t._, p. 367. "It appears to me no more than a
fanciful refinement."--_Ib._, p. 436. "The regular resolution throughout of
a complete passage."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. vii. "The infinitive is known
by its being immediately preceded by the word _to_."--_Maunders Gram._, p.
6. "It will not be gaining much ground to urge that the basket, or vase, is
understood to be the capital."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 356.
"The disgust one has to drink ink in reality, is not to the purpose where
the subject is drinking ink figuratively."--_Ib._, ii, 231. "That we run
not into the extreme of pruning so very close."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 111.
"Being obliged to rest for a little on the preposition by itself."--_Ib._,
p. 112; _Jamieson's Rhet._, 93. "Being obliged to rest a little on the
preposition by itself."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 319. "Our days on the earth
are as a shadow, and there is none abiding."--_1 Chron._, xxix, 15. "There
maybe a more particular expression attempted, of certain objects, by means
of resembling sounds."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 129; _Jamieson's_, 130;
_Murray's Gram._, 331. "The right disposition of the shade, makes the light
and colouring strike the more."--_Blair's Rhet._, 144. "I observed that a
diffuse style inclines most to long periods."--_Ib._, p. 178. "Their poor
Arguments, which they only Pickt up and down the Highway "--_Divine Right
of Tythes_, p. iii. "Which must be little, but a transcribing out of their
writings."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 353. "That single impulse is a forcing
out of almost all the breath."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 254. "Picini
compares modulation to the turning off from a road."--_Gardiner's Music of
Nature_, p. 405. "So much has been written, on and off, of almost every
subject."--_The Friend_, ii, 117. "By reading books written by the best
authors, his mind became highly improved."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 201.
"For I never made the being richly provided a token of a spiritual
ministry."--_Barclay's Works_, iii, 470.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE II.--OF DOUBTFUL REFERENCE.

"However disagreeable, we must resolutely perform our
duty."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 171.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the adjective _disagreeable_ appears to
relate to the pronoun _we_, though such a relation was probably not
intended by the author. But, according to Critical Note 2d, "The reference
of words to other words, or their syntactical relation according to the
sense, should never be left doubtf