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CHAPTER XII.--GENERAL REVIEW.

CORRECTIONS UNDER ALL THE PRECEDING RULES AND NOTES.

LESSON I.--ARTICLES.

"And they took stones, and made a heap."--ALGER'S BIBLE: Gen., xxxi, 46. "And I do know many fools, that stand in better place."--''Shak. cor. "It is a strong antidote to the turbulence of passion, and the violence of pursuit."--Kames cor. "The word NEWS may admit of either a singular or a plural application."--Wright cor. "He has gained a fair and honourable reputation."--Id. "There are two general forms, called the solemn and the'' familiar style." Or:--"called the solemn and familiar styles."--Sanborn cor. "Neither the article nor the preposition can be omitted."--Wright cor. "A close union is also observable between the subjunctive and the potential mood."--Id. "Should we render service equally to a friend, a neighbour, and an enemy?"--Id. "Till a habit is obtained, of aspirating strongly."--Sheridan cor. "There is a uniform, steady use of the same signs."--Id. "A traveller remarks most of the objects which he sees."--Jamieson cor. "What is the name of the river on which London stands? Thames."--G. B. "We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or a triplet stretched out to twelve syllables."--Adam cor. "The nouns which follow active verbs, are not in the nominative case."--David Blair cor. "It is a solemn duty to speak plainly of the wrongs which good men perpetrate."--Channing cor. "The gathering of riches is a pleasant torment."--L. Cobb cor. "It is worth being quoted." Or better: "It is worth quoting."--Coleridge cor. "COUNCIL is a noun which admits of a singular and a plural form."--Wright cor. "To exhibit the connexion between the Old Testament and the New."--Keith cor. "An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or of letters."--Guy cor. "He is immediately ordained, or rather acknowledged, a hero."--Pope cor. "Which is the same in both the leading and the following state."--Brightland cor. "Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have three distinct cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--D. Blair cor. "A word of many syllables is called a polysyllable."--Beck cor. "Nouns have two numbers; the singular and the plural."--Id. "They have three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."--Id. "They have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Id. "Personal pronouns have, like nouns, two numbers; the singular and the plural;--three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter;--three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."--Id. "He must be wise enough to know the singular from the plural"--Id. "Though they may be able to meet every reproach which any one of their fellows may prefer."--Chalmers cor. "Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such a one as Paul the aged."--Bible cor.; also Webster. "A people that jeoparded their lives unto death."--Bible cor. "By preventing too great an accumulation of seed within too narrow a compass."--The Friend cor. "Who fills up the middle space between the animal and the intellectual nature, the visible and the invisible world."--Addison cor. "The Psalms abound with instances of the harmonious arrangement of words."--Murray cor. "On an other table, were a ewer and a vase, likewise of gold."--Mirror cor. "TH is said to have two sounds, a sharp and a flat."--Wilson cor. "The SECTION (§) is sometimes used in the subdividing of a chapter into lesser parts."--Brightland cor. "Try it in a dog, or a horse, or any other creature."--Locke cor. "But particularly in the learning of languages, there is the least occasion to pose children."--Id. "Of what kind is the noun RIVER, and why?"--R. C. Smith cor. "Is WILLIAM'S a proper or a common noun?"--Id. "What kind of article, then, shall we call the?" Or better: "What then shall we call the article the?"--Id. "Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write,   Or with a rival's, or a eunuch's spite."--Pope cor.

LESSON II.--NOUNS, OR CASES.

"And there are stamped upon their imaginations ideas that follow them with terror and affright."--Locke cor. "There's not a wretch that lives on common charity, but's happier than I."--''Ven. Pres. cor. "But they overwhelm every one who is ignorant of them."--H. Mann cor. "I have received a letter from my cousin, her that was here last week."--Inst.'', p. 129. "Gentlemen's houses are seldom without variety of company."--Locke cor. "Because Fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their masters' feet."--Id. "We blamed neither John's nor Mary's delay."--Nixon cor. "The book was written by order of Luther the reformer."--Id. "I saw on the table of the saloon Blair's sermons, and somebody's else, (I forget whose,) and [about the room] a set of noisy children."--Byron cor. "Or saith he it altogether for our sake?"--Bible cor. "He was not aware that the Duke was his competitor."--Sanborn cor. "It is no condition of an adjective, that the word must be placed before a noun." Or: "It is no condition on which a word becomes an adjective, that it must be placed before a noun."--Id., and Fowle cor. "Though their reason corrected the wrong ideas which they had taken in."--Locke cor. "It was he that taught me to hate slavery."--Morris cor. "It is he and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others."--Id. "Payment of tribute is an acknowledgement of him as being King--(of him as King--or, that he is King--) to whom we think it due."--C. Leslie cor. "When we comprehend what is taught us."--Ingersoll cor. "The following words, and parts of words, must be noticed."--Priestley cor. "Hence tears and commiseration are so often employed."--Dr. H. Blair cor. "JOHN-A-NOKES, n. A fictitious name used in law proceedings."--A. Chalmers cor. "The construction of words denoting matter, and the part grasped."--B. F. Fisk cor. "And such