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guard, therefore, against the slightest indulgence of them."--Ib. "Every man is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does not pervert them to the injury of others."--Ib.

   "With the azure and vermilion
    Which are mix'd for my pavilion."--Byron cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.

ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.

"Neither prelate nor priest can give his [flock or] flocks any decisive evidence that you are lawful pastors."--Brownlee cor. "And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within him?"-- Maturin cor. "This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for its service to the body."--Collier cor. "If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee."--Bible cor. "The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to his reputation."--Pope cor. "Either James or John,--one or the other,--will come."--Smith cor. "Even a rugged rock or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes, by contrast, to the beauty of the whole."--Kames cor. "That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved himself right in this affair."--Spect. cor. "If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffers for his opinions, he is a 'martyr.'"--Fuller cor. "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he or she die; then the ox shall surely be stoned."--Exod. cor. "She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring him."--Johnson cor. "Here is a task put upon children, which neither this author himself, nor any other, has yet undergone."--R. Johnson cor. "Hence, if an adjective or a participle be subjoined to the verb when the construction is singular, it will agree both in gender and in number with the collective noun."--Adam and Gould cor. "And if you can find a diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point that out too."--Bucke cor. "And if you can find a trissyllable or a polysyllable, point it out."--Id. "The false refuges in which the atheist or thesceptic has intrenched himself."--Chr. Spect. cor. "While the man or woman thus assisted by art, expects his charms or hers will be imputed to nature alone."--Opie cor. "When you press a watch, or pull a clock, it answers your question with precision; for it repeats exactly the hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to know."--Bolingbroke cor.

   "Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy,
    Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary,
    Is in his mansion monarch more than I."--King cor.

CHAPTER VI.--VERBS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.

"Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres."--Duncan cor. "Knowing that you were my old master's good friend."--Spect. cor. "When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"--Webster cor. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends."--Mur. cor. "They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved."--R. Williams cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."--Micah, v, 2. "You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him."--Porter cor. "Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned."--Churchill cor. "Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts." Or: "No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts."--Duncan cor. "I wondered where you were, my dear."--Lloyd cor. "When thou most sweetly singst."--Drummond cor. "Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?"--Gardiner cor. "Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."--Byron cor. "As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions."--M. B. cor. "Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?"--Everest cor. "The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders."--Id. "Some pains have likewise been taken."--Scott cor. "And many a steed in his stables was seen."--Penwarne cor. "They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food."--Josephus cor. "This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."--Hutchinson cor. "By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge."--Committee cor. "He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."--Walton cor. "If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach." Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach."--Swift cor. "Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself."--Barclay cor. "But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat'st."--Id. "Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest."--N. Waln cor. "I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing."--Chazotte cor. "Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?"--Dr. Brown cor. "Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night."--Smith's False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103. Or thus: "Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night."--Smith cor. "Every four years add an other day."--Smith's False Syntax, Gram., p. 103. Better thus: "Every fourth year adds an other day."--Smith cor. "Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed."--Swift cor. "A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher."--Sanborn cor. "Perfect submission to the rules of a school