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 absurd than is the general system of human life and human knowledge."--Bolingbroke cor. "By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we are cleansed."--Barclay cor. "And those were already converted, and regeneration was begun in them."--Id. "For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."--Bible cor. "Who is my mother? or who are my brethren?"--See Matt., xii, 48. "Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor are the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering."--Bible cor. "Information has been obtained, and some trials have been made."--Martineau cor. "It is as obvious, and its causes are more easily understood."--Webster cor. "All languages furnish examples of this kind, and the English contains as many as any other."--Priestley cor. "The winters are long, and the cold is intense."--Morse cor. "How have I hated instruction, and how hath my heart despised reproof!"--Prov. cor. "The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of Vesta was extinguished."--Lempriere cor. "Riches beget pride; pride begets impatience."--Bullions cor. "Grammar is not reasoning, any more than organization is thought, or letters are sounds."--Enclytica cor. "Words are implements, and grammar is a machine."--Id.

UNDER NOTE III.--PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.

"Thou or I must undertake the business."--L. Murray cor. "He and I were there."--Ash cor. "And we dreamed a dream in one night, he and I."--Bible cor. "If my views remain the same as his and mine were in 1833."--Goodell cor. "My father and I were riding out."--Inst., Key, p. 273. "The premiums were given to George and me."--Ib. "Jane and I are invited."--Ib. "They ought to invite my sister and me."--Ib. "You and I intend to go."--Guy cor. "John and I are going to town."--''Brit. Gram. cor. "He and I are sick."--James Brown cor. "Thou and I are well."--Id. "He and I are."--Id. "Thou and I are."--Id. "He, and I write."--Id. "They and I are well."--Id. "She, and thou, and I, were walking."--Id.''

UNDER NOTE IV.--DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.

"To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, is great injustice."--Inst., Key, p. 273. "To reveal secrets, or to betray one's friends, is contemptible perfidy."--Id. "To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude capitals from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought an offence too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something."--Dr. Barrow cor. "To live in such families, or to have such servants, is a blessing from God."--''Fam. Com. cor. "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, is'' utterly unknown." Or: "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, and what wars they maintained, are things utterly unknown."--Goldsmith cor. "To speak or to write perspicuously and agreeably, is an attainment of the utmost consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or by writing, to address the public."--Dr. Blair cor.

UNDER NOTE V.--MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.

"Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?"--Bible cor. "Did he not fear the Lord, and beseech the Lord, and did not the Lord repent of the evil which he had pronounced?"--Id. "And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgement with thee?"--Id. "If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain."--Id. "If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one an other."--Id. "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee, become poor, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant."--Id. "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee," &c.--Id. "Anthea was content to call a coach, and so to cross the brook." Or:--"and in that she crossed the brook."--Johnson cor. "It is either totally suppressed, or manifested only in its lowest and most imperfect form."--Blair cor. "But if any man is a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." Or: "If any man be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him will he hear."--Bible cor. "Whereby his righteousness and obedience, death and sufferings without, become profitable unto us, and are made ours."--Barclay cor. "Who ought to have been here before thee, and to have objected, if they had any thing against me."--Bible cor. "Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see,   That man has yet a soul, and dares be free."--Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.--USE SEPARATE NOMINATIVES.

"H is only an aspiration, or breathing; and sometimes, at the beginning of a word, it is not sounded at all."--Lowth cor. "Man was made for society, and he ought to extend his good will to all men."--Id. "There is, and must be, a Supreme Being, of infinite goodness, power, and wisdom, who created, and who supports them."--Beattie cor. "Were you not affrighted, and did you not mistake a spirit for a body?"--''Bp. Watson cor. "The latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction than or as, but it either agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood."--Mur. et al. cor. "He had mistaken his true interest, and he found himself forsaken."--Murray cor. "The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and it saved the patient's life."--Id. "The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might have been, and probably they were, good."--Id. "This may be true, and yet it will not justify the practice."--Webster cor.'' "From the practice of those who have had a