _feet_ southward, not to walk twenty _feet_ northward.”–_Locke cor._ “Nor, after all this _care_ and industry, did they think themselves qualified.”–_C. Orator cor._ “No _fewer_ than thirteen _Gypsies_ were condemned at one Suffolk _assize_, and executed.”–_Webster cor._ “The king was petitioned to appoint _one person or more_.”–_Mrs. Macaulay cor._ “He carries weight! he rides a race! ‘Tis for a thousand _pounds_.”–_Cowper cor._ “They carry three _tiers_ of guns at the head, and at the stern, _two_ tiers”–_Joh. Dict. cor._ “The verses consist of two _sorts_ of rhymes.”–_Formey cor._ “A present of forty _camel-loads_ of the most precious things of Syria.”–_Wood’s Dict. cor._ “A large grammar, that shall extend to every _minutia_”–_S. Barrett cor._
“So many spots, like naeves 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 AEneid are extremely beautiful.”–_Formey cor._ “_Only_ a few instances _more_ can _here_ be given.”–_Murray cor._ “A few years _more_ will obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form.”–_Nutting cor._ “Some define them to be verbs devoid of the _first two_ persons.”–_Crombie cor._ “In _an other such_ Essay-tract as this.”–_White cor._ “But we fear that not _an other such_ man is to be found.”–_Edward Irving cor._ “_O for an other such_ sleep, that I might see _an other such_ man!” Or, to preserve poetic measure, say:–
“_O for such_ sleep _again_, that I might see _An other such_ man, _though but in a dream_!”–_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE X.–ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.
“_The_ is an article, relating to the noun _balm, agreeably_ to Rule 11th.”–_Comly cor._ “_Wise_ is an adjective, relating to the noun _man’s, agreeably_ to Rule 11th.”–_Id._ “To whom I observed, that the beer was _extremely_ good.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “He writes _very elegantly_.” Or: “He writes _with remarkable elegance_.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “John behaves _very civilly_ (or, _with true civility_) to all men.”–_Id._ “All the sorts of words hitherto considered, have each of them some meaning, even when taken _separately_.”–_Beattie cor._ “He behaved himself _conformably_ to that blessed example.”–_Sprat cor._ “_Marvellously_ graceful.”– _Clarendon cor._ “The Queen having changed her ministry, _suitably_ to her wisdom.”–_Swift cor._ “The assertions of this author are _more easily_ detected.”–_Id._ “The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no _more strongly_ than that.”–_Bentley cor._ “If one author had spoken _more nobly_ and _loftily_ than an other.”–_Id._ “Xenophon says _expressly_.”– _Id._ “I can never think so very _meanly_ of him.”–_Id._ “To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have _impiously_ committed.”–_Bible cor._ “I think it very _ably_ written.” Or: “I think it written _in a_ very masterly _manner_.”–_Swift cor._ “The whole design must refer to the golden age, which it represents _in a_ lively _manner_.”–_Addison cor._ “_Agreeably_ to this, we read of names being blotted out of God’s book.”–_Burder et al. cor._ “_Agreeably_ to the law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent parents.”–_Paley_. “Words taken _independently_ of their meaning, are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender.”–_Maltby cor._
“Conceit in weakest bodies _strongliest_ works.”–_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE XI.–THEM FOR THOSE.
“Though he was not known by _those_ letters, or the name CHRIST.”–_Bayly cor._ “In a gig, or some of _those_ things.” Better: “In a gig, or _some such vehicle_.”–_M. Edgeworth cor._ “When cross-examined by _those_ lawyers.”–_Same_. “As the custom in _those_ cases is.”–_Same_. “If you _had_ listened to _those_ slanders.”–_Same_. “The old people were telling stories about _those_ fairies; but, to the best of my _judgement_, there is nothing in _them_.”–_Same_. “And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no better authority to substantiate their principles, than the testimony of _those_ old Pharisees?”–_Hibbard cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.–THIS AND THAT.
“Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear: _that_ is the anticipation of good, _this_ of evil.”–_Inst._, p. 265. “The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account _these_ happy, and _those_ miserable.”–_Inst._, p. 266.
“Ellen and Margaret, fearfully,
Sought comfort in each other’s eye;
Then turned their ghastly look each one, _That_ to her sire, _this_ to her son.”–_Scott cor._
“Six youthful sons, as many blooming maids, In one sad day beheld the Stygian shades; _Those_ by Apollo’s silver bow were slain, _These_ Cynthia’s arrows stretch’d upon the plain.”–_Pope cor._
“Memory and forecast just returns engage, _That_ pointing back to youth, _this_ on to age.”–_Pope, on Man_.
UNDER NOTE XIII.–EITHER AND NEITHER.
“These make the three great subjects of discussion among mankind; _namely_, truth, duty, and interest: but the arguments directed towards _any_ of them are generically distinct.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “A thousand other deviations may be made, and still _any_ of _the accounts_ may be correct in principle; for _all_ these divisions, and their technical terms, are arbitrary.”–_R. W. Green cor._ “Thus it appears, that our alphabet is deficient; as it has but seven vowels to represent thirteen different sounds; and has no letter to represent _any_ of five simple consonant sounds.”–_Churchill cor._ “Then _none_ of these five verbs can be neuter.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “And the _assertor_[534] is in _none_ of the four already mentioned.”–_Id._ “As it is not in any of these four.”–_Id._ “See whether or not the word comes within the definition of _any_ of the other three simple cases.”–_Id._ “No one of the ten was there.”–_Frazee cor._ “Here are ten oranges, take _any one_ of them.”–_Id._ “There are three modes, by _any_ of which recollection will generally be supplied; inclination, practice, and association.”–_Rippingham cor._ “Words not reducible to _any_ of the three preceding heads.”–_Fowler cor._ “Now a sentence may be analyzed in reference to _any_ of these four classes.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE XIV.–WHOLE, LESS, MORE, AND MOST.
“Does not all proceed from the law, which regulates _all the_ departments of the state?”–_Blair cor._ “A messenger relates to Theseus _all the_ particulars.”–_Ld. Kames cor._ “There are no _fewer_ than twenty-_nine_ diphthongs in the English language.”–_Ash cor._ “The Redcross Knight runs through _all the_ steps of the Christian life.”–_Spect. cor._ “There were not _fewer_ than fifty or sixty persons present.”–_Mills and Merchant cor._ “Greater experience, and _a_ more cultivated _state of_ society, abate the warmth of imagination, and chasten the manner of expression.”–_Blair and Murray cor._ “By which means, knowledge, _rather_ than oratory, _has_ become the principal requisite.”–_Blair cor._ “No _fewer_ than seven illustrious cities disputed the right of having given birth to the greatest of poets.”–_Lempriere cor._ “Temperance, _rather_ than medicines, is the proper means of curing many diseases.”–_Murray cor._ “I do not suppose, that we Britons _are more deficient_ in genius than our neighbours.”–_Id._ “In which, he _says_, he has found no _fewer_ than twelve untruths.”–_Barclay cor._ “The several places of rendezvous were concerted, and _all the_ operations _were_ fixed.”–_Hume cor._ “In these rigid opinions, _all the_ sectaries concurred.”–_Id._ “Out of whose modifications have been made _nearly all_ complex modes.”–_Locke cor._ “The Chinese vary each of their words on no _fewer_ than five different tones.”–_Blair cor._ “These people, though they possess _brighter_ qualities, are not so proud as he is, nor so vain as she.”–_Murray cor._ “It is certain, _that_ we believe _our own judgements_ more _firmly_, after we have made a thorough inquiry into the _things_.”–_Brightland cor._ “As well as the whole course and _all the_ reasons of the operation.”–_Id._ “Those rules and principles which are of _the greatest_ practical advantage.”–_Newman cor._ “And _all_ curse shall be _no more_.”–_Rev. cor._–(See _the Greek_.) “And death shall be _no more_.”–_Id._ “But, in recompense, we have _pleasanter_ pictures of ancient manners.”–_Blair cor._ “Our language has suffered _a greater number of_ injurious changes in America, since the British army landed on our shores, than it had suffered before, in the period of three centuries.”–_Webster cor. “All the_ conveniences of life are derived from mutual aid and support in society.”–_Ld. Kames cor._
UNDER NOTE XV.–PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVES.
“To such as think the nature of it deserving _of_ their attention.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “In all points, more deserving _of_ the approbation of their readers.”–_Keepsake cor._ “But to give way to childish sensations, was unbecoming _to_ our nature.”–_Lempriere cor._ “The following extracts are deserving _of_ the serious perusal of all.”–_The Friend cor._ “No inquiry into wisdom, however superficial, is undeserving _of_ attention.”–_Bulwer cor._ “The opinions of illustrious men are deserving _of_ great consideration.”–_Porter cor._ “And resolutely keep its laws. Uncaring _for_ consequences.” Or:–“_Not heeding_ consequences.”–_Burns cor._ “This is an item that is deserving _of_ more attention.”–_Goodell cor._
“Leave then thy joys, unsuiting _to_ such age:”–Or,
“Leave then thy joys _not suiting_ such an age, To a fresh comer, and resign the stage.”–_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE XVI.–FIGURE OF ADJECTIVES.
“The tall dark mountains and the _deep-toned_ seas.”–_Dana_. “O! learn from him To station _quick-eyed_ Prudence at the helm.”–_Frost cor._ “He went in a _one-horse_ chaise.”–_David Blair cor._ “It ought to be, ‘in a _one-horse_ chaise.'”–_Crombie cor._ “These are marked with the _above-mentioned_ letters.”–_Folker cor._ “A _many-headed_ faction.”–_Ware cor._ “Lest there should be no authority in any popular grammar, for the perhaps _heaven-inspired_ effort.”–_Fowle cor. “Common-metre_ stanzas consist of four iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables. They were formerly written in two _fourteen-syllable_ lines.”–_Goodenow cor. “Short-metre_ stanzas consist of four iambic lines; the third of eight, the rest of six syllables.”–_Id._ “_Particular-metre_ stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the third and sixth of six syllables, the rest of eight.”–_Id. “Hallelujah-metre_ stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the last two of eight syllables, and the rest of six.”–_Id. “Long-metre_ stanzas are merely the union of four iambic lines, of ten syllables each.”–_Id._ “A majesty more commanding than is to be found among the rest of the _Old-Testament_ poets.”–_Blair cor._
“You, sulphurous and _thought-executed_ fires, _Vaunt-couriers_ to _oak-cleaving_ thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, _all-shaking_ thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ th’ world!”–_Lear_, Act iii, Sc. 2.
CHAPTER V.–PRONOUNS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE X AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.–OF AGREEMENT.
“The subject is to be joined with _its_ predicate.”–_Wilkins cor._ “Every one must judge of _his_ own feelings.”–_Byron cor._ “Every one in the family should know _his or her_ duty.”–_Penn cor._ “To introduce its possessor into that way in which _he_ should go.”–_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ “Do not they say, _that_ every true believer has the Spirit of God in _him_?”–_Barclay cor._ “There is none in _his_ natural state righteous; no, not one.”–_Wood cor._ “If ye were of the world, the world would love _its_ own.”–_Bible cor._ “His form had not yet lost all _its_ original brightness.”–_Milton cor._ “No one will answer as if I were _his_ friend or companion.”–_Steele cor._ “But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem _others_ better than _himself_.”–_Bible cor._ “And let none of you imagine evil in _his heart_ against his neighbour.”–_Id._ “For every tree is known by _its_ own fruit.”–_Id._ “But she fell to laughing, like one out of _his_ right mind.”–_M. Edgeworth cor._ “Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make _them_ worse.”–_Wayland cor._ “And nobody else would make that city _his_ refuge any more.”–_Josephus cor._ “What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words? It is _the_ time which _a speaker occupies_ in pronouncing _them_.”–_Bradley cor._ “In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that _it is_ usually parsed as such.”–_Bullions cor._ “The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight _he_ carries.” Or thus: “The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight _it_ carries, the faster _it_ runs.”–_Addison, Murray, et al. cor._ “As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with _his_ jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets.”–_Newspaper cor._ “Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which _he thinks_ worthy of recording.”–_Duchess D’Ab. cor._ “Every body trembled, for _himself_, or _for his_ friends.”–_Goldsmith cor._
“A steed comes at morning: no rider is there; But _his_ bridle is red with the sign of despair.”–_Campbell cor._
UNDER NOTE I.–PRONOUNS WRONG–OR NEEDLESS.
“Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle.”–_Merchant cor._ “Or what man is there of you, _who_, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?”–_Bible cor._ “Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief.”–_Tillotson cor._ “Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate.”–_Bible cor._ “Whom, when they had washed _her_, they laid in an upper chamber.”–_Id._ “Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God.”–_Id._ “Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others.”–See _Blair’s Rhet._, p. 93. “But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action.”–_Murray’s Gram._, i, 195. “What he subjoins, is without any proof at all.”–_Barclay cor._ “George _Fox’s_ Testimony concerning Robert Barclay.”–_Title cor._ “According to the _advice of the_ author of the Postcript [sic–KTH].”–_Barclay cor._ “These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians _that were_ pictured _on Nemesis’s_ pitcher.”–_Bacon cor._ “Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with _the Sphynx’s enigmas_.”–_Id._ “Whoever believeth not therein, shall perish.”–_Koran cor._ “When, at _Sestius’s_ entreaty, I had been at his house.”–_W. Walker cor._
“There high on _Sipylus’s_ shaggy brow, She stands, her own sad monument of wo.”–_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–CHANGE OF NUMBER.
“So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave _you_.”–_Bible cor._ “Why do you plead so much for it? why do _you_ preach it up?” Or: “Why do _ye_ plead so much for it? why do _ye_ preach it up?”–_Barclay cor._ “Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, _thy_ darling.”–_Edward’s Gram. cor._ “You have my book, and I have _yours_; i.e., _your_ book.” Or thus: “_Thou hast_ my book, and I have _thine_; i.e., _thy_ book.”–_Chandler cor._ “Neither art thou such a one as to be ignorant of what _thou_ art.”–_Bullions cor._ “Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon _thee_.”–_Bible cor._ “The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give _thee_ warning.”–_Ld. Kames cor. “Wast_ thou born only for pleasure? _wast thou_ never to do any thing?”–_Collier cor._ “Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and _to_ give up _thy_ account.”–_Barnes cor._ “And canst thou expect to behold the resplendent glow of the Creator? would not such a sight annihilate _thee_?”–_Milton cor._ “If the prophet had commanded thee to do some great thing, _wouldst thou_ have refused?”–_C. S. Journal cor._ “Art thou a penitent? evince _thy_ sincerity, by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance.”–_Vade-Mecum cor._ “I will call thee my dear son: I remember all _thy_ tenderness.”–_C. Tales cor._ “So do thou, my son: open _thy_ ears, and _thy_ eyes.”–_Wright cor._ “I promise you, this was enough to discourage _you_.”–_Bunyan cor._ “Ere you remark an other’s sin, Bid _your_ own conscience look within.”–_Gay cor._ “Permit that I share in thy wo, The privilege _canst thou_ refuse?”–_Perfect cor._ “Ah! Strephon, how _canst thou_ despise Her who, without thy pity, _dies_?”–_Swift cor._
“Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff; And I must own, _thou’st_ measured out enough.”–_Shenst. cor._
“This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity; Had Fate a luckier one, she’d give it _thee_.”–_Swift cor._
UNDER NOTE III.–WHO AND WHICH.
“Exactly like so many puppets, _which_ are moved by wires.”–_Blair cor._ “They are my servants, _whom_ I brought forth[535] out of the land of Egypt.”–_Leviticus_, xxv, 55. “Behold, I and the children _whom_ God hath given me.”–See _Isaiah_, viii, 18. “And he sent Eliakim, _who_ was over the household, and Shebna the scribe.”–_Isaiah_, xxxvii, 2. “In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses _which_ filled them.”–_M’Ilvaine cor._ “They are not of those _who_ teach things _that_ they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”–_Barclay cor._ “As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; _which_, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces.”–_Bible cor._ “Frequented by every fowl _which_ nature has taught to dip the wing in water.”–_Johnson cor._ “He had two sons, one of _whom_ was adopted by the family of Maximus.”–_Lempriere cor._ “And the ants, _which_ are collected by the smell, are burned _with_ fire.”–_The Friend cor._ “They being the agents to _whom_ this thing was trusted.”–_Nixon cor._ “A packhorse _which_ is driven constantly _one way and the other_, to _and from_ market.”–_Locke cor._ “By instructing children, _whose_ affection will be increased.”–_Nixon cor._ “He had a comely young woman, _who_ travelled with him.”–_Hutchinson cor._ “A butterfly, _who_ thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive.”–_Inst._, p. 267. “It is an enormous elephant of stone, _which_ disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower.”–_Ware cor._ “He was met by a dolphin, _which_ sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him.”–_Edward’s Gram. cor._
“That Caesar’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. a 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._
CHAPTER VI.–VERBS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.–VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.
“Before you left Sicily, you _were reconciled_ to Verres.”–_Duncan cor._ “Knowing that you _were_ my old master’s good friend.”–_Spect. cor._ “When the judge _dares_ not act, where is the loser’s remedy?”–_Webster cor._ “Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb _extends_.”–_Mur. cor._ “They presently dry without hurt, as myself _have_ often proved.”–_R. Williams cor._ “Whose goings-forth _have_ been from of old, from everlasting.”–_Micah_, v, 2. “You _were_ paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him.”–_Porter cor._ “Where more than one part of speech _are_ almost always concerned.”–_Churchill cor._ “Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, _employs_ their thoughts.” Or: “_No less things_ than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, _employ_ their thoughts.”–_Duncan cor._ “I wondered where you _were_, my dear.”–_Lloyd cor._ “When thou most sweetly _singst_.”–_Drummond cor._ “Who _dares_, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?”–_Gardiner cor._ “Every body _is_ very kind to her, and not discourteous to me.”–_Byron cor._ “As to what thou _sayst_ respecting the diversity of opinions.”–_M. B. cor._ “Thy nature, Immortality, who _knows_?”–_Everest cor._ “The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, _are_ called genders.”–_Id._ “Some pains _have_ likewise been taken.”–_Scott cor._ “And many a steed in his stables _was_ seen.”–_Penwarne cor._ “They _were_ forced to eat what never was esteemed food.”–_Josephus cor._ “This that _you_ yourself _have_ spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon.”–_Hutchinson cor._ “By men whose experience best _qualifies_ them to judge.”–_Committee cor._ “He _dares_ venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish.”–_Walton cor._ “If a gudgeon meet a roach, He _ne’er will_ venture to approach.” Or thus: “If a gudgeon _meets_ a roach, He _dares_ not venture to approach.”–_Swift cor._ “Which thou _endeavourst_ to establish to thyself.”–_Barclay cor._ “But they pray together much oftener than thou _insinuat’st_.”–_Id._ “Of people of all denominations, over whom thou _presidest_.”–_N. Waln cor._ “I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress _has_ been astonishing.”–_Chazotte cor._ “Which of these two kinds of vice _is the_ more criminal?”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “Every twenty-four hours _afford_ to us the vicissitudes of day and night.”–_Smith’s False Syntax, New Gram._, p. 103. Or thus: “Every _period_ of twenty-four hours _affords_ to us the vicissitudes of day and night.”–_Smith cor._ “Every four years _add_ an other day.”–_Smith’s False Syntax, Gram._, p. 103. Better thus: “Every _fourth year adds_ an other day.”–_Smith cor._ “Every error I could find, _Has_ my busy muse employed.”–_Swift cor._ “A studious scholar _deserves_ the approbation of his teacher.”–_Sanborn cor._ “Perfect submission to the rules of a school _indicates_ good breeding.”–_Id._ “A comparison in which more than two _are_ concerned.”–_Lennie’s Gram._, p. 78. “By the facilities which artificial language _affords_ them.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “Now thyself _hast_ lost both lop and top.”–_Spencer cor._ “Glad tidings _are_ brought to the poor.”–_Campbell cor._ “Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly _depends._”–_Sher. cor._ “No pains _have_ been spared to render this work complete.”–_Bullions cor._ “The United States _contain_ more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe.”–_Clinton cor._ “I am mindful that myself _am_ strong.”–_Fowler cor._ “Myself _am_ (not _is_) weak;”–“Thyself _art_ (not _is_) weak.”–_Id._
“How pale each worshipful and reverend guest Rises from clerical or city feast!”–_Pope cor._
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.–VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.
“Where _were_ you born? In London.”–_Buchanan cor._ “There _are_ frequent occasions for commas.”–_Ingersoll cor._ “There necessarily _follow_ from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences.”–_Priestley cor._ “And to this impression _contributes_ the redoubled effort.”–_Kames cor._ “Or, if he was, _were_ there no spiritual men then?”–_Barclay cor._ “So, by these two also, _are_ signified their contrary principles.”–_Id._ “In the motions made with the hands, _consists_ the chief part of gesture in speaking.”–_Blair cor._ “_Dares_ he assume the name of a popular magistrate?”–_Duncan cor._ “There _were_ no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager.”–_Byron cor._ “In fact, there _exist_ such resemblances.”–_Kames cor._ “To him _give_ all the prophets witness.”–_Acts_, x, 43. “That there _were_ so many witnesses and actors.”–_Addison cor._ “How _do_ this man’s definitions stand affected?”–_Collier cor._ “Whence _come_ all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?”–_Id._ “Nor _do_ the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent.”–_Barclay cor._ “Nor _does_ the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary.”–_Id._ “Why then _citest_ thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?”–_Id._ “But what _say_ the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?”–_Id._ “But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there _seem_ to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;”–_Robertson cor._ “What sounds _has_ each of the vowels?”–_Griscom cor._ “Out of this _have_ grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies.”–_Brownson cor._ “And there _were_ taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets.”–_Bible cor._ “There _seem_ to be but two general classes.”–_Day cor._ “Hence _arise_ the six forms of expressing time.”–_Id._ “There _seem_ to be no other words required.”–_Chandler cor._ “If there _are_ two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last.”–_Bullions cor._ “Hence _arise_ the following advantages.”–_Id._ “There are no data by which it can be estimated.”–_Calhoun cor._ “To this class, _belongs_ the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked _primitives_.”–_Fowler cor._ [[Fist] “Nothing but naked _roots_” is faulty; because no word is a _root_, except some derivative spring from it.”–G. B.] “There _were_ several other grotesque figures that presented themselves.”–_Spect. cor._ “In these _consists_ that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol.”–_Percival cor._ “Here _come_ those I have done good to against my will.”–_Shak. cor._ “Where there _are_ more than one auxiliary.” Or: “Where there _are_ more _auxiliaries_ than one.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._
“On me to cast those eyes where _shines_ nobility.” –_Sidney cor._
“Here _are_ half-pence in plenty, for one you’ll have twenty.” –_Swift cor._
“Ah, Jockey, ill _advisest_ thou. I wis, To think of songs at such a time as this.” –_Churchill cor._
UNDER NOTE I.–THE RELATIVE AND VERB.
“Thou, who _lovest_ us, wilt protect us still.”–_A. Murray cor._ “To use that endearing language, ‘Our Father, who _art_ in heaven.'”–_Bates cor._ “Resembling the passions that _produce_ these actions.”–_Kames cor._ “Except _dwarf, grief, hoof, muff_, &c., which _take s_ to make the plural.”–_Ash cor._ “As the cattle that _go_ before me, and the children, be able to endure.”–_Gen. cor._ “Where is the man who _dares_ affirm that such an action is mad?”–_Dr. Pratt cor._ “The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that _are_ anywhere to be met with.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which _are_ our object,” &c.–_Id._ “Of those affecting situations which _make_ man’s heart feel for man.”–_Id._ “We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that _speaks_.”–_Id._ “It should assume that briskness and ease which _are_ suited to the freedom of dialogue.”–_Id._ “Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as _are_ truly pious.”–_Barclay cor._ “This letter is one of the best that _have_ been written about Lord Byron.”–_Hunt cor._ “Thus, besides what _were_ sunk,