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CHAPTER V.--PRONOUNS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE X AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF AGREEMENT.

"The subject is to be joined with its predicate."--Wilkins cor. "Every one must judge of his own feelings."--Byron cor. "Every one in the family should know his or her duty."--Penn cor. "To introduce its possessor into that way in which he should go."--''Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Do not they say, that every true believer has the Spirit of God in him?"--Barclay cor. "There is none in his natural state righteous; no, not one."--Wood cor. "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own."--Bible cor. "His form had not yet lost all its original brightness."--Milton cor. "No one will answer as if I were his friend or companion."--Steele cor. "But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself."--Bible cor. "And let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his neighbour."--Id. "For every tree is known by its own fruit."--Id. "But she fell to laughing, like one out of his right mind."--M. Edgeworth cor. "Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make them worse."--Wayland cor. "And nobody else would make that city his refuge any more."--Josephus cor.'' "What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words? It is the time which a speaker occupies in pronouncing them."--Bradley cor. "In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that it is usually parsed as such."--Bullions cor. "The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight he carries." Or thus: "The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight it carries, the faster it runs."--Addison, Murray, et al. cor. "As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with his jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets."--Newspaper cor. "Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which he thinks worthy of recording."--Duchess D'Ab. cor. "Every body trembled, for himself, or for his friends."--Goldsmith cor.

"A steed comes at morning: no rider is there;   But his bridle is red with the sign of despair."--Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE I.--PRONOUNS WRONG--OR NEEDLESS.

"Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle."--Merchant cor. "Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?"--Bible cor. "Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief."--Tillotson cor. "Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate."--Bible cor. "Whom, when they had washed her, they laid in an upper chamber."--Id. "Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."--Id. "Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others."--See Blair's Rhet., p. 93. "But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action."--Murray's Gram., i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."--Barclay cor. "George Fox's Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."--Title cor. "According to the advice of the author of the Postcript [sic--KTH]."--Barclay cor. "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians that were pictured on Nemesis's pitcher."--Bacon cor. "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with the Sphynx's enigmas."--Id. "Whoever believeth not therein, shall perish."--Koran cor. "When, at Sestius's entreaty, I had been at his house."--W. Walker cor. "There high on Sipylus's shaggy brow,    She stands, her own sad monument of wo."--Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--CHANGE OF NUMBER.

"So will I send upon you famine, and evil beasts, and they shall bereave you."--Bible cor. "Why do you plead so much for it? why do you preach it up?" Or: "Why do ye plead so much for it? why do ye preach it up?"--Barclay cor. "Since thou hast decreed that I shall bear man, thy darling."--''Edward's Gram. cor. "You have my book, and I have yours; i.e., your'' book." Or thus: "Thou hast my book, and I have thine; i.e., thy book."--Chandler cor. "Neither art thou such a one as to be ignorant of what thou art."--Bullions cor. "Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon thee."--Bible cor. "The Almighty, unwilling to cut thee off in the fullness of iniquity, has sent me to give thee warning."--''Ld. Kames cor. "Wast thou born only for pleasure? wast thou never to do any thing?"--Collier cor. "Thou shalt be required to go to God, to die, and to give up thy account."--Barnes cor. "And canst thou expect to behold the resplendent glow of the Creator? would not such a sight annihilate thee?"--Milton cor. "If the prophet had commanded thee to do some great thing, wouldst thou have refused?"--C. S. Journal cor. "Art thou a penitent? evince thy sincerity, by bringing forth fruits meet for repentance."--Vade-Mecum cor. "I will call thee my dear son: I remember all thy tenderness."--C. Tales cor. "So do thou, my son: open thy ears, and thy eyes."--Wright cor. "I promise you, this was enough to discourage you."--Bunyan cor. "Ere you remark an other's sin, Bid your own conscience look within."--Gay cor. "Permit that I share in thy wo, The privilege canst thou refuse?"--Perfect cor.'' "Ah! Strephon, how canst thou despise Her who, without thy pity, dies?"--Swift cor.  "Thy verses, friend, are Kidderminster stuff; And I must own, thou'st measured out enough."--Shenst. cor.