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with a penalty was to be imposed on the members."--Junius cor. "Light, or knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God."--Bp. Butler cor. "For instance, sickness or untimely death is the consequence of intemperance."--Id. "When grief or blood ill-tempered vexeth him." Or: "When grief, with blood ill-tempered, vexes him"--Shak. cor. "Does continuity, or connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?"--Collier cor. "His greatest concern, his highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator."--L. Murray cor. "Know ye not that there is[542] a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?"--Bible cor. "What is vice, or wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it."--Collier cor. "There is also the fear or apprehension of it."--Bp. Butler cor. "The apostrophe with s ('s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive."--Bullions cor. "Ti, ce, OR ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, ocean, special."--Weld cor.

   "Bitter constraint of sad occasion dear
    Compels me to disturb your season due."--Milton cor.

    "Debauch'ry, or excess, though with less noise,
     As great a portion of mankind destroys."--Waller cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.

"Wisdom, and not wealth, procures esteem."--Inst., Key, p. 272. "Prudence, and not pomp, is the basis of his fame."--Ib. "Not fear, but labour has overcome him."--Ib. "The decency, and not the abstinence, makes the difference."--Ib. "Not her beauty, but her talents attract attention."--Ib. "It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attract attention."--Ib. "It is her beauty, and not her talents, that attracts attention."--Ib.

   "His belly, not his brains, this impulse gives:
    He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live." Or thus:--
   "His bowels, not his brains, this impulse give:
    He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live."--Young cor.

UNDER NOTE III.--AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.

"Common sense, as well as piety, tells us these are proper."--Fam. Com. cor. "For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, has nothing left but to abandon himself to chance."--Kames cor. "And accordingly hatred, as well as love, is extinguished by long absence'."--Id. "But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, is conspicuous."--Id. "But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defies all translation."--Coleridge cor. "But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, was strangely misrepresented."--Bolingbroke, on History, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93. "But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, was conspicuous."--Robertson cor. "When their extent, as well as their value, was unknown."--Id. "The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, is reserved for his attention at a later period."--Parker and Fox cor. "What I myself owe to him, no one but myself knows."--Wright cor. "None, but thou, O mighty prince! can avert the blow."--Inst., Key, p. 272. "Nothing, but frivolous amusements, pleases the indolent."--Ib.

   "Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, was heard."--G. B.

   "All songsters, save the hooting owl, were mute."--G. B.

UNDER NOTE IV.--EACH, EVERY, OR NO.

"Give every word, and every member, its due weight and force."--Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 316. "And to one of these belongs every noun, and every third person of every verb."--Dr. Wilson cor. "No law, no restraint, no regulation, is required to keep him within bounds."--Lit. Journal cor. "By that time, every window and every door in the street was full of heads."--Observer cor. "Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stands back from this field, and leaves Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example." Or: "All systems of religion, and all schools of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example."--Abbott cor. "Each day, and each hour, brings its portion of duty."--Inst., Key, p. 272. "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, resorted unto him."--Bible cor. "Every private Christian, every member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that he may know his faith and belief to be founded upon them."--Barclay cor. "And every mountain and every island was moved out of its place."--Bible cor.

   "No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride,
    No cavern'd hermit rests self-satisfied."--Pope.

UNDER NOTE V.--WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND.

"The sides, A, B, and C, compose the triangle."--Tobitt, Felch, and Ware cor. "The stream, the rock, and the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination."--Dr. Blair cor. "While this, with euphony, constitutes, finally, the whole."--O. B. Peirce cor. "The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, was stolen."--Cobbett cor. "Sobriety, with great industry and talent, enables a man to perform great deeds." Or: "Sobriety, industry, and talent,