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 depends on this rule's being observed."--Murray's Key, ii, 195. "He mentioned a boy's having been corrected for his faults; The boy's having been corrected is shameful to him."--Alger's Gram., p. 65; Merchant's, 93. "The greater the difficulty of remembrance is, and the more important the being remembered is to the attainment of the ultimate end."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 90. "If the parts in the composition of similar objects were always in equal quantity, their being compounded would make no odds."--Ib., p. 65. "Circumstances, not of such importance as that the scope of the relation is affected by their being known."--Ib., p. 379. "A passive verb expresses the receiving of an action or the being acted upon; as, 'John is beaten'"--Frost's El. of Gram., p. 16. "So our Language has another great Advantage, namely its not being diversified by Genders."--Buchanan's Gram., p. 20. "The having been slandered is no fault of Peter."--Frost's El. of Gram., p. 82. "Without being Christ's friends, there is no being justified."--William Penn. "Being accustomed to danger, begets intrepidity, i.e. lessens fear."--Butler's Analogy, p. 112. "It is, not being affected so and so, but acting, which forms those habits."--Ib., p. 113. "In order to our being satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 164. "Tropes consist in a word's being employed to signify something that is different from its original and primitive meaning."--Blair's Rhet., p. 132; Jamieson's, 140; Murray's Gram., 337; Kirkham's, 222. "A Trope consists in a word's being employed," &c.--Hiley's Gram., p. 133. "The scriptural view of our being saved from punishment."--Gurney's Evidences, p. 124. "To submit and obey, is not a renouncing a being led by the Spirit."--Barclay's Works, i, 542.

UNDER NOTE VII.--PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &C.

"Teaching little children is a pleasant employment."--''Bartlett's School Manual'', ii, 68. "Denying or compromising principles of truth is virtually denying their divine Author."--Reformer, i, 34. "A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear being retrenched."--Blair's Rhet., p. 206. "Never attempt prolonging the pathetic too much."--Ib., p. 323. "I now recollect having mentioned a report of that nature."-- Whiting's Reader, p. 132. "Nor of the necessity which there is for their being restrained in them."--Butler's Analogy, p. 116. "But doing what God commands, because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear."--Ib., p. 124. "Simply closing the nostrils does not so entirely prevent resonance."--Music of Nature, p. 484. "Yet they absolutely refuse doing so."--Harris's Hermes, p. 264. "But Artaxerxes could not refuse pardoning him."--Goldsmith's Greece, i, 173. "Doing them in the best manner is signified by the name of these arts."--''Rush, on the Voice'', p. 360. "Behaving well for the time to come, may be insufficient." --Butler's Analogy, p. 198. "The compiler proposed publishing that part by itself."--''Dr. Adam, Rom. Antiq., p. v. "To smile upon those we should censure, is bringing guilt upon ourselves."--Kirkham's Elocution'', p. 108. "But it would be doing great injustice to that illustrious orator to bring his genius down to the same level."--Ib., p. 28. "Doubting things go ill, often hurts more than to be sure they do."--Beauties of Shak., p. 203. "This is called straining a metaphor."--Blair's Rhet., p. 150; Murray's Gram., i, 341. "This is what Aristotle calls giving manners to the poem."--Blair's Rhet., p. 427. "The painter's being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action."--Murray's Gram., i, 195. "It imports retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression."-- Blair's Rhet., p. 94; Jamieson's, 64; Murray's Gram., p. 301; Kirkham's, 220. "The necessity for our being thus exempted is further apparent."--West's Letters, p. 40. "Her situation in life does not allow of her being genteel in every thing."--Ib., p. 57. "Provided you do not dislike being dirty when you are invisible."--Ib., p. 58. "There is now an imperious necessity for her being acquainted with her title to eternity."--Ib., p. 120. "Discarding the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness."--Ib., p. 105. "The legislature prohibits opening shop of a Sunday."--Ib., p. 66. "To attempt proving that any thing is right."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 256. "The comma directs making a pause of a second in duration, or less."--Ib., p. 280. "The rule which directs putting other words into the place of it, is wrong."--Ib., p. 326. "They direct calling the specifying adjectives or adnames adjective pronouns."-- Ib., p. 338. "William dislikes attending court."--''Frost's El. of Gram.'', p. 82. "It may perhaps be worth while remarking that Milton makes a distinction."--Philological Museum, i, 659. "Professing regard, and acting differently, discover a base mind."--Murray's Key, p. 206; Bullions's E. Gram., pp. 82 and 112; Lennie's, 58. "Professing regard and acting indifferently, discover a base mind."--''Weld's Gram., Improved Edition'', p. 59. "You have proved beyond contradiction, that acting thus is the sure way to procure such an object."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 92.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &C.

"Irony is expressing ourselves in a manner contrary to our thoughts."--Murray's Gram., p. 353; Kirkham's, 225; Goldsbury's, 90. "Irony is saying one thing and meaning the reverse of what that expression would represent."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 303. "An Irony is dissembling or changing the proper signification of a word or sentence to quite the contrary."--Fisher's Gram., p. 151. "Irony is expressing ourselves contrary to what we mean."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 280. "This is in a great Measure delivering their own Compositions."--Buchanan's Gram., p. xxvi. "But purity is using rightly the words of the language."--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 59. "But the most important object is settling the English quantity."--Walker's Key. p. 17. "When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to another is taking a very wide step."-- Campbell's Rhet., p. 293. "It would be losing time to attempt further to illustrate it."--Ib., p. 79. "