ed a Phrase."--_Ibid._ "But the common Number of Times are
five."--_The British Grammar_, p. 122. "Technical terms, injudiciously
introduced, is another source of darkness in composition."--_Jamieson's
Rhet._, p. 107. "The United States is the great middle division of North
America."--_Morse's Geog._, p. 44. "A great cause of the low state of
industry were the restraints put upon it."--HUME: _Murray's Gram._, p. 145;
_Ingersoll's_, 172; _Sanborn's_, 192; _Smith's_, 123; and others. "Here two
tall ships becomes the victor's prey."--_Rowe's Lucan_, B. ii, l. 1098.
"The expenses incident to an outfit is surely no object."--_The Friend_,
Vol. iii., p. 200.

"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,
Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."--_Milton_.

UNDER NOTE VI.--CHANGE THE NOMINATIVE.

"Much pains has been taken to explain all the kinds of words."--_Infant
School Gram._ p. 128. "Not less [_time_] than three years are spent in
attaining this faculty."--_Music of Nature_, p. 28. "Where this night are
met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wish'd presence."--_Milton's
Comus_. l. 948. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no oxen near
thy bed."--_Watts._ "But every one of these are mere conjectures, and some
of them very unhappy ones."--_Coleridge's Introduction_, p. 61. "The old
theorists, calling the Interrogatives and Repliers, _adverbs_, is only a
part of their regular system of naming words."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p.
374. "Where a series of sentences occur, place them in the order in which
the facts occur."--_Ib._, p. 264. "And that the whole in conjunction make a
regular chain of causes and effects."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 275. "The
origin of the Grecian, and Roman republics, though equally involved in the
obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable
distinction."--_Adam's Rhet._, i, 95. "In these respects, mankind is left
by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 144.
"The scripture are the oracles of God himself."--HOOKER: _Joh. Dict., w.
Oracle_. "And at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits."--_Solomon's
Song_, vii, 13. "The preterit of _pluck, look_, and _toss_ are, in speech,
pronounced _pluckt, lookt, tosst_."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 1850, Sec.68.

"Severe the doom that length of days impose,
To stand sad witness of unnumber'd woes!"--_Melmoth_.

UNDER NOTE VII.--ADAPT FORM TO STYLE.

1. _Forms not