names being blotted out of God’s book.”—Burder,
Hallock, and Webster, cor. “The first person
is that which denotes the speaker.”—Inst.,
p. 32. “Accent is the laying of
a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter
or syllable in a word.”—L.
Murray’s Gram., p. 235; Felton’s,
134. “Thomas’s horse was caught.”—Felton
cor. “You were loved.”—Id.
“The nominative and the objective end
alike.”—T. Smith cor.
“The numbers of pronouns, like those of
substantives, are two; the singular and the plural.”—Id.
“I is called the pronoun of the first
person, because it represents the person speaking.”—Frost
cor. “The essential elements of the phrase
are an intransitive gerundive and an adjective.”—Hazen
cor. “Wealth is no justification for
such impudence.”—Id. “That
he was a soldier in the revolution, is not doubted.”—Id.
“Fishing is the chief employment of the
inhabitants.”—Id. “The
chief employment of the inhabitants, is the
catching of fish.”—Id.
“The cold weather did not prevent the work
from being finished at the time specified.”—Id.
“The man’s former viciousness caused
him to be suspected of this crime.”—Id.
“But person and number, applied to verbs, mean
certain terminations.”—Barrett
cor. “Robert felled a tree.”—Id.
“Charles raised himself up.”—Id.
“It might not be a useless waste of time.”—Id.
“Neither will you have that implicit faith in
the writings and works of others, which characterizes
the vulgar.”—Id. “I
is of the first person, because it denotes the
speaker.”—Ib. “I would
refer the student to Hedge’s or Watts’s
Logic.”—Id. “Hedge’s
Watts’s, Kirwin’s, and Collard’s
Logic.”—Parker and Fox cor.
“Letters that make a full and perfect
sound of themselves, are called vowels.”
Or: “The letters which make,”
&c.—Cutler cor. “It has both
a singular and a plural construction.”—Id.
“For he beholds (or beholdeth)
thy beams no more.”—Id. Carthon.
“To this sentiment the Committee have
the candour to incline, as it will appear by their
summing-up.”—Macpherson
cor. “This reduces the point at issue
to a narrow compass.”—Id. “Since
the English set foot upon the soil.”—Exiles
cor. “The arrangement of its different parts
is easily retained by the memory.”—Hiley
cor. “The words employed are the most appropriate
that could have been selected.”—Id.
“To prevent it from launching!”—Id.
“Webster has been followed in preference to others,
where he differs from them.” Or:
“Webster’s Grammar has been followed
in preference to others, where it differs from
them.”—Frazee cor. “Exclamation
and interrogation are often mistaken the one
for the other.”—Buchanan
cor. “When all nature is hushed in sleep,
and neither love nor guilt keeps its vigils.”—Felton
cor. Or thus:—