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The Grammar of English Grammars

Part 3 — CHAPTER VII.—PARTICIPLES.

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CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XX.

UNDER NOTE I.—EXPUNGE OF.

"In forming his sentences, he was very exact."—L. Murray. "For not believing which, I condemn them."—Barclay cor. "To prohibit his hearers from reading that book."—Id. "You will please them exceedingly in crying down ordinances."—Mitchell cor. "The warwolf subsequently became an engine for casting stones." Or:—"for the casting of stones."—Cons. Misc. cor. "The art of dressing hides and working in leather was practised."—Id. "In the choice they had made of him for restoring order."—Rollin cor. "The Arabians exercised themselves by composing orations and poems."—Sale cor. "Behold, the widow-woman was there, gathering sticks."—Bible cor. "The priests were busied in offering burnt-offerings."—Id. "But Asahel would not turn aside from following him."—Id. "He left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."—Id. "Those who accuse us of denying it, belie us."—Barclay cor. "And breaking bread from house to house."—Acts, iv, 46. "Those that set about repairing the walls."—Barclay cor. "And secretly begetting divisions."—Id. "Whom he has made use of in gathering his church."—Id. "In defining and distinguishing the acceptations and uses of those particles."—W. Walker cor.

"In making this a crime, we overthrow The laws of nations and of nature too."—Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—ARTICLES REQUIRE OF.

"The mixing of them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction."—Kames cor. "The same objection lies against the employing of statues."—Id. "More efficacious than the venting of opulence upon the fine arts."—Id. "It is the giving of different names to the same object."—Id. "When we have in view the erecting of a column."—Id. "The straining of an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so frequent."—Id. "The cutting of evergreens in the shape of animals, is very ancient."—Id. "The keeping of juries without meat, drink, or fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea."—Webster cor. "The writing of the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise."—Beck cor. "The avoiding of them is not an object of any moment."—Sheridan cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the signification of a word by degrees."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the quality by degrees."—Buchanan cor. "The placing of a circumstance before the word with which it is connected is the easiest of all inversion."—Id. "What is emphasis? It is the emitting of a stronger and fuller sound of voice," &c.—Bradley cor. "Besides, the varying of the terms will render the use of them more familiar."—A. Mur. cor. "And yet the confining of themselves to this true principle, has misled them."—Tooke cor. "What is here commanded, is merely the relieving of his misery."—Wayland cor. "The accumulating of too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind in stead of adorning it."—Formey cor. "For the compassing of his point."—Rollin cor. "To the introducing of such an inverted order of things."—Bp. Butler cor. "Which require only the doing of an external action."—Id. "The imprisoning of my body is to satisfy your wills."—Fox cor. "Who oppose the conferring of such extensive command on one person."—Duncan cor. "Luxury contributed not a little to the enervating of their forces."—Sale cor. "The keeping of one day of the week for a sabbath."—Barclay cor. "The doing of a thing is contrary to the forbearing of it."—Id. "The doubling of the Sigma is, however, sometimes regular."—Knight cor. "The inserting of the common aspirate too, is improper."—Id. "But in Spenser's time the pronouncing of the ed [as a separate syllable,] seems already to have been something of an archaism."—Phil. Mu. cor. "And to the reconciling of the effect of their verses on the eye."—Id. "When it was not in their power to hinder the taking of the whole."—Dr. Brown cor. "He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting of the gates."—Id. "So his whole life was a doing of the will of the Father."—Penington cor. "It signifies the suffering or receiving of the action expressed."—Priestley cor. "The pretended crime therefore was the declaring of himself to be the Son of God."—West cor. "Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its different parts of speech."—Beck cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.

"There is no expecting of the admiration of beholders."—Baxter cor. "There is no hiding of you in the house."—Shak. cor. "For the better regulating of government in the province of Massachusetts."—Brit. Parl. cor. "The precise marking of the shadowy boundaries of a complex government."—Adams cor. "This state of discipline requires the voluntary foregoing of many things which we desire, and the setting of ourselves to what we have no inclination to."—Bp. Butler cor. "This amounts to an active setting of themselves against religion."—Id. "Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing of our Christian discipline."—Friends cor. "Some men are so unjust that there is no securing of our own property or life, but by opposing force to force."—Rev. John Brown cor. "An Act for the better securing of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject."—Geo. III cor. "Miraculous curing of the sick is discontinued."—Barclay cor. "It would have been no transgressing of the apostle's rule."—Id. "As far as consistent with the proper conducting of the business of the House."—Elmore cor. "Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning of them at that day." Or:—"at their just condemnation at that day."—Bunyan cor. "That transferring of this natural manner will insure propriety."—Rush cor. "If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old [i.e., frequent] turning of the key."—Singer's Shakspeare cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.

"So very simple a thing as a man's wounding of himself."—Dr. Blair cor., and Murray. "Or with that man's avowing of his designs."—Blair, Mur., et al. cor. "On his putting of the question."—Adams cor. "The importance of teachers' requiring of their pupils to read each section many times over."—Kirkham cor. "Politeness is a kind of forgetting of one's self, in order to be agreeable to others."—Ramsay cor. "Much, therefore, of the merit and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing of us into some acquaintance with the writer."—Blair and Mack cor. "Richard's restoration to respectability depends on his paying of his debts."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Their supplying of ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing of the words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."—Id. "Her veiling of herself, and shedding of tears, &c., her upbraiding of Paris for his cowardice," &c.—Blair cor. "A preposition may be made known by its admitting of a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case."—Murray et al. cor. "But this forms no just objection to its denoting of time."—L. Mur. cor. "Of men's violating or disregarding of the relations in which God has here placed them."—Bp. Butler cor. "Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man's killing of his antagonist in a duel."—Campbell cor. "His reminding of them."—Kirkham cor. "This mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing of him to plant some beans."—Id. "Their neglecting of this was ruinous."—Frost cor. "That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing of the others as 'finite.'"—Felch cor. "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing of it." Or:—"that he does it."—Sheridan cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.

"An allegory is a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying of only one thing, when we have two in view."—Phil. Mu. cor. "A verb may generally be distinguished by the sense which it makes with any of the personal pronouns, or with the word TO, before it."—Murray et al. cor. "A noun may in general be distinguished by the article which comes before it, or by the sense which it makes of itself."—Merchant et al. cor. "An adjective may usually be known by the sense which it makes with the word thing; as, a good thing, a bad thing."—Iid. "It is seen to be in the objective case, because it denotes the object affected by the act of leaving."—O. B. Peirce cor. "It is seen to be in the possessive case, because it denotes the possessor of something."—Id. "The noun MAN is caused by the adjective WHATEVER to seem like a twofold nominative, as if it denoted, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks."—Id. "WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, because it joins that line to the other part of the sentence."—Id. "Because they denote reciprocation."—Id. "To allow them to make use of that liberty;"—"To allow them to use that liberty;"—or, "To allow them that liberty."—Sale cor. "The worst effect of it is, that it fixes on your mind a habit of indecision."—Todd cor. "And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that you have not power to shake it off."—Id. "I know of nothing that can justify the student in having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer."—Coleridge cor. "Humour is the conceit of making others act or talk absurdly."—Hazlitt cor. "There are remarkable instances in which they do not affect each other."—Bp. Butler cor. "That Cæsar was left out of the commission, was not from any slight."—Life cor. "Of the thankful reception of this toleration, I shall say no more," Or: "Of the propriety of receiving this toleration thankfully, I shall say no more."—Dryden cor. "Henrietta was delighted with Julia's skill in working lace."—O. B. Peirce cor. "And it is because each of them represents two different words, that the confusion has arisen."—Booth cor. "Æschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's dropping of a tortoise on his head." Or:—"caused by a tortoise which an eagle let fall on his head."—Biog. Dict. cor. "He doubted whether they had it."—Felch cor. "To make ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech."—Sheridan cor. "One cannot discover in their countenances any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart."—Id. "Nothing can be more common or less proper, than to speak of a river as emptying itself."—Campbell cor. "Our non-use of the former expression, is owing to this."—Bullions cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.

"To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying-down of the method of the discourse."—Dr. Blair cor. "To the pulling-down of strong holds."—Bible cor. "Can a mere buckling-on of a military weapon infuse courage?"—Dr. Brown cor. "Expensive and luxurious living destroys health."—L. Murray cor. "By frugal and temperate living, health is preserved." Or: "By living frugally and temperately, we preserve our health."—Id. "By the doing-away of the necessity."—The Friend cor. "He recommended to them, however, the immediate calling of—(or, immediately to call—) the whole community to the church."—Gregory cor. "The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly facilitates the right reading of them."—Churchill cor. "From their mere admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."—Phil. Mu. cor. "His grave lecturing of his friend about it."—Id. "For the blotting-out of sin."—Gurney cor. "From the not-using of water."— Barclay cor. "By the gentle dropping-in of a pebble."—Sheridan cor. "To the carrying-on of a great part of that general course of nature."—Bp. Butler cor. "Then the not-interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint."—Id. "The bare omission, (or rather, the not-employing,) of what is used."—Campbell and Jamieson cor. "The bringing-together of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."— Churchill cor. "This is a presumptive proof that it does not proceed from them."—Bp. Butler cor. "It represents him in a character to which any injustice is peculiarly unsuitable."—Campbell cor. "They will aim at something higher than a mere dealing-out of harmonious sounds."— Kirkham cor. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and any further account of the matter seems beyond the reach of our faculties."—Bp. Butler cor. "Apostrophe is a turning-off from the regular course of the subject."—Mur. et al. cor. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending-out of a commission to investigate his conduct."—Life of Columbus cor. "For the turning-away of the simple shall slay them."—Bible cor.

"Thick fingers always should command Without extension of the hand."—King cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—OF PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.

"Is there any Scripture which speaks of the light as being inward?"—Barclay cor. "For I believe not positiveness therein essential to salvation."—Id. "Our inability to act a uniformly right part without some thought and care."—Bp. Butler cor. "On the supposition that it is reconcilable with the constitution of nature."—Id. "On the ground that it is not discoverable by reason or experience."—Id. "On the ground that they are unlike the known course of nature."—Id. "Our power to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."—Id. "From its lack of universality."—Id. "That they may be turned into passive participles in dus, is no decisive argument to prove them passive."—Grant cor. "With the implied idea that St. Paul was then absent from the Corinthians."—Kirkham cor. "Because it becomes gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence."—Id. "Not without the author's full knowledge."—Id. "Wit out of season is one sort of folly."—Sheffield cor. "Its general susceptibility of a much stronger evidence."— Campbell cor. "At least, that they are such, rarely enhances our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."—Id. "Which were the ground of our unity."—Barclay cor. "But they may be distinguished from it by their intransitiveness."—L. Murray cor. "To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing's possibility."—Churchill cor.

"That he was idle, and dishonest too, Was that which caused his utter overthrow."—Tobitt cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—OF COMPOUND VERBAL NOUNS.

"When it denotes subjection to the exertion of an other."—Booth cor. "In the passive sense, it signifies a subjection to the influence of the action."—Felch cor. "To be abandoned by our friends, is very deplorable."—Goldsmith cor. "Without waiting to be attacked by the Macedonians."—Id. "In progress of time, words were wanted to express men's connexion with certain conditions of fortune."—Dr. Blair cor. "Our acquaintance with pain and sorrow has a tendency to bring us to a settled moderation."—Bp. Butler cor. "The chancellor's attachment to the king, secured to the monarch his crown."—L. Murray et al. cor. "The general's failure in this enterprise occasioned his disgrace."— Iid. "John's long application to writing had wearied him."—Iid. "The sentence may be, 'John's long application to writing has wearied him.'"—Wright cor. "Much depends on the observance of this rule."— L. Murray cor. "He mentioned that a boy had been corrected for his faults."—Alger and Merchant cor. "The boy's punishment is shameful to him."—Iid. "The greater the difficulty of remembrance is, and the more important the being-remembered is to the attainment of the ultimate end."—Campbell cor. "If the parts in the composition of similar objects were always in equal quantity, their being-compounded (or their compounding) would make no odds."—Id. "Circumstances, not of such importance as that the scope of the relation is affected by their being-known"—or, "by the mention of them."—Id. "A passive verb expresses the receiving of an action, or represents its subject as being acted upon; as, 'John is beaten.'"—Frost cor. "So our language has an other great advantage; namely, that it is little diversified by genders."—Buchanan cor. "The slander concerning Peter is no fault of his."—Frost cor. "Without faith in Christ, there is no justification."—Penn cor. "Habituation to danger begets intrepidity; i.e., lessens fear."—Bp. Butler cor. "It is not affection of any kind, but action that forms those habits."—Id. "In order that we may be satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox."—Campbell cor. "A trope consists in the employing of a word to signify something that is different from its original or usual meaning."—Blair, Jamieson, Murray, and Kirkham cor.; also Hiley. "The scriptural view of our salvation from punishment."—Gurney cor. "To submit and obey, is not a renouncing of the Spirit's leading."—Barclay cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &c.

"To teach little children is a pleasant employment." Or: "The teaching of little children," &c.—Bartlett cor. "To deny or compromise the principles of truth, is virtually to deny their divine Author."—Reformer cor. "A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear retrenching"—"retrenchment"—or, "to be retrenched."—Dr. Blair cor. "Never attempt to prolong the pathetic too much."—Id. "I now recollect to have mentioned—(or, that I mentioned—) a report of that nature."—Whiting cor. "Nor of the necessity which there is, for their restraint—(or, for them to be restrained—) in them."—Bp. Butler cor. "But, to do what God commands because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear."—Id. "Simply to close the nostrils, does not so entirely prevent resonance."—Gardiner cor. "Yet they absolutely refuse to do so."—Harris cor. "But Artaxerxes could not refuse to pardon him."—Goldsmith cor. "The doing of them in the best manner, is signified by the names of these arts."—Rush cor. "To behave well for the time to come, may be insufficient."—Bp. Butler cor. "The compiler proposed to publish that part by itself."—Adam cor. "To smile on those whom we should censure, is, to bring guilt upon ourselves."—Kirkham cor. "But it would be great injustice to that illustrious orator, to bring his genius down to the same level."—Id. "The doubt that things go ill, often hurts more, than to be sure they do."—Shak. cor. "This is called the straining of a metaphor."— Blair and Murray cor. "This is what Aristotle calls the giving of manners to the poem."—Dr. Blair cor. "The painter's entire confinement to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action."—L. Mur. cor. "It imports the retrenchment of all superfluities, and a pruning of the expression."—Blair et al. cor. "The necessity for us to be thus exempted is further apparent."—Jane West cor. "Her situation in life does not allow her to be genteel in every thing."—Same. "Provided you do not dislike to be dirty when you are invisible."—Same. "There is now an imperious necessity for her to be acquainted with her title to eternity."—Same. "Disregard to the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness."—Same. "The legislature prohibits the opening of shops on Sunday."—Same. "To attempt to prove that any thing is right."—O. B. Peirce cor. "The comma directs us to make a pause of a second in duration, or less."—Id. "The rule which directs us to put other words into the place of it, is wrong."—Id. "They direct us to call the specifying adjectives, or adnames, adjective pronouns."—Id. "William dislikes to attend court."—Frost cor. "It may perhaps be worth while to remark, that Milton makes a distinction."—Phil. Mu. cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."—Murray et al. cor. "To profess regard and act indifferently, discovers a base mind."—Weld cor. "You have proved beyond contradiction, that this course of action is the sure way to procure such an object."—Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &c.

"Irony is a figure in which the speaker sneeringly utters the direct reverse of what he intends shall be understood."—Brown's Inst., p. 235. [Correct by this the four false definitions of "Irony" cited from Murray, Peirce, Fisher, and Sanborn.] "This is, in a great measure, a delivering of their own compositions."—Buchanan cor. "But purity is a right use of the words of the language."—Jamieson cor. "But the most important object is the settling of the English quantity."—Walker cor. "When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to an other is a very wide step taken."—Campbell cor. "It will be a loss of time, to attempt further to illustrate it."—Id. "This leaves the sentence too bare, and makes it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense."—Cobbett cor. "This is a requiring of more labours from every private member."—J. West cor. "Is not this, to use one measure for our neighbours and an other for ourselves?"—Same. "Do we not charge God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?"—Same. "This is not, to endure the cross, as a disciple of Jesus Christ; but, to snatch at it, like a partisan of Swift's Jack."—Same. "What is spelling? It is the combining of letters to form syllables and words."—O. B. Peirce cor. "It is the choosing of such letters to compose words," &c.—Id. "What is parsing? (1.) It is a describing of the nature, use, and powers of words."—Id. (2.) "For Parsing is a describing of the words of a sentence as they are used."—Id. (3.) "Parsing is only a describing of the nature and relations of words as they are used."—Id. (4.) "Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is a statement of facts concerning words; or a describing of words in their offices and relations as they are."—Id. (5.) "Parsing is the resolving and explaining of words according to the rules of grammar."—Id. Better: "Parsing is the resolving or explaining of a sentence according to the definitions and rules of grammar."—Brown's Inst., p. 28. (6.) "The parsing of a word, remember, is an enumerating and describing of its various qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence."—Peirce cor. (7.) "For the parsing of a word is an enumerating and describing of its various properties, and [its] relations to [other words in] the sentence."—Id. (8.) "The parsing of a noun is an explanation of its person, number, gender, and case; and also of its grammatical relation in a sentence, with respect to some other word or words."—Ingersoll cor. (9.) "The parsing of any part of speech is an explanation of all its properties and relations."—Id. (10.)" Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its elements."—Fowler cor. "The highway of the upright is, to depart from evil."—Prov., xvi, 17. "Besides, the first step towards exhibiting the truth, should be, to remove the veil of error."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Punctuation is the dividing of sentences, and the words of sentences, by points for pauses."—Id. "An other fault is the using of the imperfect tense SHOOK in stead of the participle SHAKEN."—Churchill cor. "Her employment is the drawing of maps."—Alger cor. "To go to the play, according to his notion, is, to lead a sensual life, and to expose one's self to the strongest temptations. This is a begging of the question, and therefore requires no answer."—Formey cor. "It is an overvaluing of ourselves, to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities."—Comly's Key, in his Gram., p. 188; Fisk's Gram., p. 135. "What is vocal language? It is speech, or the expressing of ideas by the human voice."—C. W. Sanders cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—VERBS OF PREVENTING.

"The annulling power of the constitution prevented that enactment from becoming a law."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Which prevents the manner from being brief."—Id. "This close prevents them from bearing forward as nominatives."—Rush cor. "Because this prevents it from growing drowsy."—Formey cor. "Yet this does not prevent him from being great."—Id. "To prevent it from being insipid."—Id. "Or whose interruptions did not prevent its continuance." Or thus: "Whose interruptions did not prevent it from being continued."—Id. "This by no means prevents them from being also punishments."—Wayland cor. "This hinders them not from being also, in the strictest sense, punishments."—Id. "The noise made by the rain and wind, prevented them from being heard."—Goldsmith cor. "He endeavoured to prevent it from taking effect."—Id. "So sequestered as to prevent them from being explored."—Jane West cor. "Who prevented her from making a more pleasant party."—Same. "To prevent us from being tossed about by every wind of doctrine."—Same. "After the infirmities of age prevented him from bearing his part of official duty."—R. Adam cor. "To prevent splendid trifles from passing for matters of importance."—Kames cor. "Which prevents him from exerting himself to any good purpose."—Beattie cor. "The nonobservance of this rule very frequently prevents us from being punctual in the performance of our duties."—Todd cor. "Nothing will prevent him from being a student, and possessing the means of study."—Id. "Does the present accident hinder you from being honest and brave?"—Collier cor. "The e is omitted to prevent two Ees from coming together."—Fowle cor. "A pronoun is used for, or in place of, a noun,—to prevent a repetition of the noun."—Sanborn cor. "Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents it from being tired with the frequent recurrence of the rhymes."—Campbell cor.; also Murray. "Timidity and false shame prevent us from opposing vicious customs."—Mur. et al. cor. "To prevent them from being moved by such."—Campbell cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."—Priestley cor. "Which prevents us from making a progress towards perfection."—Sheridan cor. "This method of distinguishing words, must prevent any regular proportion of time from being settled."—Id. "That nothing but affectation can prevent it from always taking place."—Id. "This did not prevent John from being acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy." Or: "Notwithstanding this, John was acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy."—Henry, Webster, Sanborn, and Fowler cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.

"This would make it impossible for a noun, or any other word, ever to be in the possessive case."—O. B. Peirce cor. "A great part of our pleasure arises from finding the plan or story well conducted."—Dr. Blair cor. "And we have no reason to wonder that this was the case."—Id. "She objected only, (as Cicero says,) to Oppianicus as having two sons by his present wife."—Id. "The subjugation of the Britons by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their calling of these Saxons to their assistance."—Id. "What he had there said concerning the Saxons, that they expelled the Britons, and changed the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and a good reason why our present language is Saxon, rather than British."—Id. "The only material difference between them, except that the one is short and the other more prolonged, is, that a metaphor is always explained by the words that are connected with it."—Id. et Mur. cor. "The description of Death, advancing to meet Satan on his arrival."—Rush cor. "Is not the bare fact, that God is the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?"—Chalmers cor. "As in the case of one who is entering upon a new study."—Beattie cor. "The manner in which these affect the copula, is called the imperative mood."—Wilkins cor. "We are freed from the trouble, because our nouns have scarcely any diversity of endings."—Buchanan cor. "The verb is rather indicative of the action as being doing, or done, than of the time of the event; but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable."—Booth cor. "Nobody would doubt that this is a sufficient proof."—Campbell cor. "Against the doctrine here maintained, that conscience as well as reason, is a natural faculty."—Beattie cor. "It is one cause why the Greek and English languages are much more easy to learn, than the Latin."—Bucke cor. "I have not been able to make out a solitary instance in which such has been the fact."—Lib. cor. "An angel, forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king's condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror."—Wood cor. "The prisoners, in attempting to escape, aroused the keepers."—O. B. Peirce cor. "I doubt not, in the least, that this has been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world."—Dr. Blair cor. "From the general rule he lays down, that the verb is the parent word of all language."—Tooke cor. "He was accused of being idle." Or: "He was accused of idleness."—Felch cor. "Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him for so removing." Or: "with the circumstances of his removal."—Edmondson cor. "The spectacle is too rare, of men deserving solid fame while not seeking it."—Bush cor. "What further need was there that an other priest should rise?"—Heb., vii, 11.

UNDER NOTE XI.—REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.

"Viewing them separately, we experience different emotions." Or: "Viewed separately, they produce different emotions."—Kames cor. "But, this being left doubtful, an other objection occurs."—Id. "As he proceeded from one particular to an other, the subject grew under his hand."—Id. "But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain is broken."—Id. "After some days' hunting,—(or, After some days spent in hunting,)—Cyrus communicated his design to his officers."—Rollin cor. "But it is made, without the appearance of being made in form."—Dr. Blair cor. "These would have had a better effect, had they been disjoined, thus."—Blair and Murray cor. "In an improper diphthong, but one of the vowels is sounded."—Murray, Alger, et al. cor. "And I being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady."—Blair, Mur., and Jam. cor. "By often doing the same thing, we make the action habitual." Or: "What is often done, becomes habitual."—L. Murray cor. "They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when we are surrounded with friends and cheerful society."—Id. "Besides showing what is right, one may further explain the matter by pointing out what is wrong."—Lowth cor. "The former teaches the true pronunciation of words, and comprises accent, quantity, emphasis, pauses, and tones."—L. Murray cor. "A person may reprove others for their negligence, by saying, 'You have taken great care indeed.'"—Id. "The word preceding and the word following it, are in apposition to each other."—Id. "He having finished his speech, the assembly dispersed."—Cooper cor. "Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of allowing it to do."—Kirkham cor. "The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, which only deprived them of his assistance."—Kames cor. "Taking them as nouns, we may explain this construction thus."—Grant cor. "These have an active signification, except those which come from neuter verbs."—Id. "From its evidence not being universal." Or: "From the fact that its evidence is not universal."—Bp. Butler cor. "And this faith will continually grow, as we acquaint ourselves with our own nature."—Channing cor. "Monosyllables ending with any consonant but f, l, or s, never double the final consonant, when it is preceded by a single vowel; except add, ebb," &c.—Kirkham's Gram., p. 23. Or: "Words ending with any consonant except f, l, or s, do not double the final letter. Exceptions. Add, ebb, &c."—Bullions's E. Gram., p. 3. (See my 2d Rule for Spelling, of which this is a partial copy.) "The relation of Maria as being the object of the action, is expressed by the change of the noun Maria to Mariam;" [i. e., in the Latin language.]—Booth cor. "In analyzing a proposition, one must first divide it into its logical subject and predicate."—Andrews and Stoddard cor. "In analyzing a simple sentence, one should first resolve it into its logical subject and logical predicate."—Wells cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.

"The instant discovery of passions at their birth, is essential to our well-being."—Kames cor. "I am now to enter on a consideration of the sources of the pleasures of taste."—Blair cor. "The varieties in the use of them are indeed many."—Murray cor. "The changing of times and seasons, the removing and the setting-up of kings, belong to Providence alone."—Id. "Adherence to the partitions, seemed the cause of France; acceptance of the will, that of the house of Bourbon."—Bolingbroke cor. "An other source of darkness in composition, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases."—Campbell cor. "These are the rules of grammar; by observing which, you may avoid mistakes."—L. Murray et al. cor. "By observing the rules, you may avoid mistakes."—Alger cor. "By observing these rules, he succeeded."—Frost cor. "The praise bestowed on him was his ruin."—Id. "Deception is not convincement."—Id. "He never feared the loss of a friend."—Id. "The making of books is his amusement."—Alger cor. "We call it the declining—(or, the declension—) of a noun."—Ingersoll cor. "Washington, however, pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly the taking of any part in the wars of Europe."—Hall and Baker cor. "The following is a note of Interrogation, or of a question: (?)."—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "The following is a note of Admiration, or of wonder: (!)."—Id. "The use or omission of the article A forms a nice distinction in the sense."—Murray cor. "The placing of the preposition before the word, which it governs, is more graceful."—Churchill cor. (See Lowth's Gram., p. 96; Murray's, i, 200; Fisk's, 141; Smith's, 167.) "Assistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and the retrieving of their affairs."—Bp. Butler cor. "Which termination, [ish,] when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or a lessening of the quality."—Mur. and Kirkham cor. "After what has been said, will it be thought an excess of refinement, to suggest that the different orders are qualified for different purposes?"—Kames cor. "Who has nothing to think of, but the killing of time."—West cor. "It requires no nicety of ear, as in the distinguishing of tones, or the measuring of time."—Sheridan cor. "The possessive case [is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which] denotes possession, or the relation of property."—S. R. Hall cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—PERFECT PARTICIPLES.

"Garcilasso was master of the language spoken by the Incas."—Robertson cor. "When an interesting story is broken off in the middle."—Kames cor. "Speaking of Hannibal's elephants driven back by the enemy."—Id. "If Du Ryer had not written for bread, he would have equalled them."—Formey cor. "Pope describes a rock broken off from a mountain, and hurling to the plain."—Kames cor. "I have written, Thou hast written, He hath or has written; &c."—Ash and Maltby cor. "This was spoken by a pagan."—Webster cor. "But I have chosen to follow the common arrangement."—Id. "The language spoken in Bengal."—Id. "And sound sleep thus broken off with sudden alarms, is apt enough to discompose any one."—Locke cor. "This is not only the case of those open sinners before spoken of."—Leslie cor. "Some grammarians have written a very perplexed and difficult doctrine on Punctuation."—Ensell cor. "There hath a pity arisen in me towards thee."—G. Fox Jun. cor. "Abel is the only man that has undergone the awful change of death."—De Genlis, Death of Adam.

"Meantime, on Afric's glowing sands, Smit with keen heat, the traveller stands."—Ode cor.

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