reconciling the effect of their verses on the eye.”—­Ib., i, 659.  “When it was not in their power to hinder the taking the whole.”—­Brown’s Estimate, ii, 155.  “He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting the gates.”—­Ibid. “So his whole life was a doing the will of the Father.”—­Penington, iv, 99.  “It signifies the suffering or receiving the action expressed.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 37.  “The pretended crime therefore was the declaring himself to be the Son of God.”—­West’s Letters, p. 210.  “Parsing is the resolving a sentence into its different parts of speech.”—­Beck’s Gram., p. 26.

UNDER NOTE II.—­ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.

“There is no expecting the admiration of beholders.”—­Baxter.  “There is no hiding you in the house.”—­Shakspeare.  “For the better regulating government in the province of Massachusetts.”—­British Parliament.  “The precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 6. “[This state of discipline] requires the voluntary foregoing many things which we desire, and setting ourselves to what we have no inclination to.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 115.  “This amounts to an active setting themselves against religion.”—­Ib., p. 264.  “Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing our Christian discipline.”—­N.  E. Discip., p. 117.  “Some men are so unjust that there is no securing our own property or life, but by opposing force to force.”—­Brown’s Divinity, p. 26.  “An Act for the better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject.”—­Geo. III, 31st.  “Miraculous curing the sick is discontinued.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 137.  “It would have been no transgressing the apostle’s rule.”—­Ib., p. 146.  “As far as consistent with the proper conducting the business of the House.”—­Elmore, in Congress, 1839.  “Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning them at that day.”—­Law and Grace, p. 42.  “That transferring this natural manner—­will ensure propriety.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 372.  “If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old turning the key.”—­Macbeth, Act ii, Sc. 3.

UNDER NOTE II.—­POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.

“So very simple a thing as a man’s wounding himself.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 97; Murray’s Gram., p. 317.  “Or with that man’s avowing his designs.”—­Blair, p. 104; Murray, p. 308; Parker and Fox, Part III, p. 88.  “On his putting the question.”—­Adams’s Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 111.  “The importance of teachers’ requiring their pupils to read each section many times over.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 169.  “Politeness is a kind of forgetting one’s self in order to be agreeable to others.”—­Ramsay’s Cyrus.  “Much, therefore, of the merit,