e title of Protector"--_Id._ "Her father is honoured with the
title of _Earl_."--_Id._ "The chief magistrate is styled _President_."--
_Id._ "The highest title in the state is that of _Governor_."--_Id._ "That
boy is known by the name of _Idler_."--_Murray cor._ "The one styled
_Mufti_, is the head of the ministers of law and religion."--_Balbi cor._
"Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole
class _tree_."--_Blair cor._ "For _oak, pine_, and _ash_, were names of
whole classes of objects."--_Id._ "It is of little importance whether we
give to some particular mode of expression the name of _trope_, or of
_figure_."--_Id._ "The collision of a vowel with itself is the most
ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation
under the name of _hiatus_."--_Adams cor._ "We hesitate to determine,
whether _Tyrant_ alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative
includes the _word Spy_."--_Cobbett cor._ "Hence originated the customary
abbreviation of _twelve months_ into _twelvemonth_; of _seven nights_ into
_sennight_; of _fourteen nights_ into _fortnight_."--_Webster cor._

UNDER NOTE XIII.--COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

"He is a better writer than reader."--_W. Allen_. "He was an abler
mathematician than linguist."--_Id._ "I should rather have an orange than
_an_ apple."--_G. Brown_. "He was no less able _as_ a negotiator, than
courageous _as_ a warrior."--_Smollett cor._ "In an epic poem, we pardon
many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or _an_
epigram."--_Kames cor._ "That figure is a sphere, globe, or
ball."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 357.

UNDER NOTE XIV.--ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

"_The_ carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy."--_Key to
Inst_. "The place is not mentioned by _the_ geographers who wrote at that
time."--_Ib._ "Those questions which a person _puts to_ himself in
contemplation, ought to be terminated _with_ points of interrogation."--
_Mur. et al. cor._ "The work is designed for the use of _those_ persons who
may think it merits a place in their libraries."--_Mur. cor._ "That _those_
who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be
wondered at."--_Id._ "_Those_ grammarians who limit the number to two, or
three, do not reflect."--_Id._ "_The_ substantives which end in _ian_, are
those that signify profession." Or: "_Those_ substantives which end in
_ian_, are _such as_ signify profession."--