"This day, dear Bee, is thy nativity;
Had Fate a luckier one, she'd give it thee."--Swift cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--WHO AND WHICH.
"Exactly like so many puppets, which are moved by wires."--Blair cor. "They are my servants, whom I brought forth[535] out of the land of Egypt."--Leviticus, xxv, 55. "Behold, I and the children whom God hath given me."--See Isaiah, viii, 18. "And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe."--Isaiah, xxxvii, 2. "In a short time the streets were cleared of the corpses which filled them."--M'Ilvaine cor. "They are not of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."--Barclay cor. "As a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep; which, if he go through, both treadeth down and teareth in pieces."--Bible cor. "Frequented by every fowl which nature has taught to dip the wing in water."--Johnson cor. "He had two sons, one of whom was adopted by the family of Maximus."--Lempriere cor. "And the ants, which are collected by the smell, are burned with fire."--The Friend cor. "They being the agents to whom this thing was trusted."--Nixon cor. "A packhorse which is driven constantly one way and the other, to and from market."--Locke cor. "By instructing children, whose affection will be increased."--Nixon cor. "He had a comely young woman, who travelled with him."--Hutchinson cor. "A butterfly, who thought himself an accomplished traveller, happened to light upon a beehive."--Inst., p. 267. "It is an enormous elephant of stone, which disgorges from his uplifted trunk a vast but graceful shower."--Ware cor. "He was met by a dolphin, which sometimes swam before him, and sometimes behind him."--Edward's Gram. cor.
"That Cæsar's horse, which, as fame goes,
Had corns upon his feet and toes,
Was not by half so tender-hoof'd,
Nor trod upon the ground so soft."--Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
"He instructed and fed the crowds that surrounded him."--Murray's Key. "The court, which gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary." p. 187. "Nor does he describe classes of sinners that do not exist."--Mag. cor. "Because the nations among which they took their rise, were not savage."--Murray cor. "Among nations that are in the first and rude periods of society."--Blair cor. "The martial spirit of those nations among which the feudal government prevailed."--Id. "France, which was in alliance with Sweden."--Priestley's Gram., p. 97. "That faction, in England, which most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions."--Ib. "We may say, 'the crowd which was going up the street.'"--Cobbett's E. Gram., ¶ 204. "Such members of the Convention which formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution."--N. Y. Lyceum cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--CONFUSION OF SENSES.
"The name of the possessor shall take a particular form to show its case."--Kirkham cor. "Of which reasons, the principal one is, that no noun, properly so called, implies the presence of the thing named."--Harris cor. "Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes the city of Boston from other cities."--Sanborn cor. "The word CONJUNCTION means union, or the act of joining together. Conjunctions are used to join or connect either words or sentences."--Id. "The word INTERJECTION means the act of throwing between. Interjections are interspersed among other words, to express strong or sudden emotion."--Id. "Indeed is composed of in and deed. The words may better be written separately, as they formerly were."--Cardell cor. "Alexander, on the contrary, is a particular name; and is employed to distinguish an individual only."--Jamieson cor. "As an indication that nature itself had changed its course." Or:--"that Nature herself had changed her course."--History cor. "Of removing from the United States and their territories the free people of colour."--Jenifer cor. "So that gh may be said not to have its proper sound." Or thus: "So that the letters, g and h, may be said not to have their proper sounds."--Webster cor. "Are we to welcome the loathsome harlot, and introduce her to our children?"--Maturin cor. "The first question is this: 'Is reputable, national, and present use, which, for brevity's sake, I shall hereafter simply denominate good use, always uniform, [i. e., undivided, and unequivocal,] in its decisions?"--Campbell cor. "In personifications, Time is always masculine, on account of his mighty efficacy; Virtue, feminine, by reason of her beauty and loveliness."--Murray, Blair, et al. cor. "When you speak to a person or thing, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."--Bartlett cor. "You now know the noun; for noun means name."--Id. "T. What do you see? P. A book. T. Spell book."--R. W. Green cor. "T. What do you see now? P. Two books. T. Spell books."--Id. "If the United States lose their rights as a nation."--Liberator cor. "When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the noun or pronoun is in the second person."--Frost cor. "When a person or thing is merely spoken of, the noun or pronoun is in the third person."--Id. "The word OX also, taking the same plural termination, makes OXEN."--Bucke cor. <poem>
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UNDER NOTE VI.--THE RELATIVE THAT.
(1.) "This is the most useful art that men possess."--L. Murray cor. "The earliest accounts
