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 This is leaving the sentence too bare, and making it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense."--Cobbett's Gram., ¶220. "This is requiring more labours from every private member."--West's Letters, p. 120. "Is not this using one measure for our neighbours, and another for ourselves?"--Ib., p. 200. "Is it not charging God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?"--Ib., p. 171. "This is not enduring the cross as a disciple of Jesus Christ, but snatching at it like a partizan of Swift's Jack."--Ib., p. 175. "What is Spelling? It is combining letters to form syllables and words."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 18. "It is choosing such letters to compose words," &c.--Ibid. "What is Parsing? (1.) It is describing the nature, use, and powers of words."--Ib., pp. 22 and 192. (2.) "For parsing is describing the words of a sentence as they are used."--Ib., p. 10. (3.) "Parsing is only describing the nature and relations of words as they are used."--Ib., p. 11. (4.) "Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is describing facts concerning words; or representing them in their offices and relations as they are."--Ib., p. 34. (5.) "Parsing is resolving and explaining words according to the rules of grammar."--Ib., p. 326. (6.) "Parsing a word, remember, is enumerating and describing its various relations and qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence."--Ib., p. 325. (7.) "For parsing a word is enumerating and describing its various properties and relations to the sentence."--Ib., p. 326. (8.) "Parsing a noun is telling of what person, number, gender, and case, it is; and also telling all its grammatical relations in a sentence with respect to other words."--Ingersoll's Gram., p. 16. (9.) "Parsing any part of speech is telling all its properties and relations."--Ibid. (10.) "Parsing is resolving a sentence into its elements."--Fowler's E. Gram., 1850, §588. "The highway of the righteous is, departing from evil."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 168. "Besides, the first step towards exhibiting truth should be removing the veil of error."--Ib., p. 377. "Punctuation is dividing sentences and the words of sentences, by pauses."--Ib., p. 280. "Another fault is using the preterimperfect shook instead of the participle shaken"--Churchill's Gram., p. 259. "Her employment is drawing maps."--Alger's Gram., p. 65. "Going to the play, according to his notion, is leading a sensual life, and exposing ones self to the strongest temptations. This is begging the question, and therefor requires no answer."--Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 217. "It is overvaluing ourselves to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities."--Murray's Gram., i, 193; Ingersoll's, 199. "What is vocal language? It is speaking; or expressing ideas by the human voice."--Sanders, Spelling-Book, p. 7.

UNDER NOTE IX.--VERBS OF PREVENTING.

"The annulling power of the constitution prevented that enactment's becoming a law."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 267. "Which prevents the manner's being brief."--Ib., p. 365. "This close prevents their bearing forward as nominatives."--Rush, on the Voice, p. 153. "Because this prevents its growing drowzy."--Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 5. "Yet this does not prevent his being great."--Ib., p. 27. "To prevent its being insipid."--Ib., p. 112. "Or whose interruptions did not prevent its being continued."--Ib., p. 167. "This by no means prevents their being also punishments."--Wayland's Moral Science, p. 123. "This hinders not their being also, in the strictest sense, punishments."--Ibid., "The noise made by the rain and wind prevented their being heard."--Goldsmith's Greece, Vol. i, p. 118. "He endeavoured to prevent its taking effect."--Ib., i, 128. "So sequestered as to prevent their being explored."--West's Letters, p. 62. "Who prevented her making a more pleasant party."--Ib., p. 65. "To prevent our being tossed about by every wind of doctrine."--Ib., p. 123. "After the infirmities of age prevented his bearing his part of official duty."--Religious World, ii, 193. "To prevent splendid trifles passing for matters of importance."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', i, 310. "Which prevents his exerting himself to any good purpose."--Beattie's Moral Science, i, 146. "The want of the observance of this rule, very frequently prevents our being punctual in our duties."--Student's Manual, p. 65. "Nothing will prevent his being a student, and his possessing the means of study."--Ib., p. 127. "Does the present accident hinder your being honest and brave?"--Collier's Antoninus, p. 51. "The e is omitted to prevent two es coming together."--Fowle's Gram., p. 34. "A pronoun is used for or in place of a noun.--to prevent repeating the noun."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 13. "Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents it being tired with the too frequent recurrence of the rhymes."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 166. "Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents its being tired," &c.--Murray's Gram., i. p. 362. "Timidity and false shame prevent our opposing vicious customs."--Murray's Key, ii, 236; Sanborn's Gram., 171; Merchant's, 205. "To prevent their being moved by such."-- Campbell's Rhet., p. 155. "Some obstacle or impediment, that prevents its taking place."--Priestley's Gram., p. 38. "Which prevents our making a progress towards perfection."--Sheridan's Elocution, p. 4. "This method of distinguishing words, must prevent any regular proportion of time being settled."--Ib., p. 67. "That nothing but affectation can prevent its always taking place."--Ib., p. 78. "This did not prevent John's being acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy."--HENRY: ''Webster's Philos. Gram., p. 182; his Improved Gram., 130; Sanborn's Gram.'', 189; Fowler's, 8vo, 1850, p. 541.

UNDER NOTE X.--THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.

"This would preclude the possibility of a nouns' or any other word's ever being in the possessive case."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 338. "A great part of our pleasure arises from the plan or story being well conducted."--Blair's Rhet., p. 18, "And we have no reason to wonder at this being the case."--Ib., p. 249. "She objected only, as Cicero says, to Oppianicus having two sons by his present wife."--Ib., p. 274. "The Britons being subdued by the Saxons, was a