“Nor War nor Wisdom yield our Jews delight,
    They will not study, and they dare not fight.”
        —­Crabbe’s Borough, p. 50.

    “Nor time nor chance breed such confusions yet,
    Nor are the mean so rais’d, nor sunk the great.”
        —­Rowe’s Lucan, B. iii, l. 213.

UNDER NOTE I.—­NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.

“The definite article the, designates what particular thing or things is meant.”—­Merchant’s School Gram., p. 23 and p. 33.  “Sometimes a word or words necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, is not expressed, but omitted by ellipsis.”—­Burr’s Gram., p. 26.  “Ellipsis, or abbreviations, is the wheels of language.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 12.  “The conditions or tenor of none of them appear at this day.”—­Hutchinson’s Hist. of Mass., Vol. i, p. 16.  “Neither men nor money were wanting for the service.”—­Ib., Vol. i, p. 279.  “Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, require frequent emphatic distinction.”—­Barber’s Exercises, p. 13.  “Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature are uppermost:  now I am for the latter part of the disjunction,”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 181.  “Their riches or poverty are generally proportioned to their activity or indolence.”—­Ross Cox’s Narrative.  “Concerning the other part of him, neither you nor he seem to have entertained an idea.”—­Bp.  Horne.  “Whose earnings or income are so small.”—­N.  E. Discipline, p. 130.  “Neither riches nor fame render a man happy.”—­Day’s Gram., p. 71.  “The references to the pages, always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key are mentioned.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, p. 283.

UNDER NOTE II.—­COMPLETE THE CONCORD.

“My lord, you wrong my father; nor he nor I are capable of harbouring a thought against your peace.”—­Walpole.  “There was no division of acts; no pauses or interval between them; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or the chorus.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 463.  “Every word ending in B, P, F, as also many in V, are of this order.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Lang., i, 73.  “As proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd than the general system of human life and human knowledge.”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 347.  “By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we cleansed.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 165.  “And those were already converted, and regeneration begun in them.”—­Ib., iii, 433.  “For I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.”—­Luke, i, 18.  “Who is my mother, or my brethren?”—­Mark, iii, 33.  “Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.”—­Isaiah, xl, 16.  “Information has been obtained,