he awful and _of the_ tender kind."--_Id._ "Restlessness of mind
disqualifies us both for the enjoyment of peace, and _for_ the performance
of our duty."--_Mur. and Ing. cor. "Pronominal adjectives_ are of a mixed
nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and _of_
adjectives."--_Mur. et al. cor. "Pronominal adjectives_ have the nature
both of the adjective and _of_ the pronoun."--_Frost cor._ Or: "[Pronominal
adjectives] partake of the properties _of both_ adjectives _and_
pronouns."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 55. "Pronominal adjectives are a kind of
compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of pronouns and _of_
adjectives."--_Nutting cor._ "Nouns are used either in the singular or _in
the_ plural number." Or perhaps better: "Nouns are used _in either_ the
singular or _the_ plural number."--_David Blair cor._ "The question is not,
whether the nominative or _the_ accusative ought to follow the particles
THAN and AS; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to
be regarded as conjunctions or _as_ prepositions"--_Campbell cor._ "In
English, many verbs are used both as transitives and _as_
intransitives."--_Churchill cor._ "He sendeth rain both on the just and _on
the_ unjust."--See _Matt._, v, 45. "A foot consists either of two or _of_
three syllables."--_David Blair cor._ "Because they participate the nature
both of adverbs and _of_ conjunctions."--_L. Murray cor._ "Surely, Romans,
what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted, nor _to_ pass
without notice."--_Duncan cor._ "Their language frequently amounts, not
only to bad sense, but _to nonsense_."--_Kirkham cor._ "Hence arises the
necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and _for the_
exerting, of his nobler faculties."--_Sheridan cor._ "Whether the subject
be of the real or _of the_ feigned kind."--_Dr. H. Blair cor._ "Not only
was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power _was_ felt in its
heaviest and most oppressive weight."--_Id._ "This rule is _also_
applicable both to verbal Critics and _to_ Grammarians."--_Hiley cor._
"Both the rules and _the_ exceptions of a language must have obtained the
sanction of good usage."--_Id._

CHAPTER X.--PREPOSITIONS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXIII.

UNDER NOTE I.--CHOICE OF PREPOSITIONS.

"You have bestowed your favours _upon_ the most deserving persons."--_Swift
corrected._ "But, to rise _above_ that, and overtop the crowd, is given to
few."-