"The Father is figured out as an old venerable man."—Dr. Brownlee's Controversy. "There never was exhibited such another masterpiece of ghostly assurance."—Id. "After the three first sentences, the question is entirely lost."—Spect., No, 476. "The four last parts of speech are commonly called particles."—Alex. Murray's Gram., p. 14. "The two last chapters will not be found deficient in this respect."—Student's Manual, p. 6. "Write upon your slates a list of the ten first nouns."—Abbott's Teacher, p. 85. "We have a few remains of other two Greek poets in the pastoral style, Moschus and Bion."—Blair's Rhet., p. 393. "The nine first chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical."—Ib., p. 417. "For of these five heads, only the two first have any particular relation to the sublime."—Ib., p. 35. "The resembling sounds of the two last syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole."—Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 69. "The three last are arbitrary."—Ib., p. 72. "But in the phrase 'She hangs the curtains,' the verb hangs is a transitive active verb."—Comly's Gram., p. 30. "If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of transitive or intransitive active, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood."—Ib., 15th Ed., p. 30. "These two last lines have an embarrassing construction."—Rush, on the Voice, p. 160. "God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah and other seven persons."—Wood's Dict., ii, 129. "The six first books of the Æneid are extremely beautiful."—Formey's Belles-Lettres, p. 27. "A few more instances only can be given here."—Murray's Gram., p. 131. "A few more years will obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form."—Nutting's Gram., p. 46. "Some define them to be verbs devoid of the two first persons."—Crombie's Treatise, p. 205. "In such another Essay-tract as this."—White's English Verb, p. 302. "But we fear that not such another man is to be found."—REV. ED. IRVING: on Horne's Psalms, p. xxiii.
"Oh such another sleep, that I might see
But such another man!"—SHAK., Antony and Cleopatra.
UNDER NOTE X.—ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.
"The is an article, relating to the noun balm, agreeable to Rule 11."—Comly's Gram., p. 133. "Wise is an adjective relating to the noun man's, agreeable to Rule 11th."—Ibid., 12th Ed., often. "To whom I observed, that the beer was extreme good."—Goldsmith's Essays, p. 127. "He writes remarkably elegant."—O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 152. "John behaves truly civil to all men."—Ib., p. 153. "All the sorts of words hitherto considered have each of them some meaning, even when taken separate."—Beattie's Moral Science, i, 44. "He behaved himself conformable to that blessed example."—Sprat's Sermons, p. 80. "Marvellous graceful."—Clarendon, Life, p. 18. "The Queen having changed her ministry suitable to her wisdom."—Swift, Exam., No. 21. "The assertions of this author are easier detected."—Swift: censured in Lowth's Gram., p. 93. "The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no stronger than that."—Bentley: ibid. "If one author had spoken nobler and loftier than an other."—Id., ib. "Xenophon says express."—Id., ib. "I can never think so very mean of him."—Id., ib. "To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have ungodly committed."—Jude, 15th: ib. "I think it very masterly written."—Swift to Pope, Let. 74: ib. "The whole design must refer to the golden age, which it lively represents."—Addison, on Medals: ib. "Agreeable to this, we read of names being blotted out of God's book."—BURDER: approved in Webster's Impr. Gram., p. 107; Frazee's, 140; Maltby's, 93. "Agreeable to the law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent parents."—Webster's Impr. Gram., p. 109. "Words taken independent of their meaning are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender."—Maltby's Gr., 96.
"Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works."—Beaut. of Shak., p. 236.
UNDER NOTE XI.—THEM FOR THOSE.
"Though he was not known by them letters, or the name Christ."—Wm. Bayly's Works, p. 94. "In a gig, or some of them things."—Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, p. 35. "When cross-examined by them lawyers."—Ib., p. 98. "As the custom in them cases is."—Ib., p. 101. "If you'd have listened to them slanders."—Ib., p. 115. "The old people were telling stories about them fairies, but to the best of my judgment there's nothing in it."—Ib., p. 188. "And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no better authority to substantiate their principles than the testimony of them old Pharisees?"—Hibbard's Errors of the Quakers, p. 107.
UNDER NOTE XII.—THIS AND THAT.
"Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear: this is the anticipation of good, that of evil."—Brown's Institutes, p. 135. "The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account those happy, and these miserable."—Ib.
"Ellen and Margaret fearfully,
Sought comfort in each other's eye;
Then turned their ghastly look each one,
This to her sire, that to her son."
Scott's Lady of the Lake, Canto ii, Stanza 29.