Note 45 — SENTENCES.
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“And restores to his Island that tranquillity and repose, to which they had been strangers during his absence.” Pope, Dissertation prefixed to the Odyssey. Island is not a Noun of Multitude: it ought to be, his people; or, it had been a stranger. “What reason have the Church of Rome to talk of modesty in this case?” Tillotson, Vol. I. Serm. 49. “All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but his follies and vices are innumerable.” Swift, Preface to Tale of a Tub. Is not mankind in this place a Noun of Multitude, and such as requires the Pronoun refering to it to be in the Plural Number, their?