"I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel."—Bible cor. "There is a harshness in the following sentences."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 152. "Indeed, such a one is not to be looked for."—Dr. Blair cor. "If each of you will be disposed to approve himself a useful citizen."—Id. "Land with them had acquired almost a European value."—Webster cor. "He endeavoured to find out a wholesome remedy."—Neef cor. "At no time have we attended a yearly meeting more to our own satisfaction."—The Friend cor. "Addison was not a humorist in character."—Kames cor. "Ah me! what a one was he!"—Lily cor. "He was such a one as I never saw before"—Id. "No man can be a good preacher, who is not a useful one."—Dr. Blair cor. "A usage which is too frequent with Mr. Addison."—Id. "Nobody joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of a horse."—Locke cor. "A universality seems to be aimed at by the omission of the article."—Priestley cor. "Architecture is a useful as well as a fine art."—Kames cor. "Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve a uniform signification."— Nutting cor. "Such a work required the patience and assiduity of a hermit."—Johnson cor. "Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity."—Id. "His bravery, we know, was a high courage of blasphemy."—Pope cor. "HYSSOP; an herb of bitter taste."—Pike cor.

"On each enervate string they taught the note To pant, or tremble through a eunuch's throat."—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—AN OR A WITH PLURALS.

"At a session of the court, in March, it was moved," &c.—Hutchinson cor. "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda."—D. D'Ab. cor. "I took an other dictionary, and with a pair of scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."—A. B. Johnson cor. "A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, and about forty-five years old."—Gardiner cor. "And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings."—Bible cor. "There were slain of them about three thousand men."—1 Macc. cor. "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed other Alps of snow."—Addison cor. "To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."—Goldsmith cor. "As a first-fruit of many that shall be gathered."—Barclay cor. "It makes indeed a little amend, (or some amends,) by inciting us to oblige people."—Sheffield cor. "A large and lightsome back stairway (or flight of backstairs) leads up to an entry above."—Id. "Peace of mind is an abundant recompense for any sacrifices of interest."—Murray et al. cor. "With such a spirit, and such sentiments, were hostilities carried on."—Robertson cor. "In the midst of a thick wood, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."—G. B. "The flats look almost like a young forest."—Chronicle cor. "As we went on, the country for a little way improved, but scantily."—Freeman cor. "Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a captivity of seventy years at Babylon."—Rollin cor. "He did not go a great way into the country."—Gilbert cor.

"A large amend by fortune's hand is made, And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."—Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—NOUNS CONNECTED.

"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and the odour of flowers."—Kames cor. "The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and the softness of its pause."—Id. "Before the use of the loadstone, or the knowledge of the compass."—Dryden cor. "The perfect participle and the imperfect tense ought not to be confounded."—Murray cor. "In proportion as the taste of a poet or an orator becomes more refined."—Blair cor. "A situation can never be more intricate, so long as there is an angel, a devil, or a musician, to lend a helping hand."—Kames cor. "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken."—Inst., p. 262. "Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given."—Ib. "I despise not the doer, but the deed."—Ib. "For the sake of an easier pronunciation and a more agreeable sound."—Lowth cor. "The levity as well as the loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."— Bolingbroke cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"It is proper that the vowels be a long and a short one."—Murray cor. "Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or a short time before."—Id. et al. "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."—Adam cor. "The numbers are two; the singular and the plural."—Id. et al. "The persons are three; the first, the second, and the third."—Iidem. "Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."— Comly and Ing. cor. "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, the indicative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the imperative."— Bullions et al. cor. "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and the plural."—Bradley cor. "To distinguish between an interrogative and an exclamatory sentence."—Murray et al. cor. "The first and the last of which are compound members."—Lowth cor. "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and the diffuse, the nervous and the feeble manner."—Blair cor. "The passive and the neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation."—Ingersoll cor. "There are two voices; the active and the passive."—Adam et al. cor. "WHOSE is rather the poetical than the regular genitive of WHICH."—Johnson cor. "To feel the force of a compound or a derivative word."—Town cor. "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions."—Murray et al. cor. "E has a long and a short sound in most languages."—Bicknell cor. "When the figurative and the literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."—Dr. Blair cor. "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and the Phoenician stand in connexion."—Conant and Fowler cor. "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish."—Fowler cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."—Murray cor. "Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution."—Kirkham cor. "Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."—Id. "How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?"—Cowley cor. "Into a dark and distant unknown."—Dr. Chalmers cor. "When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man."—Chazotte cor. "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."—Murray cor. "And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste."—Dr. Blair cor. "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion."—Id. "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is that of the separation."—Dr. M'Rie cor. "A great and good man looks beyond time."—See Brown's Inst., p. 263. "They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance."—Ib. "The light and worthless kernels will float."—Ib. "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."—Ib. "For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the public an other and better edition."—Kirkham cor. "He hoped that this title would secure to him an ample and independent authority."—L. Murray cor. et al. "There is, however, an other and more limited sense."—J. Q. Adams cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise."—Dr. Blair cor. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic."—Adams cor. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."—Bolingbroke cor. "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."—Allen cor. "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective."—Murray et al. cor. "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."—Smart cor. "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."—Fowler cor. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."—Murray et al. cor. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."—Kirkham bettered. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?"—Id. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb." "The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons."—Id. "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress."—Rush cor. "In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines."—Churchill cor. "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."—Wright cor. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."—Id. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments."—Henry cor. "The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament."—Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."—Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."—Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."—Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural."—Burn cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—CORRESPONDENT TERMS.

"Neither the definitions nor the examples are entirely the same as his."—Ward cor. "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and the expression."—Kames cor. "Between the adjective and the following substantive."—Id. "Thus Athens became both the repository and the nursery of learning."—Chazotte cor. "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and the Latin."—Id. "He shows that Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God."—The Friend cor. "That he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."—Bible cor. "This is neither the obvious nor the grammatical meaning of his words."—Blair cor. "Sometimes both the accusative and the infinitive are understood."—Adam and Gould cor. "In some cases, we can use either the nominative or the accusative, promiscuously."—Iidem. "Both the former and the latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."—Iidem. "Many of which have escaped both the commentator and the poet himself."—Pope cor. "The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and a past signification."—L. Murray cor. "How shall we distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the government?"—Dr. Webster cor. "Both the ecclesiastical and the secular powers concurred in those measures."—Dr. Campbell cor. "As the period has a beginning and an end within itself, it implies an inflection."—J. Q. Adams cor. "Such as ought to subsist between a principal and an accessory."—Ld. Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

"When both the upward and the downward slide occur in the sound of one syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE."—Kirkham cor. "The word THAT is used both in the nominative and in the objective case."—Sanborn cor. "But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large."—Murray cor. "Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future tense into the indicative mood, reject it from the subjunctive."—Id. "After the same conjunction, to use both the indicative and the subjunctive mood in the same sentence, and under the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety."—Id. "The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative mood in this tense."—Id. "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or the English language."—Chazotte cor. "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and the passive."—Nixon cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—A SERIES OF TERMS.

"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and the husbandman."—Chazotte cor. "They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, the Philanthropists, the Pestalozzians, and the Productives."—Smith cor. "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future."—Murray et al. cor. "Is it an irregular neuter verb [from be, was, being, been; found in] the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number."—Murray cor. "SHOULD GIVE is an irregular active-transitive verb [from give, gave, given, giving; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number."—Id. "US is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."—Id. "THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."—Id. "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, a point of admiration, or a parenthesis."—Dr. Wilson cor. "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth verses." Or: "The fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth verse."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Substitutes have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third."—Id. "JOHN'S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and is governed by 'WIFE,' according to Rule" [4th, which says, &c.]—Smith cor. "Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—Bar. and Alex. cor. "The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and the pluperfect."—Ingersoll cor.

"Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend, And own the patron, patriot, and friend."—Savage cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—SPECIES AND GENUS.

"The pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for the noun."—Paul's Ac. cor. "The verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."—Id. "The participle is a part of speech derived from the verb."—Id. "The adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles, adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification."—Id. "The conjunction is a part of speech that joins words or sentences together."—Id. "The preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts."—Id. "The interjection is a part of speech which betokens a sudden emotion or passion of the mind."—Id. "The enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory."—Blair and Murray cor. "We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of the allegory."—Iidem. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of art."—Harris cor. "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,' as Mr. Harris acutely observes."—Churchill cor. "But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of metaphor, very beautiful, (or, one very beautiful instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full advantage."—Blair cor. "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as the whole put for a part, or a part for the whole; a species for the genus, or the genus for a species."—Id. "It shows what kind of apple it is of which we are speaking."—Kirkham cor. "Cleon 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 XI.—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."—Iidem. "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 fourteen 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."—Id. "Those grammarians 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 cor.

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. cor. "The consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels."—Iidem. "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 cor. "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.