"This distinction forms what are called the diffuse style and the concise."—Dr. Blair cor. "Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic manner and the Asiatic."—Adams cor. "But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid."—Bolingbroke cor. "In the solemn and poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected."—Allen cor. "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective case and the nominative." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both the objective and the nominative case." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative case, and also in the objective." Or: "They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: "They cannot be, at the same time, in both cases, the nominative and the objective."—Murray et al. cor. "They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees."—Smart cor. "Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees."—Fowler cor. "In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense."—Murray et al. cor. "The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future tense, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative."—Kirkham bettered. "What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third persons?"—Id. "Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or the objective case after the neuter verb be, or after an active-intransitive or a passive verb." "The verb varies its ending in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third persons."—Id. "They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing stress."—Rush cor. "In a sonnet, the first, the fourth, the fifth, and the eighth line, usually rhyme to one an other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh lines; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth lines; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth lines."—Churchill cor. "The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed."—Wright cor. "If, as you say, the iron and the golden age are past, the youth and the manhood of the world."—Id. "An Exposition of the Old and New Testaments."—Henry cor. "The names and order of the books of the Old and the New Testament."—Bible cor. "In the second and third persons of that tense."—Murray cor. "And who still unites in himself the human and the divine nature."—Gurney cor. "Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages."—Murray cor. "Whence arise these two numbers, the singular and the plural."—Burn cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—CORRESPONDENT TERMS.
"Neither the definitions nor the examples are entirely the same as his."—Ward cor. "Because it makes a discordance between the thought and the expression."—Kames cor. "Between the adjective and the following substantive."—Id. "Thus Athens became both the repository and the nursery of learning."—Chazotte cor. "But the French pilfered from both the Greek and the Latin."—Id. "He shows that Christ is both the power and the wisdom of God."—The Friend cor. "That he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living."—Bible cor. "This is neither the obvious nor the grammatical meaning of his words."—Blair cor. "Sometimes both the accusative and the infinitive are understood."—Adam and Gould cor. "In some cases, we can use either the nominative or the accusative, promiscuously."—Iidem. "Both the former and the latter substantive are sometimes to be understood."—Iidem. "Many of which have escaped both the commentator and the poet himself."—Pope cor. "The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and a past signification."—L. Murray cor. "How shall we distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the government?"—Dr. Webster cor. "Both the ecclesiastical and the secular powers concurred in those measures."—Dr. Campbell cor. "As the period has a beginning and an end within itself, it implies an inflection."—J. Q. Adams cor. "Such as ought to subsist between a principal and an accessory."—Ld. Kames cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.
"When both the upward and the downward slide occur in the sound of one syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE."—Kirkham cor. "The word THAT is used both in the nominative and in the objective case."—Sanborn cor. "But in all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and of the passive voice [the verbs] are conjugated at large."—Murray cor. "Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future tense into the indicative mood, reject it from the subjunctive."—Id. "After the same conjunction, to use both the indicative and the subjunctive mood in the same sentence, and under the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety."—Id. "The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative mood in this tense."—Id. "I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or the English language."—Chazotte cor. "It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and the passive."—Nixon cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.—A SERIES OF TERMS.
"As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and the husbandman."—Chazotte cor. "They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, the Philanthropists, the Pestalozzians, and the Productives."—Smith cor. "Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the first-future, and the second-future."—Murray et al. cor. "Is it an irregular neuter verb [from be, was, being, been; found in] the indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number."—Murray cor. "SHOULD GIVE is an irregular active-transitive verb [from give, gave, given, giving; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number."—Id. "US is a personal pronoun, of the first person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."—Id. "THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number, masculine gender, and objective case."—Id. "It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, a point of admiration, or a parenthesis."—Dr. Wilson cor. "The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth verses." Or: "The fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth verse."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Substitutes have three persons; the First, the Second, and the Third."—Id. "JOHN'S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and is governed by 'WIFE,' according to Rule" [4th, which says, &c.]—Smith cor. "Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—Bar. and Alex. cor. "The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and the pluperfect."—Ingersoll cor.
"Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend,
And own the patron, patriot, and friend."—Savage cor.
UNDER NOTE X.—SPECIES AND GENUS.
"The pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for the noun."—Paul's Ac. cor. "The verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense."—Id. "The participle is a part of speech derived from the verb."—Id. "The adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles, adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification."—Id. "The conjunction is a part of speech that joins words or sentences together."—Id. "The preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts."—Id. "The interjection is a part of speech which betokens a sudden emotion or passion of the mind."—Id. "The enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory."—Blair and Murray cor. "We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of the allegory."—Iidem. "And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of art."—Harris cor. "We may 'imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,' as Mr. Harris acutely observes."—Churchill cor. "But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of metaphor, very beautiful, (or, one very beautiful instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full advantage."—Blair cor. "Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses metaphor in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as the whole put for a part, or a part for the whole; a species for the genus, or the genus for a species."—Id. "It shows what kind of apple it is of which we are speaking."—Kirkham cor. "Cleon was an other sort of man."—Goldsmith cor. "To keep off his right wing, as a kind of reserved body."—Id. "This part of speech is called the verb."—Mack cor. "What sort of thing is it?"—Hiley cor. "What sort of charm do they possess?"—Bullions cor.