Experience makes us sensible of both, though our narrow understandings can comprehend neither.

Locke.

Hence such sentences as the following are inaccu

rate :

Injustice springs only from three causes.

Neither

of these causes for injustice can be found in a being wise, powerful, benevolent.

467. The other means the second of two; another, one of number above two :

any

Two women shall be grinding together; one shall be taken, and the other left.-Luke xvii. 35.

One generation passeth away, and another generation

cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.—Eccles. i. Hence such expressions as the following are inaccurate:

And the house of Baal was full from one end to another.-2 Kings x.

468. Each and every refer to one of many. Each is used with reference to the individual viewed singly and separately; every with reference to the whole viewed collectively:

Each had his place appointed, each his course.

Milton.

England expects every man to do his duty.-Nelson.

Mix with each thought, in every action share,
Darken each dream, and blend with every prayer.

Crabbe.

Such sentences as the following are incorrect:

Now either spoke, as hope or fear impressed
Each their alternate triumph in the breast.-Crabbe.

And they were judged every man according to their
works.-Revel. xx.

469. Some may be used with or without a noun: Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon. Milton.

The work some praise,

And some the architect.-Id.

The plural men, or people, is often omitted; but the singular man, person, one, must always be expressed. In old English it is occasionally wanting : Som in his bed, som in the deepé see,

Som in the largé field.—Chaucer.

i. e. one in his bed, &c.

ARTICLES.

470. Indefinite. The indefinite article an, a, is a weakened form of the numeral one (§ 160):

A thousand liveried angels lacquey her.-Milton.

This mode of expression is less emphatic than one thousand.'

471. An or a is used in speaking indefinitely of one individual of an entire class :

He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.-Johnson.

472. An loses the final n when the next word begins with a consonant, an asperate, or the sound of y or w.

Occasionally it is retained before asperated words:

And after these came armed with spear and shield
An host.-Dryden.

As if an hundred anvils rang.-Scott.

473. When several objects are separately specified, the indefinite article should be placed before each : Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone,

A page, a grave, that they can call their own.-Pope. The time may come in which we may be compelled to look for a loftier spirit, a firmer energy, and a more enthusiastic attachment to the frame and form of our constitution, than ever yet has been demanded by our government from the people governed. Sheridan.

474. When the indefinite article is expressed only before the first of two or more nouns, these nouns are to be viewed collectively. Thus 'a priest and king' implies that both offices are vested in one individual; a priest and a king' implies that each office is held by a separate person.

The infant man born at Woolsthorpe grows up, not to

be a hairy Savage and Chewer of Acorns, but an Isaac Newton and discoverer of Solar Systems.— Carlyle.

475. When the indefinite article is used with a

noun qualified by several adjectives, it is usually expressed once before the first adjective:

There is about the whole book a vehement, contentious, replying manner.-Macaulay.

But sometimes it is emphatically repeated before each adjective:

A sadder and a wiser man.-Coleridge.

476. When one of two adjectives is placed before, and the other after, the noun they qualify, the indefinite article often stands before each adjective:

My uncle, the sub-prior, died-some say of austerities, others of ale-that matters not; he was a learned man and a cunning.-Bulwer.

Though I have my jest, as a rich man and a corpulent, a lad who has his way to make good should be silent.-Id.

477. The indefinite article is sometimes used with the name of a well-known person to indicate one of similar character:

Frenchmen, I'll be a Salisbury to you.-Shakspere. He may be a Newton or a Herschel in affairs of astronomy, but of the knowledge of affairs of the world he is quite ignorant.-Burke.

478. It is often used with nouns to form distributives:

And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Goldsmith.

479. When the noun is qualified by an adjective,

the indefinite article usually stands before the adjective:

A wild weird clime.-Poe.

But when the adjective is many or such, or when it is preceded by the words too, so, how, as, the article stands between it and the noun:

Many and many a year ago.—Id.

I'd rather be a dog and bay the moon
Than such a Roman.-Shakspere.

You hold too heinous a respect of grief.-Id.

'Tis a very hard calumny upon our soil to affirm that so excellent a fruit will not grow there.-Temple. Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you.— Galat. vi. 11.

We were introduced to as queer an exhibition as the eye has often looked on.-Thackeray.

If, however, many is qualified by great, the article resumes its usual position:

He is liable to a great many inconveniences every moment of his life.-Tillotson.

480. Definite. The definite article the is a less emphatic form of the demonstrative pronoun, and is used to point out a particular object, or class of objects:

The man that hath no music in himself

Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.-Shakspere.
Every man is to give sentence concerning the state
of his own soul by the precepts and rules of our
Lawgiver. Jeremy Taylor.