guar, therefore, against the slightest indulgence of them."-Ib. "Every man is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does not pervert them to the injury of others.”— Ib.

"With the azure and vermilion

Which are mix'd for my pavilion."—Byron cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.

ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.

"Neither prelate nor priest can give his [flock or] flocks any decisive evidence that you are lawful pastors."-Brownlee cor. "And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within him?"-Maturin cor. "This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for its service to the body."-Collier cor. 'If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee."-Bible cor. "The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to his reputation."-Pope cor. Either James or John,-one or the other,-will come."-Smith cor. "Even a rugged rock or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes, by contrast, to the beauty of the whole."-Kames cor. "That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved himself right in this affair."-Spect. cor. "If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffers for his opinions, he is a 'martyr.'"-Fuller cor. "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he or she die; then the ox shail surely be stoned."-Erod. cor. "She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring him."-Johnson cor. "Here is a task put upon children, which neither this Hence, if an adjective or it will agree both in "And if you can find a "And if you can find

author himself, nor any other, has yet undergone."-R. Johnson cor. a participle be subjoined to the verb when the construction is singular, gender and in number with the collective noun."—Adam and Gould cor. diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point that out too."-Bucke cor. a trissyllable or a polysyllable, point it out."-Id. "The false refuges in which the atheist or the sceptic has intrenched himself."-Chr. Spect. cor. "While the man or woman thus assisted by art, expects his charms or hers will be imputed to nature alone."—Opie cor. "When you press a watch, or pull a clock, it answers your question with precision; for it repeats exactly the hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to know."-Bolingbroke cor.

"Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy,

Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary,

Is in his mansion monarch more than I.”—King cor.

CHAPTER VI.-VERBS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE Rule itself.-Verb after the NOMINATIVE.

"Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres."-Duncan cor. “Knowing that you were my old master's good friend."-Spect. cor. "When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"-Webster cor. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends." -Mur. cor. "They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved."—R. Williams cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."-Micah, v, 2. "You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him."-Porter cor. "Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned."—Churchill cor. "Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts." Or: "No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts."-Duncan cor. "I wondered where you were, my dear."— Lloyd cor. "When thou most sweetly singst."-Drummond cor. "Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?”—Gardiner cor. "Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."-Byron cor. "As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions."— M. B. cor. "Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?”—Everest cor. "The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders."-Id. "Some pains have likewise been taken."-Scott cor. "And many a steed in his stables was seen."--Penwarne cor. "They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food."-Josephus cor. "This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."-Hutchinson cor. "By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge."-Committee cor. "He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."-Walton cor. "If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach." Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach."-Swift cor. "Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself."-Barclay cor. "But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat'st."―ld. "Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest."-N. Waln cor. "I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing."-Chazotte cor. "Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?"Dr. Brown cor. 'Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night."— Smith's False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103. Or thus: "Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night."-Smith cor. "Every four years add an other day."-Smith's False Syntax, Gram., p. 103. Better thus: "Every fourth year adds an other day."-Smith cor. Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed."-Swift cor. A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher."-Sanborn cor. "Perfect submission to the rules of a school

indicates good breeding."-Id. "A comparison in which more than two are concerned.”—Lennie's Gram., p. 78. "By the facilities which artificial language affords them."-O. B. Peirce cor. "Now thyself hast lost both lop and top."-Spencer cor. "Glad tidings are brought to the poor." -Campbell cor. "Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends.' -Sher. cor. "No pains have been spared to render this work complete."-Bullions cor. United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe."-Clinton cor. am mindful that myself am strong."-Fowler cor. 'Myself am (not is) weak;"-" Thyself art (not is) weak."-Id.

cor.

"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest
Rises from clerical or city feast!"-Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.-VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.

"The

"I

"Where were you born? In London."-Buchanan cor. "There are frequent occasions for commas."-Ingersoll cor. "There necessarily follow from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences."-Priestley cor. "And to this impression contributes the redoubled effort."Kames cor. "Or, if he was, were there no spiritual men then?"-Barclay cor. "So, by these two also, are signified their contrary principles."-Id. "In the motions made with the hands, consists the chief part of gesture in speaking."-Blair cor. "Dares he assume the name of a popular magistrate ?"-Duncan cor. "There were no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager."-Byron cor. "In fact, there exist such resemblances."-Kames cor. "To him give all the prophets witness."-Acts, x, 43. "That there were so many witnesses and actors.'-Addison "How do this man's definitions stand affected?"-Collier cor. "Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?"-Id. "Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent."-Barclay cor. "Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary."-Id. "Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it ?"-Id. "But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians ?"—Id. "But in the mind of man, while in tho savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses."-Robertson cor. "What sounds has each of the vowels ?"-Griscom cor. "Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies.”—Brownson cor. "And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."-Bible cor. "There seem to be but two general classes."-Day cor. "Hence arise the six forms of expressing time."-Id. "There seem to bo no other words required."-Chandler cor. "If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last."-Bullions cor. "Henco arise the following advantages."-Id. "There are no data by which it can be estimated."-Calhoun cor. "To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives."-Fowler cor. "Nothing but naked roots," is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it."-G. B.] "There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves."-Spect. cor. "In theso consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol."-Percival cor. "Here come those I have done good to against my will."-Shak. cor. "Where there are more than one auxiliary." Or: "Where there are more auxiliaries than one."-0. B. Peirce cor.

"On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility."-Sidney cor.

"Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty."-Swift cor.
Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou, I wis,

To think of songs at such a time as this."-Churchill cor.

UNDER NOTE I-THE RELATIVE AND VERB.

"Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still."—A. Murray cor. "To use that endearing language, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.'"-Bates cor. Resembling the passions that produce these actions."-Kames cor. "Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural." -Ash cor. "As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure.”—Gen. cor. "Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad ?"-Dr. Pratt cor. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with."-Dr. Blair cor. "In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object," &c.—Id. "Of those affecting situations which make man's heart feel for man."-Id. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks." -Id. "It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue.”—Id. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious." -Barclay cor. "This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron."-Hunt

cor.

cor.

"Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."—Goldsmith "To have made and declared such orders as were necessary."-Hutchinson cor. "The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army."-Locke cor. "I'm not the first that has been wretched."-Southern cor. "And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view."-Calvin cor. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."-Dr. Blair cor. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society."-Formey cor. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him." -Id. "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed.”—Milton, P. L., B. i, 1. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence."-Dr. Blair cor. "Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied."-Home cor. "Thou wast he

that led out and brought in Israel."-Bible cor. "Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?"-Id.

"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace

And wisdom, which alone are truly fair."-Milton cor.

"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown,

While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?"—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II-NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

"The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done."-Dr. Murray cor. "The rapidity of his movements was beyond example."-Wells cor. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."-Murray's Rec. cor. "The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown."-Hume cor. "The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being."-Cobbett cor. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue."-Kames cor. "Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity."-Gardiner cor. "One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five."-Duncan cor. "The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to."-Bailey cor. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us."--Gould cor. "Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy." --Maturin cor. "The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular."-Pratt cor. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce."-Bicknell cor. "The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes."—Milnes cor. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion.” -Rush cor. "By which means, the order of the words is disturbed."-Holmes cor. "The twofold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form."-Peirce cor. "And each of these affords employment."-Percival cor. "The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."-Coar cor. "The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity."-Hall and Baker cor. "One of you has stolen my money."-Humorist cor. "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust."-Kames cor. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind."-Hiley cor. "Each of these is presented to us in different relations."-Hendrick cor. "The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could) is very indefinite with respect to time."-Bullions cor. "The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood.”—Chandler cor.

cor.

"And now, at length, the fated term of years

The world's desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears."-Lowth cor.

"Variety of numbers still belongs

To the soft melody of odes, or songs."-Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE III.-COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man."-Johnson cor. "To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious."-Pratt cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."-L. Murray et al. cor. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man."—Fisher "In this passage, ‘according as' is used in a manner which is very common.' Webster cor. A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."-Webster cor. "To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord."-The Friend cor. "While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular."-Cobbett cor. "He cannot assert that ll (i. e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u."-Cobb cor. Ch, in Latin, has the power of k.”—Gould cor. Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci.”—Id. "In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh.”—Bucke cor. "But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent."--Id. "Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f."-Bucke cor. "Ph has the sound of f, as in philosophy."-Webster cor. "Sh has one sound only, as in shall."-Id. "Th has two sounds."-Id. "Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk."-Id. "Aw has the sound of a in hall."-Bolles cor. "Ew sounds like u."-Id. when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou."-Id. Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid."—Id.

"Ui three other sounds at least expresses,

"As

"Yet

As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses."—Brightland cor. UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER. "When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned."-Dr. Weeks cor. neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."-Dr. Blair cor. neither of them is remarkable for precision."-Id. "How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself."-Id. "Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation."-Id. "On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath."-Tr. of Iren. cor. "And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness."-Hope of Is. cor. "Was either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized ?"-Foster cor. "Whilst neither of these letters exists in the Eugubian inscription.”—Knight cor. "And neither of them is properly termed indefinite.”— Dr. Wilson cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect their several veròs :” ̧

or," each of which has in effect its own verb."—Lowth cor. "Sometimes, when the word ends in s, neither of the signs is used."-A. Mur. cor. "And as neither of these manners offends the ear."-J. Walker cor. "Neither of these two tenses is confined to this signification only."-R. Johnson cor. "But neither of these circumstances is intended here."-Tooke cor. "So that all are indebted to each, and each is dependent upon all."-Bible Rep. cor. "And yet neither of them expresses any more action in this case, than it did in the other."-Bullions cor. "Each of these expressions denotes action."-Hallock cor. "Neither of these moods seems to be defined by distinct boundaries."-Butler cor. "Neither of these solutions is correct."-Bullions cor. "Neither bears any sign of case at all."-Fowler cor.

"Each in his turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalks." Or:-
"All in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalk."-Byron cor.
"And tell what each doth by the other lose."-Shak. cor.

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 comeliness of youth is modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity.' Or, much better: "The great ornaments of youth are," &c. -Murray cor. "Merit and good works are the end of man's motion."-Bacon cor. "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips are parcel of the mind.”—Shak. cor. "The clothing of 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 matter of surprise." Webster cor. "Two shillings and sixpence are half a crown, but not a half crown."-Priestley and Bicknell cor. "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong."—Cooper cor. "Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence."-Day cor. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing 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. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition." -Jamieson cor. "The United States are the great middle division of North America."-Morse "A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it."-Priestley's Gram., p. 199; Churchill's, 414. "Here two tall ships become the victor's prey."-Rowe cor. "The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object."-The Friend cor.

cor.

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.

"Not fewer

"Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."—Inf. S. Gr. cor. [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three years' time, is spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less time than three years, is spent," &c.-Gardiner cor. "Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish'd presence."-Milton cor. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed."-Watts cor. "But all of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."—Coleridge cor. "The old theorists' practice of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming 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 make a regular chain of causes and effects."-Kames cor. "In regard to their origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though 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 himself."-Hooker cor. "And at our gates 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 doom that days prolong'd 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* 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?-Whom dost thou love

Though the pronoun thou is not much used in common discourse, it is as proper for the grammarian to consider and show, what form of the verb belongs to it when it is so used, as it is for him to determine what form is adapted to any other pronoun, when a difference of style affects the question.

most? What art thou doing to-day?-What person dost thou see teaching that boy?—He has two new knives-Which road dost thou take 7-What child is he teaching?"—Ingersoll cor. "Thou, who mak'st my shoes, sellst many more." Or thus: "You, who make my shoes, sell many more."-Id.

"The English language has been much cultivated during the 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 mood shows or declares something; as, Ego amo, I love: or else asks a question; as, Amas tu? Dost thou love?"-Paul's Ac. cor. "Though thou cannot do much for the cause, thou may and should do something.”—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."-Murray's Gram., p. 359. ""Twas thou, who, while thou seem'd to chide,

To give 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 them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgave them, though thou tookest vengeance 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 mighty."-Ib., lxxxix, 19. **So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy;' who dispenseth his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seemeth good in his sight."—Christian Experience of St. Paul, p. 344; see Pom., ix, 16.

'Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought;

Yea, with my life, and life's own secret joy."-Coleridge cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.-EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.

"In

"Who is here so base, that he would be a bondman ?"--Shak. cor. "Who is here so rude, he would not be a Roman?"—Id. "There is not a sparrow which falls to the ground without his notice." Or better: " Not a sparrow falls to the ground, without his notice."-Murray cor. 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 prompt him to better things."--Spect. cor. "It is this that removes that impenetra ble mist."-Harris cor. "By the praise which is given him for his courage."-Locke cor. "There is no man who would 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 with what goes before and what follows."-Id. "No man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake."— Bacon cor. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence or folly, and which might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this."-Bp. Butler cor. "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least as it respects justice and goodness 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 man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their matters."-Barclay cor. "There were some that drew back; there were some that made shipwreck of faith; yea, there were some that brought 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 imitated."-Blair cor. "This is an idiom to which our language 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.

Dear friend,

"New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.

I am sorry to hear of thy loss; but I hope it may be retrieved. I should be happy to render thee any assistance in my power. I shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept assurances of my regard.

Dear sir,

A. B."

"New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.

I have just received the kind note you favoured me with this morning; and I cannot forbear to express my gratitude 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 meet all my engagements. I should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks. C. D."

See Brown's Institutes, p. 271.

"Will martial flames forever fire thy mind,

And wilt thou never be to Heaven resign'd?"-Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.-APPLICATION OF MOODS.

First Clause of the Note.-The Subjunctive Present.

"He will not be pardoned unless he repent."-Inst., p. 191. "If thou find any kernelwort in "Forgavest," as the reading is in our common Bible, appears to be wrong; because the relative that and its antecedent God are of the third person, and not of the second.