"Our manners should be neither gross nor excessively refined."—Murray's Key, ii, 165. "A neuter verb expresses neither action nor passion, but being, or a state of being."—O. B. Peirce cor. "The old books are neither English grammars, nor in any sense grammars of the English language."—Id. "The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet so accurate and so much simplified as it may be."—Kirkham cor. "The writer could not treat some topics so extensively as [it] was desirable [to treat them]."—Id. "Which would be a matter of such nicety, that no degree of human wisdom could regulate it."—L. Murray cor. "No undertaking is so great or difficult, that he cannot direct it."—Duncan cor. "It is a good which depends neither on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune."—Harris cor. "Not only his estate, but his reputation too, has suffered by his misconduct."—Murray and Ingersoll cor. "Neither do they extend so far as might be imagined at first view."—Dr. Blair cor. "There is no language so poor, but that it has (or, as not to have) two or three past tenses."—Id. "So far as this system is founded in truth, language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin."—Id. "I have not such command of these convulsions as is necessary." Or: "I have not that command of these convulsions which is necessary."—Spect. cor. "Conversation with such as (or, those who) know no arts that polish life."—Id. "And which cannot be either very lively or very forcible."—Jamieson cor. "To such a degree as to give proper names to rivers."—Dr. Murray cor. "In the utter overthrow of such as hate to be reformed."—Barclay cor. "But still so much of it is retained, that it greatly injures the uniformity of the whole."—Priestley cor. "Some of them have gone to such a height of extravagance, as to assert," &c.—Id. "A teacher is confined, not more than a merchant, and probably not so much."—Abbott cor. "It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come." Or: "It shall not be forgiven him, either in this world, or in the world to come."—Bible cor. "Which nobody presumes, or is so sanguine as to hope."—Swift cor. "For the torrent of the voice left neither time, nor power in the organs, to shape the words properly."—Sheridan cor. "That he may neither unnecessarily waste his voice by throwing out too much, nor diminish his power by using too little."—Id. "I have retained only such as appear most agreeable to the measures of analogy."—Littleton cor. "He is a man both prudent and industrious."—P. E. Day cor. "Conjunctions connect either words or sentences."—Brown's Inst., p. 169.
"Such silly girls as love to chat and play,
Deserve no care; their time is thrown away."—Tobitt cor.
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
That to be hated she but needs be seen."—Pope cor.
"Justice must punish the rebellious deed;
Yet punish so that pity shall exceed."—Dryden cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.—IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
"THAT, WHOSE, and AS, relate either to persons or to things." Or better:—"relate as well to persons as to things."—Sanborn cor. "WHICH and WHAT, as adjectives, relate either to persons or to things." Or better:—"relate to persons as well as to things."—Id. "Whether of a public or of a private nature."—J. Q. Adams cor. "Which are included among both the public and the private wrongs."—Id. "I might extract, both from the Old and from the New Testament, numberless examples of induction."—Id. "Many verbs are used both in an active and in a neuter signification." Or thus: "Many verbs are used in both an active and a neuter signification."—Lowth, Mur., et al., cor. "Its influence is likely to be considerable, both on the morals and on the taste of a nation."—Dr. Blair cor. "The subject afforded a variety of scenes, both of the awful and of the tender kind."—Id. "Restlessness of mind disqualifies us both for the enjoyment of peace, and for the performance of our duty."—Mur. and Ing. cor. "Pronominal adjectives are of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and of adjectives."—Mur. et al. cor. "Pronominal adjectives have the nature both of the adjective and of the pronoun."—Frost cor. Or: "[Pronominal adjectives] partake of the properties of both adjectives and pronouns."—Bucke's Gram., p. 55. "Pronominal adjectives are a kind of compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of pronouns and of adjectives."—Nutting cor. "Nouns are used either in the singular or in the plural number." Or perhaps better: "Nouns are used in either the singular or the plural number."—David Blair cor. "The question is not, whether the nominative or the accusative ought to follow the particles THAN and AS; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to be regarded as conjunctions or as prepositions"—Campbell cor. "In English, many verbs are used both as transitives and as intransitives."—Churchill cor. "He sendeth rain both on the just and on the unjust."—See Matt., v, 45. "A foot consists either of two or of three syllables."—David Blair cor. "Because they participate the nature both of adverbs and of conjunctions."—L. Murray cor. "Surely, Romans, what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted, nor to pass without notice."—Duncan cor. "Their language frequently amounts, not only to bad sense, but to nonsense."—Kirkham cor. "Hence arises the necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and for the exerting, of his nobler faculties."—Sheridan cor. "Whether the subject be of the real or of the feigned kind."—Dr. H. Blair cor. "Not only was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power was felt in its heaviest and most oppressive weight."—Id. "This rule is also applicable both to verbal Critics and to Grammarians."—Hiley cor. "Both the rules and the exceptions of a language must have obtained the sanction of good usage."—Id.
CHAPTER X.—PREPOSITIONS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXIII.
UNDER NOTE I.—CHOICE OF PREPOSITIONS.
"You have bestowed your favours upon the most deserving persons."—Swift corrected. "But, to rise above that, and overtop the crowd, is given to few."—Dr. Blair cor. "This [also is a good] sentence [, and] gives occasion for no material remark."—Blair's Rhet., p. 203. "Though Cicero endeavours to give some reputation to the elder Cato, and those who were his contemporaries." Or:—"to give some favourable account of the elder Cato," &c.—Dr. Blair cor. "The change that was produced in eloquence, is beautifully described in the dialogue."—Id. "Without carefully attending to the variation which they make in the idea."—Id. "All on a sudden, you are transported into a lofty palace."—Hazlitt cor. "Alike independent of one an other." Or: "Alike independent one of an other."—Campbell cor. "You will not think of them as distinct processes going on independently of each other."—Channing cor. "Though we say to depend on, dependent on, and dependence on, we say, independent of, and independently of."—Churchill cor. "Independently of the rest of the sentence."—Lowth's Gram., p. 80; Buchanan's, 83; Bullions's, 110; Churchill's, 348.[545] "Because they stand independent of the rest of the sentence."—Allen Fisk cor. "When a substantive is joined with a participle, in English, independently of the rest of the sentence."—Dr. Adam cor. "CONJUNCTION comes from the two Latin words con, together, and jungo, to join."—Merchant cor. "How different from this is the life of Fulvia!"—Addison cor. "LOVED is a participle or adjective, derived from the word love."—Ash cor. "But I would inquire of him, what an office is."—Barclay cor. "For the capacity is brought into action."—Id. "In this period, language and taste arrive at purity."—Webster cor. "And, should you not aspire to (or after) distinction in the republic of letters."—Kirkham cor. "Delivering you up to the synagogues, and into prisons."—Luke, xxi, 12. "He that is kept from falling into a ditch, is as truly saved, as he that is taken out of one."—Barclay cor. "The best of it is, they are but a sort of French Hugonots."—Addison cor. "These last ten examples are indeed of a different nature from the former."—R. Johnson cor. "For the initiation of students into the principles of the English language."—Ann. Rev. cor. "Richelieu profited by every circumstance which the conjuncture afforded."—Bolingbroke cor. "In the names of drugs and plants, the mistake of a word may endanger life."—Merchant's Key, p. 185. Or better: "In naming drugs or plants, to mistake a word, may endanger life."—L. Murray cor. "In order to the carrying of its several parts into execution."—Bp. Butler cor. "His abhorrence of the superstitious figure."—Priestley. "Thy prejudice against my cause."—Id. "Which is found in every species of liberty."—Hume cor. "In a hilly region on the north of Jericho."—Milman cor. "Two or more singular nouns coupled by AND require a verb or pronoun in the plural."—Lennie cor.