“Where, playing with him at bo-peep,
    He solved all problems, ne’er so deep.”—­Hudibras.

UNDER NOTE X.—­OF THE FORM OF ADVERBS.

“One can scarce think that Pope was capable of epic or tragic poetry; but within a certain limited region, he has been outdone by no poet.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 403.  “I, who now read, have near finished this chapter.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 82.  “And yet, to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature, is scarce endeavoured in any seminary of learning.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. viii.  “By the Numbers being confounded, and the Possessives wrong applied, the Passage is neither English nor Grammar.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. 123.  “The letter G is wrong named jee.”—­Creighton’s Dict., p. viii.  “Last; Remember that in science, as in morals, authority cannot make right, what, in itself, is wrong.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 194.  “They regulate our taste even where we are scarce sensible of them.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 96.  “Slow action, for example, is imitated by words pronounced slow.”—­Ib., ii, 257.  “Sure, if it be to profit withal, it must be in order to save.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 366.  “Which is scarce possible at best.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 67.  “Our wealth being near finished.”—­HARRIS:  Priestley’s Gram., p. 80.

CHAPTER IX.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

The syntax of Conjunctions consists, not (as L. Murray and others erroneously teach) in “their power of determining the mood of verbs,” or the “cases of nouns and pronouns,” but in the simple fact, that they link together such and such terms, and thus “mark the connexions of human thought.”—­Beattie.

RULE XXII.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

Conjunctions connect words, sentences, or parts of sentences:  as, “Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we are brethren.”—­Gen., xiii, 8.

   “Ah! if she lend not arms as well as rules. 
    What can she more than tell us we are fools?”—­Pope.

EXCEPTION FIRST.

The conjunction that sometimes serves merely to introduce a sentence which is made the subject or the object of a finite verb;[433] as, “That mind is not matter, is certain.”

   “That you have wronged me, doth appear in this.”—­Shak.

    “That time is mine, O Mead! to thee, I owe.”—­Young.

EXCEPTION SECOND.

When two corresponding conjunctions occur, in their usual order, the former should generally be parsed as referring to the latter, which is more properly the connecting word; as, “Neither sun nor stars in many days appeared.”—­Acts, xxvii, 20. “Whether that evidence has been afforded [or not,] is a matter of investigation.”—­Keith’s Evidences, p. 18.