does it belong?”—­Collier cor. “He had received no lessons from the Socrateses, the Platoes, and the Confuciuses of the age.”—­Haller cor. “I cannot tell whom to compare them to.”—­Bunyan cor. “I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and me.”—­Id. “They, by those means, have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know whom.”—­Id. “But at length she said, there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and us.”—­Hutch.  Hist. cor. “So you must ride on horseback after us.”—­Mrs. Gilpin cor. “A separation must soon take place between our minister and me,”—­Werter cor. “When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and me.”—­Shak. cor. “To whom? to thee?  What art thou?”—­Id. “That they should always bear the certain marks of him from whom they came.”—­Bp.  Butler cor.

   “This life has joys for you and me,
    And joys that riches ne’er could buy.”—­Burns cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.—­OF TIME OR MEASURE.

“Such as almost every child, ten years old, knows.”—­Town cor. “Four months’ schooling will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years of age, completely through this book.”—­Id. “A boy of six years of age may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman senate.”—­Webster cor. “A lad about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians.”—­Id. “Of nothing else than that individual white figure of five inches in length, which is before him.”—­Campbell cor. “Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years of age are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles?”—­Guy cor. “Where language three centuries old is employed.”—­Booth cor. “Let a gallows be made, of fifty cubits in height.”  Or:  “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made.”—­Bible cor. “I say to this child, nine years old, ‘Bring me that hat.’  He hastens, and brings it me.”—­Osborn cor. “’He laid a floor, twelve feet long, and nine feet wide:’  that is, the floor was long to the extent of twelve feet, and wide to the extent of nine feet.”—­Merchant cor. “The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand in strength.”  Or:  “The Goulah people are a tribe about fifty thousand strong.”—­Examiner cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VIII; NOM.  ABSOLUTE.

“He having ended his discourse, the assembly dispersed.”—­Inst. of E. G., p. 190. “I being young, they deceived me.”—­Ib., p. 279. “They refusing to comply, I withdrew.”—­Ib. “Thou being present, he would not tell what he knew.”—­Ib. “The child is lost; and I, whither shall I go?”—­Ib. “O happy we! surrounded with so many blessings.”—­Ib. “‘Thou too!  Brutus, my son!’ cried Caesar, overcome.”—­Ib. “Thou! Maria! and so late! and who is thy companion?”—­Mirror cor. “How swiftly our time passes away! and ah! we, how little concerned to improve it!”—­Greenleaf’s False Syntax, Gram., p. 47.