or _more than one_, enter
the garden."--_Oct. Gram._, Vol. ii, p. 189. To me, this stiff
_correction_, which many later grammarians have copied, seems worse than
none. And the effect of the principle may be noticed in Murray's style
elsewhere; as, "When a _semicolon, or more than one_, have
preceded."--_Octavo Gram._, i, p. 277; _Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 288. Here a
ready writer would be very apt to prefer one of the following phrases:
"When a semicolon _or two_ have preceded,"--"When _one or two semicolons_
have preceded,"--"When _one or more semicolons_ have preceded." It is
better to write by guess, than to become systematically awkward in
expression.

OBS. 11.--In Greek and Latin, the pronoun of the first person, according to
our critics, is _generally_[398] placed first; as, "[Greek: Ego kai su ta
dikaia poiaesomen]. Xen."--_Milnes's Gr. Gram._, p. 120. That is, "_Ego et
tu justa faciemus_." Again: "_Ego et Cicero valemus_. Cic."--_Buchanan's
Pref._, p. x; _Adam's Gram._, 206; _Gould's_, 203. "I and Cicero are
well."--_Ib._ But, in English, a modest speaker usually gives to others the
precedence, and mentions himself last; as, "He, or thou, or I, must
go."--"Thou and I will do what is right."--"Cicero and I are well."--_Dr.
Adam_.[399] Yet, in speaking of himself and his _dependants_, a person most
commonly takes rank before them; as, "Your inestimable letters supported
_myself, my wife_, and _children_, in adversity."--_Lucien Bonaparte,
Charlemagne_, p. v. "And I shall be destroyed, _I_ and _my
house_."--_Gen._, xxxiv, 30. And in acknowledging a fault, misfortune, or
censure, any speaker may assume the first place; as, "Both _I and thou_ are
in the fault."--_Adam's Gram._, p. 207. "Both _I and you_ are in
fault."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p. ix. "Trusty did not do it; _I and Robert_
did it."--_Edgeworth's Stories_.

"With critic scales, weighs out the partial wit,
What _I_, or _you_, or _he_, or _no one_ writ."
--_Lloyd's Poems_, p. 162.

OBS. 12.--According to the theory of this work, verbs themselves are not
unfrequently connected, one to an other, by _and, or_, or _nor_; so that
two or more of them, being properly in the same construction, may be parsed
as agreeing with the same nominative: as, "So that the blind and dumb
[_man_] both _spake_ and _saw_."--_Matt._, xii, 22. "That no one _might
buy_ or _sell_."--_Rev._, xiii, 17. "Which _see_ not, nor _hear_, nor
_know_."--_Dan._, v, 23. We have cert