the Athenians took above two hundred ships.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “To have made and declared such orders as _were_ necessary.”–_Hutchinson cor._ “The idea of such a collection of men as _makes_ an army.”–_Locke cor._ “I’m not the first that _has_ been wretched.”–_Southern cor._ “And the faint sparks of it which _are_ in the angels, are concealed from our view.”–_Calvin cor._ “The subjects are of such a nature, as _allows_ room (or, as to _allow_ room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as _is_ not to be found in the real examples of society.”–_Formey cor._ “I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as _have_ been attributed to him.”–_Id._ “That shepherd, who first _taught_ the chosen seed.”–_Milton, P. L._, B. i, l. 8. “With respect to the vehemence and warmth which _are_ allowed in popular eloquence.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Ambition is one of those passions that _are_ never to be satisfied.”–_Home cor._ “Thou wast he that _led_ out and _brought_ in Israel.”–_Bible cor._ “Art thou the man of God, that _came_ from Judah?”–_Id._
“How beauty is excell’d by manly grace And wisdom, which alone _are_ truly fair.”–_Milton cor._
“What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown, While others sleep, thus _roamst_ the camp alone?”–_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.
“The literal sense of the words _is_, that the action had been done.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “The rapidity of his movements _was_ beyond example.”–_Wells cor._ “Murray’s Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, _has_ nearly superseded every thing else of the kind.”–_Murray’s Rec. cor._ “The mechanism of clocks and watches _was_ totally unknown.”–_Hume cor._ “The _it_, together with the verb _to be, expresses a state_ of being.”–_Cobbett cor._ “Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, _occasions neither_ confusion nor fatigue.”–_Kames cor._ “Such a clatter of sounds _indicates_ rage and ferocity.”–_Gardiner cor._ “One of the fields _makes_ threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five.”–_Duncan cor._ “The happy effects of this fable _are_ worth attending to.”–_Bailey cor._ “Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still _lingers_ with us.”–_Gould cor._ “Enough of its form and force _is_ retained to render them uneasy.”–_Maturin cor._ “The works of nature, in this respect, _are_ extremely regular.”–_Pratt cor._ “No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, _has_ been made by commerce.”–_Bicknell cor._ “The dialect of some nouns _is noticed_ in the notes.”–_Milnes cor._ “It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, _affords_ the means of debasement, or of perversion.”–_Rush cor._ “By which means, the order of the words _is_ disturbed.”–_Holmes cor._ “The two-fold influence of these and the others, _requires_ the _verb_ to be in the plural form.”–_Peirce cor._ “And each of these _affords_ employment.”–_Percival cor._ “The pronunciation of the vowels _is_ best explained under the rules relative to the consonants.”–_Coar cor._ “The judicial power of these courts _extends_ to all cases in law and equity.”–_Hall and Baker cor._ “One of you _has_ stolen my money.”–_Humorist cor._ “Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, _produces_ satiety and disgust.”–_Kames cor._ “It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, _tends_ to cramp the mind.”–_Hiley cor._ “Each of these _is_ presented to us in different relations.”–_Hendrick cor._ “The past tense of these verbs, (_should, would, might, could_,) _is_ very indefinite with respect to time.”–_Bullions cor._ “The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, _is_ distinctly understood.”–_Chandler cor._
“And now, at length, the fated term of years The world’s desire _hath_ brought, and lo! the God appears.” –_Lowth cor._
“Variety of numbers still _belongs_ To the soft melody of _odes_, or _songs_.” –_Brightland cor._
UNDER NOTE III.–COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.
“Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, _is_ hardly granted to the same man.”–_Johnson cor._ “To lay down rules for these, _is_ as inefficacious.”–_Pratt cor._ “To profess regard and act _injuriously, discovers_ a base mind.”–_L. Murray et al. cor._ “To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely _pleases_ the mind of man.”–_Fisher cor._ “In this passage, ‘_according as_’ _is_ used in a manner which is very common.”–_Webster cor._ “A CAUSE DE, _is_ called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction.”–_Webster cor._ “To these _it is_ given to speak in the name of the Lord.”–_The Friend cor._ “While _wheat_ has no plural, _oats has_ seldom any singular.”–_Cobbett cor._ “He cannot assert that _ll_ (i.e., _double Ell_) _is_ inserted in _fullness_ to denote the sound of _u_”–_Cobb cor._ “_Ch_, in Latin, _has_ the power of _k_.”–_Gould cor._ “_Ti_, before a vowel, and unaccented, _has_ the sound of _si_ or _ci_.”–_Id._ “In words derived from French, as _chagrin, chicanery_, and _chaise, ch is sounded_ like _sh_.”–_Bucke cor._ “But, in the _words schism, schismatic_, &c., the _ch is_ silent.”–_Id._ “_Ph_, at the beginning of words, _is_ always sounded like _f_.”–_Bucke cor._ “_Ph has_ the sound of _f_ as in _philosophy_.”–_Webster cor._ “_Sh has_ one sound only, as in _shall_.”–_Id._ “_Th has_ two sounds.”–_Id._ “_Sc_, before _a, o, u, or r, has_ the sound of _sk_.”–_Id._ “_Aw has_ the sound of _a_ in _hall_.”–_Bolles cor._ “_Ew sounds_ like _u_”–_Id._ “_Ow_, when both _vowels are_ sounded, _has_ the _power_ of _ou in thou_.”–_Id._ “_Ui_, when both _vowels are_ pronounced in one syllable, _sounds_ like _wi short, as_ in _languid_.”–_Id._
“_Ui_ three _other sounds at least expresses_, As _who hears_ GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, _confesses_.” –_Brightland cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.–EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.
“When each of the letters which compose this word, _has_ been learned.”–_Dr. Weeks cor._ “As neither of us _denies_ that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Yet neither of them _is_ remarkable for precision.”–_Id._ “How far each of the three great epic poets _has_ distinguished _himself_.”–_Id._ “Each of these _produces_ a separate, agreeable sensation.”–_Id._ “On the Lord’s day, every one of us Christians _keeps_ the sabbath.”–_Tr. of Iren. cor._ “And each of them _bears_ the image of purity and holiness.”–_Hope of Is. cor._ “_Was_ either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?”–_Foster cor._ “Whilst neither of these letters _exists_ in the Eugubian inscription.”–_Knight cor._ “And neither of them _is_ properly termed indefinite.”–_Dr. Wilson cor._ “As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect _their several verbs_:” or,–“_each of which has_ in effect _its own verb_.”–_Lowth cor._ “Sometimes, when the word ends in _s_, neither of the signs _is_ used.”–_A. Mur. cor._ “And as neither of these manners _offends_ the ear.”–_J. Walker cor._ “Neither of these two tenses _is_ confined to this signification only.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “But neither of these circumstances _is_ intended here.”–_Tooke cor._ “So that all are indebted to each, and each _is_ dependent upon all.”–_Bible Rep. cor._ “And yet neither of them _expresses_ any more action in this case, than _it_ did in the other.”–_Bullions cor._ “Each of these expressions _denotes_ action.”–_Hallock cor._ “Neither of these moods _seems_ to be defined by distinct boundaries.”–_Butler cor._ “Neither of these solutions _is_ correct.”–_Bullions cor._ “Neither _bears_ any sign of case at all.”–_Fowler cor._
“Each in _his_ turn, like Banquo’s monarchs, _stalks._” Or:– “_All_ in _their_ turn, like Banquo’s monarchs, _stalk_.”–_Byron cor._
“And tell what each _doth_ by _the_ other lose.”–_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE V.–VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.
“The quarrels of lovers _are but_ a renewal of love.”–_Adam et al. cor._ “Two dots, one placed above the other, _are_ called _a Sheva.”–Wilson cor._ “A few centuries more or less _are_ a matter of small consequence.”–_Id._ “Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; _hieroglyphics were_ the second step.”–_Parker cor._ “The comeliness of youth _is_ modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity.” Or, much better: “The _great ornaments_ of youth are,” &c.–_Murray cor._ “Merit and good works _are_ the end of man’s motion.”–_Bacon cor._ “Divers philosophers hold, that the lips _are_ parcel of the mind.”–_Shak. cor._ “The clothing of the natives _was_ the skins of wild beasts.” Or thus: “The _clothes_ of the natives _were_ skins of wild beasts.”–_Hist. cor._ “Prepossessions in _favour_ of our _native_ town, _are_ not a matter of surprise.”–_Webster cor._ “Two shillings and sixpence _are_ half a crown, but not a half crown.”–_Priestley and Bicknell cor._ “Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, _are_ called a _diphthong_.”–_Cooper cor._ “Two or more sentences united together _are_ called a Compound Sentence.”–_Day cor._ “Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, _are_ called a Phrase.”–_Id._ “But the common number of times _is_ five.” Or, to state the matter truly: “But the common number of _tenses is six_.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, _are an other_ source of darkness in composition.”–_Jamieson cor._ “The United States _are_ the great middle division of North America.”–_Morse cor._ “A great cause of the low state of industry, _was_ the restraints put upon it.”–_Priestley’s Gram._, p. 199; _Churchill’s_, 414. “Here two tall ships _become_ the victor’s prey.”–_Rowe cor._ “The expenses incident to an outfit _are_ surely no object.”–_The Friend cor._
“Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, _Were_ all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.”–_Milt. cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.–CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.
“Much _care_ has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words.”–_Inf. S. Gr. cor._ “Not _fewer_ [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty.” Or, perhaps better: “Not less than three _years’ time, is_ spent in attaining this faculty.” Or thus: “Not less _time_ than three years, _is_ spent,” &c.–_Gardiner cor._ “Where this night are met in state Many _friends_ to gratulate His wish’d presence.”–_Milton cor._ “Peace! my darling, here’s no danger, Here’s no _ox anear_ thy bed.”–_Watts cor._ “But _all_ of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones.”–_Coleridge cor._ “The old theorists’ _practice_ of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming words.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “Where _several sentences_ occur, place them in the order _of the facts_.”–_Id._ “And that _all the events_ in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects.”–_Kames cor. “In regard to their_ origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction.”–_Adams cor._ “In these respects, _man_ is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “The _Scriptures_ are the oracles of God himself.”–_Hooker cor._ “And at our gates are all _kinds_ of pleasant fruits.”–_S. Song cor._ “The _preterits_ of _pluck, look_, and _toss_, are, in speech, pronounced _pluckt, lookt, tosst_.”–_Fowler corrected_.
“Severe the doom that days _prolonged impose_, To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!”–_Melmoth cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.–FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.
_1. Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style._ “Was it thou[538] that _built_ that house?”–_Brown’s Institutes_, Key, p. 270. “That boy _writes_ very elegantly.”–_Ib. “Could_ not thou write without blotting thy book?”–_Ib. “Dost_ not thou think–or, _Don’t_ thou think, it will rain to-day?”–_Ib. “Does_ not–or, _Don’t_ your cousin intend to visit you?”–_Ib._ “That boy _has_ torn my book.”–_Ib._ “Was it thou that _spread_ the hay?”–_Ib._ “Was it James, or thou, that _let_ him in?”–_Ib._ “He _dares_ not say a word.”–_Ib._ “Thou _stood_ in my way and _hindered_ me.”–_Ib._
“Whom _do_ I _see_?–Whom _dost_ thou _see_ now?–Whom _does_ he _see_?–Whom _dost_ thou _love_ most?–What _art_ thou _doing_ to-day?–What person _dost_ thou _see_ teaching that boy?–He _has_ two new knives.–Which road _dost_ thou _take_?–What child is he _teaching_?”–_Ingersoll cor._ “Thou, who _mak’st_ my shoes, _sellst_ many more.” Or thus: “_You_, who _make_ my shoes, _sell_ many more.”–_Id._
“The English language _has_ been much cultivated during the last two hundred years. It _has_ been considerably polished and refined.”–_Lowth cor._ “This _style_ is ostentatious, and _does_ not suit grave writing.”–_Priestley cor._ “But custom _has_ now appropriated _who_ to persons, and _which_ to things” [and brute animals].–_Id._ “The indicative mood _shows_ or _declares something_; as, _Ego amo_, I love; or else _asks_ a question; as, _Amas tu_? Dost thou love?”–_Paul’s Ac. cor._ “Though thou _cannot_ do much for the cause, thou _may_ and _should_ do something.”–_Murray cor._ “The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy tax: but thou _knowst_ (or, _you know_) he paid it cheerfully.”–_Id._ “It may, and often _does_, come short of it.”–_Murray^s Gram._, p. 359.
“‘Twas thou, who, while thou _seem’d_ to chide, To give me all thy pittance _tried_.”–_Mitford cor._
2. _Forms adapted to the Solemn or Biblical Style_. “The Lord _hath prepared_ his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom _ruleth_ over all.”–_Psalms_, ciii, 19. “Thou _answeredst_ them, O Lord our God; thou _wast_ a God that forgave[539] them, though thou _tookest_ vengeance of their inventions.”–See _Psalms_, xcix, 8. “Then thou _spakest_ in vision to thy Holy One, and _saidst_, I have laid help upon one that is mighty.”–_Ib._, lxxxix, 19. “‘So then, it is not of him that _willeth_, nor of him that _runneth_, but of God that _showeth_ mercy;’ who _dispenseth_ his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as _seemeth_ good in his sight.”–_Christian Experience of St. Paul_, p. 344; see _Rom._, ix, 16.
“Thou, the mean while, _wast_ blending with my thought; Yea, with my life, and life’s own secret joy.”–_Coleridge cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.–EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.
“Who is here so base, that _he_ would be a bondman?”–_Shak. cor._ “Who is here so rude, _he_ would not be a _Roman_?”–_Id._ “There is not a sparrow _which_ falls to the ground without his notice.” Or better: “_Not a sparrow_ falls to the ground, without his notice.”–_Murray cor._ “In order to adjust them _in such a manner_ as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period.”–_Id. and Blair cor._ “But sometimes there is a verb _which_ comes in.” Better: “But sometimes there is a verb _introduced_.”–_Cobbett cor._ “Mr. Prince has a genius _which_ would prompt him to better things.”–_Spect. cor._ “It is this _that_ removes that impenetrable mist.”–_Harris cor._ “By the praise _which_ is given him for his courage.”–_Locke cor._ “There is no man _who_ would be more welcome here.”–_Steele cor._ “Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and _what_ immediately follows.”–_Blair cor._ “And as connected with what goes before and _what_ follows.”–_Id._ “No man doth a wrong for the wrong’s sake.”–_Bacon cor._ “All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence _or_ folly, and _which_ might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Ancient philosophers have taught many things in _favour_ of morality, so far at least as _it respects_ justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures.”–_Fuller cor._ “Indeed, if there be any such, _who_ have been, or _who_ appear to be of us, as suppose there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their _matters_.”–_Barclay cor._ “There were _some_ that drew back; there were _some_ that made shipwreck of faith; yea, there were _some_ that brought in damnable heresies.”–_Id._ “The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper; and, _under_ similar _circumstances, the orator’s method_ is fit to be imitated.”–_Blair cor._ “This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined, and _which_ was formerly very prevalent.”–_Churchill cor._ “His roots are wrapped about the heap, and _he_ seeth the place of stones.”–_Bible cor._
“New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.
Dear friend,
_I_ am sorry to hear of thy loss; but _I_ hope it may be retrieved. I should be happy to render thee any assistance in my power. _I_ shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept assurances of my regard. A. B.”
“New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.
Dear sir,
_I_ have just received the kind note _you_ favoured me with this morning; and _I_ cannot forbear to express my gratitude to you. On further information, _I_ find _I_ have not lost so much as _I_ at first supposed; and _I_ believe _I_ shall still be able to meet all my engagements. _I_ should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks. C. D.”
See _Brown’s Institutes_, p. 271.
“Will martial flames forever fire thy mind, And _wilt thou_ never be to Heaven resign’d?”–_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.–APPLICATION OF MOODS.
_First Clause of the Note.–The Subjunctive Present_.
“He will not be pardoned unless he _repent_.”–_Inst._, p. 191. “If thou _find_ any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me.”–_Neef cor._ “If thou _leave_ the room, do not forget to shut that drawer.”–_Id._ “If thou _grasp_ it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt:” or, (familiarly,)–“thou _will_ not be hurt.”–_Id._ “On condition that he _come_, I will consent to stay.”–_Murray’s Key_, p. 208. “If he _be_ but discreet, he will succeed.”–_Inst._, p. 280. “Take heed that thou _speak_ not to Jacob.”–_Gen._, xxxi, 24. “If thou _cast_ me off, I shall be miserable.”–_Inst._, p. 280. “Send them to me, if thou _please_.”–_Ib._ “Watch the door of thy lips, lest thou _utter_ folly.”–_Ib._ “Though a liar _speak_ the truth, he will hardly be believed.”–_Bartlett cor._ “I will go, unless I _be_ ill.”–_L. Murray cor._ “If the word or words understood _be_ supplied, the true construction will be apparent.”–_Id._ “Unless thou _see_ the propriety of the measure, we shall not desire thy support.”–_Id._ “Unless thou _make_ a timely retreat, the danger will be unavoidable.”–_Id._ “We may live happily, though our possessions _be_ small.”–_Id._ “If they _be_ carefully studied, they will enable the student to parse all the exercises.”–_Id._ “If the accent _be_ fairly preserved on the proper syllable, this drawling sound will never be heard.”–_Id._ “One phrase may, in point of sense, be equivalent to an other, though its grammatical nature _be_ essentially different.”–_Id._ “If any man _obey_ not our word by this epistle, note that man.”–_2 Thess._, iii, 14. “Thy skill will be the greater, if thou _hit_ it.”–_Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor._ “We shall overtake him, though he _run_.”–_Priestley et al. cor._ “We shall be disgusted, if he _give_ us too much.”–_Blair cor._
“What is’t to thee, if he _neglect_ thy urn, Or without spices _let_ thy body burn?”–_Dryden cor._
_Second Clause of Note IX.–The Subjunctive Imperfect_.[540]
“And so would I, if I _were_ he.”–_Inst._, p. 191. “If I _were_ a Greek, I should resist Turkish despotism.”–_Cardell cor._ “If he _were_ to go, he would attend to your business.”–_Id._ “If thou _felt_ as I do, we should soon decide.”–_Inst._, p. 280. “Though thou _shed_ thy blood in the cause, it would but prove thee sincerely a fool.”–_Ib._ “If thou _loved_ him, there would be more evidence of it.”–_Ib._ “If thou _convinced_ him, he would not act accordingly.”–_Murray cor._ “If there _were_ no liberty, there would be no real crime.”–_Formey cor._ “If the house _were_ burnt down, the case would be the same.”–_Foster cor._ “As if the mind _were_ not always in action, when it prefers any thing.”–_West cor._ “Suppose I _were_ to say, ‘Light is a body.'”–_Harris cor._ “If either oxygen or azote _were_ omitted, life would be destroyed.”–_Gurney cor._ “The verb _dare is_ sometimes used as if it _were_ an auxiliary.”–_Priestley cor._ “A certain lady, whom I could name, if it _were_ necessary.”–_Spect. cor._ “If the _e were_ dropped, _c_ and _g_ would assume their hard sounds.”–_Buchanan cor._ “He would no more comprehend it, than if it _were_ the speech of a Hottentot.”–_Neef cor._ “If thou _knew_ the gift of God,” &c.–_Bible cor._ “I wish I _were_ at home.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “Fact alone does not constitute right: if it _did_, general warrants were lawful.”–_Junius cor._ “Thou _lookst_ upon thy boy, as though thou _guessed_ it.”–_Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor._ “He fought as if he _contended_ for life.”–_Hiley cor._ “He fought as if he _were contending_ for his life.”–_Id._
“The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf,
As if thou _shed for me_ a tear;
As if thou _knew_ my tale of grief, _Felt_ all my sufferings severe.”–_Letham cor._
_Last Clause of Note IX.–The Indicative Mood_.
“If he _knows_ the way, he does not need a guide.”–_Inst._, p. 191. “And if there _is_ no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected.”–_Murray cor._ “I cannot say that I admire this construction though it _is_ much used.”–_Priestley cor._ “We are disappointed, if the verb _does_ not immediately follow it.”–_Id._ “If it _was_ they, _that_ acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault.”–_Murray cor._ “If art _becomes_ apparent, it disgusts the reader.”–_Jamieson cor._ “Though perspicuity _is_ more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to include it in this book.”–_Campbell cor._ “Although the efficient cause _is_ obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies open.”–_Blair cor._ “Although the barrenness of language, or the want of words, _is_ doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes.”–_Id._ “Though it _enforces_ not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater variety.”–_Id._ “In other cases, though the idea _is_ one, the words remain quite separate.”–_Priestley cor._ “Though the form of our language _is_ more simple, and has that peculiar beauty.”–_Buchanan cor._ “Human works are of no significancy till they _are_ completed.”–_Kames cor._ “Our disgust lessens gradually till it _vanishes_ altogether.”–_Id._ “And our relish improves by use, till it _arrives_ at perfection.”–_Id._ “So long as he _keeps_ himself in his own proper element.”–_Coke cor._ “Whether this translation _was_ ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant.”–_Sale cor._ “It is false to affirm, ‘As it is day, it is light,’ unless it actually _is_ day.”–_Harris cor._ “But we may at midnight affirm, ‘If it _is_ day, it is light.'”–_Id._ “If the Bible _is_ true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest.”–_Dickinson cor._ “Though he _was_ a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered.”–_Bible cor._ “If David then _calleth_ (or _calls_) him Lord, how is he his son?”–_Id._
“‘Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill _Appears_ in writing, or in judging, ill.”–_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE X.–FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.
“If a man _has built_ a house, the house is his.”–_Wayland cor._ “If God _has required_ them of him, as is the fact, he has time.”–_Id._ “Unless a previous understanding to the contrary _has been had_ with the principal.”–_Berrian cor._ “O! if thou _hast hid_ them in some flowery cave.”–_Milton cor._ “O! if Jove’s will _has linked_ that amorous power to thy soft lay.”–_Id._ “SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou loved.”–_Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and others_. “Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, _hath_ lent thee her unfathomable coil.”–_Tupper cor._ “Whether nature or art _contributes_ most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry.”–_Blair cor._ “Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric _totters_ of itself, and _at length crumbles_ into dust.”–_Murray cor._ “If spiritual pride _has_ not entirely vanquished humility.”–_West cor._ “Whether he _has_ gored a son, or _has_ gored a daughter.”–_Bible cor._ “It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, _relates_ to what goes before or to what follows.”–_Kames cor._
“And bridle in thy headlong wave,
Till thou our summons answer’d _hast_.” Or:– “And bridle in thy headlong wave,
Till thou _hast granted what we crave_.”–_Milt. cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.–THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.
“The gentry _are_ punctilious in their etiquette.”–_G. B_. “In France, the peasantry _go_ barefoot, and the middle sort _make_ use of wooden shoes.”–_Harvey cor._ “The people _rejoice_ in that which should cause sorrow.”–_Murray varied_. “My people _are_ foolish, they have not known me.”–_Bible and Lowth cor._ “For the people _speak_, but _do_ not write.”–_Phil. Mu. cor._ “So that all the people that _were_ in the camp, trembled.”–_Bible cor._ “No company _like_ to confess that they are ignorant.”–_Todd cor._ “Far the greater part of their captives _were_ anciently sacrificed.”–_Robertson cor._ “_More than_ one half of them _were_ cut off before the return of spring.”–_Id._ “The other class, termed Figures of Thought, _suppose_ the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning.”–_Blair and Mur. cor._ “A multitude of words in their dialect _approach_ to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “A great majority of our authors _are_ defective in manner.”–_J. Brown cor._ “The greater part of these new-coined words _have_ been rejected.”–_Tooke cor._ “The greater part of the words it contains, _are_ subject to certain modifications _or_ inflections.”–_The Friend cor._ “While all our youth _prefer_ her to the rest.”–_Waller cor._ “Mankind _are_ appointed to live in a future state.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “The greater part of human kind _speak_ and _act_ wholly by imitation.”–_Rambler_, No. 146. “The greatest part of human gratifications _approach_ so nearly to vice.”–_Id._, No. 160.
“While still the busy world _are_ treading o’er The paths they trod five thousand years before.”–_Young cor._
UNDER THE NOTE.–THE IDEA OF UNITY.
“In old English, this species of words _was_ numerous.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “And a series of exercises in false grammar _is_ introduced towards the end.”–_Frost cor._ “And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, _was_ anciently called _homagium_, the homage, or manhood.”–_Webster cor._ “With respect to the former, there _is_ indeed _a_ plenty of means.”–_Kames cor._ “The number of school districts _has_ increased since the last year.”–_Throop cor._ “The Yearly Meeting _has_ purchased with its funds these publications.”–_Foster cor._ “_Has_ the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?”–_Sullivan cor._ “So that the whole number of the streets _was_ fifty.”–_Rollin cor._ “The number of inhabitants _was_ not more than four millions.”–_Smollett cor._ “The house of Commons _was_ of small weight.”–_Hume cor._ “The assembly of the wicked _hath_ (or _has_) inclosed me.”–_Psal. cor._ “Every kind of convenience and comfort _is_ provided.”–_C. S. Journal cor._ “Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy _has_ suffered no diminution; but _it_ has rather been gradually increasing.”–_Payne cor._ “Small as the number of inhabitants _is_, yet their poverty is extreme.”–_Id._ “The number of the names _was_ about one hundred and twenty.”–_Ware and Acts cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF–THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.
“So much ability and [so much] merit _are_ seldom found.”–_Mur. et al. cor._ “The _etymology and syntax_ of the language _are_ thus spread before the learner.”–_Bullions cor._ “Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables _are_ the same thing.”–_Adams cor._ “Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, _are_ not remembered at all.”–_L. Murray cor._ “The soil and sovereignty _were_ not purchased of the natives.”–_Knapp cor._ “The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, _are_ infinitely more favourable to _sublimity of style_, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme.”–_Blair cor._ “The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks _seem_ to have been much greater than ours.”–_Id._ “For sometimes the mood and tense _are_ signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “The verb and the noun making a complete sense, _whereas_ the participle and the noun _do_ not.”–_Id._ “The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, _are_ a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present.”–_Kames cor._ “The true meaning and etymology of some of his words _were_ lost.”–_Knight cor._ “When the force and direction of personal satire _are_ no longer understood.”–_Junius cor._ “The frame and condition of man _admit_ of no other principle.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “Some considerable time and care _were_ necessary.”–_Id._ “In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure _have_ been thrown upon Milton.”–_Blair cor._ “With rational beings, nature and reason _are_ the same thing.”–_Collier cor._ “And the flax and the barley _were_ smitten.”–_Bible cor._ “The colon and semicolon _divide_ a period; this with, and that without, a connective.”–_Ware cor._ “Consequently, wherever space and time _are_ found, there God must also be.”–_Newton cor._ “As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE _end_ in ED, it is regular.”–_Chandler cor._ “But the usual arrangement and nomenclature _prevent_ this from being readily seen.”–_N. Butler cor._ “_Do_ and _did_ simply _imply_ opposition or emphasis.”–_A. Murray cor._ “_I_ and _an other_ make the plural WE; _thou_ and _an other are equivalent to_ YE; _he, she_, or _it_, and _an other_, make THEY.”–_Id._ “_I_ and _an other_ or _others are_ the same as WE, the first person plural; _thou_ and _an other_ or _others are_ the same as YE, the second person plural; _he, she_, or _it_, and _an other_ or _others, are_ the same as THEY, the third person plural.”–_Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor._ “God and thou _are_ two, and thou and thy neighbour are two.”–_Love Conquest cor._ “Just as AN and A _have_ arisen out of the numeral ONE.”–_Fowler cor._ “The tone and style of _all_ of them, particularly _of_ the first and the last, _are_ very different.”–_Blair cor._ “Even as the roebuck and the hart _are_ eaten.”–_Bible cor._ “Then I may conclude that two and three _do not make_ five.”–_Barclay cor._ “Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren _have_ received from us.”–_Id._ “Two and two _are_ four, and one is five:” i, e., “and _one, added to four, is five_.”–_Pope cor._ “Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, _excel_ pride and ignorance under costly array.”–See _Murray’s Key_, Rule 2d. “A page and a half _have_ been added to the section on composition.”–_Bullions cor._ “Accuracy and expertness in this exercise _are_ an important acquisition.”–_Id._
“Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale _proclaim_ thy blessing.” Or thus:– “Hill and _valley_ boast thy blessing.”–_Milton cor._
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.–THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.
“There _are_ a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things.”–_Blair cor._ “Whence _have_ arisen much stiffness and affectation.”–_Id._ “To this error, _are_ owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before _noticed_.”–_Blair and Jamieson cor._ “Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there _prevail_ an obscurity and _a_ hardness _of_ style.”–_Blair cor._ See _Jamieson’s Rhet._, p. 167. “There _are_, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism.”–_Blair cor._ “There _are_ too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus.” Or: “There _is, in Plautus_, too much _of_ low wit and scurrility.”–_Id._ “There _are_ too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them.” Or: “There _is_ too much _of_ reasoning and refinement, too much _of_ pomp and studied beauty, in them.”–_Id._ “Hence _arise_ the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation.”–_Rush cor._ “And such pilots _are_ he and his brethren, according to their own confession.”–_Barclay cor._ “Of whom _are_ Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred.”–_Bible cor._ “Of whom _are_ Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan.”–_Id._ “And so _were_ James and John, the sons of Zebedee.”–_Id._ “Out of the same mouth, _proceed_ blessing and cursing.”–_Id._ “Out of the mouth of the Most High, _proceed_ not evil and good.”–_Id._ “In which there _are_ most plainly a right and a wrong.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “In this sentence, there _are_ both an actor and an object.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “In the breastplate, _were_ placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim.”–_Milman cor._ “What _are_ the gender, number, and person, _of the pronoun_[541] in the first _example_?”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “There _seem_ to be a familiarity and _a_ want of dignity in it.”–_Priestley cor._ “It has been often asked, what _are_ Latin and Greek?”–_Lit. Journal cor._ “For where _do_ beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?”–_Sam. Butler cor._ “Thence to the land where _flow_ Ganges and Indus.”–_Milton cor._ “On these foundations, _seem_ to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “But what _have_ disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?”–_Dr. Johnson cor._ “How _are_ the gender and number of the relative known?”–_Bullions cor._
“High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust, And feebler _speed_ the blow and thrust.”–_Scott cor._
UNDER NOTE I.–CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.
“In every language, there prevails a certain structure, _or_ analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, _an_ affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model.”–_Id._ “But where declamation _for_ improvement in speech is the sole aim.”–_Id._ “For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of _any kind_, is laid open.”–_Lowth cor._ “In all writing and discourse, the proper composition _or_ structure of sentences is of the highest importance.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Here the wishful _and expectant_ look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts.”–_Campbell cor._ “Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, _with the sign of_ the cross, puts away devils.”–_Barclay cor._ “By which an oath _with a_ penalty was to be imposed _on_ the members.”–_Junius cor._ “Light, _or_ knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “For instance, sickness _or_ untimely death is the consequence of intemperance.”–_Id._ “When grief _or_ blood ill-tempered _vexeth_ him.” Or: “When grief, _with_ blood ill-tempered, _vexes_ him”–_Shak. cor._ “Does continuity, _or_ connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?”–_Collier cor._ “His greatest concern, _his_ highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Know ye not that there is[542] a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?”–_Bible cor._ “What is vice, _or_ wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it.”–_Collier cor._ “There is also the fear _or_ apprehension of it.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “The apostrophe _with s_ (_’s_) is an abbreviation for _is_, the termination of the old English genitive.”–_Bullions cor._ “_Ti, ce_, OR _ci_, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of _sh_; as in _partial, ocean, special_.”–_Weld cor._
“Bitter constraint _of_ sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due.”–_Milton cor._
“_Debauch’ry, or_ excess, though with less noise, As great a portion of mankind destroys.”–_Waller cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.
“Wisdom, and not wealth, _procures_ esteem.”–_Inst., Key_, p. 272. “Prudence, and not pomp, _is_ the basis of his fame.”–_Ib._ “Not fear, but labour _has_ overcome him.”–_Ib._ “The decency, and not the abstinence, _makes_ the difference.”–_Ib._ “Not her beauty, but her talents _attract_ attention.”–_Ib._ “It is her talents, and not her beauty, _that attract_ attention.”–_Ib._ “It is her beauty, and not her talents, _that attracts_ attention.”–_Ib._
“His belly, not his brains, this impulse _gives_: He’ll grow immortal; for he cannot live.” Or thus:– “His _bowels_, not his brains, this impulse give: He’ll grow immortal; for he cannot live.”–_Young cor._
UNDER NOTE III.–AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.
“Common sense, as well as piety, _tells_ us these are proper.”–_Fam. Com. cor._ “For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, _has_ nothing left but to abandon _himself_ to chance.”–_Kames cor._ “And accordingly hatred, as well as love, _is_ extinguished by long absence’.”–_Id._ “But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, _is_ conspicuous.”–_Id._ “But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, _defies_ all translation.”–_Coleridge cor._ “But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, _was_ strangely misrepresented.”–_Bolingbroke, on History_, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93. “But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, _was_ conspicuous.”–_Robertson cor._ “When their extent, as well as their value, _was_ unknown.”–_Id._ “The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, _is_ reserved for his attention at a later period.”–_Parker and Fox cor._ “What I myself owe to him, no one but myself _knows_.”–_Wright cor._ “None, but thou, O mighty prince! _can_ avert the blow.”–_Inst., Key_, p. 272. “Nothing, but frivolous amusements, _pleases_ the indolent.”–_Ib._
“Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, _was_ heard.”–_G. B._
“All songsters, save the hooting owl, _were_ mute.”–_G. B._
UNDER NOTE IV.–EACH, EVERY, OR NO.
“Give every word, and every member, _its_ due weight and force.”–_Murray’s Gram._, Vol. i, p. 316. “And to one of these _belongs_ every noun, and every third person of every verb.”–_Dr. Wilson cor._ “No law, no restraint, no regulation, _is_ required to keep him _within_ bounds.”–_Lit. Journal cor._ “By that time, every window and every door in the street _was_ full of heads.”–_Observer cor._ “Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, _stands_ back from this field, and _leaves_ Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example.” Or: “_All systems_ of religion, and _all schools_ of philosophy, _stand_ back from this field, and _leave_ Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example.”–_Abbott cor._ “Each day, and each hour, _brings its_ portion of duty.”–_Inst., Key_, p. 272. “And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, _resorted_ unto him.”–_Bible cor._ “Every private Christian, _every_ member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that _he_ may know _his_ faith and belief _to be_ founded upon them.”–_Barclay cor._ “And every mountain and _every_ island was moved out of _its place_.”–_Bible cor._
“No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, No cavern’d hermit _rests_ self-satisfied.”–_Pope_.
UNDER NOTE V.–WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND.
“The _sides_, A, B, _and_ C, compose the triangle.”–_Tobitt, Felch_, and _Ware cor._ “The stream, the rock, _and_ the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “While this, with euphony, _constitutes_, finally, the whole.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, _was_ stolen.”–_Cobbett cor._ “Sobriety, with great industry and talent, _enables_ a man to perform great deeds.” Or: “Sobriety, industry, and talent, _enable_ a man to perform great deeds.”–_Id._ “The _it_, together with the verb, _expresses a state_ of being.”–_Id._ “Where Leonidas the Spartan king, _and_ his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut off to the last man.”–_Kames cor._. “And Leah also, and _her_ children, came near and bowed themselves.”–_Bible cor._ “The First _and_ the Second will either of them, by _itself_, coalesce with the Third, but _they do_ not _coalesce_ with each other.”–_Harris cor._ “The whole must centre in the query, whether Tragedy _and_ Comedy are hurtful and dangerous representations.”–_Formey cor._ “_Both_ grief _and_ joy are infectious: the emotions _which_ they raise in the spectator, resemble them perfectly.”–_Kames cor._ “But, in all other words, the _q and u_ are both sounded.”–_Ensell cor._ “_Q and u_ (which are always together) have the sound of _kw_, as in _queen_; or _of k only_, as in _opaque_.” Or, better: “_Q_ has always the sound of _k_; and the _u_ which follows it, that of _w_; except in French words, in which the _u_ is silent.”–_Goodenow cor._ “In this selection, the _a and i_ form distinct syllables.”–_Walker cor._ “And a considerable village, with gardens, fields, &c., _extends_ around on each side of the square.”–_Lib. cor._ “Affection _and_ interest guide our notions and behaviour in the affairs of life; imagination and passion affect the sentiments that we entertain in matters of taste.”–_Jamieson cor._ “She heard none of those intimations of her defects, which envy, petulance, _and_ anger, produce among children.”–_Johnson cor._ “The King, Lords, and Commons, constitute an excellent form of government.”–_Crombie et al. cor._ “If we say, ‘I am the man who commands you,’ the relative clause, with the antecedent _man, forms_ the predicate.”–_Crombie cor._
“The spacious firmament on high,
The blue ethereal _vault_ of sky, And spangled heav’ns, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim.”–_Addison cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.–ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.
“There _are_ a reputable and a disreputable practice.” Or: “There is a reputable, and _there is_ a disreputable practice.”–_Adams cor._ “This _man_ and this _were_ born in her.”–_Milton cor._ “This _man_ and that _were_ born in her.”–_Bible cor._ “This and that man _were_ born there.”–_Hendrick cor._ “Thus _le_ in _l~ego_, and _le_ in _l=egi_, seem to be sounded equally long.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “A distinct and an accurate articulation _form_ the groundwork of good delivery.” Or: “A distinct and accurate articulation _forms_ the groundwork of good delivery.”–_Kirkham cor._ “How _are_ vocal and written language understood?”–_Sanders cor._ “The good, the wise, and the learned man, _are ornaments_ to human society.” Or: “The good, wise, and learned man is an ornament to human society.”–_Bartlett cor._ “_In_ some points, the expression of song and _that of_ speech _are_ identical.”–_Rush cor._ “To every room, there _were_ an open and _a_ secret passage.”–_Johnson cor._ “There _are_ such _things as a true_ and _a_ false taste; and the latter _as_ often directs fashion, _as_ the former.”–_Webster cor._ “There _are_ such _things_ as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “The lot of the outcasts of Israel, and _that of_ the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful exactness.”–_Hope of Israel cor._ “On these final syllables, the radical and _the_ vanishing movement _are_ performed.”–_Rush cor._ “To be young or old, _and to be_ good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events.”–_Spurzheim cor., and Felch._ “The eloquence of George Whitfield and _that_ of John Wesley _were_ very different _in_ character each from the other.”–_Dr. Sharp cor._ “The affinity of _m_ for the series _beginning with b_, and _that_ of _n_ for the series _beginning with t_, give occasion for other euphonic changes.”–_Fowler cor._
“Pylades’ soul, and mad Orestes’, _were_ In these, if _right the Greek philosopher_.” Or thus:– “Pylades’ and Orestes’ soul _did pass
To_ these, if we believe Pythagoras.” Or, without ellipsis:– “Pylades and Orestes’ _souls_ did pass To these, if we believe Pythagoras.”–_Cowley corrected._
UNDER NOTE VII.–DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
“To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of them, _are_ the best _ways_ to ensure success.”–_L. Murray cor._ “To be of any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, _are both_ one.”–_Locke cor._ “With whom, to will, and to do, _are_ the same.”–_Dr. Jamieson cor._ “To profess, and to possess, _are_ very different things.”–_Inst., Key_, p. 272. “To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, _are_ duties of universal obligation.”–_Ib._ “To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved swiftly or slowly, _are_ all equally alien from the nature of thought.”–_Dr. Johnson._ “The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, and [_a_] stating [_of_] the accidents which belong to these, _are_ called PARSING.” Or, according to Note 1st above: “The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, _with_ [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, _is_ called PARSING.”–_Bullions cor._ “To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, _were_ once a girl’s _employments_; but now, to dress, and _to_ catch a beau, _are_ all she calls _enjoyments_.”–_Kimball cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.–NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR.
“We do not know in what either reason or instinct _consists_.”–_Johnson corrected._ “A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, _constitutes_ a nominative case absolute.”–_Bicknell cor._ “The relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, _uses_ to govern:” or,–“usually _governs_.”–_Adam, Gould, et al., cor._ “In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice _gives_ rise to.”–_Knight cor._ “By which he, or his deputy, _was_ authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest.”–_Junius cor._ “Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, _was_ concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, _is_ a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes.”–_Kames cor._ “Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, _represents_ the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect.”–_D. Boileau cor._ “Hence naturally _arises_ indifference or aversion between the parties.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, _is a character nowhere_ to be found.”–_Tract cor._ “Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune _entitles_ them to imitation.”–_Johnson cor._ “Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, _is_ often of decisive influence.”–_Duncan cor._ “A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, _relieves_ the folio page.”–_D’Israeli cor._ “For outward matter or event _fashions_ not the character within.” Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)–“_fashioneth_ not the character within.”–_Tupper cor._ “Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, _has_ warmed cold brains.”–_Dryden cor._ “Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight _is an individual_.”–_Harris cor._ “When _et, aut, vel, sive_, or _nec, is repeated before_ different members of the same sentence.”–_Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor._ “Wisdom or folly _governs_ us.”–_Fisk cor._ “_A_ or _an is_ styled _the_ indefinite article”–_Folker cor._ “A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, _shoots_ up into _a prodigy_.”–_Spect. cor._ “_Is_ either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?”–_Prof. Fowler cor._
“Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, _Is_ lost on hearers that our merits know.”–_Pope cor._
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.–NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.
“Neither he nor she _has_ spoken to him.”–_Perrin cor._ “For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance _preserves_ the reader from weariness.”–_Johnson cor._ “Neither history nor tradition _furnishes_ such information.”–_Robertson cor._ “Neither the form nor _the_ power of the liquids _has_ varied materially.”–_Knight cor._ “Where neither noise nor motion _is_ concerned.”–_Blair cor._ “Neither Charles nor his brother _was_ qualified to support such a system.”–_Junius cor._ “When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion _serves_, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track.”–_Campbell cor._ “In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, _is_ fairly laid before men.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Neither the intellect nor the heart _is_ capable of being driven.”–_Abbott cor._ “Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana _is_ in any way connected with the Sun or Moon.”–_Coleridge cor._ “Of which, neither he, nor this grammar, _takes_ any notice.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “Neither their solicitude nor their foresight _extends_ so far.”–_Robertson cor._ “Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, _considers_ Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first _discoverer_ of the continent of America.”–_Id._ “Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, _has_ been thought worthy of a moment’s consideration.”–_Junius cor._
“Nor war nor wisdom _yields_ our Jews delight, They will not study, and they dare not fight.”–_Crabbe cor._
“Nor time nor chance _breeds_ such confusions yet, Nor are the mean so rais’d, nor sunk the great.”–_Rowe cor._
UNDER NOTE I.–NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.
“The definite article, _the_, designates what particular thing or things _are_ meant.”–_Merchant cor._ “Sometimes a word, or _several_ words, necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, _are_ not expressed, but _are_ omitted by ellipsis.”–_Burr cor._ “Ellipsis, (better, _Ellipses_,) or abbreviations, _are_ the wheels of language.”–_Maunder cor._ “The conditions or tenor of none of them _appears_ at this day.” Or: “The _tenor or conditions_ of none of them _appear_ at this day.”– _Hutchinson cor._ “Neither men nor money _was_ wanting for the service.” Or: “Neither _money nor men were_ wanting for the service.”–_Id._ “Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, _requires_ emphatic distinction _to be frequent_.”–_Dr. Barber cor._ “Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature, _is_ uppermost: now I am for the latter part of the disjunction.”–_Collier cor._ “Their riches or poverty _is_ generally proportioned to their activity or indolence.”–_Cox cor._ “Concerning the other part of him, neither _he nor you_ seem to have entertained an idea.”–_Horne cor._ “Whose earnings or income _is_ so small.”–_Discip. cor._ “Neither riches nor fame _renders_ a man happy.”–_Day cor._ “The references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key _is_ mentioned.” Or, better:–“unless _mention is made of_ the Exercises or Key.” Or: “unless the Exercises or Key _be named_.”–_L. Murray cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–COMPLETE THE CONCORD.
“My lord, you wrong my father; _neither is_ he, nor _am_ I, capable of harbouring a thought against your peace.”–_Walpole cor._ “There was no division of acts; _there were_ no pauses, or _intervals, in the performance_; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or _by_ the chorus.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Every word ending in _b, p_, or _f, is_ of this order, as also _are_ many _that end_ in _v_.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd than _is_ the general system of human life and human knowledge.”– _Bolingbroke cor._ “By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we _are_ cleansed.”–_Barclay_ cor. “And those were already converted, and regeneration _was_ begun in them.”–_Id._ “For I am an old man, and my wife _is_ well _advanced_ in years.”–_Bible cor._ “Who is my mother? or _who are_ my brethren?”–See _Matt._, xii, 48. “Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor _are_ the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.”– _Bible cor._ “Information has been obtained, and some trials _have been_ made.”–_Martineau cor._ “It is as obvious, and its causes _are_ more easily understood.”–_Webster cor._ “All languages furnish examples of this kind, and the English _contains_ as many as any other.”–_Priestley cor._ “The winters are long, and the cold _is_ intense.”–_Morse cor._ “How have I hated instruction, and _how hath_ my heart despised reproof!”–_Prov. cor._ “The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of Vesta _was_ extinguished.”–_Lempriere cor._ “Riches beget pride; pride _begets_ impatience.”–_Bullions cor._ “Grammar is not reasoning, any more than organization is thought, or letters _are_ sounds.”–_Enclytica cor._ “Words are implements, and grammar _is_ a machine.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE III.–PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.
“_Thou or I_ must undertake the business.”–_L. Murray cor._ “_He and I_ were there.”–_Ash cor._ “And we dreamed a dream in one night, _he and I_.”–_Bible cor._ “If my views remain the same as _his and mine_ were in 1833.”–_Goodell cor._ “_My father and I_ were riding out.”–_Inst., Key_, p. 273. “The premiums were given to _George and me_.”–_Ib._ “_Jane and I_ are invited.”–_Ib._ “They ought to invite _my sister and me_.”–_Ib._ “_You and I_ intend to go.”–_Guy cor._ “_John and I_ are going to town.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “_He and I are_ sick.”–_James Brown cor._ “_Thou and I_ are well.”–_Id._ “_He and I are_.”–_Id._ “_Thou and I are_.”–_Id._ “_He, and I write_.”–_Id._ “_They and I_ are well.”–_Id._ “_She, and thou, and I_, were walking.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE IV.–DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
“To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, _is_ great injustice.”–_Inst., Key_, p. 273. “To reveal secrets, or to betray one’s friends, _is_ contemptible perfidy.”–_Id._ “To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude _capitals_ from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought _an offence_ too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something.”–_Dr. Barrow cor._ “To live in such families, or to have such servants, _is a blessing_ from God.”–_Fam. Com. cor._ “How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, _or_ what wars they maintained, _is_ utterly unknown.” Or: “How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, _and_ what wars they maintained, _are things_ utterly unknown.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “To speak or to write perspicuously and agreeably, _is an attainment_ of the utmost consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or _by_ writing, to address the public.”–_Dr. Blair cor._
UNDER NOTE V.–MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.
“Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and _go_ into the mountains, and _seek_ that which is gone astray?”–_Bible cor._ “Did he not fear the Lord, and _beseech_ the Lord, and _did not_ the Lord _repent_ of the evil which he had pronounced?”–_Id._ “And dost thou open thine eyes upon such _a_ one, and _bring_ me into judgement with thee?”–_Id._ “If any man among you _seemeth_ to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.”–_Id._ “If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or _buy_ aught of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one an other.”–_Id._ “And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee, _become_ poor, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant.”–_Id._ “If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there _remember_ that thy brother hath aught against thee,” &c.–_Id._ “Anthea was content to call a coach, and _so to cross_ the brook.” Or:–“and _in that she crossed_ the brook.”–_Johnson cor._ “It is either totally suppressed, or _manifested only_ in its lowest and most imperfect form.”–_Blair cor._ “But if any man _is_ a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth.” Or: “If any man _be_ a worshiper of God, and _do_ his will, him _will_ he _hear_.”–_Bible cor._ “Whereby his righteousness and obedience, death and sufferings without, become profitable unto us, and _are made_ ours.”–_Barclay cor._ “Who ought to have been here before thee, and _to have objected_, if they had _any thing_ against me.”–_Bible cor._
“Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see, That man _has_ yet a soul, and _dares_ be free.”–_Campbell cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.–USE SEPARATE NOMINATIVES.
“_H_ is only an aspiration, or breathing; and sometimes, at the beginning of a word, _it_ is not sounded at all.”–_Lowth cor._ “Man was made for society, and _he_ ought to extend his good will to all men.”–_Id._ “There is, and must be, a Supreme Being, of infinite goodness, power, and wisdom, who created, and _who_ supports them.”–_Beattie cor._ “Were you not affrighted, and _did you not mistake_ a spirit for a body?”–_Bp. Watson cor._ “The latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction _than_ or _as_, but _it either_ agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood.”–_Mur. et al. cor._ “He had mistaken his true _interest_, and _he_ found himself forsaken.”–_Murray cor._ “The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and _it_ saved the patient’s life.”–_Id._ “The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might have been, and probably _they_ were, good.”–_Id._ “This may be true, and yet _it_ will not justify the practice.”–_Webster cor._ “From the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and _who_ are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things.”–_Campbell cor._ “For those energies and bounties which created, and _which_ preserve, the universe.”–_J. Q. Adams cor._ “I shall make it once for all, and _I_ hope it will be remembered.”–_Blair cor._ “This consequence is drawn too abruptly. _The argument_ needed more explanation.” Or: “This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and _without sufficient_ explanation.”–_Id._ “They must be used with more caution, and _they_ require more preparation.”–_Id._ “The apostrophe denotes the omission of an _i_, which was formerly inserted, and _which_ made an addition of a syllable to the word.”–_Priestley cor._ “The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, _it_ is unavoidable.”–_Kames cor._ “It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is _it_ agreeable in any respect.”–_Id._
“Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts,–_they_ poorly stick at words.”–_Denham cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.–MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.
“Let us read the living page, whose every character _delights_ and instructs us.”–_Maunder cor._ “For if it _is_ in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and _does_ not please.”–_Kames cor._ “When a speaker _addresses_ himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers.”–_Campbell cor._ “As the wine which strengthens and _refreshes_ the heart.”–_H. Adams cor._ “This truth he _wraps_ in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other.”–_Pope cor._ “God searcheth and _understandeth_ the heart.” Or: “God _searches_ and _understands_ the heart.”–_T. a. Kempis cor._ “The grace of God, that _bringeth_ salvation, hath appeared to all men.”–_Titus_, ii, 11. “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom _teacheth_, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth.”–_1 Cor._, ii, 13. “But he _has_ an objection, which he _urges_, and by which he thinks to overturn all.”–_Barclay cor._ “In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it _gives to_ them who love it.”–_Id._ “Thou here misunderstood the place and _misapplied_ it.” Or: “Thou here _misunderstoodst_ the place and _misappliedst_ it.”–_Id._ Or: (as many of our grammarians will have it:) “Thou here _misunderstoodest_ the place and _misappliedst_ it.”–_Id._ “Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good _cometh_.”–See _Jer._, xvii, 6. “It _speaks_ of the time past, _and shows_ that something was then doing, but not quite finished.”–_Devis cor._ “It subsists in spite of them; it _advances_ unobserved.”–_Pascal cor._
“But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?– Methinks he _lingers_ late and tarries long.”–_Byron cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.–CONFUSION OF MOODS.
“If a man _have_ a hundred sheep, and one of them _go_ (or _be gone_) astray,” &c.–_Matt._, xviii, 12. Or: “If a man _has_ a hundred sheep, and one of them _goes_ (or _is gone_) astray,” &c. Or: “If a man _hath_ a hundred sheep, and one of them _goeth_ (or _is gone_) astray,” &c.–_Kirkham cor._ “As a speaker _advances_ in his discourse, and _increases_ in energy and earnestness, a higher and a louder tone will naturally steal upon him.”–_Id._ “If one man _esteem one_ day above an other, and an other _esteem_ every day alike; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.”–_Barclay cor._ See _Rom._, xiv, 5. “If there be but one body of legislators, it _will be_ no better than a tyranny; if there _be_ only two, there will want a casting voice.”–_Addison cor._ “Should you come up this way, and I _be_ still here, you need not be assured how glad I _should_ be to see you.”–_Byron cor._ “If he repent and _become_ holy, let him enjoy God and heaven.”–_Brownson cor._ “If thy fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou _say_ unto him, ‘Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,’ and yet _thou give_ him not those things _which_ are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy conduct?”–_Kirkham cor._
“Get on your nightgown, lest occasion _call_ us, And _show_ us to be watchers.”–_Singer’s Shakspeare_.
“But if it _climb_, with your assisting _hand_, The Trojan walls, and in the city _stand_.”–_Dryden cor._
—————-“Though Heaven’s King _Ride_ on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, _draw_ his triumphant wheels.”–_Milton cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.–IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
“Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as he has _left them_.”–_Reporter cor._ “Which they neither have _done_ nor can do.”–_Barclay cor._ “The Lord hath _revealed_, and doth and will reveal, his will to his people; and hath _raised up_, and doth raise up, members of his body,” &c.–_Id._ “We see, then, that the Lord hath _given_, and doth give, such.”–_Id._ “Towards those that have _declared_, or do declare, themselves members.”–_Id._ “For which we can _give_, and have given, our sufficient reasons.”–_Id._ “When we mention the several properties of the different words in sentences, as we have _mentioned_ those of _the word William’s_ above, what is the exercise called?”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “It is however to be doubted, whether this Greek idiom ever has _obtained_, or _ever_ will obtain, extensively, in English.”–_Nutting cor._ “Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much as we _do_?”–_Murray cor._ “Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be _delivered_ in order to move and persuade.”–_Kirkham cor._
UNDER NOTE X.–DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.
“And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be _avoided_.” Or: “I would avoid it altogether, if _to avoid_ it _were practicable_.”–_Kames cor._ “Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic; and _it_ must elevate the mind to the greatest height _to which it can be raised_ by a single expression.”–_Id._ “Successive images, _thus_ making deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate _the mind_ more than any single image can.”–_Id._ “Besides making a deeper impression than can be _made_ by cool reasoning.”–_Id._ “Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, _may_ rise higher than a public speaker _can_.” Or:–“than _can_ a public speaker.”–_Blair cor._ “And the very same reason that has induced several grammarians to go so far as they have _gone_, should have induced them to go farther.”–_Priestley cor._ “The pupil should commit the first section _to memory_ perfectly, before he _attempts_ (or _enters upon_) the second part of grammar.”–_Bradley cor._ “The Greek _ch_ was pronounced hard, as we now _pronounce it_ in _chord_.”–_Booth cor._ “They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they _adopt_ (or, in a _manner different_ from _that which_ they _are accustomed to use_) at other times.”–_L. Murray cor._ “And give him the _cool and formal_ reception that Simon had _given_.”–_Scott cor._ “I do not say, as some have _said_.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “If he suppose the first, he _may_ the last.”–_Barclay cor._ “Who are now despising Christ in his inward appearance, as the Jews of old _despised_ him in his outward [advent].”–_Id._ “That text of Revelations must not be understood as he _understands_ it.”–_Id._ “Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him that he can _parse_ it readily.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “Perhaps it is running the same course _that_ Rome had _run_ before.”–_Middleton cor._ “It ought even on this ground to be avoided; _and it_ easily _may be_, by a different construction.”–_Churchill cor._ “These two languages are now pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe _pronounces them_.”–_Creighton cor._ “Germany ran the same risk that Italy had _run_.”–_Bolingbroke, Murray, et al., cor._
UNDER NOTE XI.–PRETERITS AND PARTICIPLES.
“The beggars themselves will be _broken_ in a trice.”–_Swift cor._ “The hoop is _hoisted_ above his nose.”–_Id._ “And _his_ heart was _lifted_ up in the ways of the Lord.”–_2 Chron._, xvii, 6. “Who sin so oft have mourned, Yet to temptation _run_.”–_Burns cor._ “Who would not have let them _appear_.”–_Steele cor._ “He would have had you _seek_ for ease at the hands of Mr. Legality.”–_Bunyan cor._ “From me his madding mind is _turned: He woos_ the widow’s daughter, of the glen.”–_Spenser cor._ “The man has _spoken_, and _he_ still speaks.”–_Ash cor._ “For you have but _mistaken_ me all this while.”–_Shak. cor._ “And will you _rend_ our ancient love asunder?”–_Id._ “Mr. Birney has _pled_ (or _pleaded_) the inexpediency of passing such resolutions.”–_Liberator cor._ “Who have _worn_ out their years in such most painful labours.”–_Littleton cor._ “And in the conclusion you were _chosen_ probationer.”–_Spectator cor._
“How she was lost, _ta’en_ captive, made a slave; And how against him set that should her save.”–_Bunyan cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.–OF VERBS CONFOUNDED.
“But Moses preferred to _while_ away his time.”–_Parker cor._ “His face shone with the rays of the sun.”–_John Allen cor._ “Whom they had _set_ at defiance so lately.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “And when he _had sat down_, his disciples came unto him.”–_Bible cor._ “When he _had sat down_ on the judgement-seat.” Or: “_While_ he _was sitting_ on the judgement-seat.”– _Id._ “And, _they having kindled_ a fire in the midst of the hall and _sat_ down together, Peter sat down among them.”–_Id._ “So, after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and _had sat_ down again,[or, literally,’_sitting down again_,’] he said _to_ them, _Do_ ye _know_ what I have done to you?”–_Id._ “Even as I also overcame, and _sat_ down with my Father in his throne.”–_Id._ Or: (rather less literally:) “Even as I _have overcome_, and _am sitting_ with my Father _on_ his throne.”–_Id._ “We have such a high priest, who _sitteth_ on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.”–_Id._ “And _is now sitting_ at the right hand of the throne of God.”–_Id._ “He _set_ on foot a furious persecution.”– _Payne cor._ “There _lieth_ (or _lies_) an obligation upon the saints to help such.”–_Barclay cor._ “There let him _lie_.”–_Byron cor._ “Nothing but moss, and shrubs, and _stunted_ trees, can grow upon it.”–_Morse cor._ “Who had _laid_ out considerable sums purely to distinguish themselves.”– _Goldsmith cor._ “Whereunto the righteous _flee_ and are safe.”–_Barclay cor._ “He _rose_ from supper, and laid aside his garments.”–_Id._ “Whither–_oh!_ whither–shall I _flee_?”–_L. Murray cor._ “_Fleeing_ from an adopted murderer.”–_Id._ “To you I _flee_ for refuge.”–_Id._ “The sign that should warn his disciples to _flee_ from _the_ approaching ruin.”– _Keith cor._ “In one she _sits_ as a prototype for exact imitation.”–_Rush cor._ “In which some only bleat, bark, mew, _whinny_, and bray, a little better than others.”–_Id._ “Who represented to him the unreasonableness of being _affected_ with such unmanly fears.”–_Rollin cor._ “Thou _sawest_ every action.” Or, familiarly: “Thou _saw_ every action.”–_Guy cor._ “I taught, thou _taughtest_, or _taught_, he or she taught.”–_Coar cor._ “Valerian was taken by Sapor and _flayed_ alive, A. D. 260.”–_Lempriere cor._ “What a fine vehicle _has_ it now become, for all conceptions of the mind!”–_Blair cor._ “What _has_ become of so many productions?”–_Volney cor._ “What _has_ become of those ages of abundance and of life?”–_Keith cor._ “The Spartan admiral _had_ sailed to the Hellespont.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “As soon as he _landed_, the multitude thronged about him.”–_Id._ “Cyrus _had_ arrived at Sardis.”–_Id._ “Whose year _had_ expired.”–_Id._ “It _might_ better have been, ‘that faction which,'” Or; “‘That faction which,’ _would_ have been better.”–_Murray’s Gram._, p. 157. “This people _has_ become a great nation.”–_Murray and Ingersoll cor._ “And here we _enter_ the region of ornament.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The ungraceful parenthesis which follows, _might_ far better have been avoided.” “Who forced him under water, and there held him until _he was drowned_.”–_Hist. cor._
“I _would_ much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.”–_Cowper cor._
UNDER NOTE XIII.–WORDS THAT EXPRESS TIME.
“I _finished_ my letter _before_ my brother arrived.” Or: “I _had finished_ my letter _when_ my brother arrived.”–_Kirkham cor._ “I _wrote_ before I received his letter.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “From what _was formerly_ delivered.”–_Id._ “Arts _were at length_ introduced among them.” Or: “Arts _have been of late_ introduced among them.”–_Id._ [But the latter reading suits not the Doctor’s context.] “I am not of opinion that such rules _can be_ of much use, unless persons _see_ them exemplified.” Or:–“_could be_,” and “_saw_.”–_Id._ “If we _use_ the noun itself, we _say_, (or _must say_,) ‘This composition is John’s.'” Or: “If we _used_ the noun itself, we _should say_,” &c.–_L. Murray cor._ “But if the assertion _refer_ to something that _was transient_, or _to something that is not_ supposed to be _always the same_, the past tense must be preferred:” [as,] “They told him that Jesus of Nazareth _was passing_ by.”–_Luke and L. Murray cor._ “There is no particular intimation but that I _have continued_ to work, even to the present moment.”–_R. W. Green cor._ “Generally, as _has been_ observed already, it is but hinted in a single word or phrase.”–_Campbell cor._ “The wittiness of the passage _has been_ already illustrated.”–_Id._ “As was observed _before_.”–_Id._ Or: “As _has been_ observed _already_”–_Id._ “It _has been_ said already in general _terms_.”–_Id._ “As I hinted _before_.”–_Id._ Or: “As I _have hinted already_.”–_Id._ “What, I believe, was hinted once _before_.”–_Id._ “It is obvious, as _was_ hinted formerly, that this is but an artificial and arbitrary connexion.”–_Id._ “They _did_ anciently a great deal of hurt.”– _Bolingbroke cor._ “Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he _was_ the high priest.”–See _Acts_, xxiii, 5; _Webster cor._ “Most prepositions originally _denoted_ the _relations_ of place; and _from these_ they _were_ transferred, to denote, by similitude, other relations.”–_Lowth and Churchill cor._ “His gift was but a poor offering, _in comparison with_ his _great_ estate.”–_L. Murray cor._ “If he should succeed, and obtain his end, he _would_ not be the happier for it.” Or, better: “If he _succeed_, and _fully attain_ his end, he will not be the happier for it.”–_Id._ “These are torrents that swell to-day, and _that will_ have spent themselves by to-morrow.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Who have called that wheat _on one day_, which they have called tares _on the next_.”–_Barclay cor._ “He thought it _was_ one of his tenants.”–_Id._ “But if one went unto them from the dead, they _would_ repent.”–_Bible cor._ “Neither _would_ they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”–_Id._ “But it is while men _sleep_, that the arch-enemy always _sows_ his tares.”–_The Friend cor._ “Crescens would not _have failed_ to _expose_ him.”–_Addison cor._
“Bent _is_ his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound; Fierce as he _moves_, his silver shafts resound.”–_Pope cor._
UNDER NOTE XIV.–VERBS OF COMMANDING, &C.
“Had I commanded you to _do_ this, you would have thought hard of it.”–_G. B_. “I found him better than I expected to _find_ him.”–_L Murray’s Gram._, i, 187. “There are several smaller faults which I at first intended to _enumerate_.”–_Webster cor._ “Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object _shall_ make.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The girl said, if her master would but have let her _have_ money, she might have been well long ago.”–_Priestley et al. cor._ “Nor is there the least ground to fear that we _shall here_ be cramped within too narrow limits.”–_Campbell cor._ “The Romans, flushed with success, expected to _retake_ it.”–_Hooke cor._ “I would not have let _fall_ an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered.”–_Sterne cor._ “We expected that he _would arrive_ last night.”–_Brown’s Inst._, p. 282. “Our friends intended to _meet_ us.”–_Ib._ “We hoped to _see_ you.”–_Ib._ “He would not have been allowed to _enter_.”–_Ib._
UNDER NOTE XV.–PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.
“Cicero maintained, that whatsoever _is_ useful _is_ good.”–_G. B_. “I observed that love _constitutes_ the whole moral character of God.”–_Dwight cor._ “Thinking that one _gains_ nothing by being a good man.”–_Voltaire cor._ “I have already told you, that I _am_ a gentleman.”–_Fontaine cor._ “If I should ask, whether ice and water _are_ two distinct species of things.”–_Locke cor._ “A stranger to the poem would not easily discover that this _is_ verse.”–_Murray’s Gram._, 8vo, i, 260. “The doctor affirmed that fever always _produces_ thirst.”–_Brown’s Inst._, p. 282. “The ancients asserted, that virtue _is_ its own reward.”–_Ib._ “They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that the infinitive _is_ a mere noun.”–_Tooke cor._ “It was observed in Chap. III, that the distinctive OR _has_ a double use.”–_Churchill cor._ “Two young gentlemen, who have made a discovery that there _is_ no God.”–_Campbell’s Rhet._, p. 206.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVIII; INFINITIVES.
INSTANCES DEMANDING THE PARTICLE TO.
“William, please _to_ hand me that pencil.”–_Smith cor._ “Please _to_ insert points so as to make sense.”–_P. Davis cor._ “I have known lords _to_ abbreviate almost half of their words.”–_Cobbett cor._ “We shall find the practice perfectly _to_ accord with the theory.”–_Knight cor._ “But it would tend to obscure, rather than _to_ elucidate, the subject.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Please _to_ divide it for them, as it should be _divided_”–_J. Willetts cor._ “So as neither to embarrass nor _to_ weaken the sentence.”–_Blair and Mur. cor._ “Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and _to_ hear his heavenly discourse.”–_Same_. “That we need not be surprised to find this _to_ hold [i.e., to find _the same to be true_, or to find _it so_] in eloquence.”–_Blair cor._ “Where he has no occasion either to divide or _to_ explain” [_the topic in debate_.]–_Id._ “And they will find their pupils _to_ improve by hasty and pleasant steps.”–_Russell cor._ “The teacher, however, will please _to_ observe,” &c.–_Inf. S. Gr. cor._ “Please _to_ attend to a few rules in what is called syntax.”–_Id._ “They may dispense with the laws, to favour their friends, or _to_ secure their office.”–_Webster cor._ “To take back a gift, or _to_ break a contract, is a wanton abuse.”–_Id._ “The legislature _has_ nothing to do, but _to_ let it bear its own price.”–_Id._ “He is not to form, but _to_ copy characters.”–_Rambler cor._ “I have known a woman _to_ make use of a shoeing-horn.”–_Spect. cor._ “Finding this experiment _to_ answer, in every respect, their wishes.”–_Day cor._ “In fine, let him cause his arrangement _to_ conclude in the term of the question.”–_Barclay cor._
“That he permitted not the winds of heaven _To visit her_ too roughly.”
[Omit “_face_,” to keep the measure: or say,] “That he _did never let_ the winds of heaven _Visit her face_ too roughly.”–_Shak. cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIX.–OF INFINITIVES.
Instances after Bid, Dare, Feel, Hear, Let, Make, Need, See.
“I dare not proceed so hastily, lest I give offence.”–See _Murray’s Key_, Rule xii. “Their character is formed, and made _to_ appear.”–_Butler cor._ “Let there be but matter and opportunity offered, and you shall see them quickly revive again.”–_Bacon cor._ “It has been made _to_ appear, that there is no presumption against a revelation.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “MANIFEST, v. t. To reveal; to make appear; to show plainly.”–_Webster cor._ “Let him reign, like good Aurelius, or let him bleed like _Seneca_:” [Socrates did not bleed, he was poisoned.]–_Kirkham’s transposition of Pope cor._ “_Sing_ I could not; _complain_ I durst not.”–_Fothergill cor._ “If T. M. be not so frequently heard _to_ pray by them.”–_Barclay cor._ “How many of your own church members were never heard _to_ pray?”–_Id._ “Yea, we are bidden _to_ pray one for an other.”–_Id._ “He was made _to_ believe that neither the king’s death nor _his_ imprisonment would help him.”–_Sheffield cor._ “I felt a chilling sensation creep over me.”–_Inst._, p. 279. “I dare say he has not got home yet.”–_Ib._ “We sometimes see bad men honoured.”–_Ib._ “I saw him move”–_Felch cor._ “For see thou, ah! see thou, a hostile world its _terrors_ raise.”–_Kirkham cor._ “But that he make him rehearse so.”–_Lily cor._ “Let us rise.”–_Fowle cor._
“Scripture, you know, exhorts us to it; It bids us ‘seek peace, and ensue it.'”–_Swift cor._
“Who bade the mud from Dives’ wheel _Bedash_ the rags of Lazarus?
Come, brother, in that dust we’ll kneel, Confessing heaven that ruled it thus.”–_Christmas Book cor._
CHAPTER VII.–PARTICIPLES.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XX.
UNDER NOTE I.–EXPUNGE OF.
“In forming his sentences, he was very exact.”–_L. Murray_. “For not believing which, I condemn them.”–_Barclay cor._ “To prohibit his hearers from reading that book.”–_Id._ “You will please them exceedingly in crying down ordinances.”–_Mitchell cor._ “The warwolf subsequently became an engine for casting stones.” Or:–“for _the_ casting of stones.”–_Cons. Misc. cor._ “The art of dressing hides and working in leather was practised.”–_Id._ “In the choice they had made of him for restoring order.”–_Rollin cor._ “The Arabians exercised themselves by composing orations and poems.”–_Sale cor._ “Behold, the widow-woman was there, gathering sticks.”–_Bible cor._ “The priests were busied in offering burnt-offerings.”–_Id._ “But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.”–_Id._ “He left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.”–_Id._ “Those who accuse us of denying it, belie us.”–_Barclay cor._ “And breaking bread from house to house.”–_Acts_, iv, 46. “Those that set about repairing the walls.”–_Barclay cor._ “And secretly begetting divisions.”–_Id._ “Whom he has made use of in gathering his church.”–_Id._ “In defining and distinguishing the _acceptations_ and uses of those particles.”–_W. Walker cor._
“In _making this a crime_, we overthrow The laws of nations and of nature too.”–_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–ARTICLES REQUIRE OF.
“The mixing _of_ them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction.”–_Kames cor._ “The same objection lies against the employing _of_ statues.”–_Id._ “More efficacious than the venting _of_ opulence upon the fine arts.”–_Id._ “It is the giving _of_ different names to the same object.”–_Id._ “When we have in view the erecting _of_ a column.”–_Id._ “The straining _of_ an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so frequent.”–_Id._ “The cutting _of_ evergreens in the shape of animals, is very ancient.”–_Id._ “The keeping _of_ juries without _meat_, drink, or fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea.”–_Webster cor._ “The writing _of_ the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise.”–_Beck cor._ “The avoiding _of_ them is not an object of any moment.”–_Sheridan cor._ “Comparison is the increasing or decreasing _of_ the signification of a word by degrees.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “Comparison is the increasing or decreasing _of_ the quality by degrees.”–_Buchanan cor._ “The placing _of_ a circumstance before the word with which it is connected is the easiest of all inversion.”–_Id._ “What is emphasis? It is the emitting _of_ a stronger and fuller sound of voice,” &c.–_Bradley cor._ “Besides, the varying _of_ the terms will render the use of them more familiar.”–_A. Mur. cor._ “And yet the confining _of_ themselves to this true principle, has misled them.”–_Tooke cor._ “What is here commanded, is merely the relieving _of_ his misery.”–_Wayland cor._ “The accumulating _of_ too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind _in stead_ of adorning it.”–_Formey cor._ “For the compassing _of_ his point.”–_Rollin cor._ “To the introducing _of_ such an inverted order of things.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Which require only the doing _of_ an external action.”–_Id._ “The imprisoning _of_ my body is to satisfy your wills.”–_Fox cor._ “Who oppose the conferring _of_ such extensive command on one person.”–_Duncan cor._ “Luxury contributed not a little to the enervating _of_ their forces.”–_Sale cor._ “The keeping _of_ one day of the week for a sabbath.”–_Barclay cor._ “The doing _of_ a thing is contrary to the forbearing of it.”–_Id._ “The doubling _of_ the Sigma is, however, sometimes regular.”–_Knight cor._ “The inserting _of_ the common aspirate too, is improper.”–_Id._ “But in Spenser’s time the pronouncing _of_ the _ed_ [as a separate syllable,] seems already to have been something of an archaism.”–_Phil. Mu. cor._ “And to the reconciling _of_ the effect of their verses on the eye.”–_Id._ “When it was not in their power to hinder the taking _of_ the whole.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting _of_ the gates.”–_Id._ “So his whole life was a doing _of_ the will of the Father.”–_Penington cor._ “It signifies the suffering or receiving _of_ the action expressed.”–_Priestley cor._ “The pretended crime therefore was the declaring _of_ himself to be the Son of God.”–_West cor._ “Parsing is the resolving _of_ a sentence into its different parts of speech.”–_Beck cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.
“There is _no_ expecting _of_ the admiration of beholders.”–_Baxter cor._ “There is no hiding _of_ you in the house.”–_Shak. cor._ “For the better regulating _of_ government in the province of Massachusetts.”–_Brit. Parl. cor._ “The precise marking _of_ the shadowy boundaries of a complex government.”–_Adams cor._ “This state of discipline requires the voluntary foregoing _of_ many things which we desire, and _the_ setting _of_ ourselves to what we have no inclination to.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “This amounts to an active setting _of_ themselves against religion.”–_Id._ “Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing _of_ our Christian discipline.”–_Friends cor._ “Some men are so unjust that there is no securing _of_ our own property or life, but by opposing force to force.”–_Rev. John Brown cor._ “An Act for the better securing _of_ the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.”–_Geo. III cor._ “Miraculous curing _of_ the sick is discontinued.”–_Barclay cor._ “It would have been no transgressing _of_ the apostle’s rule.”–_Id._ “As far as consistent with the proper conducting _of_ the business of the House.”–_Elmore cor._ “Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning _of_ them at that day.” Or:–“at _their just condemnation_ at that day.”–_Bunyan cor._ “That transferring _of_ this natural manner will insure propriety.”–_Rush cor._ “If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old [i.e., frequent] turning _of_ the key.”–_Singer’s Shakspeare cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.
“So very simple a thing as a man’s wounding _of_ himself.”–_Dr. Blair cor., and Murray_. “Or with that man’s avowing _of_ his designs.”–_Blair, Mur., et al. cor._ “On his putting _of_ the question.”–_Adams cor._ “The importance of teachers’ requiring _of_ their pupils to read each section many times over.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Politeness is a kind of forgetting _of_ one’s self, in order to be agreeable to others.”–_Ramsay cor._ “Much, therefore, of the merit and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing _of_ us into some acquaintance with the writer.”–_Blair and Mack cor._ “Richard’s restoration to respectability depends on his paying _of_ his debts.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “Their supplying _of_ ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing _of the_ words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood.”–_Id._ “Her veiling _of_ herself, and shedding _of_ tears, &c., her upbraiding _of_ Paris for his cowardice,” &c.–_Blair cor._ “A preposition may be made known by its admitting _of_ a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “But this forms no just objection to its denoting _of_ time.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “Of men’s violating or disregarding _of_ the relations _in_ which God has _here_ placed them.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man’s killing _of_ his antagonist in a duel.”–_Campbell cor._ “His reminding _of_ them.”–_Kirkham cor._ “This mistake was corrected by his preceptor’s causing _of_ him to plant some beans.”–_Id._ “Their neglecting _of_ this was ruinous.”–_Frost cor._ “That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing _of_ the others as ‘finite.'”–_Felch cor._ “His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing _of_ it.” Or:–“_that he does_ it.”–_Sheridan cor._
UNDER NOTE III.–CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.
“An allegory is _a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal_; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying _of_ only one thing, _when we have_ two in view.”–_Phil. Mu. cor._ “A verb may generally be distinguished by _the sense which it makes_ with any of the personal pronouns, or _with_ the word TO, before it.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “A noun may in general be distinguished by _the article which comes_ before it, or by _the sense which it makes_ of itself.”–_Merchant et al. cor._ “An adjective may usually be known by _the sense which it makes_ with the word _thing_; as, a _good_ thing, a _bad_ thing.”–_Iid._ “It is seen _to be_ in the objective case, _because it denotes_ the object affected by the act of leaving.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “It is seen _to be_ in the possessive case, _because it denotes_ the possessor of something.”–_Id._ “The _noun_ MAN is caused by the _adjective_ WHATEVER to _seem like_ a twofold _nominative, as if it denoted_, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks.”–_Id._ “WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, _because it joins_ that line to the other part of the sentence.”–_Id._ “_Because they denote_ reciprocation.”–_Id._ “To allow them _to make_ use of that liberty;”–“To allow them _to use_ that liberty;”–or, “To allow them that liberty.”–_Sale cor._ “The worst effect of it is, _that it fixes_ on your mind a habit of indecision.”–_Todd cor._ “And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that _you have not power to shake_ it off.”–_Id._ “I know of nothing that can justify the _student in_ having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer.”–_Coleridge cor._ “Humour is the _conceit of_ making others act or talk absurdly.”–_Hazlitt cor._ “There are remarkable instances _in which they do not affect_ each other.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “_That Caesar was left out_ of the commission, was not from any slight.”–_Life cor._ “Of the _thankful reception_ of this toleration, I shall say no more,” Or: “Of the _propriety of_ receiving this toleration thankfully, I shall say no more.”–_Dryden cor._ “Henrietta was delighted with Julia’s _skill in_ working lace.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “And it is _because each of them represents_ two different words, that the confusion has arisen.”–_Booth cor._ “AEschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle’s _dropping of_ a tortoise on his head.” Or:–“caused by _a tortoise which an eagle let fall_ on his head.”–_Biog. Dict. cor._ “He doubted _whether they had_ it.”–_Felch cor._ “_To make_ ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech.”–_Sheridan cor._ “_One cannot discover_ in their countenances any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart.”–_Id._ “Nothing can be more common or less proper, than to speak of a _river as emptying itself_.”–_Campbell cor._ “Our _non-use of_ the former expression, is owing to this.”–_Bullions cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.–DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.
“To this generally succeeds the division, or the _laying-down_ of the method of the discourse.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “To the _pulling-down_ of strong holds.”–_Bible cor._ “Can a mere _buckling-on of_ a military weapon infuse courage?”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “_Expensive_ and _luxurious_ living destroys health.”–_L. Murray cor._ “By _frugal_ and _temperate_ living, health is preserved.” Or: “By living frugally and temperately, _we preserve our_ health.”–_Id._ “By the _doing-away_ of the necessity.”–_The Friend cor._ “He recommended to them, however, the _immediate_ calling of–(or, _immediately to call_–) the whole community to the church.”–_Gregory cor._ “The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly facilitates the _right_ reading _of_ them.”–_Churchill cor._ “From their _mere_ admitting of a twofold grammatical construction.”–_Phil. Mu. cor._ “His _grave_ lecturing _of_ his friend about it.”–_Id._ “For the _blotting-out_ of sin.”–_Gurney cor._ “From the _not-using_ of water.”– _Barclay cor._ “By the gentle _dropping-in_ of a pebble.”–_Sheridan cor._ “To the _carrying-on_ of a great part of that general course of nature.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Then the _not-interposing_ is so far from being a ground of complaint.”–_Id._ “The bare omission, (or rather, the _not-employing_,) of what is used.”–_Campbell and Jamieson cor._ “The _bringing-together_ of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault.”– _Churchill cor._ “This is a presumptive proof _that it does_ not _proceed_ from them.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “It represents him in a character to which _any injustice_ is peculiarly unsuitable.”–_Campbell cor._ “They will aim at something higher than _a mere dealing-out_ of harmonious sounds.”– _Kirkham cor._ “This is intelligible and sufficient; and _any further account of the matter_ seems beyond the reach of our faculties.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Apostrophe is a _turning-off_ from the regular course of the subject.”–_Mur. et al. cor._ “Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the _sending-out_ of a commission to investigate his conduct.”–_Life of Columbus cor._ “For the _turning-away_ of the simple shall slay them.”–_Bible cor._
“Thick fingers always should command Without _extension_ of the hand.”–_King cor._
UNDER NOTE V.–OF PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.
“Is there any Scripture _which_ speaks of the _light_ as being inward?”–_Barclay cor._ “For I believe not _positiveness_ therein essential to salvation.”–_Id._ “Our _inability_ to act _a uniformly_ right part without some thought and care.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “_On the_ supposition _that it is reconcilable_ with the constitution of nature.”–_Id._ “_On the ground that it is_ not discoverable by reason or experience.”–_Id._ “_On the ground that they are_ unlike the known course of nature.”–_Id._ “Our _power_ to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them.”–_Id._ “From its _lack of universality_.”–_Id._ “That they may be turned into passive _participles_ in _dus_, is no decisive argument _to prove them_ passive.”–_Grant cor._ “With the implied idea _that St. Paul was_ then absent from the Corinthians.”–_Kirkham cor._ “_Because it becomes_ gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence.”–_Id._ “Not without the author’s _full knowledge_.”–_Id._ “_Wit_ out of season is one sort of folly.”–_Sheffield cor._ “Its _general susceptibility_ of a much stronger evidence.”– _Campbell cor._ “At least, _that they are_ such, rarely enhances our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues.”–_Id._ “Which were the ground of our _unity_.”–_Barclay cor._ “But they may be distinguished from it by their _intransitiveness_.”–_L. Murray cor._ “To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing’s _possibility_.”–_Churchill cor._
“_That he was_ idle, and dishonest too, Was that which caused his utter overthrow.”–_Tobitt cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.–OF COMPOUND VERBAL NOUNS.
“When it denotes _subjection_ to the exertion of an other.”–_Booth cor._ “In the passive sense, it signifies _a subjection_ to the influence of the action.”–_Felch cor._ “_To be_ abandoned by our friends, is very deplorable.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Without waiting _to be_ attacked by the Macedonians.”–_Id._ “In progress of time, words were wanted to express men’s _connexion_ with certain conditions of fortune.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Our _acquaintance_ with pain and sorrow has a tendency to bring us to a settled moderation.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “The chancellor’s _attachment_ to the king, secured _to the monarch_ his crown.”–_L. Murray et al. cor._ “The general’s _failure_ in this enterprise occasioned his disgrace.”– _Iid._ “John’s _long application to_ writing had wearied him.”–_Iid._ “The sentence _may_ be, ‘John’s _long application_ to writing has wearied him.'”–_Wright cor._ “Much depends on _the observance of_ this _rule_.”– _L. Murray cor._ “He mentioned _that a boy had been_ corrected for his faults.”–_Alger and Merchant cor._ “The boy’s _punishment_ is shameful to him.”–_Iid._ “The greater the difficulty of remembrance is, and the more important the _being-remembered_ is to the attainment of the ultimate end.”–_Campbell cor._ “If the parts in the composition of similar objects were always in equal quantity, their _being-compounded_ (or their _compounding_) would make no odds.”–_Id._ “Circumstances, not of such importance as that the scope of the relation is affected by their _being-known_”–or, “by the _mention of them_.”–_Id._ “A passive verb expresses the receiving of an action, or _represents its subject as_ being acted upon; as, ‘John is beaten.'”–_Frost cor._ “So our language has an other great advantage; namely, _that it is little_ diversified by genders.”–_Buchanan cor._ “The _slander concerning Peter_ is no fault of _his_.”–_Frost cor._ “Without _faith in Christ_, there is no _justification_.”–_Penn cor._ “_Habituation_ to danger begets intrepidity; i.e., lessens fear.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “It is not _affection of any kind_, but _action that_ forms those habits.”–_Id._ “In order _that we may be_ satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox.”–_Campbell cor._ “_A trope consists_ in _the employing of a word_ to signify something that is different from its original _or usual_ meaning.”–_Blair, Jamieson, Murray, and Kirkham cor._; also _Hiley_. “The scriptural view of our _salvation_ from punishment.”–_Gurney cor._ “To submit and obey, is not a renouncing _of_ the _Spirit’s leading_.”–_Barclay cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.–PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &c.
“_To teach_ little children is a pleasant employment.” Or: “_The_ teaching _of_ little children,” &c.–_Bartlett cor._ “_To deny_ or _compromise the_ principles of truth, is virtually _to deny_ their divine Author.”–_Reformer cor._ “A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear _retrenching_”–“_retrenchment_”–or, “_to be retrenched_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Never attempt _to prolong_ the pathetic too much.”–_Id._ “I now recollect _to have_ mentioned–(or, _that I_ mentioned–) a report of that nature.”–_Whiting cor._ “Nor of the necessity which there is, for their _restraint_–(or, for _them to be_ restrained–) in them.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “But, _to do_ what God commands because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear.”–_Id._ “Simply _to close_ the nostrils, does not so entirely prevent resonance.”–_Gardiner cor._ “Yet they absolutely refuse _to do_ so.”–_Harris cor._ “But Artaxerxes could not refuse _to pardon_ him.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “_The_ doing _of_ them in the best manner, is signified by the _names_ of these arts.”–_Rush cor._ “_To behave_ well for the time to come, may be insufficient.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “The compiler proposed _to publish_ that part by itself.”–_Adam cor._ “To smile _on_ those _whom_ we should censure, is, _to bring_ guilt upon ourselves.”–_Kirkham cor._ “But it would be great injustice to that illustrious orator, to bring his genius down to the same level.”–_Id._ “_The doubt that_ things go ill, often hurts more, than to be sure they do.”–_Shak. cor._ “This is called _the_ straining _of_ a metaphor.”– _Blair and Murray cor._ “This is what Aristotle calls _the_ giving _of_ manners to the poem.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The painter’s _entire confinement_ to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “It imports _the retrenchment of_ all superfluities, and _a_ pruning _of_ the expression.”–_Blair et al. cor._ “The necessity for _us to be_ thus exempted is further apparent.”–_Jane West cor._ “Her situation in life does not allow _her to be_ genteel in every thing.”–_Same_. “Provided you do not dislike _to be_ dirty when you are invisible.”–_Same_. “There is now an imperious necessity for her _to be_ acquainted with her title to eternity.”–_Same_. “_Disregard to_ the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness.”–_Same_. “The legislature prohibits _the_ opening _of shops on_ Sunday.”–_Same_. “To attempt _to prove_ that any thing is right.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “The comma directs _us to make_ a pause of a second in duration, or less.”–_Id._ “The rule which directs _us to put_ other words into the place of it, is wrong.”–_Id._ “They direct _us to_ call the specifying adjectives, or adnames, adjective pronouns.”–_Id._ “William dislikes _to attend_ court.”–_Frost cor._ “It may perhaps be worth while _to remark_, that Milton makes a distinction.”–_Phil. Mu. cor._ “_To profess_ regard and _act injuriously, discovers_ a base mind.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “_To profess_ regard and _act_ indifferently, _discovers_ a base mind.”–_Weld cor._ “You have proved beyond contradiction, that _this course of action_ is the sure way to procure such an object.”–_Campbell cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.–PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &c.
“Irony is _a figure in which the speaker sneeringly utters the direct reverse of what he intends shall be understood_.”–_Brown’s Inst._, p. 235. [Correct by this the four false definitions of “Irony” cited from _Murray, Peirce, Fisher_, and _Sanborn_.] “This is, in a great measure, _a_ delivering _of_ their own compositions.”–_Buchanan cor._ “But purity is _a right use of_ the words of the language.”–_Jamieson cor._ “But the most important object is _the_ settling _of_ the English quantity.”–_Walker cor._ “When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to an other is a very wide step _taken_.”–_Campbell cor._ “It will be _a loss of_ time, to attempt further to illustrate it.”–_Id._ “This _leaves_ the sentence too bare, and _makes_ it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense.”–_Cobbett cor._ “This is _a_ requiring _of_ more labours from every private member.”–_J. West cor._ “Is not this, _to use_ one measure for our neighbours and _an other_ for ourselves?”–_Same_. “_Do we_ not _charge_ God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?”–_Same_. “This is not, _to endure_ the cross, as a disciple of Jesus Christ; but, _to snatch_ at it, like a _partisan_ of Swift’s Jack.”–_Same_. “What is spelling? It is _the_ combining _of_ letters to form syllables and words.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “It is _the_ choosing _of_ such letters to compose words,” &c.–_Id._ “What is parsing? (1.) It is _a_ describing _of_ the nature, use, and powers of words.”–_Id._ (2.) “For Parsing is _a_ describing _of_ the words of a sentence as they are used.”–_Id._ (3.) “Parsing is only _a_ describing _of_ the nature and relations of words as they are used.”–_Id._ (4.) “Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is a _statement of_ facts concerning words; or _a_ describing _of words_ in their offices and relations as they are.”–_Id._ (5.) “Parsing is _the_ resolving and explaining _of_ words according to the rules of grammar.”–_Id._ Better: “Parsing is _the_ resolving _or_ explaining _of a sentence_ according to the _definitions and_ rules of grammar.”–_Brown’s Inst._, p. 28. (6.) “_The_ parsing _of_ a word, remember, is _an_ enumerating and describing _of_ its various qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence.”–_Peirce cor._ (7.) “For the parsing _of_ a word is _an_ enumerating and describing _of_ its various properties, and [_its_] relations to [_other words in_] the sentence.”–_Id._ (8.) “_The_ parsing _of_ a noun is _an explanation_ of _its_ person, number, gender, and case; and also of its grammatical _relation_ in a sentence, with respect to _some_ other _word or_ words.”–_Ingersoll cor._ (9.) “_The_ parsing _of_ any part of speech is _an explanation of_ all its properties and relations.”–_Id._ (10.)” Parsing is _the_ resolving _of_ a sentence into its elements.”–_Fowler cor._ “The highway of the _upright_ is, _to depart_ from evil.”–_Prov._, xvi, 17. “Besides, the first step towards exhibiting _the_ truth, should be, _to remove_ the veil of error.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “Punctuation is _the_ dividing _of_ sentences, and the words of sentences, by _points for_ pauses.”–_Id._ “_An other_ fault is _the_ using _of_ the imperfect _tense_ SHOOK _in stead_ of the participle SHAKEN.”–_Churchill cor._ “Her employment is _the_ drawing _of_ maps.”–_Alger cor._ “_To go_ to the play, according to his notion, is, _to lead_ a sensual life, and _to expose one’s_ self to the strongest temptations. This is _a_ begging _of_ the question, and _therefore_ requires no answer.”–_Formey cor._ “It is _an_ overvaluing _of_ ourselves, to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities.”–_Comly’s Key, in his Gram._, p. 188; _Fisk’s Gram._, p. 135. “What is vocal language? It is _speech_, or _the_ expressing of ideas by the human voice.”–_C. W. Sanders cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.–VERBS OF PREVENTING.
“The annulling power of the constitution prevented that _enactment from_ becoming a law.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “Which prevents the _manner from_ being brief.”–_Id._ “This close prevents _them from_ bearing forward as nominatives.”–_Rush cor._ “Because this prevents _it from_ growing _drowsy_.”–_Formey cor._ “Yet this does not prevent _him from_ being great.”–_Id._ “To prevent _it from_ being insipid.”–_Id._ “Or whose interruptions did not prevent its _continuance_.” Or thus: “Whose interruptions did not prevent _it from_ being continued.”–_Id._ “This by no means prevents _them from_ being also punishments.”–_Wayland cor._ “This hinders _them_ not _from_ being also, in the strictest sense, punishments.”–_Id._ “The noise made by the rain and wind, prevented _them from_ being heard.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “He endeavoured to prevent _it from_ taking effect.”–_Id._ “So sequestered as to prevent _them from_ being explored.”–_Jane West cor._ “Who prevented her _from_ making a more pleasant party.”–_Same_. “To prevent _us from_ being tossed about by every wind of doctrine.”–_Same_. “After the infirmities of age prevented _him from_ bearing his part of official duty.”–_R. Adam cor._ “To prevent splendid trifles _from_ passing for matters of importance.”–_Kames cor._ “Which prevents _him from_ exerting himself to any good purpose.”–_Beattie cor._ “The _nonobservance_ of this rule very frequently prevents _us from_ being punctual in the performance of our duties.”–_Todd cor._ “Nothing will prevent _him from_ being a student, and possessing the means of study.”–_Id._ “Does the present accident hinder _you from_ being honest and brave?”–_Collier cor._ “The _e_ is omitted to prevent two _Ees from_ coming together.”–_Fowle cor._ “A pronoun is used for, or in place of, a noun,–to prevent _a repetition of_ the noun.”–_Sanborn cor._ “Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents _it from_ being tired with the frequent recurrence of the rhymes.”–_Campbell cor._; also _Murray_. “Timidity and false shame prevent _us from_ opposing vicious customs.”–_Mur. et al. cor._ “To prevent _them from_ being moved by such.”–_Campbell cor._ “Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents _it from_ taking place.”–_Priestley cor._ “Which prevents _us from_ making a progress towards perfection.”–_Sheridan cor._ “This method of distinguishing words, must prevent any regular proportion of time _from_ being settled.”–_Id._ “That nothing but affectation can prevent _it from_ always taking place.”–_Id._ “This did not prevent _John from_ being acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy.” Or: “_Notwithstanding_ this, _John was_ acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy.”–_Henry, Webster, Sanborn, and Fowler cor._
UNDER NOTE X.–THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.
“This would _make it impossible for a noun_, or any other _word_, ever _to be_ in the possessive case.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “A great part of our pleasure arises from _finding_ the plan or story well conducted.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “And we have no reason to wonder _that this was_ the case.”–_Id._ “She objected only, (as Cicero says,) to Oppianicus _as_ having two sons by his present wife.”–_Id._ “_The subjugation of_ the Britons by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their _calling of_ these Saxons to their assistance.”–_Id._ “What he had there said concerning the Saxons, _that they expelled_ the Britons, and _changed_ the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and a good reason _why_ our present language _is_ Saxon, rather than British.”–_Id._ “The only material difference between them, _except that_ the one _is_ short and the other _more_ prolonged, is, that a metaphor _is always explained_ by the words that are connected with it.”–_Id. et Mur. cor._ “The description of _Death_, advancing to meet Satan on his arrival.”–_Rush cor._ “Is not the bare fact, _that_ God _is_ the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?”–_Chalmers cor._ “As in the case of one _who is_ entering upon a new study.”–_Beattie cor._ “The manner _in which_ these _affect_ the copula, is called the imperative _mood_.”–_Wilkins cor._ “We are freed from the trouble, _because_ our nouns _have scarcely any_ diversity of endings.”–_Buchanan cor._ “The verb is rather indicative of the _action as_ being doing, or done, than _of_ the time _of the event_; but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable.”–_Booth cor._ “Nobody would doubt _that_ this _is_ a sufficient proof.”–_Campbell cor._ “Against the doctrine here maintained, _that_ conscience as well as reason, _is_ a natural faculty.”–_Beattie cor._ “It is one cause _why_ the Greek and English languages _are_ much more easy to learn, than the Latin.”–_Bucke cor._ “I have not been able to make out a solitary instance _in which_ such _has been_ the fact.”–_Lib. cor._ “An _angel_, forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king’s condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror.”–_Wood cor._ “The _prisoners, in attempting_ to escape, aroused the keepers.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “I doubt not, in the least, _that_ this _has_ been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “From the general rule he lays down, _that the verb is_ the parent word of all language.”–_Tooke cor._ “He was accused of being idle.” Or: “He was accused of _idleness_.”–_Felch cor._ “Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him _for_ so removing.” Or: “with _the circumstances of his removal_.”–_Edmondson cor._ “The spectacle is too rare, of _men_ deserving solid fame while not seeking it.”–_Bush cor._ “What further need was there _that_ an other priest _should rise_?”–_Heb._, vii, 11.
UNDER NOTE XI.–REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.
“Viewing them separately, _we experience_ different emotions.” Or: “_Viewed_ separately, _they produce_ different emotions.”–_Kames cor._ “But, _this being left_ doubtful, an other objection occurs.”–_Id._ “_As he proceeded_ from one particular to an other, the subject grew under his hand.”–_Id._ “But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain _is_ broken.”–_Id._ “After some _days_’ hunting,–(or, After some days _spent in_ hunting,)–Cyrus communicated his design to his officers.”–_Rollin cor._ “But it is made, without the appearance of _being made_ in form.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “These would have had a better effect, _had they been_ disjoined, thus.”–_Blair and Murray cor._ “_In_ an improper diphthong, but one of the vowels _is_ sounded.”–_Murray, Alger, et al. cor._ “And _I_ being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady.”–_Blair, Mur., and Jam. cor._ “By often doing the same thing, _we make the action_ habitual.” Or: “_What is_ often _done_, becomes habitual.”–_L. Murray cor._ “They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when _we are_ surrounded with friends and cheerful society.”–_Id._ “Besides _showing_ what is right, _one may further explain_ the matter by pointing out what is wrong.”–_Lowth cor._ “The former teaches the true pronunciation of words, _and comprises_ accent, quantity, emphasis, _pauses_, and _tones_.”–_L. Murray cor._ “_A person may reprove others_ for their negligence, by saying, ‘You have taken great care indeed.'”–_Id._ “The _word_ preceding and _the word_ following it, are in apposition to each other.”–_Id._ “_He_ having finished his speech, the assembly dispersed.”–_Cooper cor._ “Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of _allowing it to do_.”–_Kirkham cor._ “The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, _which only deprived_ them of his assistance.”–_Kames cor._ “Taking them as nouns, _we may explain_ this construction thus.”–_Grant cor._ “These have an active signification, _except_ those which come from neuter verbs.”–_Id._ “From _its evidence_ not being universal.” Or: “From the _fact that its evidence is not_ universal.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “And this faith will continually grow, _as we acquaint_ ourselves with our own nature.”–_Channing cor._ “Monosyllables ending with any consonant but _f, l_, or _s_, never double the final consonant, _when it is preceded by a single vowel_; except _add, ebb_,” &c.–_Kirkham’s Gram._, p. 23. Or: “_Words_ ending with any consonant except _f, l_, or _s_, do not double the final letter. Exceptions. Add, ebb, &c.”–_Bullions’s E. Gram._, p. 3. (See my 2d Rule for Spelling, of which this is a partial copy.) “The relation of _Maria as_ being the object of the action, is expressed by the change of the noun _Maria_ to _Mariam_;” [i. e., in the _Latin_ language.]–_Booth cor._ “In analyzing a proposition, _one must_ first _divide it_ into its logical subject and predicate.”–_Andrews and Stoddard cor._ “In analyzing a simple sentence, _one_ should first _resolve it_ into its logical subject and logical predicate.”–_Wells cor._
UNDER NOTE XII.–OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.
“The _instant discovery of_ passions at their birth, is essential to our well-being.”–_Kames cor._ “I am now to enter on _a consideration of_ the sources of the pleasures of taste.”–_Blair cor._ “The varieties in _the use of_ them are indeed many.”–_Murray cor._ “_The_ changing _of_ times and seasons, _the_ removing and _the setting-up_ of kings, belong to Providence alone.”–_Id._ “_Adherence_ to the partitions, seemed the cause of France; _acceptance of_ the will, that of the house of Bourbon.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “An other source of darkness in _composition_, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases.”–_Campbell cor._ “These are the rules of grammar; by observing which, you may avoid mistakes.”–_L. Murray et al. cor._ “By observing the rules, you may avoid mistakes.”–_Alger cor._ “By observing these rules, he succeeded.”–_Frost cor._ “_The praise bestowed on him_ was his ruin.”–_Id._ “_Deception_ is not _convincement_.”–_Id._ “He never feared _the loss_ of a friend.”–_Id._ “_The_ making _of_ books is his amusement.”–_Alger cor._ “We call it _the_ declining–(or, _the declension_–) _of_ a noun.”–_Ingersoll cor._ “Washington, however, pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly _the_ taking _of_ any part in the wars of Europe.”–_Hall and Baker cor._ “The following is a note of Interrogation, or _of a_ question: (?).”–_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ “The following is a note of Admiration, or _of_ wonder: (!).”–_Id._ “_The use or omission of_ the article A forms a nice distinction in the sense.”–_Murray cor._ “_The_ placing _of_ the preposition before the word, _which_ it governs, is more graceful.”–_Churchill cor._ (See _Lowth’s Gram._, p. 96; _Murray’s_, i, 200; _Fisk’s_, 141; _Smith’s_, 167.) “Assistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and _the_ retrieving _of_ their affairs.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Which termination, [_ish_,] when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or _a_ lessening of the quality.”–_Mur. and Kirkham cor._ “After what _has been_ said, will it be thought _an excess of refinement_, to suggest that the different orders are qualified for different purposes?”–_Kames cor._ “Who has nothing to think of, but _the_ killing _of_ time.”–_West cor._ “It requires no nicety of ear, as in the distinguishing of tones, or _the_ measuring _of_ time.”–_Sheridan cor._ “The _possessive case_ [is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which] denotes possession, or _the relation of property_.”–_S. R. Hall cor._
UNDER NOTE XIII.–PERFECT PARTICIPLES.
“Garcilasso was master of the language _spoken_ by the Incas.”–_Robertson cor._ “When an interesting story is _broken_ off in the middle.”–_Kames cor._ “Speaking of Hannibal’s elephants _driven_ back by the enemy.”–_Id._ “If Du Ryer had not _written_ for bread, he would have equalled them.”–_Formey cor._ “Pope describes a rock _broken_ off from a mountain, and hurling to the plain.”–_Kames cor._ “I have written, Thou hast written, He hath or has written; &c.”–_Ash and Maltby cor._ “This was _spoken_ by a pagan.”–_Webster cor._ “But I have _chosen_ to follow the common arrangement.”–_Id._ “The language _spoken_ in Bengal.”–_Id._ “And sound sleep thus _broken_ off with _sudden_ alarms, is apt enough to discompose any one.”–_Locke cor._ “This is not only the case of those open sinners before _spoken_ of.”–_Leslie cor._ “Some grammarians have written a very perplexed and difficult doctrine on Punctuation.”–_Ensell cor._ “There hath a pity _arisen_ in me towards thee.”–_G. Fox Jun. cor._ “Abel is the only man that has _undergone_ the awful change of death.”–_De Genlis, Death of Adam_.
“Meantime, on Afric’s glowing sands, _Smit_ with keen heat, the traveller stands.”–_Ode cor._
CHAPTER VIII.–ADVERBS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXI.
UNDER NOTE I.–THE PLACING OF ADVERBS.
“_Not_ all that is favoured by good use, is proper to be retained.”–_L. Murray corrected._ “_Not_ everything favoured by good use, is on that account worthy to be retained.”–_Campbell cor._ “Most men dream, but _not_ all.”–_Beattie cor._ “By hasty composition, we shall _certainly_ acquire a very bad style.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The comparisons are short, touching on _only_ one point of resemblance.”–_Id._ “Having _once_ had some considerable object set before us.”–_Id._ “The positive seems to be _improperly_ called a degree.” [543]–_Adam and Gould cor._ “In some phrases, the genitive _only_ is used.”–_Iid._ “This blunder is said to have _actually_ occurred.”–_Smith cor._ “But _not_ every man is called James, nor every woman, Mary.”–_Buchanan cor._ “Crotchets are employed for _nearly_ the same purpose as the parenthesis.”–_Churchill cor._ “There is a _still_ greater impropriety in a double comparative.”–_Priestley cor._ “We often have occasion to speak of time.”–_Lowth cor._ “The following sentence cannot _possibly_ be understood.”–_Id._ “The words must _generally_ be separated from the context.”–_Comly cor._ “Words ending in _ator, generally_ have the accent on the penultimate.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “The learned languages, with respect to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in general, constructed _differently_ from the English tongue.”–_Id._ “Adverbs seem to have been _originally_ contrived to express compendiously, in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more.”–_Id._ “But it is so, _only_ when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case.”–_Id._ “‘Enter _boldly_,’ says he, ‘for here too there are gods.'”–_Harris cor._ “For none _ever_ work for so little a pittance that some cannot be found to work for less.”–_Sedgwick cor._ “For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive _again_ as much.”–_Bible cor._ Or, as Campbell has it in his version:–“_that they may_ receive as much _in return_.”–_Luke_, vi, 34. “They must be viewed in _exactly_ the same light.”–_L. Murray cor._ “If he _speaks but_ to display his abilities, he is unworthy of attention.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE II.–ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.
“_Upward_ motion is commonly more agreeable than motion _downward_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “There are but two _possible_ ways of justification before God.”–_Cox cor._ “This construction sounds rather _harsh_.”–_Mur. and Ing. cor._ “A clear conception, in the mind of the learner, of _regular_ and well-formed letters.”–_C. S. Jour. cor._ “He was a great hearer of * * * Attalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes _frequent_ mention.”–_L’Estrange cor._ “It is only the _frequent_ doing of a thing, that makes it a custom.”–_Leslie cor._ “Because W. R. takes _frequent_