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the chidings of conscience."--Tupper cor. "As for the opinion that it is a close translation, I doubt not that many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."--Pope cor. "All presumption that death is the destruction of living beings, must go upon the supposition that they are compounded, and therefore discerptible."--Bp. Butler cor. "This argues rather that they are proper names."--Churchill cor. "But may it not be retorted, that this gratification itself, is that which excites our resentment?"--Campbell cor. "Under the common notion, that it is a system of the whole poetical art."--Blair cor. "Whose want of time, or whose other circumstances, forbid them to become classical scholars."--Lit. Jour. cor. "It would prove him not to have been a mere fictitious personage." Or: "It would preclude the notion that he was merely a fictitious personage."--Phil. Mu. cor. "For heresy, or under pretence that they are heretics or infidels."--Oath cor. "We may here add Dr. Horne's sermon on Christ, as being the Object of religious adoration."--Rel. World cor. "To say nothing of Dr. Priestley, as being a strenuous advocate," &c.--Id. "Through the agency of Adam, as being their public head." Or: "Because Adam was their public head."--Id. "Objections against the existence of any such moral plan as this."--Butler cor. "A greater instance of a man being a blockhead."--Spect. cor. "We may insure or promote what will make it a happy state of existence to ourselves."--Gurney cor. "Since it often undergoes the same kind of unnatural treatment."--Kirkham cor. "Their apparent foolishness"--"Their appearance of foolishness"--or, "That they appear foolishness,--is no presumption against this."--Butler cor. "But what arises from them as being offences; i.e., from their liability to be perverted."--Id. "And he went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one that worshiped God."--Acts cor.


UNDER NOTE II.--OF FALSE IDENTIFICATION.

"But popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word."--Blair cor. "The infinitive mood, a phrase, or a sentence, is often made the subject of a verb."--Murray cor. "When any person, in speaking, introduces his name after the pronoun I, it is of the first person; as, 'I, James, of the city of Boston.'"--R. C. Smith cor. "The name of the person spoken to, is of the second person; as, 'James, come to me.'"--Id. "The name of the person or thing merely spoken of, or about, is of the third person; as, 'James has come.'"--Id. "The passive verb has no object, because its subject or nominative always represents what is acted upon, and the object of a verb must needs be in the objective case."--Id. "When a noun is in the nominative to an active verb, it denotes the actor."--Kirkham cor. "And the pronoun THOU or YE, standing for the name of the person or persons commanded, is its nominative."--Ingersoll cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker."--Brown's Institutes, p. 32. "The conjugation of a verb is a regular arrangement of its different variations or inflections throughout the moods and tenses."--Wright cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer."--G. BROWN: for the correction of Parker and Fox, Hiley, and Sanborn. "The second person is that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed."--Id.: for the same. "The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of."--Id.: for the same, "I is of the first person, singular; WE, of the first person, plural."--Mur. et al. cor. "THOU is of the second person, singular; YE or You, of the second person, plural."--Iid. "HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person, singular; THEY, of the third person, plural."--Iid. "The nominative case denotes the actor, and is the subject of the verb."--Kirkham cor. "John is the actor, therefore the noun JOHN is in the nominative case."--Id. "The actor is always expressed by the nominative case, unless the verb be passive."--R. C. Smith cor. "The nominative case does not always denote an agent or actor."--Mack cor. "In mentioning each name, tell the part of speech."--John Flint cor. "Of what number is boy? Why?"--Id. "Of what number is pens? Why?"--Id. "The speaker is denoted by the first person; the person spoken to is denoted by the second person; and the person or thing spoken of is denoted by the third person."--Id. "What nouns are of the masculine gender? The names of all males are of the masculine gender."--Id. "An interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind."--G. Brown's Grammars.


CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VII; OF OBJECTIVES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--OF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM.

"But I do not remember whom they were for."--Abbott cor. "But if you can't help it, whom do you complain of?"--Collier cor. "Whom was it from? and what was it about?"--M. Edgeworth cor. "I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and me, something in a corner."--Day cor. "The upper one, whom I am now about to speak of."--Leigh Hunt cor. "And to poor us, thy enmity is most capital."--Shak. cor. "Which, thou dost confess, 'twere fit for thee to use, as them to claim." That is,--"as for them to claim."--Id. "To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thee of them." That is,--"than for thee to beg of them."--Id. "There are still a few, who, like thee and me, drink nothing but water."--Gil Bias cor. "Thus, 'I shall fall,'--'Thou shalt love thy neighbour,'--'He shall be rewarded,'--express no resolution on the part of me, thee, or him." Or better:--"on the part of the persons signified by the nominatives, I, Thou, He."--Lennie and Bullions cor. "So saucy with the hand of her here--what's her name?"--Shak. cor. "All debts are cleared between you and me."--Id. "Her price is paid, and she is sold like thee."--HARRISON'S E. Lang., p. 172. "Search through all the most flourishing eras of Greece."--Dr. Brown cor. "The family of the Rudolphs has been long distinguished."--The Friend cor. "It will do well enough for you and me."--Edgeworth cor. "The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and him who is the teacher."--Chazotte cor. "We are still much at a loss to determine whom civil power belongs to."--Locke cor. "What do