uniform and perspicuous manner."--_Id._ "SCRIPTURE, _n._ Appropriately,
and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and _the_ New Testament;
the Bible."--_Webster cor._ "In two separate volumes, entitled, 'The Old
and New Testaments.'"--_Wayland cor._ "The Scriptures of the Old and _the_
New Testament, contain a revelation from God."--_Id._ "Q has _always a_ u
after it; which, in words of French origin, is not sounded."--_Wilson cor._
"What should we say of such _a_ one? that he is regenerate? No."--_Hopkins
cor._ "Some grammarians subdivide _the_ vowels into simple and
compound."--_L. Murray cor._ "Emphasis has been _divided_ into the weaker
and _the_ stronger emphasis."--_Id._ "Emphasis has also been divided into
_the_ superior and the inferior emphasis."--_Id._ "Pronouns must agree with
their antecedents, or _the_ nouns which they represent, in gender, number,
and person."--_Merchant cor._ "The adverb _where_ is often used improperly,
for _a_ relative pronoun and _a_ preposition": as, "Words _where_ [in
which] the _h_ is not silent."--_Murray_, p. 31. "The termination _ish_
imports diminution, or _a_ lessening _of_ the quality."--_Merchant cor._
"In this train, all their verses proceed: one half of _a_ line always
answering to the other."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "To _a_ height of prosperity and
glory, unknown to any former age."--_L. Murray cor._ "_Hwilc_, who, which,
such as, such _a_ one, is declined as follows."--_Gwilt cor._ "When a vowel
precedes _the y, s_ only is required to form _the_ plural; as, _day,
days_."--_Bucke cor._ "He is asked what sort _of word_ each is; whether a
primitive, _a_ derivative, or _a_ compound."--_British Gram. cor._ "It is
obvious, that neither the second, _the_ third, nor _the_ fourth chapter of
Matthew, is the first; consequently, there are not '_four first_
chapters.'"--_Churchill cor._ "Some thought, which a writer wants _the_ art
to introduce in its proper place."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Groves and meadows
are _the_ most pleasing in the spring."--_Id._ "The conflict between the
carnal and _the_ spiritual mind, is often long."--_Gurney cor._ "A
Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and _the_
Beautiful"--_Burke cor._

"Silence, my muse! make not these jewels cheap,
Exposing to the world too large _a_ heap."--_Waller cor._

CHAPTER III.--NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE MODIFICATIONS OF NOUNS.

LESSON I.--NUMBERS.

"All the ablest of the Jewish _rabbies_