“That Caesar’s horse,
who, as fame goes,
Had corns upon his feet and
toes,
Was not by half so tender-hooft,
Nor trod upon the ground so
soft.”—Hudibras, p. 6.
UNDER NOTE IV.—NOUNS OF MULTITUDE.
“He instructed and fed the crowds who surrounded him.”—Murray’s Exercises, p. 52. “The court, who gives currency to manners, ought to be exemplary.”—Ibid. “Nor does he describe classes of sinners who do not exist.”—Anti-Slavery Magazine, i, 27. “Because the nations among whom they took their rise, were not savage.”—Murray’s Gram., p. 113. “Among nations who are in the first and rude periods of society.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 60. “The martial spirit of those nations, among whom the feudal government prevailed.”—Ib., p. 374. “France who was in alliance with Sweden.”—Smollett’s Voltaire, vi, 187. “That faction in England who most powerfully opposed his arbitrary pretensions.”—Mrs. Macaulay’s Hist., iii, 21. “We may say, the crowd, who was going up the street.’”—Cobbett’s Gram., 204. “Such members of the Convention who formed this Lyceum, as have subscribed this Constitution.”—New-York Lyceum.
UNDER NOTE V.—CONFUSION OF SENSES.
“The possessor shall take a particular form to show its case.”—Kirkham’s Gram., p. 53. “Of which reasons the principal one is, that no Noun, properly so called, implies its own Presence.”—Harris’s Hermes, p. 76. “Boston is a proper noun, which distinguishes it from other cities.”—Sanborn’s Gram., p. 22. “Conjunction means union,