UNDER NOTE XV.—­PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.

“Great benefit may be reaped from reading of histories.”—­Sewel’s Hist., p. iii.  “And some attempts were made towards writing of history.”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 110.  “It is Invading of the Priest’s Office for any other to Offer it.”—­Right of Tythes, p. 200.  “And thus far of forming of verbs.”—­Walker’s Art of Teaching, p. 35.  “And without shedding of blood is no remission.”—­Heb., ix, 22.  “For making of measures we have the best method here in England.”—­Printer’s Gram. “This is really both admitting and denying, at once.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 72.  “And hence the origin of making of parliaments.”—­Brown’s Estimate, Vol. i, p. 71.  “Next thou objectest, that having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion.  But that I deny:  for, on the contrary, conversion presupposeth having light and grace.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. i, p. 143.  “They cried down wearing of rings and other superfluities as we do.”—­Ib., i, 236.  “Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel.”—­1 Peter, iii, 3.  “In spelling of derivative Words, the Primitive must be kept whole.”—­British Gram., p. 50; Buchanan’s Syntax, 9.  “And the princes offered for dedicating of the altar.”—­Numbers, vii, 10.  “Boasting is not only telling of lies, but also many unseemly truths.”—­Sheffield’s Works, ii, 244.  “We freely confess that forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful.”—­Barclay, i, 316.  “For revealing of a secret, there is no remedy.”—­Inst.  E. Gram., p. 126.  “He turned all his thoughts to composing of laws for the good of the state.”—­Rollin’s Ancient Hist., Vol. ii, p. 38.

UNDER NOTE XVI.—­PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.  “It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after the falling in.”—­Barclay, i, 210.  “For in the receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt eased.”—­Ib., i, 469.  “True regularity does not consist in the having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it.”—­Philol.  Museum, i, 664.  “To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth the attending to.”—­Life of Tho.  Say, p. 144.  “To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by the ordering their temple to be re-built,” &c.—­Rollin, ii, 124.  “And for the preserving them from being defiled.”—­N.  E. Discipline, p. 133.  “A wise man will avoid the showing any excellence in trifles.”—­Art of Thinking, p. 80.  “Hirsutus had no other reason for the valuing a book.”—­Rambler, No. 177; Wright’s Gram., p. 190.  “To the being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver himself with ease.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 114.  “And to the being well heard, and clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than power of voice.”—­Ib., p. 117.