make an obstinate person believe him.”—­Brightland cor. “Are there any adjectives which form the degrees of comparison in a manner peculiar to themselves?”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “Yet all the verbs are of the indicative mood.”—­Lowth cor. “The word candidate is absolute, in the nominative case.”—­L.  Murray cor. “An Iambus has the first syllable unaccented, and the last accented.”—­L.  Murray, D. Blair, Jamieson, Kirkham, Bullions, Guy, Merchant, and others.  “A Dactyl has the first syllable accented, and the last two [syllables] unaccented.”—­Murray et al. cor. “It is proper to begin with a capital the first word of every book, chapter, letter, note, or[553] other piece of writing.”—­Jaudon’s Gram., p. 195; John Flint’s, 105.  “Five and seven make twelve, and one more makes thirteen.”—­L.  Murray cor. “I wish to cultivate a nearer acquaintance with you.”—­Id. “Let us consider the means which are proper to effect our purpose.”  Or thus:  “Let us consider what means are proper to effect our purpose.”—­Id. “Yet they are of so similar a nature as readily to mix and blend.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The Latin is formed on the same model, but is more imperfect.”—­Id. “I know very well how great pains have been taken.”  Or thus:  “I know very well how much care has been taken.”—­Temple cor. “The management of the breath requires a great deal of care.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Because the mind, during such a momentary stupefaction, is, in a great measure, if not totally, insensible.”—­Kames cor. “Motives of reason and interest alone are not sufficient.”—­Id. “To render the composition distinct in its parts, and on the whole impressive.”—­Id. “A and an are named the Indefinite article, because they denote indifferently any one thing of a kind.”—­Maunder cor. “The is named the Definite article, because it points out some particular thing or things.”—­Id. “So much depends upon the proper construction of sentences, that, in any sort of composition, we cannot be too strict in our attention to it.”  Or:—­“that, in every sort of composition, we ought to be very strict in our attention to it.”  Or:—­“that, in no sort of composition, can we be too strict,” &c.—­Dr. Blair cor. “Every sort of declamation and public speaking was carried on by them.”  Or thus:  “All sorts of declamation and public speaking, were carried on by them.”—­Id. “The former has, on many occasions, a sublimity to which the latter never attains.”—­Id. “When the words, therefore, consequently, accordingly, and the like, are used in connexion with conjunctions, they are adverbs.”—­Kirkham