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 same principle that is applied to the errors preceding them."--Murray and Ingersoll cor. "The brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted till Rome was taken by the Goths."--Gould cor. "The introduction to the duodecimo edition is retained in this volume, for the same reason for which the original introduction to the Grammar is retained in the first volume."--L. Murray cor. "The verb must also agree in person with its subject or nominative."--Ingersoll cor. "The personal pronoun 'THEIR' is plural for the same reason for which 'WHO' is plural."--Id. "The Sabellians could not justly be called Patripassians, in the same sense in which the Noëtians were so called."--R. Adam cor. "This is one reason why we pass over such smooth language without suspecting that it contains little or no meaning."--L. Murray cor. "The first place at which the two armies came within sight of each other, was on the opposite banks of the river Apsus."--Goldsmith cor. "At the very time at which the author gave him the first book for his perusal."--Campbell cor. "Peter will sup at the time at which Paul will dine."--Fosdick cor. "Peter will be supping when Paul will enter."--Id. "These, while they may serve as models to those who may wish to imitate them, will give me an opportunity to cast more light upon the principles of this book."--Id.  "Time was, like thee, they life possess'd, And time shall be, when thou shalt rest."--Parnell cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.

"Our manners should be neither gross nor excessively refined."--Murray's Key, ii, 165. "A neuter verb expresses neither action nor passion, but being, or a state of being."--O. B. Peirce cor. "The old books are neither English grammars, nor in any sense grammars of the English language."--Id. "The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet so accurate and so much simplified as it may be."--Kirkham cor. "The writer could not treat some topics so extensively as [it] was desirable [to treat them]."--Id. "Which would be a matter of such nicety, that no degree of human wisdom could regulate it."--L. Murray cor. "No undertaking is so great or difficult, that he cannot direct it."--Duncan cor. "It is a good which depends neither on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune."--Harris cor. "Not only his estate, but his reputation too, has suffered by his misconduct."--Murray and Ingersoll cor. "Neither do they extend so far as might be imagined at first view."--Dr. Blair cor. "There is no language so poor, but that it has (or, as not to have) two or three past tenses."--''Id. "So far as this system is founded in truth, language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin."--Id. "I have not such'' command of these convulsions as is necessary." Or: "I have not that command of these convulsions which is necessary."--''Spect. cor. "Conversation with such as (or, those who) know no arts that polish life."--Id. "And which cannot be either very lively or very forcible."--Jamieson cor. "To such a degree as to give proper names to rivers."--Dr. Murray cor. "In the utter overthrow of such as hate to be reformed."--Barclay cor. "But still so much of it is retained, that it greatly injures the uniformity of the whole."--Priestley cor. "Some of them have gone to such a height of extravagance, as to assert," &c.--Id. "A teacher is confined, not more than a merchant, and probably not so much."--Abbott cor. "It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor'' in the world to come." Or: "It shall not be forgiven him, either in this world, or in the world to come."--Bible cor. "Which nobody presumes, or is so sanguine as to hope."--Swift cor. "For the torrent of the voice left neither time, nor power in the organs, to shape the words properly."--Sheridan cor. "That he may neither unnecessarily waste his voice by throwing out too much, nor diminish his power by using too little."--Id. "I have retained only such as appear most agreeable to the measures of analogy."--Littleton cor. "He is a man both prudent and industrious."--P. E. Day cor. "Conjunctions connect either words or sentences."--Brown's Inst., p. 169. "Such silly girls as love to chat and play,    Deserve no care; their time is thrown away."--Tobitt cor.

"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,   That to be hated she but needs be seen."--Pope cor.

"Justice must punish the rebellious deed;   Yet punish so that pity shall exceed."--Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--IMPROPER ELLIPSES.

"THAT, WHOSE, and AS, relate either to persons or to things." Or better:--"relate as well to persons as to things."--Sanborn cor. "WHICH and WHAT, as adjectives, relate either to persons or to things." Or better:--"relate to persons as well as to things."--Id. "Whether of a public or of a private nature."--J. Q. Adams cor. "Which are included among both the public and the private wrongs."--Id. "I might extract, both from the Old and from the New Testament, numberless examples of induction."--Id. "Many verbs are used both in an active and in a neuter signification." Or thus: "Many verbs are used in both an active and a neuter signification."--Lowth, Mur., et al., cor. "Its influence is likely to be considerable, both on the morals and on the taste of a nation."--Dr. Blair cor. "The subject afforded a variety of scenes, both of the awful and of the tender kind."--Id. "Restlessness of mind disqualifies us both for the enjoyment of peace, and for the performance of our duty."--''Mur. and Ing. cor. "Pronominal adjectives are of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and of adjectives."--Mur. et al. cor. "Pronominal adjectives have the nature both of the adjective and of the pronoun."--Frost cor. Or: "[Pronominal adjectives] partake of the properties of both adjectives and pronouns."--Bucke's''