the first and the last,
is very different."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 246. "Even as the roebuck and the
hart is eaten."--_Deut._, xiii, 22. "Then I may conclude that two and three
makes not five."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 354. "Which at sundry times thou
and thy brethren hast received from us."--_Ib._, i, 165. "Two and two is
four, and one is five."--POPE: _Lives of the Poets_, p. 490. "Humility and
knowledge with poor apparel, excels pride and ignorance under costly
array."--_Day's Gram., Parsing Lesson_, p. 100. "A page and a half has been
added to the section on composition."--_Bullions's E. Gram._, 5th Ed.,
Pref., p. vii. "Accuracy and expertness in this exercise is an important
acquisition."--_Ib._, p. 71.

"Woods and groves are of thy dressing,
Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing."--_Milton's Poems_, p. 139.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"There is a good and a bad, a right and a wrong in taste, as in other
things."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 21. "Whence has arisen much stiffness and
affectation."--_Ib._, p. 133. "To this error is owing, in a great measure,
that intricacy and harshness, in his figurative language, which I before
remarked."--_Ib._, p. 150; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 157. "Hence, in his Night
Thoughts, there prevails an obscurity and hardness in his style."--_Blair's
Rhet._, p. 150. "There is, however, in that work much good sense, and
excellent criticism."--_Ib._, p. 401. "There is too much low wit and
scurrility in Plautus."--_Ib._, p. 481. "There is too much reasoning and
refinement; too much pomp and studied beauty in them."--_Ib._, p. 468.
"Hence arises the structure and characteristic expression of
exclamation."--_Rush on the Voice_, p. 229. "And such pilots is he and his
brethren, according to their own confession."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 314.
"Of whom is Hymeneus and Philetus: who concerning the truth have
erred."--_2 Tim._, ii, 17. "Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have
delivered unto Satan."--_1 Tim._, i, 20. "And so was James and John, the
sons of Zebedee."--_Luke_, v, 10. "Out of the same mouth proceedeth
blessing and cursing."--_James_, iii, 10. "Out of the mouth of the Most
High proceedeth not evil and good."--_Lam._, iii, 38. "In which there is
most plainly a right and a wrong."--_Butler's Analogy_, p. 215. "In this
sentence there is both an actor and an object."--_Smith's Inductive Gram._,
p. 14. "In the breast-plate was placed the mysterious Urim a