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 performed his part handsomely."--J. Flint cor. "This block of marble rests on two layers of stones, bound together with lead, which, however, has not prevented the Arabs from forcing out several of them."--Parker and Fox cor.  "Love gives to all our powers a double power, Above their functions and their offices." Or:--   "Love gives to every power a double power, Exalts all functions and all offices."--Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XI; OF PRONOUNS.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.

"The jury will be confined till they agree on a verdict."--Brown's Inst., p. 145. "And mankind directed their first cares towards the needful."--Formey cor. "It is difficult to deceive a free people respecting their true interest."--Life of Charles XII cor. "All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but their follies and vices are innumerable."--Swift cor. "Every sect saith, 'Give us liberty:' but give it them, and to their power, and they will not yield it to any body else."--Cromwell cor. "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up themselves as a young lion."--Bible cor. "For all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth."--Id. "There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put them in great consternation."--Goldsmith cor.

UNDER NOTE I.--THE IDEA OF UNITY.

"The meeting went on with its business as a united body."--Foster cor. "Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for itself."--Gould cor. "It would therefore be extremely difficult to raise an insurrection in that state against its own government."--Dr. Webster cor. "The mode in which a lyceum can apply itself in effecting a reform in common schools."--''N. Y. Lyc. cor. "Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods?"--Jer. cor. "In the holy Scriptures, each of the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch from whom it'' descended." Or better:--"from whom the tribe descended."--Adams cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER.

"A nation, by the reparation of the wrongs which it has done, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give."--Adams cor. "The English nation, from whom we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch."--Webster cor. "If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter its fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent it from doing so?"--Foster's Rep. cor. "There is[537] a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother."--Bible cor. "There is[537] a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness."--Id. "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them."--Id. "My people have forgotten me, they have burnt incense to vanity."--Id. "When a quarterly meeting has come to a judgement respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to it" &c.--''Discip. cor. "The number of such compositions is every day increasing, and it appears to be limited only by the pleasure or the convenience of writers."--Booth cor. "The Church of Christ has the same power now as ever, and is led by the same spirit into the same practices."--Barclay cor. "The army, whom their'' chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march." Or thus: "The army, which its chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile its miserable march."--Lockhart cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XII; OF PRONOUNS.

ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY AND.

"Discontent and sorrow manifested themselves in his countenance."--Brown's Inst., p. 146. "Both conversation and public speaking became more simple and plain, such as we now find them."--Blair cor. "Idleness and ignorance, if they be suffered to proceed, &c."--Johnson and Priestley cor. "Avoid questions and strife: they show a busy and contentious disposition."--Penn cor. "To receive the gifts and benefits of God with thanksgiving, and witness them blessed and sanctified to us by the word and prayer, is owned by us."--Barclay cor. "Both minister and magistrate are compelled to choose between their duty and their reputation."--Junius cor. "All the sincerity, truth, and faithfulness, or disposition of heart or conscience to approve them, found among rational creatures, necessarily originate from God."--Rev. J. Brown cor. "Your levity and heedlessness, if they continue, will prevent all substantial improvement."--Brown's Inst., p. 269. "Poverty and obscurity will oppress him only who esteems them oppressive."--Ib. "Good sense and refined policy are obvious to few, because they cannot be discovered but by a train of reflection."--Ib. "Avoid haughtiness of behaviour, and affectation of manners: they imply a want of solid merit."--Ib. "If love and unity continue, they will make you partakers of one an other's joy."--Ib. "Suffer not jealousy and distrust to enter: they will destroy, like a canker, every germ of friendship."--Ib. "Hatred and animosity are inconsistent with Christian charity: