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 UNDER NOTE XII.--WHAT FOR THAT.

"I had no idea but that the story was true."--Brown's Inst., p. 268. "The postboy is not so weary but that he can whistle."--Ib. "He had no intimation but that the men were honest."--Ib. "Neither Lady Haversham nor Miss Mildmay will ever believe but that I have been entirely to blame."--Priestley cor. "I am not satisfied but that the integrity of our friends is more essential to our welfare than their knowledge of the world."--Id. "Indeed, there is in poetry nothing so entertaining or descriptive, but that an ingenious didactic writer may introduce it in some part of his work."--Blair cor. "Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he had catched, let it slip out of his fingers: 'No creature,' says he, 'is so contemptible but that it may provide for its own safety, if it have courage.'"--''Ld. Kames cor.''

UNDER NOTE XIII.--ADJECTIVES FOR ANTECEDENTS.

"In narration, Homer is, at all times, remarkably concise, and therefore lively and agreeable."--Blair cor. "It is usual to talk of a nervous, a feeble, or a spirited style; which epithets plainly indicate the writer's manner of thinking."--Id. "It is too violent an alteration, if any alteration were necessary, whereas none is."--Knight cor. "Some men are too ignorant to be humble; and without humility there can be no docility."--Berkley cor. "Judas declared him innocent; but innocent he could not be, had he in any respect deceived the disciples."--Porteus cor. "They supposed him to be innocent, but he certainly was not so."--Murray et al. cor. "They accounted him honest, but he certainly was not so."--Felch cor. "Be accurate in all you say or do; for accuracy is important in all the concerns of life."--Brown's Inst., p. 268. "Every law supposes the transgressor to be wicked; and indeed he is so, if the law is just."--Ib. "To be pure in heart, pious, and benevolent, (and all may be so,) constitutes human happiness."--Murray cor. "To be dexterous in danger, is a virtue; but to court danger to show our dexterity, is a weakness."--Penn cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.--SENTENCES FOR ANTECEDENTS.

"This seems not so allowable in prose; which fact the following erroneous examples will demonstrate."--L. Murray cor. "The accent is laid upon the last syllable of a word; which circumstance is favourable to the melody."--Kames cor. "Every line consists of ten syllables, five short and five long; from which rule there are but two exceptions, both of them rare."--Id. "The soldiers refused obedience, as has been explained."--Nixon cor. "Caesar overcame Pompey--a circumstance which was lamented."--Id. "The crowd hailed William, agreeably to the expectations of his friends."--Id. "The tribunes resisted Scipio, who knew their malevolence towards him."--Id. "The censors reproved vice, and were held in great honour."--Id. "The generals neglected discipline, which fact has been proved."--Id. "There would be two nominatives to the verb was, and such a construction is improper."--Adam and Gould cor. "His friend bore the abuse very patiently; whose forbearance, however, served only to increase his rudeness; it produced, at length, contempt and insolence."--Murray and Emmons cor. "Almost all compound sentences are more or less elliptical; and some examples of ellipsis may be found, under nearly all the different parts of speech."--Murray, Guy, Smith, Ingersoll, Fisk, et al. cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.--REPEAT THE PRONOUN.

"In things of Nature's workmanship, whether we regard their internal or their external structure, beauty and design are equally conspicuous."--Kames cor. "It puzzles the reader, by making him doubt whether the word ought to be taken in its proper, or in its figurative sense."--Id. "Neither my obligations to the muses, nor my expectations from them, are so great."--Cowley cor. "The Fifth Annual Report of the Antislavery Society of Ferrisburgh and its vicinity."--Title cor. "Meaning taste in its figurative as well as its proper sense."--Kames cor. "Every measure in which either your personal or your political character is concerned."--Junius cor. "A jealous and righteous God has often punished such in themselves or in their offspring."--Extracts cor. "Hence their civil and their religious history are inseparable."--Milman cor. "Esau thus carelessly threw away both his civil and his religious inheritance."--Id. "This intelligence excited not only our hopes, but our fears likewise."--Jaudon cor. "In what way our defect of principle, and our ruling manners, have completed the ruin of the national spirit of union."--Dr. Brown cor. "Considering her descent, her connexion, and her present intercourse."--Webster cor. "His own and his wife's wardrobe are packed up in a firkin."--Parker and Fox cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.--CHANGE THE ANTECEDENT.

"The sounds of e and o long, in their due degrees, will be preserved, and clearly distinguished."--L. Murray cor. "If any persons should be inclined to think," &c., "the author takes the liberty to suggest to them," &c.--Id. "And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it."--Bible cor. "If ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brethren their trespasses."--Id. "None ever fancied they were slighted by him, or had the courage to think themselves his betters."--Collier cor. "And Rebecca took some very good clothes of her eldest son Esau's, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son."--Gen. cor. "Where all the attention of men is given to their own indulgence."--Maturin cor. "The idea of a father is a notion superinduced to that of the substance, or man--let one's idea of man be what it will."--Locke cor. "Leaving all to do as they list."--Barclay cor. "Each person