Morals, p. 11.  “It is only the Often doing of a thing that makes it a Custom.”—­Divine Right of Tythes, p. 72.  “Because W. R. takes oft occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and things.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 570.  “Yet often touching will wear gold.”—­Beauties of Shak., p. 18.  “Uneducated persons frequently use an adjective, when they ought to use an adverb:  as, ’The country looks beautiful;’ instead of beautifully.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 84.  “The adjective is put absolutely, or without its substantive.”—­Ash’s Gram., p. 57.  “A noun or pronoun in the second person, may be put absolutely in the nominative case.”—­Harrison’s Gram., p. 45.  “A noun or pronoun, when put absolutely with a participle,” &c.—­Ib., p. 44; Jaudon’s Gram., 108.  “A verb in the infinitive mood absolute, stands independently of the remaining part of the sentence.”—­Wilbur and Livingston’s Gram., p. 24.  “At my return lately into England, I met a book intituled:  ’The Iron Age.’”—­Cowley’s Preface, p. v.  “But he can discover no better foundation for any of them, than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil.”—­Kames, El. of Criticism, Introd., p. xxv.

UNDER NOTE III—­HERE FOR HITHER, &c.

“It is reported that the governour will come here to-morrow.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 196.  “It has been reported that the governour will come here to-morrow.”—­Ib., Key, p. 227.  “To catch a prospect of that lovely land where his steps are tending.”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 244.  “Plautus makes one of his characters ask another where he is going with that Vulcan shut up in a horn; that is, with a lanthorn in his hand.”—­Adams’s Rhet. ii, 331.  “When we left Cambridge, we intended to return there in a few days.”—­Anonym.  “Duncan comes here to-night.”—­Shak., Macbeth.  “They talked of returning here last week.”—­J.  M. Putnam’s Gram., p. 116.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­FROM HENCE, &c.

“From hence he concludes that no inference can be drawn from the meaning of the word, that a constitution has a higher authority than a law or statute.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 67.  “From whence we may likewise date the period of this event.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, p. 202.  “From hence it becomes evident, that LANGUAGE, taken in the most comprehensive view, implies certain Sounds, having certain Meanings.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 315.  “They returned to the city from whence they came out.”—­Alex.  Murray’s Gram., p. 135.  “Respecting ellipses, some grammarians differ strangely in their ideas; and from thence has arisen a very whimsical diversity in their systems of grammar.”—­Author.  “What am I and from whence? i.e. what am I, and from whence am I?”—­Jaudon’s Gram., p. 171.

UNDER NOTE V.—­THE ADVERB HOW.