plied to adverbs in the comparative _or the_
superlative degree."--_Lowth. Murray, et al, cor._ "Conjunctions usually
connect verbs in the same mood _and_ tense." Or, more truly: "Verbs
connected by _a conjunction, are_ usually in the same mood _and_
tense."--_Sanborn cor._ "Conjunctions connect verbs in the same style, and
usually in the same mood, tense, _and_ form." Or better: "Verbs connected
by _a conjunction_, are usually _of_ the same mood, tense, _and_ form, _as
well as_ style."--_Id._ "The ruins of Greece _or_ Rome are but the
monuments of her former greatness."--_P. E. Day cor._ "It is not
improbably, _that in many of these cases_ the articles were used
originally."--_Priestley cor._ "I cannot doubt that these objects are
really what they appear to be."--_Kames cor._ "I question not _that_ my
reader will be as much pleased with it."--_Spect. cor._ "It is ten to one
_that_ my friend Peter is among them."--_Id._ "I doubt not _that_ such
objections as these will be made"--_Locke cor._ "I doubt not _that_ it will
appear in the perusal of the following sheets."--_Buchanan cor._ "It is not
improbable, that in time these different constructions maybe appropriated
to different uses."--_Priestley cor._ "But to forget _and_ to remember at
pleasure, are equally beyond the power of man."--_Idler cor._ "The
nominative case follows the verb, in interrogative _or_ imperative
sentences."--_L. Mur. cor._ "Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive
berries? _or_ a vine, figs?"--_Bible cor._ "Whose characters are too
profligate _for_ the managing of them _to_ be of any consequence."--_Swift
cor._ "You, that are a step higher than a philosopher, a divine, yet have
too much grace and wit to be a bishop."--_Pope cor._ "The terms _rich and
poor_ enter not into their language."--_Robertson cor._ "This pause is but
seldom, _if_ ever, sufficiently dwelt upon." Or: "This pause is seldom _or
never_ sufficiently dwelt upon."--_Gardiner cor._ "There would be no
possibility of any such thing as human life _or_ human happiness."--_Bp.
Butler cor._ "The multitude rebuked them, _that_ they should hold their
peace."--_Bible cor._

UNDER NOTE IV.--THE CONJUNCTION THAN.

"A metaphor is nothing _else than_ a short comparison." Or: "A metaphor is
nothing _but_ a short comparison."--_Adam and Gould cor._ "There being no
other dictator here _than_ use."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 364. "This
construction is no otherwise known in English, _than_ by supplyi