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 an imperfect phrase and a simple sentence, and between a simple sentence and a compound sentence."--Lowth, Murray, et al., cor. "The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law to exercise usury towards one an other."--Sale cor. "All the writers have distinguished themselves among themselves."--Addison cor. "This expression also better secures the systematic uniformity of the three cases."--Nutting cor. "When two or more infinitives or clauses are connected disjunctively as the subjects of an affirmation, the verb must be singular."--Jaudon cor. "Several nouns or pronouns together in the same case, require a comma after each; [except the last, which must sometimes be followed by a greater point.]"--David Blair cor. "The difference between one vowel and an other is produced by opening the mouth differently, and placing the tongue in a different manner for each."--Churchill cor. "Thus feet composed of syllables, being pronounced with a sensible interval between one foot and an other, make a more lively impression than can be made by a continued sound."--Kames cor. "The superlative degree implies a comparison, sometimes between two, but generally among three or more."--R. C. Smith cor. "They are used to mark a distinction among several objects."--Lévizac cor.

UNDER NOTE III.--OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.

"This would have been less worthy of notice."--Churchill cor. "But I passed it, as a thing unworthy of my notice."--Werter cor. "Which, in compliment to me, perhaps you may one day think worthy of your attention."--Bucke cor. "To think this small present worthy of an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment."--Id. "There are but a few miles of portage."--Jefferson cor. "It is worthy of notice, that our mountains are not solitary."--Id. "It is about one hundred feet in diameter." [546]--Id. "Entering a hill a quarter or half of a mile."--Id. "And herself seems passing to an awful dissolution, whose issue it is not given to human foresight to scan."--Id. "It was of a spheroidical form, about forty feet in diameter at the base, and had been about twelve feet in altitude."--Id. "Before this, it was covered with trees of twelve inches in diameter; and, round the base, there was an excavation of five feet in depth and five in width."--Id. "Then thou mayst eat grapes to thy fill, at thine own pleasure."--Bible cor. "Then he brought me back by the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary."--Id. "They will bless God, that he has peopled one half of the world with a race of freemen."--Webster cor. "Of what use can these words be, till their meaning is known?"--Town cor. "The tents of the Arabs now are black, or of a very dark colour."--The Friend cor. "They may not be unworthy of the attention of young men."--Kirkham cor. "The pronoun THAT is frequently applied to persons as well as to things."--Merchant cor. "And who is in the same case that man is in."--Sanborn cor. "He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet in diameter."--The Friend cor. "Pliny informs us, that this stone was of the size of a cart."--Id. "Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled from Rome."--L'Estrange cor. "I was prevented from reading a letter which would have undeceived me."--Hawkesworth cor. "If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned for the inaccuracy of its demonstration."--Booth cor. "The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but of effeminacy."--Dr. Brown cor. "Afraid of the virtue of a nation in its opposing of bad measures:" or,--"in its opposition to bad measures."--Id. "The uniting of them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy."--Gardiner cor. "I might be excused from taking any more notice of it."--Watson cor. "Watch therefore; for ye know not at what hour your Lord will come."--Bible cor. "Here, not even infants were spared from the sword."--M'Ilvaine cor. "To prevent men from turning aside to false modes of worship."--John Allen cor. "God expelled them from the garden of Eden."--Burder cor. "Nor could he refrain from expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind."--Hume cor. "Who now so strenuously opposes the granting to him of any new powers."--Duncan cor. "That the laws of the censors have banished him from the forum."--Id. "We read not that he was degraded from his office in any other way."--Barclay cor. "To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting."--Hutchinson cor. "On the 1st of August, 1834."--Brit. Parl. cor.  "Whether you had not some time in your life Err'd in this point on which you censure him."--Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.--OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.

"And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter."--Barclay cor.; also Acts. "Adjectives, in our language, have neither case, nor gender, nor number; the only variation they have, is comparison."--Buchanan cor. "'It is to you that I am indebted for this privilege;' that is, 'To you am I indebted;' or, 'It is you to whom I am indebted.'"--Sanborn cor. "BOOKS is a common noun, of the third person, plural number, and neuter gender."--Ingersoll cor. "BROTHER'S is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case."--L. Murray cor. "VIRTUE'S is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, [neuter gender,] and possessive case."--Id. "When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is vain to oppose the prevailing usage."--Campbell and Murray cor. "A captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering Rome."--Collier cor. "And, notwithstanding its verbal power, we have added the TO and other signs of exertion."--Booth cor. "Some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the noun, in stead of separate