"Thee, Serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,
I knew, but not with human voice indued."
—Id., P. L., B. ix, l. 560.
"How much more grievous would our lives appear.
To reach th' eight-hundredth, than the eightieth year!"
—Denham cor.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced each other at the same time."—Lempriere cor. "Her two brothers were, one after the other, turned into stone."—Kames cor. "Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A gold ring, a silver cup."—Lennie cor. "Fire and water destroy each other"—Wanostrocht cor. "Two negatives, in English, destroy each other, or are equivalent to an affirmative."—Lowth, Murray, et al. cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative."—Kirkham and Felton cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, and make an affirmative."—Flint cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, being equivalent to an affirmative."—Frost cor. "Two objects, resembling each other, are presented to the imagination."—Parker cor. "Mankind, in order to hold converse with one an other, found it necessary to give names to objects."—Kirkham cor. "Derivative words are formed from their primitives in various ways."—Cooper cor. "There are many different ways of deriving words one from an other."—Murray cor. "When several verbs have a joint construction in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually expressed with the first only."—Frost cor. "Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and coming in immediate succession, are also separated by the comma."—Murray et al. cor. "Two or more adverbs, coming in immediate succession, must be separated by the comma."—Iidem. "If, however, the two members are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary."—Iidem. "Gratitude, when exerted towards others, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a generous man."—L. Murray cor. "Several verbs in the infinitive mood, coming in succession, and having a common dependence, are also divided by commas."—Comly cor. "The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation one to an other."—Murray et al. cor. "When two or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] occur in immediate succession, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by the comma."—Comly cor. "One noun frequently follows an other, both meaning the same thing."—Sanborn cor. "And these two tenses may thus answer each other."—R. Johnson cor. "Or some other relation which two objects bear to each other."—Jamieson cor. "That the heathens tolerated one an other is allowed."—A. Fuller cor. "And yet these two persons love each other tenderly."—E. Reader cor. "In the six hundred and first year."—Bible cor. "Nor is this arguing of his, any thing but a reiterated clamour."—Barclay cor. "In several of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found."—Ib. "Though Alvarez, Despauter, and others, do not allow it to be plural."—R. Johnson cor. "Even the most dissipated and shameless blushed at the sight."—Lempriere cor. "We feel a higher satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, than [in contemplating] that of vegetables."— Jamieson cor. "But this man is so full-fraught with malice."—Barclay cor. "That I suggest some things concerning the most proper means."—Dr. Blair cor.
"So, hand in hand, they passed, the loveliest pair
That ever yet in love's embraces met."—Milton cor.
"Aim at supremacy; without such height,
Will be for thee no sitting, or not long."—Id. cor.
CHAPTER V.—PRONOUNS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF PRONOUNS.
LESSON I.—RELATIVES.
"While we attend to this pause, every appearance of singsong must be carefully avoided."—Murray cor. "For thou shalt go to all to whom I shall send thee."—Bible cor. "Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years during which I have possessed my kingdom."—Sanborn cor. "In the same manner in which relative pronouns and their antecedents are usually parsed."—Id. "Parse or explain all the other nouns contained in the examples, after the very manner of the word which is parsed for you."—Id. "The passive verb will always have the person and number that belong to the verb be, of which it is in part composed."—Id. "You have been taught that a verb must always agree in person and number with it subject or nominative."—Id. "A relative pronoun, also, must always agree in person, in number, and even in gender, with its antecedent."—Id. "The answer always agrees in case with the pronoun which asks the question."—Id. "One sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the definite manner of a personal pronoun." [529]—Id. "The mind, being carried forward to the time at which the event is to happen, easily conceives it to be present." "SAVE and SAVING are [seldom to be] parsed in the manner in which EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly explained]."—Id. "Adverbs qualify verbs, or modify their meaning, as adjectives qualify nouns [and describe things.]"—Id. "The third person singular of verbs, terminates in s or es, like the plural number of nouns."—Id. "He saith further: that, 'The apostles did not baptize anew such persons as had been baptized with the baptism of John.'"—Barclay cor. "For we who live,"—or, "For we that are alive, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake."—Bible cor. "For they who believe in God, must be careful to maintain good works."—Barclay cor. "Nor yet of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."—Id. "So as to hold such bound in heaven as they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven as they loose on earth."—Id. "Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife; then such things as are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?"—Id. "All such as do not satisfy themselves with the superfices of religion."—Id. "And he is the same in substance, that he was upon earth,—the same in spirit, soul, and body."—Id. "And those that do not thus, are such, as the Church of Rome can have no charity for." Or: "And those that do not thus, are persons toward whom the Church of Rome can have no charity."—Id. "Before his book, he places a great list of what he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the Quakers."—Id. "And this is what he should have proved."—Id. "Three of whom were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university."—Id. "Therefore it is not lawful for any whomsoever * * * to force the consciences of others."—Id. "Why were the former days better than these?"—Bible cor. "In the same manner in which"—or, better, "Just as—the term my depends on the name books."—Peirce cor. "Just as the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition to, understood after the adjective] NEAR."—Id. "James died on the day on which Henry returned."—Id.