“Such silly girls as love to chat and play,
    Deserve no care; their time is thrown away.”—­Tobitt cor.

    “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
    That to be hated she but needs be seen.”—­Pope cor.

    “Justice must punish the rebellious deed;
    Yet punish so that pity shall exceed.”—­Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­IMPROPER ELLIPSES.

“THAT, WHOSE, and AS, relate either to persons or to things.”  Or better:—­“relate as well to persons as to things.”—­Sanborn cor. “WHICH and WHAT, as adjectives, relate either to persons or to things.”  Or better:—­“relate to persons as well as to things.”—­Id. “Whether of a public or of a private nature.”—­J.  Q. Adams cor. “Which are included among both the public and the private wrongs.”—­Id. “I might extract, both from the Old and from the New Testament, numberless examples of induction.”—­Id. “Many verbs are used both in an active and in a neuter signification.”  Or thus:  “Many verbs are used in both an active and a neuter signification.”—­Lowth, Mur., et al., cor. “Its influence is likely to be considerable, both on the morals and on the taste of a nation.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The subject afforded a variety of scenes, both of the awful and of the tender kind.”—­Id. “Restlessness of mind disqualifies us both for the enjoyment of peace, and for the performance of our duty.”—­Mur. and Ing. cor.  “Pronominal adjectives are of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and of adjectives.”—­Mur. et al. cor.  “Pronominal adjectives have the nature both of the adjective and of the pronoun.”—­Frost cor. Or:  “[Pronominal adjectives] partake of the properties of both adjectives and pronouns.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 55.  “Pronominal adjectives are a kind of compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of pronouns and of adjectives.”—­Nutting cor. “Nouns are used either in the singular or in the plural number.”  Or perhaps better:  “Nouns are used in either the singular or the plural number.”—­David Blair cor. “The question is not, whether the nominative or the accusative ought to follow the particles THAN and AS; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to be regarded as conjunctions or as prepositions”—­Campbell cor. “In English, many verbs are used both as transitives and as intransitives.”—­Churchill cor. “He sendeth rain both on the just and on the unjust.”—­See Matt., v, 45.  “A foot consists either of two or of three syllables.”—­David Blair cor. “Because they participate the nature both of adverbs and of conjunctions.”—­L.