UNDER NOTE II.—­OF FIXED NUMBERS.

“Why, I think she cannot be above six feet two inches high.”—­Spect. cor. “The world is pretty regular for about forty rods east and ten west.”—­Id. “The standard being more than two feet above it.”—­Bacon cor. “Supposing, among other things, that he saw two suns, and two Thebeses.”—­Id. “On the right hand we go into a parlour thirty-three feet by thirty-nine.”—­Sheffield cor. “Three pounds of gold went to one shield.”—­1 Kings cor. “Such an assemblage of men as there appears to have been at that session.”—­The Friend cor. “And, truly, he has saved me from this labour.”—­Barclay cor. “Within these three miles may you see it coming.”—­Shak. cor. “Most of the churches, not all, had one ruling elder or more.”—­Hutch. cor. “While a Minute Philosopher, not six feet high, attempts to dethrone the Monarch of the universe.”—­Berkley cor. “The wall is ten feet high.”—­Harrison cor. “The stalls must be ten feet broad.”—­Walker cor. “A close prisoner in a room twenty feet square, being at the north side of his chamber, is at liberty to walk twenty feet southward, not to walk twenty feet northward.”—­Locke cor. “Nor, after all this care and industry, did they think themselves qualified.”—­C.  Orator cor. “No fewer than thirteen Gypsies were condemned at one Suffolk assize, and executed.”—­Webster cor. “The king was petitioned to appoint one person or more.”—­Mrs. Macaulay cor. “He carries weight! he rides a race!  ’Tis for a thousand pounds.”—­Cowper cor. “They carry three tiers of guns at the head, and at the stern, two tiers”—­Joh.  Dict. cor. “The verses consist of two sorts of rhymes.”—­Formey cor. “A present of forty camel-loads of the most precious things of Syria.”—­Wood’s Dict. cor. “A large grammar, that shall extend to every minutia”—­S.  Barrett cor.

   “So many spots, like naeves on Venus’ soil,
    One gem set off with many a glitt’ring foil.”—­Dryden cor.

    “For, off the end, a double handful
    It had devour’d, it was so manful.”—­Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—­OF RECIPROCALS.

“That shall and will might be substituted one for the other.”—­Priestley cor. “We use not shall and will promiscuously the one for the other.”—­Brightland cor. “But I wish to distinguish the three high ones from one an other also.”—­Fowle cor. “Or on some other relation which two objects bear to each other.”—­Blair