stone was of the size of a cart.”—­Id. “Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled from Rome.”—­L’Estrange cor. “I was prevented from reading a letter which would have undeceived me.”—­Hawkesworth cor. “If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned for the inaccuracy of its demonstration.”—­Booth cor. “The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but of effeminacy.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “Afraid of the virtue of a nation in its opposing of bad measures:”  or,—­“in its opposition to bad measures.”—­Id. “The uniting of them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy.”—­Gardiner cor. “I might be excused from taking any more notice of it.”—­Watson cor. “Watch therefore; for ye know not at what hour your Lord will come.”—­Bible cor. “Here, not even infants were spared from the sword.”—­M’Ilvaine cor. “To prevent men from turning aside to false modes of worship.”—­John Allen cor. “God expelled them from the garden of Eden.”—­Burder cor. “Nor could he refrain from expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind.”—­Hume cor. “Who now so strenuously opposes the granting to him of any new powers.”—­Duncan cor. “That the laws of the censors have banished him from the forum.”—­Id. “We read not that he was degraded from his office in any other way.”—­Barclay cor. “To all to whom these presents shall come, greeting.”—­Hutchinson cor. “On the 1st of August, 1834.”—­Brit.  Parl. cor.

   “Whether you had not some time in your life
    Err’d in this point on which you censure him.”—­Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.

“And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.”—­Barclay cor.; also Acts.  “Adjectives, in our language, have neither case, nor gender, nor number; the only variation they have, is comparison.”—­Buchanan cor. “’It is to you that I am indebted for this privilege;’ that is, ‘To you am I indebted;’ or, ’It is you to whom I am indebted.’”—­Sanborn cor. “BOOKS is a common noun, of the third person, plural number, and neuter gender.”—­Ingersoll cor. “BROTHER’S is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case.”—­L.  Murray cor. “VIRTUE’S is a common noun, of the third person, singular number, [neuter gender,] and possessive case.”—­Id. “When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is vain to oppose the prevailing usage.”—­Campbell and Murray cor. “A captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering Rome.”—­Collier