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"To enable us to avoid too frequent _a_ repet.i.tion of the same word."--_Bucke cor._ "The former is commonly acquired in _a_ third part of the time."--_Burn cor._ "Sometimes _an_ adjective becomes a substantive; and, _like other substantives, it may have an_ adjective _relating_ to it: as, '_The chief good_.'"--_L. Murray cor._ "An articulate sound is _a_ sound of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech."--_Id. "A tense_ is _a_ distinction of time: there are six tenses."--_Maunder cor._ "In this case, _an_ ellipsis of the last article would be improper."--_L. Hurray cor._ "Contrast _always_ has the effect to make each of the contrasted objects appear in _a_ stronger light."--_Id. et al_. "These remarks may serve to _show_ the great importance of _a_ proper use of the _articles_."--_Lowth et al. cor._ "'Archbishop Tillotson,' says _the_ author of _a_ history of England, 'died in this year.'"--_Dr. Blair cor._ "p.r.o.nouns are used in stead of substantives, to prevent too frequent _a_ repet.i.tion of them."--_A. Murray cor._ "THAT, as a relative, seems to be introduced to _prevent_ too frequent _a_ repet.i.tion of WHO and WHICH."--_Id._ "A p.r.o.noun is a word used in stead of a noun, to _prevent_ too frequent _a_ repet.i.tion of it."--_L. Murray cor._ "THAT is often used as a relative, to prevent too frequent _a_ repet.i.tion of WHO and WHICH."--_Id. et al. cor._ "His knees smote one against _the_ other."--_Logan cor._ "They stand now on one foot, then on _the_ other."--_W. Walker cor._ "The Lord watch between thee and me, when we are absent one from _the_ other."--_Bible cor._ "Some have enumerated ten parts of speech, making _the_ participle a distinct part."--_L. Murray cor._ "Nemesis rides upon _a_ hart because _the_ hart is a most lively creature."--_Bacon cor._ "The transition of the voice from one vowel of the diphthong to _the_ other."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "So difficult it is, to separate these two things one from _the_ other."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Without _a_ material breach of any rule."--_Id._ "The great source of _looseness_ of style, in opposition to precision, is _an_ injudicious use of _what_ are termed _synonymous words_."--_Blair cor._; also _Murray_.

"Sometimes one article is improperly used for _the_ other."--_Sanborn cor._

"Satire of sense, alas! can Sporus feel?

Who breaks a b.u.t.terfly upon _the_ wheel?"--_Pope cor._

LESSON V.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"He hath no delight in the strength of _a_ horse."--_Maturin cor._ "The head of it would be _a_ universal monarch."--_Butler cor._ "Here they confound the material and _the_ formal object of faith."--_Barclay cor._ "The Irish [Celtic] and _the Scottish_ Celtic are one language; the Welsh, _the_ Cornish, and _the_ Armorican, are _an_ other."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "In _a_ uniform and perspicuous manner."--_Id._ "SCRIPTURE, _n._ Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and _the_ New Testament; the Bible."--_Webster cor._ "In two separate volumes, ent.i.tled, 'The Old and New Testaments.'"--_Wayland cor._ "The Scriptures of the Old and _the_ New Testament, contain a revelation from G.o.d."--_Id._ "Q has _always a_ u after it; which, in words of French origin, is not sounded."--_Wilson cor._ "What should we say of such _a_ one? that he is regenerate? No."--_Hopkins cor._ "Some grammarians subdivide _the_ vowels into simple and compound."--_L. Murray cor._ "Emphasis has been _divided_ into the weaker and _the_ stronger emphasis."--_Id._ "Emphasis has also been divided into _the_ superior and the inferior emphasis."--_Id._ "p.r.o.nouns must agree with their antecedents, or _the_ nouns which they represent, in gender, number, and person."--_Merchant cor._ "The adverb _where_ is often used improperly, for _a_ relative p.r.o.noun and _a_ preposition": as, "Words _where_ [in which] the _h_ is not silent."--_Murray_, p. 31. "The termination _ish_ imports diminution, or _a_ lessening _of_ the quality."--_Merchant cor._ "In this train, all their verses proceed: one half of _a_ line always answering to the other."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "To _a_ height of prosperity and glory, unknown to any former age."--_L. Murray cor._ "_Hwilc_, who, which, such as, such _a_ one, is declined as follows."--_Gwilt cor._ "When a vowel precedes _the y, s_ only is required to form _the_ plural; as, _day, days_."--_Bucke cor._ "He is asked what sort _of word_ each is; whether a primitive, _a_ derivative, or _a_ compound."--_British Gram. cor._ "It is obvious, that neither the second, _the_ third, nor _the_ fourth chapter of Matthew, is the first; consequently, there are not '_four first_ chapters.'"--_Churchill cor._ "Some thought, which a writer wants _the_ art to introduce in its proper place."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Groves and meadows are _the_ most pleasing in the spring."--_Id._ "The conflict between the carnal and _the_ spiritual mind, is often long."--_Gurney cor._ "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and _the_ Beautiful"--_Burke cor._

"Silence, my muse! make not these jewels cheap, Exposing to the world too large _a_ heap."--_Waller cor._

CHAPTER III.--NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE MODIFICATIONS OF NOUNS.

LESSON I.--NUMBERS.

"All the ablest of the Jewish _rabbies_ acknowledge it."--_Wilson cor._ "Who has thoroughly imbibed the system of one or other of our Christian _rabbies_."--_Campbell cor._ "The seeming _singularities_ of reason soon wear off."--_Collier cor._ "The chiefs and _arikies_, or priests, have the power of declaring a place or object taboo."--_Balbi cor._ "Among the various tribes of this family, are the Pottawatomies, the _Sauks_ and Foxes, or _Saukies_ and _Ottogamies_."--_Id._ "The Shawnees, Kickapoos, Menom'onies, _Miamies_, and Delawares, are of the same region."--_Id._ "The Mohegans and _Abenaquies_ belonged also to this family."--_Id._ "One tribe of this family, the _Winnebagoes_, formerly resided near lake Michigan."--_Id._ "The other tribes are the Ioways, the Otoes, the _Missouries_, the Quapaws."--_Id._" The great Mexican family comprises the Aztecs, the Toltecs, and the _Tarascoes_."--_Id._" The Mulattoes are born of negro and white parents; the _Zamboes_, of Indians and Negroes."--_Id._ "To have a place among the Alexanders, the Caesars, the _Louises_, or the _Charleses_,--the scourges and butchers of their fellow-creatures."--Burgh cor." Which was the notion of the Platonic philosophers and the Jewish _rabbies_."--_Id._ "That they should relate to the whole body of _virtuosoes_."--_Cobbeti cor._" What _thanks_ have ye? for sinners also love those that love them."--_Bible cor._" There are five ranks of n.o.bility; dukes, _marquises_, earls, viscounts, and barons."--_Balbi cor._"

Acts which were so well known to the two _Charleses_."--_Payne cor._ "_Courts-martial_ are held in all parts, for the trial of the blacks."--_Observer cor._ "It becomes a common noun, and may have _the_ plural number; as, the two _Davids_, the two _Scipios_, the two _Pompeys_."--_Staniford cor._ "The food of the rattlesnake is birds, squirrels, _hares_, rats, and reptiles."--_Balbi cor._ "And let _fowls_ multiply in the earth."--_Bible cor._ "Then we reached the _hillside_, where eight _buffaloes_ were grazing."--_Martineau cor._ "CORSET, _n. a bodice_ for a woman."--_Worcester cor._ "As, the _Bees_, the _Cees_, the _Double-ues_."--_Peirce cor._ "Simplicity is the _mean_ between ostentation and rusticity."--_Pope cor._ "You have disguised yourselves like _tipstaffs_."--_Gil Bias cor._ "But who, that _has_ any taste, can endure the incessant quick returns of the _alsoes_, and the _likewises_, and the _moreovers_, and the _howevers_, and the _notwithstandings?_"--_Campbell cor._

"Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise, Let _ays_ seem _noes_, and _noes_ seem _ays_."--_Gay cor._

LESSON II.--CASES.

"For whose _name's_ sake, I have been made willing."--_Penn cor._ "Be governed by your conscience, and never ask any _body's_ leave to be honest."--_Collier cor._ "To overlook _n.o.body's_ merit or misbehaviour."-- _Id._ "And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of _Ajax's_ s.h.i.+p."--_Coleridge cor._ "Nothing is lazier, than to keep _one's_ eye upon words without heeding their meaning."--_Museum cor._ "Sir William _Jones's_ division of the day."--_Id._ "I need only refer here to _Voss's_ excellent account of it."--_Id._ "The beginning of _Stesichorus's_ palinode has been preserved."--_Id._ "Though we have _Tibullus's_ elegies, there is not a word in them about Glyc~era."--_Id._ "That Horace was at _Thaliarchus's_ country-house."--_Id._ "That _Sisyphus's_ foot-tub should have been still in existence."--_Id._ "How everything went on in Horace's closet, and _Mecenas's_ antechamber."--_Id._ "Who, for elegant _brevity's_ sake, put a participle for a verb."--_W. Walker cor._ "The _country's_ liberty being oppressed, we have no more to hope."--_Id._ "A brief but true account of this _people's_ principles."--_Barclay cor._ "As, The _Church's peace_, or, _The peace_ of the Church; Virgil's _aeneid_, or, _The aeneid_ of Virgil."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "As, Virgil's aeneid, for, _The_ aeneid of Virgil; _The Church's peace_, for, _The peace_ of the Church."--_Buchanan cor._ "Which, with Hubner's Compend, and _Well's_ Geographia Cla.s.sica, will be sufficient."--_Burgh cor._ "Witness Homer's speaking horses, scolding G.o.ddesses, and Jupiter _enchanted_ with _Venus's_ girdle."--_Id._ "_Dr.

Watts's_ Logic may with success be read to them and commented on."--_Id._ "Potter's Greek, and Kennet's Roman Antiquities, _Strauchius's_ and _Helvicus's_ Chronology."--_Id._ "SING. _Alice's_ friends, _Felix's_ property; PLUR. The Alices' friends, the Felixes' property."--_Peirce cor._ "Such as _Bacchus's_ company--at _Bacchus's_ festivals."--_Ainsworih cor._ "_Burns's_ inimitable _Tam o' Shanter_ turns entirely upon such a circ.u.mstance."--_Scott cor._ "Nominative, men; Genitive, [or Possessive,]

_men's_; Objective, men."--_Cutler cor._ "_Men's_ happiness or misery is _mostly_ of their own making."--_Locke cor._ "That your _son's clothes_ be never made strait, especially about the breast."--_Id._ "_Children's_ minds are narrow and weak."--_Id._ "I would not have little children much tormented about _punctilios_, or niceties of breeding."--_Id._ "To fill his head with suitable ideas."--_Id._ "The _Burgusdisciuses_ and the Scheiblers did not swarm in those days, as they do now."--_Id._ "To see the various ways of dressing--a _calf's_ head!"--_Shenstone cor._

"He puts it on, and for _decorum's_ sake Can wear it e'en as gracefully as she."--_Cowper cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Simon the _wizard_ was of this religion too"--_Bunyan cor._ "MAMMODIES, n.

Coa.r.s.e, plain, India muslins."--_Webster cor._ "Go on from single persons to families, that of the _Pompeys_ for instance."--_Collier cor._ "By which the ancients were not able to account for _phenomena_."--_Bailey cor._ "After this I married a _woman_ who had lived at Crete, but a _Jewess_ by birth."--_Josephus cor._ "The very _heathens_ are inexcusable for not _wors.h.i.+ping_ him."--_Todd cor._ "Such poems as _Camoens's_ Lusiad, Voltaire's Henrinde, &c."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "My learned correspondent writes a word in defence of large _scarfs_."--_Sped. cor._ "The forerunners of an apoplexy are _dullness, vertigoes_, tremblings."--_Arbuthnot cor._"

_Vertigo_, [in Latin,] changes the _o_ into _~in=es_, making the plural _vertig~in=es_:" [not so, in English.]--_Churchill cor._ "_Noctambulo_, [in Latin,] changes the _o_ into _=on=es_, making the plural _noctambul=on=es_:" [not so in English.]--_Id._ "What shall we say of _noctambuloes?_ It is the regular English plural."--_G. Brown_. "In the curious fretwork of rocks and _grottoes_."--_Blair cor._ "_Wharf_ makes the plural _wharfs_, according to the best usage."--_G. Brown_. "A few _cents'_ worth of _macaroni_ supplies all their wants."--_Balbi cor._ "C sounds hard, like _k_, at the end of a word or _syllable_."--_Blair cor._ "By which the _virtuosoes_ try The magnitude of every lie."--_Butler cor._ "_Quartoes, octavoes_, shape the lessening pyre."--_Pope cor._ "Perching within square royal _roofs_"--_Sidney cor._ "_Similes_ should, even in poetry, be used with moderation."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "_Similes_ should never be taken from low or mean objects."--_Id._ "It were certainly better to say, '_The House of Lords_,' than, '_The Lords' House_.'"--_Murray cor._ "Read your answers. _Units_' figure? 'Five.' _Tens_'? 'Six.' _Hundreds_'?

'Seven.'"--_Abbott cor._ "Alexander conquered _Darius's_ army."--_Kirkham cor._ "Three _days_' time was requisite, to prepare matters."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "So we say, that _Cicero's_ style and _Sall.u.s.t's_ were not one; nor _Caesar's_ and _Livy's_; nor _Homer's_ and _Hesiod's_; nor _Herodotus's_ and _Thucydides's_; nor _Euripides's_ and _Aristophanes's_; nor _Erasmus's_ and _Budaeus's_."--_Puttenham cor._ "LEX (i.e., _legs_, a _law_,) is no other than our _ancestors'_ past participle _loeg, laid down_"--_Tooke cor._ "Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the _Atridoe's_ sake."--_Cowper cor._ "The _corpses_ of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly."--_Addison cor._

"Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear; And spotted _corpses_ load the frequent bier."--_Dryden cor._

CHAPTER IV.--ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.

LESSON I.--DEGREES.

"I have the real excuse of the _most honest_ sort of bankrupts."--_Cowley corrected_. "The _most honourable_ part of talk, is, to give the occasion."--_Bacon cor._ "To give him one of the _most modest_ of his own proverbs."--_Barclay cor._ "Our language is now, certainly, _more proper_ and more natural, than it was formerly."--_Burnet cor._ "Which will be of the _greatest_ and _most frequent_ use to him in the world."--_Locke cor._ "The same is notified in the _most considerable_ places in the diocese."--_Whitgift cor._ "But it was the _most dreadful_ sight that ever I saw."--_Bunyan cor._ "Four of the _oldest_, soberest, and discreetest of the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it."--_Locke cor._ "Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially of _more ancient_ time, without this skill."--_W. Walker cor._ "Far the _most learned_ of the Greeks."--_Id._ "The _more learned_ thou art, the humbler be thou."--_Id._ "He is none of the best, or _most honest_."--_Id._ "The _most proper_ methods of communicating it to others."--_Burn cor._ "What heaven's great King hath _mightiest_ to send against us."--_Milton cor._ "Benedict is not the _most unhopeful_ husband that I know."--_Shakspeare cor._ "That he should immediately do all the meanest and _most trifling_ things himself."--_Ray cor._ "I shall be named among the _most renowned_ of women."--_Milton cor._ "Those have the _most inventive_ heads for all purposes."--_Ascham cor._ "The _more wretched_ are the contemners of all helps."--_B. Johnson cor._ "I will now deliver a few of the _most proper_ and _most natural_ considerations that belong to this piece."--_Wotton cor._ "The _most mortal_ poisons practised by the _West Indians_, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man."--_Bacon cor._ "He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the _most faithful_ and _most affectionate_ allies the Medes ever had."--_Rollin cor._ "'You see before you,' says he to him, 'the most devoted servant, and the _most faithful_ ally, you ever had.'"--_Id._ "I chose the _most flouris.h.i.+ng_ tree in all the park."--_Cowley cor._ "Which he placed, I think, some centuries _earlier_ than _did_ Julius Africa.n.u.s afterwards."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "The Tiber, the _most noted_ river of Italy."--_Littleton cor._

"To _farthest_ sh.o.r.es th' ambrosial spirit flies."--_Pope_.

----"That what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, _worthiest_, discreetest, best."--_Milton cor._

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"During the _first three or four_ years of its existence."--_Taylor cor._ "To the first of these divisions, my _last ten_ lectures have been devoted."--_Adams cor._ "There are, in the twenty-four states, not _fewer_ than sixty thousand common schools."--_J. O. Taylor cor._ "I know of nothing which gives teachers _more_ trouble, _than_ this want of firmness."--_Id._ "I know of nothing _else_ that throws such darkness over the line which separates right from wrong."--_Id._ "None need this purity and _this_ simplicity of language and thought, _more than does the instructor of a common school_."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ periodical that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education."--_Id._ "Are not these schools of the highest importance? Should not every individual feel _a deep_ interest in their character and condition?"--_Id._ "If instruction were made a _liberal_ profession, teachers would feel more sympathy for _one an other_."--_Id._ "Nothing is _more interesting to_ children, _than_ novelty, _or_ change."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ labour which affords so much happiness as the teacher's."--_Id._ "Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable _duties_, that they engage in."--_Id._ "I know of no exercise _more_ beneficial to the pupil _than_ that of drawing maps."--_Id._ "I know of nothing in which our district schools are _more_ defective, _than_ they are in the art of teaching grammar."--_Id._ "I know of _no other branch of knowledge_, so easily acquired as history."--_Id._ "I know of _no other school exercise_ for which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as _for_ composition."--_Id._ "There is nothing _belonging to_ our fellow-men, which we should respect _more sacredly than_ their good name."--_Id._ "_Surely_, never any _other creature_ was so unbred as that odious man."--_Congreve cor._ "In the dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the _deceased_."--_Phil.

Museum cor._ "These master-works would still be less excellent and _finished_."--_Id._ "Every attempt to staylace the language of _polished_ conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy."--_Id._ "Here are a few of the _most unpleasant_ words that ever blotted paper."--_Shakespeare cor._ "With the most easy _and obliging_ transitions."--_Broome cor._ "Fear is, of all affections, the _least apt_ to admit any conference with reason."--_Hooker cor._ "Most chymists think gla.s.s a body _less destructible_ than gold itself."--_Boyle cor._ "To part with _unhacked_ edges, and bear back our barge undinted."--_Shak. cor._ "Erasmus, who was an _unbigoted_ Roman Catholic, was transported with this pa.s.sage."--_Addison cor._ "There are no _fewer_ than five words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated."--_Campbell cor._ "The _ones_ preach Christ of contention; but the _others_, of love." Or, "The _one party_ preach," &c.--_Bible cor._ "Hence we find less discontent and _fewer_ heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally burdened."--_H. Home, Ld. Kames, cor._

"The serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field."

--_Milton, P. L._, B. ix, l. 86.

"Thee, Serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field, I knew, but not with human voice indued."

--_Id., P. L._, B. ix, l. 560.

"How much more grievous would our lives appear.

To reach th' _eight-hundredth_, than the eightieth year!"

--_Denham cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced _each other_ at the same time."--_Lempriere cor._ "Her two brothers were, one after _the other_, turned into stone."--_Kames cor._ "Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A _gold_ ring, a _silver_ cup."--_Lennie cor._ "Fire and water destroy _each other_"--_Wanostrocht cor._ "Two negatives, in English, destroy _each other_, or are equivalent to an affirmative."--_Lowth, Murray, et al. cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative."--_Kirkham and Felton cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, and make an affirmative."--_Flint cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, being equivalent to an affirmative."--_Frost cor._ "Two objects, resembling _each other_, are presented to the imagination."--_Parker cor._ "Mankind, in order to hold converse with _one an other_, found it necessary to give names to objects."--_Kirkham cor._ "_Derivative_ words are _formed_ from _their primitives_ in various ways."--_Cooper cor._ "There are many _different_ ways of deriving words _one from an other_."--_Murray cor._ "When several verbs _have a joint construction_ in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually _expressed_ with the first _only_."--_Frost cor._ "Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and _coming in immediate succession_, are also separated by _the comma_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "Two or more adverbs, _coming in immediate succession_, must be separated by _the comma_."--_Iidem_. "If, however, the _two_ members are very closely connected, the comma is _unnecessary_."--_Iidem_. "Grat.i.tude, when exerted towards _others_, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a _generous_ man."--_L. Murray cor._ "Several verbs in the infinitive mood, _coming in succession_, and having a common dependence, are also divided by commas."--_Comly cor._ "The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation _one to an other_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "When two or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] _occur in immediate succession_, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by _the comma_."--_Comly cor._ "_One noun_ frequently _follows an other_, both meaning the same thing."--_Sanborn cor._ "And these two tenses may thus answer _each other_."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Or some other relation which two objects bear to _each other_."--_Jamieson cor._ "That the heathens tolerated _one an other_ is allowed."--_A. Fuller cor._ "And yet these two persons love _each other_ tenderly."--_E. Reader cor._ "In the six _hundred_ and first year."--_Bible cor._ "Nor is this arguing of his, _any thing_ but a _reiterated_ clamour."--_Barclay cor._ "In _several_ of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found."--_Ib._ "Though Alvarez, _Despauter_, and _others, do not allow it_ to be plural."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Even the most _dissipated_ and shameless blushed at the sight."--_Lempriere cor._ "We feel a _higher_ satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, _than_ [_in contemplating_] that of vegetables."-- _Jamieson cor._ "But this man is so _full-fraught_ with malice."--_Barclay cor._ "That I suggest some things concerning the _most proper_ means."--_Dr. Blair cor._

"So, hand in hand, they pa.s.sed, the loveliest pair That ever _yet_ in love's embraces met."--_Milton cor._

"Aim at _supremacy_; without _such height_, Will be for thee no sitting, or not long."--_Id. cor._

CHAPTER V.--p.r.o.nOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF p.r.o.nOUNS.

LESSON I.--RELATIVES.

"_While_ we attend to this pause, every appearance of _singsong_ must be carefully avoided."--_Murray cor._ "For thou shalt go to all _to whom_ I shall send thee."--_Bible cor._ "Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years _during which_ I have possessed my kingdom."--_Sanborn cor._ "In the same manner _in which_ relative p.r.o.nouns and their antecedents are usually pa.r.s.ed."--_Id._ "Pa.r.s.e or _explain_ all the other nouns _contained_ in the examples, _after the very_ manner _of_ the word _which is pa.r.s.ed for you_."--_Id._ "The pa.s.sive verb will always _have_ the person and number that _belong_ to the verb _be_, of which it is in part composed."--_Id._ "You have been taught that a verb must always _agree in_ person and number _with_ it subject or nominative."--_Id._ "A relative p.r.o.noun, also, must always _agree in_ person, _in_ number, and even _in_ gender, _with_ its antecedent."--_Id._ "The _answer_ always _agrees_ in case _with the p.r.o.noun_ which asks the question."--_Id._ "_One_ sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the definite manner of a personal p.r.o.noun." [529]--_Id._ "The mind, being carried forward to the time _at which the_ event _is to happen_, easily conceives it to be present." "SAVE and SAVING are [_seldom to be_] pa.r.s.ed in the manner _in which_ EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly explained]."--_Id._ "Adverbs qualify _verbs_, or modify _their_ meaning, _as_ adjectives _qualify_ nouns [and describe things.]"--_Id._ "The third person singular of verbs, _terminates in s_ or _es, like_ the plural number of nouns."--_Id._ "He saith further: that, 'The apostles did not baptize anew such persons _as_ had been baptized with the baptism of John.'"--_Barclay cor._ "For we _who_ live,"--or, "For we _that are alive_, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake."--_Bible cor._ "For they _who_ believe in G.o.d, must be careful to maintain good works."--_Barclay cor._ "Nor yet of those _who_ teach things _that_ they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."--_Id._ "So as to hold such bound in heaven _as_ they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven _as_ they loose on earth."--_Id._ "Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife; then such things _as_ are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?"--_Id._ "All such _as_ do not satisfy themselves with the superfices of religion."--_Id._ "And he is the same in substance, _that_ he was upon earth,--_the same_ in spirit, soul, and body."--_Id._ "And those that do not thus, are such, _as_ the Church of Rome can have no charity _for_." Or: "And those that do not thus, are _persons toward_ whom the Church of Rome can have no charity."--_Id._ "Before his book, he _places_ a great list of _what_ he accounts the blasphemous a.s.sertions of the Quakers."--_Id._ "And this is _what_ he should have proved."--_Id._ "Three of _whom_ were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university."--_Id._ "Therefore it is not lawful for any _whomsoever_ * * *

to force the consciences of others."--_Id._ "_Why were_ the former days better than these?"--_Bible cor._ "In the same manner _in which_"--or, better, "_Just as_--the term _my_ depends on the name _books_."--_Peirce cor._ "_Just as_ the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition _to_, understood after the _adjective_] NEAR."--_Id._ "James died on the day _on which_ Henry returned."--_Id._

LESSON II.--DECLENSIONS.

"OTHER makes the plural OTHERS, when it is found without _its_ substantive."--_Priestley cor._ "But _his, hers, ours, yours_, and _theirs_, have evidently the form of the possessive case."--_Lowth cor._ "To the Saxon possessive cases, _hire, ure, eower, hira_, (that is, _hers, ours, yours, theirs_,) we have added the _s_, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns."--_Id._ "Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both _theirs_ and _ours_."--_Friends cor._ "In this place, _His_ is clearly preferable either to _Her_ or _to Its_."--_Harris cor._ "That roguish leer of _yours_ makes a pretty woman's heart _ache_."--_Addison cor._ "Lest by any means this liberty of _yours_ become a stumbling-block."--_Bible cor._ "First person: Sing. I, _my or_ mine, me; Plur. we, _our or ours_, us."--_Wilbur and Livingston cor._ "Second person: Sing, thou, _thy or_ thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, _your or yours_, you."--_Iid._ "Third person: Sing, she, _her or hers_, her; Plur. they, _their or theirs_, them."--_Iid._ "So shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not _yours_."--ALGER, BRUCE, ET AL.; _Jer._, v, 19. "Second person, Singular: Nom. _thou_, Poss. _thy_ or _thine_, Obj. _thee_."--_Frost cor._ "Second person, Dual; Nom. Gyt, ye two; Gen. Incer, of _you_ two; Dat. Inc, incrum, to _you_ two; Acc. Inc, _you_ two; Voc. Eala inc, O ye two; Abl. Inc, incrum, from _you_ two."--_Gwilt cor._ "Second person, Plural: Nom. Ge, ye; Gen. Eower, of _you_; Dat. Eow, to _you_; Acc. Eow, _you_; Voc Eala ge, O ye; Abl. Eow, from _you_."--_Id._ "These words are, _mine, thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs_, and _whose_."--_Cardell cor._ "This house is _ours_, and that is _yours. Theirs_ is very commodious."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 55. "And they shall eat up _thy_ harvest, and thy bread; they shall eat up thy flocks and _thy_ herds."--_Bible cor._ "_Whoever_ and _Whichever_ are thus declined: Sing. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever; Plur. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever. Sing. Nom. whichever, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. whichever; Plur. Nom. whichever, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. whichever."--_Cooper cor._ "The compound personal p.r.o.nouns are thus declined: Sing. Nom. myself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. myself; Plur. Nom.

ourselves, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. ourselves. Sing. Nom. thyself or yourself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. thyself, &c."--_Perley cor._ "Every one of us, each for _himself_, laboured to recover him."--_Sidney cor._ "Unless when ideas of their opposites manifestly suggest _themselves_."--_Wright cor._ "It not only exists in time, but is _itself_ time." "A position which the action _itself_ will palpably _confute_."--_Id._ "A difficulty sometimes presents _itself_."--_Id._ "They are sometimes explanations in _themselves_."--_Id._ "_Ours, Yours, Theirs, Hers, Its_."--_Barrett cor._

"_Theirs_, the wild _chase_ of false felicities; His, the composed possession of the true."

--_Young, N. Th._, N. viii, l. 1100.