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 Gram., p. 55. "Pronominal adjectives are a kind of compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of pronouns and of adjectives."--Nutting cor. "Nouns are used either in the singular or in the plural number." Or perhaps better: "Nouns are used in either the singular or the plural number."--David Blair cor. "The question is not, whether the nominative or the accusative ought to follow the particles THAN and AS; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to be regarded as conjunctions or as prepositions"--Campbell cor. "In English, many verbs are used both as transitives and as intransitives."--Churchill cor. "He sendeth rain both on the just and on the unjust."--See Matt., v, 45. "A foot consists either of two or of three syllables."--David Blair cor. "Because they participate the nature both of adverbs and of conjunctions."--L. Murray cor. "Surely, Romans, what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted, nor to pass without notice."--Duncan cor. "Their language frequently amounts, not only to bad sense, but to nonsense."--Kirkham cor. "Hence arises the necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and for the exerting, of his nobler faculties."--Sheridan cor. "Whether the subject be of the real or of the feigned kind."--Dr. H. Blair cor. "Not only was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power was felt in its heaviest and most oppressive weight."--Id. "This rule is also applicable both to verbal Critics and to Grammarians."--Hiley cor. "Both the rules and the exceptions of a language must have obtained the sanction of good usage."--Id.

CHAPTER X.--PREPOSITIONS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXIII.

UNDER NOTE I.--CHOICE OF PREPOSITIONS.

"You have bestowed your favours upon the most deserving persons."--Swift corrected. "But, to rise above that, and overtop the crowd, is given to few."--Dr. Blair cor. "This [also is a good] sentence [, and] gives occasion for no material remark."--Blair's Rhet., p. 203. "Though Cicero endeavours to give some reputation to the elder Cato, and those who were his contemporaries." Or:--"to give some favourable account of the elder Cato," &c.--Dr. Blair cor. "The change that was produced in eloquence, is beautifully described in the dialogue."--Id. "Without carefully attending to the variation which they make in the idea."--Id. "All on a sudden, you are transported into a lofty palace."--Hazlitt cor. "Alike independent of one an other." Or: "Alike independent one of an other."--Campbell cor. "You will not think of them as distinct processes going on independently of each other."--Channing cor. "Though we say to depend on, dependent on, and dependence on, we say, independent of, and independently of."--Churchill cor. "Independently of the rest of the sentence."--Lowth's Gram., p. 80; Buchanan's, 83; Bullions's, 110; Churchill's, 348.[545] "Because they stand independent of the rest of the sentence."--Allen Fisk cor. "When a substantive is joined with a participle, in English, independently of the rest of the sentence."--Dr. Adam cor. "CONJUNCTION comes from the two Latin words con, together, and jungo, to join."--Merchant cor. "How different from this is the life of Fulvia!"--Addison cor. "LOVED is a participle or adjective, derived from the word love."--Ash cor. "But I would inquire of him, what an office is."--Barclay cor. "For the capacity is brought into action."--Id. "In this period, language and taste arrive at purity."--Webster cor. "And, should you not aspire to (or after) distinction in the republic of letters."--Kirkham cor. "Delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons."--Luke, xxi, 12. "He that is kept from falling into a ditch, is as truly saved, as he that is taken out of one."--Barclay cor. "The best of it is, they are but a sort of French Hugonots."--Addison cor. "These last ten examples are indeed of a different nature from the former."--R. Johnson cor. "For the initiation of students into the principles of the English language."--''Ann. Rev. cor. "Richelieu profited by every circumstance which the conjuncture afforded."--Bolingbroke cor. "In the names of drugs and plants, the mistake of a word may endanger life."--Merchant's Key'', p. 185. Or better: "In naming drugs or plants, to mistake a word, may endanger life."--L. Murray cor. "In order to the carrying of its several parts into execution."--''Bp. Butler cor. "His abhorrence of the superstitious figure."--Priestley. "Thy prejudice against my cause."--Id. "Which is found in every species of liberty."--Hume cor. "In a hilly region on the north of Jericho."--Milman cor. "Two or more singular nouns coupled by AND require a verb or pronoun in the plural."--Lennie cor.'' "Books should to one of these four ends conduce,   To wisdom, piety, delight, or use."--Denham cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--TWO OBJECTS OR MORE.

"The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarrelled among themselves for precedence."--''Const. Misc. cor. "The distinctions among the principal parts of speech are founded in nature."--Webster cor. "I think I now understand the difference between the active verbs and those which are passive or neuter."--Ingersoll cor. "Thus a figure including a space within three lines, is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle."--Locke cor.'' "We must distinguish between