NOTE V.—­When adjectives are connected, and the qualities all belong to the same thing or things, the article should not be repeated:  as, “A black and white horse;”—­i. e., one horse, piebald. “The north and south line;”—­i. e., one line, running north and south, like a meridian.  NOTE VI.—­When two or more individual things of the same name are distinguished by adjectives that cannot unite to describe the same thing, the article must be added to each if the noun be singular, and to the first only if the noun follow them in the plural:  as, “The nominative and the objective case;” or, “The nominative and objective cases.”—­“The third, the fifth, the seventh, and the eighth chapter;” or, “The third, fifth, seventh, and eighth chapters.” [338]

NOTE VII.—­When two phrases of the same sentence have any special correspondence with each other, the article, if used in the former, is in general required also in the latter:  as, “For ye know neither the day nor the hour.”—­Matt., xxv, 13.  “Neither the cold nor the fervid are formed for friendship.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 209.  “The vail of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom.”—­Matt., xxvii, 51.

NOTE VIII.—­When a special correspondence is formed between individual epithets, the noun which follows must not be made plural; because the article, in such a case, cannot be repeated as the construction of correspondents requires.  Thus, it is improper to say, “Both the first and second editions” or, “Both the first and the second editions” for the accurate phrase, “Both the first and the second edition;” and still worse to say, “Neither the Old nor New Testaments” or, “Neither the Old nor the New Testaments” for the just expression, “Neither the Old nor the New Testament.”  Yet we may say, “Neither the old nor the new statutes” or, “Both the early and the late editions;” for here the epithets severally apply to more than one thing.

NOTE IX.—­In a series of three or more terms, if the article is used with any, it should in general be added either to every one, or else to the first only.  The following phrase is therefore inaccurate:  “Through their attention to the helm, the sails, or rigging.”—­Brown’s Estimate, Vol. i, p. 11.  Say, “the rigging.”

NOTE X.—­As the article an or a denotes “one thing of a kind,” it should not be used as we use the, to denote emphatically a whole kind; and again, when the species is said to be of the genus, no article should be used to limit the latter.  Thus some will say, “A jay is a sort of a bird;” whereas they ought to say, “The jay is a sort of bird.”  Because it is absurd to suggest, that one jay is a sort of one bird.  Yet we may say, “The jay is a bird,” or, “A jay is a bird;” because, as every species is one under the genus, so every individual is one under both.