“These are her garb, not her; they but express
    Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress.”—­Hannah More.

UNDER NOTE I.—­THE CASE DOUBTFUL.

“I had no knowledge of there being any connexion between them.”—­Stone, on Freemasonry, p. 25.  “To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same as being the actors of it ourselves.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 170.  “It must arise from feeling delicately ourselves.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 330; Murray’s Gram., 248.  “By reason of there not having been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement.”—­Mass.  Legislature, 1839.  “PUPILAGE, n. The state of being a scholar.”—­Johnson, Walker, Webster, Worcester.  “Then the other part’s being the definition would make it include all verbs of every description.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 343.  “John’s being my friend,[363] saved me from inconvenience.”—­Ib., p. 201.  “William’s having become a judge, changed his whole demeanor.”—­Ib., p. 201.  “William’s having been a teacher, was the cause of the interest which he felt.”—­Ib., p. 216.  “The being but one among many stifleth the chidings of conscience.”—­Book of Thoughts, p. 131.  “As for its being esteemed a close translalation [sic—­KTH], I doubt not many have been led into that error by the shortness of it.”—­Pope’s Pref. to Homer.  “All presumption of death’s being the destruction of living beings, must go upon supposition that they are compounded, and so discerptible.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 63.  “This argues rather their being proper names.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 382.  “But may it not be retorted, that its being a gratification is that which excites our resentment?”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 145.  “Under the common notion, of its being a system of the whole poetical art.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 401.  “Whose time or other circumstances forbid their becoming classical scholars.”—­Literary Convention, p. 113.  “It would preclude the notion of his being a merely fictitious personage.”—­Philological Museum, i, 446.  “For, or under pretence of their being heretics or infidels.”—­The Catholic Oath; Geo. III, 31st.  “We may here add Dr. Home’s sermon on Christ’s being the Object of religious Adoration.”—­Relig.  World, Vol. ii, p. 200.  “To say nothing of Dr. Priestley’s being a strenuous advocate,” &c.—­Ib., ii, 207.  “By virtue of Adam’s being their public head.”—­Ib., ii, 233.  “Objections against there being any such moral plan as this.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 57.  “A greater instance of a man’s being a blockhead.”—­Spect., No. 520.  “We may insure or promote its being a happy state of existence to ourselves.”—­Gurney’s Evidences, p. 86.  “By its often falling a victim to the same kind of unnatural treatment.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 41.  “Their appearing foolishness is no presumption against this.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 189.  “But what arises from their being offences; i. e. from their being liable to be perverted.”—­Ib., p. 185.  “And he entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God.”—­Acts, xviii, 7.