Part 232 (1/2)

UNDER NOTE V--VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES

”The quarrels of lovers _are but_ a renewal of love”--_Adam et al cor_ ”Two dots, one placed above the other, _are_ called _a Sheva”--Wilson cor_ ”A few centuries more or less _are_ a matter of small consequence”--_Id_ ”Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; _hieroglyphics were_ the second step”--_Parker cor_ ”The coe, condescension and dignity” Or, reat ornaood works _are_ the end of man's motion”--_Bacon cor_ ”Divers philosophers hold, that the lips _are_ parcel of theof the natives _was_ the skins of wild beasts” Or thus: ”The _clothes_ of the natives _were_ skins of wild beasts”--_Hist cor_ ”Prepossessions in _favour_ of our _native_ town, _are_ not a s and sixpence _are_ half a crown, but not a half crown”--_Priestley and Bicknell cor_ ”Tels, pronounced by a single i in one sound, _are_ called a _diphthong_”--_Cooper cor_ ”Two or ether _are_ called a Cohtly put together, but not co an entire proposition, _are_ called a Phrase”--_Id_ ”But the common number of times _is_ five” Or, to state the matter truly: ”But the common number of _tenses is six_”--_Brit Gram cor_ ”Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, _are an other_ source of darkness in coreat reat cause of the low state of industry, _was_ the restraints put upon it”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 199; _Churchill's_, 414 ”Here two tall shi+ps _become_ the victor's prey”--_Rowe cor_ ”The expenses incident to an outfit _are_ surely no object”--_The Friend cor_

”Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, _Were_ all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep”--_Milt cor_

UNDER NOTE VI--CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE

”Much _care_ has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words”--_Inf S

Gr cor_ ”Not _fewer_ [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty” Or, perhaps better: ”Not less than three _years' ti this faculty” Or thus: ”Not less _time_ than three years, _is_ spent,” &c--_Gardiner cor_ ”Where this night are ratulate His wish'd presence”--_Milton cor_ ”Peace! er, Here's no _ox anear_ thy bed”--_Watts cor_ ”But _all_ of these are mere conjectures, and soe cor_ ”The old theorists' _practice_ of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular syste words”--_O B Peirce cor_ ”Where _several sentences_ occur, place them in the order _of the facts_”--_Id_ ”And that _all the events_ in conjunction ular chain of causes and effects”--_Kain, the Grecian and Roh equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction”--_Adams cor_ ”In these respects, _man_ is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature”--_Bp Butler cor_ ”The _Scriptures_ are the oracles of God hiates are all _kinds_ of pleasant fruits”--_S Song cor_ ”The _preterits_ of _pluck, look_, and _toss_, are, in speech, pronounced _pluckt, lookt, tosst_”--_Fowler corrected_

”Severe the dooed impose_, To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!”--_Melmoth cor_

UNDER NOTE VII--FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES

_1 Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style_ ”Was it thou[538] that _built_ that house?”--_Brown's Institutes_, Key, p 270 ”That boy _writes_ very elegantly”--_Ib ”Could_ not thou write without blotting thy book?”--_Ib ”Dost_ not thou think--or, _Don't_ thou think, it will rain to-day?”--_Ib ”Does_ not--or, _Don't_ your cousin intend to visit you?”--_Ib_ ”That boy _has_ torn my book”--_Ib_ ”Was it thou that _spread_ the hay?”--_Ib_ ”Was it James, or thou, that _let_ him in?”--_Ib_ ”He _dares_ not say a word”--_Ib_ ”Thou _stood_ in my way and _hindered_ me”--_Ib_

”Whom _do_ I _see_?--Whom _dost_ thou _see_ now?--Whom _does_ he _see_?--Who_ to-day?--What person _dost_ thou _see_ teaching that boy?--He _has_ t knives--Which road _dost_ thou _take_?--What child is he _teaching_?”--_Ingersoll cor_ ”Thou, who _mak'st_ my shoes, _sellst_ many more” Or thus: ”_You_, who _lish language _has_ beenthe last two hundred years It _has_ been considerably polished and refined”--_Lowth cor_ ”This _style_ is ostentatious, and _does_ not suit grave writing”--_Priestley cor_ ”But custom _has_ now appropriated _who_ to persons, and _which_ to things” [and brute animals]--_Id_ ”The indicative o amo_, I love; or else _asks_ a question; as, _Ah thou _cannot_ do ”--_Murray cor_ ”The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy tax: but thou _knowst_ (or, _you know_) he paid it cheerfully”--_Id_ ”It may, and often _does_, come short of it”--_Murrays Gram_, p 359

”'Twas thou, hile thou _seeive me all thy pittance _tried_”--_Mitford cor_

2 _Forms adapted to the Solemn or Biblical Style_ ”The Lord _hath prepared_ his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom _ruleth_ over all”--_Psalms_, ciii, 19 ”Thou _answeredst_ theave[539] theeance of their inventions”--See _Psalms_, xcix, 8 ”Then thou _spakest_ in vision to thy Holy One, and _saidst_, I have laid help upon one that is hty”--_Ib_, lxxxix, 19 ”'So then, it is not of him that _willeth_, nor of him that _runneth_, but of God that _showeth_ s, whether teht”--_Christian Experience of St Paul_, p 344; see _Ro with ht; Yea, with e cor_

UNDER NOTE VIII--EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE

”Who is here so base, that _he_ would be a bondman?”--_Shak cor_ ”Who is here so rude, _he_ would not be a _Roround without his notice” Or better: ”_Not a sparrow_ falls to the ground, without his notice”--_Murray cor_ ”In order to adjust them _in such a manner_ as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period”--_Id and Blair cor_ ”But sometimes there is a verb _which_ comes in” Better: ”But sometimes there is a verb _introduced_”--_Cobbett cor_ ”Mr Prince has a genius _which_ would pros”--_Spect cor_ ”It is this _that_ removes that iiven hie”--_Locke cor_ ”There is no man _ould be more welcome here”--_Steele cor_ ”Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and _what_ immediately follows”--_Blair cor_ ”And as connected hat goes before and _what_ follows”--_Id_ ”No 's sake”--_Bacon cor_ ”All the various ence _or_ folly, and _which_ ht have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this”--_Bp Butler cor_ ”Ancient philosophers have taught s in _favour_ of oodness towards our fellow-creatures”--_Fuller cor_ ”Indeed, if there be any such, _who_ have been, or _who_ appear to be of us, as suppose there is not a wise e betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their _matters_”--_Barclay cor_ ”There were _some_ that drew back; there were _some_ that ht in damnable heresies”--_Id_ ”The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper; and, _under_ similar _circumstances, the orator's method_ is fit to be ie is strongly inclined, and _which_ was formerly very prevalent”--_Churchill cor_ ”His roots are wrapped about the heap, and _he_ seeth the place of stones”--_Bible cor_

”New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823

Dear friend,

_I_ am sorry to hear of thy loss; but _I_ hope it may be retrieved I should be happy to render thee any assistance inAccept assurances of ard A B”

”New York, May 3d, P M, 1823

Dear sir,

_I_ have just received the kind note _you_ favoured ratitude to you On further information, _I_ find _I_ have not lost so much as _I_ at first supposed; and _I_ believe _I_ shall still be able to ements _I_ should, however, be happy to see you Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks C D”

See _Brown's Institutes_, p 271