is a wide field for reason’s exerting its powers in relation to the objects of taste.”—­ Blair’s Rhet., p. 18.  “Now this they derive altogether from their having a greater capacity of imitation and description.”—­Ib., p. 51.  “This is one clear reason of their paying a greater attention to that construction.” —­Ib., p. 123.  “The dialogue part had also a modulation of its own, which was capable of its being set to notes.”—­Ib., p. 471.  “What is the reason of our being often so frigid and unpersuasive in public discourse?”—­Ib., p. 334.  “Which is only a preparation for his leading his forces directly upon us.”—­Ib., p. 264.  “The nonsense about which’s relating to things only, and having no declension, needs no refutation.”—­Fowle’s True E. Gram., p. 18.  “Who, upon his breaking it open, found nothing but the following inscription.”—­Rollin, Vol. ii, p. 33.  “A prince will quickly have reason to repent his having exalted one person so high.”—­Id., ii, 116.  “Notwithstanding it’s being the immediate subject of his discourse.”—­ Churchill’s Gram., p. 294.  “With our definition of its being synonymous with time.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 29.  “It will considerably increase the danger of our being deceived.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 293.  “His beauties can never be mentioned without their suggesting his blemishes also.”—­ Blair’s Rhet., p. 442.  “No example has ever been adduced of a man’s conscientiously approving of an action, because of its badness.”—­Gurney’s Evidences, p. 90.  “The last episode of the angel’s shewing Adam the fate of his posterity, is happily imagined.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 452.  “And the news came to my son, of his and the bride being in Dublin.”—­Castle Rackrent, p. 44.  “There is no room for the mind’s exerting any great effort.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 32.  “One would imagine, that these criticks never so much as heard of Homer’s having written first.”—­Pope’s Preface to Homer.  “Condemn the book, for its not being a geography.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 317.  “There will be in many words a transition from their being the figurative to their being the proper signs of certain ideas.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 322.  “The doctrine of the Pope’s being the only source of ecclesiastical power.”—­Religious World, ii, 290.  “This has been the more expedient from the work’s being designed for the benefit of private learners.”—­Murray’s Exercises, Introd., p. v.  “This was occasioned by the Grammar’s having been set up, and not admitting of enlargement.”—­Ib., Advertisement, p. ix.

RULE V.—­OBJECTIVES.

A Noun or a Pronoun made the object of an active-transitive verb or participle, is governed by it in the objective case:  as, “I found her assisting him”—­“Having finished the work, I submit it.”