relation.”—­Id. “So that the things which are seen, were not made of things that do appear.”—­Bible cor. “Man is an imitative creature; he may utter again the sounds which he has heard.”—­Dr. Wilson cor. “But those men whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own.”—­Dr. Webster cor.

UNDER NOTE XV.—­PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.

“Great benefit may be reaped from the reading of histories.”—­Sewel cor. “And some attempts were made towards the writing of history.”—­Bolingbroke cor. “It is an invading of the priest’s office, for any other to offer it”—­Leslie cor. “And thus far of the forming of verbs.”—­W.  Walker cor. “And without the shedding of blood there is no remission.”—­Bible cor. “For the making of measures, we have the best method here in England.”—­Printer’s Gram. cor. “This is really both an admitting and a denying at once.”—­Butler cor. “And hence the origin of the making of parliaments.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “Next thou objectest, that the having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion.  But that I deny:  for, on the contrary, conversion presupposes the having of light and grace.”—­Barclay cor. “They cried down the wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do.”—­Id. “Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of the plaiting of the hair, and of the wearing of gold, or of the putting-on of apparel.”—­Bible cor. “In the spelling of derivative words, the primitives must be kept whole.”—­Brit.  Gram. and Buchanan’s cor. “And the princes offered for the dedicating of the altar.”—­Numb. cor. “Boasting is not only a telling of lies, but also of many unseemly truths.”—­Sheffield cor. “We freely confess that the forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful.”—­Barclay cor. “For the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy.”—­G.  Brown.  “He turned all his thoughts to the composing of laws for the good of the State.”—­Rollin cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.—­PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.

“It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after falling in.”—­Barclay cor. “For in receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased.”—­Id. “True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it.”—­Phil.  Museum cor. “To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth attending to.”—­Say cor. “To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by ordering their