Phrenology, p. v.  “If a being of entire impartiality should be shown the two companies.”—­Scott’s Pref. to Bible, p. vii.  “He was offered the command of the British army.”—­Grimshaw’s Hist., p. 81.  “Who had been unexpectedly left a considerable sum.”—­Johnson’s Life of Goldsmith.  “Whether a maid or a widow may be granted such a privilege.”—­Spectator, No. 536.  “Happily all these affected terms have been denied the public suffrage.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 199.  “Let him next be shewn the parsing table.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. viii.  “Thence, he may be shown the use of the Analyzing Table.”—­Ib., p. ix.  “Pittacus was offered a great sum of money.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 228.  “He had been allowed more time for study.”—­Ib., p. 229.  “If the walks were a little taken care of that lie between them.”—­Addison’s Spect., No. 414.  “Suppose I am offered an office or a bribe.”—­Pierpont’s Discourse, Jan. 27, 1839.

   “Am I one chaste, one last embrace deny’d? 
    Shall I not lay me by his clay-cold side?”
        —­Rowe’s Lucan, B. ix, l. 103.

UNDER NOTE V.—­PASSIVE VERBS TRANSITIVE.

“The preposition to is made use of before nouns of place, when they follow verbs and participles of motion.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 203; Ingersoll’s, 231; Greenlef’s, 35; Fisk’s, 143; Smith’s, 170; Guy’s, 90; Fowler’s, 555.  “They were refused entrance into the house.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 204.  “Their separate signification has been lost sight of.”—­Horne Tooke, ii, 422.  “But, whenever ye is made use of, it must be in the nominative, and never in the objective, case.”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram., 58.  “It is said, that more persons than one are paid handsome salaries, for taking care to see acts of parliament properly worded.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 334.  “The following Rudiments of English Grammar, have been made use of in the University of Pennsylvania.”—­DR. ROGERS:  in Harrison’s Gram., p. 2.  “It never should be lost sight of.”—­Newman’s Rhetoric, p. 19.  “A very curious fact hath been taken notice of by those expert metaphysicians.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 281.  “The archbishop interfered that Michelet’s lectures might be put a stop to.”—­The Friend, ix, 378.  “The disturbances in Gottengen have been entirely put an end to.”—­Daily Advertiser.  “Besides those that are taken notice of in these exceptions.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 6.  “As one, two, or three auxiliary verbs are made use of.”—­Ib., p. 24.  “The arguments which have been made use of.”—­Addison’s Evidences, p. 32.  “The circumstance is properly taken notice of by the author.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 217.  “Patagonia has never been taken possession of by any European nation.”—­Cumming’s Geog., p. 62.  “He will be found fault