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UNDER NOTE III.--OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.

"This would have been less worthy notice."--Churchill's Gram., p. 197. "But I passed it, as a thing unworthy my notice."--Werter. "Which, in compliment to me, perhaps, you may, one day, think worthy your attention."--Bucke's Gram., p. 81. "To think this small present worthy an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment."--Ib., p. iv. "There are but a few miles portage."--Jefferson's Notes on Virginia, p. 17. "It is worthy notice, that our mountains are not solitary."--Ib., p. 26. "It is of about one hundred feet diameter."--Ib., 33. "Entering a hill a quarter or half a mile."--Ib., p. 47. "And herself seems passing to that awful dissolution, whose issue is not given human foresight to scan."--Ib., p. 100. "It was of a spheroidical form, of about forty feet diameter at the base, and had been of about twelve feet altitude."--Ib., p. 143. "Before this it was covered with trees of twelve inches diameter, and round the base was an excavation of five feet depth and width."--Ibid. "Then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure."--Deut., xxiii, 24. "Then he brought me back the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary."--Ezekiel, xliv, 1. "They will bless God that he has peopled one half the world with a race of freemen."--Webster's Essays, p. 94. "What use can these words be, till their meaning is known?"--Town's Analysis, p. 7. "The tents of the Arabs now are black, or a very dark colour."--The Friend, Vol. v, p. 265. "They may not be unworthy the attention of young men."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 157. "The pronoun that is frequently applied to persons, as well as things."--Merchant's Gram., p. 87. "And who is in the same case that man is."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 148. "He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet diameter."--The Friend, vii, 409. "Pliny informs us, that this stone was the size of a cart."--Ibid. "Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled Rome."--Seneca's Morals, p. 11. "I was prevented[438] reading a letter which would have undeceived me."--Hawkesworth, Adv., No. 54. "If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned the inaccuracy of its demonstration."--Booth's Introd., p. 25. "The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but effeminacy."--Brown's Estimate, i. 65. "Afraid of the virtue of a nation, in its opposing bad measures."--Ib., i, 73. "The uniting them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy."--Music of Nature, p. 34. "I might be excused taking any more notice of it."--Watson's Apology, p. 65. "Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come."--Matt., xxiv, 42. "Here, not even infants were spared the sword."--M'Ilvaine's Lectures, p. 313. "To prevent men turning aside to corrupt modes of worship."--Calvin's Institutes, B. I, Ch. 12, Sec. 1. "God expelled them the Garden of Eden."--Burder's Hist., Vol. i, p. 10. "Nor could he refrain expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind"--Art of Thinking, p. 123. "Who now so strenuously opposes the granting him any new powers."--Duncan's Cicero, p. 127. "That the laws of the censors have banished him the forum."--Ib., p. 140. "We read not that he was degraded his office any other way."--Barclay's Works, iii, 149. "To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting."--Hutchinson's Mass., i, 459. "On the 1st, August, 1834."--British Act for the Abolition of Slavery. "Whether you had not some time in your life   Err'd in this point which now you censure him."--Shak.

UNDER NOTE IV.--OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.

"And the apostles and elders came together to consider of this matter."--Barclay's Works, i, 481. "And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter."--Acts, xv, 6. "Adjectives in our Language have neither Case, Gender, nor Number; the only Variation they have is by Comparison."--Buchanan's Gram., p. 27. "'It is to you, that I am indebted for this privilege;' that is, 'to you am I indebted;' or, 'It is to you to whom I am indebted.'"--Sanborn's Gram., p. 232. "Books is a noun, of the third person, plural number, of neuter gender,"--Ingersoll's Gram., p. 15. "Brother's is a common substantive, of the masculine gender, the third person, the singular number, and in the possessive case."--Murray's Gram., i, 229. "Virtue's is a common substantive, of the third person, the singular number, and in the possessive case."--Ib., i, 228. "When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is in vain to oppose the prevailing usage."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 173; Murray's Gram., i, 367. "A captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering of Rome."--Collier's Antoninus, p. 51. "And, notwithstanding of its Verbal power, we have added the to and other signs of exertion."--Booth's Introd., p. 28. "Some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the Noun instead of by separate words."--Ib., p. 33. "Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and to bow down his head like a bulrush?"--Bacon's Wisdom, p. 65. "And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental, instead of, by the necessary antecedent."--Wayland's Moral Science, p. 17. "At about the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed."--Balbi's Geog., p. 269. "God divided between the light and between the darkness."--Burder's Hist., i, 1. "Notwithstanding of this, we are not against outward significations of honour."--Barclay's Works, i, 242. "Whether these words and practices of Job's friends, be for to be our rule."--Ib., i, 243. "Such verb cannot admit of an objective