CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR.
"We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists."—Johnson corrected. "A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, constitutes a nominative case absolute."—Bicknell cor. "The relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, uses to govern:" or,—"usually governs."—Adam, Gould, et al., cor. "In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice gives rise to."—Knight cor. "By which he, or his deputy, was authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest."—Junius cor. "Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, was concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious."—Dr. Blair cor. "The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, is a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."—Kames cor. "Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, represents the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect."—D. Boileau cor. "Hence naturally arises indifference or aversion between the parties."—Dr. Brown cor. "A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, is a character nowhere to be found."—Tract cor. "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitles them to imitation."—Johnson cor. "Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, is often of decisive influence."—Duncan cor. "A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, relieves the folio page."—D'Israeli cor. "For outward matter or event fashions not the character within." Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)—"fashioneth not the character within."—Tupper cor. "Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, has warmed cold brains."—Dryden cor. "Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight is an individual."—Harris cor. "When et, aut, vel, sive, or nec, is repeated before different members of the same sentence."—Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor. "Wisdom or folly governs us."—Fisk cor. "A or an is styled the indefinite article"—Folker cor. "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoots up into a prodigy."—Spect. cor. "Is either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?"—Prof. Fowler cor.
"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Is lost on hearers that our merits know."—Pope cor.