 | Lant Carpenter - 1817 - 624 sidor
...why the inference of identity is less general in the case of plural than of singular nouns,) that " though one ' individual may act, and frequently does...* capacities, it is not likely that a multitude of indivi' duals should all of them act in the same several capa* cities/' and that, " by th? extreme... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1820 - 286 sidor
...any contradiction. But this does not happen in the same degree with respect to plural.«. Though »ne individual may act, and frequently does act, in several capacities, it is not likely that a multitude of individual" should all of them act in the same several capacities : and, by the extreme improbability... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1822 - 240 sidor
...individual may si and in various relations, and act in divers capacities ; and, consequently, if two such relations or characters be connected by a copulative,...attributive of the persons designed in the article pretíxed to the first, however the usage in the singular might seem to countenance the construction.... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1856 - 566 sidor
...head has been to remark only on a few, in which the error is more gross than usual, or the misuse of may act, and frequently does act, in several capacities,...understand the second plural attributive of the persons desigued in the article prefixed to the first, however the usage in the singular might seem to countenance... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1859 - 882 sidor
...head has been to remark only on a few, in which the error is more gross than usual, or the misuse of may act, and frequently does act, in several capacities, it is not likely that a multitude of individuals shonld all of them act in the same several capacities : and, by the extreme improbability that they... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1869 - 566 sidor
...head has been to remark only on a few, in which the error is more gross than usual, or the misuse of may act, and frequently does act, in several capacities,...of them act in the same several capacities : and, hy the trtreme imlirolmhility that they should he represented as so acting, we may be forbidden to... | |
 | Andrews Norton - 1886 - 560 sidor
...head has been to remark only on a few, in which the error is more gross than usual, or the misuse of may act, and frequently does act, in several capacities....likely that a multitude of individuals should all of thom act in the same several capacities : and, by the extreme improbahiliiy that they should be represented... | |
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Though one individual may act, and frequently does act, in several capacities, it 'is not likely that a multitude of individuals should all of them act in the same several capacities, and by the extreme improbability, that they should be represented as... 