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 that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts."--Blair et al. cor. "Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste."--Blair cor. "One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu."--Murray cor. "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced."--Blair cor. "The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."--Hart cor.

(2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived."--Murray's Gram., p. 200. Better thus: "The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that," &c.--Priestley cor. "The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building."--Kames cor. "The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple."--Murray cor. "The same that John saw also in the sun."--Milton cor.

(3.) "Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?"--T. à Kempis cor. "Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?"--Inst., p. 267. "Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?"--G. Brown.

(4.) "The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to."--Kirkham cor. "The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of."--Id. "A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative."--Id. "The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power."--Bolingbroke cor. "The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse."--Hiley cor.

(5.) "Authors that deal in long sentences, are very apt to be faulty."--Blair cor. "Writers that deal," &c.--Murray cor. "The neuter gender denotes objects that are neither male nor female."--Merchant cor. "The neuter gender denotes things that have no sex."--Kirkham cor. "Nouns that denote objects neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."--''Wells's Gram. of late'', p. 55. Better thus: "Those nouns which denote objects that are neither male nor female, are of the neuter gender."--Wells cor. "Objects and ideas that have been long familiar, make too faint an impression to give an agreeable exercise to our faculties."--Blair cor. "Cases that custom has left dubious, are certainly within the grammarian's province."--L. Murray cor. "Substantives that end in ery, signify action or habit."--Id. "After all that can be done to render the definitions and rules of grammar accurate."--Id. "Possibly, all that I have said, is known and taught."--A. B. Johnson cor.

(6.) "It is a strong and manly style that should chiefly be studied."--Blair cor. "It is this [viz., precision] that chiefly makes a division appear neat and elegant."--Id. "I hope it is not I that he is displeased with."--L. Murray cor. "When it is this alone that renders the sentence obscure."--Campbell cor. "This sort of full and ample assertion, 'It is this that,' is fit to be used when a proposition of importance is laid down."--Blair cor. "She is not the person that I understood it to have been."--L. Murray cor. "Was it thou, or the wind, that shut the door?"--Inst., p. 267. "It was not I that shut it."--Ib.

(7.) "He is not the person that he seemed to be."--Murray and Ingersoll cor. "He is really the person that he appeared to be."--Iid. "She is not now the woman that they represented her to have been."--Iid. "An only child is one that has neither brother nor sister; a child alone is one that is left by itself, or unaccompanied."--Blair, Jam., and Mur., cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--RELATIVE CLAUSES CONNECTED.

(1.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of a thing; (i. e.,) of whatever we conceive to subsist, or of whatever we merely imagine."--Lowth cor. (2.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we have any notion."--Murray et al. cor. (3.) "A Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any person, place, or thing, that exists, or that we can have an idea of."--Frost cor. (4.) "A noun is the name of any thing which exists, or of which we form an idea."--Hallock cor. (5.) "A Noun is the name of any person, place, object, or thing, that exists, or that we may conceive to exist."--D. C. Allen cor. (6.) "The name of every thing which exists, or of which we can form a notion, is a noun."--Fisk cor. (7.) "An allegory is the representation of some one thing by an other that resembles it, and that is made to stand for it."--Blair's Rhet., p. 150. (8.) "Had he exhibited such sentences as contained ideas inapplicable to young minds, or such as were of a trivial or injurious nature."--L. Murray cor. (9.) "Man would have others obey him, even his own kind; but he will not obey God, who is so much above him, and who made him."--Penn cor. (10.) "But what we may consider here, and what few persons have noticed, is," &c.--Brightland cor. (11.) "The compiler has not inserted those verbs which are irregular only in familiar writing or discourse, and which are improperly terminated by t in stead of ed."--Murray, Fisk, Hart, Ingersoll et al., cor. (12.) "The remaining parts of speech, which are called the indeclinable parts, and which admit of no variations, (or, being words that admit of no variations,) will not detain us long."--Dr. Blair cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--THE RELATIVE AND PREPOSITION.

"In the temper of mind in which he was then."--Lowth's Gram., p. 102. "To bring them into the condition in which I am at present."--''Add. cor. "In the posture in which I lay."--Lowth's Gram.'', p. 102. "In the sense in which it is sometimes taken."--Barclay cor. "Tools and utensils are said to be right, when they answer well the uses for which they were made."--Collier cor. "If, in the extreme danger in which I now am," &c. Or: "If, in my present extreme danger," &c.--Murray's Sequel, p. 116. "News was brought, that Dairus [sic--KTH] was but twenty miles from the