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NOTE XIV. The definite article, or some other definitive, (as this, that, these, those,) is generally required before the antecedent to the pronoun who or which in a restrictive clause; as, "All the men who were present, agreed to it."— W. Allen's Gram., p. 145. "The thoughts which passion suggests are always plain and obvious ones."-Blair's Rhet., p. 468. "The things which are impossible with men, are possible with God."-Luke, xviii, 27. See Etymology, Chap. V, Obs. 26th, &c., on Classes of Pronouns.

NOTE XV. The article is generally required in that construction which converts a participle into a verbal or participial noun; as, "The completing of this, by the working-out of sin inherent, must be by the power and spirit of Christ in the heart." Wm. Penn. "They shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.”—Isaiah, lxvi, 24. "For the dedicating of the altar."-Numb., vii, 11.

NOTE XVI.-The article should not be added to any participle that is not taken in all other respects as a noun; as, "For the dedicating the altar."-“He made a mistake in the giving out the text." Expunge the, and let dedicating and giving here stand as participles only; for in the construction of nouns, they must have not only a definitive before them, but the preposition of after them.

NOTE XVII. The false syntax of articles properly includes every passage in which there is any faulty insertion, omission, choice, or position, of this part of speech. For example: "When the verb is a passive, the agent and object change places."-Lowth Gram., p. 73. Better: "When the verb is passive, the agent and the object change places." "Comparisons used by the sacred poets, are generally short."-Russell's Gram., p. 87. Better: "The comparisons," &c. means for noun, and is used to avoid the too frequent repetition of the noun."-Infant School Gram., p. 89. Say rather: "The pronoun is put for a noun, and is used to prevent too frequent a repetition of the noun." Or: "The word PRONOUN means for noun; and a pronoun is used to prevent too frequent a repetition of some

noun."

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE I.

"Pronoun

[The examples of False Syntax placed under the rul s and notes, are to be corrected orally by the pupil, according to the formules given, or according to others framed in like manner, and adapted to the several notes.]

EXAMPLES UNDER NOTE I.-AN OR A.

"I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel.”—Hosea, vi, 10.

[FORMULE-Not proper, because the article an is used before horrible, which begins with the sound of the consonant h. But, according to Note 1st, under Rule 1st, "When the indefinite article is required, a should always be used before the sound of a consonant, and an, before that of a vowel." Therefore, an should be a; thus, "I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel."]

"There is an harshness in the following sentences."-Priestley's Gram., p. 188. "Indeed, such an one is not to be looked for."-Blair's Rhet., p. 27. "If each of you will be disposed to approve himself an useful citizen."-Ib., p. 263. "Land with them had acquired almost an European value."-Webster's Essays, p. 325. "He endeavoured to find out an wholesome remedy." -Neefs Method of Ed., p. 3. "At no time have we attended an Yearly Meeting more to our own satisfaction."-The Friend, v, 224. "Addison was not an humourist in character."-Kames, El. of Crit., i, 303. "Ah me! what an one was he ?"-Lily's Gram., p. 49. "He was such an one as I never saw."-fb. "No man can be a good preacher, who is not an useful one."-Blair's Rhet., p. 283. "An usage which is too frequent with Mr. Addison."-Ib., p. 200. "Nobody joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of an horse."-Locke's Essay, p. 298. "An universality seems to be aimed at by the omission of the article."-Priestley's Gram., p. 154. "Architecture is an useful as well as a fine art."-Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 335. "Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve an uniform signification."-Nutting's Gram., p. 78. "Such a work required the patience and assiduity of an hermit."-Johnson's Life of Morin. "Resentment is an union of sorrow with malignity."-Rambler, No. 185. "His bravery, we know, was an high courage of blasphemy."-Pope. "Hyssop; a herb of bitter taste."-Pike's Heb. Ĺex., p. 3.

"On each enervate string they taught the note

To pant, or tremble through an Eunuch's throat."-Pope.

UNDER NOTE II.-AN OR A WITH PLURALS.

"At a sessions of the court in March, it was moved," &c.-Hutchinson's Hist. of Mass., i, 61. "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept a memoranda."-Duchess D'Abrantes, p. 26. "I took another dictionary, and with a scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS.”—A. B. Johnson's Plan of a Dict., p. 12. "A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, of a forty-five

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years old."-Gardiner's Music of Nature, p. 338. "And it came to pass about an eight days after these sayings."-Luke, ix, 28. "There were slain of them upon a three thousand men."-1 Mac., iv, 15. "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed another Alps of snow.' -Addison, Tat., No. 161. "To make them a satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."-Goldsmith's Greece, p. 187. As a first fruits of many more that shall be gathered."Barclay's Works, i, 506. "It makes indeed a little amends, by inciting us to oblige people."Sheffield's Works, ii, 229. "A large and lightsome back-stairs leads up to an entry above."-Ib., p. 260. "Peace of mind is an honourable amends for the sacrifices of interest."-Murray's Gram., p. 162; Smith's, 138. "With such a spirit and sentiments were hostilities carried on.' Robertson's America, i, 166. "In the midst of a thick woods, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."-G. B. "The flats look almost like a young woods."-Morning Chronicle. "As we went on, the country for a little ways improved, but scantily."-Essex County Freeman, Vol. ii, No. 11. "Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a seventy years captivity at Babylon."-Rollin's An. Hist.., Vol. ii, p. 20. "He did not go a great ways into the country."-Gilbert's Gram., p. 85.

"A large amends by fortune's hand is made,

And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."-Rowe's Lucan, iv, 1241.

UNDER NOTE III.-NOUNS CONNECTED.

"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds and odour of flowers."-Kames, El. of Crit., i, 117. "The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and softness of its pause."-Ib., ii, 113. "Before the use of the loadstone or knowledge of the compass."Dryden. "The perfect participle and imperfect tense ought not to be confounded."-Murray's Gram., ii, 292. "In proportion as the taste of a poet, or orator, becomes more refined."-Blair's Rhet., p. 27. "A situation can never be intricate, as long as there is an angel, devil, or musician, to lend a helping hand."-Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 285. "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or bone broken."-"Not a word was uttered, nor sign given."-Brown's Inst., p. 125. "I despise not the doer, but deed."-Ibid. "For the sake of an easier pronunciation and more agreeable sound."-Lowth. "The levity as well as loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."—Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 115.

UNDER NOTE IV.-ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"It is proper that the vowels be a long and short one."-Murray's Gram., p. 327. "Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or short time before."-1b., p. 70; Fisk's, 72. "There are three genders, Masculine, Feminine, and Neuter."-Adam's Lat. Gram., p. 8. "The numbers are two; Singular and Plural."-Ib., p. 80; Gould's, 77. "The persons are three; First, Second, [and] Third."-Adam, et al. "Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, possessive, and objective."-Comly's Gram., p. 19; Ingersoll's, 21. "Verbs have five moods; namely, the Indicative, Potential, Subjunctive, Imperative, and Infinitive."—Bullions's E. Gram., p. 35; Lennie's, 20. "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and plural."-Bradley's Gram., p. 82. "To distinguish between an interrogative and exclamatory sentence."-Murray's Gram., p. 280; Comly's, 163; Ingersoll's, 292. "The first and last of which are compounded members."-Lowth's Gram., p. 123. "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and diffuse, the nervous and feeble manner."-Blair's Rhet., p. 183. "The passive and neuter verbs, I shall reserve for some future conversation."—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 69. "There are two voices; the Active and Passive."-Adam's Gram., p. 59; Gould's, 87. "Whose is rather the poetical than regular genitive of which."-Dr. Johnson's Gram., p. 7. "To feel the force of a compound, or derivative word."-Town's Analysis, p. 4. "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and disjunctive conjunctions."-Murray's Gram., p. 150; Ingersoll's, 233. "E has a long and short sound in most languages."-Bicknell's Gram., Part ii, p. 13. "When the figurative and literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."-Blair's Rhet., p. 151. "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and Phoenician stand in connection."-CONANT: Fowler's E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, p. 28. "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and Swedish." -Fowler, ib., p. 31.

UNDER NOTE V.-ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"Directions for ac

"The path of truth is a plain and a safe path."-Murray's Key, p. 236. quiring a just and a happy elocution."-Kirkham's Elocution, p. 144. "Its leading object is to adopt a correct and an easy method."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 9. "How can it choose but wither in a long and a sharp winter."-Cowley's Pref., p. vi. "Into a dark and a distant unknown."— Chalmers, on Astronomy, p. 230. "When the bold and the strong enslaved his fellow man."— Chazotte's Essay, p. 21. "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and a perfect sentence."-Murray's Gram., p. 306. "And hence arises a second and a very considerable source of the improvement of taste."-Blair's Rhet., p. 18. Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and an agreeable emotion."-Ib., p. 50. "The deepest and the bitterest feeling still is, the separation."-Dr. M Rie. "A great and a good man looks beyond time."-Brown's Institutes, p. 125. "They made but a weak and an ineffectual resistance.”—Ib. "The light and the worthless kernels will float."-Ib. "I rejoice that there is an other and a better world."-Ib. For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the publick another and a better edition."

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-Kirkham's Gram., p. 7. "He hoped that this title would secure him an ample and an independent authority.”—Murray's Gram., p. 172: see Priestley's, 147. "There is however another and a more limited sense."-Adams's Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 232.

UNDER NOTE VI.-ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

"This distinction forms, what are called the diffuse and the concise styles."-Blair's Rhet., p. 176. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic and the Asiatic manners."-Adams's Rhet., Vol. i, p. 83. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and the French monarchies under the former was laid."-Bolingbroke, on History, p. 180. In the solemn and the poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."-W. Allen's Gram., p. 68. "They cannot be at the same time in the objective and the nominative cases."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 151; Ingersoll's, 239; R. C. Smith's, 127. "They are named the POSITIVE, the COMPARATIVE, and the SUPERLATIVE degrees."-Smart's Accidence, p. 27. "Certain Adverbs are capable of taking an Inflection, namely, that of the comparative and the superlative degrees.”Fowler's E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, § 321. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and the imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."-L. Murray's Gram., p. 187; Fisk's, 131. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first future tenses of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 145. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third person?"—Пb., p. 116. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or objective case after the neuter verb to be, or after an active-intransitive or passive verb."-Ib., p. 55. "The verb varies its endings in the singular in order to agree in form with the first, second, and third person of its nominative."-Ib., p. 47. "They are identical in effect, with the radical and the vanishing stresses."-Rush, on the Voice, p. 339. "In a sonnet the first, fourth, fifth, aud eighth line rhyme to each other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh line; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth line; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth line."Churchill's Gram., p. 311. "The iron and the golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."-Wright's Athens, p. 74. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden ages are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."--Ib. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testament."— Matthew Henry's Title-page. "The names and order of the books of the Old and New Testament." -Friends' Bible, p. 2; Bruce's, p. 2; et al. "In the second and third person of that tense.”— L. Murray's Gram., p. 81. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine natures." -Gurney's Evidences, p. 59. "Among whom arose the Italian, the Spanish, the French, and the English languages."-L. Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 111. "Whence arise these two, the singular and the plural Numbers."-Burn's Gram., p. 32.

UNDER NOTE VII.-CORRESPONDENT TERMS.

"Neither the definitions, nor examples, are entirely the same with his."- Ward's Pref. to Lily's Gram., p. vi. "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and expression."-Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 24. "Between the adjective and following substantive."-Ib. ii, 104. "Thus, Athens became both the repository and nursery of learning."-Chazotte's Essay, p. 28. "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and Latin."—Ib., p. 102. "He shows that Christ is both the power and wisdom of God."--The Friend, x, 414. "That he might be Lord both of the dead and living."-Rʊm., xiv, 9. "This is neither the obvious nor grammatical meaning of his words." -Blair's Rhet., p. 209. "Sometimes both the accusative and infinitive are understood."-Adam's Gram., p. 155; Gould's, 158. "In some cases we can use either the nominative or accusative promiscuously."-Adam, p. 156; Gould, 159. "Both the former and latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."-Adam, p. 157; Gould, 160. "Many whereof have escaped both the commentator and poet himself."-Pope. "The verbs must and ought have both a present and past signification."-Murray's Gram., p. 108. "How shall we distinguish between the friends and enemies of the government?"-Webster's Essays, p. 352. "Both the ecclesiastical and secular powers concurred in those measures."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 260. "As the period has a beginning and end within itself it implies an inflexion."-Adams's Rhet., ii, 245. "Such as ought to subsist between a principal and accessory."—Kames, on Crit., ii, 39.

UNDER NOTE VIII.-CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

"When both the upward and the downward slides occur in pronouncing a syllable, they are called a Circumflex or Wave."-Kirkham's Elocution, pp. 75 and 104. "The word that is used both in the nominative and objective cases."-Sanborn's Gram., p. 69. "But all the other moods and tenses of the verbs, both in the active and passive voices, are conjugated at large.”—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 81. "Some writers on Grammar object to the propriety of admitting the second future, in both the indicative and subjunctive moods.”—Ib., p. 82. "The same conjunction governing both the indicative and the subjunctive moods, in the same sentence, and in the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety."-1b., p. 207. "The true distinction between the

subjunctive and the indicative moods in this tense."-Ib., p. 208. "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or English languages."-Chazotte's Essay, p. 7. "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active transitive and the active intransitive forms of the verb, as between the active and passive forms."-Nixon's Parser, p. 13.

UNDER NOTE IX-A SERIES OF TERMS.

"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and husbandman."—— Chazotte's Essay, p. 24. "They may be divided into four classes-the Humanists, Philanthropists, Pestalozzian and the Productive Schools."-Smith's New Gram., p. iii. "Verbs have six tenses, the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, and the First and Second Future tenses.”— Kirkham's Gram., p. 138; L. Murray's, 68; R. C. Smith's, 27; Alger's, 28. "Is is an irregular verb neuter, indicative mood, present tense, and the third person singular."-Murray's Gram., Vol. ii, p. 2. "Should give is an irregular verb active, in the potential mood, the imperfect tense, and the first person plural."-Пid. "Us is a personal pronoun, first person plural, and in the objective case."—Ibid. "Them is a personal pronoun, of the third person, the plural number, and in the objective case."—Ibid. "It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, of admiration, or a parenthesis."— Wilson's Hebrew Gram., p. 47. "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and the eighth verse."-0. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 263. "Substitutes have three persons; the First, Second, and the Third."-Ib., p. 34. "John's is a proper noun, of the masculine gender, the third person, singular number, possessive case, and governed by wife, by Rule I."-Smith's New Gram., p. 48. "Nouns in the English language have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and objective."-Barrett's Gram., p. 13; Alexander's, 11. "The Potential [mood] has four [tenses], viz. the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, and Pluperfect.”—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 96. "Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend,

And own the patron, patriot, and the friend."-Savage, to Walpole.

UNDER NOTE X.-SPECIES AND GENUS.

"A pronoun is a part of speech put for a noun."--Paul's Accidence, p. 11. "A verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."-Ib., p. 15. "A participle is a part of speech derived of a verb."-Ib., p. 38. "An adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs to declare their signification."—Ib., p. 40. "A conjunction is a part of speech that joineth sentences together."—Ib., p.

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"A preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts."-Ib, p. 42. "An interjection is a part of speech which betokeneth a sudden motion or passion of the mind." -lb., p. 44. "An enigma or riddle is also a species of allegory."—Blair's Rhet., p. 151; Murray's Gram., 343. "We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of an allegory."-Ib.: Blair, 151; Mur., 341. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of a sketch of art."-HARRIS: in Priestley's Gram., p. 176. "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of a reasoning,' as Mr. Harris acutely observes."—Churchill's Gram., p. 71. "But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of a very beautiful metaphor, that I may show the figure to full advantage.”—Blair's Rhet., p. 143. "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as a whole put for the part, or a part for a whole; the species for the genus, or a genus for the species."-Ib., p. 142. "It shows what kind of an apple it is of which we are speaking."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 69. "Cleon was another sort of a man."Goldsmith's Greece, Vol. i, p. 124. "To keep off his right wing, as a kind of a reserved body." lb., ii, 12. "This part of speech is called a verb."-Mack's Gram., p. 70. "What sort of a thing is it?"-Hiley's Gram., p. 20. "What sort of a charm do they possess ?"-Bullions's Principles of E. Gram., p. 73.

"Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole,

That painful animal, a Mole.”—Note to Dunciad, B. ii, 1. 207.

UNDER NOTE XI.-ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.

"It may, at "When

"Either thou or the boys were in the fault."-Comly's Key, in Gram., p. 174. the first view, appear to be too general."-Murray's Gram., p. 222; Ingersoll's, 275. the verb has a reference to future time."-lb.: M., p. 207; Ing., 264. "No; they are the language of imagination rather than of a passion."-Blair's Rhet., p. 165. "The dislike of the English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can only be attributed to the intricacy of syntax." -Russell's Gram., p. iv. "Is that ornament in a good taste?"-Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 326. "There are not many fountains in a good taste."—Ib., ii, 329. "And I persecuted this way unto the death."-Acts, xxii, 4. "The sense of the feeling can, indeed, give us the idea of extension." -Blair's Rhet., p. 196. "The distributive adjective pronouns, each, every, either, agree with the nouns, pronouns, and verbs, of the singular number only."-Murray's Gram., p. 165; Lowth's, Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to the other parts of speech."-Blair's Rhet., p. 84. "By the certain muscles which operate all at the same time."-Murray's Gram., p. 19. "It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in the general concerning them."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 112. "Nothing disgusts us sooner than the empty pomp of language."-Murray's Gram., p. 319.

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UNDER NOTE XII.-TITLES AND NAMES.

"Cromwell

"He is entitled to the appellation of a gentleman."-Brown's Inst., p. 126. assumed the title of a Protector."-Ib. "Her father is honoured with the title of an Earl."-Ib. "The chief magistrate is styled a President."-Ib. "The highest title in the state is that of the Governor."-Ib. "That boy is known by the name of the Idler.”—Murray's Key, Svo, p. 205.

"The one styled the Mufti, is the head of the ministers of law and religion.”—Balbi's Geog., p. 360. "Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class a tree."Blair's Rhet., p. 73. "For the oak, the pine, and the ash, were names of whole classes of objects." -Ib., p. 73. "It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of a trope, or of a figure."-Ib., p. 133. 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 an hiatus."-J. Q. Adams's Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 217. "We hesitate to determine, whether the Tyrant alone, is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the spy."-Cobbett's E. Gram.,246. "Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into a twelvemonth; seven nights into se'night; fourteen nights into a fortnight."— Webster's Improved Gram., p. 105.

UNDER NOTE XIII-COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

"He is a better writer than a reader."—W. Allen's False Syntax, Gram., p. 332. "Ho was an abler mathematician than a linguist."-Ib. "I should rather have an orange than apple."Brown's Inst., p. 126. "He was no less able a negotiator, than a courageous warrior."-Smollett's Voltaire, Vol. i, p. 181. "In an epic poem we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or epigram."-Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 186. "That figure is a sphere, or a globe, or a ball."-Harris's Hermes, p. 258.

UNDER NOTE XIV.-ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

"Carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."-Inst., p. 126. "The place is not mentioned by geographers who wrote at that time."—Ib. "Questions which a person asks himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated by points of interrogation."-Murray's Gram., p. 279; Comly's, 162; Ingersoll's, 291. "The work is designed for the use of persons, who may think it merits a place in their Libraries."-Murray's Gram., 8vo., p. iii. That persons who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at.”—Ib., p. 298. "Grammarians who limit the number to two, or at most to three, do not reflect."-lb., p. 75. "Substantives which end in ian, are those that signify profession.”—Ib., p. 132. "To these may be added verbs, which chiefly among the poets govern the dative."-Adam's Gram., p. 170; Gould's, 171. "Consonants are letters, which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."Bucke's Gram., p. 9. "To employ the curiosity of persons who are skilled in grammar.”—Murray's Gram., Pref., p. iii. "This rule refers only to nouns and pronouns, which have the same bearing or relation."-Ib., i, p. 204. "So that things which are seen, were not made of things which do appear."—Heb., xi, 3. "Man is an imitative creature; he may utter sounds, which he has heard." Wilson's Essay on Gram., p. 21. "But men, whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own."— Webster's Essays, p. 5.

UNDER NOTE XV.-PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.

"And

"Great benefit may be reaped from reading of histories."-Sewel's Hist., p. iii. "And some attempts were male towards writing of history."-Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 110. "It is Invading of the Priest's Office for any other to Offer it."-Right of Tythes, p. 200. "And thus far of forming of verbs."-Walker's Art of Teaching, p. 35. "And without shedding of blood is no remission.” -Heb., ix, 22. "For making of measures we have the best method here in England."-Printer's Gram. "This is really both admitting and denying, at once."-Butler's Analogy, p. 72. hence the origin of making of parliaments."-Brown's Estimate, Vol. i, p. 71. "Next thou objectest, that having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion presupposeth having light and grace."-Barclay's Works, Vol. i, p. 143. "They cried down wearing of rings and other superfluities as we do."-Ib., i, 236. "Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel."-1 Peter, iii, 3. "In spelling of derivative Words, the Primitive must be kept whole."-British Gram., p. 50; Buchanan's Syntax, 9. "And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar."-Numbers, vii, 10. Boasting is not only telling of lies, but also many unseemly truths."-Sheffield's Works, ii, 244. "We freely confess that forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful."-Barclay, i, 316. "For revealing of a secret, there is no remedy."—Inst. E. Gram., p. 126. "He turned all his thoughts to composing of laws for the good of the state." Rollin's Ancient Hist., Vol. ii, p. 38.

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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 the falling in."-Barclay, i, 210. "For in the receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt eased."--Ib., i, 469. "True regularity does not consist in the having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it."-Philol. Museum, i, 664. "To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth the attending to."-Life of Tho. Say, p. 144. "To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by the ordering their temple to be rebuilt," &c.-Rollin, ii, 124. "And for the preserving them from being defiled."-N. E. Discipline, p. 133. "A wise man will avoid the showing any excellence in trifles."-Art of Thinking, p. 80. "Hirsutus had no other reason for the valuing a book."-Rambler, No. 177; Wright's Gram., p. 190. "To the being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver him

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