we give to some particular mode of expression the name of a trope, or of a figure.”—­Ib., p. 133.  “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 an hiatus.”—­J.  Q. Adams’s Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 217.  “We hesitate to determine, whether the Tyrant alone, is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the spy.”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram., 246.  “Hence originated the customary abbreviation of twelve months into a twelve-month; seven nights into se’night; fourteen nights into a fortnight.”—­Webster’s Improved Gram., p. 105.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—­COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

“He is a better writer than a reader.”—­W.  Allen’s False Syntax, Gram., p. 332.  “He was an abler mathematician than a linguist.”—­Ib. “I should rather have an orange than apple.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 126.  “He was no less able a negotiator, than a courageous warrior.”—­Smollett’s Voltaire, Vol. i, p. 181.  “In an epic poem we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or epigram.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. i, p. 186.  “That figure is a sphere, or a globe, or a ball.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 258.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—­ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

“Carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy.”—­Inst., p. 126.  “The place is not mentioned by geographers who wrote at that time.”—­Ib. “Questions which a person asks himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated by points of interrogation.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 279; Comly’s, 162; Ingersoll’s, 291.  “The work is designed for the use of persons, who may think it merits a place in their Libraries.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo., p. iii.  “That persons who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at.”—­Ib., p. 298.  “Grammarians who limit the number to two, or at most to three, do not reflect.”—­Ib., p. 75.  “Substantives which end in ian, are those that signify profession.”—­Ib., p. 132.  “To these may be added verbs, which chiefly among the poets govern the dative.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 170; Gould’s, 171.  “Consonants are letters, which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 9.  “To employ the curiosity of persons who are skilled in grammar.”—­Murray’s Gram., Pref., p. iii.  “This rule refers only to nouns and pronouns, which have the same bearing or relation.”—­Ib., i, p. 204.  “So that things which are seen, were not made of things which do appear.”—­Heb., xi, 3.  “Man is an imitative creature; he may utter sounds, which he has heard.”—­Wilson’s Essay on Gram., p. 21.  “But men, whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 5.