Hist. of U. S., p. 118.  “It is the very thing I would have you make out:  for therein consists the form, and use, and nature of language.”—­Berkley’s Alciphron, p. 161.  “There is the proper noun, and the common noun.  There is the singular noun, and the plural noun.”—­Emmons’s Gram., p. 11.  “From him proceeds power, sanctification, truth, grace, and every other blessing we can conceive.”—­Calvin’s Institutes, B. i, Ch. 13.  “To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country?”—­Jer., vi, 20.  “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever.”—­Matt., vi, 13.  In all these instances, the plural verb might have been used; and yet perhaps the singular may be justified on the ground that there is a distinct and emphatic enumeration of the nouns.  Thus, it would be proper to say, “Thine are the kingdom, the power, and the glory;” but this construction seems less emphatic than the preceding, which means, “For thine is the kingdom, thine is the power, and thine is the glory, forever;” and this repetition is still more emphatic, and perhaps more proper, than the elliptical form.  The repetition of the conjunction “and,” in the original text as above, adds time and emphasis to the reading, and makes the singular verb more proper than it would otherwise be; for which reason, the following form, in which the Rev. Dr. Bullions has set the sentence down for bad English, is in some sort a perversion of the Scripture:  “Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., p. 141.

OBS. 9.—­When the nominatives are of different persons, the verb agrees with the first person in preference to the second, and with the second in preference to the third; for thou and I, or he, thou, and I, are equivalent to we; and thou and he are equivalent to you:  as, “Why speakest thou any more of thy matters?  I have said, thou and Ziba divide the land.”—­2 Sam., xix. 29.  That is, “divide ye the land.”  “And live thou and thy children of the rest.”—­2 Kings, iv, 7.  “That I and thy people have found grace in thy sight.”—­Exodus, xxxiii, 16. “I and my kingdom are guiltless.”—­2 Sam., iii, 28. “I, and you, and Piso perhaps too, are in a state of dissatisfaction.”—­Zenobia, i, 114.

   “Then I, and you, and all of us, fell down,
    Whilst bloody treason flourish’d over us.”—­Shak., J. Caesar.