“For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.”—­Bible cor. “Who is my mother? or who are my brethren?”—­See Matt., xii, 48.  “Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor are the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.”—­ Bible cor. “Information has been obtained, and some trials have been made.”—­Martineau cor. “It is as obvious, and its causes are more easily understood.”—­Webster cor. “All languages furnish examples of this kind, and the English contains as many as any other.”—­Priestley cor. “The winters are long, and the cold is intense.”—­Morse cor. “How have I hated instruction, and how hath my heart despised reproof!”—­Prov. cor. “The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of Vesta was extinguished.”—­Lempriere cor. “Riches beget pride; pride begets impatience.”—­Bullions cor. “Grammar is not reasoning, any more than organization is thought, or letters are sounds.”—­Enclytica cor. “Words are implements, and grammar is a machine.”—­Id.

UNDER NOTE III.—­PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.

“Thou or I must undertake the business.”—­L.  Murray cor. “He and I were there.”—­Ash cor. “And we dreamed a dream in one night, he and I.”—­Bible cor. “If my views remain the same as his and mine were in 1833.”—­Goodell cor. “My father and I were riding out.”—­Inst., Key, p. 273.  “The premiums were given to George and me.”—­Ib. “Jane and I are invited.”—­Ib. “They ought to invite my sister and me.”—­Ib. “You and I intend to go.”—­Guy cor. “John and I are going to town.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor. “He and I are sick.”—­James Brown cor. “Thou and I are well.”—­Id. “He and I are.”—­Id. “Thou and I are.”—­Id. “He, and I write.”—­Id. “They and I are well.”—­Id. “She, and thou, and I, were walking.”—­Id.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.

“To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, is great injustice.”—­Inst., Key, p. 273.  “To reveal secrets, or to betray one’s friends, is contemptible perfidy.”—­Id. “To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude capitals from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought an offence too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something.”—­Dr. Barrow cor. “To live in such families, or to have such servants, is a blessing from God.”—­Fam.  Com. cor. “How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars