Friend, vii, 409.  “Pliny informs us, that this stone was the size of a cart.”—­Ibid. “Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled Rome.”—­Seneca’s Morals, p. 11.  “I was prevented[438] reading a letter which would have undeceived me.”—­Hawkesworth, Adv., No. 54.  “If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned the inaccuracy of its demonstration.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 25.  “The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but effeminacy.”—­Brown’s Estimate, i. 65.  “Afraid of the virtue of a nation, in its opposing bad measures.”—­Ib., i, 73.  “The uniting them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy.”—­Music of Nature, p. 34.  “I might be excused taking any more notice of it.”—­Watson’s Apology, p. 65.  “Watch therefore; for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.”—­Matt., xxiv, 42.  “Here, not even infants were spared the sword.”—­M’Ilvaine’s Lectures, p. 313.  “To prevent men turning aside to corrupt modes of worship.”—­Calvin’s Institutes, B. I, Ch. 12, Sec. 1.  “God expelled them the Garden of Eden.”—­Burder’s Hist., Vol. i, p. 10.  “Nor could he refrain expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind”—­Art of Thinking, p. 123.  “Who now so strenuously opposes the granting him any new powers.”—­Duncan’s Cicero, p. 127.  “That the laws of the censors have banished him the forum.”—­Ib., p. 140.  “We read not that he was degraded his office any other way.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 149.  “To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting.”—­Hutchinson’s Mass., i, 459.  “On the 1st, August, 1834.”—­British Act for the Abolition of Slavery.

   “Whether you had not some time in your life
    Err’d in this point which now you censure him.”—­Shak.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.

“And the apostles and elders came together to consider of this matter.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 481.  “And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.”—­Acts, xv, 6.  “Adjectives in our Language have neither Case, Gender, nor Number; the only Variation they have is by Comparison.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 27. “’It is to you, that I am indebted for this privilege;’ that is, ‘to you am I indebted;’ or, ’It is to you to whom I am indebted.’”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 232. “Books is a noun, of the third person, plural number, of neuter gender,”—­ Ingersoll’s Gram., p. 15. “Brother’s is a common substantive, of the masculine gender, the third person, the singular number, and in the possessive case.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, 229. “Virtue’s is a common substantive, of the third person, the singular number, and in the possessive case.”—­Ib., i, 228.  “When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is in vain to oppose the