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 --Id. "He shows that Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God."--The Friend cor. "That he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."--Bible cor. "This is neither the obvious nor the grammatical meaning of his words."--Blair cor. "Sometimes both the accusative and the infinitive are understood."--Adam and Gould cor. "In some cases, we can use either the nominative or the accusative, promiscuously."--Iidem. "Both the former and the latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."--Iidem. "Many of which have escaped both the commentator and the poet himself."--Pope cor. "The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and a past signification."--L. Murray cor. "How shall we distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the government?"--Dr. Webster cor. "Both the ecclesiastical and the secular powers concurred in those measures."--Dr. Campbell cor. "As the period has a beginning and an end within itself, it implies an inflection."--J. Q. Adams cor. "Such as ought to subsist between a principal and an accessory."--''Ld. Kames cor.''

UNDER NOTE VIII.--CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

"When both the upward and the downward slide occur in the sound of one syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE."--Kirkham cor. "The word THAT is used both in the nominative and in the objective case."--Sanborn cor. "But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large."--Murray cor. "Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future tense into the indicative mood, reject it from the subjunctive."--Id. "After the same conjunction, to use both the indicative and the subjunctive mood in the same sentence, and under the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety."--Id. "The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative mood in this tense."--Id. "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or the English language."--Chazotte cor. "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and the passive."--Nixon cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.--A SERIES OF TERMS.

"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and the husbandman."--Chazotte cor. "They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, the Philanthropists, the Pestalozzians, and the Productives."--Smith cor. "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future."--Murray et al. cor. "Is it an irregular neuter verb [from be, was, being, been; found in] the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number."--Murray cor. "SHOULD GIVE is an irregular active-transitive verb [from give, gave, given, giving; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number."--Id. "US is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."--Id. "THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."--Id. "It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, a point of admiration, or a parenthesis."--Dr. Wilson cor. "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth verses." Or: "The fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth verse."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Substitutes have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third."--Id. "JOHN'S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and is governed by 'WIFE,' according to Rule" [4th, which says, &c.]--Smith cor. "Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--''Bar. and Alex. cor. "The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and the pluperfect."--Ingersoll cor.'' "Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend,   And own the patron, patriot, and friend."--Savage cor.

UNDER NOTE X.--SPECIES AND GENUS.

"The pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for the noun."--''Paul's Ac. cor. "The verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."--Id. "The participle is a part of speech derived from the verb."--Id. "The adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles, adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification."--Id. "The conjunction is a part of speech that joins words or sentences together."--Id. "The preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts."--Id. "The interjection is a part of speech which betokens a sudden emotion or passion of the mind."--Id. "The enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory."--Blair and Murray cor. "We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of the allegory."--Iidem''. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of art."--Harris cor. "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,' as Mr. Harris acutely observes."--Churchill cor. "But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of metaphor, very beautiful, (or, one very beautiful instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full advantage."--Blair cor. "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as the whole put for a part, or a part for the whole; a species for the genus, or the genus for a species."--Id. "It shows what kind of apple it is of which we are speaking."--Kirkham cor. "Cleon