e to be named,
in which sound, noise, or motion were concerned, the imitation by words was
abundantly obvious."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 55. "The pleasure or pain
resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, are a
beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."--_Kames, El. of
Crit._, i, 262. "Because their foolish vanity or their criminal ambition
represent the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely
perfect."--_Life of Madame De Stael_, p. 2. "Hence naturally arise
indifference or aversion between the parties."--_Brown's Estimate_, ii, 37.
"A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, are characters no where
to be found."--_Tract_, No. 183. "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk
of all those whose birth or fortune entitle them to imitation."--_Rambler_,
No. 194. "Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, are often of decisive
influence."--_Duncan's Cicero_, p. 119. "A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening
tale relieve the folio page."--_D'Israeli's Curiosities_, Vol. i, p. 15.
"For outward matter or event, fashion not the character within."--_Book of
Thoughts_, p. 37. "Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, have
warmed cold brains."--_Dryden's Poems_, p. 76. "Motion is a Genus; Flight,
a Species; this Flight or that Flight are Individuals."--_Harris's Hermes_,
p. 38. "When _et, aut, vel, sine_, or _nec_, are joined to different
members of the same sentence."--_Adam's Lat. and Eng. Gram._, p. 206;
_Gould's Lat. Gram._, 203; _Grant's_, 266. "Wisdom or folly govern
us."--_Fisk's English Gram._, 84. "_A_ or _an_ are styled indefinite
articles."--_Folker's Gram._, p. 4. "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoot
up into prodigies."--_Spectator_, No. 7. "Are either the subject or the
predicate in the second sentence modified?"--_Fowler's E. Gram._, 8vo,
1850, p. 578, Sec.589.

"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know."
--_Pope, Iliad_, B. x, l. 293.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.--NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.

"Neither he nor she have spoken to him."--_Perrin's Gram._, p. 237. "For
want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserve the
reader from weariness."--JOHNSON: _in Crabb's Syn._, p. 511. "Neither
history nor tradition furnish such information."--_Robertson's Amer._, Vol.
i, p. 2. "Neither the form nor power of the liquids have varied
materially."--_Knight, on the Greek Alph._, p. 16. "Where neit