“And now, at length, the fated term of years
    The world’s desire have brought, and lo! the God appears.”
        —­Dr. Lowth, on “the Genealogy of Christ."

    “Variety of Numbers still belong
    To the soft Melody of Ode or Song.”
        —­Brightland’s Gram., p. 170.

UNDER NOTE III.—­COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

“Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish are hardly granted to the same man.”—­Johnson, Adv. to Dict. “To lay down rules for these are as inefficacious.”—­Dr. Pratt’s Werter, p. 19.  “To profess regard, and to act differently, discover a base mind.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, p. 206.  See also Bullions’s E. Gram., 82 and 112; Lennie’s, 58.  “To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely please the mind of man.”—­Fisher’s Gram., p. 152.  “In this passage, according as are used in a manner which is very common.”—­Webster’s Philosophical Gram., p. 183.  “A cause de are called a preposition; a cause que, a conjunction.”—­DR. WEBSTER:  Knickerbocker, 1836.  “To these are given to speak in the name of the Lord.”—­The Friend, vii, 256.  “While wheat has no plural, oats have seldom any singular.”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram. 41.  “He cannot assert that ll are inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u.”—­Cobb’s Review of Webster, p. 11. “ch have the power of k.”—­Gould’s Adam’s Gram., p. 2. “ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, have the sound of si or ci.”—­Ibid. “In words derived from the French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch are sounded like sh.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 10.  “But in the word schism, schismatic, &c., the ch are silent.”—­Ibid. “Ph are always sounded like f, at the beginning of words.”—­Bucke’s Gram. “Ph have the sound of f as in philosophy.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 11. “Sh have one sound only as in shall.”—­Ib. “Th have two sounds.”—­Ib. “Sc have the sound of sk, before a, o, u, and r.”—­Ib. “Aw, have the sound of a in hall.”—­Bolles’s Spelling-Book, p. vi.  “Ew, sound like u.”—­Ib. “Ow, when both sounded, have the sound of ou.”—­Ib. “Ui, when both pronounced in one syllable sound like wi in languid.”—­Ib.

   “Ui three several Sorts of Sound express,
    As Guile, rebuild, Bruise and Recruit confess.”
        —­Brightland’s Gram., p. 34.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.