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 was an other sort of man."--Goldsmith cor. "To keep off his right wing, as a kind of reserved body."--Id. "This part of speech is called the verb."--Mack cor. "What sort of thing is it?"--Hiley cor. "What sort of charm do they possess?"--Bullions cor.  "Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole, That painful animal, the mole."--Dunciad cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.--ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.

"Either thou or the boys were in fault."--Comly cor. "It may, at first view, appear to be too general."--Murray et al. cor. "When the verb has reference to future time."--Iidem. "No; they are the language of imagination, rather than of passion."--Blair cor. "The dislike of English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can be attributed only to the intricacy of [our] syntax."--Russell cor. "Is that ornament in good taste?"--Kames cor. "There are not many fountains in good taste." Or: "Not many fountains are [ornamented] in good taste."--Id. "And I persecuted this way unto death."--Bible cor. "The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension."--Addison, Spect., No. 411. "The distributive adjectives, each, every, either, agree with nouns, pronouns, or verbs, of the singular number only."--Murray cor. "Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to other parts of speech."--Blair cor. "By certain muscles which operate [in harmony, and] all at the same time."--Murray cor. "It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in general concerning them."--Campbell cor. "Nothing disgusts us sooner than empty pomp of language."--Murray cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.--TITLES AND NAMES.

"He is entitled to the appellation of gentleman."--G. Brown. "Cromwell assumed the title of Protector"--Id. "Her father is honoured with the title of Earl."--Id. "The chief magistrate is styled President."--Id. "The highest title in the state is that of Governor."--Id. "That boy is known by the name of Idler."--Murray cor. "The one styled Mufti, is the head of the ministers of law and religion."--Balbi cor. "Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class tree."--Blair cor. "For oak, pine, and ash, were names of whole classes of objects."--Id. "It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of trope, or of figure."--Id. "The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of hiatus."--Adams cor. "We hesitate to determine, whether Tyrant alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the word Spy."--Cobbett cor. "Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into twelvemonth; of seven nights into sennight; of fourteen nights into fortnight."--Webster cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.--COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

"He is a better writer than reader."--W. Allen. "He was an abler mathematician than linguist."--Id. "I should rather have an orange than an apple."--G. Brown. "He was no less able as a negotiator, than courageous as a warrior."--Smollett cor. "In an epic poem, we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or an epigram."--Kames cor. "That figure is a sphere, globe, or ball."--Churchill's Gram., p. 357.

UNDER NOTE XIV.--ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

"The carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."--Key to Inst. "The place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time."--Ib. "Those questions which a person puts to himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated with points of interrogation."--''Mur. et al. cor. "The work is designed for the use of those persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries."--Mur. cor. "That those who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at."--Id. "Those grammarians who limit the number to two, or three, do not reflect."--Id. "The substantives which end in ian'', are those that signify profession." Or: "Those substantives which end in ian, are such as signify profession."--Id. "To these may be added those verbs which, among the poets, usually govern the dative."--Adam and Gould cor. "The consonants are those letters which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."--Bucke cor. "To employ the curiosity of persons skilled in grammar:"--"of those who are skilled in grammar:"--"of persons that are skilled in grammar:"--"of such persons as are skilled in grammar:" or--"of those persons who are skilled in grammar."--L. Murray cor. "This rule refers only to those nouns and pronouns which have the same bearing, or relation."--Id. "So that the things which are seen, were not made of things that do appear."--Bible cor. "Man is an imitative creature; he may utter again the sounds which he has heard."--Dr. Wilson cor. "But those men whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own."--Dr. Webster cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.--PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.

"Great benefit may be reaped from the reading of histories."--Sewel cor. "And some attempts were made towards the writing of history."--Bolingbroke cor. "It is an invading of the priest's office, for any other to offer it"--Leslie cor. "And thus far of the forming of verbs."--W. Walker cor. "And without the shedding of blood there is no remission."--Bible cor. "For the making of measures, we have the best method here in England."--''Printer's Gram. cor. "This is really both an admitting and a denying at once."--Butler cor. "And hence the origin of the making of parliaments."--Dr. Brown cor. "Next thou objectest, that the'' having of saving light