UNDER NOTE III.—CHOICE OF FORMS.
"But some degree of trouble is the portion of all men."—L. Murray et al. cor. "With the names of his father and mother upon the blank leaf."—Abbott cor. "The general, in the name of the army, published a declaration."—Hume cor. "The vote of the Commons."—Id. "The House of Lords."—Id. "A collection of the faults of writers;"—or, "A collection of literary faults."—Swift cor. "After ten years of wars."—Id. "Professing his detestation of such practices as those of his predecessors."—Pope cor. "By that time I shall have ended my year of office."—W. Walker cor. "For the sake of Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip."—Bible and Mur. cor. "I endure all things for the sake of the elect, that they may also obtain salvation."—Bibles cor. "He was heir to the son of Louis the Sixteenth."—W. Allen. "The throne we honour is the people's choice."—Rolla. "An account of the proceedings of Alexander's court."—Inst. "An excellent tutor for the child of a person of fashion!"—Gil Blas cor. "It is curious enough, that this sentence of the Bishop's is, itself, ungrammatical."—Cobbett cor. "The troops broke into the palace of the Emperor Leopold."—Nixon cor. "The meeting was called by desire of Eldon the Judge."—Id. "The occupation of Peter, John, and Andrew, was that of fishermen."—Murray's Key, R. 10. "The debility of the venerable president of the Royal Academy, has lately increased."—Maunder cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS WITH POSSESSIVES PLURAL.
"God hath not given us our reason to no purpose."—Barclay cor. "For our sake, no doubt, this is written."—Bible cor. "Are not health and strength of body desirable for their own sake?"—Harris and Murray cor. "Some sailors who were boiling their dinner upon the shore."—Day cor. "And they, in their turn, were subdued by others."—Pinnock cor. "Industry on our part is not superseded by God's grace."—Arrowsmith cor. "Their health perhaps may be pretty well secured."—Locke cor. "Though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor."—See 2 Cor., viii, 9. "It were to be wished, his correctors had been as wise on their part."—Harris cor. "The Arabs are commended by the ancients for being most exact to their word, and respctful to their kindred."—Sale cor. "That is, as a reward of some exertion on our part."—Gurney cor. "So that it went ill with Moses for their sake."—Ps. cor. "All liars shall have their part in the burning lake."—Watts cor. "For our own sake as well as for thine."—Pref. to Waller cor. "By discovering their ability to detect and amend errors."—L. Murray cor.
"This world I do renounce; and, in your sight,
Shake patiently my great affliction off."—Shak. cor.
"If your relenting anger yield to treat,
Pompey and thou, in safety, here may meet."—Rowe cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—POSSESSIVES WITH PARTICIPLES.
"This will encourage him to proceed without acquiring the prejudice."—Smith cor. "And the notice which they give of an action as being completed or not completed."—L. Mur. et al. cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."—Priestley and A. Mur. cor. "They have apostolical authority for so frequently urging the seeking of the Spirit."—The Friend cor. "Here then is a wide field for reason to exert its powers in relation to the objects of taste."—Dr. Blair cor. "Now this they derive altogether from their greater capacity of imitation and description."—Id. "This is one clear reason why they paid a greater attention to that construction."—Id. "The dialogue part had also a modulation of its own, which was capable of being set to notes."—Id. "Why are we so often frigid and unpersuasive in public discourse?"—Id. "Which is only a preparation for leading his forces directly upon us."—Id. "The nonsense about which, as relating to things only, and having no declension, needs no refutation."—Fowle cor. "Who, upon breaking it open, found nothing but the following inscription."—Rollin cor. "A prince will quickly have reason to repent of having exalted one person so high."—Id. "Notwithstanding it is the immediate subject of his discourse."—Churchill cor. "With our definition of it, as being synonymous with time."—Booth cor. "It will considerably increase our danger of being deceived."—Campbell cor. "His beauties can never be mentioned without suggesting his blemishes also."—Dr. Blair cor. "No example has ever been adduced, of a man conscientiously approving an action, because of its badness." Or:—"of a man who conscientiously approved of an action because of its badness."—Gurney cor. "The last episode, of the angel showing to Adam the fate of his posterity, is happily imagined."—Dr. Blair cor. "And the news came to my son, that he and the bride were in Dublin."—M. Edgeworth cor. "There is no room for the mind to exert any great effort."—Dr. Blair cor. "One would imagine, that these critics never so much as heard that Homer wrote first."—Pope cor. "Condemn the book, for not being a geography;" or,—"because it is not a geography."—Peirce cor. "There will be in many words a transition from being the figurative to being the proper signs of certain ideas."—Campbell cor. "The doctrine that the Pope is the only source of ecclesiastical power."—Rel. World cor. "This was the more expedient, because the work was designed for the benefit of private learners."—L. Murray cor. "This was done, because the Grammar, being already in type, did not admit of enlargement."—Id.