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SECTION III.--THE COLON.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.--OF ADDITIONAL REMARKS.

"Of is a preposition: it expresses the relation between fear and Lord."--Bullions cor. "Wealth and poverty are both temptations to man: that tends to excite pride; this, discontentment."--''Id. et al cor.'' "Religion raises men above themselves; irreligion sinks them beneath the brutes: this binds them down to a poor pitiable speck of perishable earth; that opens for them a prospect to the skies."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 189. "Love not idleness: it destroys many."--Ingersoll cor. "Children, obey your parents: 'Honour thy father and mother,' is the first commandment with promise."--Bullions cor. "Thou art my hiding-place and my shield; I hope in thy word."--Psalm cxix, 114. "The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul."--Psalm cxxi, 6. "Here to Greece is assigned the highest place in the class of objects among which she is numbered--the nations of antiquity: she is one of them."--Bullions, E. Gram., p. 114.

"From short (as usual) and disturb'd repose,   I wake: how happy they who wake no more!"--Young, N. T., p. 3.

UNDER RULE II.--OF GREATER PAUSES.

"A taste of a thing, implies actual enjoyment of it; but a tase [sic--KTH] for it, implies only capacity for enjoyment: as, 'When we have had a true taste of the pleasures of virtue, we can have no relish for those of vice.'"--Bullions cor. "The Indicative mood simply declares a thing: as, 'He loves;' 'He is loved:' or it asks a question; as, 'Lovest thou me?'"--''Id. and Lennie cor.; also Murray''. "The Imperfect (or Past) tense represents an action or event indefinitely as past; as, 'Cæsar came, and saw, and conquered:' or it represents the action definitely as unfinished and continuing at a certain time now entirely past; as, 'My father was coming home when I met him.'"--Bullions cor. "Some nouns have no plural; as, gold, silver, wisdom: others have no singular: as, ashes, shears, tongs: others are alike in both numbers; as, sheep, deer, means, news."--Day cor. "The same verb may be transitive in one sense, and intransitive in an other: thus, in the sentence, 'He believes my story,' believes is transitive; but, in this phrase, 'He believes in God,' it is intransitive."--Butler cor. "Let the divisions be distinct: one part should not include an other, but each should have its proper place, and be of importance in that place; and all the parts, well fitted together and united, should present a perfect whole."--Goldsbury cor. "In the use of the transitive verb, there are always three things implied; the actor, the act, and the object acted upon: in the use of the intransitive, there are only two; the subject, or the thing spoken of, and the state or action attributed to it."--Bullions cor.

"Why labours reason? instinct were as well;   Instinct, far better: what can choose, can err."--Young, vii, 622.

UNDER RULE III.--OF INDEPENDENT QUOTATIONS.

"The sentence may run thus: 'He is related to the same person, and is governed by him.'"--Hart cor. "Always remember this ancient proverb: 'Know thyself.'"--Hallock cor. "Consider this sentence: 'The boy runs swiftly.'"--Frazee cor. "The comparative is used thus: 'Greece was more polished than any other nation of antiquity.' The same idea is expressed by the superlative, when the word other is left out: thus, 'Greece was the most polished nation of antiquity.'"--Bullions and Lennie cor. "Burke, in his speech on the Carnatic war, makes the following allusion to the well known fable of Cadmus sowing dragon's teeth:--'Every day you are fatigued and disgusted with this cant: 'The Carnatic is a country that will soon recover, and become instantly as prosperous as ever.' They think they are talking to innocents, who believe that by the sowing of dragon's teeth, men may come up ready grown and ready made.'"--Hiley and Hart cor.

"For sects he car'd not: 'They are not of us,   Nor need we, brethren, their concerns discuss.'"--Crabbe cor.

"Habit, with him, was all the test of truth:   'It must be right; I've done it from my youth.'    Questions he answer'd in as brief a way:    'It must be wrong; it was of yesterday.'"--Id.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

"This would seem to say, 'I doubt nothing, save one thing; namely, that he will fulfill his promise:' whereas that is the very thing not doubted."--Bullions cor. "The common use of language requires, that a distinction be made between morals and manners: the former depend upon internal dispositions; the latter, upon outward and visible accomplishments."--Beattie cor. "Though I detest war in each particular fibre of my heart, yet I honour the heroes among our fathers, who fought with bloody hand. Peacemakers in a savage way, they were faithful to their light: the most inspired can be no more; and we, with greater light, do, it may be, far less."--T. Parker cor. "The article the, like a, must have a substantive joined with it; whereas that, like one, may have it understood: thus, speaking of books, I may select one, and say, 'Give me that;' but not, 'Give me the;'--[so I may say,] 'Give me one;' but not, 'Give me a.'"--Bullions cor. "The Present tense has three distinct forms: the simple; as, I read: the emphatic; as, I do read: and the progressive; as, I am reading." Or thus: "The Present tense has three