opulence upon the fine arts."--Id. "It is the giving of different names to the same object."--Id. "When we have in view the erecting of a column."--Id. "The straining of an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so frequent."--Id. "The cutting of evergreens in the shape of animals, is very ancient."--Id. "The keeping of juries without meat, drink, or fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea."--Webster cor. "The writing of the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise."--Beck cor. "The avoiding of them is not an object of any moment."--Sheridan cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the signification of a word by degrees."--Brit. Gram. cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the quality by degrees."--Buchanan cor. "The placing of a circumstance before the word with which it is connected is the easiest of all inversion."--Id. "What is emphasis? It is the emitting of a stronger and fuller sound of voice," &c.--Bradley cor. "Besides, the varying of the terms will render the use of them more familiar."--A. Mur. cor. "And yet the confining of themselves to this true principle, has misled them."--Tooke cor. "What is here commanded, is merely the relieving of his misery."--Wayland cor. "The accumulating of too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind in stead of adorning it."--Formey cor. "For the compassing of his point."--Rollin cor. "To the introducing of such an inverted order of things."--Bp. Butler cor. "Which require only the doing of an external action."--Id. "The imprisoning of my body is to satisfy your wills."--Fox cor. "Who oppose the conferring of such extensive command on one person."--Duncan cor. "Luxury contributed not a little to the enervating of their forces."--Sale cor. "The keeping of one day of the week for a sabbath."--Barclay cor. "The doing of a thing is contrary to the forbearing of it."--Id. "The doubling of the Sigma is, however, sometimes regular."--Knight cor. "The inserting of the common aspirate too, is improper."--Id. "But in Spenser's time the pronouncing of the ed [as a separate syllable,] seems already to have been something of an archaism."--Phil. Mu. cor. "And to the reconciling of the effect of their verses on the eye."--Id. "When it was not in their power to hinder the taking of the whole."--Dr. Brown cor. "He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting of the gates."--Id. "So his whole life was a doing of the will of the Father."--Penington cor. "It signifies the suffering or receiving of the action expressed."--Priestley cor. "The pretended crime therefore was the declaring of himself to be the Son of God."--West cor. "Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its different parts of speech."--Beck cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.
"There is no expecting of the admiration of beholders."--Baxter cor. "There is no hiding of you in the house."--Shak. cor. "For the better regulating of government in the province of Massachusetts."--Brit. Parl. cor. "The precise marking of the shadowy boundaries of a complex government."--Adams cor. "This state of discipline requires the voluntary foregoing of many things which we desire, and the setting of ourselves to what we have no inclination to."--Bp. Butler cor. "This amounts to an active setting of themselves against religion."--Id. "Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing of our Christian discipline."--Friends cor. "Some men are so unjust that there is no securing of our own property or life, but by opposing force to force."--Rev. John Brown cor. "An Act for the better securing of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject."--Geo. III cor. "Miraculous curing of the sick is discontinued."--Barclay cor. "It would have been no transgressing of the apostle's rule."--Id. "As far as consistent with the proper conducting of the business of the House."--Elmore cor. "Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning of them at that day." Or:--"at their just condemnation at that day."--Bunyan cor. "That transferring of this natural manner will insure propriety."--Rush cor. "If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old [i.e., frequent] turning of the key."--Singer's Shakspeare cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.
"So very simple a thing as a man's wounding of himself."--Dr. Blair cor., and Murray. "Or with that man's avowing of his designs."--Blair, Mur., et al. cor. "On his putting of the question."--Adams cor. "The importance of teachers' requiring of their pupils to read each section many times over."--Kirkham cor. "Politeness is a kind of forgetting of one's self, in order to be agreeable to others."--Ramsay cor. "Much, therefore, of the merit and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing of us into some acquaintance with the writer."--Blair and Mack cor. "Richard's restoration to respectability depends on his paying of his debts."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Their supplying of ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing of the words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."--Id. "Her veiling of herself, and shedding of tears, &c., her upbraiding of Paris for his cowardice," &c.--Blair cor. "A preposition may be made known by its admitting of a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case."--Murray et al. cor. "But this forms no just objection to its denoting of time."--L. Mur. cor. "Of men's violating or disregarding of the relations in which God has here placed them."--Bp. Butler cor. "Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man's killing of his antagonist in a duel."--Campbell cor. "His reminding of them."--Kirkham cor. "This mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing of him to plant some beans."--Id. "Their neglecting of this was ruinous."--Frost cor. "That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing of the others as 'finite.'"--Felch cor. "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing of it." Or:--"that he does it."--Sheridan cor.
