proper for the Common or Familiar Style_.

"Was it thou that buildedst that house?"--_Inst._, p. 151. "That boy
writeth very elegantly."--_Ib._ "Couldest not thou write without blotting
thy book?"--_Ib._ "Thinkest thou not it will rain to-day?"--_Ib._ "Doth not
your cousin intend to visit you?"--_Ib._ "That boy hath torn my
book."--_Ib._ "Was it thou that spreadest the hay?"--_Ib._ "Was it James,
or thou, that didst let him in?"--_Ib._ "He dareth not say a word."--_Ib._
"Thou stoodest in my way and hinderedst me."--_Ib._

"Whom see I?--Whom seest thou now?--Whom sees he?--Whom lovest thou
most?--What dost thou to-day?--What person seest thou teaching that
boy?--He hath two new knives.--Which road takest thou?--What child teaches
he?"--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 66. "Thou, who makest my shoes, sellest many
more."--_Ib._, p. 67.

"The English language hath been much cultivated during the last two hundred
years. It hath been considerably polished and refined."--_Lowth's Gram.,
Pref._, p. iii. "This _stile_ is ostentatious, and doth not suit grave
writing."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 82. "But custom hath now appropriated
_who_ to persons, and _which_ to things."--_Ib._, p. 97. "The indicative
mood sheweth or declareth; as, _Ego amo_, I love: or else asketh a
question; as, _Amas tu_? Dost thou love?"--_Paul's Accidence_, Ed. of 1793,
p. 16. "Though thou canst not do much for the cause, thou mayst and
shouldst do something."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 143. "The support of so many
of his relations, was a heavy task; but thou knowest he paid it
cheerfully."--_Murray's Key_, R. 1, p. 180. "It may, and often doth, come
short of it."--_Campbell's Rhetoric_, p. 160.

"'Twas thou, who, while thou seem'dst to chide,
To give me all thy pittance tried."--_Mitford's Blanch_, p. 78.

2. _Forms not proper for the Solemn or Biblical Style_.

"The Lord has prepaid his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom rules over
all."--See _Key_. "Thou answer'd them, O Lord our God: thou was a God that
forgave them, though thou took vengeance of their inventions."--See _Key_.
"Then thou spoke in vision to thy Holy One, and said, I have laid help upon
one that is mighty."--See _Key_. "So then, it is not of him that wills, nor
of him that rules, but of God that shows mercy; who dispenses his
blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seems good in his sight."--See
_Key_.

"Thou, the mean while, was blending with my thought;
Yea, with my lif