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Murray cor._ "Please _to_ divide it for them, as it should be _divided_"--_J. Willetts cor._ "So as neither to embarra.s.s 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 rehea.r.s.e 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."--_Mitch.e.l.l 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 distinguis.h.i.+ng 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 circ.u.mstance 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 acc.u.mulating _of_ too great a quant.i.ty of knowledge at random, overloads the mind _in stead_ of adorning it."--_Formey cor._ "For the compa.s.sing _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 p.r.o.nouncing _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 G.o.d."--_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 Ma.s.sachusetts."--_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 establis.h.i.+ng _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 h.e.l.l-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 p.r.o.noun 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 G.o.d 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 distinguis.h.i.+ng _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 fict.i.tious 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 p.r.o.nouns, 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 a.s.sent 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 const.i.tution 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 pa.s.sive _participles_ in _dus_, is no decisive argument _to prove them_ pa.s.sive."--_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 pa.s.sive 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 quant.i.ty, their _being-compounded_ (or their _compounding_) would make no odds."--_Id._ "Circ.u.mstances, 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 pa.s.sive 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 G.o.d 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 ill.u.s.trious 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 t.i.tle 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 p.r.o.nouns."--_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 quant.i.ty."--_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 ill.u.s.trate 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_ G.o.d 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 s.n.a.t.c.h_ 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 const.i.tution 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_ pa.s.sing for matters of importance."--_Kames cor._ "Which prevents _him from_ exerting himself to any good purpose."--_Beattie cor._ "The _non.o.bservance_ 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 p.r.o.noun is used for, or in place of, a noun,--to prevent _a repet.i.tion 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 distinguis.h.i.+ng 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.