improbably, that in many of these cases the articles were used originally."--Priestley cor. "I cannot doubt that these objects are really what they appear to be."--Kames cor. "I question not that my reader will be as much pleased with it."--Spect. cor. "It is ten to one that my friend Peter is among them."--Id. "I doubt not that such objections as these will be made"--Locke cor. "I doubt not that it will appear in the perusal of the following sheets."--Buchanan cor. "It is not improbable, that in time these different constructions maybe appropriated to different uses."--Priestley cor. "But to forget and to remember at pleasure, are equally beyond the power of man."--Idler cor. "The nominative case follows the verb, in interrogative or imperative sentences."--L. Mur. cor. "Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? or a vine, figs?"--Bible cor. "Whose characters are too profligate for the managing of them to be of any consequence."--Swift cor. "You, that are a step higher than a philosopher, a divine, yet have too much grace and wit to be a bishop."--Pope cor. "The terms rich and poor enter not into their language."--Robertson cor. "This pause is but seldom, if ever, sufficiently dwelt upon." Or: "This pause is seldom or never sufficiently dwelt upon."--Gardiner cor. "There would be no possibility of any such thing as human life or human happiness."--Bp. Butler cor. "The multitude rebuked them, that they should hold their peace."--Bible cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--THE CONJUNCTION THAN.
"A metaphor is nothing else than a short comparison." Or: "A metaphor is nothing but a short comparison."--Adam and Gould cor. "There being no other dictator here than use."--Murray's Gram., i, 364. "This construction is no otherwise known in English, than by supplying the first or the second person plural."--Buchanan cor. "Cyaxares was no sooner on the throne, than he was engaged in a terrible war."--Rollin cor. "Those classics contain little else than histories of murders."--Am. Mu. cor. "Ye shall not worship any other than God."--Sale cor. "Their relation, therefore, is not otherwise to be ascertained, than by their place."--Campbell cor. "For he no sooner accosted her, than he gained his point."--Burder cor. "And all the modern writers on this subject, have done little else than translate them."--Dr. Blair cor. "One who had no other aim than to talk copiously and plausibly."--Id. "We can refer it to no other cause than the structure of the eye."--Id. "No more is required than singly an act of vision."--Kames cor. "We find no more in its composition, than the particulars now mentioned."--Id. "He does not pretend to say, that it has any other effect than to raise surprise."--Id. "No sooner was the princess dead, than he freed himself."--Dr. S. Johnson cor. "OUGHT is an imperfect verb, for it has no modification besides this one."--Priestley cor. "The verb is palpably nothing else than the tie."--Neef cor. "Does he mean that theism is capable of nothing else than of being opposed to polytheism or atheism?"--Dr. Blair cor. "Is it meant that theism is capable of nothing else than of being opposed to polytheism or atheism?"--L. Murray cor. "There is no other method of teaching that of which any one is ignorant, than by means of something already known."--Ingersoll's Grammar, Titlepage: Dr. Johnson cor. "O fairest flower, no sooner blown than blasted!"--Milton cor. "Architecture and gardening cannot otherwise entertain the mind, than by raising certain agreeable emotions or feelings."--Kames cor. "Or, rather, they are nothing else than nouns."--Brit. Gram. cor.
"As if religion were intended
For nothing else than to be mended."--S. Butler cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--RELATIVES EXCLUDE CONJUNCTIONS.
"To prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than himself, a teacher whose shoes he was not worthy to bear."--Anon, or Mur. cor. "Has this word, which represents an action, an object after it, on which the action terminates?"--Osborne cor. "The stores of literature lie before him, from which he may collect for use many lessons of wisdom."--Knapp cor. "Many and various great advantages of this grammar over others, might be enumerated."--Greenleaf cor. "The custom which still prevails, of writing in lines from left to right, is said to have been introduced about the time of Solon, the Athenian legislator."--Jamieson cor. "The fundamental rule for the construction of sentences, the rule into which all others might be resolved, undoubtedly is, to communicate, in the clearest and most natural order, the ideas which we mean to express."--Blair and Jamieson cor. "He left a son of a singular character, who behaved so ill that he was put in prison."--L. Murray cor. "He discovered in the youth some disagreeable qualities which to him were wholly unaccountable."--Id. "An emphatical pause is made after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we wish to fix the hearer's attention." Or: "An emphatical pause is made after something has been said which is of peculiar moment, and on which we wish to fix the hearer's attention."--Blair and Murray cor. "But we have duplicates of each, agreeing in movement, though differing in measure, and making different impressions on the ear,"--Murray cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.--OF THE WORD THAT.
"It will greatly facilitate the labours of the teacher, and, at the same time, it will relieve the pupil from many difficulties."--Frost cor. "While the pupil is engaged in the exercises just mentioned, it will be proper for him to study the whole grammar in course."--Bullions cor. "On the same ground on which a participle and an auxiliary are allowed to form a tense."--Beattie and Murray cor. "On the same ground on which the voices, moods, and tenses, are admitted into the English tongue."--L. Murray cor. "The five examples last mentioned, are corrected on the
