“Hail, happy States! yours
is the blissful seat
Where nature’s gifts
and art’s improvements meet.”—Everett
cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—THE RELATIVE THAT.
(1.) “This is the most useful art that men possess.”—L. Murray cor. “The earliest accounts that history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts.”—Blair et al. cor. “Mr. Addison was the first that attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste.”—Blair cor. “One of the first that introduced it, was Montesquieu.”—Murray cor. “Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent sermonizer that modern times have produced.”—Blair cor. “The greatest barber that ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype.”—Hart cor.
(2.) “When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same that are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived.”—Murray’s Gram., p. 200. Better thus: “The prepositions which are subjoined to nouns, are generally the same that,” &c.—Priestley cor. “The same proportions that are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building.”—Kames cor. “The same ornaments that we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple.”—Murray cor. “The same that John saw also in the sun.”—Milton cor.
(3.) “Who can ever be easy, that is reproached with his own ill conduct?”—T. a Kempis cor. “Who is she that comes clothed in a robe of green?”—Inst., p. 267. “Who that has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?”—G. Brown.
(4.) “The second person denotes the person or thing that is spoken to.”—Kirkham cor. “The third person denotes the person or thing that is spoken of.”—Id. “A passive verb denotes action received, or endured by the person or thing that is signified by its nominative.”—Id. “The princes and states that had neglected or favoured the growth of this power.”—Bolingbroke cor. “The nominative expresses the name of the person or thing that acts, or that is the subject of discourse.”—Hiley cor.