the Plato’s, and the Confucius’s of the age.”—­Hatter’s Letters.  “I cannot tell who to compare them to.”—­Bunyan’s P. P., p. 128.  “I see there was some resemblance betwixt this good man and I.”—­Pilgrim’s Progress, p. 298.  “They by that means have brought themselves into the hands and house of I do not know who.”—­Ib., p. 196.  “But at length she said there was a great deal of difference between Mr. Cotton and we.”—­Hutchinson’s Mass., ii, 430.  “So you must ride on horseback after we.” [370]—­MRS. GILPIN:  Cowper, i, 275.  “A separation must soon take place between our minister and I.”—­Werter, p. 109.  “When she exclaimed on Hastings, you, and I.”—­Shakspeare.  “To who? to thee?  What art thou?”—­Id. “That they should always bear the certain marks who they came from.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 221.

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

UNDER THE NOTE—­OF TIME OR MEASURE.

“Such as almost every child of ten years old knows.”—­Town’s Analysis, p. 4.  “One winter’s school of four months, will carry any industrious scholar, of ten or twelve years old, completely through this book.”—­Ib., p. 12.  “A boy of six years old may be taught to speak as correctly, as Cicero did before the Roman Senate.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 27.  “A lad of about twelve years old, who was taken captive by the Indians.”—­Ib., p. 235.  “Of nothing else but that individual white figure of five inches long which is before him.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 288.  “Where lies the fault, that boys of eight or ten years old, are with great difficulty made to understand any of its principles.”—­Guy’s Gram., p. v.  “Where language of three centuries old is employed.”—­Booth’s Introd. to Dict., p. 21.  “Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high.”—­Esther, v. 14.  “I say to this child of nine years old bring me that hat, he hastens and brings it me.”—­Osborn’s Key, p. 3.  “He laid a floor twelve feet long, and nine feet wide; that is, over the extent of twelve feet long, and of nine feet wide.”—­Merchants School Gram., p. 95.  “The Goulah people are a tribe of about fifty thousand strong.”—­Examiner, No. 71.  RULE VIII.—­NOM.  ABSOLUTE.

A Noun or a Pronoun is put absolute in the nominative, when its case depends on no other word:  as, "He failing, who shall meet success?"—­“Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever?”—­Zech., i, 5.  “Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?”—­1 Cor., ix, 6.  “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God?”—­Rom., ix, 20.  “O rare we!”—­Cowper.  “Miserable they!”—­Thomson.

“The hour conceal’d, and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.”—­Pope.