and some trials made.”—­Society in America, i, 308.  “It is as obvious, and its causes more easily understood.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 84.  “All languages furnish examples of this kind, and the English as many as any other.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 157.  “The winters are long, and the cold intense.”—­Morse’s Geog., p. 39.  “How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof!”—­Prov., v, 12.  “The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of Vesta extinguished.”—­Lempriere, w.  Vestales.  “Riches beget pride; pride, impatience.”—­Bullions’s Practical Lessons, p. 89.  “Grammar is not reasoning, any more than organization is thought, or letters sounds.”—­Enclytica, p. 90.  “Words are implements, and grammar a machine.”—­Ib., p. 91.

UNDER NOTE III.—­PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.

“I or thou art the person who must undertake the business proposed.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 184.  “I and he were there.”—­Dr. Ash’s Gram., p. 51.  “And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he.”—­Gen., xli, 11.  “If my views remain the same as mine and his were in 1833.”—­GOODELL:  Liberator, ix, 148.  “I and my father were riding out.”—­Inst., p. 158.  “The premiums were given to me and George.”—­Ib. “I and Jane are invited.”—­Ib. “They ought to invite me and my sister.”—­Ib. “I and you intend going.”—­Guy’s Gram., p. 55.  “I and John are going to Town.”—­British Gram., p. 193.  “I, and he are sick.  I, and thou are well.”—­James Brown’s American Gram., Boston Edition of 1841, p. 123.  “I, and he is.  I, and thou art.  I, and he writes.”—­Ib., p. 126.  “I, and they are well.  I, thou, and she were walking.”—­Ib., p. 127.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.

“To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, are great injustice.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 159.  “To reveal secrets, or to betray one’s friends, are contemptible perfidy.”—­Ib. “To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude them from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought offences too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something.”—­Dr. Barrow’s Essays, p. 88.  “To live in such families, or to have such servants, are blessings from God.”—­Family Commentary, p. 64.  “How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, are utterly unknown.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. i, p. 4.  “To speak or to write perspicuously and agreeably, are attainments of the utmost consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or writing, to address the public.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 11.

UNDER NOTE V.—­MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.