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 pretended crime therefore was the declaring himself to be the Son of God."--West's Letters, p. 210. "Parsing is the resolving a sentence into its different parts of speech."--Beck's Gram., p. 26.

UNDER NOTE II.--ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.

"There is no expecting the admiration of beholders."--Baxter. "There is no hiding you in the house."--Shakspeare. "For the better regulating government in the province of Massachusetts."--British Parliament. "The precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government."--J. Q. Adams's Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 6. "[This state of discipline] requires the voluntary foregoing many things which we desire, and setting ourselves to what we have no inclination to."--Butler's Analogy, p. 115. "This amounts to an active setting themselves against religion."--Ib., p. 264. "Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing our Christian discipline."--N. E. Discip., p. 117. "Some men are so unjust that there is no securing our own property or life, but by opposing force to force."--Brown's Divinity, p. 26. "An Act for the better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject."--Geo. III, 31st. "Miraculous curing the sick is discontinued."--Barclay's Works, iii, 137. "It would have been no transgressing the apostle's rule."--Ib., p. 146. "As far as consistent with the proper conducting the business of the House."--''Elmore, in Congress'', 1839. "Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning them at that day."--Law and Grace, p. 42. "That transferring this natural manner--will ensure propriety."--Rush, on the Voice, p. 372. "If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key."--Macbeth, Act ii, Sc. 3.

UNDER NOTE II.--POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.

"So very simple a thing as a man's wounding himself."--Blair's Rhet., p. 97; Murray's Gram., p. 317. "Or with that man's avowing his designs."--Blair, p. 104; Murray, p. 308; Parker and Fox, Part III, p. 88. "On his putting the question."--Adams's Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 111. "The importance of teachers' requiring their pupils to read each section many times over."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 169. "Politeness is a kind of forgetting one's self in order to be agreeable to others."--Ramsay's Cyrus. "Much, therefore, of the merit, and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing us into some acquaintance with the writer."--Blair's Rhet., p. 370; Mack's Dissertation in his Gram., p. 175. "Richard's restoration to respectability, depends on his paying his debts."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 176. "Their supplying ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."--Ib., p. 375. "Her veiling herself and shedding tears," &c., "her upbraiding Paris for his cowardice," &c.--Blair's Rhet., p. 433. "A preposition may be known by its admitting after it a personal pronoun, in the objective case."--Murray's Gram., p. 28; Alger's, 14; Bacon's, 10; Merchant's, 18; and others. "But this forms no just objection to its denoting time."--Murray's Gram., p. 65. "Of men's violating or disregarding the relations which God has placed them in here."--Butler's Analogy, p. 164. "Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man's killing his antagonist in a duel."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 295. "His reminding them."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 123. "This mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing him to plant some beans."--Ib., p. 235. "Their neglecting this was ruinous."--''Frost's El. of Gram.'', p. 82. "That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing the others as 'finite.'"--Felch's Gram., p. 10. "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing it."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 119.

UNDER NOTE III.--CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.

"An allegory is the saying one thing, and meaning another; a double-meaning or dilogy is the saying only one thing, but having two in view."--Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 461. "A verb may generally be distinguished, by its making sense with any of the personal pronouns, or the word to before it."--Murray's Gram., p. 28; Alger's, 13; Bacon's, 10; Comly's, and many others. "A noun may, in general, be distinguished by its taking an article before it, or by its making sense of itself."--Merchant's Gram., p. 17; Murray's, 27; &c. "An Adjective may usually be known by its making sense with the addition of the word thing: as, a good thing; a bad thing."--Same Authors. "It is seen in the objective case, from its denoting the object affected by the act of leaving."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 44. "It is seen in the possessive case, from its denoting the possessor of something."--Ibid. "The name man is caused by the adname whatever to be twofold subjective case, from its denoting, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks."--Ib., p. 56. "When, as used in the last line, is a connective, from its joining that line to the other part of the sentence."--Ib., p. 59. "From their denoting reciprocation."--Ib., p. 64. "To allow them the making use of that liberty."--Sale's Koran, p. 116. "The worst effect of it is, the fixing on your mind a habit of indecision."--Todd's Student's Manual, p. 60. "And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that there is no shaking it off."--Ib., p. 47. "I know of nothing that can justify the having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer."--Coleridge's Introduction, p. 16. "Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly."--Hazlitt's Lectures. "There are remarkable instances of their not affecting each other."--Butler's Analogy, p. 150. "The leaving Cæsar out of the commission was not from any slight."--Life of Cicero, p. 44. "Of the receiving this toleration thankfully I shall say no more."--Dryden's Works, p. 88. "Henrietta was delighted with Julia's working lace so very well."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 255. "And it is from their representing each two different words that the confusion has arisen."--Booth's Introd., p. 42. "Æschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's letting fall