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UNDER NOTE X.--THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.

"This would make it impossible for a noun, or any other word, ever to be in the possessive case."--O. B. Peirce cor. "A great part of our pleasure arises from finding the plan or story well conducted."--Dr. Blair cor. "And we have no reason to wonder that this was the case."--Id. "She objected only, (as Cicero says,) to Oppianicus as having two sons by his present wife."--Id. "The subjugation of the Britons by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their calling of these Saxons to their assistance."--Id. "What he had there said concerning the Saxons, that they expelled the Britons, and changed the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and a good reason why our present language is Saxon, rather than British."--Id. "The only material difference between them, except that the one is short and the other more prolonged, is, that a metaphor is always explained by the words that are connected with it."--''Id. et Mur. cor. "The description of Death, advancing to meet Satan on his arrival."--Rush cor. "Is not the bare fact, that God is the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?"--Chalmers cor. "As in the case of one who is entering upon a new study."--Beattie cor. "The manner in which these affect the copula, is called the imperative mood."--Wilkins cor. "We are freed from the trouble, because our nouns have scarcely any diversity of endings."--Buchanan cor. "The verb is rather indicative of the action as being doing, or done, than of the time of the event; but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable."--Booth cor. "Nobody would doubt that this is a sufficient proof."--Campbell cor. "Against the doctrine here maintained, that conscience as well as reason, is a natural faculty."--Beattie cor. "It is one cause why the Greek and English languages are much more easy to learn, than the Latin."--Bucke cor. "I have not been able to make out a solitary instance in which such has been the fact."--Lib. cor. "An angel, forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king's condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror."--Wood cor. "The prisoners, in attempting to escape, aroused the keepers."--O. B. Peirce cor. "I doubt not, in the least, that this has been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world."--Dr. Blair cor. "From the general rule he lays down, that the verb is the parent word of all language."--Tooke cor.'' "He was accused of being idle." Or: "He was accused of idleness."--Felch cor. "Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him for so removing." Or: "with the circumstances of his removal."--Edmondson cor. "The spectacle is too rare, of men deserving solid fame while not seeking it."--Bush cor. "What further need was there that an other priest should rise?"--Heb., vii, 11.

UNDER NOTE XI.--REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.

"Viewing them separately, we experience different emotions." Or: "Viewed separately, they produce different emotions."--Kames cor. "But, this being left doubtful, an other objection occurs."--Id. "As he proceeded from one particular to an other, the subject grew under his hand."--Id. "But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain is broken."--Id. "After some days' hunting,--(or, After some days spent in hunting,)--Cyrus communicated his design to his officers."--Rollin cor. "But it is made, without the appearance of being made in form."--Dr. Blair cor. "These would have had a better effect, had they been disjoined, thus."--Blair and Murray cor. "In an improper diphthong, but one of the vowels is sounded."--Murray, Alger, et al. cor. "And I being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady."--''Blair, Mur., and Jam. cor. "By often doing the same thing, we make the action'' habitual." Or: "What is often done, becomes habitual."--L. Murray cor. "They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when we are surrounded with friends and cheerful society."--Id. "Besides showing what is right, one may further explain the matter by pointing out what is wrong."--Lowth cor. "The former teaches the true pronunciation of words, and comprises accent, quantity, emphasis, pauses, and tones."--L. Murray cor. "A person may reprove others for their negligence, by saying, 'You have taken great care indeed.'"--Id. "The word preceding and the word following it, are in apposition to each other."--Id. "He having finished his speech, the assembly dispersed."--Cooper cor. "Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of allowing it to do."--Kirkham cor. "The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, which only deprived them of his assistance."--Kames cor. "Taking them as nouns, we may explain this construction thus."--Grant cor. "These have an active signification, except those which come from neuter verbs."--Id. "From its evidence not being universal." Or: "From the fact that its evidence is not universal."--''Bp. Butler cor. "And this faith will continually grow, as we acquaint ourselves with our own nature."--Channing cor. "Monosyllables ending with any consonant but f, l, or s, never double the final consonant, when it is preceded by a single vowel; except add, ebb," &c.--Kirkham's Gram.'', p. 23. Or: "Words ending with any consonant except f, l, or s, do not double the final letter. Exceptions. Add, ebb, &c."--Bullions's E. Gram., p. 3. (See my 2d Rule for Spelling, of which this is a partial copy.) "The relation of Maria as being the object of the action, is expressed by the change of the noun Maria to Mariam;" [i. e., in the Latin language.]--Booth cor. "In analyzing a proposition, one must first divide it into its logical subject and predicate."--Andrews and Stoddard cor. "In analyzing a simple sentence, one should first resolve it into its logical subject and logical predicate."--Wells cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.--OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.

"The instant discovery of passions at their birth, is essential to our well-being."--Kames cor. "I am now to enter on a consideration of the sources of the pleasures of taste."--Blair cor. "The