“Oh wretched state! oh bosom black as death!”
        —­SHAK.:  Enfield, p. 368.

UNDER RULE IX.—­OF FINITE VERBS.

“The Singular denotes one; the Plural, more than one.”—­Bullions and Lennie cor. “The Comma represents the shortest pause; the Semicolon, a pause longer than the comma; the Colon, longer than the semicolon; and the Period, longer than the colon.”—­Hiley cor. “The Comma represents the shortest pause; the Semicolon, a pause double that of the Comma; the Colon, double that of the semicolon; and the Period, double that of the colon.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 266.  “WHO is applied only to persons; WHICH, to animals and things; WHAT, to things only; and THAT, to persons, animals, and things.”—­Day cor. “A or an is used before the singular number only; the, before either singular or plural.”—­Bullions cor. “Homer was the greater genius; Virgil, the better artist.”—­Day cor.; also Pope.  “Words are formed of syllables; syllables, of letters.”—­St. Quentin cor. “The conjugation of an active verb is styled the ACTIVE VOICE; and that of a passive verb, the PASSIVE VOICE.”—­Frost cor.; also Smith:  L. Murray’s Gram., p. 77.  “The possessive is sometimes called the genitive case; and the objective, the accusative.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Benevolence is allied to few vices; selfishness, to fewer virtues.”—­Kames cor. “Orthography treats of Letters; Etymology, of words; Syntax, of Sentences; and Prosody, of Versification.”—­Hart cor.

   “Earth praises conquerors for shedding blood;
    Heaven, those that love their foes, and do them good.”—­Waller.

UNDER RULE X.—­OF INFINITIVES.

“His business is, to observe the agreement or disagreement of words.”—­Bullions cor. “It is a mark of distinction, to be made a member of this society.”—­Farnum cor. “To distinguish the conjugations, let the pupil observe the following rules.”—­Day cor. “He was now sent for, to preach before the Parliament.”—­E.  Williams cor. “It is incumbent on the young, to love and honour their parents.”—­Bullions cor. “It is the business of every man, to prepare for death.”—­Id. “It argued the sincerest candor, to make such an acknowledgement.”—­Id. “The proper way is, to complete the construction of the first member, and leave that of the second elliptical.”—­Id. “ENEMY is a name.  It is a term of distinction, given to a certain person, to show the character in which he is represented.”—­Peirce cor. “The object of this is, to preserve the soft sounds of c and g.”—­Hart cor. “The design of grammar is, to facilitate the reading, writing, and speaking of a language.”—­Barrett cor. “Four kinds of type are used in the following pages, to indicate the portions that are considered more or less elementary.”—­Hart cor.