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e, and life's own secret joy."--_Coleridge_. UNDER NOTE VIII.--EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE. "Who is here so base, that would be a bondman?"--_Beauties of Shakspeare_, p. 249. "Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman?"--_Ib._ "There is not a sparrow falls to the ground without his notice."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 300. "In order to adjust them so, as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period."--_Ib._, p. 324; _Blair's Rhet._, 118. "But, sometimes, there is a verb comest in."--_Cobbett's English Gram._, 248. "Mr. Prince has a genius would prompt him to better things."--_Spectator_, No. 466. "It is this removes that impenetrable mist."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 362. "By the praise is given him for his courage."--_Locke, on Education_, p. 214. "There is no man would be more welcome here."--_Steele, Spect._, No. 544. "Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and immediately follows."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 141. "And as connected with what goes before and follows."-- _Ib._, p. 354. "There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake."--_Lord Bacon_. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence and folly, and might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 108. "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least as respect justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures."--_Gospel its own Witness_, p. 56. "Indeed, if there be any such, have been, or appear to be of us, as suppose, there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their matter."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 504. "There were that drew back; there were that made shipwreck of faith: yea, there were that brought in damnable heresies."--_Ib._, i, 466. "The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper, and in similar situations is fit to be imitated."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 274. "This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined, and was formerly very prevalent."-- _Churchill's Gram._, p. 150. "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and seeth the place of stones."--_Job_, viii, 17. "New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823. "Dear friend, Am sorry to hear of thy loss; but hope it may be retrieved. Should be happy to render thee any assistance in my power. Shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept a
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