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 the great truth, so often overlooked in our times."--C. S. Journal cor. "The principal figures calculated to affect the heart, are Exclamation, Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation."--Formey cor. "Disgusted at the odious artifices employed by the judge."--Junius cor. "All the reasons for which there was allotted to us a condition out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise."--Bp. Butler cor. "Some characteristical circumstance being generally invented or seized upon."--Ld. Kames cor.  "And BY is likewise used with names that shew The method or the means of what we do."--Ward cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.

"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as do adjectives."--Priestley cor. "But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, did more than any one else, to bring our language into its present state, was Dryden."--Blair cor. "In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor do courts of chancery employ any at all."--Webster cor. "I feel grateful to my friend."--Murray cor. "This requires a writer to have in his own mind a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us."--Blair cor. "Sense has its own harmony, which naturally contributes something to the harmony of sound."--Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which gave to the word an additional syllable."--Priestley cor. "There are few to whom I can refer with more advantage than to Mr. Addison."--Blair cor. "DEATH, (in theology,) is a perpetual separation from God, a state of eternal torments."--Webster cor. "That could inform the traveller as well as could the old man himself!"--O. B. Peirce cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--OF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.

"Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, and the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE: Jer., xlix, 3. "Wash you, make you clean."--SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, i, 16. "Strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, xxxii, 11. "Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me."--SCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY: Job, xix, 3. "If ye knew the gift of God." Or: "If thou knew the gift of God."--See John, iv, 10. "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know you not."--Penington cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF PROPER IDENTITY.

"Who would not say, 'If it be I,' rather than, 'If it be me?"--Priestley cor. "Who is there? It is I."--Id. "It is he."--Id. "Are these the houses you were speaking of? Yes; they are the same."--Id. "It is not I, that you are in love with."--Addison cor. "It cannot be I."--Swift cor. "To that which once was thou."--Prior cor. "There is but one man that she can have, and that man is myself."--Priestley cor. "We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure he." Or, better:--"and become in some measure identified with him."--A. Smith and Priestley cor. "Art thou proud yet? Ay, that I am not thou."--''Shak. cor. "He knew not who they were."--Milnes cor. "Whom do you think me to be?"--Dr. Lowth's Gram.'', p. 17. "Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?"--Bible cor. "But who say ye that I am?"--Id. "Who think ye that I am? I am not he."--Id. "No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person that I supposed it was."--Winter in London cor. "And while it is He that I serve, life is not without value."--Ware cor. "Without ever dreaming it was he."--Charles XII cor. "Or he was not the illiterate personage that he affected to be."--''Montgom. cor. "Yet was he the man who was to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles."--Barclay cor. "Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or thou."--J. Hogg cor. "Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was I."--Dryden cor. "No matter where the vanquished be, or who."--Rowe cor. "No; I little thought it had been he."--Gratton cor. "That reverence, that godly fear, which is ever due to 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.'"--Maturin cor. "It is we that they seek to please, or rather to astonish."--J. West cor. "Let the same be her that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac."--Bible cor. "Although I knew it to be him."--Dickens cor. "Dear gentle youth, is't none but thou?"--Dorset cor. "Who do they say it is?"--Fowler cor.'' "These are her garb, not she; they but express   Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress."--More cor.

UNDER NOTE I.--OF THE CASE DOUBTFUL.

"I had no knowledge of any connexion between them."--Col. Stone cor. "To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing, as to be the actors of it ourselves." (That is, "For us to promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing as for us to be the actors of it ourselves.")--Murray cor. "It must arise from a delicate feeling in ourselves."--Blair and Murray cor. "Because there has not been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."--''Mass. Legisl. cor. "PUPILAGE, n. The state of a pupil, or scholar."--Dictionaries cor. "Then the other part, being the definition, would include all verbs, of every description."--Peirce cor. "John's friendship for me saved me from inconvenience."--Id. "William's judgeship"--or, "William's appointment to the office of judge,--changed his whole demeanour."--Id. "William's practical acquaintance with teaching, was the cause of the interest he felt."--Id. "To be'' but one among many, stifleth