“And they took stones, and made a heap.”—­ALGER’S BIBLE:  Gen., xxxi, 46.  “And I do know many fools, that stand in better place.”—­Shak. cor. “It is a strong antidote to the turbulence of passion, and the violence of pursuit.”—­Kames cor. “The word NEWS may admit of either a singular or a plural application.”—­Wright cor. “He has gained a fair and honourable reputation.”—­Id. “There are two general forms, called the solemn and the familiar style.”  Or:—­“called the solemn and familiar styles.”—­Sanborn cor. “Neither the article nor the preposition can be omitted.”—­Wright cor. “A close union is also observable between the subjunctive and the potential mood.”—­Id. “Should we render service equally to a friend, a neighbour, and an enemy?”—­Id. “Till a habit is obtained, of aspirating strongly.”—­Sheridan cor. “There is a uniform, steady use of the same signs.”—­Id. “A traveller remarks most of the objects which he sees.”—­Jamieson cor. “What is the name of the river on which London stands? Thames.”—­G.  B. “We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or a triplet stretched out to twelve syllables.”—­Adam cor. “The nouns which follow active verbs, are not in the nominative case.”—­David Blair cor. “It is a solemn duty to speak plainly of the wrongs which good men perpetrate.”—­Channing cor. “The gathering of riches is a pleasant torment.”—­L.  Cobb cor. “It is worth being quoted.”  Or better:  “It is worth quoting.”—­Coleridge cor. “COUNCIL is a noun which admits of a singular and a plural form.”—­Wright cor. “To exhibit the connexion between the Old Testament and the New.”—­Keith cor. “An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or of letters.”—­Guy cor. “He is immediately ordained, or rather acknowledged, a hero.”—­Pope cor. “Which is the same in both the leading and the following state.”—­Brightland cor. “Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have three distinct cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­D.  Blair cor. “A word of many syllables is called a polysyllable.”—­Beck cor. “Nouns have two numbers; the singular and the plural.”—­Id. “They have three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter.”—­Id. “They have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­Id. “Personal pronouns have, like nouns, two numbers; the singular and the plural;—­three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter;—­three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective.”—­Id. “He must be wise enough to know the singular from the