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will protect us still:' here _who_ agrees with _thou_, and is nominative to the verb loves."--_Alex. Murray's Gram._, p. 67. "The Active voice signifies action; the Passive, suffering, or being the object of an action."--_Adam's Latin Gram._, p. 80; _Gould's_, 77. "They sudden set upon him, fearing no such thing."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 252. "_That_ may be used as a pronoun, an adjective, and a conjunction, depending on the office which it performs in the sentence."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 110. "This is the distinguishing property of the church of Christ from all other antichristian assemblies or churches."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 533. "My lords, the course which the legislature formerly took with respect to the slave-trade, appears to me to be well deserving the attention both of the government and your lordships."--BROUGHAM: _Antislavery Reporter_, Vol. ii, p. 218. "We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen."--_John_, iii, 11. "This is a consequence I deny, and remains for him to prove."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 329. "To back this, He brings in the Authority of Accursius, and Consensius Romanus, to the latter of which he confesses himself beholding for this Doctrine."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 343. "The compound tenses of the second order, or those in which the participle present is made use of."--_Priestley's Gram._, p. 24. "To lay the accent always on the same syllable, and the same letter of the syllable, which they do in common discourse."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 78. "Though the converting the _w_ into a _v_ is not so common as the changing the _v_ into a _w_."--_Ib._, p. 46. "Nor is this all; for by means of accent, the times of pauses also are rendered quicker, and their proportions more easily to be adjusted and observed."--_Ib._, p. 72. "By mouthing, is meant, dwelling upon syllables that have no accent: or prolonging the sounds of the accented syllables, beyond their due proportion of time."--_Ib._, p. 76. "Taunt him with the license of ink; if thou thou'st him thrice, it shall not be amiss."--SHAK.: _Joh. Dict., w. Thou_. "The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it."--_Prov._, xxx, 17. "Copying, or merely imitating others, is the death of arts and sciences."--_Spurzheim, on Ed._, p. 170. "He is arrived at that degree of perfection, as to surprise all his acquaintance."--_Ensell's Gram._,
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