108. "They was forced to eat what never was esteemed
food."--_Josephus's Jewish War_, B. i, Ch. i, Sec.7. "This that yourself hath
spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."--_Hutchinson's
Mass._, ii, 435. "By men whose experience best qualify them to
judge."--_Committee on Literature, N. Y. Legislature_. "He dare venture to
kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."--_Johnson's Dict, w. Perch_.
"If a gudgeon meet a roach, He dare not venture to approach."--SWIFT: _Ib.,
w. Roach_. "Which thou endeavours to establish unto thyself."--_Barclay's
Works_, i, 164. "But they pray together much oftener than thou
insinuates."--_Ib._, i, 215. "Of people of all denominations, over whom
thou presideth."--_The Friend_, Vol. v, p. 198. "I can produce ladies and
gentlemen whose progress have been astonishing."--_Chazotte, on Teaching
Lang._, p. 62. "Which of these two kinds of vice are more
criminal?"--_Brown's Estimate_, ii, 115. "Every twenty-four hours affords
to us the vicissitudes of day and night."--_Smith's New Gram._, p. 103.
"Every four years adds another day."--_Ib._ "Every error I could find, Have
my busy muse employed."--_Swift's Poems_, p. 335. "A studious scholar
deserve the approbation of his teacher."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 226.
"Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicate good
breeding."--_Ib._, p. 37. "A comparison in which more than two is
concerned."--_Bullions, E. Gram._, p. 114. "By the facilities which
artificial language afford them."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 16. "Now
thyself hath lost both lop and top."--SPENSER: _Joh. Dict., w. Lop._ "Glad
tidings is brought to the poor."--_Campbell's Gospels: Luke_, vii, 23.
"Upon which, all that is pleasurable, or affecting in elocution, chiefly
depend."--_Sheridan's Elocution_, p. 129. "No pains has been spared to
render this work complete."--_Bullions, Lat. Gram., Pref._, p. iv. "The
United States contains more than a twentieth part of the land of this
globe."--DE WITT CLINTON: _Cobb's N. Amer. Reader_, p. 173. "I am mindful
that myself is (or am) strong."--_Fowler's E. Gram._, Sec. 500. "Myself _is_
(not _am_) weak; thyself _is_ (not _art_) weak."--_Ib._, Sec.479.

"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest
Rise from a clergy or a city feast!"--_Pope_, Sat. ii, l. 75.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.

"Where was you born? In London."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p. 133. "There is
frequent occasions for commas."--_Inger