the one or the other may be predominant.”—­Blair cor. “Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end.”—­Campbell cor. “A eulogy or a philippic may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon a subject of an other.”—­J.  Q. Adams cor. “A French sermon is, for the most part, a warm animated exhortation.”—­Blair cor. “I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable lot.”—­Channing cor. “The auxiliary and the principal united constitute a tense.”—­Murray cor. “There are some verbs which are defective with respect to the persons.”—­Id. “In youth, habits of industry are the most easily acquired.”—­Id. “The apostrophe (’) is used in place of a letter left out.”—­Bullions cor.

CHAPTER III.—­CASES, OR NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES.

“The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.”—­Bunyan cor. “He will in no wise cast out whosoever cometh unto him.”  Better:  “He will in no wise cast out any that come unto him.”—­Hall cor. “He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, who, he saw, were off their guard.”—­Hutchinson cor. “Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.”—­Matt., v, 41.  “The ideas of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers.”—­Swift cor. “You are a much greater loser than I, by his death.”  Or:  “Thou art a much greater loser by his death than I.”—­Id. “Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds.”—­Barclay cor. “In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure.”—­Id. “Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb.”—­Addison cor. “His wealth and he bid adieu to each other.”—­Priestley cor. “So that, ’He is greater than I,’ will be more grammatical than, ’He is greater than me.’”—­Id. “The Jesuits had more interests at court than he.”—­Id. and Smollett cor. “Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he.”—­Iid. “An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he.”—­Iid. “My father and he have been very intimate since.”—­Fair Am. cor. “Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed?”—­Mrs. Bethune cor. “To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there.”—­Kirkham cor. “He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him.”  Better:  “He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him.”—­Hume and Pr. cor. “They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement.”—­Haynes