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UNDER NOTE III.--CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.

"An allegory is a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying of only one thing, when we have two in view."--''Phil. Mu. cor. "A verb may generally be distinguished by the sense which it makes with any of the personal pronouns, or with the word TO, before it."--Murray et al. cor. "A noun may in general be distinguished by the article which comes before it, or by the sense which it makes of itself."--Merchant et al. cor. "An adjective may usually be known by the sense which it makes with the word thing; as, a good thing, a bad thing."--Iid. "It is seen to be in the objective case, because it denotes the object affected by the act of leaving."--O. B. Peirce cor. "It is seen to be in the possessive case, because it denotes the possessor of something."--Id. "The noun MAN is caused by the adjective WHATEVER to seem like a twofold nominative, as if it denoted, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks."--Id. "WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, because it joins that line to the other part of the sentence."--Id. "Because they denote reciprocation."--Id. "To allow them to make use of that liberty;"--"To allow them to use that liberty;"--or, "To allow them that liberty."--Sale cor. "The worst effect of it is, that it fixes on your mind a habit of indecision."--Todd cor. "And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that you have not power to shake it off."--Id. "I know of nothing that can justify the student in having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer."--Coleridge cor. "Humour is the conceit of making others act or talk absurdly."--Hazlitt cor. "There are remarkable instances in which they do not affect each other."--Bp. Butler cor. "That Cæsar was left out of the commission, was not from any slight."--Life cor. "Of the thankful reception of this toleration, I shall say no more," Or: "Of the propriety of receiving this toleration thankfully, I shall say no more."--Dryden cor. "Henrietta was delighted with Julia's skill in working lace."--O. B. Peirce cor. "And it is because each of them represents two different words, that the confusion has arisen."--Booth cor. "Æschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's dropping of'' a tortoise on his head." Or:--"caused by a tortoise which an eagle let fall on his head."--''Biog. Dict. cor. "He doubted whether they had it."--Felch cor. "To make ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech."--Sheridan cor. "One cannot discover in their countenances any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart."--Id. "Nothing can be more common or less proper, than to speak of a river as emptying itself."--Campbell cor. "Our non-use of the former expression, is owing to this."--Bullions cor.''

UNDER NOTE IV.--DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.

"To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying-down of the method of the discourse."--Dr. Blair cor. "To the pulling-down of strong holds."--Bible cor. "Can a mere buckling-on of a military weapon infuse courage?"--Dr. Brown cor. "Expensive and luxurious living destroys health."--L. Murray cor. "By frugal and temperate living, health is preserved." Or: "By living frugally and temperately, we preserve our health."--Id. "By the doing-away of the necessity."--The Friend cor. "He recommended to them, however, the immediate calling of--(or, immediately to call--) the whole community to the church."--Gregory cor. "The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly facilitates the right reading of them."--Churchill cor. "From their mere admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."--''Phil. Mu. cor. "His grave lecturing of his friend about it."--Id. "For the blotting-out of sin."--Gurney cor. "From the not-using of water."-- Barclay cor. "By the gentle dropping-in of a pebble."--Sheridan cor. "To the carrying-on of a great part of that general course of nature."--Bp. Butler cor. "Then the not-interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint."--Id. "The bare omission, (or rather, the not-employing,) of what is used."--Campbell and Jamieson cor. "The bringing-together of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."-- Churchill cor. "This is a presumptive proof that it does not proceed from them."--Bp. Butler cor. "It represents him in a character to which any injustice is peculiarly unsuitable."--Campbell cor. "They will aim at something higher than a mere dealing-out of harmonious sounds."-- Kirkham cor. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and any further account of the matter seems beyond the reach of our faculties."--Bp. Butler cor. "Apostrophe is a turning-off from the regular course of the subject."--Mur. et al. cor. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending-out of a commission to investigate his conduct."--Life of Columbus cor. "For the turning-away of the simple shall slay them."--Bible cor.'' "Thick fingers always should command   Without extension of the hand."--King cor.

UNDER NOTE V.--OF PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.

"Is there any Scripture which speaks of the light as being inward?"--Barclay cor. "For I believe not positiveness therein essential to salvation."--Id. "Our inability to act a uniformly right part without some thought and care."--''Bp. Butler cor. "On the supposition that it is reconcilable with the constitution of nature."--Id. "On the ground that it is not discoverable by reason or experience."--Id. "On the ground that they are unlike the known course of nature."--Id. "Our power to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."--Id. "From its lack of universality."--Id. "That they may be turned into passive participles in dus, is no decisive argument to prove them passive."--Grant cor. "With the implied idea that St. Paul was then absent from the Corinthians."--Kirkham cor. "Because it becomes gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence."--Id. "Not without the author's full knowledge''."