is often of decisive influence.”—­Duncan cor. “A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, relieves the folio page.”—­D’Israeli cor. “For outward matter or event fashions not the character within.”  Or:  (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)—­“fashioneth not the character within.”—­Tupper cor. “Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, has warmed cold brains.”—­Dryden cor. “Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight is an individual.”—­Harris cor. “When et, aut, vel, sive, or nec, is repeated before different members of the same sentence.”—­Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor. “Wisdom or folly governs us.”—­Fisk cor. “A or an is styled the indefinite article”—­Folker cor. “A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoots up into a prodigy.”—­Spect. cor. “Is either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?”—­Prof.  Fowler cor.

   “Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
    Is lost on hearers that our merits know.”—­Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—­NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.

“Neither he nor she has spoken to him.”—­Perrin cor. “For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserves the reader from weariness.”—­Johnson cor. “Neither history nor tradition furnishes such information.”—­Robertson cor. “Neither the form nor the power of the liquids has varied materially.”—­Knight cor. “Where neither noise nor motion is concerned.”—­Blair cor. “Neither Charles nor his brother was qualified to support such a system.”—­Junius cor. “When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion serves, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track.”—­Campbell cor. “In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, is fairly laid before men.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Neither the intellect nor the heart is capable of being driven.”—­Abbott cor. “Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana is in any way connected with the Sun or Moon.”—­Coleridge cor. “Of which, neither he, nor this grammar, takes any notice.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “Neither their solicitude nor their foresight extends so far.”—­Robertson cor. “Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, considers Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first discoverer of the continent of America.”—­Id. “Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, has been thought worthy of a moment’s consideration.”—­Junius cor.