were there."--_Dr. Ash's
Gram._, p. 51. "And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he."--_Gen._,
xli, 11. "If my views remain the same as mine and his were in
1833."--GOODELL: _Liberator_, ix, 148. "I and my father were riding
out."--_Inst._, p. 158. "The premiums were given to me and George."--_Ib._
"I and Jane are invited."--_Ib._ "They ought to invite me and my
sister."--_Ib._ "I and you intend going."--_Guy's Gram._, p. 55. "I and
John are going to Town."--_British Gram._, p. 193. "I, and he are sick. I,
and thou are well."--_James Brown's American Gram._, Boston Edition of
1841, p. 123. "I, and he is. I, and thou art. I, and he writes."--_Ib._, p.
126. "I, and they are well. I, thou, and she were walking."--_Ib._, p.
127.
UNDER NOTE IV.--DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.
"To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, are great
injustice."--_Brown's Inst._, p. 159. "To reveal secrets, or to betray
one's friends, are contemptible perfidy."--_Ib._ "To write all substantives
with capital letters, or to exclude them from adjectives derived from
proper names, may perhaps be thought offences too small for animadversion;
but the evil of innovation is always something."--_Dr. Barrow's Essays_, p.
88. "To live in such families, or to have such servants, are blessings from
God."--_Family Commentary_, p. 64. "How they portioned out the country,
what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, are
utterly unknown."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol. i, p. 4. "To speak or to
write perspicuously and agreeably, are attainments of the utmost
consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or writing, to address the
public."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 11.
UNDER NOTE V.--MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.
"Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and
seeketh that which is gone astray?"--_Matt._, xviii, 12. "Did he not fear
the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil
which he had pronounced?"--_Jer._, xxvi, 19. "And dost thou open thine eyes
upon such an one, and bringest me into judgement with thee?"--_Job_, xiv,
3. "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,
but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain."--_James_, i, 26.
"If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buyest aught of thy neighbour's
hand, ye shall not oppress one an other."--_Leviticus_, xxv, 14. "And if
thy brother that dwelleth by thee, shall have become poor, and be sold
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