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cor. "When the force and direction of personal satire are no longer understood."--Junius cor. "The frame and condition of man admit of no other principle."--Dr. Brown cor. "Some considerable time and care were necessary."--Id. "In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure have been thrown upon Milton."--Blair cor. "With rational beings, nature and reason are the same thing."--Collier cor. "And the flax and the barley were smitten."--Bible cor. "The colon and semicolon divide a period; this with, and that without, a connective."--Ware cor. "Consequently, wherever space and time are found, there God must also be."--Newton cor. "As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE end in ED, it is regular."--Chandler cor. "But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevent this from being readily seen."--N. Butler cor. "Do and did simply imply opposition or emphasis."--A. Murray cor. "I and an other make the plural WE; thou and an other are equivalent to YE; he, she, or it, and an other, make THEY."--Id. "I and an other or others are the same as WE, the first person plural; thou and an other or others are the same as YE, the second person plural; he, she, or it, and an other or others, are the same as THEY, the third person plural."--Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor. "God and thou are two, and thou and thy neighbour are two."--Love Conquest cor. "Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE."--Fowler cor. "The tone and style of all of them, particularly of the first and the last, are very different."--Blair cor. "Even as the roebuck and the hart are eaten."--Bible cor. "Then I may conclude that two and three do not make five."--Barclay cor. "Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren have received from us."--Id. "Two and two are four, and one is five:" i, e., "and one, added to four, is five."--Pope cor. "Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance under costly array."--See Murray's Key, Rule 2d. "A page and a half have been added to the section on composition."--Bullions cor. "Accuracy and expertness in this exercise are an important acquisition."--Id.

   "Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
    Hill and dale proclaim thy blessing." Or thus:--
    "Hill and valley boast thy blessing."--Milton cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"There are a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things."--Blair cor. "Whence have arisen much stiffness and affectation."--Id. "To this error, are owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before noticed."--Blair and Jamieson cor. "Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevail an obscurity and a hardness of style."--Blair cor. See Jamieson's Rhet., p. 167. "There are, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism."--Blair cor. "There are too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus." Or: "There is, in Plautus, too much of low wit and scurrility."--Id. "There are too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them." Or: "There is too much of reasoning and refinement, too much of pomp and studied beauty, in them."--Id. "Hence arise the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation."--Rush cor. "And such pilots are he and his brethren, according to their own confession."--Barclay cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred."--Bible cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan."--Id. "And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee."--Id. "Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing."--Id. "Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceed not evil and good."--Id. "In which there are most plainly a right and a wrong."--Bp. Butler cor. "In this sentence, there are both an actor and an object."--R. C. Smith cor. "In the breastplate, were placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim."--Milman cor. "What are the gender, number, and person, of the pronoun[541] in the first example?"--R. C. Smith cor. "There seem to be a familiarity and a want of dignity in it."--Priestley cor. "It has been often asked, what are Latin and Greek?"--Lit. Journal cor. "For where do beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?"--Sam. Butler cor. "Thence to the land where flow Ganges and Indus."--Milton cor. "On these foundations, seem to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies."--Dr. Brown cor. "But what have disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?"--Dr. Johnson cor. "How are the gender and number of the relative known?"--Bullions cor.

   "High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust,
    And feebler speed the blow and thrust."--Scott cor.

UNDER NOTE I.--CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.

"In every language, there prevails a certain structure, or analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage."--Dr. Blair cor. "There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, an affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model."--Id. "But where declamation for improvement in speech is the sole aim."--Id. "For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of any kind, is laid open."--Lowth cor. "In all writing and discourse, the proper composition or structure of sentences is of the highest importance."--Dr. Blair cor. "Here the wishful and expectant look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts."--Campbell cor. "Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, with the sign of the cross, puts away devils."--Barclay cor. "By which an oath