UNDER NOTE I.—THE POSSESSIVE FORM.

"Man's chief good is an upright mind."—Key to Inst. "The translator of Mallet's History has the following note."—Webster cor. "The act, while it gave five years' full pay to the officers, allowed but one year's pay to the privates."—Id. "For the study of English is preceded by several years' attention to Latin and Greek."—Id. "The first, the Court-Baron, is the freeholders' or freemen's court."—Coke cor. "I affirm that Vaugelas's definition labours under an essential defect."—Campbell cor.; and also Murray. "There is a chorus in Aristophanes's plays."—Blair cor. "It denotes the same perception in my mind as in theirs."—Duncan cor. "This afterwards enabled him to read Hickes's Saxon Grammar."—Life of Dr. Mur. cor. "I will not do it for ten's sake."—Ash cor. Or: "I will not destroy it for ten's sake."—Gen., xviii, 32. "I arose, and asked if those charming infants were hers."—Werter cor. "They divide their time between milliners' shops and the taverns."—Dr. Brown cor. "The angels' adoring of Adam is also mentioned in the Talmud."—Sale cor. "Quarrels arose from the winners' insulting of those who lost."—Id. "The vacancy occasioned by Mr. Adams's resignation."—Adv. to Adams's Rhet. cor. "Read, for instance, Junius's address, commonly called his Letter to the King."—Adams cor. "A perpetual struggle against the tide of Hortensius's influence."—Id. "Which, for distinction's sake, I shall put down severally."—R. Johnson cor. "The fifth case is in a clause signifying the matter of one's fear."—Id. "And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field."—Alger cor. "Arise for thy servants' help, and redeem them for thy mercy's sake."—Jenks cor. "Shall not their cattle, their substance, and every beast of theirs, be ours?"—COM. BIBLE: Gen., xxxiv, 23. "Its regular plural, bullaces, is used by Bacon."—Churchill cor. "Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house."—Scott cor. "Behold, they that wear soft clothing, are in kings' houses."—Alger's Bible. "Then Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses's wife, and her two sons; and Jethro, Moses's father-in-law, came, with his sons and his wife, unto Moses."—Scott's Bible. "King James's translators merely revised former translations."—Frazee cor. "May they be like corn on houses' tops."—White cor.

"And for his Maker's image' sake exempt."—Milton cor.

"By all the fame acquired in ten years' war."—Rowe cor.

"Nor glad vile poets with true critics' gore."—Pope cor.

"Man only of a softer mold is made,
Not for his fellows' ruin, but their aid."—Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—POSSESSIVES CONNECTED.

"It was necessary to have both the physician's and the surgeon's advice."—L. Murray's False Syntax, Rule 10. "This outside fashionableness of the tailor's or the tirewoman's making."—Locke cor. "Some pretending to be of Paul's party, others of Apollos's, others of Cephas's, and others, (pretending yet higher,) to be of Christ's."—Wood cor. "Nor is it less certain, that Spenser and Milton's spelling agrees better with our pronunciation."—Phil. Museum cor. "Law's, Edwards's, and Watts's Survey of the Divine Dispensations." Or thus: "Law, Edwards, and Watts's, Surveys of the Divine Dispensations."—Burgh cor. "And who was Enoch's Saviour, and the prophets'?"—Bayly cor. "Without any impediment but his own, his parents', or his guardian's will."—Journal corrected. "James relieves neither the boy's nor the girl's distress."—Nixon cor. "John regards neither the master's nor the pupil's advantage."—Id. "You reward neither the man's nor the woman's labours."—Id. "She examines neither James's nor John's conduct."—Id. "Thou pitiest neither the servant's nor the master's injuries."—Id. "We promote England's or Ireland's happiness."—Id. "Were Cain's and Abel's occupation the same?"—G. Brown. "Were Cain and Abel's occupations the same?"—Id. "What was Simon and Andrew's employment?"—Id. "Till he can read for himself Sanctius's Minerva with Scioppius's and Perizonius's Notes."—Locke cor.

"And love and friendship's finely-pointed dart
Falls blunted from each indurated heart." Or:—

"And love's and friendship's finely-pointed dart
Fall blunted from each indurated heart."—Goldsmith cor.