UNDER NOTE VII.—OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.
"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as do adjectives."—Priestley cor. "But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, did more than any one else, to bring our language into its present state, was Dryden."—Blair cor. "In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor do courts of chancery employ any at all."—Webster cor. "I feel grateful to my friend."—Murray cor. "This requires a writer to have in his own mind a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us."—Blair cor. "Sense has its own harmony, which naturally contributes something to the harmony of sound."—Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which gave to the word an additional syllable."—Priestley cor. "There are few to whom I can refer with more advantage than to Mr. Addison."—Blair cor. "DEATH, (in theology,) is a perpetual separation from God, a state of eternal torments."—Webster cor. "That could inform the traveller as well as could the old man himself!"—O. B. Peirce cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—OF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.
"Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth."—SCOTT, FRIENDS, and the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE: Jer., xlix, 3. "Wash you, make you clean."—SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, i, 16. "Strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins."—SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, xxxii, 11. "Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me."—SCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY: Job, xix, 3. "If ye knew the gift of God." Or: "If thou knew the gift of God."—See John, iv, 10. "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know you not."—Penington cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF PROPER IDENTITY.
"Who would not say, 'If it be I,' rather than, 'If it be me?"—Priestley cor. "Who is there? It is I."—Id. "It is he."—Id. "Are these the houses you were speaking of? Yes; they are the same."—Id. "It is not I, that you are in love with."—Addison cor. "It cannot be I."—Swift cor. "To that which once was thou."—Prior cor. "There is but one man that she can have, and that man is myself."—Priestley cor. "We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure he." Or, better:—"and become in some measure identified with him."—A. Smith and Priestley cor. "Art thou proud yet? Ay, that I am not thou."—Shak. cor. "He knew not who they were."—Milnes cor. "Whom do you think me to be?"—Dr. Lowth's Gram., p. 17. "Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?"—Bible cor. "But who say ye that I am?"—Id. "Who think ye that I am? I am not he."—Id. "No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person that I supposed it was."—Winter in London cor. "And while it is He that I serve, life is not without value."—Ware cor. "Without ever dreaming it was he."—Charles XII cor. "Or he was not the illiterate personage that he affected to be."—Montgom. cor. "Yet was he the man who was to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles."—Barclay cor. "Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or thou."—J. Hogg cor. "Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was I."—Dryden cor. "No matter where the vanquished be, or who."—Rowe cor. "No; I little thought it had been he."—Gratton cor. "That reverence, that godly fear, which is ever due to 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.'"—Maturin cor. "It is we that they seek to please, or rather to astonish."—J. West cor. "Let the same be her that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac."—Bible cor. "Although I knew it to be him."—Dickens cor. "Dear gentle youth, is't none but thou?"—Dorset cor. "Who do they say it is?"—Fowler cor.
"These are her garb, not she; they but express
Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress."—More cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—OF THE CASE DOUBTFUL.
"I had no knowledge of any connexion between them."—Col. Stone cor. "To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing, as to be the actors of it ourselves." (That is, "For us to promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing as for us to be the actors of it ourselves.")—Murray cor. "It must arise from a delicate feeling in ourselves."—Blair and Murray cor. "Because there has not been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."—Mass. Legisl. cor. "PUPILAGE, n. The state of a pupil, or scholar."—Dictionaries cor. "Then the other part, being the definition, would include all verbs, of every description."—Peirce cor. "John's friendship for me saved me from inconvenience."—Id. "William's judgeship"—or, "William's appointment to the office of judge,—changed his whole demeanour."—Id. "William's practical acquaintance with teaching, was the cause of the interest he felt."—Id. "To be but one among many, stifleth the chidings of conscience."—Tupper cor. "As for the opinion that it is a close translation, I doubt not that many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."—Pope cor. "All presumption that death is the destruction of living beings, must go upon the supposition that they are compounded, and therefore discerptible."—Bp. Butler cor. "This argues rather that they are proper names."—Churchill cor. "But may it not be retorted, that this gratification itself, is that which excites our resentment?"—Campbell cor. "Under the common notion, that it is a system of the whole poetical art."—Blair cor. "Whose want of time, or whose other circumstances, forbid them to become classical scholars."—Lit. Jour. cor. "It would prove him not to have been a mere fictitious personage." Or: "It would preclude the notion that he was merely a fictitious personage."—Phil. Mu. cor. "For heresy, or under pretence that they are heretics or infidels."—Oath cor. "We may here add Dr. Horne's sermon on Christ, as being the Object of religious adoration."—Rel. World cor. "To say nothing of Dr. Priestley, as being a strenuous advocate," &c.—Id. "Through the agency of Adam, as being their public head." Or: "Because Adam was their public head."—Id. "Objections against the existence of any such moral plan as this."—Butler cor. "A greater instance of a man being a blockhead."—Spect. cor. "We may insure or promote what will make it a happy state of existence to ourselves."—Gurney cor. "Since it often undergoes the same kind of unnatural treatment."—Kirkham cor. "Their apparent foolishness"—"Their appearance of foolishness"—or, "That they appear foolishness,—is no presumption against this."—Butler cor. "But what arises from them as being offences; i.e., from their liability to be perverted."—Id. "And he went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one that worshiped God."—Acts cor.