"Whom should I meet the other day but my old friend!"—Spect. cor. "Let not him boast that puts on his armour, but him that takes it off."—Barclay cor. "Let none touch it, but them who are clean."—Sale cor. "Let the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; the world, and them that dwell therein."—Ps. cor. "Pray be private, and careful whom you trust."—Mrs. Goffe cor. "How shall the people know whom to entrust with their property and their liberties?"—J. O. Taylor cor. "The chaplain entreated my comrade and me to dress as well as possible."—World cor. "And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out."—John, vi, 37. "Whom, during this preparation, they constantly and solemnly invoke."—Hope of Is. cor. "Whoever or whatever owes us, is Debtor; and whomever or whatever we owe, is Creditor."—Marsh cor. "Declaring the curricle was his, and he should have in it whom he chose."—A. Ross cor. "The fact is, Burke is the only one of all the host of brilliant contemporaries, whom we can rank as a first-rate orator."—Knickerb. cor. "Thus you see, how naturally the Fribbles and the Daffodils have produced the Messalinas of our time."—Dr. Brown cor. "They would find in the Roman list both the Scipios."—Id. "He found his wife's clothes on fire, and her just expiring."—Observer cor. "To present you holy, and unblamable, and unreprovable in his sight."—Colossians, i, 22. "Let the distributer do his duty with simplicity; the superintendent, with diligence; him who performs offices of compassion, with cheerfulness."—Stuart cor. "If the crew rail at the master of the vessel, whom will they mind?"—Collier cor. "He having none but them, they having none but him"—Drayton cor.
"Thee, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign;
Of thy caprice maternal I complain."—Burns cor.
"Nor weens he who it is, whose charms consume
His longing soul, but loves he knows not whom"—Addison cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.
"When it gives that sense, and also connects sentences, it is a conjunction."—L. Murray cor. "Though thou wilt not acknowledge thyself to—be guilty, thou canst not deny the fact stated."—Id. "They specify some object, like many other adjectives, and also connect sentences."—Kirkham cor. "A violation of this rule tends so much to perplex the reader and obscure the sense, that it is safer to err by using too many short sentences."—L. Murray cor. "A few exercises are subjoined to each important definition, for him [the pupil] to practise upon as he proceeds in committing the grammar to memory."—Nutting cor. "A verb signifying an action directly transitive, governs the accusative."—Adam et al. cor. "Or, any word that can be conjugated, is a verb."—Kirkham cor. "In these two concluding sentences, the author, hastening to a close, appears to write rather carelessly."—Dr. Blair cor. "He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then leaves it."—Id." Praise to God teaches us to be humble and lowly ourselves."—Atterbury cor. "This author has endeavoured to surpass his rivals."—R. W. Green cor. "Idleness and pleasure fatigue a man as soon as business."—Webster cor." And, in conjugating any verb,"—or, "And in learning conjugations, you must pay particular attention to the manner in which these signs are applied."—Kirkham cor. "He said Virginia would have emancipated her slaves long ago."—Lib. cor. "And having a readiness"—or, "And holding ourselves in readiness"—or," And being in readiness—to revenge all disobedience."—Bible cor. "However, in these cases, custom generally determines what is right."—Wright cor. "In proof, let the following cases be taken."—Id. "We must marvel that he should so speedily have forgotten his first principles."—Id. "How should we wonder at the expression, 'This is a soft question!' "—Id. "And such as prefer this course, can parse it as a possessive adjective."—Goodenow cor. "To assign all the reasons that induced the author to deviate from other grammarians, would lead to a needless prolixity."—Alexander cor. "The Indicative Mood simply indicates or declares a thing."—L. Murray's Gram., p. 63.
UNDER NOTE II.—OF VERBS INTRANSITIVE.
"In his seventh chapter he expatiates at great length."—Barclay cor. "He quarrels with me for adducing some ancient testimonies agreeing with what I say."—Id. "Repenting of his design."—Hume cor. "Henry knew, that an excommunication could not fail to produce the most dangerous effects."—Id. "The popular lords did not fail to enlarge on the subject,"—Mrs. Macaulay cor. "He is always master of his subject, and seems to play with it:" or,—"seems to sport himself with it."—Blair cor. "But as soon as it amounts to real disease, all his secret infirmities show themselves."—Id. "No man repented of his wickedness."—Bible cor. "Go one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left,"—Id. "He lies down by the river's edge." Or: "He lays himself down on the river's brink"—W. Walker cor. "For some years past, I have had an ardent wish to retire to some of our American plantations."—Cowley cor. "I fear thou wilt shrink from the payment of it."—Ware cor. "We never retain an idea, without acquiring some combination."—Rippingham cor.
"Yet more; the stroke of death he must abide,
Then lies he meekly down, fast by his brethren's side."
—Milton cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—OF VERBS MISAPPLIED.
"The parliament confiscated the property of all those who had borne arms against the king."—Hume cor. "The practice of confiscating ships that had been wrecked"'—Id. "The nearer his military successes brought him to the throne." Or: "The nearer, through his military successes, he approached the throne."—Id. "In the next example, 'you' represents 'ladies;' therefore it is plural."—Kirkham cor. "The first 'its' stands for 'vale;' the second 'its' represents 'stream'."— Id. "Pronouns do not always prevent the repetition of nouns."—Id. "Very is an adverb of degree; it relates to the adjective good"—Id. "You will please to commit to memory the following paragraph."—Id. "Even the Greek and Latin passive verbs form some of their tenses by means of auxiliaries."—L. Mur. cor. "The deponent verbs in Latin also employ auxiliaries to form several of their tenses."—Id. "I have no doubt he made as wise and true proverbs, as any body has made since."—Id. "Monotonous delivery assumes as many set forms, as ever Proteus did of fleeting shapes."—Kirkham cor. "When words in apposition are uttered in quick succession."—Nixon cor. "Where many such sentences occur in succession."—L. Mur. cor. "Wisdom leads us to speak and do what is most proper."—Blair and L. Murray cor.