The Grammar of English Grammars Part 239

LESSON IX.--CONJUNCTIONS.

"He readily comprehends the rules of syntax, their use in _the constructing of sentences_, and _their_ applicability _to_ the examples before him."--_Greenleaf cor._ "The works of aeschylus have suffered more by time, than _those of_ any _other_ ancient _tragedian_."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "There is much more story, more bustle, and _more_ action, than on the French theatre."--_Id._ (See Obs. 8th on Rule 16th.) "Such an unremitted anxiety, _or such a_ perpetual application, as engrosses _all_ our time and thoughts, _is_ forbidden."--_Jenyns cor._ "It seems to be nothing else _than_ the simple form of the adjective."--_Wright cor._ "But when I talk of _reasoning_, I do not intend any other _than_ such as is suited to the child's capacity."--_Locke cor._ "p.r.o.nouns have no other use in language, _than_ to represent nouns."--_Jamieson cor._ "The speculative relied no farther on their own judgement, _than_ to choose a leader, whom they implicitly followed."--_Kames cor._ "Unaccommodated man is no more _than_ such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art."--_Shak. cor._ "A Parenthesis is a _suggestion which is_ introduced into the body of a sentence obliquely, _and which_ may be omitted without injuring the grammatical construction."--_Mur. et al. cor. "The_ Caret (marked thus ^) is placed where _something that happened_ to be left out, _is to be put into_ the line."--_Iid. "When_ I visit them, they shall be cast down."--_Bible cor._ "Neither our virtues _nor our_ vices are all our own."--_Johnson and Sanborn cor._ "I could not give him _so early_ an answer as he had desired."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ "He is not _so_ tall as his brother."--_Nixon cor._ "It is difficult to judge _whether_ Lord Byron is serious or not."--_Lady Blessington cor._ "Some nouns are of _both_ the second and _the_ third declension."--_Gould cor._ "He was discouraged neither by danger _nor by_ misfortune."--_Wells cor._ "This is consistent neither with logic nor _with_ history."--_Dial cor._ "Parts of sentences are _either_ simple _or_ compound."--_David Blair cor._ "English verse is regulated rather by the number of syllables, than _by_ feet:" or,--"than by the number of feet."--_Id._ "I know not what more he can do, _than_ pray for him."--_Locke cor._ "Whilst they are learning, and _are applying_ themselves with attention, they are to be kept in good humour."--_Id._ "A man cannot have too much of it, nor _have it_ too perfectly."--_Id._ "That you may so run, as _to_ obtain; and so fight, as _to_ overcome." Or thus: "That you may so run, _that_ you may obtain; and so fight, _that_ you may overcome."--_Penn cor._ "It is the _artifice_ of some, to contrive false periods of business, _that_ they may seem men of despatch."--_Bacon cor._ "'A tall man and a woman.' In this _phrase_, there is no ellipsis; the adjective _belongs only to the former noun_; the quality _respects_ only the man."--_Ash cor._ "An abandonment of the policy is neither to be expected _nor to be_ desired."--_Jackson cor._ "Which can be acquired by no other means _than by_ frequent exercise in speaking."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The chief _or_ fundamental rules of syntax are common to the English _and_ the Latin tongue." Or:--"are _applicable_ to the English as well as _to_ the Latin tongue."--_Id._ "Then I exclaim, _either_ that my antagonist is void of all taste, or that his taste is corrupted in a miserable degree."

Or thus: "Then I exclaim, that my antagonist is _either_ void of all taste, or _has a taste that is miserably_ corrupted."--_Id._ "I cannot pity any one who is under no distress _either_ of body _or_ of mind."--_Kames cor._ "There was much genius in the world, before there were learning _and_ arts to refine it."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Such a writer can have little else to do, _than_ to _new-model_ the paradoxes of ancient scepticism."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Our ideas of them being nothing else _than collections_ of the ordinary qualities observed in them."--_Duncan cor._ "A _non-ens_, or negative, can give _neither_ pleasure nor pain."--_Kames cor._ "So _that_ they shall not justle and embarra.s.s one an other."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "He firmly refused to make use of any other voice _than_ his own."--_Murray's Sequel_, p. 113. "Your marching regiments, sir, will not make the guards their example, either as soldiers or _as_ subjects."--_Junius cor._ "Consequently they had neither meaning _nor_ beauty, to any but the natives of each country."--_Sheridan cor._

"The man of worth, _who_ has not left his peer, Is in his narrow house forever darkly laid."--_Burns cor._

LESSON X.--PREPOSITIONS.

"These may be carried on progressively _beyond_ any a.s.signable limits."--_Kames cor._ "To crowd different subjects _into_ a single member of a period, is still worse than to crowd them into one period."--_Id._ "Nor do we rigidly insist _on having_ melodious prose."--_Id._ "The aversion we have _to_ those who differ from us."--_Id._ "For we cannot bear his shifting _of_ the scene _at_ every line."--_Halifax cor._ "We shall find that we come by it _in_ the same way."--_Locke cor._ "_Against_ this he has no better _defence_ than that."--_Barnes cor._ "Searching the person whom he suspects _of_ having stolen his casket."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Who, as vacancies occur, are elected _by_ the whole Board."--_Lit. Jour. cor._ "Almost the only field of ambition _for_ a German, is science."--_Lieber cor._ "The plan of education is very different _from_ the one pursued in the sister country."--_Coley cor._ "Some writers on grammar have contended, that adjectives _sometimes_ relate to _verbs_, and modify _their_ action."--_Wilc.o.x cor._ "They are therefore of a mixed nature, partic.i.p.ating the properties both of p.r.o.nouns and _of_ adjectives."-- _Ingersoll cor._ "For there is no authority which can justify the inserting _of_ the aspirate or _the_ doubling _of_ the vowel."--_Knight cor._ "The distinction and arrangement _of_ active, pa.s.sive, and neuter verbs."-- _Wright cor._ "And see thou a hostile world spread its delusive snares."--_Kirkham cor._ "He may be precautioned, and be made _to_ see how those _join_ in the contempt."--_Locke cor._ "The contenting _of_ themselves in the _present_ want of what they wished for, is a _virtue_."-- _Id._ "If the complaint be _about_ something really worthy _of_ your notice."--_Id._ "True fort.i.tude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an undisturbed doing _of_ his duty."--_Id._ "For the custom of tormenting and killing beasts, will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men."--_Id._ "Children are whipped to it, and made _to_ spend many hours of their precious time uneasily _at_ Latin."--_Id. "On_ this subject, [the Harmony of Periods,] the ancient rhetoricians have entered into a very minute and particular detail; more particular, indeed, than _on_ any other _head_ that regards language."--See _Blair's Rhet._, p. 122. "But the one should not be omitted, _and the other retained_." Or: "But the one should not be _used without_ the other."--_Bullions cor. "From_ some common forms of speech, the relative p.r.o.noun is usually omitted."--_Murray and Weld cor._ "There are _very many_ causes which disqualify a witness _for_ being received to testify in particular cases."--_Adams cor._ "Aside _from_ all regard to interest, we should expect that," &c.--_Webster cor._ "My opinion was given _after_ a rather cursory perusal of the book."--_L. Murray cor._ "And, [_on_] the next day, he was put on board _of_ his ship." Or thus: "And, the next day, he was put _aboard_ his ship."--_Id._ "Having the command of no emotions, but what are raised by sight."--_Kames cor._ "Did these moral attributes exist in some other being _besides_ himself."

Or:--"in some other being _than_ himself."--_Wayland cor._ "He did not behave in that manner _from_ pride, or [_from_] contempt of the tribunal."--_Murray's Sequel_, p. 113. "These prosecutions _against_ William seem to have been the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court."--_Murray and Priestley cor._ "To restore myself _to_ the good graces of my fair critics."--_Dryden cor._ "Objects denominated beautiful, please not _by_ virtue of any one quality common to them all."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "This would have been less worthy _of_ notice, had not a writer or two of high rank lately adopted it."--_Churchill cor._

"A Grecian youth, _of_ talents rare, Whom Plato's philosophic care," &c.--WHITEHEAD: E. R., p. 196.

LESSON XI.--PROMISCUOUS.

"To excel _has_ become a much less considerable object."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "My robe, and my integrity to _Heav'n_, are all I dare now call _my_ own."--_Enfield's Speaker_, p. 347. "_For_ thou the garland _wearst_ successively."--_Shak. cor._; also _Enfield_. "If _then_ thou _art_ a _Roman_, take it forth."--_Id._ "If thou _prove_ this to be real, thou must be a smart lad indeed."--_Neef cor._ "And _an other_ bridge of four hundred _feet_ in length."--_Brightland cor._ "METONYMY is _the_ putting _of_ one name for _an other_, on account of the near relation _which_ there is between them."--_Fisher cor._ "ANTONOMASIA is _the_ putting _of_ an appellative or common name for a proper name."--_Id._ "_That it is I, should_ make no difference in your determination."--_Bullions cor._ "The first and second _pages_ are torn." Or. "The first and _the_ second _page_ are torn." Or: "The first _page_ and _the_ second are torn."--_Id._ "John's _absence_ from home occasioned the delay."--_Id._ "His _neglect of_ opportunities for improvement, was the cause of his disgrace."--_Id._ "He will regret his _neglect of his_ opportunities _for_ improvement, when it _is_ too late."--_Id._ "His _expertness at dancing_ does not ent.i.tle him to our regard."--_Id._ "Caesar went back to Rome, to take possession of the public treasure, which his opponent, by a most unaccountable oversight, had neglected _to carry away_ with him."--_Goldsmith cor._ "And Caesar took out of the treasury, _gold_ to the amount of three thousand _pounds'_ weight, besides an immense quant.i.ty of silver." [548]--_Id._ "Rules and definitions, which should always be _as_ clear and intelligible as possible, are thus rendered obscure."--_Greenleaf cor._ "So much both of ability and _of_ merit is seldom found." Or thus: "So much _of both_ ability and merit is seldom found."[549]--_L. Murray cor._ "If such maxims, and such practices prevail, what _has_ become of decency and virtue?"[550]--_Murray's False Syntax_, ii, 62. Or: "If such maxims and practices prevail, what _will_ become of decency and virtue?"--_Murray and Bullions cor._ "Especially if the subject _does not require_ so much pomp."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "However, the proper mixture of light and shade in such compositions,--the exact adjustment of all the figurative circ.u.mstances with the literal sense,--_has_ ever been _found an affair_ of great nicety."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 151. "And adding to that hissing in our language, which is so much _noticed_ by foreigners."--_Addison, Coote, and Murray, cor._ "_To speak_ impatiently to servants, or _to do_ any thing that betrays unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal." Or better: "Impatience, unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "_Here are_ a _fullness_ and grandeur of expression, well suited to the subject."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "I single _out_ Strada _from_ among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus."--_L.

Murray cor._ "I single him out _from_ among the moderns, because,"

&c.--_Bolingbroke cor._ "This _rule is not_ always observed, even by good writers, _so_ strictly as it ought to be."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "But this gravity and a.s.surance, which _are_ beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood."--_Pope cor._ "The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road, _have_ some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood."--_Kames cor._ "They become fond of regularity and neatness; _and this improvement of their taste_ is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors."--_Id._ "The phrase, '_it is impossible to exist_,' gives us the idea, _that it is_ impossible for men, or any body, to exist."--_Priestley cor._ "I'll give a thousand _pounds_ to look upon him."--_Shak. cor._ "The reader's knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent _him from_ mistaking it."--_Crombie and Murray cor._ "When two words are set in contrast, or in opposition to _each_ other, they are both emphatic."--_L. Murray cor._ "The number of _the_ persons--men, women, and children--who were lost in the sea, was very great." Or thus: "The number of persons--men, women, and children--_that_ were lost in the sea, was very great."--_Id._ "Nor is the resemblance between the primary and _the_ resembling object pointed out."--_Jamieson cor._ "I think it the best book of the kind, _that_ I have met with."--_Mathews cor._

"Why should not we their ancient rites restore, And be what Rome or Athens _was_ before?"--_Roscommon cor._

LESSON XII.--TWO ERRORS.

"It is labour only _that_ gives relish to pleasure."--_L. Murray cor._ "Groves are never _more_ agreeable _than_ in the opening of spring."--_Id._ "His Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas _of_ the Sublime and _the_ Beautiful, soon made him known to the literati."--See _Blair's Lect._, pp. 34 and 45. "An awful precipice or tower _from which_ we look down on the objects which _are_ below."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "This pa.s.sage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; _and for_ no other cause _than_ this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together."--_Id._ "I _purpose to make_ some observations."--_Id._ "I shall _here_ follow the same method _that_ I have all along pursued."--_Id._ "Mankind _at no other time_ resemble _one an_ other so much as they do in the beginnings of society."--_Id._ "But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in _the_ reading _of a_ hexameter line."--_Id._ "The first thing, says he, _that_ a writer _either_ of fables or of heroic poems does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality."--_Id._ "The fourth book has _always_ been most justly admired, and _indeed it_ abounds with beauties of the highest kind."--_Id._ "There is _in_ the poem no attempt towards _the_ painting _of_ characters."--_Id._ "But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the _constant_ introducing _of_ them in pairs and by opposites, _give_ too theatrical and affected an air to the piece."--_Id._ "Neither of them _is_ arbitrary _or_ local."--_Kames cor._ "If _the_ crowding _of_ figures _is_ bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon _an other_."--_Id._ "The _crowding-together of_ so many objects lessens the pleasure."--_Id._ "This therefore lies not in the _putting-off of_ the hat, nor _in the_ making of compliments."--_Locke cor._ "But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews _used_ the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and _for a_ consonant."--_Wilson cor._ "But if a solemn and _a_ familiar p.r.o.nunciation really _exist_ in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both?"--_J. Walker cor._ "By making sounds follow _one an_ other _agreeably_ to certain laws."--_Gardiner cor._ "If there _were_ no drinking _of_ intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards."--_Peirce cor._ "Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was _of_ being thought to have none."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Lysander, having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an a.r.s.enal for _the_ building of _galleys_."--_Id._ "The use of these signs _is_ worthy _of_ remark."--_Brightland cor._ "He received me in the same manner _in which_ I would _receive_ you." Or thus: "He received me _as_ I would _receive_ you."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "Consisting of _both_ the direct and _the_ collateral evidence."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "If any man or woman that believeth _hath_ widows, let _him_ or _her_ relieve them, and let not the church be charged."--_Bible cor._ "For _men's sake_ are beasts bred."--_W.

Walker cor._ "From three _o'clock_, there _were_ drinking and gaming."--_Id._ "Is this he that I am seeking, or _not?_"--_Id._ "And for the upholding _of_ every _one's_ own opinion, there is so much ado."--_Sewel cor._ "Some of them, however, will _necessarily_ be _noticed_."--_Sale cor._ "The boys conducted themselves _very indiscreetly_."--_Merchant cor._ "Their example, their influence, their fortune,--every talent they possess,--_dispenses_ blessings on all _persons_ around them."--_Id. and Murray cor._ "The two _Reynoldses_ reciprocally converted _each_ other."--_Johnson cor._ "The destroying _of_ the _last two_, Tacitus calls an attack upon virtue itself."--_Goldsmith cor._ "_Moneys are_ your suit."--_Shak. cor._ "_Ch_ is commonly sounded like _tch_, as in _church_; but in words derived from Greek, _it_ has the sound of _k_."--_L. Murray cor._ "When one is obliged to make some utensil _serve for_ purposes to which _it was_ not originally destined."--_Campbell cor._ "But that a _baptism_ with water is a _washing-away_ of sin, thou canst not hence prove."--_Barclay cor._ "Being _spoken_ to _but_ one, it infers no universal command."--_Id._ "For if the _laying-aside of_ copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid."--_Buchanan cor._ "James used to compare him to a cat, _which_ always _falls_ upon her legs."--_Adam cor._

"From the low earth aspiring genius springs, And sails triumphant _borne_ on _eagle's_ wings."--_Lloyd cor._

LESSON XIII.--TWO ERRORS

"An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, _is_ always _faulty_."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Yet in this we find _that_ the English p.r.o.nounce _quite agreeably_ to rule." Or thus: "Yet in this we find the English _p.r.o.nunciation_ perfectly agreeable to rule." Or thus: "Yet in this we find _that_ the English p.r.o.nounce _in a manner_ perfectly agreeable to rule."--_J. Walker cor._ "But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, _is a habit_, though absolutely necessary to the forming of _habits_."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "They were cast; and _a_ heavy fine _was_ imposed upon them."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Without making this reflection, he cannot enter into the spirit _of the author, or_ relish the composition."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The scholar should be instructed _in relation_ to _the_ finding _of_ his words." Or thus: "The scholar should be _told how_ to _find_ his words."--_Osborn cor._ "And therefore they could neither have forged, _nor have_ reversified them."--_Knight cor._ "A dispensary is _a_ place _at which_ medicines are dispensed _to the poor_."--_L. Mur. cor._ "Both the connexion and _the_ number of words _are_ determined by general laws."--_Neef cor._ "An Anapest has the _first two_ syllables unaccented, and the last _one_ accented; as, c~ontr~av=ene, acquiesce."--_L. Mur. cor._ "An explicative sentence is _one in which_ a thing is said, _in a direct manner_, to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer."--_Lowth and Mur. cor._ "BUT is a conjunction _whenever_ it is neither an adverb nor _a_ preposition."

[551]--_R. C. Smith cor._ "He wrote in the name _of_ King _Ahasuerus_, and sealed _the writing_ with the king's ring."--_Bible cor._ "Camm and Audland _had_ departed _from_ the town before this time."--_Sewel cor._ "_Before they will relinquish_ the practice, they must be convinced."--_Webster cor._ "Which he had thrown up _before he set_ out."--_Grimshaw cor._ "He left _to him_ the value of _a_ hundred drachms in Persian money."--_Spect cor._ "All _that_ the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided _among_ the three."--_Cardell cor._ "Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants, of _all_ that _have_ fallen under my observation."--_Spect. cor._ "When you have once got him to think himself _compensated_ for his suffering, by the praise _which_ is given him for his courage."--_Locke cor._ "In all matters _in which_ simple reason, _or_ mere speculation is concerned."--_Sheridan cor._ "And therefore he should be spared _from_ the trouble of attending to anything else _than_ his meaning."--_Id._ "It is this kind of phraseology _that_ is distinguished by the epithet _idiomatical; a species that was_ originally the sp.a.w.n, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation."--_Campbell and Murray cor._ "That neither the inflection nor _the letters_ are such as could have been employed by the ancient inhabitants of Latium."--_Knight cor._ "In _those_ cases _in which_ the verb is intended to be applied to any one of the terms."--_L. Murray cor._ "But _these_ people _who_ know not the law, are accursed."--_Bible cor._ "And the magnitude of the _choruses has_ weight and sublimity."--_Gardiner cor._ "_Dares_ he deny _that_ there are some of his fraternity guilty?"--_Barclay cor._ "Giving an account of most, if not all, _of_ the papers _which_ had pa.s.sed betwixt them."--_Id._ "In this manner, _as to both_ parsing and correcting, _should_ all the rules of syntax be treated, _being taken up_ regularly according to their order."--_L. Murray cor._ "_To_ Ovando _were_ allowed a brilliant retinue and a _body-guard_."--_Sketch cor._ "_Was_ it I or he, _that_ you requested to go?"--_Kirkham cor._ "Let _thee_ and _me_ go on."--_Bunyan cor._ "This I nowhere affirmed; and _I_ do wholly deny _it_."--_Barclay cor._ "But that I deny; and _it_ remains for him to prove _it_."--_Id._ "Our country sinks beneath the yoke: _She_ weeps, _she_ bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds."--_Shak. cor._ "Thou art the Lord who _chose_ Abraham and _brought_ him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees."--_Bible and Mur. cor._ "He is the exhaustless fountain, from which _emanate_ all these attributes that _exist_ throughout this wide creation."--_Wayland cor._ "I am he who _has_ communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who _has_ entered the gardens of pleasure."--_Wright cor._

"Such _were_ in ancient times the tales received, Such by our good forefathers _were_ believed."--_Rowe cor._

LESSON XIV.--TWO ERRORS.

"The noun or p.r.o.noun that _stands_ before the active verb, _usually represents_ the agent."--_A. Murray cor._ "Such _seem_ to _have been_ the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar."--_Merchant cor._ "Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], _are_ called Sheva, and _are used to represent_ a very short _e_."--_Wilson cor._ "Great _have_ been, and _are_, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them" [: i.e.--of natural remedies].--_Butler cor._ "As two _are_ to four, so _are_ four to eight."--_Everest cor._ "The invention and use of arithmetic, _reach_ back to a period so remote, as _to be_ beyond the knowledge of history."-- _Robertson cor._ "What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, _fill_ and _satisfy_ his mind."--_Id._ "If he _dares_ not say they are, as I know he _dares_ not, how must I then distinguish?"--_Barclay cor._ "He _had_ now grown so fond of solitude, that all company _had_ become uneasy to him."--_Life of Cic. cor._ "Violence and spoil _are_ heard in her; before me continually _are_ grief and wounds."--_Bible cor._ "Bayle's Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which _makes_ eleven volumes in duodecimo, _is_ truly a model in this kind."--_Formey cor._ "Pauses, to _be rendered_ pleasing and expressive, must not only be made in the right place, but also _be_ accompanied with a proper tone of voice."--_L. Murray cor._ "_To oppose_ the opinions and _rectify_ the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us."--_Locke cor._ "It is very probable, that this a.s.sembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king had, _whether it were lawful for the Hollanders to throw_ off the monarchy of Spain, and _withdraw_ entirely their allegiance to that crown." Or:--"About the lawfulness of the Hollanders' _rejection of_ the monarchy of Spain, and _entire withdrawment of_ their allegiance to that crown."--_L. Murray cor._ "_A_ naming _of_ the numbers and cases of a noun in their order, is called _the_ declining _of_ it, or _its declension_."--_Frost cor._ "The embodying _of_ them is, therefore, only _a_ collecting _of_ such component parts of words."--_Town cor._ "The one is the voice heard _when Christ was_ baptized; the other, _when he was_ transfigured."--_Barclay cor._ "_An_ understanding _of_ the literal sense"--or, "_To have understood_ the literal sense, would not have prevented _them from_ condemning the guiltless."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "As if this were, _to take_ the execution of justice out of the hands of G.o.d, and _to give_ it to nature."--_Id._ "They will say, you must conceal this good opinion of yourself; which yet is _an_ allowing _of_ the thing, though not _of_ the showing _of_ it." Or:--"which yet is, _to allow_ the thing, though not the showing _of_ it."--_Sheffield cor._ "So as to signify not only the doing _of_ an action, but the causing _of_ it to be done."--_Pike cor._ "This, certainly, was both _a_ dividing _of_ the unity of G.o.d, and _a_ limiting _of_ his immensity."--_Calvin cor._ "Tones being infinite in number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging _of_ them under distinct heads, and _the_ reducing _of_ them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be considered as the last refinement in language."--_Knight cor._ "The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he _hath_ done it, and until he _hath_ performed the intents of his heart."--_Bible cor._ "We seek for deeds _more_ ill.u.s.trious and heroic, for events more diversified and surprising."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "We distinguish the genders, or the male and _the_ female s.e.x, _in_ four different ways."--_Buchanan cor._ "Thus, _ch_ and _g_ are ever hard. It is therefore proper to retain these sounds in _those_ Hebrew names which have not been _modernized_, or changed by public use."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "_A_ Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing _which is_ conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion."--_Murray and Lowth cor._ "_A_ Noun is the name of any thing _which_ exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea."--_Maunder cor._ "A Noun is the name of any thing in existence, or _of any thing_ of which we can form an idea."--_Id._ "The next thing to be _attended to_, is, to keep him exactly to _the_ speaking of truth."--_Locke cor._ "The material, _the_ vegetable, and _the_ animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities."--_Dial cor._ "And yet it is fairly defensible on the principles of the schoolmen; if _those things_ can be called principles, which _consist_ merely in words."--_Campbell cor._

"Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, And _fearst_ to die? Famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression _starve_ in thy _sunk_ eyes."--_Shak. cor._

LESSON XV.--THREE ERRORS.

"The silver age is reckoned to have commenced _at_ the death of Augustus, and _to have_ continued _till_ the end of Trajan's reign."--_Gould cor._ "Language _has indeed_ become, in modern times, more correct, and _more determinate_."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "It is evident, that _those_ words are _the_ most agreeable to the ear, which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, _and in which_ there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants."--_Id._ "It would have had no other effect, _than_ to add _to_ the sentence _an unnecessary_ word."--_Id._ "But as rumours arose, _that_ the judges _had_ been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave _occasion_ to much popular clamour, and _threw_ a heavy odium on Cluentius."--_Id._ "A Participle is derived _from_ a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and _of an_ adjective."--_Ash and Devis cor._ "I _shall_ have learned my grammar before you _will have learned yours_."--_Wilbur and Livingston cor._ "There is no _other_ earthly object capable of making _so_ various and _so_ forcible impressions upon the human mind, as a complete speaker."--_Perry cor._ "It was not the carrying _of_ the bag, _that_ made Judas a thief and _a_ hireling."--_South cor._ "As the reasonable soul and _the_ flesh _are_ one man, so G.o.d and man _are_ one Christ."--_Creed cor._ "And I will say to them _who_ were not my people, _Ye are_ my people; and they shall say, Thou art _our_ G.o.d."--_Bible cor._ "Where there is _in the sense_ nothing _that_ requires the last sound to be elevated or _suspended_, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is finished, will be proper."--_L. Mur. cor._ "Each party _produce_ words _in which_ the letter _a_ is sounded in the manner _for which_ they contend."--_J. Walker cor._ "To countenance persons _that_ are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove from _an actual commission of the same crimes_."--_L. Mur. cor._ "'To countenance persons _that_ are guilty of bad actions,' is a _phrase or clause_ which is _made_ the _subject of_ the verb 'is.'"--_Id._ "What is called _the_ splitting of particles,--_that is, the_ separating _of_ a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided."--_Dr. Blair et al. cor._ (See Obs. 15th on Rule 23d.) "There is properly _but_ one pause, or rest, in the sentence; _and this falls_ betwixt the two members into which _the sentence_ is divided."--_Iid._ "_To go_ barefoot, does not at all help _a man_ on, _in_ the way to heaven."--_Steele cor._ "There is _n.o.body who does not condemn_ this in others, though _many_ overlook it in themselves."--_Locke cor._ "Be careful not to use the same word _in_ the same sentence _either_ too frequently _or_ in different senses."--_L. Murray cor._ "Nothing could have made her _more_ unhappy, _than to have married_ a man _of_ such principles."--_Id._ "A warlike, various, and tragical age is _the_ best to write of, but _the_ worst to write in."--_Cowley cor._ "When thou _instancest Peter's_ babtizing [sic--KTH] _of_ Cornelius."--_Barclay cor._ "To introduce two or more leading thoughts or _topics_, which have no natural _affinity_ or _mutual_ dependence."--_L. Murray cor._ "Animals, again, are fitted to one _an other_, and to the elements _or regions in which_ they live, and to which they are as appendices."--_Id._ "This melody, _however_, or so _frequent_ varying _of_ the sound of each word, is a proof of nothing, but of the fine ear of that people."--_Jamieson cor._ "They can, each in _its turn_, be _used_ upon occasion."--_Duncan cor._ "In this reign, lived the _poets_ Gower and Chaucer, who are the first authors _that_ can properly be said to have written English."--_Bucke cor._ "In translating expressions _of this_ kind, consider the [phrase] '_it is_' as if it were _they are_."--_W. Walker cor._ "The chin has an important office to perform; for, _by the degree of_ its activity, we disclose _either_ a polite or _a_ vulgar p.r.o.nunciation."--_Gardiner cor._ "For no other reason, _than that he was_ found in bad company."--_Webster cor._ "It is usual to compare them _after_ the manner _of polysyllables_."--_Priestley cor._ "The infinitive mood is _recognized more easily_ than any _other_, because the preposition TO precedes it."--_Bucke cor._ "Prepositions, you recollect, connect words, _and so do_ conjunctions: how, then, can you tell _a conjunction_ from _a preposition_?" Or:--"how, then, can you _distinguish_ the _former_ from the _latter_?"--_R. C. Smith cor._

"No kind of work requires _a nicer_ touch, And, _this_ well finish'd, _none else_ shines so much."

--_Sheffield cor._

LESSON XVI.--THREE ERRORS.

"_On_ many occasions, it is the final pause alone, _that_ marks the difference between prose and verse: _this_ will be evident from the following arrangement of a few poetical lines."--_L. Murray cor._ "I shall do all I can to persuade others to take _for their cure_ the same measures _that_ I have _taken for mine_."--_Guardian cor._; also _Murray_. "It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, _that_ they will set _a_ house on fire, _as_ it were, but to roast their eggs."--_Bacon cor._ "Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause _in which_ both his honour and _his_ life _were_ concerned?"--_Duncan cor._ "So the rests, _or_ pauses, _which separate_ sentences _or_ their parts, are marked by points."--_Lowth cor._ "Yet the case and _mood are_ not influenced by them, but _are_ determined by the nature of the sentence."--_Id._ "_Through inattention_ to this rule, many errors have been committed: _several_ of which _are here_ subjoined, as a further caution and direction to the learner."--_L. Murray cor._ "Though thou _clothe_ thyself with crimson, though thou _deck_ thee with ornaments of gold, though thou _polish_ thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair." [552]--_Bible cor._ "But that the doing _of_ good to others, will make us happy, is not so evident; _the_ feeding _of_ the hungry, for example, or _the_ clothing _of_ the naked." Or: "But that, _to do_ good to others, will make us happy, is not so evident; _to feed_ the hungry, for example, or _to clothe_ the naked."--_Kames cor._ "There is no other G.o.d _than he_, no other light _than_ his." Or: "There is no G.o.d _but he_, no light _but_ his."--_Penn cor._ "How little reason _is there_ to wonder, that a _powerful_ and accomplished orator should be one of the characters that _are_ most rarely found."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Because they express _neither the_ doing nor _the_ receiving _of_ an action."--_Inf. S.

Gram. cor._ "To find the answers, will require an effort of mind; and, when _right answers are_ given, _they_ will be the result of reflection, _and show_ that the subject is understood."--_Id._ "'The sun rises,' is _an expression_ trite and common; but _the same idea_ becomes a magnificent image, when expressed _in the language of_ Mr. Thomson."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "The declining _of_ a word is the giving _of its_ different endings." Or: "_To decline_ a word, is _to give_ it different endings."--_Ware cor._ "And so much are they for _allowing_ every _one to follow his_ own mind."--_Barclay cor._ "More than one overture for peace _were_ made, but Cleon prevented _them from_ taking effect."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Neither in English, _nor_ in any other language, is this word, _or_ that which corresponds to it in _meaning_, any more an article, than TWO, THREE, _or_ FOUR."--_Webster cor._ "But the most irksome conversation of all that I have met _with in_ the neighbourhood, has been _with_ two or three of your travellers."--_Spect. cor._ "Set down the _first two_ terms of _the_ supposition, _one under the other_, in the first place."--_Smiley cor._ "It is _a_ useful _practice_ too, to fix _one's_ eye on some of the most distant persons in the a.s.sembly."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "He will generally please _his hearers_ most, when _to please them_ is not his sole _or his_ chief aim."--_Id._ "At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform _the soldiers, that_ they could _obtain for them_ no other terms _than those_ of surrendering their arms and pa.s.sing under the yoke."--_Id._ "Nor _are_ mankind so much to blame, in _their_ choice thus determining _them_."--_Swift cor._ "These forms are what _are_ called _the Numbers_."

Or: "These forms are called _Numbers_."--_Fosd.i.c.k cor._ "In _those_ languages which admit but two genders, all nouns are either masculine or feminine, even though they designate beings _that_ are neither male _nor_ female."--_Id._ "It is called _Verb_ or _Word_ by way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence, _and one_ without which the other parts of speech _cannot_ form _any_ complete sense."--_Gould cor._ "The sentence will consist of two members, _and these will_ commonly _be_ separated from _each_ other by a comma."--_Jamieson cor._ "Loud and soft in speaking _are_ like the _forte_ and _piano_ in music; _they_ only _refer_ to the different degrees of force used in the same key: whereas high and low imply a change of key."--_Sheridan cor._ "They are chiefly three: the acquisition of knowledge; the a.s.sisting _of_ the memory to treasure up this knowledge; _and_ the communicating _of_ it to others."--_Id._

"_This_ kind of knaves I know, _who_ in this plainness Harbour more craft, and _hide_ corrupter ends, Than twenty silly ducking observants."--_Shak. cor._

LESSON XVII.--MANY ERRORS.

"A man will be forgiven, even _for_ great errors, _committed_ in a foreign language; but, in _the use he makes of_ his own, even the least slips are justly _pointed out_ and ridiculed."--_Amer. Chesterfield cor._ "LET expresses _not only_ permission, but _entreaty, exhortation, and command_."--_Lowth cor._; also _Murray, et al._ "That death which is our leaving _of_ this world, is nothing else _than the putting-off of_ these bodies."--_Sherlock cor._ "They differ from the saints recorded _in either_ the Old _or the_ New _Testament_."--_Newton cor._ "The nature of relation, _therefore_, consists in the referring or comparing _of_ two things to _each_ other; from which comparison, one or both _come_ to be denominated."--_Locke cor._ "It is not credible, that there _is_ any one who will say, that _through_ the whole course of _his life he_ has kept _himself entirely_ undefiled, _without_ the least spot or stain of sin."--_Witsius cor._ "If _to act_ conformably to the will of our Creator,--if _to promote_ the welfare of mankind around us,--if _to secure_ our own happiness, _is an object_ of the highest moment; then are we loudly called upon to cultivate and extend the great interests of religion and virtue." Or: "If, to act conformably to the will of our Creator, to promote the welfare of mankind around us, _and_ to secure our own happiness, _are objects_ of the highest moment; then," &c.--_Murray et al. cor._ "The verb being in the plural number, it is supposed, that _the officer and his guard are joint agents. But this_ is not the case: the only nominative to the verb is '_officer_.' In the expression, '_with his guard_,' the _noun 'guard' is_ in the objective case, _being_ governed by the preposition _with_; and _consequently it_ cannot form the nominative, or any part of it. The prominent subject _for the agreement_, the true nominative _to_ the verb, _or the term_ to which the verb peculiarly refers, is the _word 'officer.'_"--_L. Murray cor._ "This is _an other_ use, that, in my opinion, contributes to make a man learned _rather_ than wise; and is _incapable_ of pleasing _either_ the understanding or _the_ imagination."--_Addison cor._ "The work is a dull performance; and is _incapable_ of pleasing _either_ the understanding _or_ the imagination."--_L. Murray cor._ "I would recommend the 'Elements of English Grammar,' by Mr. Frost. _The_ plan _of this little work is similar to that of Mr. L. Murray's smallest Grammar_; but, _in order_ to meet the understanding of children, _its_ definitions and language _are_ simplified, _so_ far as the nature of the subject will admit. It also embraces more examples _for_ Parsing, than _are_ usual in elementary treatises."--_S. R.

Hall cor._ "More rain falls in the first two summer months, than in the first two _months_ of winter; but _what falls_, makes a much greater show upon the earth, in _winter_ than in _summer_, because there is a much slower evaporation."--_L. Murray cor._ "They often contribute also to _render_ some persons prosperous, though wicked; and, _what_ is still worse, to _reward_ some actions, though vicious; and _punish_ other actions, though virtuous."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Hence, to such a man, _arise_ naturally a secret satisfaction, _a_ sense of security, and _an_ implicit hope of somewhat further."--_Id._ "So much for the third and last cause of illusion, that was _noticed above; which arises_ from the abuse of very general and abstract terms; _and_ which is the princ.i.p.al source of the _abundant_ nonsense that _has_ been vented by metaphysicians, mystagogues, and theologians."--_Campbell cor._ "As to those animals _which are_ less common, or _which_, on account of the places they inhabit, fall less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or _which_ their diminutive size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English, employ a single noun to designate both genders, _the_ masculine and _the_ feminine."--_Fosd.i.c.k cor._ "Adjectives may always be distinguished by their _relation to other words: they express_ the quality, condition, _or number_, of whatever _things are_ mentioned."--_Emmons cor._ "_An_ adverb _is_ a word added to a verb, _a_ participle, _an_ adjective, or _an_ other adverb; _and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner_."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 29. "The _joining-together of_ two objects, _so_ grand, and the representing _of_ them both, as subject at one moment to the command of G.o.d, _produce_ a n.o.ble effect."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Twisted columns, for instance, are undoubtedly ornamental; but, as they have an appearance of weakness, they displease _the eye, whenever_ they are _used_ to support any _ma.s.sy_ part of a building, _or what_ seems to require a more substantial prop."--_Id._ "_In_ a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks, some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet different from the _Greeks', the Latins'_, and _the Hebrews'_, and also unlike that of any modern nation."--_W. C. Fowler cor._

LESSON XVIII.--MANY ERRORS.

"The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated on the northeast side of Lilliput, from _which_ it is parted by a channel of _only_ 800 yards _in width_."--_Swift and Kames cor._ "The nominative case usually _denotes_ the agent or doer; and _any noun or p.r.o.noun which is_ the subject of a _finite_ verb, _is always in this case_."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "There _are, in_ his allegorical personages, an originality, _a_ richness, and _a_ variety, which almost _vie_ with the splendours of the ancient mythology."--_Hazlitt cor._ "As neither the Jewish nor _the_ Christian revelation _has_ been universal, and as _each has_ been afforded to a greater or _a_ less part of the world at different times; so likewise, at different times, both revelations have had different degrees of evidence."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Thus we see, that, _to kill_ a man with a sword, _and to kill one_ with a hatchet, are looked upon as no distinct species of action; but, if the point of the sword first enter the body, _the action_ pa.s.ses for a distinct species, called _stabbing_."--_Locke cor._ "If a soul sin, and commit a trespa.s.s against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour _concerning_ that which was delivered him to keep, or _deceive_ his neighbour, or _find_ that which was lost, and _lie_ concerning it, and _swear_ falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein, then it shall be," &c.--_Bible cor._ "As, _to do_ and _teach_ the commandments of G.o.d, is the great proof of virtue; so, _to break_ them, and _to teach_ others to break them, _are_ the great _proofs_ of vice."--_Wayland cor._ "The latter simile, _in_ Pope's terrific maltreatment of _it_, is true _neither_ to _the_ mind _nor to the_ eye."--_Coleridge cor._ "And the two brothers were seen, transported with rage and fury, like Eteocles and Polynices, _each endeavouring_ to plunge _his sword_ into _the other's heart_, and to a.s.sure _himself_ of the throne by the death of _his_ rival."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Is it not plain, therefore, that neither the castle, _nor_ the planet, nor the cloud, which you _here_ see, _is that_ real _one_ which you suppose _to_ exist at a distance?"--_Berkley cor._ "I have often wondered, how it comes to pa.s.s, that every body should love _himself_ best, and yet value _his neighbours'_ opinion about _himself_ more than _his_ own."--_Collier cor._ "Virtue, ([Greek: Aretae], _Virtus_,) as well as most of its species, _when s.e.x is figuratively ascribed to it, is made_ feminine, perhaps from _its_ beauty and amiable appearance."--_Harris cor._ "Virtue, with most of its species, is _made_ feminine _when personified_; and so is Vice, _perhaps_ for being Virtue's opposite."--_Brit. Gram. cor._; also _Buchanan_. "From this deduction, _it_ may _easily_ be seen, how it comes to pa.s.s, that personification makes so great a figure in all compositions _in which_ imagination or pa.s.sion _has_ any concern."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "An Article is a word _placed before a noun_, to point _it_ out _as such_, and to show how far _its_ signification extends."--_Folker cor._ "All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights;--among which are the _rights of_ enjoying and defending life and liberty; _of_ acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness."--_Const. of N. H. cor._ "From _those_ grammarians who form their ideas and make their decisions, respecting this part of English grammar, _from_ the principles and construction of _other_ languages,--_of languages_ which do not in these points _accord with_ our own, but _which_ differ considerably from it,--we may naturally expect grammatical schemes that _will be neither_ perspicuous nor consistent, and _that_ will tend _rather_ to perplex than _to_ inform the learner."--_Murray and Hall cor.

"Indeed_ there are but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or _who_ have a relish _for_ any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion _which the majority_ take, is at the expense of some one virtue or _other_, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly."--_Addison cor._

"Hail, holy Love! thou _bliss_ that _sumst_ all bliss!

_Giv'st_ and _receiv'st_ all bliss; fullest when most Thou _giv'st_; spring-head of all felicity!"--_Pollok cor._

CHAPTER XIII--GENERAL RULE.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE GENERAL RULE.

LESSON I.--ARTICLES.

(1.) "_The_ article is a part of speech placed before nouns." Or thus: "_An_ article is a _word_ placed before nouns."--_Comly cor._ (2.) "_The_ article is a part of speech used to limit nouns."--_Gilbert cor._ (3.) "An article is a _word_ set before nouns to fix their vague signification."--_Ash cor._ (4.) "_The_ adjective is a part of speech used to describe _something named by a_ noun."--_Gilbert cor._ (5.) "A p.r.o.noun is a _word_ used _in stead_ of a noun."--_Id. and Weld cor.: Inst._, p. 45.

(6.) "_The_ p.r.o.noun is a part of speech which is often used _in stead_ of a noun."--_Brit. Gram. and Buchanan cor._ (7.) "A verb is a _word_ which signifies _to be, to do_, or _to be acted upon_."--_Merchant cor._ (8.) "_The_ verb is a part of speech which signifies _to be, to act_, or _to receive an action_."--_Comly cor._ (9.) "_The_ verb is _the_ part of speech by which any thing is a.s.serted."--_Weld cor._ (10.) "_The_ verb is a part of speech, which expresses action or existence in a direct manner."--_Gilbert cor._ (11.) "A participle is a _word_ derived from a verb, and expresses action or existence in an indirect manner."--_Id._ (12.) "_The_ participle is a part of speech derived from _the_ verb, and denotes being, doing, or suffering, and implies time, as a verb does."--_Brit. Gram. and Buchanan cor._ (13.) "_The_ adverb is a part of speech used to add _some modification_ to the meaning of verbs, adjectives, and participles."--_Gilbert cor._ (14.) "An adverb is an indeclinable _word_ added to a verb, [_a participle,] an_ adjective, or _an_ other adverb, to express some circ.u.mstance, _accident_, or manner of _its_ signification."--_Adam and Gould cor._ (15.) "An adverb is a _word added_ to a verb, an adjective, a participle, _or an_ other adverb, to express the circ.u.mstance of _time, place, degree, or manner_."--_Dr. Ash cor._ (16.) "An adverb is a _word added_ to a verb, _an_ adjective, _a_ participle, _or_, sometimes, _an_ other adverb, to express some _circ.u.mstance_ respecting _the sense_."--_Beck cor._ (17.) "_The_ adverb is a part of speech, which is _added_ to _verbs, adjectives, participles_, or to other _adverbs_, to express some modification or circ.u.mstance, quality or manner, of their signification."--_Buchanan cor._ (18.) "_The_ adverb is a part of speech _which we add_ to _the verb_, (whence the name,) _to the adjective or participle likewise_, and sometimes even to _an other adverb_."--_Bucke cor._ (19.) "A conjunction is a _word_ used to connect words _or_ sentences."--_Gilbert and Weld cor._ (20.) "_The_ conjunction is a part of speech that joins words or sentences together."--_Ash cor._ (21.) "_The_ conjunction is that part of speech which _connects_ sentences, or parts of sentences, or single words."--_D. Blair cor._ (22.) "_The_ conjunction is a part of speech that is used princ.i.p.ally to connect sentences, so as, out of two, three, or more sentences, to make one."--_Bucke cor._ (23.) "_The_ conjunction is a part of speech that is used to connect _words or_ sentences _together; but_, chiefly, _to join_ simple sentences into _such as are_ compound."--_Kirkham cor._ (24.) "A conjunction is a _word_ which joins _words or_ sentences together, and _shows_ the manner of their _dependence, as they stand in connexion_."--_Brit. Gram. et al. cor._ (25.) "A preposition is a _word_ used to show the relation between other words, _and govern the subsequent term_."--_Gilbert cor._ (26.) "A preposition is a _governing word_ which serves to connect _other_ words, and _to_ show the relation between them."--_Frost cor._ (27.) "A preposition is a _governing particle_ used to connect words and show their relation."--_Weld cor._ (28.) "_The_ preposition is that part of speech which shows the _various positions_ of persons or things, _and_ the _consequent relations_ that _certain words bear_ toward _one an_ other."--_David Blair cor._ (29.) "_The_ preposition is a part of speech, which, being added to _certain_ other parts of speech, serves to _show_ their state _of_ relation, or _their_ reference to each other."--_Brit. Gram. and Buchanan cor._ (30.) "_The_ interjection is a part of speech used to express sudden pa.s.sion or _strong_ emotion."--_Gilbert cor._ (31.) "An interjection is an _unconnected word_ used in giving utterance to some sudden feeling or _strong_ emotion."--_Weld cor._ (32.) "_The_ interjection is that part of speech which denotes any sudden affection or _strong_ emotion of the mind."--_David Blair cor._ (33.) "An interjection is _an independent word or sound_ thrown into discourse, and denotes some sudden pa.s.sion or _strong_ emotion of the soul."--_Brit. Gram. and Buchanan cor._

(34.) "_The_ scene might tempt some peaceful sage To rear _a lonely_ hermitage."--_Gent. of Aberdeen cor._

(35.) "Not all the storms that shake the pole, Can e'er disturb thy halcyon soul, And _smooth unalter'd_ brow."--_Barbauld's Poems_, p. 42.

LESSON II.--NOUNS.

"The _throne_ of every monarchy felt the shock."--_Frelinghuysen cor._ "These principles ought to be deeply impressed upon the _mind_ of every American."--_Dr. N. Webster cor._ "The _words_ CHURCH and SHIRE are radically the same."--_Id._ "They may not, in their present form, be readily accommodated to every circ.u.mstance belonging to the possessive _case_ of nouns."--_L. Murray cor. "Will_, in the second and third _persons_, only _foretells_."--_Id.; Lowth's Gram._, p. 41. "Which seem to form the true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative _mood_."--_L. Murray cor._ "The very general approbation which this performance of _Walker's_ has received from the public."--_Id._ "Lest she carry her improvements _of this kind_ too far." Or thus: "Lest she carry her improvements _in_ this way too far."--_Id. and Campbell cor._ "Charles was extravagant, and by _his prodigality_ became poor and despicable."--_L.

Murray cor._ "We should entertain no _prejudice_ against simple and rustic persons."--_Id._ "These are indeed the _foundation_ of all solid merit."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "And his embellishment, by means of _figures, musical cadences_, or other _ornaments_ of speech."--_Id._ "If he is at no pains to engage us by the employment of figures, musical arrangement, or any other _ornament of style_."--_Id._ "The most eminent of the sacred poets, are, _David, Isaiah_, and the _author_ of the Book of Job."--_Id._ "Nothing in any _poem_, is more beautifully described than the death of old Priam."--_Id._ "When two vowels meet together, and are _joined in one syllable_, they are called _a diphthong_."--_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ "How many _Esses_ would _goodness'_ then end with? Three; as _goodness's_."--_Id.