Why is whiteness and coldness in snow?
Obey the commandment of thy father, and the law of thy mother; bind it continually upon thy heart.
Pride and vanity always render its possessor despicable in the eyes of the judicious.
There is error and discrepance in the schemes of the orthoepists, which shows the impossibility of carrying them into effect.
EXAMPLES FOR THE NOTE.
Every man, woman, and child, were numbered.
Not proper; for, although and couples things together so as to present the whole at one view, yet every has a contrary effect: it distributes them, and brings each separately and singly under consideration. Were numbered is therefore improper. It should be, "was numbered," in the singular, according to the Note. (Repeat it.)
When benignity and gentleness reign in our breasts, every person and every occurrence are beheld in the most favorable light.
RULE IX.
Two or more nouns, or nouns and pronouns, in the singular number, connected by disjunctive conjunctions, must have verbs, nouns, and pronouns, agreeing with them in the singular; as, "Neither John nor James has learned his lesson."