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UNDER NOTE I.--THE CASE DOUBTFUL.

"I had no knowledge of there being any connexion between them."--Stone, on Freemasonry, p. 25. "To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same as being the actors of it ourselves."--Murray's Key, p. 170. "It must arise from feeling delicately ourselves."--Blair's Rhet., p. 330; Murray's Gram., 248. "By reason of there not having been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."--''Mass. Legislature'', 1839. "PUPILAGE, n. The state of being a scholar."--''Johnson, Walker, Webster, Worcester''. "Then the other part's being the definition would make it include all verbs of every description."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 343. "John's being my friend,[363] saved me from inconvenience."--Ib., p. 201. "William's having become a judge, changed his whole demeanor."--Ib., p. 201. "William's having been a teacher, was the cause of the interest which he felt."--Ib., p. 216. "The being but one among many stifleth the chidings of conscience."--Book of Thoughts, p. 131. "As for its being esteemed a close translalation [sic--KTH], I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."--Pope's Pref. to Homer. "All presumption of death's being the destruction of living beings, must go upon supposition that they are compounded, and so discerptible."--Butler's Analogy, p. 63. "This argues rather their being proper names."--Churchill's Gram., p. 382. "But may it not be retorted, that its being a gratification is that which excites our resentment?"--Campbell's Rhet., p. 145. "Under the common notion, of its being a system of the whole poetical art."--Blair's Rhet., p. 401. "Whose time or other circumstances forbid their becoming classical scholars."--''Literary Convention'', p. 113. "It would preclude the notion of his being a merely fictitious personage."--Philological Museum, i, 446. "For, or under pretence of their being heretics or infidels."--The Catholic Oath; Geo. III, 31st. "We may here add Dr. Home's sermon on Christ's being the Object of religious Adoration."--''Relig. World'', Vol. ii, p. 200. "To say nothing of Dr. Priestley's being a strenuous advocate," &c.--Ib., ii, 207. "By virtue of Adam's being their public head."--Ib., ii, 233. "Objections against there being any such moral plan as this."--Butler's Analogy, p. 57. "A greater instance of a man's being a blockhead."--Spect., No. 520. "We may insure or promote its being a happy state of existence to ourselves."--Gurney's Evidences, p. 86. "By its often falling a victim to the same kind of unnatural treatment."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 41. "Their appearing foolishness is no presumption against this."--Butler's Analogy, p. 189. "But what arises from their being offences; i. e. from their being liable to be perverted."--Ib., p. 185. "And he entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God."--Acts, xviii, 7.

UNDER NOTE II.--OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.

"But to be popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word."--Blair's Rhet., p. 307. "The infinitive mood, or part of a sentence, is often the nominative case to a verb."--L. Murray's Index, Octavo Gram., Vol. ii, p. 290. "When any person, in speaking, introduces his own name, it is the first person; as, 'I, James, of the city of Boston.'"--''R. C. Smith's New Gram.'', p. 43. "The name of the person spoken to, is the second person; as, 'James, come to me.'"--Ibid. "The name of the person or thing spoken of, or about, is the third person; as, 'James has come.'"--Ibid. "The object [of a passive verb] is always its subject or nominative case."--Ib., p. 62. "When a noun is in the nominative case to an active verb, it is the actor."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 44. "And the person commanded, is its nominative."--Ingersoll's Gram., p. 120. "The first person is that who speaks."--Pasquier's Lévizac, p. 91. "The Conjugation of a Verb is its different variations or inflections throughout the Moods and Tenses."--Wright's Gram., p. 80. "The first person is the speaker. The second person is the one spoken to. The third person is the one spoken of."--Parker and Fox's Gram., Part i, p. 6; Hiley's, 18. "The first person is the one that speaks, or the speaker."--Sanborn's Gram., pp. 23 and 75. "The second person is the one that is spoken to, or addressed."--Ibid. "The third person is the one that is spoken of, or that is the topic of conversation."--Ibid. "I, is the first person Singular. We, is the first person Plural."--Murray's Gram., p. 51; Alger's, Ingersoll's, and many others. "Thou, is the second person Singular. Ye or you, is the second person Plural."--Ibid. "He, she, or it, is the third person Singular. They, is the third person Plural."--Ibid. "The nominative case is the actor, or subject of the verb."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 43. "The noun John is the actor, therefore John is in the nominative case."--Ibid. "The actor is always the nominative case."--Smith's New Gram., p. 62. "The nominative case is always the agent or actor."--Mack's Gram., p. 67. "Tell the part of speech each name is."--J. Flint's Gram., p. 6. "What number is boy? Why? What number is pens? Why?"--Ib., p. 27. "The speaker is the first person, the person spoken to, the second person, and the person or thing spoken of, is the third person."--Ib., p. 26. "What nouns are masculine gender? All males are masculine gender."--Ib., p. 28. "An interjection is a sudden emotion of the mind."--Barrett's Gram., p. 62.