i, 59.  “To have only one tune, or measure, is not much better than having none at all”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 126.  “Facts too well known and obvious to be insisted on.”—­Ib., p. 233.  “In proportion as all these circumstances are happily chosen, and of a sublime kind.”—­Ib., p. 41.  “If the description be too general, and divested of circumstances.”—­Ibid. “He gained nothing further than to be commended.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 210.  “I cannot but think its application somewhat strained, and out of place.”—­VETHAKE:  Lit.  Conv., p. 29.  “Two negatives in the same clause, or referring to the same thing, destroy each other, and leave the sense affirmative.”—­Maunders Gram., p. 15.  “Slates are stone and used to cover roofs of houses.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 47.  “Every man of taste, and possessing an elevated mind, ought to feel almost the necessity of apologizing for the power he possesses.”—­Influence of Literature.  Vol. ii, p, 122.  “They very seldom trouble themselves with Enquiries, or making useful observations of their own.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 376.

   “We’ve both the field and honour won;
    The foe is profligate, and run.”—­Hudibras, p. 93.

UNDER NOTE III.—­IMPORT OF CONJUNCTIONS.

“The is sometimes used before adverbs in the comparative and superlative degree.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 6; Bullions’s, 8; Brace’s, 9.  “The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative and superlative degree.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 33; Ingersoll’s, 33; Lowth’s, 14; Fisk’s, 53; Merchant’s, 24; and others.  “Conjunctions usually connect verbs in the same mode or tense.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 137.  “Conjunctions connect verbs in the same style, and usually in the same mode, tense, or form.”—­Ib. “The ruins of Greece and Rome are but the monuments of her former greatness.”—­Day’s Gram., p. 88.  “In many of these cases, it is not improbable, but that the articles were used originally.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 152.  “I cannot doubt but that these objects are really what they appear to be.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 85.  “I question not but my reader will be as much pleased with it.”—­Spect., No. 535.  “It is ten to one but my friend Peter is among them.”—­Ib., No. 457.  “I doubt not but such objections as these will be made.”—­Locke, on Education, p. 169.  “I doubt not but it will appear in the perusal of the following sheets.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. vi.  “It is not improbable, but that, in time, these different constructions may be appropriated to different uses.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 156.  “But to forget or to remember at pleasure, are equally beyond the power of man.”—­Idler, No. 72.  “The nominative case follows the verb, in interrogative