not, brethren, that he is the High Priest.”—­Dr. Webster’s Bible:  Acts, xxiii, 5.  “Most prepositions originally denote the relation of place, and have been thence transferred to denote by similitude other relations.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 65; Churchill’s, 116.  “His gift was but a poor offering, when we consider his estate.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 194.  “If he should succeed, and should obtain his end, he will not be the happier for it.”—­Murray’s Gram., i, p. 207.  “These are torrents that swell to-day, and have spent themselves by to-morrow.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 286.  “Who have called that wheat to-day, which they have called tares to-morrow.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii. 168.  “He thought it had been one of his tenants.”—­Ib., i, 11.  “But if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.”—­Luke, xvi, 30.  “Neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”—­Ib., verse 31.  “But it is while men slept that the archenemy has always sown his tares.”—­The Friend, x, 351.  “Crescens would not fail to have exposed him.”—­Addison’s Evidences, p. 30.

   “Bent was his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound;
    Fierce as he mov’d, his silver shafts resound.”
        —­Pope, Iliad, B. i, l. 64.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—­VERBS OF COMMANDING, &c.

“Had I commanded you to have done this, you would have thought hard of it.”—­G.  B. “I found him better than I expected to have found him.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 126.  “There are several smaller faults, which I at first intended to have enumerated.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 246.  “Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object should make.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 168.  “The girl said, if her master would but have let her had money, she might have been well long ago.”—­See Priestley’s Gram., p. 127.  “Nor is there the least ground to fear, that we should be cramped here within too narrow limits.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 163; Murray’s Gram., i, 360.  “The Romans, flushed with success, expected to have retaken it.”—­Hooke’s Hist., p. 37.  “I would not have let fallen an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered.”—­STERNE:  Enfield’s Speaker, p. 54.  “We expected that he would have arrived last night.”—­Inst. p. 192.  “Our friends intended to have met us.”—­Ib. “We hoped to have seen you.”—­Ib. “He would not have been allowed to have entered.”—­Ib.

UNDER NOTE XV.—­PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.