UNDER NOTE X.—­THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.

“This would preclude the possibility of a nouns’ or any other word’s ever being in the possessive case.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 338.  “A great part of our pleasure arises from the plan or story being well conducted.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 18, “And we have no reason to wonder at this being the case.”—­Ib., p. 249.  “She objected only, as Cicero says, to Oppianicus having two sons by his present wife.”—­Ib., p. 274.  “The Britons being subdued by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their having called in these Saxons, to their assistance.”—­Ib., p. 329.  “What he had there said, concerning the Saxons expelling the Britons, and changing the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and good reason for our present language being Saxon rather than British.”—­Ib., p. 230.  “The only material difference between them, besides the one being short and the other being prolonged, is, that a metaphor always explains itself by the words that are connected with it.”—­Ib., p. 151; Murray’s Gram., p. 342.  “The description of Death’s advancing to meet Satan, on his arrival.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 156.  “Is not the bare fact of God being the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?”—­Chalmers, Serm., p. 288.  “As in the case of one entering upon a new study.”—­Beattie’s Moral Science, i, 77.  “The manner of these affecting the copula is called the imperative mode.”—­BP.  WILKINS:  Lowth’s Gram., p. 43.  “We are freed from the trouble, by our nouns having no diversity of endings.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. 20.  “The Verb is rather indicative of the actions being doing, or done, than the time when, but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 69.  “Nobody would doubt of this being a sufficient proof.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 66.  “Against the doctrine here maintained, of conscience being, as well as reason, a natural faculty.”—­Beattie’s M. Sci., i, 263.  “It is one cause of the Greek and English languages being much more easy to learn, than the Latin.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 25.  “I have not been able to make out a solitary instance of such being the fact.”—­Liberator, x, 40.  “An angel’s forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king’s condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror.”—­Wood’s Dict., w.  Belshazzar.  “The prisoners’ having attempted to escape, aroused the keepers.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 357.  “I doubt not, in the least, of this having been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 155.  “From the general rule he lays down, of the verbs being the parent word of all language.”—­Diversions of Purley, Vol. i, p. 227.  “He was