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ns_, Time is always masculine, on account of _his_ mighty efficacy; Virtue, feminine, _by reason of her_ beauty and _loveliness_."--_Murray, Blair, et al. cor._ "When you speak to a person or thing, the _noun or pronoun_ is in the second person."--_Bartlett cor._ "You now know the noun; for _noun_ means _name_."--_Id._ "_T_. What do you see? _P_. A book. _T_. Spell _book_."--_R. W. Green cor._ "_T_. What do you see now? _P_. Two books. _T_. Spell _books_."--_Id._ "If the United States lose _their_ rights as a nation."--_Liberator cor._ "When a person or thing is addressed or spoken to, the _noun or pronoun_ is in the second person."--_Frost cor._ "When a person or thing is _merely_ spoken of, the _noun or pronoun_ is in the third person."--_Id._ "The _word_ OX _also, taking_ the same plural termination, _makes_ OXEN."--_Bucke cor._ "Hail, happy States! _yours_ is the blissful seat Where nature's gifts and art's improvements meet."--_Everett cor._ UNDER NOTE VI.--THE RELATIVE THAT. (1.) "This is the most useful art _that_ men possess."--_L. Murray cor._ "The earliest accounts _that_ history gives us, concerning all nations, bear testimony to these facts."--_Blair et al. cor._ "Mr. Addison was the first _that_ attempted a regular inquiry into the pleasures of taste."--_Blair cor._ "One of the first _that_ introduced it, was Montesquieu."--_Murray cor._ "Massillon is perhaps the most eloquent _sermonizer that_ modern times have produced."--_Blair cor._ "The greatest barber _that_ ever lived, is our guiding star and prototype."--_Hart cor._ (2.) "When prepositions are subjoined to nouns, they are generally the same _that_ are subjoined to the verbs from which the nouns are derived."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 200. Better thus: "_The_ prepositions _which_ are subjoined to nouns, _are_ generally the same _that_," &c.--_Priestley cor._ "The same proportions _that_ are agreeable in a model, are not agreeable in a large building."--_Kames cor._ "The same ornaments _that_ we admire in a private apartment, are unseemly in a temple."--_Murray cor._ "The same _that_ John saw also in the sun."--_Milton cor._ (3.) "Who can ever be easy, _that_ is reproached with his own ill conduct?"--_T. a Kempis cor._ "Who is she _that_ comes clothed in a robe of green?"--_Inst._, p. 267. "Who _that_ has either sense or civility, does not perceive the vileness of profanity?"--_G. Brown_. (4.) "The second person denotes the person or t
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