Bicknell’s Gram., Part ii, p. 13.  “When the figurative and literal sense are mixed and jumbled together.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 151.  “The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and Phoenician stand in connection.”—­CONANT:  Fowler’s E. Gram., 8vo, 1850, p. 28.  “The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and Swedish.”—­Fowler, ib., p. 31.

UNDER NOTE V.—­ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“The path of truth is a plain and a safe path”—­Murray’s Key, p. 236.  “Directions for acquiring a just and a happy elocution.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 144.  “Its leading object is to adopt a correct and an easy method.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 9.  “How can it choose but wither in a long and a sharp winter.”—­Cowley’s Pref., p. vi.  “Into a dark and a distant unknown.”—­Chalmers, on Astronomy, p. 230.  “When the bold and the strong enslaved his fellow man.”—­Chazotte’s Essay, p. 21.  “We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and a perfect sentence.” —­Murray’s Gram., p. 306.  “And hence arises a second and a very considerable source of the improvement of taste.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 18.  “Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and an agreeable emotion.”—­Ib., p. 50.  “The deepest and the bitterest feeling still is, the separation.”—­ Dr. M’Rie.  “A great and a good man looks beyond time.”—­Brown’s Institutes, p. 125.  “They made but a weak and an ineffectual resistance.” —­Ib. “The light and the worthless kernels will float.”—­Ib. “I rejoice that there is an other and a better world.”—­Ib. “For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the publick another and a better edition.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 7.  “He hoped that this title would secure him an ample and an independent authority.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 172:  see Priestley’s, 147.  “There is however another and a more limited sense.”—­Adams’s Rhet., Vol. ii, p. 232.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

“This distinction forms, what are called the diffuse and the concise styles.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 176.  “Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of the Attic and the Asiatic manners.”—­Adams’s Rhet., Vol. i, p. 83.  “But the great design of uniting the Spanish and the French monarchies under the former was laid.”—­ Bolingbroke, on History, p. 180.  “In the solemn and the poetic styles, it [do or did] is often rejected.”—­W.  Allen’s Gram., p. 68.  “They cannot be at the same time in the objective and the nominative cases.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 151; Ingersoll’s, 239; R.  G. Smith’s, 127.  “They are named the POSITIVE, the COMPARATIVE, and the SUPERLATIVE degrees.”—­Smart’s Accidence, p. 27.  “Certain Adverbs are capable of