--"Not a loud _voice_ but
strong _proofs bring_ conviction."--"My _poverty_, but not my will,
_consents_."--_Shakespeare_.

NOTE III.--When two subjects or antecedents are connected by _as well as,
but_, or _save_, they belong to different propositions; and, (unless one of
them is preceded by the adverb _not_,) the verb and pronoun must agree with
the former and be understood to the latter: as, "_Veracity_, as well as
justice, _is_ to be our rule of life."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 283. "The
lowest _mechanic_, as well as the richest citizen, _may boast_ that
thousands of _his_ fellow-creatures are employed for _him_."--_Percival's
Tales_, ii, 177. "These _principles_, as well as every just rule of
criticism, _are founded_ upon the sensitive part of our nature."--_Kames,
El. of Crit._, Vol. i, p. xxvi. "_Nothing_ but wailings _was_
heard."--"_None_ but thou _can aid_ us."--"No mortal _man_, save he," &c.,
"_had e'er survived_ to say _he_ saw."--_Sir W. Scott_.

NOTE IV.--When two or more subjects or antecedents are preceded by the
adjective _each, every_, or _no_, they are taken separately; and, (except
_no_ be followed by a plural noun,) they require the verb and pronoun to be
in the singular number: as, "No rank, no honour, no fortune, no condition
in life, _makes_ the guilty mind happy."--"Every phrase and every figure
_which_ he uses, _tends_ to render the picture more lively and
complete."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 179.

"And every sense, and every heart, _is_ joy."--_Thomson_.

"Each beast, each insect, happy in _its_ own."--_Pope_.

NOTE V.--When any words or terms are to be taken conjointly as subjects or
antecedents, the conjunction _and_, (in preference to _with, or, nor_, or
any thing else,) must connect them. The following sentence is therefore
inaccurate; _with_ should be _and_; or else _were_ should be _was_: "One of
them, [the] wife of Thomas Cole, _with_ her husband, _were_ shot down, the
others escaped."--_Hutchinson's Hist._, Vol. ii, p. 86. So, in the
following couplet, _or_ should be _and_, or else _engines_ should be
_engine_:

"What if the head, the eye, _or_ ear repined,
To serve mere _engines_ to the ruling mind?"--_Pope_.

NOTE VI.--Improper omissions must be supplied; but when there occurs a true
ellipsis in the construction of joint nominatives or joint antecedents, the
verb or pronoun must agree with them in the plural, just as if all the
words were expressed: as, "The _second_ a