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was an other sort of man."-Goldsmith cor. "To keep off his right wing, as a kind of reserved body."-Id. "This part of speech is called the verb."-Mack cor. 'What sort of thing is it?" -Hiley cor. "What sort of charm do they possess?"—Bullions cor.

"Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole,

That painful animal, the mole."-Dunciad cor.

UNDER NOTE XL-ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.

"Either thou or the boys were in fault."-Comly cor. "It may, at first view, appear to be too general."--Murray et al. cor. "When the verb has reference to future time."-Tidem. "No; they are the language of imagination, rather than of passion."-Blair cor. "The dislike of English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can be attributed only to the intricacy of [our] syntax."-Russell cor. "Is that ornament in good taste?"-Kames cor. "There are not many fountains in good taste." Or: "Not many fountains are [ornamented] in good taste."-Id. "And I persecuted this way unto death."-Bible cor. "The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension."-Addison, Spect., No. 411. "The distributive adjectives, each, every, either, agree with nouns, pronouns, or verbs, of the singular number only."-Murray cor. "Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to other parts of speech."-Blair cor. "By certain muscles which operate [in harmony, and] all at the same time."-Murray cor. "It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in general concerning them."-Campbell cor. Nothing disgusts us sooner than empty pomp of language.”— Murray cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.-TITLES AND NAMES.

"He is entitled to the appellation of gentleman."-G. Brown. "Cromwell assumed the title of Protector."-Id. "Her father is honoured with the title of Earl."-Id. "The chief magistrate is styled President."-Id. "The highest title in the state is that of Governor."-Id. "That boy is known by the name of Idler."-Murray cor. "The one styled Mufti, is the head of the ministers of law and religion."-Balbi cor. "Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class tree."-Blair cor. "For oak, pine, and ash, were names of whole classes of objects."-Id. "It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of trope, or of figure."-Id. "The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of hiatus."Adams cor. "We hesitate to determine, whether Tyrant alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the word Spy."-Cobbett cor. "Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into twelvemonth; of seven nights into sennight; of jourteen nights into fortnight." Webster cor. UNDER NOTE XIII-COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

"He is a better writer than reader."-W. Allen. "He was an abler mathematician than linguist." -Id. "I should rather have an orange than an apple."-G. Brown. "He was no less able as a negotiator, than courageous as a warrior."-Smollett cor. "In an epic poem, we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or an epigram."—Kames cor. "That figure is a sphere, globe, or ball."--Churchill's Gram., p. 357.

UNDER NOTE XIV.-ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

"The carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."-Key to Inst. "The place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time."-Ib. "Those questions which a person puts to himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated with points of interrogation."-Mur. et al. cor. "The work is designed for the use of those persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries." -Mur. cor. "That those who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at."-II. "Those graminarians who limit the number to two, or three, do not reflect." -Id. "The substantives which end in ian, are those that signify profession." Or: "Those substantives which end in ian, are such as signify profession."—Id. To these may be added those verbs which, among the poets, usually govern the dative."-Adam and Gould cor. "The consonants are those letters which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."-Bucke cor. "To employ the curiosity of persons skilled in grammar:"-" of those who are skilled in grammar:""of persons that are skilled in grammar:"-" of such persons as are skilled in grammar:" or"of those persons who are skilled in grammar."-L. Murray cor. "This rule refers only to those nouns and pronouns which have the same bearing, or relation."-Id. "So that the things which are seen, were not made of things that do appear."-Bible cor. "Man is an imitative creature; he may utter again the sounds which he has heard."-Dr. Wilson cor. "But those men whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own."-Dr. Webster

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UNDER NOTE XV.-PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.

"Great benefit may be reaped from the reading of histories."-Sewel cor. "And some attempts were made towards the writing of history."-Bolingbroke cor. "It is an invading of the priest's office, for any other to offer it."-Leslie cor. "And thus far of the forming of verbs."W. Walker cor. "And without the shedding of blood there is no remission."-Bible cor. "For the making of measures, we have the best method here in England.”—Printer's Gram. cor. "This is really both an admitting and a denying at once."-Butler cor. "And hence the origin of the making of parliaments."-Dr. Brown cor. "Next thou objectest, that the having of saving light

and grace presupposes conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion presupposes the having of light and grace."-Barclay cor. "They cried down the wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do."-Id. "Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of the plaiting of the hair, and of the wearing of gold, or of the putting-on of apparel."-Bible cor. "In the spelling of derivative words, the primitives must be kept whole."-Brit. Gram. and Buchanan's cor. "And the princes offered for the dedicating of the altar."-Numb. cor. "Boasting is not only a telling of lies, but also of many unseemly truths."-Sheffield cor. "We freely confess that the forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful."-Barclay cor. "For the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy."-G. Brown. "He turned all his thoughts to the composing of laws for the good of the State."-Rollin cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI-PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.

"It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after falling in."-Barclay cor. "For in receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased."-Id. "True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it."-Phil. Museum cor. "To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth attending to."-Say cor. "To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by ordering their temple to be rebuilt," &c.-Rollin cor. "And for preserving them from being defiled."-Discip. cor. "A wise man will forbear to show any excellence in trifles."Kames cor. "Hirsutus had no other reason for valuing a book.”—Johnson, and Wright, cor. "To being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver himself with ease." Perhaps better: "To be heard, &c." Or: "In order to be heard, &c."—Sheridan cor. "And, to the end of being well heard and clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than can even the greatest power of voice."-Id.

"Potential purports, having power or will;

As, If you would improve, you should be still."-Tobitt cor.

UNDER NOTE XVII-VARIOUS ERRORS.

"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."-Lowth cor. "A period is a whole sentence complete in itself.”—Id. "A colon, or member, is a chief constructive part, or the greatest division, of a sentence."-Id. "A semicolon, or half-member, is a smaller constructive part, or a subdivision, of a sentence or of a member.”—Id. "A sentence or a member is again subdivided into commas, or segments."-Id. "The first error that I would mention is, too general an attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own tongue."Webster cor. "One third of the importations would supply the demands of the people."-Id. "And especially in a grave style."-Murray's Gram., i, 178. "By too eager a pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed."-Murray cor. "The letters are divided into vowels and consonants."-Mur. et al.

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"The consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels."-lidem. "The first of these forms is the most agreeable to the English idiom.”—Murray cor. "If they gain, it is at too dear a rate."-Barclay cor. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it.”—Maunder cor. "This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too partial a fondness for the Latin."-Ash cor. "The groans which too heavy a load extorts from her."Hitchcock cor. "The numbers of a verb are, of course, the singular and the plural.”—Bucke cor. "To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great mind.". Murray cor. "This mode of expression rather suits the familiar than the grave style."-Id. "This use of the word best suits a familiar and low style."-Priestley cor. According to the nature of the composition, the one or the other may be predominant."-Blair cor. "Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end."— Campbell A eulogy or a philippic may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon a subject of an other."-J. Q. Adams cor. "A French sermon is, for the most part, a warm animated exhortation."-Blair cor. "I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable lot."-Channing cor. "The auxiliary and the principal united constitute a tense."-Murray cor. "There are some verbs which are defective with respect to the persons."-Id. "In youth, habits of industry are the most easily acquired."—Id. "The apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out."Bullions cor.

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CHAPTER III.-CASES, OR NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES. "The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."-Bunyan cor. "He will in no wise cast out whosoever cometh unto him." Better: "He will in no wise cast out any that come unto him."-Hall cor. "He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, who, he saw, were off their guard."-Hutchinson cor. "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."Matt., v, 41. "The ideas of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers."— Swift cor. "You are a much greater loser than I, by his death." Or: "Thou art a much greater loser by his death than I."-Id. "Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds."-Barclay "In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."-Id. "Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb."-Addison cor. "His wealth and he bid adieu to each other."-Priestley cor. "So that, 'He is greater than I,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than me."-Id. "The Jesuits had more interests

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at court than he."-Id. and Smollett cor. "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he."-lid. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he."-Iid. My father and he have been very intimate since."-Fair Am. cor. "Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed ?"-Mrs. Bethune cor. "To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there."-Kirkham cor. "He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him."-Hume and Pr. cor. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement."-Haynes cor. "They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales."— Croker cor. "We sorrow not as they that have no hope."Maturin cor. "If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope."-Id. "We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker."-Gratton cor. "And what can be better than he that made it ?"-Jenks cor. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he.”—Cooper cor. "Solomon, who was wiser than they all."- Watson cor. "Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."-Tract cor. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both.”—Bible cor. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman."-Steele cor. "The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."-Life of Anton. cor. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 203. “Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I."-Hall cor. We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape."-Burnes cor. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redouble l energy."-Quarterly Rev. cor. "I know not who else are expected."—Scott cor. "He is great, but truth is greater than we all." Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than any of us." -H. Mann cor. He I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus: "Whom I accuse has entered."-Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.

"Scotland and thou did each in other live."-Dryden cor.
"We are alone; here's none but thou and I."-Shak. cor.
"I rather would, my heart might feel your love,

Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy."-Shak. cor.
"Tell me, in sadness, who is she you love?"-Shak. cor.
"Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire

Too high a fame, when he we serve 's away."-Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE III; OF APPOSITION.

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"Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, thee and me."-Bible cor. "Now, therefore, come thou, we will make a covenant, thou and I."— Variation corrected. "The word came not to Esau, the hunter, that stayed not at home; but to Jacob, the plain man, him that dwelt in tents."-Penn cor. "Not to every man, but to the man of God, (i. e.,) him that is led by the spirit of God."-Barclay cor. "For, admitting God to be a creditor, or him to whom the debt should be paid, and Christ him that satisfies or pays it on behalf of man the debtor, this question will arise, whether he paid that debt as God, or man, or both?”—Penn cor. "This Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Man, the Emmanuel, God with us, we own and believe in: him whom the high priests raged against," &c.-Fox cor. "Christ, and He crucified, was the Alpha and Omega of all his addresses, the fountain and foundation of his hope and trust."-Exp. cor. Christ, and He crucified, is the head, and the only head, of the church."-Denison cor. "But if Christ, and He crucified, is the burden of the ministry, such disastrous results are all avoided.”—Id. never let fall the least intimation, that himself, or any other person whosoever, was the object of worship."-View cor. "Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especially them who labour in the word and doctrine "-Bible cor. "Our Shepherd, he who is styled King of saints, will assuredly give his saints the victory."-Sermon cor. "It may seem odd, to talk of us subscribers."-Fowle cor. "And they shall have none to bury them: they, their wives, nor their sons, nor* their daughters; for I will pour their wickedness upon them.”—Bible cor. "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my wants."-Bible cor.

"Amidst the tumult of the routed train,

The sons of false Antimachus were slain;
Him who for bribes his faithless counsels sold,

And voted Helen's stay for Paris' gold."-Pope cor.

"See the vile King his iron sceptre bear

His only praise attends the pious heir;

Him in whose soul the virtues all conspire,

The best good son, from the worst wicked sire."-Lowth cor.

"Then from thy lips poured forth a joyful song

To thy Redeemer !-yea, it poured along

In most melodious energy of praise,

To God, the Saviour, him of ancient days."-Arm Chair cor.

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CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE IV; OF POSSESSIVES.

UNDER NOTE I.-THE POSSESSIVE FORM.

"Man's chief good is an upright mind."-Key to Inst. "The translator of Mallet's History has the following note."- -Webster cor. "The act, while it gave five years' full pay to the officers, allowed but one year's pay to the privates."-Id. "For the study of English is preceded by several years' attention to Latin and Greek."-Id. "The first, the Court-Baron, is the freeholders' or freemen's court."-Coke cor. "I affirm that Vaugelas's definition labours under an essential defect."-Campbril cor.; and also Murray. "There is a chorus in Aristophanes's plays."-Blair cor. "It denotes the same perception in my mind as in theirs."-Duncan cor. "This afterwards enabled him to read Ilickes's Saxon Grammar."-Life of Dr. Mur. cor. "I will not do it for ten's sake."-Ash cor. Or: "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."-Gen., xviii, 32. "I arose, and asked if those charming infants were hers."-Werter cor. "They divide their time between milliners' shops and the taverns."-Dr. Brown cor. "The angels' adoring of Adam is also mentioned in the Talmud."-Sale cor. 46 Quarrels arose from the winners' insulting of those who lost."-Id. "The vacancy occasioned by Mr. Adams's resignation."-Adv. to Adams's Rhet. cor. "Read, for instance, Junius's address, commonly called his Letter to the King."—Adams cor. "A perpetual struggle against the tide of Hortensius's influence."-Id. Which, for distinction's sake, I shall put down severally."-R. Johnson cor. "The fifth case is in a clause signifying the matter of one's fear.”—ld. "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field."-Alger cor. "Arise for thy servants' help, and redeem them for thy mercy's sake."―Jenks cor. "Shall not their cattle, their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours?"-COM. BIBLE: Gen., XXXiv, 23. "Its regular plural, bullaces, is used by Bacon."-Churchill cor. "Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house."-Scott cor. "Behold, they that wear soft clothing, are in kings' houses."—Alger's Bible. "Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife, and her two sons: and Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, came, with his sons and his wife, unto Moses."-Scott's Bible. King James's translators merely revised former translations."-Frazee cor. "May they be like corn on houses' tops."-White cor. "And for his Maker's image' sake exempt."-Milton cor.

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By all the fame acquired in ten years' war."— Rowe cor.
"Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore."-Pope cor.
"Man only of a softer mold is made,

Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid."-Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.-POSSESSIVES CONNECTED.

"It was necessary to have both the physician's and the surgeon's advice."-L. Murray's False Syntax, Rule 10. "This outside fashionableness of the tailor's or the tirewoman's making."-Locke

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"Some pretending to be of Paul's party, others of Apollos's, others of Cephas's, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of Christ's."-Wood cor. "Nor is it less certain, that Spenser and Milton's spelling agrees better with our pronunciation."-Phil. Museum cor. "Law's, Edwards's, and Watts's Survey of the Divine Dispensations." Or thus: "Law, Edwards, and Watts's, Surveys of the Divine Dispensations.”—Burgh cor. "And who was Enoch's Saviour, and the prophets'?"—Bayly cor. "Without any impediment but his own, his parents', or his guardian's will."-Journal corrected. "James relieves neither the boy's nor the girl's distress."-Nixon cor. "John regards neither the master's nor the pupil's advantage."—Id. "You reward neither the

man's nor the woman's labours."-Id. "She examines neither James's nor John's conduct.”Id. "Thou pitiest neither the servant's nor the master's injuries."—Id. "We promote England's or Ireland's happiness."-ld. "Were Cain's and Abel's occupation the same?"—G. Brown. "Were Cain and Abel's occupations the same?"-Id. "What was Simon and Andrew's employment?"-Id. "Till he can read for himself Sanctius's Minerva with Scioppius's and Perizonius's Notes."-Locke cor.

"And love and friendship's finely-pointed dart

Falls blunted from each indurated heart." Or:"And love's and friendship's finely-pointed dart

Fall blunted from each indurated heart."-Goldsmith cor.

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UNDER NOTE III.-CHOICE OF FORMS.

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"But some degree of trouble is the portion of all men."-L. Murray et al. cor. of his father and mother upon the blank leaf."-Abbott cor. "The general, in the name of the army, published a declaration.". "Hume cor. "The vote of the Commons."-Id. "The House of Lords." -Id. "A collection of the faults of writers ;"—or, "A collection of literary faults."-Swift cor. "After ten years of wars."-Id. "Professing his detestation of such practices as those of his predecessors."-Pope cor. 'By that time I shall have ended my year of office."- -W. Walker cor. "For the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip."—Bible and Mur. cor. "I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain salvation."-Bibles cor. "He was heir to the son of Louis the Sixteenth."-W. Allen. "The throne we honour is the people's choice."-Rolla. "An account of the proceedings of Alexander's court."—Inst. "An excellent tutor for the child of a person of fashion!"-Gil Blas cor. "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop's is, itself, ungrammatical."-Cobbett cor. "The troops broke into the palace of the Emperor Leopold." -Nixon cor. "The meeting was called by desire of Eldon the Judge."-Id. "The occupation

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of Peter, John, and Andrew, was that of fishermen."-Murray's Key, R. 10. venerable president of the Royal Academy, has lately increased."-Maunder cor. UNDER NOTE IV.-NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.

"God hath not given us our reason to no purpose."-Barclay cor. "For our sake, no doubt, this is written."-Bible cor. "Are not health and strength of body desirable for their own sake ?” -Harris and Murray cor. "Some sailors who were boiling their dinner upon the shore."-Day cor. "And they, in their turn, were subdued by others."-Pinnock cor. "Industry on our part is not superseded by God's grace."-Arrowsmith cor. "Their health perhaps may be pretty well secured."-Locke cor. Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor.”—See 2 Cor., viii, 9. "It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their part."-Harris cor. "The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being most exact to their word, and respctful to their kindred."-Sale cor. "That is, as a reward of some exertion on our part."-Gurney cor. "So that it went ill with Moses for their sake."-Ps. cor. All liars shall have their part in the burning lake." -Watts cor. For our own sake as well as for thine."-Pref. to Waller cor. "By discovering their ability to detect and amend errors."-L. Murray cor.

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"This world I do renounce; and, in your sight,

Shake patiently my great affliction off."-Shak. cor.

"If your relenting anger yield to treat,

Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet."-Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE V.-POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.

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"This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the prejudice.”—Smith cor. notice which they give of an action as being completed or not completed."-L. Mur. et al. cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."-Priestley and A. Mur. cor. "They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the seeking of the Spirit."-The Friend cor. Here then is a wide field for reason to exert its powers in relation to the objects of taste."Dr. Blair cor. "Now this they derive altogether from their greater capacity of imitation and description."-Id. "This is one clear reason why they paid a greater attention to that construction." Id. "The dialogue part had also a modulation of its own, which was capable of being set to notes."—Id. "Why are we so often frigid and unpersuasive in public discourse?"—Id. "Which is only a preparation for leading his forces directly upon us."-Id. "The nonsense about which, as relating to things only, and having no declension, needs no refutation."-Fowle cor. "Who, upon breaking it open, found nothing but the following inscription."-Rollin cor. "A prince will quickly have reason to repent of having exalted one person so high.”—Id. “Notwithstanding it is the immediate subject of his discourse."-Churchill cor. "With our definition of it, as being synonymous with time."-Booth cor. "It will considerably increase our danger of being deceived."-Campbell cor. "His beauties can never be mentioned without suggesting his blemishes also."-Dr. Blair cor. "No example has ever been adduced, of a man conscientiously approving an action, because of its badness." Or:-" of a man who conscientiously approved of an action because of its badness."-Gurney cor. "The last episode, of the angel showing to Adam the fate of his posterity, is happily imagined."-Dr. Blair cor. "And the news came to my

son, that he and the bride were in Dublin."-M. Edgeworth cor. "There is no room for the mind to exert any great effort."-Dr. Blair cor. "One would imagine, that these critics never so much as heard that Homer wrote first."-Pope cor. "Condemn the book, for not being a geography:" or," because it is not a geography."-Peirce cor. "There will be in many words a transition from being the figurative to being the proper signs of certain ideas."-Campbell cor. "The doctrine that the Pope is the only source of ecclesiastical power."-Rel. World cor. "This was the more expedient, because the work was designed for the benefit of private learners."-L. Murray cor. "This was done, because the Grammar, being already in type, did not admit of enlargement." -Id.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE V; OF OBJECTIVES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF. THE OBJECTIVE FORM.

"Whom should I meet the other day but my old friend!"-Spect. cor. "Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but him that takes it off."-Barclay cor. "Let none touch it, but them who are clean."-Sale cor. "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and them that dwell therein."-Ps. cor. "Pray be private, and careful whom you trust."-Mrs. Goffe cor. "How shall the people know whom to entrust with their property and their liberties?"-J. 0. Taylor cor. "The chaplain entreated my comrade and me to dress as well as possible."-- World "And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."―John, vi, 37. Whom, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke."-Hope of Is. cor. "Whoever or what

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