64; Murray’s Gram., p. 301; Kirkham’s, 220.  “The necessity for our being thus exempted is further apparent.”—­West’s Letters, p. 40.  “Her situation in life does not allow of her being genteel in every thing.”—­Ib., p. 57.  “Provided you do not dislike being dirty when you are invisible.”—­Ib., p. 58.  “There is now an imperious necessity for her being acquainted with her title to eternity.”—­Ib., p. 120.  “Discarding the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness.”—­Ib., p. 105.  “The legislature prohibits opening shop of a Sunday.”—­Ib., p. 66.  “To attempt proving that any thing is right.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 256.  “The comma directs making a pause of a second in duration, or less.”—­Ib., p. 280.  “The rule which directs putting other words into the place of it, is wrong.”—­Ib., p. 326.  “They direct calling the specifying adjectives or adnames adjective pronouns.”—­ Ib., p. 338.  “William dislikes attending court.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 82.  “It may perhaps be worth while remarking that Milton makes a distinction.”—­Philological Museum, i, 659.  “Professing regard, and acting differently, discover a base mind.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 206; Bullions’s E. Gram., pp. 82 and 112; Lennie’s, 58.  “Professing regard and acting indifferently, discover a base mind.”—­Weld’s Gram., Improved Edition, p. 59.  “You have proved beyond contradiction, that acting thus is the sure way to procure such an object.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 92.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &C.

“Irony is expressing ourselves in a manner contrary to our thoughts.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 353; Kirkham’s, 225; Goldsbury’s, 90.  “Irony is saying one thing and meaning the reverse of what that expression would represent.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 303.  “An Irony is dissembling or changing the proper signification of a word or sentence to quite the contrary.”—­Fisher’s Gram., p. 151.  “Irony is expressing ourselves contrary to what we mean.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 280.  “This is in a great Measure delivering their own Compositions.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. xxvi.  “But purity is using rightly the words of the language.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 59.  “But the most important object is settling the English quantity.”—­Walker’s Key. p. 17.  “When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to another is taking a very wide step.”—­ Campbell’s Rhet., p. 293.  “It would be losing time to attempt further to illustrate it.”—­Ib., p. 79.  “This is leaving the sentence too bare, and making it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense.”—­Cobbett’s Gram., 220.  “This is requiring more labours from every private member.”—­West’s Letters, p. 120.  “Is not this using one measure for our neighbours, and another for ourselves?”—­Ib.,