"Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole,
That painful animal, the mole."—Dunciad cor.
UNDER NOTE XI.—ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.
"Either thou or the boys were in fault."—Comly cor. "It may, at first view, appear to be too general."—Murray et al. cor. "When the verb has reference to future time."—Iidem. "No; they are the language of imagination, rather than of passion."—Blair cor. "The dislike of English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can be attributed only to the intricacy of [our] syntax."—Russell cor. "Is that ornament in good taste?"—Kames cor. "There are not many fountains in good taste." Or: "Not many fountains are [ornamented] in good taste."—Id. "And I persecuted this way unto death."—Bible cor. "The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension."—Addison, Spect., No. 411. "The distributive adjectives, each, every, either, agree with nouns, pronouns, or verbs, of the singular number only."—Murray cor. "Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to other parts of speech."—Blair cor. "By certain muscles which operate [in harmony, and] all at the same time."—Murray cor. "It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in general concerning them."—Campbell cor. "Nothing disgusts us sooner than empty pomp of language."—Murray cor.
UNDER NOTE XII.—TITLES AND NAMES.
"He is entitled to the appellation of gentleman."—G. Brown. "Cromwell assumed the title of Protector"—Id. "Her father is honoured with the title of Earl."—Id. "The chief magistrate is styled President."— Id. "The highest title in the state is that of Governor."—Id. "That boy is known by the name of Idler."—Murray cor. "The one styled Mufti, is the head of the ministers of law and religion."—Balbi cor. "Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class tree."—Blair cor. "For oak, pine, and ash, were names of whole classes of objects."—Id. "It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of trope, or of figure."—Id. "The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of hiatus."—Adams cor. "We hesitate to determine, whether Tyrant alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the word Spy."—Cobbett cor. "Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into twelvemonth; of seven nights into sennight; of fourteen nights into fortnight."—Webster cor.
UNDER NOTE XIII.—COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.
"He is a better writer than reader."—W. Allen. "He was an abler mathematician than linguist."—Id. "I should rather have an orange than an apple."—G. Brown. "He was no less able as a negotiator, than courageous as a warrior."—Smollett cor. "In an epic poem, we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or an epigram."—Kames cor. "That figure is a sphere, globe, or ball."—Churchill's Gram., p. 357.
UNDER NOTE XIV.—ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.
"The carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."—Key to Inst. "The place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time."—Ib. "Those questions which a person puts to himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated with points of interrogation."— Mur. et al. cor. "The work is designed for the use of those persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries."—Mur. cor. "That those who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at."—Id. "Those grammarians who limit the number to two, or three, do not reflect."—Id. "The substantives which end in ian, are those that signify profession." Or: "Those substantives which end in ian, are such as signify profession."—Id. "To these may be added those verbs which, among the poets, usually govern the dative."—Adam and Gould cor. "The consonants are those letters which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."—Bucke cor. "To employ the curiosity of persons skilled in grammar:"—"of those who are skilled in grammar:"—"of persons that are skilled in grammar:"—"of such persons as are skilled in grammar:" or—"of those persons who are skilled in grammar."—L. Murray cor. "This rule refers only to those nouns and pronouns which have the same bearing, or relation."—Id. "So that the things which are seen, were not made of things that do appear."—Bible cor. "Man is an imitative creature; he may utter again the sounds which he has heard."—Dr. Wilson cor. "But those men whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own."—Dr. Webster cor.