UNDER NOTE XVI.—FIGURE OF ADJECTIVES.
"The tall dark mountains and the deep-toned seas."—Dana. "O! learn from him To station quick-eyed Prudence at the helm."—Frost cor. "He went in a one-horse chaise."—David Blair cor. "It ought to be, 'in a one-horse chaise.'"—Crombie cor. "These are marked with the above-mentioned letters."—Folker cor. "A many-headed faction."—Ware cor. "Lest there should be no authority in any popular grammar, for the perhaps heaven-inspired effort."—Fowle cor. "Common-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; one of eight, and the next of six syllables. They were formerly written in two fourteen-syllable lines."—Goodenow cor. "Short-metre stanzas consist of four iambic lines; the third of eight, the rest of six syllables."—Id. "Particular-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the third and sixth of six syllables, the rest of eight."—Id. "Hallelujah-metre stanzas consist of six iambic lines; the last two of eight syllables, and the rest of six."—Id. "Long-metre stanzas are merely the union of four iambic lines, of ten syllables each."—Id. "A majesty more commanding than is to be found among the rest of the Old-Testament poets."—Blair cor.
"You, sulphurous and thought-executed fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o' th' world!"—Lear, Act iii, Sc. 2.
CHAPTER V.—PRONOUNS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE X AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—OF AGREEMENT.
"The subject is to be joined with its predicate."—Wilkins cor. "Every one must judge of his own feelings."—Byron cor. "Every one in the family should know his or her duty."—Penn cor. "To introduce its possessor into that way in which he should go."—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "Do not they say, that every true believer has the Spirit of God in him?"—Barclay cor. "There is none in his natural state righteous; no, not one."—Wood cor. "If ye were of the world, the world would love its own."—Bible cor. "His form had not yet lost all its original brightness."—Milton cor. "No one will answer as if I were his friend or companion."—Steele cor. "But, in lowliness of mind, let each esteem others better than himself."—Bible cor. "And let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his neighbour."—Id. "For every tree is known by its own fruit."—Id. "But she fell to laughing, like one out of his right mind."—M. Edgeworth cor. "Now these systems, so far from having any tendency to make men better, have a manifest tendency to make them worse."—Wayland cor. "And nobody else would make that city his refuge any more."—Josephus cor. "What is quantity, as it respects syllables or words? It is the time which a speaker occupies in pronouncing them."—Bradley cor. "In such expressions, the adjective so much resembles an adverb in its meaning, that it is usually parsed as such."—Bullions cor. "The tongue is like a racehorse; which runs the faster, the less weight he carries." Or thus: "The tongue is like a racehorse; the less weight it carries, the faster it runs."—Addison, Murray, et al. cor. "As two thoughtless boys were trying to see which could lift the greatest weight with his jaws, one of them had several of his firm-set teeth wrenched from their sockets."—Newspaper cor. "Every body nowadays publishes memoirs; every body has recollections which he thinks worthy of recording."—Duchess D'Ab. cor. "Every body trembled, for himself, or for his friends."—Goldsmith cor.
"A steed comes at morning: no rider is there;
But his bridle is red with the sign of despair."—Campbell cor.
UNDER NOTE I.—PRONOUNS WRONG—OR NEEDLESS.
"Charles loves to study; but John, alas! is very idle."—Merchant cor. "Or what man is there of you, who, if his son ask bread, will give him a stone?"—Bible cor. "Who, in stead of going about doing good, are perpetually intent upon doing mischief."—Tillotson cor. "Whom ye delivered up, and denied in the presence of Pontius Pilate."—Bible cor. "Whom, when they had washed her, they laid in an upper chamber."—Id. "Then Manasseh knew that the Lord was God."—Id. "Whatever a man conceives clearly, he may, if he will be at the trouble, put into distinct propositions, and express clearly to others."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 93. "But the painter, being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, cannot exhibit various stages of the same action."—Murray's Gram., i, 195. "What he subjoins, is without any proof at all."—Barclay cor. "George Fox's Testimony concerning Robert Barclay."—Title cor. "According to the advice of the author of the Postcript [sic—KTH]."—Barclay cor. "These things seem as ugly to the eye of their meditations, as those Ethiopians that were pictured on Nemesis's pitcher."—Bacon cor. "Moreover, there is always a twofold condition propounded with the Sphynx's enigmas."—Id. "Whoever believeth not therein, shall perish."—Koran cor. "When, at Sestius's entreaty, I had been at his house."—W. Walker cor.