es of this construction are,--

[Sidenote: _With a singular noun_.]

The merit of _the Barb_, _the Spanish_, and _the English_ breed
is derived from a mixture of Arabian blood.--GIBBON.

_The righteous_ man is distinguished from _the unrighteous_ by
his desire and hope of justice.--RUSKIN.

He seemed deficient in sympathy for concrete human things either
on _the sunny_ or _the stormy_ side.--CARLYLE.

It is difficult to imagine a greater contrast than that between
_the first_ and _the second_ part of the volume.--_The Nation_,
No. 1508.

[Sidenote: _With a plural noun_.]

There was also a fundamental difference of opinion as to whether
the earliest cleavage was between _the Northern_ and _the
Southern_ languages.--TAYLOR, _Origin of the Aryans_.

434. The same repetition of the article is sometimes found before
nouns alone, to distinguish clearly, or to emphasize the meaning;
as,--

In every line of _the Philip_ and _the Saul_, the greatest poems,
I think, of the eighteenth century.--MACAULAY.

He is master of the two-fold Logos, _the thought_ and _the word_,
distinct, but inseparable from each other.--NEWMAN.

_The flowers_, and _the presents_, and _the trunks and bonnet
boxes_ ... having been arranged, the hour of parting
came.--THACKERAY.

[Sidenote: The _not repeated. One object and several modifiers, with a
singular noun_.]

435. Frequently, however, the article is not repeated before each of
two or more adjectives, as in Sec. 433, but is used with one only;
as,--

Or fanciest thou _the red and yellow_ Clothes-screen yonder is
but of To-day, without a Yesterday or a To-morrow?--CARLYLE.

_The lofty_, _melodious_, _and flexible_ language.--SCOTT.

_The fairest and most loving_ wife in Greece.--TENNYSON.

[Sidenote: _Meaning same as in Sec. 433, with a plural noun_.]

Neither can there be a much greater resemblance between _the
ancient and modern_ general views of the
town.--HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS.

At Talavera _the English and French_ troops for a moment
suspended their conflict.--MACAULAY.

The Crusades brought to the rising commonwealths of _the Adriatic
and Tyrrhene_ seas a large increase of wealth.--_Id._

Here the youth of both sexes, of _the higher and middling_
orders, were placed at a very tender age.--PRESCOTT.

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