of a man.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. i, p. 124.  “To keep off his right wing, as a kind of a reserved body.”—­Ib., ii, 12.  “This part of speech is called a verb.”—­Mack’s Gram., p. 70.  “What sort of a thing is it?”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 20.  “What sort of a charm do they possess?”—­Bullions’s Principles of E. Gram., p. 73.

   “Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole,
    That painful animal, a Mole.”—­Note to Dunciad, B. ii, l. 207.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.

“Either thou or the boys were in the fault.”—­Comly’s Key, in Gram., p. 174.  “It may, at the first view, appear to be too general.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 222; Ingersoll’s, 275.  “When the verb has a reference to future time.”—­Ib.:  M., p. 207; Ing., 264.  “No; they are the language of imagination rather than of a passion.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 165.  “The dislike of the English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can only be attributed to the intricacy of syntax.”—­Russell’s Gram., p. iv.  “Is that ornament in a good taste?”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 326.  “There are not many fountains in a good taste.”—­Ib., ii, 329.  “And I persecuted this way unto the death.”—­Acts, xxii, 4.  “The sense of the feeling can, indeed, give us the idea of extension.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 196.  “The distributive adjective pronouns, each, every, either, agree with the nouns, pronouns, and verbs, of the singular number only.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 165; Lowth’s, 89.  “Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to the other parts of speech.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 84.  “By the certain muscles which operate all at the same time.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 19.  “It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in the general concerning them.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 112.  “Nothing disgusts us sooner than the empty pomp of language.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 319.

UNDER NOTE XII.—­TITLES AND NAMES.

“He is entitled to the appellation of a gentleman.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 126.  “Cromwell assumed the title of a Protector.”—­Ib. “Her father is honoured with the title of an Earl.”—­Ib. “The chief magistrate is styled a President.”—­Ib. “The highest title in the state is that of the Governor.”—­Ib. “That boy is known by the name of the Idler.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 205.  “The one styled the Mufti, is the head of the ministers of law and religion.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 360.  “Banging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class a tree.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 73.  “For the oak, the pine, and the ash, were names of whole classes of objects.”—­Ib., p. 73.  “It is of little importance whether