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CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE IV; OF POSSESSIVES.

UNDER NOTE I.--THE POSSESSIVE FORM.

"Man's chief good is an upright mind."--Key to Inst. "The translator of Mallet's History has the following note."--Webster cor. "The act, while it gave five years full pay to the officers, allowed but one year's pay to the privates."--Id. "For the study of English is preceded by several years attention to Latin and Greek."--Id. "The first, the Court-Baron, is the freeholders' or freemen's court."--Coke cor. "I affirm that Vaugelas's definition labours under an essential defect."--Campbell cor.; and also Murray. "There is a chorus in Aristophanes's plays."--Blair cor. "It denotes the same perception in my mind as in theirs."--Duncan cor. "This afterwards enabled him to read Hickes's Saxon Grammar."--''Life of Dr. Mur. cor. "I will not do it for ten's sake."--Ash cor. Or: "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."--Gen.'', xviii, 32. "I arose, and asked if those charming infants were hers."--Werter cor. "They divide their time between milliners shops and the taverns."--Dr. Brown cor. "The angels adoring of Adam is also mentioned in the Talmud."--Sale cor. "Quarrels arose from the winners' insulting of those who lost."--Id. "The vacancy occasioned by Mr. Adams's resignation."--''Adv. to Adams's Rhet. cor. "Read, for instance, Junius's address, commonly called his Letter to the King."--Adams cor. "A perpetual struggle against the tide of Hortensius's influence."--Id. "Which, for distinction's sake, I shall put down severally."--R. Johnson cor. "The fifth case is in a clause signifying the matter of one's fear."--Id. "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field."--Alger cor. "Arise for thy servants' help, and redeem them for thy mercy's sake."--Jenks cor. "Shall not their cattle, their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours''?"--COM. BIBLE: Gen., xxxiv, 23. "Its regular plural, bullaces, is used by Bacon."--Churchill cor. "Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house."--Scott cor. "Behold, they that wear soft clothing, are in kings' houses."--Alger's Bible. "Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife, and her two sons; and Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, came, with his sons and his wife, unto Moses."--Scott's Bible. "King James's translators merely revised former translations."--Frazee cor. "May they be like corn on houses' tops."--White cor. "And for his Maker's image' sake exempt."--Milton cor.

"By all the fame acquired in ten years' war."--Rowe cor.

"Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore."--Pope cor.

"Man only of a softer mold is made,   Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid."--Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--POSSESSIVES CONNECTED.

"It was necessary to have both the physician's and the surgeon's advice."--L. Murray's False Syntax, Rule 10. "This outside fashionableness of the tailor's or the tirewoman's making."--Locke cor. "Some pretending to be of Paul's party, others of Apollos's, others of Cephas's, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of Christ's."--Wood cor. "Nor is it less certain, that Spenser and Milton's spelling agrees better with our pronunciation."--''Phil. Museum cor. "Law's, Edwards's, and Watts's Survey'' of the Divine Dispensations." Or thus: "Law, Edwards, and Watts's, Surveys of the Divine Dispensations."--Burgh cor. "And who was Enoch's Saviour, and the prophets?"--Bayly cor. "Without any impediment but his own, his parents, or his guardian's will."--Journal corrected. "James relieves neither the boy's nor the girl's distress."--Nixon cor. "John regards neither the master's nor the pupil's advantage."--Id. "You reward neither the man's nor the woman's labours."--Id. "She examines neither James's nor John's conduct."--Id. "Thou pitiest neither the servant's nor the master's injuries."--Id. "We promote England's or Ireland's happiness."--Id. "Were Cain's and Abel's occupation the same?"--G. Brown. "Were Cain and Abel's occupations the same?"--Id. "What was Simon and Andrew's employment?"--Id. "Till he can read for himself Sanctius's Minerva with Scioppius's and Perizonius's Notes."--Locke cor. "And love and friendship's finely-pointed dart   Falls blunted from each indurated heart." Or:--

"And love's and friendship's finely-pointed dart   Fall blunted from each indurated heart."--Goldsmith cor.

UNDER NOTE III.--CHOICE OF FORMS.

"But some degree of trouble is the portion of all men."--L. Murray et al. cor. "With the names of his father and mother upon the blank leaf."--Abbott cor. "The general, in the name of the army, published a declaration."--Hume cor. "The vote of the Commons."--Id. "The House of Lords."--Id. "A collection of the faults of writers;"--or, "A collection of literary faults."--Swift cor. "After ten years of wars."--Id. "Professing his detestation of such practices as those of his predecessors."--Pope cor. "By that time I shall have ended my year of office."--W. Walker cor. "For the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip."--''Bible and Mur. cor. "I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain salvation."--Bibles cor. "He was heir to the son of Louis the Sixteenth."--W. Allen''. "The throne we honour is the people's choice."--Rolla. "An account of the proceedings of Alexander's court."--Inst. "An excellent tutor for the child of a person of fashion!"--Gil Blas cor. "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop's is, itself, ungrammatical."--Cobbett cor. "The troops broke into the palace of the Emperor Leopold."--Nixon cor. "The meeting was called by desire of Eldon the Judge."--Id. "The occupation