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 necessary consequence of their having called in these Saxons, to their assistance."--Ib., p. 329. "What he had there said, concerning the Saxons expelling the Britons, and changing the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and good reason for our present language being Saxon rather than British."--Ib., p. 230. "The only material difference between them, besides the one being short and the other being prolonged, is, that a metaphor always explains itself by the words that are connected with it."--Ib., p. 151; Murray's Gram., p. 342. "The description of Death's advancing to meet Satan, on his arrival."--Rush, on the Voice, p. 156. "Is not the bare fact of God being the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?"--Chalmers, Serm., p. 288. "As in the case of one entering upon a new study."--Beattie's Moral Science, i, 77. "The manner of these affecting the copula is called the imperative mode."--BP. WILKINS: Lowth's Gram., p. 43. "We are freed from the trouble, by our nouns having no diversity of endings."--Buchanan's Syntax, p. 20. "The Verb is rather indicative of the actions being doing, or done, than the time when, but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable."--Booth's Introd., p. 69. "Nobody would doubt of this being a sufficient proof."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 66. "Against the doctrine here maintained, of conscience being, as well as reason, a natural faculty."--Beattie's M. Sci., i, 263. "It is one cause of the Greek and English languages being much more easy to learn, than the Latin."--Bucke's Classical Gram., p. 25. "I have not been able to make out a solitary instance of such being the fact."--Liberator, x, 40. "An angel's forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king's condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror."--Wood's Dict., w. Belshazzar. "The prisoners' having attempted to escape, aroused the keepers."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 357. "I doubt not, in the least, of this having been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world."--Blair's Rhet., p. 155. "From the general rule he lays down, of the verbs being the parent word of all language."--Diversions of Purley, Vol. i, p. 227. "He was accused of himself being idle."--Felch's Comp. Gram., p. 52. "Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him so removing."--Wm. Edmondson. "The spectacle is too rare of men's deserving solid fame while not seeking it."--Prof. Bush's Lecture on Swedenborg. "What further need was there of an other priest rising?"--See Key.

UNDER NOTE XI.--REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.

"Viewing them separately, different emotions are produced."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', ii, 344. "But leaving this doubtful, another objection occurs."--Ib., ii, 358. "Proceeding from one particular to another, the subject grew under his hand."--Ib., i, 27. "But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain broken."--Ib., ii, 314. "After some days hunting, Cyrus communicated his design to his officers."--Rollin, ii, 66. "But it is made, without the appearance of making it in form."--Blair's Rhet., p. 358. "These would have had a better effect disjoined thus."--Ib., p. 119; Murray's Gram., i, 309. "An improper diphthong has but one of the vowels sounded."--Murray's Gram., p. 9; Alger's, 12; Merchant's, 9; Smith's, 118; Ingersoll's, 4. "And being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady."-- Blair's Rhet., p. 95; Murray's Gram., 302; Jamieson's Rhet., 66. "By often doing the same thing, it becomes habitual."--Murray's Key, p. 257. "They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when surrounded with friends and cheerful society."--Ib., p. 238. "Besides shewing what is right, the matter may be further explained by pointing out what is wrong."--Lowth's Gram., Pref., p. viii. "The former teaches the true pronunciation of words, comprising accent, quantity, emphasis, pause, and tone."--Murray's Gram., Vol., i, p. 235. "Persons may be reproved for their negligence, by saying; 'You have taken great care indeed.'"--Ib., i, 354. "The words preceding and following it, are in apposition to each other."--Ib., ii, p. 22. "Having finished his speech, the assembly dispersed."--''Cooper's Pract. Gram.'', p. 97. "Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of doing."-- Kirkham's Elocution, p. 101. "The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, by depriving them of his assistance."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', ii, 299. "Taking them as nouns, this construction may be explained thus."--Grant's Latin Gram., p. 233. "These have an active signification, those which come from neuter verbs being excepted."--Ib., p. 233. "From the evidence of it not being universal."--Butler's Analogy, p. 84. "And this faith will continually grow, by acquainting ourselves with our own nature."--Channing's Self-Culture, p. 33. "Monosyllables ending with any consonant but f, l, or s, and preceded by a single vowel, never double the final consonant; excepting add, ebb," &c.--Murray's Gram., p. 23; Picket's, 10; Merchant's, 13; Ingersoll's, 8; Fisk's, 44; Blair's, 7. "The relation of being the object of the action is expressed by the change of the Noun Maria to Mariam"--Booth's Introd., p. 38. "In analyzing a proposition, it is first to be divided into its logical subject and predicate."--Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Gram., p. 254. "In analyzing a simple sentence, it should first be resolved into its logical subject and logical predicate."--Wells's School Gram., 113th Ed., p. 189.

UNDER NOTE XII.--OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.

"The discovering passions instantly at their birth, is essential to our well being."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', i, 352. "I am now to enter on considering the sources of the pleasures of taste."--Blair's Rhet., p. 28. "The varieties in using them are, indeed many."--Murray's Gram., i, 319. "Changing times and seasons, removing and setting up kings, belong to Providence alone."--Ib., Key, ii, p. 200. "Adhering to the partitions seemed the cause of France, accepting the will that of the house of Bourbon."--Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 246. "Another source of darkness in