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CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XI; OF PRONOUNS. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE IDEA OF PLURALITY. "The jury will be confined till _they_ agree on a verdict."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 145. "And mankind directed _their_ first cares towards the needful."--_Formey cor._ "It is difficult to deceive a free people respecting _their_ true interest."--_Life of Charles XII cor._ "All the virtues of mankind are to be counted upon a few fingers, but _their_ follies and vices are innumerable."--_Swift cor._ "Every sect saith, 'Give _us_ liberty:' but give it _them_, and to _their_ power, _and they_ will not yield it to any body else."--_Cromwell cor._ "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up _themselves_ as a young lion."--_Bible cor._ "For all flesh had corrupted _their_ way upon the earth."--_Id._ "There happened to the army a very strange accident, which put _them_ in great consternation."--_Goldsmith cor._ UNDER NOTE I.--THE IDEA OF UNITY. "The meeting went on _with its_ business as a united body."--_Foster cor._ "Every religious association has an undoubted right to adopt a creed for _itself_."--_Gould cor._ "It would therefore be extremely difficult to raise an insurrection in that state against _its_ own government."--_Dr. Webster cor._ "The mode in which a lyceum can apply _itself_ in effecting a reform in common schools."--_N. Y. Lyc. cor._ "Hath a nation changed _its_ gods, which yet are no gods?"--_Jer. cor._ "In the holy Scriptures, each of the twelve tribes of Israel is often called by the name of the patriarch from whom _it_ descended." Or better:--"from whom _the tribe_ descended."--_Adams cor._ UNDER NOTE II.--UNIFORMITY OF NUMBER. "A nation, by the reparation of _the wrongs which it has done_, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give."--_Adams cor._ "The English nation, from _whom_ we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch."--_Webster cor._ "If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter _its_ fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent _it from_ doing so?"--_Foster's Rep. cor._ "There is[537] a generation that _curse_ their father, and _do_ not bless their mother."--_Bible cor._ "There is[537] a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet _are_ not washed from their filthiness."--_Id._ "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord _their_ God is with _them_, and th
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