The Grammar of English Grammars Part 139

"An allegory is the saying one thing, and meaning another; a double-meaning or dilogy is the saying only one thing, but having two in view."--_Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 461. "A verb may generally be distinguished, by its making sense with any of the personal p.r.o.nouns, or the word _to_ before it."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 28; _Alger's_, 13; _Bacon's_, 10; _Comly's_, and many others. "A noun may, in general, be distinguished by its taking an article before it, or by its making sense of itself."--_Merchant's Gram._, p. 17; _Murray's_, 27; &c. "An Adjective may usually be known by its making sense with the addition of the word _thing_: as, a _good_ thing; a _bad_ thing."--_Same Authors_. "It is seen in the objective case, from its denoting the object affected by the act of leaving."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 44. "It is seen in the possessive case, from its denoting the _possessor_ of something."--_Ibid._ "The name man is caused by the adname _whatever_ to be twofold subjective case, from its denoting, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks."--_Ib._, p. 56. "_When_, as used in the last line, is a connective, from its joining that line to the other part of the sentence."--_Ib._, p. 59. "From their denoting reciprocation."--_Ib._, p.

64. "To allow them the making use of that liberty."--_Sale's Koran_, p.

116. "The worst effect of it is, the fixing on your mind a habit of indecision."--_Todd's Student's Manual_, p. 60. "And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that there is no shaking it off."--_Ib._, p. 47. "I know of nothing that can justify the having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer."--_Coleridge's Introduction_, p. 16. "Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly."--_Hazlitt's Lectures_. "There are remarkable instances of their not affecting each other."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 150. "The leaving Caesar out of the commission was not from any slight."--_Life of Cicero_, p. 44. "Of the receiving this toleration thankfully I shall say no more."--_Dryden's Works_, p. 88. "Henrietta was delighted with Julia's working lace so very well."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 255. "And it is from their representing each two different words that the confusion has arisen."--_Booth's Introd._, p. 42. "aeschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's letting fall a tortoise on his head."--_Biog. Dict._ "He doubted their having it."--_Felch's Comp. Gram._, p. 81. "The making ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 68. "There is no discovering in their countenances, any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart."--_Ib._, p. 165. "Nothing can be more common or less proper than to speak of a _river's emptying itself_."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 186.

"Our not using the former expression, is owing to this."--_Bullions's E.

Gram._, p. 59.

UNDER NOTE IV.--DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.

"To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying down the method of the discourse."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 311. "To the pulling down of strong holds."--_2 Cor._, x, 4. "Can a mere buckling on a military weapon infuse courage?"--_Brown's Estimate_, i, 62. "Living expensively and luxuriously destroys health."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 234. "By living frugally and temperately, health is preserved."--_Ibid._ "By living temperately, our health is promoted."--_Ib._, p. 227. "By the doing away of the necessity."--_The Friend_, xiii, 157. "He recommended to them, however, the immediately calling of the whole community to the church."--_Gregory's Dict., w. Ventriloquism_. "The separation of large numbers in this manner certainly facilitates the reading them rightly."--_Churchill's Gram._, p.

303. "From their merely admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."--_Philol. Museum_, i. 403. "His gravely lecturing his friend about it."--_Ib._, i, 478. "For the blotting out of sin."--_Gurney's Evidences_, p. 140. "From the not using of water."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 189. "By the gentle dropping in of a pebble."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p.

125. "To the carrying on a great part of that general course of nature."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 127. "Then the not interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint."--_Ib._, p. 147. "The bare omission, or rather the not employing of what is used."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 180; _Jamieson's_, 48. "Bringing together incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 329. "This is a presumptive proof of its not proceeding from them."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 186. "It represents him in a character to which the acting unjustly is peculiarly unsuitable."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 372. "They will aim at something higher than merely the dealing out of harmonious sounds."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 65. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and going farther seems beyond the reach of our faculties."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 147.

"Apostrophe is a turning off from the regular course of the subject."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 348; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 185. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to a.s.sent to the sending out a commission to investigate his conduct."--_Life of Columbus_. "For the turning away of the simple shall slay them."--_Prov._, i, 32.

"Thick fingers always should command Without the stretching out the hand."--_King's Poems_, p. 585.

UNDER NOTE V.--PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.

"Is there any Scripture speaks of the light's being inward?"--_Barclay's Works_, i, 367. "For I believe not the being positive therein essential to salvation."--_Ib._, iii, 330. "Our not being able to act an uniform right part without some thought and care."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 122. "Upon supposition of its being reconcileable with the const.i.tution of nature."--_Ib._, p. 128. "Upon account of its not being discoverable by reason or experience."--_Ib._, p. 170. "Upon account of their being unlike the known course of nature."--_Ib._, p. 171. "Our being able to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."--_Ib._, p. 174. "From its not being universal."--_Ib._, p. 175.

"That they may be turned into the pa.s.sive participle in _dus_ is no decisive argument in favour of their being pa.s.sive."--_Grant's Lat. Gram._, p. 233. "With the implied idea of St. Paul's being then _absent_ from the Corinthians."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 123. "On account of its becoming gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence."--_Ib._, p. 32.

"Not without the author's being fully aware."--_Ib._, p. 84. "Being witty out of season, is one sort of folly."--_Sheffield's Works_, ii. 172. "Its being generally susceptible of a much stronger evidence."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 102. "At least their being such rarely enhanceth our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."--_Ib._, p. 162. "Which were the ground of our being one."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 513. "But they may be distinguished from it by their being intransitive."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 60. "To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing's being possible."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 234.

"His being idle, and dishonest too, Was that which caus'd his utter overthrow."--_Tobitt's Gram._, p. 61.

UNDER NOTE VI.--COMPOUND VERBAL NOUNS.

"When it denotes being subjected to the exertion of another."--_Booth's Introd._, p. 37. "In a pa.s.sive sense, it signifies being subjected to the influence of the action."--_Felch's Comp. Gram._, p. 60. "The being abandoned by our friends is very deplorable."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 181. "Without waiting for their being attacked by the Macedonians."--_Ib._, ii, 97. "In progress of time, words were wanted to express men's being connected with certain conditions of fortune."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 135.

"Our being made acquainted with pain and sorrow, has a tendency to bring us to a settled moderation."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 121. "The chancellor's being attached to the king secured his crown; The general's having failed in this enterprise occasioned his disgrace; John's having been writing a long time had wearied him."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 66; _Sanborn's_, 171; _Cooper's_, 96; _Ingersoll's_, 46; _Fisk's_, 83; _and others_. "The sentence should be, 'John's having been writing a long time has wearied him.'"--_Wright's Gram._, p. 186. "Much depends on this rule's being observed."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 195. "He mentioned a boy's having been corrected for his faults; The boy's having been corrected is shameful to him."--_Alger's Gram._, p. 65; _Merchant's_, 93. "The greater the difficulty of remembrance is, and the more important the being remembered is to the attainment of the ultimate end."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 90. "If the parts in the composition of similar objects were always in equal quant.i.ty, their being compounded would make no odds."--_Ib._, p. 65.

"Circ.u.mstances, not of such importance as that the scope of the relation is affected by their being known."--_Ib._, p. 379. "A pa.s.sive verb expresses the receiving of an action or the being acted upon; as, 'John is beaten'"--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 16. "So our Language has another great Advantage, namely its not being diversified by Genders."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 20. "The having been slandered is no fault of Peter."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 82. "Without being Christ's friends, there is no being justified."--_William Penn_. "Being accustomed to danger, begets intrepidity, i.e. lessens fear."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 112. "It is, not being affected so and so, but acting, which forms those habits."--_Ib._, p.

113. "In order to our being satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 164. "Tropes consist in a word's being employed to signify something that is different from its original and primitive meaning."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 132; _Jamieson's_, 140; _Murray's Gram._, 337; _Kirkham's_, 222. "A _Trope_ consists in a word's being employed," &c.--_Hiley's Gram._, p. 133. "The scriptural view of our being saved from punishment."--_Gurney's Evidences_, p. 124. "To submit and obey, is not a renouncing a being led by the Spirit."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 542.

UNDER NOTE VII.--PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &C.

"Teaching little children is a pleasant employment."--_Bartlett's School Manual_, ii, 68. "Denying or compromising principles of truth is virtually denying their divine Author."--_Reformer_, i, 34. "A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear being retrenched."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 206. "Never attempt prolonging the pathetic too much."--_Ib._, p. 323. "I now recollect having mentioned a report of that nature."-- _Whiting's Reader_, p. 132. "Nor of the necessity which there is for their being restrained in them."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 116. "But doing what G.o.d commands, because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear."--_Ib._, p. 124. "Simply closing the nostrils does not so entirely prevent resonance."--_Music of Nature_, p. 484. "Yet they absolutely refuse doing so."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 264. "But Artaxerxes could not refuse pardoning him."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, i, 173. "Doing them in the best manner is signified by the name of these arts."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 360. "Behaving well for the time to come, may be insufficient."

--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 198. "The compiler proposed publis.h.i.+ng that part by itself."--_Dr. Adam, Rom. Antiq._, p. v. "To smile upon those we should censure, is bringing guilt upon ourselves."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 108.

"But it would be doing great injustice to that ill.u.s.trious orator to bring his genius down to the same level."--_Ib._, p. 28. "Doubting things go ill, often hurts more than to be sure they do."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 203.

"This is called straining a metaphor."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 150; _Murray's Gram._, i, 341. "This is what Aristotle calls giving manners to the poem."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 427. "The painter's being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 195.

"It imports retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression."-- _Blair's Rhet._, p. 94; _Jamieson's_, 64; _Murray's Gram._, p. 301; _Kirkham's_, 220. "The necessity for our being thus exempted is further apparent."--_West's Letters_, p. 40. "Her situation in life does not allow of her being genteel in every thing."--_Ib._, p. 57. "Provided you do not dislike being dirty when you are invisible."--_Ib._, p. 58. "There is now an imperious necessity for her being acquainted with her t.i.tle to eternity."--_Ib._, p. 120. "Discarding the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness."--_Ib._, p. 105. "The legislature prohibits opening shop of a Sunday."--_Ib._, p. 66. "To attempt proving that any thing is right."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 256. "The comma directs making a pause of a second in duration, or less."--_Ib._, p. 280. "The rule which directs putting other words into the place of it, is wrong."--_Ib._, p. 326. "They direct calling the specifying adjectives or adnames adjective p.r.o.nouns."-- _Ib._, p. 338. "William dislikes attending court."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 82. "It may perhaps be worth while remarking that Milton makes a distinction."--_Philological Museum_, i, 659. "Professing regard, and acting differently, discover a base mind."--_Murray's Key_, p. 206; _Bullions's E. Gram._, pp. 82 and 112; _Lennie's_, 58. "Professing regard and acting indifferently, discover a base mind."--_Weld's Gram., Improved Edition_, p. 59. "You have proved beyond contradiction, that acting thus is the sure way to procure such an object."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 92.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &C.

"Irony is expressing ourselves in a manner contrary to our thoughts."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 353; _Kirkham's_, 225; _Goldsbury's_, 90.

"Irony is saying one thing and meaning the reverse of what that expression would represent."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 303. "An Irony is dissembling or changing the proper signification of a word or sentence to quite the contrary."--_Fisher's Gram._, p. 151. "Irony is expressing ourselves contrary to what we mean."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 280. "This is in a great Measure delivering their own Compositions."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. xxvi.

"But purity is using rightly the words of the language."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 59. "But the most important object is settling the English quant.i.ty."--_Walker's Key_. p. 17. "When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to another is taking a very wide step."-- _Campbell's Rhet._, p. 293. "It would be losing time to attempt further to ill.u.s.trate it."--_Ib._, p. 79. "This is leaving the sentence too bare, and making it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense."--_Cobbett's Gram._, --220.

"This is requiring more labours from every private member."--_West's Letters_, p. 120. "Is not this using one measure for our neighbours, and another for ourselves?"--_Ib._, p. 200. "Is it not charging G.o.d foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?"--_Ib._, p. 171. "This is not enduring the cross as a disciple of Jesus Christ, but s.n.a.t.c.hing at it like a partizan of Swift's Jack."--_Ib._, p. 175. "What is Spelling? It is combining letters to form syllables and words."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 18. "It is choosing such letters to compose words," &c.--_Ibid._ "What is Parsing? (1.) It is describing the nature, use, and powers of words."--_Ib._, pp. 22 and 192. (2.) "For parsing is describing the words of a sentence as they are used."--_Ib._, p. 10. (3.) "Parsing is only describing the nature and relations of words as they are used."--_Ib._, p.

11. (4.) "Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is describing facts concerning words; or representing them in their offices and relations as they are."--_Ib._, p. 34. (5.) "Parsing is resolving and explaining words according to the rules of grammar."--_Ib._, p. 326. (6.) "Parsing a word, remember, is enumerating and describing its various relations and qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence."--_Ib._, p. 325. (7.) "For parsing a word is enumerating and describing its various properties and relations _to the_ sentence."--_Ib._, p. 326. (8.) "Parsing a noun is telling of what person, number, gender, and case, it is; and also telling all its grammatical relations in a sentence with respect to other words."--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 16. (9.) "Parsing any part of speech is telling all its properties and relations."--_Ibid._ (10.) "Parsing is resolving a sentence into its elements."--_Fowler's E.

Gram._, 1850, --588. "The highway of the righteous is, departing from evil."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 168. "Besides, the first step towards exhibiting truth should be removing the veil of error."--_Ib._, p. 377.

"Punctuation is dividing sentences and the words of sentences, by pauses."--_Ib._, p. 280. "Another fault is using the preterimperfect _shook_ instead of the participle _shaken_"--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 259.

"Her employment is drawing maps."--_Alger's Gram._, p. 65. "Going to the play, according to his notion, is leading a sensual life, and exposing ones self to the strongest temptations. This is begging the question, and therefor requires no answer."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p. 217. "It is overvaluing ourselves to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 193; _Ingersoll's_, 199. "What is vocal language? It is speaking; or expressing ideas by the human voice."--_Sanders, Spelling-Book_, p. 7.

UNDER NOTE IX.--VERBS OF PREVENTING.

"The annulling power of the const.i.tution prevented that enactment's becoming a law."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 267. "Which prevents the manner's being brief."--_Ib._, p. 365. "This close prevents their bearing forward as nominatives."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 153. "Because this prevents its growing drowzy."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p. 5. "Yet this does not prevent his being great."--_Ib._, p. 27. "To prevent its being insipid."--_Ib._, p. 112. "Or whose interruptions did not prevent its being continued."--_Ib._, p. 167. "This by no means prevents their being also punishments."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, p. 123. "This hinders not their being also, in the strictest sense, punishments."--_Ibid._, "The noise made by the rain and wind prevented their being heard."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol. i, p. 118. "He endeavoured to prevent its taking effect."--_Ib._, i, 128. "So sequestered as to prevent their being explored."--_West's Letters_, p. 62. "Who prevented her making a more pleasant party."--_Ib._, p. 65. "To prevent our being tossed about by every wind of doctrine."--_Ib._, p. 123. "After the infirmities of age prevented his bearing his part of official duty."--_Religious World_, ii, 193. "To prevent splendid trifles pa.s.sing for matters of importance."--_Kames, El.

of Crit._, i, 310. "Which prevents his exerting himself to any good purpose."--_Beattie's Moral Science_, i, 146. "The want of the observance of this rule, very frequently prevents our being punctual in our duties."--_Student's Manual_, p. 65. "Nothing will prevent his being a student, and his possessing the means of study."--_Ib._, p. 127. "Does the present accident hinder your being honest and brave?"--_Collier's Antoninus_, p. 51. "The e is omitted to prevent two es coming together."--_Fowle's Gram._, p. 34. "A p.r.o.noun is used for or in place of a noun.--to prevent repeating the noun."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 13.

"Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents it being tired with the too frequent recurrence of the rhymes."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 166.

"Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents its being tired,"

&c.--_Murray's Gram._, i. p. 362. "Timidity and false shame prevent our opposing vicious customs."--_Murray's Key_, ii, 236; _Sanborn's Gram._, 171; _Merchant's_, 205. "To prevent their being moved by such."-- _Campbell's Rhet._, p. 155. "Some obstacle or impediment, that prevents its taking place."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 38. "Which prevents our making a progress towards perfection."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 4. "This method of distinguis.h.i.+ng words, must prevent any regular proportion of time being settled."--_Ib._, p. 67. "That nothing but affectation can prevent its always taking place."--_Ib._, p. 78. "This did not prevent John's being acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy."--HENRY: _Webster's Philos. Gram._, p. 182; his _Improved Gram._, 130; _Sanborn's Gram._, 189; _Fowler's_, 8vo, 1850, p. 541.

UNDER NOTE X.--THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.

"This would preclude the possibility of a _nouns'_ or any other word's ever being in the possessive case."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 338. "A great part of our pleasure arises from the plan or story being well conducted."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 18, "And we have no reason to wonder at this being the case."--_Ib._, p. 249. "She objected only, as Cicero says, to Oppianicus having two sons by his present wife."--_Ib._, p. 274. "The Britons being subdued by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their having called in these Saxons, to their a.s.sistance."--_Ib._, p. 329. "What he had there said, concerning the Saxons expelling the Britons, and changing the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and good reason for our present language being Saxon rather than British."--_Ib._, p. 230. "The only material difference between them, besides the one being short and the other being prolonged, is, that a metaphor always explains itself by the words that are connected with it."--_Ib._, p. 151; _Murray's Gram._, p. 342. "The description of Death's advancing to meet Satan, on his arrival."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 156.

"Is not the bare fact of G.o.d being the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?"--_Chalmers, Serm._, p. 288. "As in the case of one entering upon a new study."--_Beattie's Moral Science_, i, 77. "The manner of these affecting the copula is called the imperative mode."--BP.

WILKINS: _Lowth's Gram._, p. 43. "We are freed from the trouble, by our nouns having no diversity of endings."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p. 20. "The Verb is rather indicative of the actions being _doing_, or _done_, than _the time when_, but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable."--_Booth's Introd._, p. 69. "n.o.body would doubt of this being a sufficient proof."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 66. "Against the doctrine here maintained, of conscience being, as well as reason, a natural faculty."--_Beattie's M.

Sci._, i, 263. "It is one cause of the Greek and English languages being much more easy to learn, than the Latin."--_Bucke's Cla.s.sical Gram._, p.

25. "I have not been able to make out a solitary instance of such being the fact."--_Liberator_, x, 40. "An angel's forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king's condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror."--_Wood's Dict., w. Belshazzar_. "The prisoners'

having attempted to escape, aroused the keepers."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 357. "I doubt not, in the least, of this having been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.

155. "From the general rule he lays down, of the verbs being the parent word of all language."--_Diversions of Purley_, Vol. i, p. 227. "He was accused of himself being idle."--_Felch's Comp. Gram._, p. 52. "Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him so removing."--_Wm. Edmondson_. "The spectacle is too rare of men's deserving solid fame while not seeking it."--_Prof. Bush's Lecture on Swedenborg_. "What further need was there of an other priest rising?"--See _Key_.

UNDER NOTE XI.--REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.

"Viewing them separately, different emotions are produced."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 344. "But leaving this doubtful, another objection occurs."--_Ib._, ii, 358. "Proceeding from one particular to another, the subject grew under his hand."--_Ib._, i, 27. "But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain broken."--_Ib._, ii, 314. "After some days hunting, Cyrus communicated his design to his officers."--_Rollin_, ii, 66. "But it is made, without the appearance of making it in form."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 358. "These would have had a better effect disjoined thus."--_Ib._, p. 119; _Murray's Gram._, i, 309. "An improper diphthong has but one of the vowels sounded."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 9; _Alger's_, 12; _Merchant's_, 9; _Smith's_, 118; _Ingersoll's_, 4. "And being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady."-- _Blair's Rhet._, p. 95; _Murray's Gram._, 302; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 66. "By often doing the same thing, it becomes habitual."--_Murray's Key_, p. 257.

"They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when surrounded with friends and cheerful society."--_Ib._, p. 238. "Besides shewing what is right, the matter may be further explained by pointing out what is wrong."--_Lowth's Gram., Pref._, p. viii. "The former teaches the true p.r.o.nunciation of words, comprising accent, quant.i.ty, emphasis, pause, and tone."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol., i, p. 235. "Persons may be reproved for their negligence, by saying; 'You have taken great care indeed.'"--_Ib._, i, 354. "The words preceding and following it, are in apposition to each other."--_Ib._, ii, p. 22. "Having finished his speech, the a.s.sembly dispersed."--_Cooper's Pract. Gram._, p. 97. "Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of doing."-- _Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 101. "The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, by depriving them of his a.s.sistance."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 299. "Taking them as nouns, this construction may be explained thus."--_Grant's Latin Gram._, p. 233. "These have an active signification, those which come from neuter verbs being excepted."--_Ib._, p. 233. "From the evidence of it not being universal."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 84. "And this faith will continually grow, by acquainting ourselves with our own nature."--_Channing's Self-Culture_, p. 33. "Monosyllables ending with any consonant but _f, l_, or _s_, and preceded by a single vowel, never double the final consonant; excepting add, ebb," &c.--_Murray's Gram._, p. 23; _Picket's_, 10; _Merchant's_, 13; _Ingersoll's_, 8; _Fisk's_, 44; _Blair's_, 7. "The relation of being the object of the action is expressed by the change of the Noun _Maria_ to _Mariam_"--_Booth's Introd._, p. 38. "In a.n.a.lyzing a proposition, it is first to be divided into its logical subject and predicate."--_Andrews and Stoddard's Latin Gram._, p. 254. "In a.n.a.lyzing a simple sentence, it should first be resolved into its logical subject and logical predicate."--_Wells's School Gram._, 113th Ed., p. 189.

UNDER NOTE XII.--OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.

"The discovering pa.s.sions instantly at their birth, is essential to our well being."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 352. "I am now to enter on considering the sources of the pleasures of taste."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.

28. "The varieties in using them are, indeed many."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 319. "Changing times and seasons, removing and setting up kings, belong to Providence alone."--_Ib., Key_, ii, p. 200. "Adhering to the part.i.tions seemed the cause of France, accepting the will that of the house of Bourbon."--_Bolingbroke, on Hist._, p. 246. "Another source of darkness in composing is, the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 247. "These are the rules of grammar, by the observing of which, you may avoid mistakes."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 192; _Merchant's_, 93; _Fisk's_, 135; _Ingersoll's_, 198. "By the observing of the rules you may avoid mistakes."--_Alger's Gram._, p. 65. "By the observing of these rules he succeeded."--_Frost's El. of Gram._, p. 82.

"Being praised was his ruin."--_Ibid._ "Deceiving is not convincing."-- _Ibid._ "He never feared losing a friend."--_Ibid._ "Making books is his amus.e.m.e.nt."--_Alger's Gram._, p. 65. "We call it declining a noun."-- _Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 22. "Was.h.i.+ngton, however, pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly, taking any part in the wars of Europe."--_Hall and Baker's School Hist._, p. 294. "The following is a note of Interrogation, or asking a question (?)."--_Infant School Gram._, p.

132. "The following is a note of Admiration, or expressing wonder (!)."--_Ib._ "Omitting or using the article _a_ forms a nice distinction in the sense."--_Murray's Gram._, ii, 284. "Placing the preposition before the word it governs is more graceful."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 150.

"a.s.sistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and retrieving their affairs."--_Butler's a.n.a.logy_, p. 197. "Which termination, [_ish_,] when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or lessening the quality."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 131; _Kirkham's_, 172. "After what is said, will it be thought refining too much to suggest, that the different orders are qualified for different purposes?"--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 114.

"Who has nothing to think of but killing time."--_West's Letters_, p. 58.

"It requires no nicety of ear, as in the distinguis.h.i.+ng of tones, or measuring time."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 65. "The _Possessive Case_ denotes possession, or belonging to."--_Hall's Gram._, p. 7.

UNDER NOTE XIII.--PERFECT PARTICIPLES.

"Garcila.s.so was master of the language spoke by the Incas."--_Robertson's Amer._, ii, 459. "When an interesting story is broke off in the middle."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 244. "Speaking of Hannibal's elephants drove back by the enemy."--_Ib._, ii, 32. "If Du Ryer had not wrote for bread, he would have equalled them."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p. 166.

"Pope describes a rock broke off from a mountain, and hurling to the plain."--_Kames_, ii, 106. "I have wrote _or_ have written, Thou hast wrote _or_ hast written. He hath or has wrote, _or_ hath or has written;"

&c.--_Dr. Ash's Gram._, p. 47; _Maltby's_, 47. "This was spoke by a pagan."--_Webster's Improved Gram._, p. 174. "But I have chose to follow the common arrangement."--_Ib._, p. 10. "The language spoke in Bengal."--_Ib._, p. 78. "And sound Sleep thus broke off, with suddain Alarms, is apt enough to discompose any one."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 32.

"This is not only the Case of those Open Sinners, before spoke of."--_Right of Tythes_, p. 26. "Some Grammarians have wrote a very perplexed and difficult doctrine on Punctuation."--_Ensell's Gram._, p. 340. "There hath a pity arose in me towards thee."--_Sewel's Hist., fol._, p. 324. "Abel is the only man that has underwent the awful change of death."--_Juvenile Theatre_, p. 4.