were names of whole classes of objects.”—­Id. “It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of trope, or of figure.”—­Id. “The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of hiatus.”—­Adams cor. “We hesitate to determine, whether Tyrant alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the word Spy.”—­Cobbett cor. “Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into twelvemonth; of seven nights into sennight; of fourteen nights into fortnight.”—­Webster cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—­COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

“He is a better writer than reader.”—­W.  Allen.  “He was an abler mathematician than linguist.”—­Id. “I should rather have an orange than an apple.”—­G.  Brown.  “He was no less able as a negotiator, than courageous as a warrior.”—­Smollett cor. “In an epic poem, we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or an epigram.”—­Kames cor. “That figure is a sphere, globe, or ball.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 357.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—­ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

“The carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy.”—­Key to Inst.  “The place is not mentioned by the geographers who wrote at that time.”—­Ib. “Those questions which a person puts to himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated with points of interrogation.”—­ Mur. et al. cor. “The work is designed for the use of those persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries.”—­Mur. cor. “That those who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at.”—­Id. “Those grammarians who limit the number to two, or three, do not reflect.”—­Id. “The substantives which end in ian, are those that signify profession.”  Or:  “Those substantives which end in ian, are such as signify profession.”—­Id. “To these may be added those verbs which, among the poets, usually govern the dative.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “The consonants are those letters which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel.”—­Bucke cor. “To employ the curiosity of persons skilled in grammar:”—­“of those who are skilled in grammar:”—­“of persons that are skilled in grammar:”—­“of such persons as are skilled in grammar:”  or—­“of those persons who are skilled in grammar.”—­L.  Murray cor. “This rule refers only to those nouns and pronouns which have the same bearing, or