punished such in themselves or offspring.”—­Extracts, p. 179.  “Hence their civil and religious history are inseparable.”—­Milman’s Jews, i, 7.  “Esau thus carelessly threw away both his civil and religious inheritance.”—­Ib., i, 24.  “This intelligence excited not only our hopes, but fears likewise.”—­Jaudon’s Gram., p. 170.  “In what manner our defect of principle and ruling manners have completed the ruin of the national spirit of union.”—­Brown’s Estimate, i, 77.  “Considering her descent, her connexion, and present intercourse.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 85.  “His own and wife’s wardrobe are packed up in a firkin.”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part i, p. 73.

UNDER NOTE XVI.—­CHANGE THE ANTECEDENT.

“The sound of e and o long, in their due degrees, will be preserved, and clearly distinguished.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 242.  “If any person should be inclined to think,” &c., “the author takes the liberty to suggest to them,” &c.—­Ib., Pref., p. iv.  “And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it.”—­1 Kings, xxii, 43.  “If ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.”—­Matt., xviii, 35.  “Nobody ever fancied they were slighted by him, or had the courage to think themselves his betters.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 8.  “And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son.”—­Gen., xxvii, 15.  “Where all the attention of man is given to their own indulgence.”—­ Maturin’s Sermons, p. 181.  “The idea of a father is a notion superinduced to the substance, or man—­let man be what it will.”—­Locke’s Essay, i, 219.  “Leaving every one to do as they list.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 460.  “Each body performed his part handsomely.”—­J.  Flint’s Gram., p. 15.  “This block of marble rests on two layers of stone, bound together with lead, which, however, has not prevented the Arabs from forcing out several of them.”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part i, p. 72.

   “Love gives to every power a double power,
    Above their functions and their offices.”—­Shakspeare.

RULE XI.—­PRONOUNS.

When the antecedent is a collective noun conveying the idea of plurality, the Pronoun must agree with it in the plural number:  as, “The council were divided in their sentiments.”—­“The Christian world are beginning to awake out of their slumber.”—­C.  Simeon.  “Whatever Adam’s posterity lost through him, that and more they gain in Christ.”—­J.  Phipps.

   “To this, one pathway gently-winding leads,
    Where march a train with baskets on their heads.”
        —­Pope, Iliad, B. xviii, l. 657.