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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 "Industry on our part is not superseded by God's grace."--Arrowsmith cor.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