improper tripthong.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 255.  “‘While I of things to come, As past rehearsing, sing.’  POLLOK.  That is, ’While I sing of things which are to come, as one sings of things which are past rehearsing.’”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 169.  “A simple sentence has in it but one nominative, and one neuter verb.”—­Folker’s Gram., p. 14.  “An Irregular Verb is that which has its passed tense and perfect participle terminating differently; as, smite, smote, smitten.”—­Wright’s Gram., p. 92.  “But when the antecedent is used in a general sense, a comma is properly inserted before the relative; as, ’There is no charm in the female sex, which can supply the place of virtue.’”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 213.  “Two capitals in this way denote the plural number; L. D. Legis Doctor; LL.  D. Legum Doctor.”—­Gould’s Lat.  Gram., p. 274.  “Was any person besides the mercer present?  Yes, both he and his clerk.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 188. “Adnoun, or Adjective, comes from the Latin, ad and jicio, to add to.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 69.  “Another figure of speech, proper only to animated and warm composition, is what some critical writers call vision; when, in place of relating some thing that is past, we use the present tense, and describe it as actually passing before our eyes. Thus Cicero, in his fourth oration against Cataline:  ’I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration.  I see before me the slaughtered heaps of citizens lying unburied in the midst of their ruined country.  The furious countenance of Cethegus rises to my view, while with a savage joy he is triumphing in your miseries.’”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 171.  “Vision is another figure of speech, which is proper only in animated and warm composition.  It is produced when, instead of relating something that is past, we use the present tense,” &c.—­ Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 352.  “When several verbs follow one another, having the same nominative, the auxiliary is frequently omitted after the first through an ellipsis, and understood to the rest; as, ’He has gone and left me;’ that is, ‘He has gone, and has left me.’ “—­Comly’s Gram., p. 94.  “When I use the word pillar as supporting an edifice, I employ it literally.”—­Hiley’s Gram., 3d Ed., p. 133.  “The conjunction nor is often used for neither; as,

‘Simois nor Xanthus shall be wanting there.’”—­Ib., p. 129.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XII.—­OF PERVERSIONS.

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 330; Hallock’s Gram., p. 179; Melmoth, on Scripture, p. 16.