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 a tortoise on his head."--Biog. Dict. "He doubted their having it."--Felch's Comp. Gram., p. 81. "The making ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 68. "There is no discovering in their countenances, any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart."--Ib., p. 165. "Nothing can be more common or less proper than to speak of a river's emptying itself."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 186. "Our not using the former expression, is owing to this."--Bullions's E. Gram., p. 59.

UNDER NOTE IV.--DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.

"To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying down the method of the discourse."--Blair's Rhet., p. 311. "To the pulling down of strong holds."--2 Cor., x, 4. "Can a mere buckling on a military weapon infuse courage?"--Brown's Estimate, i, 62. "Living expensively and luxuriously destroys health."--Murray's Gram., i, 234. "By living frugally and temperately, health is preserved."--Ibid. "By living temperately, our health is promoted."--Ib., p. 227. "By the doing away of the necessity."--The Friend, xiii, 157. "He recommended to them, however, the immediately calling of the whole community to the church."--Gregory's Dict., w. Ventriloquism. "The separation of large numbers in this manner certainly facilitates the reading them rightly."--Churchill's Gram., p. 303. "From their merely admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."--''Philol. Museum'', i. 403. "His gravely lecturing his friend about it."--Ib., i, 478. "For the blotting out of sin."--Gurney's Evidences, p. 140. "From the not using of water."--Barclay's Works, i, 189. "By the gentle dropping in of a pebble."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 125. "To the carrying on a great part of that general course of nature."--Butler's Analogy, p. 127. "Then the not interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint."--Ib., p. 147. "The bare omission, or rather the not employing of what is used."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 180; Jamieson's, 48. "Bringing together incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."--Churchill's Gram., p. 329. "This is a presumptive proof of its not proceeding from them."--Butler's Analogy, p. 186. "It represents him in a character to which the acting unjustly is peculiarly unsuitable."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 372. "They will aim at something higher than merely the dealing out of harmonious sounds."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 65. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and going farther seems beyond the reach of our faculties."--Butler's Analogy, p. 147. "Apostrophe is a turning off from the regular course of the subject."--Murray's Gram., p. 348; Jamieson's Rhet., 185. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending out a commission to investigate his conduct."--Life of Columbus. "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them."--Prov., i, 32.

"Thick fingers always should command   Without the stretching out the hand."--King's Poems, p. 585.

UNDER NOTE V.--PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.

"Is there any Scripture speaks of the light's being inward?"--Barclay's Works, i, 367. "For I believe not the being positive therein essential to salvation."--Ib., iii, 330. "Our not being able to act an uniform right part without some thought and care."--Butler's Analogy, p. 122. "Upon supposition of its being reconcileable with the constitution of nature."--Ib., p. 128. "Upon account of its not being discoverable by reason or experience."--Ib., p. 170. "Upon account of their being unlike the known course of nature."--Ib., p. 171. "Our being able to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."--Ib., p. 174. "From its not being universal."--Ib., p. 175. "That they may be turned into the passive participle in dus is no decisive argument in favour of their being passive."--Grant's Lat. Gram., p. 233. "With the implied idea of St. Paul's being then absent from the Corinthians."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 123. "On account of its becoming gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence."--Ib., p. 32. "Not without the author's being fully aware."--Ib., p. 84. "Being witty out of season, is one sort of folly."--Sheffield's Works, ii. 172. "Its being generally susceptible of a much stronger evidence."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 102. "At least their being such rarely enhanceth our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."--Ib., p. 162. "Which were the ground of our being one."--Barclay's Works, i, 513. "But they may be distinguished from it by their being intransitive."--Murray's Gram., i, 60. "To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing's being possible."--Churchill's Gram., p. 234.

"His being idle, and dishonest too,   Was that which caus'd his utter overthrow."--Tobitt's Gram., p. 61.

UNDER NOTE VI.--COMPOUND VERBAL NOUNS.

"When it denotes being subjected to the exertion of another."--Booth's Introd., p. 37. "In a passive sense, it signifies being subjected to the influence of the action."--''Felch's Comp. Gram.'', p. 60. "The being abandoned by our friends is very deplorable."--Goldsmith's Greece, i, 181. "Without waiting for their being attacked by the Macedonians."--Ib., ii, 97. "In progress of time, words were wanted to express men's being connected with certain conditions of fortune."--Blair's Rhet., p. 135. "Our being made acquainted with pain and sorrow, has a tendency to bring us to a settled moderation."--Butler's Analogy, p. 121. "The chancellor's being attached to the king secured his crown; The general's having failed in this enterprise occasioned his disgrace; John's having been writing a long time had wearied him."--Murray's Gram., p. 66; Sanborn's, 171; Cooper's, 96; Ingersoll's, 46; Fisk's, 83; and others. "The sentence should be, 'John's having been writing a long time has wearied him.'"--Wright's Gram., p. 186. "Much