UNDER NOTE II.—AN OR A WITH PLURALS.
"At a session of the court, in March, it was moved," &c.—Hutchinson cor. "I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda."—D. D'Ab. cor. "I took an other dictionary, and with a pair of scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."—A. B. Johnson cor. "A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, and about forty-five years old."—Gardiner cor. "And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings."—Bible cor. "There were slain of them about three thousand men."—1 Macc. cor. "Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed other Alps of snow."—Addison cor. "To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained."—Goldsmith cor. "As a first-fruit of many that shall be gathered."—Barclay cor. "It makes indeed a little amend, (or some amends,) by inciting us to oblige people."—Sheffield cor. "A large and lightsome back stairway (or flight of backstairs) leads up to an entry above."—Id. "Peace of mind is an abundant recompense for any sacrifices of interest."—Murray et al. cor. "With such a spirit, and such sentiments, were hostilities carried on."—Robertson cor. "In the midst of a thick wood, he had long lived a voluntary recluse."—G. B. "The flats look almost like a young forest."—Chronicle cor. "As we went on, the country for a little way improved, but scantily."—Freeman cor. "Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after a captivity of seventy years at Babylon."—Rollin cor. "He did not go a great way into the country."—Gilbert cor.
"A large amend by fortune's hand is made,
And the lost Punic blood is well repay'd."—Rowe cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—NOUNS CONNECTED.
"As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and the odour of flowers."—Kames cor. "The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and the softness of its pause."—Id. "Before the use of the loadstone, or the knowledge of the compass."—Dryden cor. "The perfect participle and the imperfect tense ought not to be confounded."—Murray cor. "In proportion as the taste of a poet or an orator becomes more refined."—Blair cor. "A situation can never be more intricate, so long as there is an angel, a devil, or a musician, to lend a helping hand."—Kames cor. "Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or a bone broken."—Inst., p. 262. "Not a word was uttered, nor a sign given."—Ib. "I despise not the doer, but the deed."—Ib. "For the sake of an easier pronunciation and a more agreeable sound."—Lowth cor. "The levity as well as the loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history."— Bolingbroke cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.
"It is proper that the vowels be a long and a short one."—Murray cor. "Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or a short time before."—Id. et al. "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."—Adam cor. "The numbers are two; the singular and the plural."—Id. et al. "The persons are three; the first, the second, and the third."—Iidem. "Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."— Comly and Ing. cor. "Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, the indicative, the potential, the subjunctive, and the imperative."— Bullions et al. cor. "How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and the plural."—Bradley cor. "To distinguish between an interrogative and an exclamatory sentence."—Murray et al. cor. "The first and the last of which are compound members."—Lowth cor. "In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and the diffuse, the nervous and the feeble manner."—Blair cor. "The passive and the neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation."—Ingersoll cor. "There are two voices; the active and the passive."—Adam et al. cor. "WHOSE is rather the poetical than the regular genitive of WHICH."—Johnson cor. "To feel the force of a compound or a derivative word."—Town cor. "To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions."—Murray et al. cor. "E has a long and a short sound in most languages."—Bicknell cor. "When the figurative and the literal sense are mixed and jumbled together."—Dr. Blair cor. "The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and the Phoenician stand in connexion."—Conant and Fowler cor. "The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish."—Fowler cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.
"The path of truth is a plain and safe path."—Murray cor. "Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution."—Kirkham cor. "Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method."—Id. "How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?"—Cowley cor. "Into a dark and distant unknown."—Dr. Chalmers cor. "When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man."—Chazotte cor. "We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence."—Murray cor. "And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste."—Dr. Blair cor. "Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion."—Id. "The deepest and bitterest feeling still is that of the separation."—Dr. M'Rie cor. "A great and good man looks beyond time."—See Brown's Inst., p. 263. "They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance."—Ib. "The light and worthless kernels will float."—Ib. "I rejoice that there is an other and better world."—Ib. "For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the public an other and better edition."—Kirkham cor. "He hoped that this title would secure to him an ample and independent authority."—L. Murray cor. et al. "There is, however, an other and more limited sense."—J. Q. Adams cor.