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."--_Hallock's Gram._, p. 9. "Participles are words derived from verbs, and convey an idea of the acting of an agent, or the suffering of an object, with the time it happens."--_Alex. Murray's Gram._, p. 50. "Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies."--_Beauties of Shak._, p. 173. UNDER NOTE IX.--ADVERBS FOR RELATIVES. "In compositions where pronunciation has no place."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 101. "They framed a protestation, where they repeated their claims."--_Hume's Hist_. "Which have reference to Substances, where Sex never had existence."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 43. "Which denote substances where sex never had existence."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 38; _Fisk's_, 57. "There is no rule given how truth may be found out."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 160. "The nature of the objects whence they are taken."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 165. "That darkness of character, where we can see no heart."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 236. "The states where they negotiated."--_Formey's Belles-Lettres_, p. 159. "Till the motives whence men act be known."--_Beattie's Moral Science_, p. 262. "He assigns the principles whence their power of pleasing flows."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 19. "But I went on, and so finished this History in that form as it now appears."--_Sewel's Preface_, p. v. "By prepositions we express the cause why, the instrument by which, wherewith, or the manner how a thing is done."--_Alex. Murray's Gram._, p. 128; _John Burn's_, 121. "They are not such in the language whence they are derived."--_Town's Analysis_, p. 13. "I find it very hard to persuade several, that their passions are affected by words from whence they have no ideas."--_Burke, on the Sublime_, p. 95. "The known end, then, why we are placed in a state of so much affliction, hazard, and difficulty, is our improvement in virtue and piety."--_Butler's Anal._, p. 109. "Yet such his acts, as Greeks unborn shall tell, And curse the battle where their fathers fell." --_Pope, Il._, B. x, I. 61. UNDER NOTE X.--REPEAT THE NOUN. "Youth may be thoughtful, but it is not very common."--_Webster's El. Spelling-Book_, p. 85. "A proper name is that given to one person or thing."--_Bartlett's School Manual_, ii, 27. "A common name is that given to many things of the same sort."--_Ibid._ "This rule is often violated; some instances of which are annexed."--_Murray's Gram._, p.
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