prevailing usage.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 173; Murray’s Gram., i, 367.  “A captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering of Rome.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 51.  “And, notwithstanding of its Verbal power, we have added the to and other signs of exertion.”—­Booth’s Introd., p. 28.  “Some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the Noun instead of by separate words.”—­Ib., p. 33.  “Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and to bow down his head like a bulrush?”—­Bacon’s Wisdom, p. 65.  “And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental, instead of, by the necessary antecedent.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 17.  “At about the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 269.  “God divided between the light and between the darkness.”—­ Burder’s Hist., i, 1.  “Notwithstanding of this, we are not against outward significations of honour.”—­Barclay’s Works, i, 242.  “Whether these words and practices of Job’s friends, be for to be our rule.”—­Ib., i, 243.  “Such verb cannot admit of an objective case after it.”—­Lowth’s Gram., “For which God is now visibly punishing of these Nations.”—­Right of Tythes, “In this respect, Tasso yields to no poet, except to Homer.”—­Blair’s Rhet., “Notwithstanding of the numerous panegyrics on the ancient English liberty.”—­HUME:  Priestley’s Gram., “Their efforts seemed to anticipate on the spirit, which became so general afterwards.”—­Id., ib., p. 167.

UNDER NOTE V.—­THE PLACING OF THE WORDS.

“But how short are my expressions of its excellency!”—­Baxter.  “There is a remarkable union in his style, of harmony with ease.”—­Blair’s Rhet., “It disposes in the most artificial manner, of the light and shade, for viewing every thing to the best advantage.”—­“Aristotle too holds an eminent rank among didactic writers for his brevity.”—­“In an introduction, correctness should be carefully studied in the expression.”—­“Precision is to be studied, above all things in laying down a method.”—­“Which shall make the impression on the mind of something that is one, whole and entire.”—­“At the same time, there are some defects which must be acknowledged in the Odyssey.”—­“Beauties, however, there are, in the concluding books, of the tragic kind.”—­“These forms of conversation by degrees multiplied and grew troublesome.”—­Spectator, No. 119.  “When she has made her own choice, for form’s sake, she sends a conge-d’-elire to her friends.”—­“Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in him who holds the reins of the whole creation in his hand.”—­“Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in him, who, in his hand, holds the reins of the whole creation.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 53.  “The most frequent measure next