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 uses govern:" or,--"usually governs."--Adam, Gould, et al., cor. "In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice gives rise to."--Knight cor. "By which he, or his deputy, was authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest."--Junius cor. "Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, was concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious."--Dr. Blair cor. "The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, is a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."--Kames cor. "Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, represents the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect."--D. Boileau cor. "Hence naturally arises indifference or aversion between the parties."--Dr. Brown cor. "A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, is a character nowhere to be found."--Tract cor. "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitles them to imitation."--Johnson cor. "Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, is often of decisive influence."--Duncan cor. "A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, relieves the folio page."--D'Israeli cor. "For outward matter or event fashions not the character within." Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)--"fashioneth not the character within."--Tupper cor. "Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, has warmed cold brains."--Dryden cor. "Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight is an individual."--Harris cor. "When et, aut, vel, sive, or nec, is repeated before different members of the same sentence."--Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor. "Wisdom or folly governs us."--Fisk cor. "A or an is styled the indefinite article"--Folker cor. "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoots up into a prodigy."--''Spect. cor. "Is either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?"--Prof. Fowler cor.'' "Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,   Is lost on hearers that our merits know."--Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.

"Neither he nor she has spoken to him."--Perrin cor. "For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserves the reader from weariness."--Johnson cor. "Neither history nor tradition furnishes such information."--Robertson cor. "Neither the form nor the power of the liquids has varied materially."--Knight cor. "Where neither noise nor motion is concerned."--Blair cor. "Neither Charles nor his brother was qualified to support such a system."--Junius cor. "When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion serves, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track."--Campbell cor. "In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, is fairly laid before men."--''Bp. Butler cor. "Neither the intellect nor the heart is capable of being driven."--Abbott cor. "Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana is in any way connected with the Sun or Moon."--Coleridge cor. "Of which, neither he, nor this grammar, takes any notice."--R. Johnson cor. "Neither their solicitude nor their foresight extends so far."--Robertson cor. "Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, considers Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first discoverer of the continent of America."--Id. "Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, has been thought worthy of a moment's consideration."--Junius cor.'' "Nor war nor wisdom yields our Jews delight,    They will not study, and they dare not fight."--Crabbe cor.

"Nor time nor chance breeds such confusions yet,    Nor are the mean so rais'd, nor sunk the great."--Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE I.--NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.

"The definite article, the, designates what particular thing or things are meant."--Merchant cor. "Sometimes a word, or several words, necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, are not expressed, but are omitted by ellipsis."--Burr cor. "Ellipsis, (better, Ellipses,) or abbreviations, are the wheels of language."--Maunder cor. "The conditions or tenor of none of them appears at this day." Or: "The tenor or conditions of none of them appear at this day."-- Hutchinson cor. "Neither men nor money was wanting for the service." Or: "Neither money nor men were wanting for the service."--Id. "Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, requires emphatic distinction to be frequent."--Dr. Barber cor. "Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature, is uppermost: now I am for the latter part of the disjunction."--Collier cor. "Their riches or poverty is generally proportioned to their activity or indolence."--Cox cor. "Concerning the other part of him, neither he nor you seem to have entertained an idea."--Horne cor. "Whose earnings or income is so small."--''Discip. cor. "Neither riches nor fame renders a man happy."--Day cor. "The references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key is'' mentioned." Or, better:--"unless mention is made of the Exercises or Key." Or: "unless the Exercises or Key be named."--L. Murray cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--COMPLETE THE CONCORD.

"My lord, you wrong my father; neither is he, nor am I, capable of harbouring a thought against your peace."--Walpole cor. "There was no division of acts; there were no pauses, or intervals, in the performance; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or by the chorus."--Dr. Blair cor. "Every word ending in b, p, or f, is of this order, as also are many that end in v."--Dr. Murray cor. "Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more