“In France the peasantry goes barefoot, and the middle sort makes use of wooden shoes.”—­HARVEY:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 188.  “The people rejoices in that which should cause sorrow.”—­See Murray’s Exercises, p. 49.  “My people is foolish, they have not known me.”—­Jer., iv, 22; Lowth’s Gram., p. 75.  “For the people speaks, but does not write.”—­Philological Museum, i, 646.  “So that all the people that was in the camp, trembled.”—­Exodus, xix, 16.  “No company likes to confess that they are ignorant.”—­Student’s Manual, p. 217.  “Far the greater part of their captives was anciently sacrificed.”—­Robertson’s America, i, 339.  “Above one half of them was cut off before the return of spring.”—­Ib., ii, 419.  “The other class, termed Figures of Thought, supposes the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 133; Murray’s Gram., 337.  “A multitude of words in their dialect approaches to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist of Lang., i, 148.  “A great majority of our authors is defective in manner.”—­James Brown’s Crit. “The greater part of these new-coined words has been rejected.”—­Tooke’s Diversions, ii, 445.  “The greater part of the words it contains is subject to certain modifications and inflections.”—­The Friend, ii, 123.  “While all our youth prefers her to the rest.”—­Waller’s Poems, p. 17.  “Mankind is appointed to live in a future state.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 57.  “The greater part of human kind speaks and acts wholly by imitation.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 169.  “The greatest part of human gratifications approaches so nearly to vice.”—­Ibid.

   “While still the busy world is treading o’er
    The paths they trod five thousand years before.”—­Young.

UNDER THE NOTE.—­THE IDEA OF UNITY.

“In old English this species of words were numerous.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Lang., ii, 6.  “And a series of exercises in false grammar are introduced towards the end.”—­Frost’s El. of E. Gram., p. iv.  “And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, were anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 296.  “With respect to the former, there are indeed plenty of means.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 319.  “The number of school districts have increased since the last year.”—­Governor Throop, 1832.  “The Yearly Meeting have purchased with its funds these publications.”—­Foster’s Reports, i, 76.  “Have the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?”—­Wm. Sullivan.  “So that the whole number of the streets were fifty.”—­Rollin’s Ancient Hist., ii, 8.  “The number of inhabitants were not more than four millions.”—­SMOLLETT:  see Priestley’s Gram., p. 193.  “The House of Commons were of small weight.”—­HUME: