and imperative sentences.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. ii, p. 290.  “Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?”—­James, iii, 12.  “Whose characters are too profligate, that the managing of them should be of any consequence.”—­Swift, Examiner, No. 24.  “You that are a step higher than a philosopher, a divine; yet have too much grace and wit than to be a bishop.”—­Pope, to Swift, Let. 80.  “The terms rich or poor enter not into their language.”—­Robertson’s America, Vol. i, p. 314.  “This pause is but seldom or ever sufficiently dwelt upon.”—­Music of Nature, p. 181.  “There would be no possibility of any such thing as human life and human happiness.”—­Butler’s Anal., p. 110.  “The multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace.”—­Matt., xx, 21.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­OF THE CONJUNCTION THAN.

“A metaphor is nothing else but a short comparison.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 243; Gould’s, 236.  “There being no other dictator here but use.”—­ Campbell’s Rhet., p. 167.  “This Construction is no otherwise known in English but by supplying the first or second Person Plural.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, p. xi.  “Cyaxares was no sooner in the throne, but he was engaged in a terrible war.”—­Rollin’s Hist., ii, 62.  “Those classics contain little else but histories of murders.”—­Am.  Museum, v, 526.  “Ye shall not worship any other except God.”—­Sale’s Koran, p. 15.  “Their relation, therefore, is not otherwise to be ascertained but by their place.”—­ Campbell’s Rhet., p. 260.  “For he no sooner accosted her, but he gained his point.”—­Burder’s Hist., i, 6.  “And all the modern writers on this subject have done little else but translate them.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 336.  “One who had no other aim, but to talk copiously and plausibly.”—­ Ib., p. 317.  “We can refer it to no other cause but the structure of the eye.”—­Ib., p. 46.  “No more is required but singly an act of vision.”—­ Kames, El. of Crit., i, 171.  “We find no more in its composition, but the particulars now mentioned.”—­_ Ib._, i, 48.  “He pretends not to say, that it hath any other effect but to raise surprise.”—­Ib., ii, 61.  “No sooner was the princess dead, but he freed himself.”—­Johnson’s Sketch of Morin. “Ought is an imperfect verb, for it has no other modification besides this one.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 113.  “The verb is palpably nothing else but the tie.”—­Neef’s Sketch, p. 66.  “Does he mean that theism is capable of nothing else except being opposed to polytheism or atheism?”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 104.  “Is it meant that theism is capable of nothing else besides being opposed to polytheism, or atheism?”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 307.  “There is no other method of teaching that of which any one is ignorant, but