UNDER NOTE III.--CHOICE OF FORMS.
"But some degree of trouble is the portion _of all men_."--_L. Murray et al. cor._ "With the names _of his father and mother_ upon the blank leaf."--_Abbott cor._ "The general, in the name _of the army_, published a declaration."--_Hume cor._ "The vote _of the Commons_."--_Id._ "The _House of Lords_."--_Id._ "A collection of _the faults of writers_;"--or, "A collection _of literary faults_."--_Swift cor._ "After ten _years of_ wars."--_Id._ "Professing his detestation of such practices as _those of_ his predecessors."--_Pope cor._ "By that time I shall have ended my _year of_ office."--_W. Walker cor._ "For the sake _of Herodias_, the wife of _his brother Philip_."--_Bible and Mur. cor._ "I endure all things for _the sake of the elect_, that they may also obtain salvation."--_Bibles cor._ "He was _heir to the son of_ Louis the Sixteenth."--_W. Allen_. "The throne we honour is the _people's choice_."--_Rolla_. "An account of the proceedings of _Alexander's court_."--_Inst._ "An excellent tutor _for the child of a person of fashion_!"--_Gil Blas cor._ "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the _Bishop's_ is, itself, ungrammatical."--_Cobbett cor._ "The troops broke into the palace _of_ the _Emperor_ Leopold."--_Nixon cor._ "The meeting was called by desire _of_ Eldon the _Judge_."--_Id._ "The occupation _of Peter, John_, and _Andrew_, was that of fishermen."--_Murray's Key_, R. 10. "The _debility of_ the venerable president of the Royal _Academy_, has lately increased."--_Maunder cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.
"God hath not given us our _reason_ to no purpose."--_Barclay cor._ "For our _sake_, no doubt, this is written."--_Bible cor._ "Are not health and strength of body desirable for their own _sake_?"--_Harris and Murray cor._ "Some sailors who were boiling their _dinner_ upon the shore."--_Day cor._ "And they, in their _turn_, were subdued by others."--_Pinnock cor._ "Industry on our _part_ is not superseded by God's grace."--_Arrowsmith cor._ "Their _health_ perhaps may be pretty well secured."--_Locke cor._ "Though he was rich, yet for _your sake_ he became poor."--See _2 Cor._, viii, 9. "It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their _part_."--_Harris cor._ "The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being most exact to their _word_, and respctful to their kindred."--_Sale cor._ "That is, as a reward of some exertion on our _part_."--_Gurney cor._ "So that it went ill with Moses for their _sake_."--_Ps. cor._ "All liars shall have their _part_ in the burning lake."--_Watts cor._ "For our own _sake_ as well as for thine."--_Pref. to Waller cor._ "By discovering their _ability_ to detect and amend errors."--_L. Murray cor._
"This world I do renounce; and, in your _sight_, Shake patiently my great affliction off."--_Shak. cor._
"If your relenting _anger_ yield to treat, Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet."--_Rowe cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.
"This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the prejudice."--_Smith cor._ "And the notice which they give of an _action as_ being completed or not completed."--_L. Mur. et al. cor._ "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents _it from_ taking place."--_Priestley and A.
Mur. cor._ "They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the seeking of the Spirit."--_The Friend cor._ "Here then is a wide field for _reason to exert_ its powers in relation to the objects of taste."--_Dr.
Blair cor._ "Now this they derive altogether from their greater capacity of imitation and description."--_Id._ "This is one clear reason _why they paid_ a greater attention to that construction."--_Id._ "The dialogue part had also a modulation of its own, which was capable of being set to notes."--_Id._ "_Why are we so often_ frigid and unpersuasive in public discourse?"--_Id._ "Which is only a preparation for leading his forces directly upon us."--_Id._ "The nonsense about _which, as_ relating to things only, and having no declension, needs no refutation."--_Fowle cor._ "Who, upon breaking it open, found nothing but the following inscription."--_Rollin cor._ "A prince will quickly have reason to repent _of_ having exalted one person so high."--_Id._ "Notwithstanding _it is_ the immediate subject of his discourse."--_Churchill cor._ "With our definition of _it, as_ being synonymous with _time_."--_Booth cor._ "It will considerably increase _our danger of_ being deceived."--_Campbell cor._ "His beauties can never be mentioned without suggesting his blemishes also."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "No example has ever been adduced, of a _man_ conscientiously approving an action, because of its badness." Or:--"of a _man who_ conscientiously _approved_ of an action because of its badness."--_Gurney cor._ "The last episode, of the _angel_ showing to Adam the fate of his posterity, is happily imagined."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "And the news came to my son, _that he_ and the bride _were_ in Dublin."--_M.
Edgeworth cor._ "There is no room for the _mind to exert_ any great effort."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "One would imagine, that these _critics_ never so much as heard _that Homer wrote_ first."--_Pope cor._ "Condemn the book, for not being a geography;" or,--"_because it is not_ a geography."--_Peirce cor._ "There will be in many words a transition from being the figurative to being the proper signs of certain ideas."--_Campbell cor._ "The doctrine _that the Pope is_ the only source of ecclesiastical power."--_Rel. World cor._ "This _was_ the more expedient, _because_ the work _was_ designed for the benefit of private learners."--_L. Murray cor._ "This was _done, because_ the _Grammar, being already in type, did not admit_ of enlargement."--_Id._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE V; OF OBJECTIVES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE OBJECTIVE FORM.
"_Whom_ should I meet the other day but my old friend!"--_Spect. cor._ "Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but _him_ that takes it off."--_Barclay cor._ "Let none touch it, but _them_ who are clean."--_Sale cor._ "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and _them_ that dwell therein."--_Ps. cor._ "Pray be private, and careful _whom_ you trust."--_Mrs. Goffe cor._ "How shall the people know _whom_ to entrust with their property and their liberties?"--_J. O. Taylor cor._ "The chaplain entreated my comrade and _me_ to dress as well as possible."--_World cor._ "And _him_ that cometh _to_ me, I will in no wise cast out."--_John_, vi, 37. "_Whom_, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke."--_Hope of Is. cor._ "Whoever or whatever owes us, is Debtor; _and whomever_ or whatever we owe, is Creditor."--_Marsh cor._ "Declaring the curricle was his, and he should have _in it whom_ he chose."--_A. Ross cor._ "The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries, _whom_ we can rank as a first-rate orator."--_Knickerb. cor._ "Thus you see, how naturally the Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the _Messalinas_ of our time."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "They would find in the Roman list both the _Scipios_."--_Id._ "He found his wife's clothes on fire, and _her_ just expiring."--_Observer cor._ "To present _you_ holy, and _unblamable_, and _unreprovable_ in his sight."--_Colossians_, i, 22. "Let the distributer do his duty with simplicity; the superintendent, with diligence; _him_ who performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness."--_Stuart cor._ "If the crew rail at the master of the vessel, _whom_ will they mind?"--_Collier cor._ "He having none but them, they having none but him"--_Drayton cor._
"Thee, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain."--_Burns cor._
"_Nor weens he who it is, whose charms consume_ _His longing soul_, but loves he knows not _whom_"--_Addison cor._
UNDER NOTE I.--OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.
"When it gives that sense, and also connects _sentences_, it is a conjunction."--_L. Murray cor._ "Though thou wilt not acknowledge _thyself to--be guilty_, thou canst not deny the fact _stated_."--_Id._ "They specify _some object_, like many other adjectives, and _also_ connect sentences."--_Kirkham cor._ "A violation of this rule tends so much to perplex _the reader_ and obscure _the sense_, that it is safer to err by _using_ too many short sentences."--_L. Murray cor._ "A few exercises are subjoined to each important definition, for him [the pupil] to _practise_ upon as he proceeds in committing _the grammar to memory._"--_Nutting cor._ "A verb signifying _an action directly transitive_, governs the accusative."--_Adam et al. cor._ "Or, any word _that can be conjugated_, is a verb."--_Kirkham cor._ "In these two concluding sentences, the author, hastening to _a close_, appears to write rather carelessly."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then _leaves it._"--_Id._" Praise to God teaches _us_ to be humble and lowly ourselves."--_Atterbury cor._ "This author has endeavoured to surpass _his rivals._"--_R. W. Green cor._ "Idleness and _pleasure fatigue a man as_ soon _as business._"--_Webster cor._" And, in conjugating _any verb_,"--or, "And in _learning conjugations_, you must pay particular attention to the manner in which these signs are applied."--_Kirkham cor._ "He said Virginia would have emancipated _her slaves_ long ago."--_Lib. cor._ "And having a readiness"--or, "And holding ourselves in readiness"--or," And being in readiness--to revenge all disobedience."--_Bible cor._ "However, in these cases, custom generally determines _what is right._"--_Wright cor._ "In proof, let the following cases _be taken._"--_Id._ "We must _marvel_ that he should so speedily have forgotten his first principles."--_Id._ "How should we _wonder_ at the expression, 'This is a _soft_ question!' "--_Id._ "And such as prefer _this course_, can parse it as a possessive adjective."--_Goodenow cor._ "To assign all the reasons that induced _the author_ to deviate from other grammarians, would lead to a needless prolixity."--_Alexander cor._ "The Indicative Mood simply indicates or declares _a thing._"--_L. Murray's Gram._, p. 63.
UNDER NOTE II.--OF VERBS INTRANSITIVE.
"In his seventh chapter _he expatiates_ at great length."--_Barclay cor._ "He _quarrels with me for adducing_ some _ancient_ testimonies agreeing with what I say."--_Id._ "Repenting of his design."--_Hume cor._ "Henry knew, that an excommunication could not fail _to produce_ the most dangerous effects."--_Id._ "The popular lords did not fail to enlarge on the subject,"--_Mrs. Macaulay cor._ "He is always master of his subject, and seems to _play_ with it:" or,--"seems to _sport himself_ with it."--_Blair cor._ "But as soon as it _amounts to real_ disease, all his secret infirmities _show_ themselves."--_Id._ "No man repented of his wickedness."--_Bible cor._ "Go one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,"--_Id._ "He lies down by the _river's edge._" Or: "He _lays himself_ down _on_ the _river's brink_"--_W. Walker cor._ "For some years past, _I have had an ardent wish_ to retire to some of our American plantations."--_Cowley cor._ "I fear thou wilt shrink from the payment of it."--_Ware cor._ "_We never retain_ an idea, without acquiring some combination."--_Rippingham cor._
"Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide, Then lies _he_ meekly down, fast by his brethren's side."
--_Milton cor._
UNDER NOTE III.--OF VERBS MISAPPLIED.
"_The_ parliament _confiscated the property of_ all those who had borne arms _against_ the king."--_Hume cor._ "The practice of _confiscating_ ships _that_ had been wrecked"'--_Id._ "The nearer his military successes _brought_ him to the throne." Or: "The nearer, _through_ his military successes, _he approached_ the throne."--_Id._ "In the next example, _'you'
represents 'ladies;'_ therefore it is plural."--_Kirkham cor._ "The first _'its' stands for 'vale;'_ the second _'its'_ represents _'stream'_."-- _Id._ "Pronouns do not always _prevent_ the repetition of nouns."--_Id._ "Very is an adverb of _degree_; it _relates_ to the adjective _good_"--_Id._ "You will please to commit to _memory_ the following paragraph."--_Id._ "Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs _form_ some of their tenses _by means of auxiliaries._"--_L. Mur. cor._ "The deponent verbs in Latin _also employ auxiliaries_ to _form_ several of their tenses."--_Id._ "I have no doubt he made as wise and true proverbs, as any body has _made_ since."--_Id._ "_Monotonous delivery_ assumes as many set forms, as _ever_ Proteus _did of fleeting_ shapes."--_Kirkham cor._ "When words in apposition _are uttered_ in quick succession."--_Nixon cor._ "Where _many_ such sentences _occur in succession._"--_L. Mur. cor._ "Wisdom leads us to speak and _do_ what is most proper."--_Blair and L.
Murray cor._
"_Jul._ Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
_Rom._ Neither, fair saint, if either thee _displease._" Or:-- "Neither, fair saint, if either _thou_ dislike."--_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.--OF PASSIVE VERBS.
"_To us_, too, must be allowed the privilege of forming our own laws." Or: "_We_ too must _have_ the privilege," &c.--_L. Murray cor._ "For not only _is_ the use of all the ancient poetic feet _allowed_ [to] us," &c.--_Id.
et al. cor._ "By what code of morals _is the right or privilege denied me_?"--_Bartlett cor._ "To the children of Israel alone, _has_ the possession of it been denied."--_Keith cor._ "At York, all quarter _was refused_ to fifteen hundred Jews."--_Id._ "He would teach the French language in three lessons, provided _there were paid him_ fifty-five dollars in advance."--_Prof. Chazotte cor._ "And when _it_ was demanded of _him by_ the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come." Or: "And when the _Pharisees demanded_ of him," &c.--_Bible cor._ "A book _has been shown_ me."--_Dr. Campbell cor._ "To John Horne Tooke _admission was refused_, only because he had been in holy orders."--_W. Duane cor._ "Mr.
Horne Tooke having taken orders, admission to the bar was refused _him_."--_Churchill cor._ "Its reference to place is _disregarded_."--_Dr.
Bullions cor._ "What striking lesson _is taught_ by the tenor of this history?"--_Bush cor._ "No less _a sum_ than eighty thousand pounds had been left _him_ by a friend."--_Dr. Priestley cor._ "Where there are many things to be done, _there_ must be allowed _to each_ its share of time and labour."--_Dr. Johnson cor._ "Presenting the subject in a far more practical form, than _has heretofore been given it_."--_Kirkham cor._ "If _to_ a being of entire impartiality should be shown the two companies."--_Dr. Scott cor._ "The command of the British army was offered _to him_."--_Grimshaw cor._ "_To whom_ a considerable sum had been unexpectedly left."--_Johnson cor._ "Whether such a privilege may be granted _to_ a maid or a widow."--_Spect. cor._ "Happily, _to_ all these affected terms, the public suffrage _has_ been denied."--_Campbell cor._ "Let the _parsing table_ next be _shown him_."--_Nutting cor._ "_Then_ the use of the _analyzing table_ may be _explained to him_."--_Id._ "_To_ Pittacus _there_ was offered a great sum of money."--_Sanborn cor._ "More time for study had been allowed _him_."--_Id._ "If a little care were _bestowed on the walks_ that lie between them."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 222.
"Suppose an office or a bribe _be_ offered _me_."--_Pierpont cor._
"_Is then_ one chaste, one last embrace _denied_?
Shall I not lay me by his clay-cold side?"--_Rowe cor._
UNDER NOTE V.--OF PASSIVE VERBS TRANSITIVE.
"The preposition TO is _used_ before nouns of place, when they follow verbs _or_ participles of motion."--_Murray et al. cor._ "They were _not allowed to enter_ the house."--_Mur. cor._ "Their separate signification has been _overlooked_."--_Tooke cor._ "But, whenever YE is _used_, it must be in the nominative case, and _not_ in the objective."--_Cobbett cor._ "It is said, that more persons than one _receive_ handsome salaries, to see _that_ acts of parliament _are_ properly worded."--_Churchill cor._ "The following Rudiments of English Grammar have been _used_ in the University of Pennsylvania."--_Dr. Rogers cor._ "It never should be _forgotten_."-- _Newman cor._ "A very curious fact _has been noticed_ by those expert metaphysicians."--_Campbell cor._ "The archbishop interfered that Michelet's lectures might be _stopped_."--_The Friend cor._ "The disturbances in Gottengen have been entirely _quelled_."--_Daily Adv. cor._ "Besides those _which are noticed_ in these exceptions."--_Priestley cor._ "As one, two, or three auxiliary verbs are _employed_."--_Id._ "The arguments which have been _used_."--_Addison cor._ "The circumstance is properly _noticed_ by the author."--_Blair cor._ "Patagonia has never been taken _into possession_ by any European nation."--_Cumming cor._ "He will be _censured_ no more."--_Walker cor._ "The thing was to be _terminated_ somehow."--_Hunt cor._ "In 1798, the Papal Territory was _seized_ by the French."--_Pinnock cor._ "The idea has not for a moment _escaped the attention_ of the Board."--_C. S. Journal cor._ "I shall easily be excused _from_ the labour of more transcription."--_Johnson cor._ "If I may be allowed _to use_ that expression."--_Campbell cor._ "If without offence I may _make_ the observation."--_Id._ "There are other characters, which are frequently _used_ in composition."--_Mur. et al. cor._ "Such unaccountable infirmities might be _overcome_, in many cases, _and_ perhaps in most."--_Beattie cor._ "Which ought never to be _employed_, or _resorted to_."--_Id._ "That _care_ may be taken _of the widows_." Or: "That the widows may be _provided for_."--_Barclay cor._ "Other cavils will yet be _noticed_."--_Pope cor._ "Which implies, that _to_ all Christians _is_ eternal salvation _offered_."--_West cor._ "Yet even the dogs are allowed _to eat_ the crumbs which fall from their master's table."--_Campbell cor._ "For we say, the light within must be _heeded_."--_Barclay cor._ "This sound of _a_ is _noticed_ in Steele's Grammar."--_J. Walker cor._ "One came to _receive_ ten guineas for a pair of silver buckles."--_M. Edgeworth cor._ "Let therefore the application of the several questions in the table be carefully _shown_ [to] _him_."--_Nutting cor._ "After a few times, it is no longer _noticed_ by the hearers."--_Sheridan cor._ "It will not admit of the same excuse, nor _receive_ the same indulgence, _from_ people of any discernment."--_Id._ "Of inanimate things, property may be made." Or: "Inanimate things may be made property;" i.e., "may _become_ property."--_Beattie cor._
"And, when _some rival bids a higher_ price, Will not be sluggish in the work, _or_ nice."--_Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.--OF PERFECT PARTICIPLES.
"All the words _employed_ to denote spiritual _or_ intellectual things, are in their origin _metaphors_."--_Dr. Campbell cor._ "A reply to an argument commonly _brought forward_ by unbelievers."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "It was once the only form _used_ in the _past_ tenses."--_Dr. Ash cor._ "Of the points and other characters _used_ in writing."--_Id._ "If THY be the personal pronoun _adopted_."--_Walker cor._ "The Conjunction is a word _used_ to connect [words or] sentences."--_Burn cor._ "The points _which_ answer these purposes, are the four following."--_Harrison cor._ "INCENSE signifies _perfume_ exhaled by fire, and _used_ in religious ceremonies."--_L. Mur. cor._ "In most of his orations, there is too much art; _he carries it even to_ ostentation."--_Blair cor._ "To illustrate the great truth, so often _overlooked_ in our times."--_C. S. Journal cor._ "The principal figures _calculated_ to affect the heart, are Exclamation, Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation."--_Formey cor._ "Disgusted at the odious artifices _employed_ by the judge."--_Junius cor._ "_All the_ reasons _for which there was allotted to us_ a condition out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise."--_Bp. Butler cor._ "Some characteristical circumstance being generally invented or _seized upon_."--_Ld. Kames cor._
"And BY is likewise used with names that shew The method or the means of _what we do_."--_Ward cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.--OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.
"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as _do_ adjectives."--_Priestley cor._ "But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, _did_ more than any one _else, to bring_ our language into its present state, _was_ Dryden."--_Blair cor._ "In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor _do_ courts of chancery _employ any_ at all."--_Webster cor._ "I feel grateful to my friend."--_Murray cor._ "This requires a writer to have _in his own mind_ a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us."--_Blair cor._ "Sense has its own harmony, _which naturally contributes something to the harmony of_ sound."--_Id._ "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an _i_, which was formerly inserted, and _which gave to the word an additional_ syllable."--_Priestley cor._ "There are few _to whom_ I can refer with more advantage than _to_ Mr. Addison."--_Blair cor._ "DEATH, (in _theology_,) is a perpetual separation from God, a _state of_ eternal torments."--_Webster cor._ "That could inform the _traveller_ as well as _could_ the old man himself!"--_O. B. Peirce cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.--OF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.
"Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird _you_ with sackcloth."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, and the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE: _Jer._, xlix, 3. "Wash _you_, make you clean."--SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: _Isaiah_, i, 16. "Strip _you_, and make _you_ bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: _Isaiah_, xxxii, 11. "_Ye_ are not ashamed that _ye_ make yourselves strange to me."--SCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY: _Job_, xix, 3. "If _ye_ knew the gift of God." Or: "If _thou_ knew the gift of God."--See _John_, iv, 10. "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know _you_ not."--_Penington cor._
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF PROPER IDENTITY.
"Who would not say, 'If it be _I_,' rather than, 'If it be _me_?"--_Priestley cor._ "Who is there? It is _I_."--_Id._ "It is _he_."--_Id._ "Are these the houses you were speaking of? Yes; they are _the same_."--_Id._ "It is not _I, that_ you are in love with."--_Addison cor._ "It cannot be _I_."--_Swift cor._ "To that which once was _thou_."--_Prior cor._ "There is but one man that she can have, and that _man_ is _myself_."--_Priestley cor._ "We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure _he_." Or, better:--"and become in some measure _identified_ with him."--_A. Smith and Priestley cor._ "Art thou proud yet? Ay, that I am not _thou_."--_Shak. cor._ "He knew not _who_ they were."--_Milnes cor._ "_Whom_ do you think me to be?"--_Dr. Lowth's Gram._, p. 17. "_Who_ do men say that I, the Son of man, am?"--_Bible cor._ "But _who_ say ye that I am?"--_Id._ "_Who_ think ye that I am? I am not he."--_Id._ "No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person _that_ I supposed it was."--_Winter in London cor._ "And while it is _He that_ I serve, life is not without value."--_Ware cor._ "Without ever dreaming it was _he_."--_Charles XII cor._ "Or he was not the illiterate personage _that_ he affected to be."--_Montgom. cor._ "Yet was he _the man_ who was to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles."--_Barclay cor._ "Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or _thou_."--_J. Hogg cor._ "Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was _I_."--_Dryden cor._ "No matter where the vanquished be, _or who_."--_Rowe cor._ "No; I little thought it had been _he_."--_Gratton cor._ "That reverence, that godly fear, _which is ever due to_ 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.'"--_Maturin cor._ "It is _we_ that they seek to please, or rather to astonish."--_J. West cor._ "Let the same be _her_ that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac."--_Bible cor._ "Although I knew it to be _him_."--_Dickens cor._ "Dear gentle youth, is't none but _thou_?"--_Dorset cor._ "Who do they say it is?"--_Fowler cor._
"These are her garb, not _she_; they but express Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress."--_More cor._