of water.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 189.  “By the gentle dropping in of a pebble.”—­Sheridan’s Elocution, p. 125.  “To the carrying on a great part of that general course of nature.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 127.  “Then the not interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint.”—­Ib., p. 147.  “The bare omission, or rather the not employing of what is used.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 180; Jamieson’s, 48.  “Bringing together incongruous adverbs is a very common fault.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 329.  “This is a presumptive proof of its not proceeding from them.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 186.  “It represents him in a character to which the acting unjustly is peculiarly unsuitable.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 372.  “They will aim at something higher than merely the dealing out of harmonious sounds.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 65.  “This is intelligible and sufficient; and going farther seems beyond the reach of our faculties.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 147.  “Apostrophe is a turning off from the regular course of the subject.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 348; Jamieson’s Rhet., 185.  “Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending out a commission to investigate his conduct.”—­Life of Columbus.  “For the turning away of the simple shall slay them.”—­Prov., i, 32.

   “Thick fingers always should command
    Without the stretching out the hand.”—­King’s Poems, p. 585.

UNDER NOTE V.—­PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.

“Is there any Scripture speaks of the light’s being inward?”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 367.  “For I believe not the being positive therein essential to salvation.”—­Ib., iii, 330.  “Our not being able to act an uniform right part without some thought and care.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 122.  “Upon supposition of its being reconcileable with the constitution of nature.”—­Ib., p. 128.  “Upon account of its not being discoverable by reason or experience.”—­Ib., p. 170.  “Upon account of their being unlike the known course of nature.”—­Ib., p. 171.  “Our being able to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them.”—­Ib., p. 174.  “From its not being universal.”—­Ib., p. 175.  “That they may be turned into the passive participle in dus is no decisive argument in favour of their being passive.”—­Grant’s Lat.  Gram., p. 233.  “With the implied idea of St. Paul’s being then absent from the Corinthians.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 123.  “On account of its becoming gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence.”—­Ib., p. 32.  “Not without the author’s being fully aware.”—­Ib., p. 84.  “Being witty out of season, is one sort of folly.”—­Sheffield’s Works, ii. 172.  “Its being generally susceptible of a much stronger evidence.”—­Campbell’s