for the state, that
Fabius continued in the command with Minucius: the former's phlegm was a
check upon the latter's vivacity."--_L. Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 57. "If it
should be objected that the words must and ought, in the preceding
sentences, are all in the present tense."--_Ib._, p. 108. "But it will be
well if you turn to them, every now and then."--_Buckets Classical Gram._,
p. 6. "That every part should have a dependence on, and mutually contribute
to support each other."--_Rollin's Hist._, ii, 115. "The phrase, '_Good, my
Lord_,' is not common, and low."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 110.

"That brother should not war with brother,
And worry and devour each other."--_Cowper_.

LESSON IV.--PRONOUNS.

"If I can contribute to your and my country's glory."--_Goldsmith_.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the pronoun _your_ has not a clear and
regular construction, adapted to the author's meaning. But, according to
the General Rule of Syntax, "In the formation of sentences, the consistency
and adaptation of all the words should be carefully observed; and a
regular, clear, and correspondent construction should be preserved
throughout." The sentence, having a doubtful or double meaning, may be
corrected in two ways, thus: "If I can contribute to our country's
glory;"--or, "If I can contribute to your _glory_ and _that of my
country_."]

"As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect each their
verb."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 120. "He is likewise required to make examples
himself."--_J. Flint's Gram._, p. 3. "If the emphasis be placed wrong, we
shall pervert and confound the meaning wholly."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p.
242. "If the emphasis be placed wrong, we pervert and confound the meaning
wholly."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 330. "It was this that characterized the
great men of antiquity; it is this, which must distinguish moderns who
would tread in their steps."--_Ib._, p. 341. "I am a great enemy to
implicit faith, as well the Popish as Presbyterian, who in that are much
what alike."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 280. "Will he thence dare to say the
apostle held another Christ than he that died?"--_Ib._, iii, 414. "What
need you be anxious about this event?"--_Collier's Antoninus_, p. 188. "If
a substantive can be placed after the verb, it is active."--_Alex. Murray's
Gram._, p. 31 "When we see bad men honoured and prosperous in the world, it
is some discouragement to virtue."--_L. Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 224. "It