“Nor foes nor fortune take this power away;
    And is my Abelard less kind than they?”—­Pope, p. 334.

OBS. 10.—­The English adjective being indeclinable, we have no examples of some of the forms of zeugma which occur in Latin and Greek.  But adjectives differing in number, are sometimes connected without a repetition of the noun; and, in the agreement of the verb, the noun which is understood, is less apt to be regarded than that which is expressed, though the latter be more remote; as, “There are one or two small irregularities to be noted.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 63.  “There are one or two persons, and but one or two.”—­Hazlitt’s Lectures.  “There are one or two others.”—­Crombie’s Treatise, p. 206.  “There are one or two.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 319.  “There are one or more seminaries in every province.”—­H.  E. Dwight:  Lit.  Conv., p. 133.  “Whether one or more of the clauses are to be considered the nominative case.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 150.  “So that, I believe, there is not more than one genuine example extant.”—­Knight, on the Greek Alphabet, p. 10.  “There is, properly, no more than one pause or rest in the sentence.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 329; Blair’s Rhet., p. 125.  “Sometimes a small letter or two is added to the capital.”—­Adam’s Lat.  Gram., p. 223; Gould’s, 283.  Among the examples in the seventh paragraph above, there is one like this last, but with a plural verb; and if either is objectionable, is should here be are.  The preceding example, too, is such as I would not imitate.  To L. Murray, the following sentence seemed false syntax, because one does not agree with persons:  “He saw one or more persons enter the garden.”—­Murray’s Exercises, Rule 8th, p. 54.  In his Key, he has it thus:  “He saw one person, or more than one, enter the garden.”—­Oct.  Gram., Vol. ii, p. 189.  To me, this stiff correction, which many later grammarians have copied, seems worse than none.  And the effect of the principle may be noticed in Murray’s style elsewhere; as, “When a semicolon, or more than one, have preceded.”—­Octavo Gram., i, p. 277; Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 288.  Here a ready writer would be very apt to prefer one of the following phrases:  “When a semicolon or two have preceded,”—­“When one or two semicolons have preceded,”—­“When one or more semicolons have preceded.”  It is better to write by guess, than to become systematically awkward in expression.