are admitted into the English tongue.”—
Ib.,
p. 101. “The five examples last mentioned,
are corrected on the same principle that the preceding
examples are corrected.”—
Ib.,
p. 186;
Ingersoll’s Gram., 254. “The
brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted
till the time that Rome was taken by the Goths.”—
Gould’s
Lat. Gram., p. 277. “The introduction
to the Duodecimo Edition, is retained in this volume,
for the same reason that the original introduction
to the Grammar, is retained in the first volume.”—
Murray’s
Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, p. iv. “The verb
must also be of the same person that the nominative
case is.”—
Ingersoll’s Gram.,
p. 16. “The adjective pronoun
their,
is plural for the same reason that
who is.”—
Ib.,
p. 84. “The Sabellians could not justly
be called Patripassians, in the same sense that the
Noetians were so called.”—
Religious
World, Vol. ii, p. 122. “This is one
reason that we pass over such smooth language, without
suspecting that it contains little or no meaning.”—
Murray’s
Gram., 8vo, p. 298. “The first place
that both armies came in sight of each other was on
the opposite banks of the river Apsus.”—
Goldsmith’s
Rome, p. 118. “At the very time that
the author gave him the first book for his perusal.”—
Campbell’s
Rhetoric, Preface, p. iv. “Peter will
sup at the time that Paul will dine.”—
Fosdick’s
De Sacy, p. 81. “Peter will be supping
at the time that Paul will enter.”—
Ibid.
“These, at the same time that they may serve
as models to those who may wish to imitate them, will
give me an opportunity to cast more light upon the
principles of this book.”—
Ib.,
p. 115.
“Time was, like thee, they
life possest,
And time shall be, that thou
shalt rest.”
—PARNELL;
Mur. Seq., p. 241.
UNDER NOTE VII.—OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.
“Our manners should neither be gross, nor excessively
refined.”—Merchant’s Gram.,
p. 11. “A neuter verb expresses neither
action or passion, but being, or a state of being.”—O.
B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 342. “The
old books are neither English grammars, or
grammars, in any sense of the English Language.”—Ib.,
p. 378. “The author is apprehensive that
his work is not yet as accurate and as much simplified
as it may be.”—Kirkham’s
Gram., p. 7. “The writer could not
treat some topicks as extensively as was desirable.”—Ib.,
p. 10. “Which would be a matter of such
nicety, as no degree of human wisdom could regulate.”—Murray’s
Gram., i, 26. “No undertaking is so
great or difficult which he cannot direct.”—Duncan’s
Cic., p. 126. “It is a good which neither
depends on the will of others, nor on the affluence
of external fortune.”—Harris’s
Hermes, 299; Murray’s Gram., i, 289.
“Not only his estate, his reputation too has