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UNDER CRITICAL NOTE VIII.--OF SENSELESS JUMBLING.

"There are two numbers, called the singular and the plural, which distinguish nouns as signifying either one thing, or many of the same kind."--Dr. H. Blair cor. "Here James Monroe is addressed, he is spoken to; the name is therefore a noun of the second person."--Mack cor. "The number and person of an English verb can seldom be ascertained until its nominative is known."--Emmons cor. "A noun of multitude, or a singular noun signifying many, may have a verb or a pronoun agreeing with it in either number; yet not without regard to the import of the noun, as conveying the idea of unity or plurality."--Lowth et al. cor. "To form the present tense and the past imperfect of our active or neuter verbs, the auxiliary do, and its preterit did, are sometimes used: as, I do now love; I did then love."--Lowth cor. "If these be perfectly committed to memory, the learner will be able to take twenty lines for his second lesson, and the task may be increased each day."--Osborn cor. "Ch is generally sounded in the same manner as if it were tch: as in Charles, church, cheerfulness, and cheese. But, in Latin or Greek words, ch is pronounced like k: as in Chaos, character, chorus, and chimera. And, in words derived from the French, ch is sounded like sh: as in Chagrin, chicanery, and chaise."--Bucke cor. "Some nouns literally neuter, are made masculine or feminine by a figure of speech."--L. Murray et al. cor. "In the English language, words may be classified under ten general heads: the sorts, or chief classes, of words, are usually termed the ten parts of speech."--Nutting cor. "'Mercy is the true badge of nobility.' Nobility is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, neuter gender, and objective case; and is governed by of."--Kirkham cor. "Gh is either silent, as in plough, or has the sound of f, as in laugh."--Town cor. "Many nations were destroyed, and as many languages or dialects were lost and blotted out from the general catalogue."--Chazotte cor. "Some languages contain a greater number of moods than others, and each exhibits its own as forms peculiar to itself."--L. Murray cor. "A SIMILE is a simple and express comparison; and is generally introduced by like, as, or so."--Id. See Inst., p. 233. "The word what is sometimes improperly used for the conjunction that."--Priestley, Murray, et al., cor. "Brown makes no ado in condemning the absurd principles of preceding works, in relation to the gender of pronouns."--O. B. Peirce cor. "The nominative usually precedes the verb, and denotes the agent of the action."--''Wm. Beck cor. "Primitive words are those which are not formed from other words more simple."--Wright cor. "In monosyllables, the single vowel i always preserves its long sound before a single consonant with e final; as in thine, strive: except in give and live, which are short; and in shire, which has the sound of long e."--L. Murray, et al. cor. "But the person or thing that is merely spoken of, being frequently absent, and perhaps in many respects unknown to the hearer, it is thought more necessary, that the third person should be marked by a distinction of gender."--Lowth, Mur., et al., cor. "Both vowels of every diphthong were, doubtless, originally vocal. Though in many instances they are not so at present, the combinations in which one only is heard, still retain the name of diphthongs, being distinguished from others by the term improper."--L. Mur., et al. cor. "Moods are different forms of the verb, each of which expresses the being, action, or passion, in some particular manner."--Inst., p. 33; A. Mur. cor. "The word THAT is a demonstrative adjective, whenever it is followed by a noun to which it refers."--L. Mur. cor.''

"The guilty soul by Jesus wash'd,    Is future glory's deathless heir."--Fairfield cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE IX.--OF WORDS NEEDLESS.

"A knowledge of grammar enables us to express ourselves better in conversation and in writing."--Sanborn cor. "And hence we infer, that there is no dictator here but use."--Jamieson cor. "Whence little is gained, except correct spelling and pronunciation."--Town cor. "The man who is faithfully attached to religion, may be relied on with confidence."--Merchant cor. "Shalt thou build me a house to dwell in?" Or: "Shalt thou build a house for me to dwell in?"--Bible cor. "The house was deemed polluted which was entered by so abandoned a woman."--Dr. Blair cor. "The farther he searches, the firmer will be his belief."--Keith cor. "I deny not that religion consists in these things."--Barclay cor. "Except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name."--Bible cor. "The proper method of reading these lines, is, to read them as the sense dictates."--Dr. Blair cor. "When any words become obsolete, or are used only in particular phrases, it is better to dispense with their service entirely, and give up the phrases."--Campbell and Mur cor. "Those savage people seemed to have no element but war."--''L. Mur. cor. "Man is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and nominative case."--J. Flint cor. "The orator, as circumstances require, will employ them all."--Dr. Blair cor. "By deferring repentence [sic--KTH], we accumulate our sorrows."--L. Murray cor. "There is no doubt that public speaking became early an engine of government."--Dr. Blair cor. "The different meanings of these two words, may not at first occur."--Id. "The sentiment is well expressed by Plato, but much better by Solomon."--L. Murray et al. cor. "They have had a greater privilege than we."--L. Mur. cor. "Every thing should be so arranged, that what goes before, may give light and force to what follows."--Dr. Blair cor. "So that his doctrines were embraced by great numbers."--Hist. cor. "They have taken an other and shorter cut."--South cor. "The imperfect tense of a regular verb is formed from the present by adding d or ed; as, love, loved."--Frost cor. "The pronoun their does not agree in number with the noun man, for which it stands."--Kirkham cor. "This mark [!] denotes wonder, surprise, joy, grief, or sudden emotion."--Bucke cor. "We all are accountable, each for himself."--L. Mur. et al. cor.'' "If he has