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you call it? and to whom does it belong?"--Collier cor. "He had received no lessons from the Socrateses, the Platoes, and the Confuciuses of the age."--Haller cor. "I cannot tell whom to compare them to."--Bunyan cor. "I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and me."--Id. "They, by those means, have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know whom."--Id. "But at length she said, there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and us."--Hutch. Hist. cor. "So you must ride on horseback after us."--Mrs. Gilpin cor. "A separation must soon take place between our minister and me,"--Werter cor. "When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and me."--Shak. cor. "To whom? to thee? What art thou?"--Id. "That they should always bear the certain marks of him from whom they came."--Bp. Butler cor.

   "This life has joys for you and me,
    And joys that riches ne'er could buy."--Burns cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.--OF TIME OR MEASURE.

"Such as almost every child, ten years old, knows."--Town cor. "Four months' schooling will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years of age, completely through this book."--Id. "A boy of six years of age may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman senate."--Webster cor. "A lad about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians."--Id. "Of nothing else than that individual white figure of five inches in length, which is before him."--Campbell cor. "Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years of age are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles?"--Guy cor. "Where language three centuries old is employed."--Booth cor. "Let a gallows be made, of fifty cubits in height." Or: "Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made."--Bible cor. "I say to this child, nine years old, 'Bring me that hat.' He hastens, and brings it me."--Osborn cor. "'He laid a floor, twelve feet long, and nine feet wide:' that is, the floor was long to the extent of twelve feet, and wide to the extent of nine feet."--Merchant cor. "The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand in strength." Or: "The Goulah people are a tribe about fifty thousand strong."--Examiner cor.


CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VIII; NOM. ABSOLUTE.

"He having ended his discourse, the assembly dispersed."--Inst. of E. G., p. 190. "I being young, they deceived me."--Ib., p. 279. "They refusing to comply, I withdrew."--Ib. "Thou being present, he would not tell what he knew."--Ib. "The child is lost; and I, whither shall I go?"--Ib. "O happy we! surrounded with so many blessings."--Ib. "'Thou too! Brutus, my son!' cried Cæsar, overcome."--Ib. "Thou! Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?"--Mirror cor. "How swiftly our time passes away! and ah! we, how little concerned to improve it!"--Greenleaf's False Syntax, Gram., p. 47.

  "There all thy gifts and graces we display,
   Thou, only thou, directing all our way."--Pope, Dunciad.


CHAPTER IV.--ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE IX.

UNDER NOTE I.--OF AGREEMENT.

"I am not recommending this kind of sufferings to your liking."--Sherlock cor. "I have not been to London these five years."--Webster cor. "Verbs of this kind are more expressive than their radicals."--Dr. Murray cor. "Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with those vermin."--Kames cor. "But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours."--R. Random cor. "If I had not left off troubling myself about things of that kind."--Swift cor. "For things of this sort are usually joined to the most noted fortune."--Bacon cor. "The nature of those riches and that long-suffering, is, to lead to repentance."--Barclay cor. "I fancy it is this kind of gods, that Horace mentions."--Addison cor. "During those eight days, they are prohibited from touching the skin."--Hope of Is. cor. "Besides, he had but a small quantity of provisions left for his army."--Goldsmith cor. "Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than those of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?"--Murray's Sequel, p. 115. "It distinguishes still more remarkably the feelings of the former from those of the latter."--Kames cor. "And these good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world."--Campbell cor. "These twenty years have I been with thee."--Gen. cor. "In this kind of expressions, some words seem to be understood."--W. Walker cor. "He thought this kind of excesses indicative of greatness."--Hunt cor. "This sort of fellows is very numerous." Or thus: "Fellows of this sort are very numerous."--Spect. cor. "Whereas men of this sort cannot give account of their faith." Or: "Whereas these men cannot give account of their faith."--Barclay cor. "But the question is, whether those are the words."--Id. "So that expressions of this sort are not properly optative."--R. Johnson cor. "Many things are not such as they appear to be."--Sanborn cor. "So that all possible means are used."--Formey cor.

   "We have strict statutes, and most biting laws,
    Which for these nineteen years we have let sleep."--Shak. cor.

    "They could not speak, and so I left them both,
    To bear these tidings to the bloody king."--Shak. cor.