thee!”—­Friends’ Bible, and Scott’s.  “And he said unto him, O let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak.”—­Alger’s Bible, and Scott’s.  “And he said, O let not the Lord be angry.”—­Alger; Gen., xviii. 32. “O my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word.”—­Scott’s Bible. “O Virtue! how amiable thou art!”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 128. “Alas!  I fear for life.”—­See Ib. “Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!”—­See Bucke’s Gram., p. 87. “O that I had digged myself a cave!”—­Fletcher cor. “Oh, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late.”—­Shak. cor. “The vocative takes no article:  it is distinguished thus:  O Pedro!  O Peter! O Dios!  O God!”—­Bucke cor. “Oho!  But, the relative is always the same.”—­Cobbett cor. “All-hail, ye happy men!”—­Jaudon cor. “O that I had wings like a dove!’—­Scott’s Bible. “O glorious hope!  O bless’d abode!”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 304. “Welcome friends! how joyous is your presence!”—­T.  Smith cor. “O blissful days!—­but, ah! how soon ye pass!”—­Parker and Fox cor.

   “O golden days! O bright unvalued hours!—­
    What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!”—­Barbauld cor.

    “Ah me! what perils do environ
    The man that meddles with cold iron!”—­Hudibras cor.

THE KEY.—­PART III.—­SYNTAX.

CHAPTER I.—­SENTENCES.

The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the title, which is here inserted for form’s sake.

CHAPTER II.—­ARTICLES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE I.

UNDER NOTE I.—­AN OR A.

“I have seen a horrible thing in the house of Israel.”—­Bible cor. “There is a harshness in the following sentences.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 152.  “Indeed, such a one is not to be looked for.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “If each of you will be disposed to approve himself a useful citizen.”—­Id. “Land with them had acquired almost a European value.”—­Webster cor. “He endeavoured to find out a wholesome remedy.”—­Neef cor. “At no time have we attended a yearly meeting more to our own satisfaction.”—­The Friend cor. “Addison was not a humorist in character.”—­Kames cor. “Ah