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UNDER NOTE I.--OF TWO TERMS WITH ONE.
"The first proposal was essentially different _from_ the second, and inferior _to it._"--_Inst_. "A neuter verb _expresses_ the state _which_ a subject is in, without acting upon _any other thing_, or being acted upon by an other."--_A. Murray cor._ "I answer, You _may use_ stories and anecdotes, and ought to _do_ so."--_Todd cor._ "ORACLE, _n._ Any person _from whom_, or place _at which_, certain decisions are obtained."--_Webster cor._ "Forms of government may, and _occasionally must, be_ changed."--_Lyttelton cor._ "I have _been_, and _I still_ pretend to be, a tolerable judge."--_Sped. cor._ "Are we not lazy in our duties, or _do we not_ make a Christ of them?"--_Baxter cor._ "They may not express that idea which the author intends, but some other which only resembles _it_, or is _akin_ to it."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "We may _therefore read them_, we ought to read them, with a distinguis.h.i.+ng eye."--_Ib._ "Compare their poverty with what they might _possess_, and ought to possess."--_Sedgwick cor._ "He is much better _acquainted with grammar_ than they are."--_L.
Murray cor._ "He was more beloved _than Cinthio_, but [he was] not so much admired."--_L. Murray's Gram._, i, 222. "Will it be urged, that the four gospels are as old _as tradition, and even_ older?"--_Campbell's Rhet._, p.
207. "The court of chancery frequently mitigates and _disarms_ the common law."--_Spect. and Ware cor._ "Antony, coming along side of her s.h.i.+p, entered it without seeing _her_, or being seen by her."--_Goldsmith cor._ "_Into_ candid minds, truth _enters as_ a welcome _guest_."--_L. Murray cor._ "_There are_ many designs _in which_ we may succeed, _to our ultimate ruin_."--_Id._ "_From_ many pursuits _in which_ we embark with pleasure, _we are destined to_ land sorrowfully."--_Id._ "They _gain_ much _more_ than I, by this unexpected event."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE II.--OF HETEROGENEOUS TERMS.
"Athens saw them entering her gates and _filling_ her academies."--_Chazotte cor._ "_Neither_ have we forgot his past _achievements_, nor _do we_ despair of his future success."--_Duncan cor._ "Her monuments and temples had long been shattered, or _had_ crumbled into dust."--_Journal cor._ "Compet.i.tion is excellent; _it is_ the vital principle in all these things."--_Id._ "Whether provision should, or _should_ not, be made, _in order_ to meet this exigency."--_Ib._. "That our Saviour was divinely inspired, and _that he was_ endued with supernatural powers, are positions that are here taken for granted."--_L. Mur. cor._ "It would be much more eligible, to contract or enlarge their extent by explanatory notes and observations, than _to sweep_ away our ancient landmarks and _set_ up others."--_Id._ "It is certainly much better to supply defects and abridge superfluities by occasional notes and observations, than _to disorganize_ or _greatly alter_ a system which has been so long established."--_Id._ "To have only one tune, or measure, is not much better than _to have_ none at all."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Facts too well known and _too_ obvious to be insisted on."--_Id._ "In proportion as all these circ.u.mstances are happily chosen, and _are_ of a sublime kind."--_Id._ "If the description be too general, and _be_ divested of circ.u.mstances."--_Id._ "He gained nothing _but commendation_."--_L. Mur.
cor._ "I cannot but think its application somewhat strained and _misplaced_."--_Vethake cor._ "Two negatives _standing_ in the same clause, or referring to the same thing, destroy each other, and leave the sense affirmative."--_Maunder cor._ "Slates are _thin plates of stone_, and _are often_ used to cover _the_ roofs of houses."--_Webster cor._ "Every man of taste, and _of_ an elevated mind, ought to feel almost the necessity of apologizing for the power he possesses."--_Translator of De Stael cor._ "They very seldom trouble themselves with _inquiries_, or _make any_ useful observations of their own."--_Locke cor._
"We've both the field and honour won; _Our foes_ are profligate, and run."--_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--IMPORT OF CONJUNCTIONS.
"THE is sometimes used before adverbs in the comparative _or the_ superlative degree."--_Lennie, Bullions, and Brace cor._ "The definite article THE is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative _or the_ superlative degree."--_Lowth. Murray, et al, cor._ "Conjunctions usually connect verbs in the same mood _and_ tense." Or, more truly: "Verbs connected by _a conjunction, are_ usually in the same mood _and_ tense."--_Sanborn cor._ "Conjunctions connect verbs in the same style, and usually in the same mood, tense, _and_ form." Or better: "Verbs connected by _a conjunction_, are usually _of_ the same mood, tense, _and_ form, _as well as_ style."--_Id._ "The ruins of Greece _or_ Rome are but the monuments of her former greatness."--_P. E. Day cor._ "It is not improbably, _that in many of these cases_ the articles were used originally."--_Priestley cor._ "I cannot doubt that these objects are really what they appear to be."--_Kames cor._ "I question not _that_ my reader will be as much pleased with it."--_Spect. cor._ "It is ten to one _that_ my friend Peter is among them."--_Id._ "I doubt not _that_ such objections as these will be made"--_Locke cor._ "I doubt not _that_ it will appear in the perusal of the following sheets."--_Buchanan cor._ "It is not improbable, that in time these different constructions maybe appropriated to different uses."--_Priestley cor._ "But to forget _and_ to remember at pleasure, are equally beyond the power of man."--_Idler cor._ "The nominative case follows the verb, in interrogative _or_ imperative sentences."--_L. Mur. cor._ "Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? _or_ a vine, figs?"--_Bible cor._ "Whose characters are too profligate _for_ the managing of them _to_ be of any consequence."--_Swift cor._ "You, that are a step higher than a philosopher, a divine, yet have too much grace and wit to be a bishop."--_Pope cor._ "The terms _rich and poor_ enter not into their language."--_Robertson cor._ "This pause is but seldom, _if_ ever, sufficiently dwelt upon." Or: "This pause is seldom _or never_ sufficiently dwelt upon."--_Gardiner cor._ "There would be no possibility of any such thing as human life _or_ human happiness."--_Bp.
Butler cor._ "The mult.i.tude rebuked them, _that_ they should hold their peace."--_Bible cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--THE CONJUNCTION THAN.
"A metaphor is nothing _else than_ a short comparison." Or: "A metaphor is nothing _but_ a short comparison."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "There being no other dictator here _than_ use."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 364. "This construction is no otherwise known in English, _than_ by supplying the first or _the_ second person plural."--_Buchanan cor._ "Cyaxares was no sooner _on_ the throne, _than_ he was engaged in a terrible war."--_Rollin cor._ "Those cla.s.sics contain little else _than_ histories of murders."--_Am. Mu. cor._ "Ye shall not wors.h.i.+p any other _than_ G.o.d."--_Sale cor._ "Their relation, therefore, is not otherwise to be ascertained, _than_ by their place."--_Campbell cor._ "For he no sooner accosted her, _than_ he gained his point."--_Burder cor._ "And all the modern writers on this subject, have done little else _than_ translate them."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "One who had no other aim _than_ to talk copiously and plausibly."--_Id._ "We can refer it to no other cause _than_ the structure of the eye."--_Id._ "No more is required _than_ singly an act of vision."--_Kames cor._ "We find no more in its composition, _than_ the particulars now mentioned."--_Id._ "_He does not pretend_ to say, that it _has_ any other effect _than_ to raise surprise."--_Id._ "No sooner was the princess dead, _than_ he freed himself."--_Dr. S. Johnson cor._ "OUGHT is an imperfect verb, for it has no modification besides this one."--_Priestley cor._ "The verb is palpably nothing else _than_ the tie."--_Neef cor._ "Does he mean that theism is capable of nothing else _than_ of being opposed to polytheism or atheism?"--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Is it meant that theism is capable of nothing else _than of_ being opposed to polytheism or atheism?"--_L. Murray cor._ "There is no other method of teaching that of which any one is ignorant, _than_ by means of something already known."--_Ingersoll's Grammar, t.i.tlepage: Dr. Johnson cor._ "O fairest flower, no sooner blown _than_ blasted!"--_Milton cor._ "Architecture and gardening cannot otherwise entertain the mind, than by raising certain agreeable emotions or feelings."--_Kames cor._ "Or, rather, they are nothing else _than_ nouns."--_Brit. Gram. cor._
"As if religion were intended For nothing else than to be mended."--_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--RELATIVES EXCLUDE CONJUNCTIONS.
"To prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than _himself, a teacher_ whose shoes he was not worthy to bear."--_Anon, or Mur. cor._ "Has this word, which represents an action, an object after it, on which _the action_ terminates?"--_Osborne cor._ "The stores of literature lie before him, from which he may collect for use many lessons of wisdom."-- _Knapp cor._ "Many and various great advantages of this grammar _over_ others, might be enumerated."--_Greenleaf cor._ "The custom which still prevails, of writing in lines from left to right, is said to have been introduced about the time of Solon, the Athenian legislator."--_Jamieson cor._ "The fundamental rule _for_ the construction of sentences, _the rule_ into which all others might be resolved, undoubtedly is, to communicate, in the clearest and most natural order, the ideas which we mean to _express_."--_Blair and Jamieson cor._ "He left a son of a singular character, who behaved so ill that he was put in prison."--_L. Murray cor._ "He discovered in the youth some disagreeable qualities which to him were wholly unaccountable."--_Id._ "An emphatical pause is made after something _of_ peculiar moment has been said, on which we _wish_ to fix the hearer's attention." Or: "An emphatical pause is made after something has been said _which is_ of peculiar moment, _and_ on which we _wish_ to fix the hearer's attention."--_Blair and Murray cor._ "But we have duplicates of each, agreeing in movement, though differing in measure, and _making_ different impressions on the ear,"--_Murray cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--OF THE WORD THAT.
"It will greatly facilitate the labours of the teacher, _and_, at the same time, it will relieve the pupil _from_ many difficulties."--_Frost cor._ "_While_ the pupil is engaged in the exercises just mentioned, it will be proper _for him_ to study the whole grammar in course."--_Bullions cor._ "On the same ground _on which_ a participle and _an_ auxiliary are allowed to form a tense."--_Beattie and Murray cor._ "On the same ground _on which_ the voices, moods, and tenses, are admitted into the English tongue."--_L.
Murray cor._ "The five examples last mentioned, are corrected on the same principle that _is applied to the errors_ preceding _them_."--_Murray and Ingersoll cor._ "The brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted till Rome was taken by the Goths."--_Gould cor._ "The introduction to the duodecimo edition is retained in this volume, for the same reason _for which_ the original introduction to the Grammar is retained in the first volume."--_L. Murray cor._ "The verb must also _agree in person with its subject or_ nominative."--_Ingersoll cor._ "The personal p.r.o.noun 'THEIR' is plural for the same reason _for which_ 'WHO' is plural."--_Id._ "The Sabellians could not justly be called Patripa.s.sians, in the same sense _in which_ the Noetians were so called."--_R. Adam cor._ "This is one reason _why_ we pa.s.s over such smooth language without suspecting that it contains little or no meaning."--_L. Murray cor._ "The first place _at which the two_ armies came _within_ sight of each other, was on the opposite banks of the river Apsus."--_Goldsmith cor._ "At the very time _at which_ the author gave him the first book for his perusal."--_Campbell cor._ "Peter will sup at the time _at which_ Paul will dine."--_Fosd.i.c.k cor._ "Peter will be supping _when_ Paul will enter."--_Id._ "These, _while_ they may serve as models to those who may wish to imitate them, will give me an opportunity to cast more light upon the principles of this book."--_Id._
"Time was, like thee, they life _possess'd_, And time shall be, _when_ thou shalt rest."--_Parnell cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.
"Our manners should be _neither_ gross nor excessively refined."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 165. "A neuter verb expresses neither action _nor_ pa.s.sion, but being, or a state of being."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "The old books are neither English grammars, _nor in any sense_ grammars of the English language."--_Id._ "The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet _so_ accurate and _so_ much simplified as it may be."--_Kirkham cor._ "The writer could not treat some _topics so_ extensively as [it] was desirable [to treat them]."--_Id._ "Which would be a matter of such nicety, _that_ no degree of human wisdom could regulate _it_."--_L. Murray cor._ "No undertaking is so great or difficult, _that_ he cannot direct _it_."--_Duncan cor._ "It is a good which depends _neither_ on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune."--_Harris cor._ "Not only his estate, _but_ his reputation too, has suffered by his misconduct."--_Murray and Ingersoll cor._ "Neither do they extend _so_ far as might be imagined at first view."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "There is no language so poor, but _that_ it _has_ (or, _as not to have_) two or three past tenses."--_Id. "So_ far as this system is founded in truth, language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin."--_Id._ "I have not _such_ command of these convulsions as is necessary." Or: "I have not _that_ command of these convulsions _which_ is necessary."--_Spect. cor._ "Conversation with such _as_ (or, _those who_) know no arts _that_ polish life."--_Id._ "And which cannot be _either_ very lively or very forcible."--_Jamieson cor._ "To _such a_ degree as to give proper names to rivers."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "In the utter overthrow of such _as_ hate to be reformed."--_Barclay cor._ "But still so much of it is retained, _that it_ greatly injures the uniformity of the whole."--_Priestley cor._ "Some of them have gone to _such a_ height of extravagance, as to a.s.sert,"
&c.--_Id._ "A teacher is confined, not more than a merchant, and probably not _so_ much."--_Abbott cor._ "It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, _nor_ in the world to come." Or: "It shall not be forgiven him, _either_ in this world, _or_ in the world to come."--_Bible cor._ "Which _n.o.body_ presumes, or is so sanguine _as_ to hope."--_Swift cor._ "For the torrent of the voice left neither time, _nor_ power in the organs, to shape the words properly."--_Sheridan cor._ "That he may neither unnecessarily waste his voice by throwing out too much, _nor_ diminish his power by using too little."--_Id._ "I have retained only such _as_ appear most agreeable to the measures of a.n.a.logy."--_Littleton cor._ "He is a man both prudent and industrious."--_P. E. Day cor._ "Conjunctions connect either words or sentences."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 169.
"Such silly girls _as_ love to chat and play, Deserve no care; their time is thrown away."--_Tobitt cor._
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, _That_ to be hated _she_ but needs be seen."--_Pope cor._
"Justice must punish the rebellious deed; Yet punish so _that_ pity shall exceed."--_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
"THAT, WHOSE, and AS, relate either to persons or _to_ things." Or better:--"relate _as well_ to persons _as to_ things."--_Sanborn cor._ "WHICH and WHAT, as adjectives, relate either to persons or _to_ things."
Or better:--"relate to persons _as well as to_ things."--_Id._ "Whether of a public or _of a_ private nature."--_J. Q. Adams cor._ "Which are included _among both_ the public and _the_ private wrongs."--_Id._ "I might extract, both from the Old and _from the_ New Testament, numberless examples of induction."--_Id._ "Many verbs are used both in an active and _in a_ neuter signification." Or thus: "Many verbs are used _in both_ an active and _a_ neuter signification."--_Lowth, Mur., et al., cor._ "Its influence is likely to be considerable, both on the morals and _on the_ taste of a nation."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The subject afforded a variety of scenes, both of the awful and _of the_ tender kind."--_Id._ "Restlessness of mind disqualifies us both for the enjoyment of peace, and _for_ the performance of our duty."--_Mur. and Ing. cor. "p.r.o.nominal adjectives_ are of a mixed nature, partic.i.p.ating the properties both of p.r.o.nouns and _of_ adjectives."--_Mur. et al. cor. "p.r.o.nominal adjectives_ have the nature both of the adjective and _of_ the p.r.o.noun."--_Frost cor._ Or: "[p.r.o.nominal adjectives] partake of the properties _of both_ adjectives _and_ p.r.o.nouns."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 55. "p.r.o.nominal adjectives are a kind of compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of p.r.o.nouns and _of_ adjectives."--_Nutting cor._ "Nouns are used either in the singular or _in the_ plural number." Or perhaps better: "Nouns are used _in either_ the singular or _the_ plural number."--_David Blair cor._ "The question is not, whether the nominative or _the_ accusative ought to follow the particles THAN and AS; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to be regarded as conjunctions or _as_ prepositions"--_Campbell cor._ "In English, many verbs are used both as transitives and _as_ intransitives."--_Churchill cor._ "He sendeth rain both on the just and _on the_ unjust."--See _Matt._, v, 45. "A foot consists either of two or _of_ three syllables."--_David Blair cor._ "Because they partic.i.p.ate the nature both of adverbs and _of_ conjunctions."--_L. Murray cor._ "Surely, Romans, what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted, nor _to_ pa.s.s without notice."--_Duncan cor._ "Their language frequently amounts, not only to bad sense, but _to nonsense_."--_Kirkham cor._ "Hence arises the necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and _for the_ exerting, of his n.o.bler faculties."--_Sheridan cor._ "Whether the subject be of the real or _of the_ feigned kind."--_Dr. H. Blair cor._ "Not only was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power _was_ felt in its heaviest and most oppressive weight."--_Id._ "This rule is _also_ applicable both to verbal Critics and _to_ Grammarians."--_Hiley cor._ "Both the rules and _the_ exceptions of a language must have obtained the sanction of good usage."--_Id._
CHAPTER X.--PREPOSITIONS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXIII.
UNDER NOTE I.--CHOICE OF PREPOSITIONS.
"You have bestowed your favours _upon_ the most deserving persons."--_Swift corrected._ "But, to rise _above_ that, and overtop the crowd, is given to few."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "This [also is a good] sentence [, and] gives occasion _for_ no material remark."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 203. "Though Cicero endeavours to give some reputation _to_ the elder Cato, and those who were his _contemporaries._" Or:--"to give some _favourable account_ of the elder Cato," &c.--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The change that was produced _in_ eloquence, is beautifully described in the dialogue."--_Id._ "Without carefully attending to the variation which they make _in_ the idea."--_Id._ "All _on_ a sudden, you are transported into a lofty palace."--_Hazlitt cor._ "Alike independent of one _an other._" Or: "Alike independent _one of an other_."--_Campbell cor._ "You will not think of them as distinct processes going on independently _of_ each other."--_Channing cor._ "Though we say to _depend on, dependent on_, and _dependence on_, we say, _independent of_, and _independently of._"--_Churchill cor._ "Independently _of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 80; _Buchanan's_, 83; _Bullions's_, 110; _Churchill's_, 348.[545] "Because they stand independent _of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Allen Fisk cor._ "When a substantive is joined with a participle, in English, independently _of_ the rest of the sentence."--_Dr. Adam cor._ "CONJUNCTION comes _from_ the two Latin words _con_, together, and _jungo_, to join."--_Merchant cor._ "How different _from_ this is the life of Fulvia!"--_Addison cor._ "LOVED is a participle or adjective, derived _from_ the word _love_."--_Ash cor._ "But I would inquire _of_ him, what an office is."--_Barclay cor._ "For the capacity is brought _into_ action."--_Id._ "In this period, language and taste arrive _at_ purity."--_Webster cor._ "And, should you not aspire _to_ (or _after_) distinction in the _republic_ of letters."--_Kirkham cor._ "Delivering you up to the synagogues, and _into_ prisons."--_Luke_, xxi, 12. "_He_ that is kept from falling _into_ a ditch, is as truly saved, as he that is taken out of one."--_Barclay cor._ "The best _of_ it is, they are but a sort of French Hugonots."--_Addison cor._ "These last ten examples are indeed of a different nature _from_ the former."--_R. Johnson cor._ "For the initiation of students _into_ the principles of the English language."--_Ann. Rev.
cor._ "Richelieu profited _by_ every circ.u.mstance which the conjuncture afforded."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "In the names of drugs and plants, the mistake _of_ a word may endanger life."--_Merchant's Key_, p. 185. Or better: "In _naming_ drugs _or_ plants, _to mistake_ a word, may endanger life."--_L. Murray cor._ "In order to the carrying _of_ its several parts into execution."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "His abhorrence _of_ the superst.i.tious figure."--_Priestley._ "Thy prejudice _against_ my cause."--_Id._ "Which is found _in_ every species of liberty."--_Hume cor._ "In a hilly region _on_ the north of Jericho."--_Milman cor._ "Two or more singular nouns coupled _by_ AND require a verb _or_ p.r.o.noun in the plural."--_Lennie cor._
"Books should to one of these four ends conduce, _To_ wisdom, piety, delight, or use."--_Denham cor._
UNDER NOTE II.--TWO OBJECTS OR MORE.
"The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarrelled _among_ themselves for precedence."--_Const. Misc. cor._ "The distinctions _among_ the princ.i.p.al parts of speech are founded in nature."--_Webster cor._ "I think I now understand the difference between the active verbs and those _which are_ pa.s.sive _or_ neuter."--_Ingersoll cor._ "Thus a figure including a s.p.a.ce _within_ three lines, is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle."--_Locke cor._ "We must distinguish between an imperfect phrase _and_ a simple sentence, _and between a simple sentence_ and a compound sentence."--_Lowth, Murray, et al., cor._ "The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law to exercise usury _towards one an_ other."--_Sale cor._ "All the writers have distinguished themselves among _themselves_."--_Addison cor._ "This expression also better secures the systematic uniformity _of_ the three cases."--_Nutting cor._ "When two or more _infinitives_ or clauses _are connected disjunctively as the subjects of an affirmation_, the verb must be singular."--_Jaudon cor._ "Several nouns or p.r.o.nouns together in the same case, require a comma _after_ each; [except the last, which must sometimes be followed by a greater point.]"--_David Blair cor._ "The difference between _one vowel and an other_ is produced by opening the mouth differently, and placing the tongue in a different manner for each."--_Churchill cor._ "Thus feet composed of syllables, being p.r.o.nounced with a sensible interval between _one foot and an other_, make a more lively impression than can be made by a continued sound."--_Kames cor._ "The superlative degree implies a comparison, _sometimes_ between _two, but generally among_ three or more."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "They are used to mark a distinction _among_ several objects."--_Levizac cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.
"This would have been less worthy _of_ notice."--_Churchill cor._ "But I pa.s.sed it, as a thing unworthy _of_ my notice."--_Werter cor._ "Which, in compliment to me, perhaps you may one day think worthy _of_ your attention."--_Bucke cor._ "To think this small present worthy _of_ an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment."-- _Id._ "There are but a few miles _of_ portage."--_Jefferson cor._ "It is worthy _of_ notice, that our mountains are not solitary."--_Id._ "It is _about_ one hundred feet _in_ diameter." [546]--_Id._ "Entering a hill a quarter or half _of_ a mile."--_Id._ "And herself seems pa.s.sing to _an_ awful dissolution, whose issue _it_ is not given _to_ human foresight to scan."--_Id._ "It was of a spheroidical form, _about_ forty feet _in_ diameter at the base, and had been _about_ twelve feet _in_ alt.i.tude."--_Id._ "Before this, it was covered with trees of twelve inches _in_ diameter; and, round the base, _there_ was an excavation of five feet _in_ depth and _five in_ width."--_Id._ "Then thou _mayst_ eat grapes _to_ thy fill, at thine own pleasure."--_Bible cor._ "Then he brought me back _by_ the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary."--_Id._ "They will bless G.o.d, that he has peopled one half _of_ the world with a race of freemen."--_Webster cor._ "_Of_ what use can these words be, till their meaning is known?"--_Town cor._ "The tents of the Arabs now are black, or _of_ a very dark colour."--_The Friend cor._ "They may not be unworthy _of_ the attention of young men."--_Kirkham cor._ "The p.r.o.noun THAT is frequently applied to persons as well as _to_ things."--_Merchant cor._ "And '_who_' is in the same case that '_man_' is _in_."--_Sanborn cor._ "He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet _in_ diameter."--_The Friend cor._ "Pliny informs us, that this stone was _of_ the size of a cart."--_Id._ "Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled _from_ Rome."--_L'Estrange cor._ "I was prevented _from_ reading a letter which would have undeceived me."--_Hawkesworth cor._ "If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned _for_ the inaccuracy of its demonstration."--_Booth cor._ "The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but _of_ effeminacy."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Afraid of the virtue of a nation in its opposing _of_ bad measures:"
or,--"in its _opposition to_ bad measures."--_Id._ "The uniting _of_ them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy."--_Gardiner cor._ "I might be excused _from_ taking any more notice of it."--_Watson cor._ "Watch therefore; for ye know not _at_ what hour your Lord _will_ come."--_Bible cor._ "Here, not even infants were spared _from_ the sword."--_M'Ilvaine cor._ "To prevent men _from_ turning aside to _false_ modes of wors.h.i.+p."--_John Allen cor._ "G.o.d expelled them _from_ the garden of Eden."--_Burder cor._ "Nor could he refrain _from_ expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind."--_Hume cor._ "Who now so strenuously opposes the granting _to_ him _of_ any new powers."--_Duncan cor._ "That the laws of the censors have banished him _from_ the forum."--_Id._ "We read not that he was degraded _from_ his office _in_ any other way."--_Barclay cor._ "To all _to_ whom these presents shall come, greeting."--_Hutchinson cor._ "On the 1st _of_ August, 1834."--_Brit. Parl.
cor._
"Whether you had not some time in your life Err'd in this point _on_ which you censure him."--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.
"And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter."--_Barclay cor._; also _Acts_. "Adjectives, in our language, have neither case, _nor_ gender, nor number; the only variation they have, is comparison."--_Buchanan cor._ "'It is to you that I am indebted for this privilege;' that is, 'To you am I indebted;' or, 'It is you to whom I am indebted.'"--_Sanborn cor._ "BOOKS is a _common_ noun, of the third person, plural number, _and_ neuter gender."--_Ingersoll cor._ "BROTHER'S is a common _noun_, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case."--_L. Murray cor._ "VIRTUE'S is a common _noun_, of the third person, singular number, [neuter gender,] and possessive case."--_Id._ "When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is vain to oppose the prevailing usage."--_Campbell and Murray cor._ "A captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering Rome."--_Collier cor._ "And, notwithstanding its verbal power, we have added the TO and other signs of exertion."--_Booth cor._ "Some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the noun, _in stead of_ separate words:" or,--"_and not by_ separate words."--_Id._ "Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and bow down his head like a bulrush?"--_Bacon cor._ Compare _Isa._, lviii, 5. "And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental _in stead of_ the necessary antecedent."--_Wayland cor._ "About the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed."--_Balbi cor._ "G.o.d divided between the light and the darkness."--_Burder cor._ "Notwithstanding this, we are not against outward significations of honour."--_Barclay cor._ "Whether these words and practices of Job's friends, _ought_ to be our rule."--_Id._ "Such verb cannot admit an objective case after it."--_Lowth cor._ "For which, G.o.d is now visibly punis.h.i.+ng these nations."--_C. Leslie cor._ "In this respect, Ta.s.so yields to no poet, except Homer."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Notwithstanding the numerous panegyrics on the ancient English liberty."--_Hume cor._ "Their efforts seemed to antic.i.p.ate the spirit which became so general afterwards."--_Id._
UNDER NOTE V.--THE PLACING OF THE WORDS.
"But how short _of_ its excellency are my expressions!"--_Baxter cor._ "_In_ his style, there is a remarkable union _of_ harmony with ease."--_Dr.
H. Blair cor._ "It disposes _of_ the light and shade _in_ the most artificial manner, _that_ every thing _may be viewed_ to the best advantage."--_Id._ "_For_ brevity, Aristotle too holds an eminent rank among didactic writers."--_Id._ "In an introduction, correctness _of_ expression should be carefully studied."--_Id._ "_In_ laying down a method, _one ought_ above all things _to study_ precision."--_Id._ "Which shall make _on_ the mind the impression _of_ something that is one, whole, and entire."--_Id._ "At the same time, there are _in_ the Odyssey some defects which must be acknowledged." Or: "At the same time, _it_ must be acknowledged _that_ there are some defects in the Odyssey."--_Id._ "_In_ the concluding books, however, there are beauties _of_ the tragic kind."--_Id._ "These forms of conversation multiplied _by_ degrees, and grew troublesome."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 44. "When she has made her own choice, she sends, _for_ form's sake, a conge-d'elire to her friends."--_Ib._, ii, 46. "Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in him who holds _in_ his hand the reins of the whole creation."--_Spectator cor._; also _Kames_. "Next to this, the measure most frequent _in_ English poetry, is that of eight syllables."--_David Blair cor._ "To introduce as great a variety _of_ cadences as possible."-- _Jamieson cor._ "He addressed _to_ them several exhortations, suitable to their circ.u.mstances."--_L. Murray cor._ "Habits _of_ temperance and self-denial must be acquired."--_Id._ "In reducing _to_ practice the rules prescribed."--_Id._ "But these parts must be so closely bound together, as to make _upon_ the mind the impression _of_ one object, not of many."--_Blair and Mur. cor._ "Errors _with_ respect to the use of _shall_ and _will_, are sometimes committed by the most distinguished writers."--_N. Butler cor._
CHAPTER XI.--PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES.
CORRECTIONS OF THE PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES.