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UNDER NOTE X.--FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.

"If a man has built a house, the house is his."--Wayland cor. "If God has required them of him, as is the fact, he has time."--Id. "Unless a previous understanding to the contrary has been had with the principal."--Berrian cor. "O! if thou hast hid them in some flowery cave."--Milton cor. "O! if Jove's will has linked that amorous power to thy soft lay."--Id. "SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou loved."--Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and others. "Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, hath lent thee her unfathomable coil."--Tupper cor. "Whether nature or art contributes most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry."--Blair cor. "Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust."--Murray cor. "If spiritual pride has not entirely vanquished humility."--West cor. "Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter."--Bible cor. "It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, relates to what goes before or to what follows."--Kames cor. "And bridle in thy headlong wave,   Till thou our summons answer'd hast." Or:-- "And bridle in thy headlong wave,   Till thou hast granted what we crave."--''Milt. cor.''

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE.

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

"The gentry are punctilious in their etiquette."--G. B. "In France, the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes."--Harvey cor. "The people rejoice in that which should cause sorrow."--Murray varied. "My people are foolish, they have not known me."--Bible and Lowth cor. "For the people speak, but do not write."--''Phil. Mu. cor. "So that all the people that were in the camp, trembled."--Bible cor. "No company like to confess that they are ignorant."--Todd cor. "Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed."--Robertson cor. "More than one half of them were cut off before the return of spring."--Id. "The other class, termed Figures of Thought, suppose the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning."--Blair and Mur. cor. "A multitude of words in their dialect approach to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance."--Dr. Murray cor. "A great majority of our authors are defective in manner."--J. Brown cor. "The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected."--Tooke cor. "The greater part of the words it contains, are subject to certain modifications or inflections."--The Friend cor. "While all our youth prefer her to the rest."--Waller cor. "Mankind are appointed to live in a future state."--Bp. Butler cor. "The greater part of human kind speak and act wholly by imitation."--Rambler'', No. 146. "The greatest part of human gratifications approach so nearly to vice."--Id., No. 160. "While still the busy world are treading o'er   The paths they trod five thousand years before."--Young cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.--THE IDEA OF UNITY.

"In old English, this species of words was numerous."--Dr. Murray cor. "And a series of exercises in false grammar is introduced towards the end."--Frost cor. "And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, was anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood."--Webster cor. "With respect to the former, there is indeed a plenty of means."--Kames cor. "The number of school districts has increased since the last year."--Throop cor. "The Yearly Meeting has purchased with its funds these publications."--Foster cor. "Has the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?"--Sullivan cor. "So that the whole number of the streets was fifty."--Rollin cor. "The number of inhabitants was not more than four millions."--Smollett cor. "The house of Commons was of small weight."--Hume cor. "The assembly of the wicked hath (or has) inclosed me."--''Psal. cor. "Every kind of convenience and comfort is provided."--C. S. Journal cor. "Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy has suffered no diminution; but it has rather been gradually increasing."--Payne cor. "Small as the number of inhabitants is, yet their poverty is extreme."--Id. "The number of the names was about one hundred and twenty."--Ware and Acts cor.''

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF--THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"So much ability and [so much] merit are seldom found."--''Mur. et al. cor. "The etymology and syntax of the language are thus spread before the learner."--Bullions cor. "Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables are the same thing."--Adams cor. "Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, are not remembered at all."--L. Murray cor. "The soil and sovereignty were not purchased of the natives."--Knapp cor. "The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, are infinitely more favourable to sublimity of style, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme."--Blair cor. "The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seem to have been much greater than ours."--Id. "For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else."--R. Johnson cor. "The verb and the noun making a complete sense, whereas the participle and the noun do not."--Id. "The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, are a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present."--Kames cor. "The true meaning and etymology of some of his words were lost."--Knight''