“And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within them?”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 367.  “This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for their service to the body.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 178.  “If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee.”—­Matt., xviii, 8.  “The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author, whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to their reputation.”—­Pope’s Pref. to Homer.  “Either James or John, one of them, will come.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 37.  “Even a rugged rock or barren heath, though in themselves disagreeable, contribute by contrast to the beauty of the whole.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 185.  “That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved themselves right in this affair.”—­Spect., No. 481.  “If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffer for their opinions, they are ‘martyrs.’”—­Gospel its own Witness, p. 80.  “If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die; then the ox shall be surely stoned.”—­Exodus, xxi, 28.  “She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring them.”—­DR. JOHNSON:  Murray’s Sequel, 181.  “Here is a Task put upon Children, that neither this Author, nor any other have yet undergone themselves.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 162.  “Hence, if an adjective or participle be subjoined to the verb, when of the singular number, they will agree both in gender and number with the collective noun.”—­Adam’s Lat.  Gram., p. 154; Gould’s, 158.  “And if you can find a diphthong, or a triphthong, be pleased to point them out too.”—­Bucke’s Classical Gram., p. 16.  “And if you can find a diphthong, or a triphthong, a trissyllable, or a polysyllable, point them respectively out.”—­Ib., p. 25.  “The false refuges in which the atheist or the sceptic have intrenched themselves.”—­Christian Spect., viii, 185.  “While the man or woman thus assisted by art expects their charms will be imputed to nature alone.”—­Opie, 141.  “When you press a watch, or pull a clock, they answer your question with precision; for they repeat exactly the hour of the day, and tell you neither more nor less than you desire to know.”—­Bolingbroke, on History, p. 102.

   “Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy,
    Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary,
    Are in their houses Monarch more than I.” 
        —­KING:  Brit.  Poets, Vol. iii, p. 613.

CHAPTER VI.—­VERBS.

In this work, the syntax of Verbs is embraced in six consecutive rules, with the necessary exceptions, notes, and observations, under them; hence this chapter extends from the fourteenth to the twentieth rule in the series.

RULE XIV.—­FINITE VERBS.