1. The simple rise as by specific levity, not into a particular
     virtue, but into the region of all the virtues.—­EMERSON.

     2.  If the good is there, so is the evil.—­Id.

[Sidenote:  Caution.]

NOTE.—­This is not to be confused with words that have shifted from adjectives and become pure nouns; as,—­

     As she hesitated to pass on, the gallant, throwing his cloak
     from his shoulders, laid it on the miry spot.—­SCOTT.

     But De Soto was no longer able to abate the confidence or punish
     the temerity of the natives.—­G.  BANCROFT.

[Sidenote:  One thing for its class.]

182. The before class nouns may mark one thing as a representative of the class to which it belongs; for example,—­

The faint, silvery warblings heard over the partially bare and moist fields from the bluebird, the song sparrow, and the redwing, as if the last flakes of winter tinkled as they fell!—­THOREAU.

     In the sands of Africa and Arabia the camel is a sacred and
     precious gift.—­GIBBON.

[Sidenote:  For possessive person pronouns.]

183. The is frequently used instead of the possessive case of the personal pronouns his, her, etc.

     More than one hinted that a cord twined around the head, or a
     match put between the fingers, would speedily extract the
     required information.—­KINGSLEY.

     The mouth, and the region of the mouth, were about the
     strongest features in Wordsworth’s face.—­DE QUINCEY.

[Sidenote:  The for a.]

184.  In England and Scotland the is often used where we use a, in speaking of measure and price; as,—­

Wheat, the price of which necessarily varied, averaged in the middle of the fourteenth century tenpence the bushel, barley averaging at the same time three shillings the quarter.—­FROUDE.

[Sidenote:  A very strong restrictive.]

185.  Sometimes the has a strong force, almost equivalent to a descriptive adjective in emphasizing a word,—­

     No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with
     you.—­Bible.

     As for New Orleans, it seemed to me the city of the world where
     you can eat and drink the most and suffer the least.—­THACKERAY.

     He was the man in all Europe that could (if any could) have
     driven six-in-hand full gallop over Al Sirat.—­DE QUINCEY.

[Sidenote:  Mark of a substantive.]

186. The, since it belongs distinctively to substantives, is a sure indication that a word of verbal form is not used participially, but substantively.