Bacon.  “Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mind.”—­Shakspeare.  “The clothing of the natives were the skins of wild beasts.”—­Indian Wars, p. 92.  “Prepossessions in favor of our nativ town, is not a matter of surprise.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 217.  “Two shillings and six pence is half a crown, but not a half crown.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 150; Bicknell’s, ii, 53.  “Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, is called a dipthong.”—­Cooper’s Pl. and Pr.  Gram., p. 1.  “Two or more sentences united together is called a Compound Sentence.”—­P.  E. Day’s District School Gram., p. 10.  “Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, is called a Phrase.”—­Ibid. “But the common Number of Times are five.”—­The British Grammar, p. 122.  “Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, is another source of darkness in composition.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 107.  “The United States is the great middle division of North America.”—­Morse’s Geog., p. 44.  “A great cause of the low state of industry were the restraints put upon it.”—­HUME:  Murray’s Gram., p. 145; Ingersoll’s, 172; Sanborn’s, 192; Smith’s, 123; and others.  “Here two tall ships becomes the victor’s prey.”—­Rowe’s Lucan, B. ii, l. 1098.  “The expenses incident to an outfit is surely no object.”—­The Friend, Vol. iii., p. 200.

   “Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep,
    Was all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep.”—­Milton.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­CHANGE THE NOMINATIVE.

“Much pains has been taken to explain all the kinds of words.”—­Infant School Gram. p. 128.  “Not less [time] than three years are spent in attaining this faculty.”—­Music of Nature, p. 28.  “Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wish’d presence.”—­Milton’s Comus. l. 948.  “Peace! my darling, here’s no danger, Here’s no oxen near thy bed.”—­Watts. “But every one of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones.”—­Coleridge’s Introduction, p. 61.  “The old theorists, calling the Interrogatives and Repliers, adverbs, is only a part of their regular system of naming words.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 374.  “Where a series of sentences occur, place them in the order in which the facts occur.”—­Ib., p. 264.  “And that the whole in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 275.  “The origin of the Grecian, and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction.”—­Adam’s Rhet., i, 95.  “In these respects, mankind is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature.”—­Butler’s Analogy, p. 144.  “The scripture are the oracles of God himself.”—­HOOKER:  Joh.  Dict., w.  Oracle.  “And at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits.”—­Solomon’s Song, vii, 13.  “The preterit of pluck, look, and toss are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst.”—­Fowler’s E. Gram., 1850, Sec.68.