thy neighbour are two.”—­The Love Conquest, p. 25.  “Just as an and a has arisen out of the numeral one.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo. 1850, Sec.200.  “The tone and style of each of them, particularly the first and the last, is very different.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 246.  “Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten.”—­Deut., xiii, 22.  “Then I may conclude that two and three makes not five.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 354.  “Which at sundry times thou and thy brethren hast received from us.”—­Ib., i, 165.  “Two and two is four, and one is five.”—­POPE:  Lives of the Poets, p. 490.  “Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excels pride and ignorance under costly array.”—­Day’s Gram., Parsing Lesson, p. 100.  “A page and a half has been added to the section on composition.”—­Bullions’s E. Gram., 5th Ed., Pref., p. vii.  “Accuracy and expertness in this exercise is an important acquisition.”—­Ib., p. 71.

   “Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
    Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing.”—­Milton’s Poems, p. 139.

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

“There is a good and a bad, a right and a wrong in taste, as in other things.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 21.  “Whence has arisen much stiffness and affectation.”—­Ib., p. 133.  “To this error is owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and harshness, in his figurative language, which I before remarked.”—­Ib., p. 150; Jamieson’s Rhet., 157.  “Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevails an obscurity and hardness in his style.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 150.  “There is, however, in that work much good sense, and excellent criticism.”—­Ib., p. 401.  “There is too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus.”—­Ib., p. 481.  “There is too much reasoning and refinement; too much pomp and studied beauty in them.”—­Ib., p. 468.  “Hence arises the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation.”—­Rush on the Voice, p. 229.  “And such pilots is he and his brethren, according to their own confession.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 314.  “Of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus:  who concerning the truth have erred.”—­2 Tim., ii, 17.  “Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan.”—­1 Tim., i, 20.  “And so was James and John, the sons of Zebedee.”—­Luke, v, 10.  “Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing.”—­James, iii, 10.  “Out of the mouth of the Most High proceedeth not evil and good.”—­Lam., iii, 38.  “In which there is most plainly a right and a wrong.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 215.  “In this sentence there is both an actor and an object.”—­Smith’s Inductive Gram., p. 14.  “In the breast-plate was placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim.”—­Milman’s Jews, i, 88.  “What is the gender, number,