Page:The grammar of English grammars.djvu/965

 indicates good breeding."--Id. "A comparison in which more than two are concerned."--Lennie's Gram., p. 78. "By the facilities which artificial language affords them."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Now thyself hast lost both lop and top."--Spencer cor. "Glad tidings are brought to the poor."--Campbell cor. "Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends."--Sher. cor. "No pains have been spared to render this work complete."--Bullions cor. "The United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe."--Clinton cor. "I am mindful that myself am strong."--Fowler cor. "Myself am (not is) weak;"--"Thyself art (not is) weak."--Id.  "How pale each worshipful and reverend guest Rises from clerical or city feast!"--Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.

"Where were you born? In London."--Buchanan cor. "There are frequent occasions for commas."--Ingersoll cor. "There necessarily follow from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences."--Priestley cor. "And to this impression contributes the redoubled effort."--Kames cor. "Or, if he was, were there no spiritual men then?"--Barclay cor. "So, by these two also, are signified their contrary principles."--Id. "In the motions made with the hands, consists the chief part of gesture in speaking."--Blair cor. "Dares he assume the name of a popular magistrate?"--Duncan cor. "There were no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager."--Byron cor. "In fact, there exist such resemblances."--Kames cor. "To him give all the prophets witness."--Acts, x, 43. "That there were so many witnesses and actors."--Addison cor. "How do this man's definitions stand affected?"--Collier cor. "Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?"--Id. "Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent."--Barclay cor. "Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary."--Id. "Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?"--Id. "But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?"--Id. "But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;"--Robertson cor. "What sounds has each of the vowels?"--Griscom cor. "Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies."--Brownson cor. "And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."--Bible cor. "There seem to be but two general classes."--Day cor. "Hence arise the six forms of expressing time."--Id. "There seem to be no other words required."--Chandler cor. "If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last."--Bullions cor. "Hence arise the following advantages."--Id. "There are no data by which it can be estimated."--Calhoun cor. "To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives."--Fowler cor. ☞ "Nothing but naked roots" is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it."--G. B.] "There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves."--''Spect. cor. "In these consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol."--Percival cor. "Here come those I have done good to against my will."--Shak. cor. "Where there are'' more than one auxiliary." Or: "Where there are more auxiliaries than one."--O. B. Peirce cor. "On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility." --Sidney cor.

"Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty." --Swift cor.

"Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou. I wis,   To think of songs at such a time as this." --Churchill cor.

UNDER NOTE I.--THE RELATIVE AND VERB.

"Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still."--A. Murray cor. "To use that endearing language, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.'"--Bates cor. "Resembling the passions that produce these actions."--Kames cor. "Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural."--Ash cor. "As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure."--Gen. cor. "Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad?"--Dr. Pratt cor. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with."--Dr. Blair cor. "In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object," &c.--Id. "Of those affecting situations which make man's heart feel for man."--Id. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks."--Id. "It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue."--Id. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious."--Barclay cor. "This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron."--Hunt cor. "Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."--Goldsmith cor. "To have made and declared such orders as were necessary."--Hutchinson cor. "The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army."--Locke cor. "I'm not the first that has been wretched."--Southern cor. "And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view."--Calvin cor. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."--Dr. Blair cor. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society."--Formey cor. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him."--Id. "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed."--Milton, P. L., B. i, l. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence."--Dr. Blair cor. "Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied."--Home cor. "Thou wast he