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 that led out and brought in Israel."--Bible cor. "Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?"--Id.  "How beauty is excell'd by manly grace And wisdom, which alone are truly fair."--Milton cor.

"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,   While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?"--Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

"The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done."--Dr. Murray cor. "The rapidity of his movements was beyond example."--Wells cor. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."--''Murray's Rec. cor. "The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown."--Hume cor. "The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being."--Cobbett cor. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue."--Kames cor. "Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity."--Gardiner cor. "One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five."--Duncan cor. "The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to."--Bailey cor. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us."--Gould cor. "Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy."--Maturin cor. "The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular."--Pratt cor. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce."--Bicknell cor. "The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes."--Milnes cor. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion."--Rush cor. "By which means, the order of the words is disturbed."--Holmes cor. "The two-fold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form."--Peirce cor. "And each of these affords employment."--Percival cor. "The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."--Coar cor. "The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity."--Hall and Baker cor. "One of you has stolen my money."--Humorist cor. "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust."--Kames cor. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind."--Hiley cor. "Each of these is presented to us in different relations."--Hendrick cor. "The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time."- Bullions cor. "The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood."--Chandler cor.'' "And now, at length, the fated term of years   The world's desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears." --Lowth cor.

"Variety of numbers still belongs   To the soft melody of odes, or songs." --Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE III.--COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man."--Johnson cor. "To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious."--Pratt cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."--L. Murray et al. cor. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man."--Fisher cor. "In this passage, according as is used in a manner which is very common."--Webster cor. "A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."--Webster cor. "To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord."--The Friend cor. "While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular."--Cobbett cor. "He cannot assert that ll (i.e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u"--Cobb cor. "Ch, in Latin, has the power of k."--Gould cor. "Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci."--Id. "In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh."--Bucke cor. "But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent."--Id. "Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f."--Bucke cor. "Ph has the sound of f as in philosophy."--Webster cor. "Sh has one sound only, as in shall."--Id. "Th has two sounds."--Id. "Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk."--Id. "Aw has the sound of a in hall."--Bolles cor. "Ew sounds like u"--Id. "Ow, when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou."--Id. "Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid."--Id. "Ui three other sounds at least expresses,   As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses." --Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.

"When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned."--Dr. Weeks cor. "As neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."--Dr. Blair cor. "Yet neither of them is remarkable for precision."--Id. "How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself."--Id. "Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation."--Id. "On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath."--''Tr. of Iren. cor. "And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness."--Hope of Is. cor. "Was either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"--Foster cor. "Whilst neither of these letters exists in the Eugubian inscription."--Knight cor. "And neither of them is properly termed indefinite."--Dr. Wilson cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect their several verbs'':"