than four millions.”—­Smollett cor. “The house of Commons was of small weight.”—­Hume cor. “The assembly of the wicked hath (or has) inclosed me.”—­Psal. cor. “Every kind of convenience and comfort is provided.”—­C.  S. Journal cor. “Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy has suffered no diminution; but it has rather been gradually increasing.”—­Payne cor. “Small as the number of inhabitants is, yet their poverty is extreme.”—­Id. “The number of the names was about one hundred and twenty.”—­Ware and Acts cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF—­THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.

“So much ability and [so much] merit are seldom found.”—­Mur. et al. cor. “The etymology and syntax of the language are thus spread before the learner.”—­Bullions cor. “Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables are the same thing.”—­Adams cor. “Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, are not remembered at all.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The soil and sovereignty were not purchased of the natives.”—­Knapp cor. “The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, are infinitely more favourable to sublimity of style, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme.”—­Blair cor. “The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seem to have been much greater than ours.”—­Id. “For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “The verb and the noun making a complete sense, whereas the participle and the noun do not.”—­Id. “The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, are a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present.”—­Kames cor. “The true meaning and etymology of some of his words were lost.”—­Knight cor. “When the force and direction of personal satire are no longer understood.”—­Junius cor. “The frame and condition of man admit of no other principle.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “Some considerable time and care were necessary.”—­Id. “In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure have been thrown upon Milton.”—­Blair cor. “With rational beings, nature and reason are the same thing.”—­Collier cor. “And the flax and the barley were smitten.”—­Bible cor. “The colon and semicolon divide a period; this with, and that without, a connective.”—­Ware cor. “Consequently, wherever space and time are found, there God must also be.”—­Newton cor. “As the past tense and perfect participle