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useless.”–_Brightland cor._ “The child that we have just seen is _wholesomely_ fed.”–_Murray cor._ “Indeed, _falsehood_ and legerdemain sink the character of a prince.”–_Collier cor._ “In earnest, at this rate of _management_, thou usest thyself very _coarsely_.”–_Id._ “To give them an _arrangement_ and a diversity, as agreeable as the nature of the subject would admit.”–_Murray cor._ “Alger’s Grammar is only a trifling _enlargement_ of Murray’s little _Abridgement_.”–_G. Brown_. “You ask whether you are to retain or _to_ omit the mute _e_ in the _words, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, lodgement, adjudgement_, and _prejudgement_.”–_Red Book cor._ “Fertileness, fruitfulness; _fertilely_, fruitfully, abundantly.”–_Johnson cor._ “_Chastely_, purely, without contamination; _Chasteness_, chastity, purity.”–_Id._ “_Rhymester_, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet.”–_Walker, Chalmers, Maunder, Worcester_. “It is therefore a heroical _achievement_ to disposess [sic–KTH] this imaginary monarch.”–_Berkley cor._ “Whereby is not meant the present time, as he _imagines_, but the time past.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “So far is this word from affecting the noun, in regard to its _definiteness_, that its own character of _definiteness_ or _indefiniteness_, depends upon the name to which it is prefixed.”–_Webster cor._

“Satire, by _wholesome_ lessons, would reclaim, And heal their vices to secure their fame “–_Brightland cor._

RULE XI.–FINAL Y.

“Solon’s the _veriest_ fool in all the play.”–_Dryden cor._ “Our author prides himself upon his great _sliness_ and shrewdness.”–_Merchant cor._ “This tense, then, _implies_ also the signification of _debeo_.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “That may be _applied_ to a subject, with respect to something accidental.”–_Id._ “This latter author _accompanies_ his note with a distinction.”–_Id._ “This rule is defective, and none of the annotators have sufficiently _supplied its deficiencies_.”–_Id._ “Though the _fancied_ supplement of Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, and Mariangelus, may take place.”–_Ib._ “Yet, as to the commutableness of these two tenses, which is _denied_ likewise, they [the foregoing examples] are _all one_ [; i.e., _exactly equivalent_]”–_Id._ “Both these tenses may represent a futurity, _implied_ by the dependence of the clause.”–_Id._ “Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, _shier, shiest, shily, shiness_; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, _slier, sliest, slily, sliness_; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, _drily, driness_.”–_Cobb, Webster, and Chalmers cor._ “I would sooner listen to the thrumming of a _dandizette_ at her piano.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Send her away; for she _crieth_ after us.”–_Matt._, v, 23. “IVIED, _a_. overgrown with ivy.”–_Cobb’s Dict._, and _Maunders_.

“Some _drily_ plain, without invention’s aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made.”–_Pope cor._

RULE XII.–FINAL Y.

“The _gayety_ of youth should be tempered by the precepts of age.”–_Murray cor._ “In the storm of 1703, two thousand stacks of _chimneys_ were blown down in and about London.”–_Red Book cor._ “And the vexation was not abated by the _hackneyed_ plea of haste.”–_Id._ “The fourth sin of our _days_ is lukewarmness.”–_Perkins cor._ “God hates the workers of iniquity, and _destroys_ them that speak lies.”–_Id._ “For, when he _lays_ his hand upon us, we may not fret.”–_Id._ “Care not for it; but if thou _mayst_ be free, choose it rather.”–_Id._ “Alexander Severus saith, ‘He that _buyeth_, must sell; I will not suffer buyers and sellers of offices.'”–_Id._ “With these measures, fell in all _moneyed_ men.”–See _Johnson’s Dict._ “But rattling nonsense in full _volleys_ breaks.”–_Murray’s Reader, q. Pope_. “_Valleys_ are the intervals betwixt mountains.”–_Woodward cor._ “The Hebrews had fifty-two _journeys_ or marches.”–_Wood cor._ “It was not possible to manage or steer the _galleys_ thus fastened together.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “_Turkeys_ were not known to naturalists till after the discovery of America.”–_Gregory cor._ “I would not have given it for a wilderness of _monkeys_.”–SHAK.: _in Johnson’s Dict._ “Men worked at embroidery, especially in _abbeys_.”–_Constable cor._ “By which all purchasers or mortgagees may be secured of all _moneys_ they lay out.”–_Temple cor._ “He would fly to the mines _or_ the _galleys_, for his recreation.”–_South cor._ “Here _pulleys_ make the pond’rous oak ascend.”–_Gay cor._

——“You need my help, and you say, Shylock, we would have _moneys_.”–_Shak. cor._

RULE XIII.–IZE AND ISE.

“Will any able writer _authorize_ other men to _revise_ his works?”–_G. B_. “It can be made as strong and expressive as this _Latinized_ English.”–_Murray cor._ “Governed by the success or failure of an _enterprise_.”–_Id._ “Who have _patronized_ the cause of justice against powerful oppressors.”–_Id., et al_. “Yet custom _authorizes_ this use of it.”–_Priestley cor._ “They _surprise_ myself, ****; and I even think the writers themselves will be _surprised_.”–_Id._ “Let the interest _rise_ to any sum which can be obtained.”–_Webster cor._ “To _determine_ what interest shall _arise_ on the use of money.”–_Id._ “To direct the popular councils and check _any rising_ opposition,”–_Id._ “Five were appointed to the immediate _exercise_ of the office.”–_Id._ “No man ever offers himself as a candidate by _advertising_.”–_Id._ “They are honest and economical, but indolent, and destitute of _enterprise_.”–_Id._ “I would, however, _advise_ you to be cautious.”–_Id._ “We are accountable for what we _patronize_ in others.”–_Murray cor._ “After he was _baptized_, and was solemnly admitted into the office.”–_Perkins cor._ “He will find all, or most, of them, _comprised_ in the exercises.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “A quick and ready habit of _methodizing_ and regulating their thoughts.”–_Id._ “To _tyrannize_ over the time and patience of his readers.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Writers of dull books, however, if _patronized_ at all, are rewarded beyond their deserts.”–_Id._ “A little reflection will show the reader the reason for _emphasizing_ the words marked.”–_Id._ “The English Chronicle contains an account of a _surprising_ cure.”–_Red Book cor._ “_Dogmatize_, to assert positively; Dogmatizer, an _assertor_, a magisterial teacher.”–_Chalmers cor._ “And their inflections might now have been easily _analyzed_.”–_Murray cor._ “Authorize, _disauthorize_, and unauthorized; Temporize, _contemporize_, and extemporize.”–_Walker cor._ “Legalize, _equalize, methodize_, sluggardize, _womanize_, humanize, _patronize_, cantonize, _gluttonize, epitomize_, anatomize, _phlebotomize, sanctuarize_, characterize, _synonymize, recognize_, detonize, _colonize_.”–_Id. cor._

“This beauty sweetness always must _comprise_, Which from the subject, well express’d, will rise.”–_Brightland cor._

RULE XIV.–COMPOUNDS.

“The glory of the Lord shall be thy _rear-ward_.”–SCOTT, ALGER: _Isa._, lviii, 8. “A mere _van-courier_ to announce the coming of his master.”–_Tooke cor._ “The _party-coloured_ shutter appeared to come close up before him.”–_Kirkham cor._ “When the day broke upon this _handful_ of forlorn but dauntless spirits.”–_Id._ “If, upon a _plumtree_, peaches and apricots are engrafted, _nobody_ will say they are the natural growth of the _plumtree_.’–_Berkley cor._ “The channel between Newfoundland and Labrador is called the Straits of _Belleisle_.”–_Worcester cor._ “There being nothing that more exposes to _the headache_:”–or, (perhaps more accurately,) “_headake_.”–_Locke cor._ “And, by a sleep, to say we end the _heartache_:”–or, “_heartake_.”–_Shak. cor._ “He that sleeps, feels not the _toothache_:”–or, “_toothake_.”–_Id._ “That the shoe must fit him, because it fitted his father and _grandfather_.”–_Phil. Museum cor._ “A single word _misspelled_ [or _misspelt_] in a letter is sufficient to show that you have received a defective education.”–_C. Bucke cor._ “Which _misstatement_ the committee attributed to a failure of memory.”–_Professors cor._ “Then he went through the _Banqueting-House_ to the scaffold.”–_Smollet cor._ “For the purpose of maintaining a clergyman and _a schoolmaster_.”–_Webster cor._ “They however knew that the lands were claimed by _Pennsylvania_.”–_Id._ “But if you ask a reason, they immediately bid _farewell_ to argument.”–_Barnes cor._ “Whom resist, _steadfast_ in the faith.”–_Alger’s Bible_. “And they continued _steadfastly_ in the apostles’ doctrine.”–_Id._ “Beware lest ye also fall from your own _steadfastness_.”–_Ib._ “_Galiot_, or _Galliot_, a Dutch vessel carrying a main-mast and a _mizzen-mast_.”–_Webster cor._ “Infinitive, to overflow; Preterit, overflowed; Participle, _overflowed_.”–_Cobbett cor._ “After they have _misspent_ so much precious time.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “Some say, ‘two _handsful_;” some, ‘two _handfuls_; and others, ‘two _handful_.’ The second expression is right.”–_G. Brown_. “_Lapful_, as much as the lap can contain.”–_Webster cor._ “_Dareful_, full of defiance.”–_Walker cor._ “The road to the _blissful_ regions is as open to the peasant as to the king.”–_Mur. cor._ “_Misspell_ is _misspelled_ [or _misspelt_] in every dictionary which I have seen.”–_Barnes cor._ “_Downfall_; ruin, calamity, fall from rank or state.”–_Johnson cor._ “The whole legislature _likewise_ acts _as_ a court.”–_Webster cor._ “It were better a _millstone_ were hanged about his neck.”–_Perkins cor._ “_Plumtree_, a tree that produces plums; _Hogplumtree_, a tree.”–_Webster cor._ “_Trissyllables_ ending in _re_ or _le_, accent the first syllable.”–_Murray cor._

“It happened on a summer’s _holyday_, That to the greenwood shade he took his way.”–_Dryden_.

RULE XV.–USAGE.

“Nor are the _moods_ of the Greek tongue more uniform.”–_Murray cor._ “If we _analyze_ a conjunctive _preterit_, the rule will not appear to hold.”–_Priestley cor._ “No landholder would have been at that _expense_.”–_Id._ “I went to see the child whilst they were putting on its _clothes_.”–_Id._ “This _style_ is ostentatious, and _does_ not suit grave writing.”–_Id._ “The king of Israel and _Jehoshaphat_ the king of Judah, sat each on his throne.”–_1 Kings_, xxii, 10; _2 Chron._, xviii, 9. “_Lysias_, speaking of his friends, promised to his father never to abandon them.”–_Murray cor._ “Some, to avoid this _error_, run into _its_ opposite.”–_Churchill cor._ “Hope, the balm of life _soothes_ us under every misfortune.”–_Jaudon’s Gram._, p. 182. “Any judgement or decree might be _heard_ and reversed by the legislature.”–_N. Webster cor._ “A pathetic _harangue will screen_ from punishment any knave.”–_Id._ “For the same _reason_ the _women_ would be improper judges.”–_Id._ “Every person _is_ indulged in worshiping _as_ he _pleases_.”–_Id._ “Most or all _teachers_ are excluded from genteel company.”–_Id._ “The _Christian_ religion, in its purity, _is_ the best institution on _earth_.”–_Id._ “_Neither_ clergymen nor human laws _have_ the _least_ authority over the conscience.”–_Id._ “A _guild_ is a society, fraternity, or corporation.”–_Barnes cor._ “Phillis was not able to _untie_ the knot, and so she cut it.”–_Id._ “An _acre_ of land is the quantity of one hundred and sixty perches.”–_Id._ “_Ochre_ is a fossil earth combined with the _oxyd_ of some metal.”–_Id._ “_Genii_, when denoting _aerial_ spirits; _geniuses_, when signifying persons of genius.”–_Murray cor._; also _Frost_; also _Nutting_. “Acrisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful daughter, whose name was _Danaee_.”–_Classic Tales cor._ “_Phaeeton_ was the son of Apollo and Clymene.”–_Id._–“But, after all, I may not have reached the intended _goal_.”–_Buchanan cor._ “‘_Pittacus_ was offered a large sum.’ Better: ‘_To Pittacus_ was offered a large sum.'”–_Kirkham cor._ “King _Micipsa_ charged his sons to respect the senate and people of Rome.”–_Id._ “For example: ‘_Galileo_ greatly improved the telescope.'”–_Id._ “Cathmor’s _warriors_ sleep in death.”–_Macpherson’s Ossian_. “For parsing will enable you to detect and correct _errors_ in composition.”–_Kirkham cor._

“O’er barren mountains, o’er the flow’ry plain, Extends thy _uncontrolled_ and boundless reign.”–_Dryden cor._

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

LESSON I.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“A bad author deserves better usage than a bad _critic_.”–_Pope (or Johnson) cor._ “Produce a single passage, _superior_ to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, _governor_ of this state.”–_Jefferson’s Notes_, p. 94. “We have none _synonymous_ to supply its place.”–_Jamieson cor._ “There is a probability that the effect will be _accelerated_.”–_Id._ “Nay, a regard to sound has _controlled_ the public choice.”–_Id._ “Though learnt [better, _learned_] from the uninterrupted use of _guttural_ sounds.”–_Id._ “It is by carefully filing off all roughness and _all inequalities_, that languages, like metals, must be polished.”–_Id._ “That I have not _misspent_ my time in the service of the community.”–_Buchanan cor._ “The leaves of _maize_ are also called blades.”–_Webster cor._ “Who boast that they know what is past, and can _foretell_ what is to come.”–_Robertson cor._ “Its tasteless _dullness_ is interrupted by nothing but its perplexities.”–_Abbott, right_. “Sentences constructed with the Johnsonian _fullness_ and swell.”–_Jamieson, right_. “The privilege of escaping from his prefatory _dullness_ and prolixity.”–_Kirkham, right_. “But, in poetry, this _characteristic_ of _dullness_ attains its full growth.”–_Id. corrected_. “The leading _characteristic_ consists in an increase of the force and fullness.”–_Id cor._ “The character of this opening _fullness_ and feebler vanish.”–_Id. cor._ “Who, in the _fullness_ of _unequalled_ power, would not believe himself the favourite of Heaven?”–_Id. right_. “They _mar_ one _an_ other, and distract him.”–_Philol. Mus. cor._ “Let a deaf _worshiper_ of antiquity and an English prosodist settle this.”–_Rush cor._ “This _Philippic_ gave rise to my satirical reply in self-defence.”–_Merchant cor._ “We here saw no _innuendoes_, no new sophistry, no falsehoods.”–_Id._ “A witty and _humorous_ vein has often produced enemies.”–_Murray cor._ “Cry _hollo_! to thy tongue, I _pray thee_:[527] it _curvets_ unseasonably.”–_Shak. cor._ “I said, in my _sliest_ manner, ‘Your health, sir.'”–_Blackwood cor._ “And _attorneys_ also travel the circuit in _pursuit_ of business.”–_Barnes cor._ “Some whole counties in Virginia would hardly _sell_ for the _value_ of the _debts due_ from the inhabitants.”–_Webster cor._ “They were called the Court of Assistants, and _exercised_ all powers, _legislative_ and judicial.”–_Id._ “Arithmetic is excellent for the _gauging_ of liquors.”–_Harris’s Hermes_, p. 295. “Most of the inflections may be _analyzed_ in a way somewhat similar.”–_Murray cor._

“To epithets allots emphatic state, _While_ principals, ungrac’d, like _lackeys_ wait.” –_T. O. Churchill’s Gram._, p. 326.

LESSON II.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Hence _less_ is a privative _suffix_, denoting destitution; as in _fatherless, faithless, penniless_.”–_Webster cor._ “_Bay_; red, or reddish, inclining to a _chestnut colour_.”–_Id._ “To _mimick_, to imitate or ape for sport; a _mimic_, one who imitates or mimicks.”–_Id._ “Counterroll, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; _Counterrollment_, a counter account.”–_Id._ “_Millennium_, [from _mille_ and _annus_,] the thousand years during which Satan shall be bound.”–See _Johnson’s Dict._ “_Millennial_, [like _septennial, decennial_, &c.,] pertaining to the _millennium_, or to a thousand years.”–See _Worcester’s Dict._ “_Thralldom_; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude.”–_Webster’s Dict._ “Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers; _Sweetbrier_, a fragrant shrub.”–See _Ainsworth’s Dict., Scott’s, Gobb’s_, and others. “_Will_, in the second and third persons, barely _foretells_.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “And _therefore_ there is no word false, but what is distinguished by Italics.”–_Id._ “What should be _repeated_, is left to their discretion.”–_Id._ “Because they are abstracted or _separated_ from material substances.”–_Id._ “All motion is in time, and _therefore, wherever_ it exists, implies time as its _concomitant_.”– _Harris’s Hermes_, p. 95. “And illiterate grown persons are guilty of _blamable_ spelling.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “They _will_ always be ignorant, and of _rough_, uncivil manners.”–_Webster cor._ “This fact _will_ hardly be _believed_ in the northern states.”–_Id._ “The province, however, _was harassed_ with disputes.”–_Id._ “So little concern _has_ the legislature for the interest of _learning_.”–_Id._ “The gentlemen _will_ not admit that a _schoolmaster_ can be a gentleman.”–_Id._ “Such absurd _quid-pro-quoes_ cannot be too strenuously avoided.”–_Churchill cor._ “When we say of a man, ‘He looks _slily_;’ we signify, that he takes a sly glance or peep at something.”–_Id._ “_Peep_; to look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely, or _slily_”–_Webster cor._ “Hence the confession has become a _hackneyed_ proverb.”–_Wayland cor._ “Not to mention the more ornamental parts of _gilding_, varnish, &c.”–_Tooke cor._ “After this system of self-interest had been _riveted_.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “Prejudice might have prevented the cordial approbation of a _bigoted_ Jew.”–_Dr. Scott cor._

“All twinkling with the _dewdrop_ sheen, The _brier-rose_ fell in streamers green.”–_Sir W. Scott cor._

LESSON III.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“The infinitive _mood_ has, commonly, the sign _to_ before it.”–_Harrison cor._ “Thus, it is _advisable_ to write _singeing_, from the verb to _singe_, by way of distinction from _singing_, the participle of the verb to _sing_.”–_Id._ “Many verbs form both the _preterit_ tense and the _preterit_ participle irregularly.”–_Id._ “Much must be left to every one’s taste and _judgement_.”–_Id._ “Verses of different lengths, intermixed, form a _Pindaric_ poem.”–_Priestley cor._ “He’ll _surprise_ you.”–_Frost cor._ “Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?”– _Knowles_. “So _gayly_ curl the waves before each dashing prow.”–_Byron cor._ “When is a _diphthong_ called a proper _diphthong_?”–_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ “How many _Esses_ would _the word_ then end with? Three; for it would be _goodness’s_.”–_Id._ “_Qu_. What is a _triphthong_? _Ans_. A _triphthong_ is a _coalition_ of three vowels _in one syllable_.”–_Bacon cor._ “The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken _separately_.”–_Murray_. “The cubic foot of matter which occupies the _centre_ of the globe.”–_Cardell cor._ “The wine imbibes _oxygen_, or the acidifying principle, from the air.”–_Id._ “Charcoal, sulphur, and _nitre_, make _gunpowder_.”–_Id._ “It would be readily understood, that the thing so _labelled_ was a bottle of Madeira wine.”–_Id._ “They went their ways, one to his farm, an other to his _merchandise_.”–_Matt._, xxii, 5. “A _diphthong_ is the union of two vowels, _both in one syllable_.”–_Russell cor._ “The professors of the _Mohammedan_ religion are called Mussulmans.”–_Maltby cor._ “This _shows_ that _let_ is not a _mere_ sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb.”–_Id._ “Those _preterits_ and participles which are first mentioned in the list, seem to be the most eligible.”–_Murray’s Gram._, p. 107; _Fisk’s_, 81; _Ingersoll’s_, 103. “Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by _er_ and _est_, and _dissyllables_, by _more_ and _most_.”–_Murray’s Gram._, p. 47. “This termination, added to a noun or _an_ adjective, changes it into a verb: as, _modern_, to _modernize_; a _symbol_, to _symbolize_.”– _Churchill cor._ “An _Abridgement_ of Murray’s Grammar, with additions from Webster, Ash, Tooke, and others.”–_Maltby’s Gram._, p. 2. “For the sake of occupying the room more _advantageously_, the subject of Orthography is merely glanced at.”–_Nutting cor._ “So contended the accusers of _Galileo_.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ Murray says, “They were _travelling post_ when _he_ met them.”–_Murray’s Gram._, 8vo, p. 69. “They _fulfill_ the only purposes for which they were designed.”–_Peirce cor._–See _Webster’s Dict._ “On the _fulfillment_ of the event.”–_Peirce, right_. “_Fullness_ consists in expressing every idea.”–_Id._ “Consistently with _fullness_ and perspicuity.”–_Peirce cor._ “The word _veriest_ is a _regular adjective_; as, ‘He is the _veriest_ fool on earth.'”–_Wright cor._ “The sound will _recall_ the idea of the object.”–_Hiley cor._ “Formed for great _enterprises_.”–_Hiley’s Gram._, p. 113. “The most important rules and definitions are printed in large type, _Italicized_.”–_Hart cor._ “HAMLETED, _a._, accustomed to a hamlet, countrified.”–_Webster_, and _Worcester_. “Singular, _spoonful, cupful, coachful, handful_; plural, _spoonfuls, cupfuls, coachfuls, handfuls_.”–_Worcester’s Universal and Critical Dictionary_.

“Between superlatives and following names, _Of_, by _grammatic_ right, a station claims.”–_Brightland cor._

THE KEY.–PART II.–ETYMOLOGY.

CHAPTER I.–PARTS OF SPEECH.

The first chapter of Etymology, as it exhibits only the distribution of words into the ten Parts of Speech, contains no false grammar for correction. And it may be here observed, that as mistakes concerning the forms, classes, or modifications of words, are chiefly to be found in _sentences_, rather than in any separate exhibition of the terms; the quotations of this kind, with which I have illustrated the principles of etymology, are many of them such as might perhaps with more propriety be denominated _false syntax_. But, having examples enough at hand to show the ignorance and carelessness of authors in every part of grammar, I have thought it most advisable, so to distribute them as to leave no part destitute of this most impressive kind of illustration. The examples exhibited as _false etymology_, are as distinct from those which are called _false syntax_, as the nature of the case will admit.

CHAPTER II.–ARTICLES.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING A, AN, AND THE.

LESSON I.–ARTICLES ADAPTED.

“Honour is _a_ useful distinction in life.”–_Milnes cor._ “No writer, therefore, ought to foment _a_ humour of innovation.”–_Jamieson cor._ “Conjunctions [generally] require a situation between the things of which they form _a_ union.”–_Id._ “Nothing is more easy than to mistake _a u_ for an _a_.”–_Tooke cor._ “From making so ill _a_ use of our innocent expressions.”–_Penn cor._ “To grant thee _a_ heavenly and incorruptible crown of glory.”–_Sewel cor._ “It in no wise follows, that such _a_ one was able to predict.”–_Id._ “With _a_ harmless patience, they have borne most heavy oppressions.”–_Id._ “My attendance was to make me _a_ happier man.”–_Spect. cor._ “On the wonderful nature of _a_ human mind.”–_Id._ “I have got _a_ hussy of a maid, who is most craftily given to this.”–_Id._ “Argus is said to have had _a_ hundred eyes, some of which were always awake.”–_Stories cor._ “Centiped, having _a_ hundred feet; centennial, consisting of a hundred years.”–_Town cor._ “No good man, he thought, could be _a_ heretic.”–_Gilpin cor._ “As, a Christian, an infidel, _a_ heathen.”–_Ash cor._ “Of two or more words, usually joined by _a_ hyphen.”–_Blair cor._ “We may consider the whole space of _a_ hundred years as time present.”–_Ingersoll’s Gram._, p. 138. “In guarding against such _a_ use of meats and drinks.”–_Ash cor._ “Worship is _a_ homage due from man to his Creator.”–_Monitor cor._ “Then _a_ eulogium on the deceased was pronounced.”–_Grimshaw cor._ “But for Adam there was not found _a_ help meet for him.”–_Bible cor._ “My days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as _a_ hearth.”–_Id._ “A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.”–_Id._ “The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; _a_ high hill, as the hill of Bashan.”–_Id._ “But I do declare it to have been _a_ holy offering, and such _a_ one too as was to be once for all.”–_Penn cor._ “A hope that does not make ashamed those that have it.”–_Barclay cor._ “Where there is not _a_ unity, we may exercise true charity.”–_Id._ “Tell me, if in any of these such _a_ union can be found?”–_Dr. Brown cor._

“Such holy drops her tresses steeped, Though ’twas _a_ hero’s eye that weeped.”–_Sir W. Scott cor._

LESSON II.–ARTICLES INSERTED.

“This veil of flesh parts the visible and _the_ invisible world.”–_Sherlock cor._ “The copulative and _the_ disjunctive conjunctions operate differently on the verb.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Every combination of a preposition and _an_ article with the noun.”–_Id._ “_Either_ signifies, ‘the one or the other:’ _neither_ imports, ‘not either;’ that is, ‘not _the_ one nor the other.'”–_Id._ “A noun of multitude may have a pronoun or _a_ verb agreeing with it, either of the singular number or _of the_ plural.”–_Bucke cor._ “_The principal_ copulative conjunctions are, _and, as, both, because, for, if, that, then, since_.”–_Id._ “The two real genders are the masculine and _the_ feminine.”–_Id._ “In which a mute and _a_ liquid are represented by the same character, _th_.”–_Gardiner cor._ “They said, John _the_ Baptist hath sent us unto thee.”–_Bible cor._ “They indeed remember the names of _an_ abundance of places.”–_Spect. cor._ “Which created a great dispute between the young and _the_ old men.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Then shall be read the Apostles’ or _the_ Nicene Creed.”–_Com. Prayer cor._ “The rules concerning the perfect tenses and _the_ supines of verbs are Lily’s.”–_K. Henry’s Gr. cor._ “It was read by the high and the low, the learned and _the_ illiterate.”–_Dr. Johnson cor._ “Most commonly, both the pronoun and _the_ verb are understood.”–_Buchanan cor._ “To signify the thick and _the_ slender enunciation of tone.”–_Knight cor._ “The difference between a palatial and _a_ guttural aspirate is very small.”–_Id._ “Leaving it to waver between the figurative and _the_ literal sense.”–_Jamieson cor._ “Whatever verb will not admit of both an active and _a_ passive signification.”–_Alex. Murray cor._ “_The_ is often set before adverbs in the comparative or _the_ superlative degree.”–_Id. and Kirkham cor._ “Lest any should fear the effect of such a change, upon the present or _the_ succeeding age of writers.”–_Fowle cor._ “In all these measures, the accents are to be placed on _the_ even syllables; and every line is, in general, _the_ more melodious, as this rule is _the_ more strictly observed.”–_L. Murray et al. cor._ “How many numbers do nouns appear to have? Two: the singular and _the_ plural.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “How many persons? Three; the first, _the_ second, and _the_ third.”–_Id._ “How many cases? Three; the nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective.”–_Id._

“Ah! what avails it me, the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv’d _the_ sheep:”–or, “_my_ sheep.”

LESSON III.–ARTICLES OMITTED.

“The negroes are all _descendants_ of Africans.”–_Morse cor._ “_Sybarite_ was applied as a term of reproach to a man of dissolute manners.”–_Id._ “The original signification of _knave_ was _boy_.”–_Webster cor._ “The meaning of these will be explained, for greater clearness and precision.”–_Bucke cor._ “What sort of _noun_ is _man_? A noun substantive, common.”–_Buchanan cor._ “Is _what_ ever used as three kinds of _pronoun_?”_–Kirkham’s Question cor._ [Answer: “No; as a pronoun, it is either relative or interrogative.”–_G. Brown_.] “They delighted in _having done it_, as well as in the doing of it.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “_Both parts_ of this rule are exemplified in the following sentences.”–_Murray cor._ “He has taught them to hope for _an other and better_ world.”–_Knapp cor._ “It was itself only preparatory to a future, _better_, and perfect revelation.”–_Keith cor._ “_Es_ then makes _an other and distinct_ syllable.”–_Brightland cor._ “The eternal clamours of a _selfish and factious_ people.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “To those whose taste in elocution is _but little_ cultivated.”–_Kirkham cor._ “They considered they had but a _sort of gourd_ to rejoice in.”–_Bennet cor._ “Now there was _but one such bough_, in a spacious and shady grove.”–_Bacon cor._ “Now the absurdity of this latter supposition will go a great way _towards making_ a man easy.”–_Collier cor._ “This is true of _mathematics, with which taste_ has but little to do.”–_Todd cor._ “To stand prompter to a _pausing yet ready_ comprehension.”–_Rush cor._ “Such an obedience as the _yoked and tortured_ negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer.”–_Chalmers cor._ “For the gratification of a _momentary and unholy_ desire.”–_Wayland cor._ “The body is slenderly put together; the mind, a rambling _sort of thing_.”–_Collier cor._ “The only nominative to the verb, is _officer_.”–_Murray cor._ “And though _in general_ it ought to be admitted, &c.”–_Blair cor._ “Philosophical writing admits of a polished, _neat_, and elegant style.”–_Id._ “But notwithstanding this defect, Thomson is a strong _and beautiful_ describer.”–_Id._ “So should he be sure to be ransomed, _and many_ poor men’s lives _should be_ saved.”–_Shak. cor._

“Who felt the wrong, or feared it, _took alarm_, Appealed to law, and Justice lent her arm.”–_Pope cor._

LESSON IV.–ARTICLES CHANGED.

“To enable us to avoid too frequent _a_ repetition of the same word.”–_Bucke cor._ “The former is commonly acquired in _a_ third part of the time.”–_Burn cor._ “Sometimes _an_ adjective becomes a substantive; and, _like other substantives, it may have an_ adjective _relating_ to it: as, ‘_The chief good_.'”–_L. Murray cor._ “An articulate sound is _a_ sound of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech.”–_Id. “A tense_ is _a_ distinction of time: there are six tenses.”–_Maunder cor._ “In this case, _an_ ellipsis of the last article would be improper.”–_L. Hurray cor._ “Contrast _always_ has the effect to make each of the contrasted objects appear in _a_ stronger light.”–_Id. et al_. “These remarks may serve to _show_ the great importance of _a_ proper use of the _articles_.”–_Lowth et al. cor._ “‘Archbishop Tillotson,’ says _the_ author of _a_ history of England, ‘died in this year.'”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Pronouns are used in stead of substantives, to prevent too frequent _a_ repetition of them.”–_A. Murray cor._ “THAT, as a relative, seems to be introduced to _prevent_ too frequent _a_ repetition of WHO and WHICH.”–_Id._ “A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to _prevent_ too frequent _a_ repetition of it.”–_L. Murray cor._ “THAT is often used as a relative, to prevent too frequent _a_ repetition of WHO and WHICH.”–_Id. et al. cor._ “His knees smote one against _the_ other.”–_Logan cor._ “They stand now on one foot, then on _the_ other.”–_W. Walker cor._ “The Lord watch between thee and me, when we are absent one from _the_ other.”–_Bible cor._ “Some have enumerated ten parts of speech, making _the_ participle a distinct part.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Nemesis rides upon _a_ hart because _the_ hart is a most lively creature.”–_Bacon cor._ “The transition of the voice from one vowel of the diphthong to _the_ other.”–_Dr. Wilson cor._ “So difficult it is, to separate these two things one from _the_ other.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Without _a_ material breach of any rule.”–_Id._ “The great source of _looseness_ of style, in opposition to precision, is _an_ injudicious use of _what_ are termed _synonymous words_.”–_Blair cor._; also _Murray_. “Sometimes one article is improperly used for _the_ other.”–_Sanborn cor._

“Satire of sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a butterfly upon _the_ wheel?”–_Pope cor._

LESSON V.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“He hath no delight in the strength of _a_ horse.”–_Maturin cor._ “The head of it would be _a_ universal monarch.”–_Butler cor._ “Here they confound the material and _the_ formal object of faith.”–_Barclay cor._ “The Irish [Celtic] and _the Scottish_ Celtic are one language; the Welsh, _the_ Cornish, and _the_ Armorican, are _an_ other.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “In _a_ uniform and perspicuous manner.”–_Id._ “SCRIPTURE, _n._ Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and _the_ New Testament; the Bible.”–_Webster cor._ “In two separate volumes, entitled, ‘The Old and New Testaments.'”–_Wayland cor._ “The Scriptures of the Old and _the_ New Testament, contain a revelation from God.”–_Id._ “Q has _always a_ u after it; which, in words of French origin, is not sounded.”–_Wilson cor._ “What should we say of such _a_ one? that he is regenerate? No.”–_Hopkins cor._ “Some grammarians subdivide _the_ vowels into simple and compound.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Emphasis has been _divided_ into the weaker and _the_ stronger emphasis.”–_Id._ “Emphasis has also been divided into _the_ superior and the inferior emphasis.”–_Id._ “Pronouns must agree with their antecedents, or _the_ nouns which they represent, in gender, number, and person.”–_Merchant cor._ “The adverb _where_ is often used improperly, for _a_ relative pronoun and _a_ preposition”: as, “Words _where_ [in which] the _h_ is not silent.”–_Murray_, p. 31. “The termination _ish_ imports diminution, or _a_ lessening _of_ the quality.”–_Merchant cor._ “In this train, all their verses proceed: one half of _a_ line always answering to the other.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “To _a_ height of prosperity and glory, unknown to any former age.”–_L. Murray cor._ “_Hwilc_, who, which, such as, such _a_ one, is declined as follows.”–_Gwilt cor._ “When a vowel precedes _the y, s_ only is required to form _the_ plural; as, _day, days_.”–_Bucke cor._ “He is asked what sort _of word_ each is; whether a primitive, _a_ derivative, or _a_ compound.”–_British Gram. cor._ “It is obvious, that neither the second, _the_ third, nor _the_ fourth chapter of Matthew, is the first; consequently, there are not ‘_four first_ chapters.'”–_Churchill cor._ “Some thought, which a writer wants _the_ art to introduce in its proper place.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Groves and meadows are _the_ most pleasing in the spring.”–_Id._ “The conflict between the carnal and _the_ spiritual mind, is often long.”–_Gurney cor._ “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and _the_ Beautiful”–_Burke cor._

“Silence, my muse! make not these jewels cheap, Exposing to the world too large _a_ heap.”–_Waller cor._

CHAPTER III.–NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE MODIFICATIONS OF NOUNS.

LESSON I.–NUMBERS.

“All the ablest of the Jewish _rabbies_ acknowledge it.”–_Wilson cor._ “Who has thoroughly imbibed the system of one or other of our Christian _rabbies_.”–_Campbell cor._ “The seeming _singularities_ of reason soon wear off.”–_Collier cor._ “The chiefs and _arikies_, or priests, have the power of declaring a place or object taboo.”–_Balbi cor._ “Among the various tribes of this family, are the Pottawatomies, the _Sauks_ and Foxes, or _Saukies_ and _Ottogamies_.”–_Id._ “The Shawnees, Kickapoos, Menom’onies, _Miamies_, and Delawares, are of the same region.”–_Id._ “The Mohegans and _Abenaquies_ belonged also to this family.”–_Id._ “One tribe of this family, the _Winnebagoes_, formerly resided near lake Michigan.”–_Id._ “The other tribes are the Ioways, the Otoes, the _Missouries_, the Quapaws.”–_Id._” The great Mexican family comprises the Aztecs, the Toltecs, and the _Tarascoes_.”–_Id._” The Mulattoes are born of negro and white parents; the _Zamboes_, of Indians and Negroes.”–_Id._ “To have a place among the Alexanders, the Caesars, the _Louises_, or the _Charleses_,–the scourges and butchers of their fellow-creatures.”–Burgh cor.” Which was the notion of the Platonic philosophers and the Jewish _rabbies_.”–_Id._ “That they should relate to the whole body of _virtuosoes_.”–_Cobbeti cor._” What _thanks_ have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”–_Bible cor._” There are five ranks of nobility; dukes, _marquises_, earls, viscounts, and barons.”–_Balbi cor._” Acts which were so well known to the two _Charleses_.”–_Payne cor._ “_Courts-martial_ are held in all parts, for the trial of the blacks.”–_Observer cor._ “It becomes a common noun, and may have _the_ plural number; as, the two _Davids_, the two _Scipios_, the two _Pompeys_.”–_Staniford cor._ “The food of the rattlesnake is birds, squirrels, _hares_, rats, and reptiles.”–_Balbi cor._ “And let _fowls_ multiply in the earth.”–_Bible cor._ “Then we reached the _hillside_, where eight _buffaloes_ were grazing.”–_Martineau cor._ “CORSET, _n. a bodice_ for a woman.”–_Worcester cor._ “As, the _Bees_, the _Cees_, the _Double-ues_.”–_Peirce cor._ “Simplicity is the _mean_ between ostentation and rusticity.”–_Pope cor._ “You have disguised yourselves like _tipstaffs_.”–_Gil Bias cor._ “But who, that _has_ any taste, can endure the incessant quick returns of the _alsoes_, and the _likewises_, and the _moreovers_, and the _howevers_, and the _notwithstandings?_”–_Campbell cor._

“Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise, Let _ays_ seem _noes_, and _noes_ seem _ays_.”–_Gay cor._

LESSON II.–CASES.

“For whose _name’s_ sake, I have been made willing.”–_Penn cor._ “Be governed by your conscience, and never ask any _body’s_ leave to be honest.”–_Collier cor._ “To overlook _nobody’s_ merit or misbehaviour.”– _Id._ “And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of _Ajax’s_ ship.”–_Coleridge cor._ “Nothing is lazier, than to keep _one’s_ eye upon words without heeding their meaning.”–_Museum cor._ “Sir William _Jones’s_ division of the day.”–_Id._ “I need only refer here to _Voss’s_ excellent account of it.”–_Id._ “The beginning of _Stesichorus’s_ palinode has been preserved.”–_Id._ “Though we have _Tibullus’s_ elegies, there is not a word in them about Glyc~era.”–_Id._ “That Horace was at _Thaliarchus’s_ country-house.”–_Id._ “That _Sisyphus’s_ foot-tub should have been still in existence.”–_Id._ “How everything went on in Horace’s closet, and _Mecenas’s_ antechamber.”–_Id._ “Who, for elegant _brevity’s_ sake, put a participle for a verb.”–_W. Walker cor._ “The _country’s_ liberty being oppressed, we have no more to hope.”–_Id._ “A brief but true account of this _people’s_ principles.”–_Barclay cor._ “As, The _Church’s peace_, or, _The peace_ of the Church; Virgil’s _AEneid_, or, _The AEneid_ of Virgil.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._ “As, Virgil’s AEneid, for, _The_ AEneid of Virgil; _The Church’s peace_, for, _The peace_ of the Church.”–_Buchanan cor._ “Which, with Hubner’s Compend, and _Well’s_ Geographia Classica, will be sufficient.”–_Burgh cor._ “Witness Homer’s speaking horses, scolding goddesses, and Jupiter _enchanted_ with _Venus’s_ girdle.”–_Id._ “_Dr. Watts’s_ Logic may with success be read to them and commented on.”–_Id._ “Potter’s Greek, and Kennet’s Roman Antiquities, _Strauchius’s_ and _Helvicus’s_ Chronology.”–_Id._ “SING. _Alice’s_ friends, _Felix’s_ property; PLUR. The Alices’ friends, the Felixes’ property.”–_Peirce cor._ “Such as _Bacchus’s_ company–at _Bacchus’s_ festivals.”–_Ainsworih cor._ “_Burns’s_ inimitable _Tam o’ Shanter_ turns entirely upon such a circumstance.”–_Scott cor._ “Nominative, men; Genitive, [or Possessive,] _men’s_; Objective, men.”–_Cutler cor._ “_Men’s_ happiness or misery is _mostly_ of their own making.”–_Locke cor._ “That your _son’s clothes_ be never made strait, especially about the breast.”–_Id._ “_Children’s_ minds are narrow and weak.”–_Id._ “I would not have little children much tormented about _punctilios_, or niceties of breeding.”–_Id._ “To fill his head with suitable ideas.”–_Id._ “The _Burgusdisciuses_ and the Scheiblers did not swarm in those days, as they do now.”–_Id._ “To see the various ways of dressing–a _calf’s_ head!”–_Shenstone cor._

“He puts it on, and for _decorum’s_ sake Can wear it e’en as gracefully as she.”–_Cowper cor._

LESSON III.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Simon the _wizard_ was of this religion too”–_Bunyan cor._ “MAMMODIES, n. Coarse, plain, India muslins.”–_Webster cor._ “Go on from single persons to families, that of the _Pompeys_ for instance.”–_Collier cor._ “By which the ancients were not able to account for _phenomena_.”–_Bailey cor._ “After this I married a _woman_ who had lived at Crete, but a _Jewess_ by birth.”–_Josephus cor._ “The very _heathens_ are inexcusable for not _worshiping_ him.”–_Todd cor._ “Such poems as _Camoens’s_ Lusiad, Voltaire’s Henrinde, &c.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “My learned correspondent writes a word in defence of large _scarfs_.”–_Sped. cor._ “The forerunners of an apoplexy are _dullness, vertigoes_, tremblings.”–_Arbuthnot cor._” _Vertigo_, [in Latin,] changes the _o_ into _~in=es_, making the plural _vertig~in=es_:” [not so, in English.]–_Churchill cor._ “_Noctambulo_, [in Latin,] changes the _o_ into _=on=es_, making the plural _noctambul=on=es_:” [not so in English.]–_Id._ “What shall we say of _noctambuloes?_ It is the regular English plural.”–_G. Brown_. “In the curious fretwork of rocks and _grottoes_.”–_Blair cor._ “_Wharf_ makes the plural _wharfs_, according to the best usage.”–_G. Brown_. “A few _cents’_ worth of _macaroni_ supplies all their wants.”–_Balbi cor._ “C sounds hard, like _k_, at the end of a word or _syllable_.”–_Blair cor._ “By which the _virtuosoes_ try The magnitude of every lie.”–_Butler cor._ “_Quartoes, octavoes_, shape the lessening pyre.”–_Pope cor._ “Perching within square royal _roofs_”–_Sidney cor._ “_Similes_ should, even in poetry, be used with moderation.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “_Similes_ should never be taken from low or mean objects.”–_Id._ “It were certainly better to say, ‘_The House of Lords_,’ than, ‘_The Lords’ House_.'”–_Murray cor._ “Read your answers. _Units_’ figure? ‘Five.’ _Tens_’? ‘Six.’ _Hundreds_’? ‘Seven.'”–_Abbott cor._ “Alexander conquered _Darius’s_ army.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Three _days_’ time was requisite, to prepare matters.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “So we say, that _Cicero’s_ style and _Sallust’s_ were not one; nor _Caesar’s_ and _Livy’s_; nor _Homer’s_ and _Hesiod’s_; nor _Herodotus’s_ and _Thucydides’s_; nor _Euripides’s_ and _Aristophanes’s_; nor _Erasmus’s_ and _Budaeus’s_.”–_Puttenham cor._ “LEX (i.e., _legs_, a _law_,) is no other than our _ancestors’_ past participle _loeg, laid down_”–_Tooke cor._ “Achaia’s sons at Ilium slain for the _Atridoe’s_ sake.”–_Cowper cor._ “The _corpses_ of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly.”–_Addison cor._

“Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear; And spotted _corpses_ load the frequent bier.”–_Dryden cor._

CHAPTER IV.–ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.

LESSON I.–DEGREES.

“I have the real excuse of the _most honest_ sort of bankrupts.”–_Cowley corrected_. “The _most honourable_ part of talk, is, to give the occasion.”–_Bacon cor._ “To give him one of the _most modest_ of his own proverbs.”–_Barclay cor._ “Our language is now, certainly, _more proper_ and more natural, than it was formerly.”–_Burnet cor._ “Which will be of the _greatest_ and _most frequent_ use to him in the world.”–_Locke cor._ “The same is notified in the _most considerable_ places in the diocese.”–_Whitgift cor._ “But it was the _most dreadful_ sight that ever I saw.”–_Bunyan cor._ “Four of the _oldest_, soberest, and discreetest of the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it.”–_Locke cor._ “Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially of _more ancient_ time, without this skill.”–_W. Walker cor._ “Far the _most learned_ of the Greeks.”–_Id._ “The _more learned_ thou art, the humbler be thou.”–_Id._ “He is none of the best, or _most honest_.”–_Id._ “The _most proper_ methods of communicating it to others.”–_Burn cor._ “What heaven’s great King hath _mightiest_ to send against us.”–_Milton cor._ “Benedict is not the _most unhopeful_ husband that I know.”–_Shakspeare cor._ “That he should immediately do all the meanest and _most trifling_ things himself.”–_Ray cor._ “I shall be named among the _most renowned_ of women.”–_Milton cor._ “Those have the _most inventive_ heads for all purposes.”–_Ascham cor._ “The _more wretched_ are the contemners of all helps.”–_B. Johnson cor._ “I will now deliver a few of the _most proper_ and _most natural_ considerations that belong to this piece.”–_Wotton cor._ “The _most mortal_ poisons practised by the _West Indians_, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man.”–_Bacon cor._ “He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the _most faithful_ and _most affectionate_ allies the Medes ever had.”–_Rollin cor._ “‘You see before you,’ says he to him, ‘the most devoted servant, and the _most faithful_ ally, you ever had.'”–_Id._ “I chose the _most flourishing_ tree in all the park.”–_Cowley cor._ “Which he placed, I think, some centuries _earlier_ than _did_ Julius Africanus afterwards.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “The Tiber, the _most noted_ river of Italy.”–_Littleton cor._

“To _farthest_ shores th’ ambrosial spirit flies.”–_Pope_.

—-“That what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, _worthiest_, discreetest, best.”–_Milton cor._

LESSON II.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“During the _first three or four_ years of its existence.”–_Taylor cor._ “To the first of these divisions, my _last ten_ lectures have been devoted.”–_Adams cor._ “There are, in the twenty-four states, not _fewer_ than sixty thousand common schools.”–_J. O. Taylor cor._ “I know of nothing which gives teachers _more_ trouble, _than_ this want of firmness.”–_Id._ “I know of nothing _else_ that throws such darkness over the line which separates right from wrong.”–_Id._ “None need this purity and _this_ simplicity of language and thought, _more than does the instructor of a common school_.”–_Id._ “I know of no _other_ periodical that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education.”–_Id._ “Are not these schools of the highest importance? Should not every individual feel _a deep_ interest in their character and condition?”–_Id._ “If instruction were made a _liberal_ profession, teachers would feel more sympathy for _one an other_.”–_Id._ “Nothing is _more interesting to_ children, _than_ novelty, _or_ change.”–_Id._ “I know of no _other_ labour which affords so much happiness as the teacher’s.”–_Id._ “Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable _duties_, that they engage in.”–_Id._ “I know of no exercise _more_ beneficial to the pupil _than_ that of drawing maps.”–_Id._ “I know of nothing in which our district schools are _more_ defective, _than_ they are in the art of teaching grammar.”–_Id._ “I know of _no other branch of knowledge_, so easily acquired as history.”–_Id._ “I know of _no other school exercise_ for which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as _for_ composition.”–_Id._ “There is nothing _belonging to_ our fellow-men, which we should respect _more sacredly than_ their good name.”–_Id._ “_Surely_, never any _other creature_ was so unbred as that odious man.”–_Congreve cor._ “In the dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the _deceased_.”–_Phil. Museum cor._ “These master-works would still be less excellent and _finished_.”–_Id._ “Every attempt to staylace the language of _polished_ conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy.”–_Id._ “Here are a few of the _most unpleasant_ words that ever blotted paper.”–_Shakespeare cor._ “With the most easy _and obliging_ transitions.”–_Broome cor._ “Fear is, of all affections, the _least apt_ to admit any conference with reason.”–_Hooker cor._ “Most chymists think glass a body _less destructible_ than gold itself.”–_Boyle cor._ “To part with _unhacked_ edges, and bear back our barge undinted.”–_Shak. cor._ “Erasmus, who was an _unbigoted_ Roman Catholic, was transported with this passage.”–_Addison cor._ “There are no _fewer_ than five words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated.”–_Campbell cor._ “The _ones_ preach Christ of contention; but the _others_, of love.” Or, “The _one party_ preach,” &c.–_Bible cor._ “Hence we find less discontent and _fewer_ heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally burdened.”–_H. Home, Ld. Kames, cor._

“The serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field.” –_Milton, P. L._, B. ix, l. 86.

“Thee, Serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field, I knew, but not with human voice indued.” –_Id., P. L._, B. ix, l. 560.

“How much more grievous would our lives appear. To reach th’ _eight-hundredth_, than the eightieth year!” –_Denham cor._

LESSON III.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced _each other_ at the same time.”–_Lempriere cor._ “Her two brothers were, one after _the other_, turned into stone.”–_Kames cor._ “Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A _gold_ ring, a _silver_ cup.”–_Lennie cor._ “Fire and water destroy _each other_”–_Wanostrocht cor._ “Two negatives, in English, destroy _each other_, or are equivalent to an affirmative.”–_Lowth, Murray, et al. cor._ “Two negatives destroy _each other_, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative.”–_Kirkham and Felton cor._ “Two negatives destroy _each other_, and make an affirmative.”–_Flint cor._ “Two negatives destroy _each other_, being equivalent to an affirmative.”–_Frost cor._ “Two objects, resembling _each other_, are presented to the imagination.”–_Parker cor._ “Mankind, in order to hold converse with _one an other_, found it necessary to give names to objects.”–_Kirkham cor._ “_Derivative_ words are _formed_ from _their primitives_ in various ways.”–_Cooper cor._ “There are many _different_ ways of deriving words _one from an other_.”–_Murray cor._ “When several verbs _have a joint construction_ in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually _expressed_ with the first _only_.”–_Frost cor._ “Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and _coming in immediate succession_, are also separated by _the comma_.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “Two or more adverbs, _coming in immediate succession_, must be separated by _the comma_.”–_Iidem_. “If, however, the _two_ members are very closely connected, the comma is _unnecessary_.”–_Iidem_. “Gratitude, when exerted towards _others_, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a _generous_ man.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Several verbs in the infinitive mood, _coming in succession_, and having a common dependence, are also divided by commas.”–_Comly cor._ “The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation _one to an other_.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “When two or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] _occur in immediate succession_, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by _the comma_.”–_Comly cor._ “_One noun_ frequently _follows an other_, both meaning the same thing.”–_Sanborn cor._ “And these two tenses may thus answer _each other_.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “Or some other relation which two objects bear to _each other_.”–_Jamieson cor._ “That the heathens tolerated _one an other_ is allowed.”–_A. Fuller cor._ “And yet these two persons love _each other_ tenderly.”–_E. Reader cor._ “In the six _hundred_ and first year.”–_Bible cor._ “Nor is this arguing of his, _any thing_ but a _reiterated_ clamour.”–_Barclay cor._ “In _several_ of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found.”–_Ib._ “Though Alvarez, _Despauter_, and _others, do not allow it_ to be plural.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “Even the most _dissipated_ and shameless blushed at the sight.”–_Lempriere cor._ “We feel a _higher_ satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, _than_ [_in contemplating_] that of vegetables.”– _Jamieson cor._ “But this man is so _full-fraught_ with malice.”–_Barclay cor._ “That I suggest some things concerning the _most proper_ means.”–_Dr. Blair cor._

“So, hand in hand, they passed, the loveliest pair That ever _yet_ in love’s embraces met.”–_Milton cor._

“Aim at _supremacy_; without _such height_, Will be for thee no sitting, or not long.”–_Id. cor._

CHAPTER V.–PRONOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF PRONOUNS.

LESSON I.–RELATIVES.

“_While_ we attend to this pause, every appearance of _singsong_ must be carefully avoided.”–_Murray cor._ “For thou shalt go to all _to whom_ I shall send thee.”–_Bible cor._ “Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years _during which_ I have possessed my kingdom.”–_Sanborn cor._ “In the same manner _in which_ relative pronouns and their antecedents are usually parsed.”–_Id._ “Parse or _explain_ all the other nouns _contained_ in the examples, _after the very_ manner _of_ the word _which is parsed for you_.”–_Id._ “The passive verb will always _have_ the person and number that _belong_ to the verb _be_, of which it is in part composed.”–_Id._ “You have been taught that a verb must always _agree in_ person and number _with_ it subject or nominative.”–_Id._ “A relative pronoun, also, must always _agree in_ person, _in_ number, and even _in_ gender, _with_ its antecedent.”–_Id._ “The _answer_ always _agrees_ in case _with the pronoun_ which asks the question.”–_Id._ “_One_ sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the definite manner of a personal pronoun.” [529]–_Id._ “The mind, being carried forward to the time _at which the_ event _is to happen_, easily conceives it to be present.” “SAVE and SAVING are [_seldom to be_] parsed in the manner _in which_ EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly explained].”–_Id._ “Adverbs qualify _verbs_, or modify _their_ meaning, _as_ adjectives _qualify_ nouns [and describe things.]”–_Id._ “The third person singular of verbs, _terminates in s_ or _es, like_ the plural number of nouns.”–_Id._ “He saith further: that, ‘The apostles did not baptize anew such persons _as_ had been baptized with the baptism of John.'”–_Barclay cor._ “For we _who_ live,”–or, “For we _that are alive_, are always delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake.”–_Bible cor._ “For they _who_ believe in God, must be careful to maintain good works.”–_Barclay cor._ “Nor yet of those _who_ teach things _that_ they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.”–_Id._ “So as to hold such bound in heaven _as_ they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven _as_ they loose on earth.”–_Id._ “Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife; then such things _as_ are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?”–_Id._ “All such _as_ do not satisfy themselves with the superfices of religion.”–_Id._ “And he is the same in substance, _that_ he was upon earth,–_the same_ in spirit, soul, and body.”–_Id._ “And those that do not thus, are such, _as_ the Church of Rome can have no charity _for_.” Or: “And those that do not thus, are _persons toward_ whom the Church of Rome can have no charity.”–_Id._ “Before his book, he _places_ a great list of _what_ he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the Quakers.”–_Id._ “And this is _what_ he should have proved.”–_Id._ “Three of _whom_ were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university.”–_Id._ “Therefore it is not lawful for any _whomsoever_ * * * to force the consciences of others.”–_Id._ “_Why were_ the former days better than these?”–_Bible cor._ “In the same manner _in which_”–or, better, “_Just as_–the term _my_ depends on the name _books_.”–_Peirce cor._ “_Just as_ the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition _to_, understood after the _adjective_] NEAR.”–_Id._ “James died on the day _on which_ Henry returned.”–_Id._

LESSON II.–DECLENSIONS.

“OTHER makes the plural OTHERS, when it is found without _its_ substantive.”–_Priestley cor._ “But _his, hers, ours, yours_, and _theirs_, have evidently the form of the possessive case.”–_Lowth cor._ “To the Saxon possessive cases, _hire, ure, eower, hira_, (that is, _hers, ours, yours, theirs_,) we have added the _s_, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns.”–_Id._ “Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both _theirs_ and _ours_.”–_Friends cor._ “In this place, _His_ is clearly preferable either to _Her_ or _to Its_.”–_Harris cor._ “That roguish leer of _yours_ makes a pretty woman’s heart _ache_.”–_Addison cor._ “Lest by any means this liberty of _yours_ become a stumbling-block.”–_Bible cor._ “First person: Sing. I, _my or_ mine, me; Plur. we, _our or ours_, us.”–_Wilbur and Livingston cor._ “Second person: Sing, thou, _thy or_ thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, _your or yours_, you.”–_Iid._ “Third person: Sing, she, _her or hers_, her; Plur. they, _their or theirs_, them.”–_Iid._ “So shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not _yours_.”–ALGER, BRUCE, ET AL.; _Jer._, v, 19. “Second person, Singular: Nom. _thou_, Poss. _thy_ or _thine_, Obj. _thee_.”–_Frost cor._ “Second person, Dual; Nom. Gyt, ye two; Gen. Incer, of _you_ two; Dat. Inc, incrum, to _you_ two; Acc. Inc, _you_ two; Voc. Eala inc, O ye two; Abl. Inc, incrum, from _you_ two.”–_Gwilt cor._ “Second person, Plural: Nom. Ge, ye; Gen. Eower, of _you_; Dat. Eow, to _you_; Acc. Eow, _you_; Voc Eala ge, O ye; Abl. Eow, from _you_.”–_Id._ “These words are, _mine, thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs_, and _whose_.”–_Cardell cor._ “This house is _ours_, and that is _yours. Theirs_ is very commodious.”–_Murray’s Gram._, p. 55. “And they shall eat up _thy_ harvest, and thy bread; they shall eat up thy flocks and _thy_ herds.”–_Bible cor._ “_Whoever_ and _Whichever_ are thus declined: Sing. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever; Plur. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever. Sing. Nom. whichever, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. whichever; Plur. Nom. whichever, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. whichever.”–_Cooper cor._ “The compound personal pronouns are thus declined: Sing. Nom. myself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. myself; Plur. Nom. ourselves, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. ourselves. Sing. Nom. thyself or yourself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. thyself, &c.”–_Perley cor._ “Every one of us, each for _himself_, laboured to recover him.”–_Sidney cor._ “Unless when ideas of their opposites manifestly suggest _themselves_.”–_Wright cor._ “It not only exists in time, but is _itself_ time.” “A position which the action _itself_ will palpably _confute_.”–_Id._ “A difficulty sometimes presents _itself_.”–_Id._ “They are sometimes explanations in _themselves_.”–_Id._ “_Ours, Yours, Theirs, Hers, Its_.”–_Barrett cor._

“_Theirs_, the wild _chase_ of false felicities; His, the composed possession of the true.” –_Young, N. Th._, N. viii, l. 1100.

LESSON III.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“It is the boast of Americans, without distinction of parties, that their government is the most free and perfect _that_ exists on the earth.”–_Dr. Allen cor._ “Children _that_ are dutiful to their parents, enjoy great prosperity.”–_Sanborn cor._ “The scholar _that_ improves his time, sets an example worthy of imitation.”–_Id._ “Nouns and pronouns _that_ signify the same person, place, or thing, agree in case.”–_Cooper cor._ “An interrogative sentence is one _that_ asks a question.”–_Id._ “In the use of words and phrases _that_ in point of time relate to each other, _the order of time_ should be _duly regarded_.”–_Id._ “The same observations _that show_ the effect of the article _upon_ the participle, appear to be applicable [also] to the pronoun and participle.”–_Murray cor._ “The reason _why_ they have not the same use of them in reading, may be traced to the very defective and erroneous method in which the art of reading is taught.”–_Id._ “_Ever since_ reason began to exert her powers, thought, during our waking hours, has been active in every breast, without a moment’s suspension or pause.”–_Id. et al. cor._ “In speaking of _such as_ greatly delight in the same.”–_Pope cor._ “Except _him to whom_ the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live.”–_Bible cor._ “But the same day _on which_ Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.”–_Bible cor._ “In the next place, I will explain several _constructions_ of nouns and pronouns, _that_ have not yet come under our notice.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Three natural distinctions of time are all _that_ can exist.”–_Hall cor._ “We have exhibited such only as are obviously distinct; and _these_ seem to be sufficient, and not more than sufficient.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “_The parenthesis_ encloses a _phrase or clause that_ may be omitted without materially injuring the connexion of the other members.”–_Hall cor._ “Consonants are letters _that_ cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel.”–_Bucke cor._ “Words are not _mere_ sounds, but sounds _that_ convey a meaning to the mind.”–_Id._ “Nature’s postures are always easy; and, _what_ is more, nothing but your own will can put you out of them.”–_Collier cor._ “Therefore ought we to examine our _own selves_, and prove our _own selves_.”–_Barclay cor._ “Certainly, it had been much more natural, to have divided Active verbs into _Immanent_, or _those whose_ action is terminated _within itself_, and _Transient_, or _those whose_ action is terminated in something without _itself_.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “This is such an advantage _as_ no other lexicon will afford.”–_Dr. Taylor cor._ “For these reasons, such liberties are taken in the Hebrew tongue, with those words _which_ are of the most general and frequent use.”–_Pike cor._ “_While_ we object to the _laws which_ the antiquarian in language would impose on us, we must _also_ enter our protest against those _authors who_ are too fond of innovations.”–_L. Murray cor._

CHAPTER VI.–VERBS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF VERBS.

LESSON I.–PRETERITS.

“In speaking on a matter which _touched_ their hearts.”–_Phil. Museum cor._ “Though Horace _published_ it some time after.”–_Id._ “The best subjects with which the Greek models _furnished_ him.”–_Id._ “Since he _attached_ no thought to it.”–_Id._ “By what slow steps the Greek alphabet _reached_ its perfection.”–_Id._ “Because Goethe _wished_ to erect an affectionate memorial.”–_Id._ “But the Saxon forms soon _dropped_ away.”–_Id._ “It speaks of all the towns that _perished_ in the age of Philip.”–_Id._ “This _enriched_ the written language with new words.”–_Id._ “He merely _furnished_ his friend with matter for laughter.”–_Id._ “A cloud arose, and _stopped_ the light.”–_Swift cor._ “She _slipped_ spadillo in her breast.”–_Id._ “I _guessed_ the hand.”–_Id._ “The tyrant _stripped_ me to the skin; My skin he _flayed_, my hair he _cropped_; At head and foot my body _lopped_.”–_Id._ “I see the greatest owls in you, That ever _screeched_ or ever flew.”–_Id._ “I _sat_ with delight, From morning till night.”–_Id._ “Dick nimbly _skipped_ the gutter.”–_Id._ “In at the pantry door this morn I _slipped_.”–_Id._” Nobody living ever _touched_ me, but you.”–_W. Walker cor._ “_Present_, I ship; _Preterit_, I shipped; _Perf. Participle_, shipped.”–_A. Murray cor._ “Then the king arose, and _tore_ his garments.”–_Bible cor._ “When he _lifted_ up his foot, he knew not where he should set it next.”–_Bunyan cor._ “He _lifted_ up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time.”–_Bible cor._ “Upon this chaos _rode_ the distressed ark.”–_Burnet cor._ “On whose foolish honesty, my practices _rode_ easy.”–_Shakspeare cor._ “That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which _rose_ immediately out of chaos.”–_Burnet cor._ “Sir, how _came_ it, you have _helped_ to make this rescue?”–_Shak. cor._ “He _swore_ he _would_ rather lose all his father’s images, than that table.”–_Peacham cor._ “When our language _dropped_ its ancient terminations.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “When themselves they _vilified_.”–_Milton cor._ “But I _chose_ rather to do thus.”–_Barclay cor._ “When he _pleaded_ (or _pled_) against the parsons.”–_Hist. cor._ “And he that saw it, _bore_ record.” Or: “And he that saw it, _bare_ record.”–_John_, xix, 35. “An irregular verb has one more variation; as, drive, drivest, [_driveth_,] drives, drove, _drovest_, driving, driven.”–_Matt. Harrison cor._ “Beside that village, Hannibal _pitched_ his camp.”–_W. Walker cor._ “He _fetched_ it from Tmolus.”–_Id._ “He _supped_ with his morning-gown on.”–_Id._ “There _stamped_ her sacred name.”–_Barlow cor._

“_Fix’d_[530] on the view the great discoverer stood; And thus _address’d_ the messenger of good.”–_Barlow cor._

LESSON II.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Three freemen _were on trial_”–or, “_were receiving their trial_–at the date of our last information.”–_Editor cor._ “While the house _was building_, many of the tribe arrived.”–_Cox cor._ “But a foundation has been laid in Zion, and the church _is built_–(or, _continues to be built_–) upon it.”–_The Friend cor._ “And one fourth of the people are _receiving education_.”–_E. I. Mag. cor._ “The present [_tense_,] or that [_form of the verb_] which [_expresses what_] is now _doing_.”–_Beck cor._ “A new church, called the Pantheon, is _about_ being completed, in an expensive style.”–_Thompson cor._ “When I last saw him, he _had_ grown considerably.”–_Murray cor._ “I know what a rugged and dangerous path I _have_ got into.”–_Duncan cor._ “You _might_ as _well_ preach ease to one on the rack.”–_Locke cor._ “Thou hast heard me, and _hast_ become my salvation.”–_Bible cor._ “While the Elementary Spelling-Book _was preparing_ (or, _was in progress of preparation_) for the press.”–_Cobb cor._ “Language _has_ become, in modern times, more correct.”–_Jamieson cor._ “If the plan _has_ been executed in any measure answerable to the author’s wishes.”–_Robbins cor._ “The vial of wrath is still _pouring_ out on the seat of the beast.”–_Christian Ex. cor._ “Christianity _had_ become the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire.”–_Gurney cor._ “Who wrote before the first century _had_ elapsed.”–_Id._ “The original and analogical form _has_ grown quite obsolete.”–_Lowth cor._ “Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, _have_ perished.”–_Murray cor._ “The poems _had_ got abroad, and _were_ in a great many hands.”–_Waller cor._ “It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, ‘The bubble _is ready to burst._'”–_Cobbett cor._ “I _drove_ my suitor from his mad humour of love.”–_Shak. cor._ “Se viriliter expedivit.”–_Cic._ “He _has played_ the man.”–_Walker cor._ “Wilt thou kill me, as thou _didst_ the Egyptian yesterday?”–_Bible cor._ “And we, _methought_, [or _thought I_] looked up to him from our hill”–_Cowley cor._ “I fear thou _dost_ not think _so_ much of _the_ best things as thou _ought_.”–_Memoir cor._ “When this work was commenced.”–_Wright cor._ “Exercises and _a_ Key to this work are _about_ being prepared.”–_Id._ “James is loved by John.”–_Id._ “Or that which is exhibited.”–_Id._ “He was smitten.”–_Id._ “In the passive _voice_ we say, ‘I am loved.'”–_Id._ “Subjunctive Mood: If I _be_ smitten, If thou _be_ smitten, If he _be_ smitten.”–_Id._ “I _shall_ not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is.”–_Chalmers cor._ “I said to myself, I _shall_ be obliged to expose the folly.”–_Chazotte cor._ “When Clodius, had he meant to return that day to Rome, must have arrived.”–_J. Q. Adams cor._ “That the fact has been done, _is doing_, or will be done.”–_Peirce cor._ “Am I _to be_ instructed?”–_Wright cor._ “I _choose_ him.”–_Id._ “John, who _respected_ his father, was obedient to his commands.”–_Barrett cor._

“The region _echoes_ to the clash of arms.”–_Beattie cor._

“And _sitst_ on high, and mak’st creation’s top Thy footstool; and _beholdst_ below thee–all.”–_Pollok cor._

“And see if thou _canst_ punish sin and let Mankind go free. Thou _failst_–be not surprised.”–_Idem._

LESSON III–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“What follows, _might better have been_ wanting altogether.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “This member of the sentence _might_ much better have been omitted altogether.”–_Id._ “One or _the_ other of them, therefore, _might_ better have been omitted.”–_Id._ “The whole of this last member of the sentence _might_ better have been dropped.”–_Id._ “In this case, they _might_ much better be omitted.”–_Id._ “He _might_ better have said ‘the _productions_.'”–_Id._ “The Greeks _ascribed_ the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musaeus.”–_Id._ “It _was_ noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables.”–_Phil. Museum cor._ “When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I _determined_ to send him.”–_Bible cor._ “I _would_ rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God.”–_Id._ “As for such, I wish the Lord _would open_ their eyes.” Or, better: “_May_ the Lord _open_ (or, I _pray_ the Lord _to_ open) their eyes.”–_Barclay cor._ “It would _have_ made our _passage_ over the river very difficult.”–_Walley cor._ “We should not _have_ been able to _carry_ our great guns.”–_Id._ “Others would _have_ questioned our prudence, if _we_ had.”–_Id._ “Beware thou _be_ not BECAESARED; i.e., Beware that thou _do_ not dwindle–or, _lest thou dwindle_–into a mere Caesar.”–_Harris cor._ “Thou _raisedst_ (or, familiarly, thou _raised_) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes.”–_Arbuthnot cor._ “Life _hurries_ off apace; thine is almost _gone_ already.”–_Collier cor._ “‘How unfortunate has this accident made me!’ _cries_ such a one.”–_Id._ “The muse that soft and sickly _woos_ the ear.”–_Pollok cor._ “A man _might_ better relate himself to a statue.”–_Bacon cor._ “I heard thee say but now, thou _liked_ not that.”–_Shak. cor._ “In my whole course of wooing, thou _criedst_, (or, familiarly, thou _cried_,) _Indeed!_”–_Id._ “But our ears _have_ grown familiar with ‘_I have wrote_, ‘_I have drank_,’ &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical.”–_Lowth et al. cor._ “The court was _in session_ before Sir Roger came”–_Addison cor._ “She _needs_–(or, if you please, _need_,–) be no more with the jaundice _possessed_”–_Swift cor._ “Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day _when_ you _were_ here.”–_Id._ “If spirit of other sort, So minded, _hath_ (or _has_) o’erleaped these earthy bounds.”–_Milton cor._ “It _would_ have been more rational to have _forborne_ this.”–_Barclay cor._ “A student is not master of it till he _has_ seen all these.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “The said justice shall _summon_ the party.”–_Brevard cor._ “Now what _has_ become of thy former wit and humour?”–_Spect. cor._ “Young stranger, whither _wanderst_ thou?”–_Burns cor._ “SUBJ. _Pres._ If I love, If thou _love_, If he love. _Imp._ If I loved, If thou _loved_, If he loved.”–_Merchant cor._ “SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou _do_ not love, If he _do_ not love.”–_Id._ “If he _has_ committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.”–_Bible cor._ “Subjunctive Mood of the verb _to call_, second person singular: If thou _call_, (rarely, If thou _do call_,) If thou _called_.”–_Hiley cor._ “Subjunctive Mood of the verb _to love_, second person singular: If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou _loved_.”–_Bullions cor._ “I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were.”–_White cor._ “I taught, thou _taughtest_, (familiarly, thou _taught_,) he taught.”– _Coar cor._ “We say, ‘_If it rain,’ ‘Suppose it rain?’ ‘Lest it rain,’ ‘Unless it rain._’ This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD.”–_Weld cor._ “He _has_ arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood.”–_Priestley cor._ “He _might_ much better have let it alone.”–_Tooke cor._ “He were better without it. Or: He _would be better_ without it.”–_Locke cor._ “_Hadst_ thou not been by. Or: _If_ thou _hadst_ not been by. Or, in the familiar style: _Had_ not thou been by,”–_Shak. cor._ “I learned geography. Thou _learned arithmetic_. He learned grammar.”–_Fuller cor._ “Till the sound _has_ ceased.”–_Sheridan cor._ “Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, _died_.”–_Six English Grammars corrected_.

“Thou _bow’dst_ thy glorious head to none, _fear’dst_ none.” Or:– “Thou _bowed_ thy glorious head to none, _feared_ none.” –_Pollok cor._

“Thou _lookst_ upon thy boy as though thou _guess’d_ it.” –_Knowles cor._

“As once thou _slept_, while she to life was formed.” –_Milton cor._

“Who finds the partridge in the puttock’s nest, But may imagine how the bird was _killed?_” –_Shak. cor._

“Which might have well _become_ the best of men.” –_Idem cor._

CHAPTER VII.–PARTICIPLES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.

LESSON I.–IRREGULARS.

“Many of your readers have _mistaken_ that passage.”–_Steele cor._ “Had not my dog of a steward _run_ away.”–_Addison cor._ “None should be admitted, except he had _broken_ his collarbone thrice.”–_Id._ “We could not know what was _written_ at twenty.”–_Waller cor._ “I have _written_, thou hast _written_, he has _written_; we have _written_, you have _written_, they have _written_.”–_Ash cor._ “As if God had _spoken_ his last words there to his people.”–_Barclay cor._ “I had like to have _come_ in that ship myself.”–_Observer cor._ “Our ships and vessels being _driven_ out of the harbour by a storm.”–_Hutchinson cor._ “He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have _written_, had he _written_ in the same language.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “When his doctrines grew too strong to be _shaken_ by his enemies.”–_Atterbury cor._ “The immortal mind that hath _forsaken_ her mansion.”–_Milton cor._ “Grease that’s _sweated_ (or _sweat_) from the murderer’s gibbet, throw into the flame.”–_Shak. cor._ “The court also was _chidden_ (or _chid_) for allowing such questions to be put.”–_Stone cor._ “He would have _spoken_.”–_Milton cor._ “Words _interwoven_ (or _interweaved_) with sighs found out their way.”–_Id._ “Those kings and potentates who have _strived_ (or _striven_.)”–_Id._ “That even Silence was _taken_.”–_Id._ “And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had _stolen_ them from me.”–_Id._ “I have _chosen_ this perfect man.”–_Id._ “I _shall scarcely_ think you have _swum_ in a gondola.”–_Shak. cor._ “The fragrant brier was _woven_ (or _weaved_) between.”–_Dryden cor._ “Then finish what you have _begun_.”–_Id._ “But now the years a numerous train have _run_.”–_Pope cor._ “Repeats your verses _written_ (or _writ_) on glasses.”–_Prior cor._ “Who by turns have _risen_.”–_Id._ “Which from great authors I have taken.”–_Id._ “Even there he should have _fallen_.”–_Id._

“The sun has _ris’n_, and gone to bed. Just as if Partridge were not dead.”–_Swift cor._

“And, though no marriage words are _spoken_, They part not till the ring is _broken_.”–_Swift cor._

LESSON II.–REGULARS.

“When the word is _stripped_ of all the terminations.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “Forgive him, Tom; his head is _cracked_.”–_Swift cor._ “For ’tis the sport, to have the engineer _hoised_ (or _hoisted_) with his own petar.”–_Shak. cor._ “As great as they are, I was _nursed_ by their mother.”–_Swift cor._ “If he should now be _cried_ down since his change.”–_Id. “Dipped_ over head and ears–in debt.”–_Id._ “We see the nation’s credit _cracked_.”–_Id._ “Because they find their pockets _picked_.”–_Id._ “O what a pleasure _mixed_ with pain!”–_Id._ “And only with her brother _linked_.”–_Id._ “Because he ne’er a thought allowed, That might not be _confessed_.”–_Id._ “My love to Sheelah is more firmly _fixed_.”–_Id._ “The observations _annexed_ to them will be intelligible.”–_Phil. Mus. cor._ “Those eyes are always _fixed_ on the general principles.”–_Id._ “Laborious conjectures will be _banished_ from our commentaries.”–_Id._ “Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was _reestablished_, in his stead.”–_Id._ “A Roman who was _attached_ to Augustus.”–_Id._ “Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had _talked_ about two such.”–_Id._ “And the reformers of language have generally _rushed_ on.”–_Id._ “Three centuries and a half had then _elapsed_ since the date,”–_Ib._ “Of such criteria, as has been _remarked_ already, there is an abundance.”–_Id._ “The English have _surpassed_ every other nation in their services.”–_Id._ “The party _addressed_ is next in dignity to the speaker.”–_Harris cor._ “To which we are many times _helped_.”–_W. Walker cor._ “But for him, I should have _looked_ well enough to myself.”–_Id._ “Why are you _vexed_, Lady? why do frown?”–_Milton cor._ “Obtruding false rules _pranked_ in reason’s garb.”–_Id._ “But, like David _equipped_ in Saul’s armour, it is encumbered and oppressed.”–_Campbell cor._

“And when their merchants are blown up, and _cracked_, Whole towns are cast away in storms, and _wrecked_.”–_Butler cor._

LESSON III.–MIXED EXAMPLES.

“The lands are _held_ in free and common soccage.”–_Trumbull cor._ “A stroke is _drawn_ under such words.”–_Cobbett’s Gr._, 1st Ed. “It is _struck_ even, with a strickle.”–_W. Walker cor._ “Whilst I was _wandering_, without any care, beyond my bounds.”–_Id._ “When one would do something, unless _hindered_ by something present.”–_B. Johnson cor._ “It is used potentially, but not so as to be _rendered_ by these signs.”–_Id._ “Now who would dote upon things _hurried_ down the stream thus fast?”–_Collier cor._ “Heaven hath timely _tried_ their growth.”–_Milton cor._ “O! ye mistook, ye should have _snatched_ his wand.”–_Id._ “Of true virgin here _distressed_.”–_Id._ “So that they have at last come to be _substituted_ in the stead of it.”–_Barclay cor._ “Though ye have _lain_ among the pots.”–_Bible cor._ “And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf _plucked_ off.”–_Scott’s Bible, and Alger’s_. “Brutus and Cassius _Have ridden_, (or _rode_,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome.”–_Shak. cor._ “He shall be _spit upon_.”–_Bible cor._ “And are not the countries so _overflowed_ still _situated_ between the tropics?”–_Bentley_. “Not _tricked_ and _frounced_ as she was wont, But _kerchiefed_ in a comely cloud.”–_Milton cor._ “To satisfy his rigour, _Satisfied_ never.”–_Id._ “With him there _crucified_.”–_Id._ “Th’ earth cumbered, and the wing’d air _darked_ with plumes.”–_Id._ “And now their way to Earth they had _descried_.”–_Id._ “Not so thick swarmed once the soil _Bedropped_ with blood of Gorgon.”–_Id._ “And in a troubled sea of passion _tossed_.”–_Id._ “The cause, alas! is quickly _guessed_.”–_Swift cor._ “The kettle to the top was _hoised_, or _hoisted_.”–_Id._ “In chains thy syllables are _linked_.”–_Id._ “Rather than thus be _overtopped_, Would you not wish their laurels _cropped_.”–_Id._ “The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line _drawn_ to connect words, or parts of words.”–_Cobbett cor._ “In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes _broken_.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition _prefixed_ to them.”–_Grant cor._ “Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of _Valerius_, would set every body _a laughing_.”–_J. Walker cor._ “Being mocked, scourged, _spit upon_, and crucified.”–_Gurney cor._

“For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known, Till _barb’rous hordes those states had overthrown_.”–_Roscommon cor._

“In my own Thames may I be _drowned_, If e’er I stoop beneath _the crowned_.” Or thus:– “In my own Thames may I be _drown’d dead_, If e’er I stoop beneath a crown’d head.”–_Swift cor._

CHAPTER VIII.–ADVERBS.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.

“We can much _more easily_ form the conception of a fierce combat.”–_Blair corrected_. “When he was restored _agreeably_ to the treaty, he was a perfect savage.”–_Webster cor._ “How I shall acquit myself _suitably_ to the importance of the trial.”–_Duncan cor._ “Can any thing show your Holiness how _unworthily_ you treat mankind?”–_Spect. cor._ “In what other, _consistently_ with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?”–_Lowth cor._ “_Agreeably_ to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters.”–_Wilson cor._ “We shall give a _remarkably_ fine example of this figure.”–See _Blair’s Rhet._, p. 156. “All of which is most _abominably_ false.”–_Barclay cor._ “He heaped up great riches, but passed his time _miserably_.”–_Murray cor._ “He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and _simply_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Attentive only to exhibit his ideas _clearly_ and _exactly_, he appears dry.”–_Id._ “Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the _most softly_.” Or: “Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest.”–_Id._ “The simplest points, such as are _most easily_ apprehended.”–_Id._ “Too historical to be accounted a _perfectly_ regular epic poem.”–_Id._ “Putting after them the oblique case, _agreeably_ to the French construction.”–_Priestley cor._ “Where the train proceeds with an _extremely_ slow pace.”–_Kames cor._ “So as _scarcely_ to give an appearance of succession.”–_Id._ “That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, _independently_ of artful pronunciation.”–_Id._ “Cornaro had become very corpulent, _previously_ to the adoption of his temperate habits.”–_Hitchcock cor._ “Bread, which is a solid, and _tolerably_ hard, substance.”–_Day cor._ “To command every body that was not dressed as _finely_ as himself.”–_Id._ “Many of them have _scarcely_ outlived their authors.”–_J. Ward cor._ “Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very _deeply_.”–_Wilson cor._ “The people are _miserably_ poor, and subsist on fish.”–_Hume cor._ “A scale, which I took great pains, some years _ago_, to make.”–_Bucke cor._ “There is no truth on earth _better_ established _than_ the truth of the Bible.”–_Taylor cor._ “I know of no work _more_ wanted _than_ the one _which_ Mr. Taylor has now furnished.”–_Dr. Nott cor._ “And therefore their requests are _unfrequent_ and reasonable.”–_Taylor cor._ “Questions are _more easily_ proposed, than answered rightly.”–_Dillwyn cor._ “Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source _from which_ they are all derived.”–_Murray cor._ “If there be no special rule which requires it to be put _further forward_.”–_Milnes cor._ “The masculine and _the_ neuter have the same dialect in all _the_ numbers, especially when they end _alike_.”–_Id._

“And children are more busy in their play Than those that _wiseliest_ pass their time away.”–_Butler cor._

CHAPTER IX.–CONJUNCTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF CONJUNCTIONS.

“A _Verb_ is so called from the Latin _verbum_, a word.”–_Bucke cor._ “References are often marked by letters _or_ figures.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ (1.) “A Conjunction is a word which joins words _or_ sentences together.”–_Lennie, Bullions and Brace, cor._ (2.) “A Conjunction is used to connect words _or_ sentences together.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ (3.) “A Conjunction is used to connect words _or_ sentences.”–_Maunder cor._ (4.) “Conjunctions are words used to join words _or_ sentences.”–_Wilcox cor._ (5.) “A Conjunction is a word used to connect words _or_ sentences.”–_M’Culloch, Hart, and Day, cor._ (6.) “A Conjunction joins words _or_ sentences together.”–_Macintosh and Hiley cor._ (7.) “The Conjunction joins words _or_ sentences together.”–_L. Murray cor._ (8.) “Conjunctions connect words _or_ sentences to each other.”–_Wright cor._ (9.) “Conjunctions connect words _or_ sentences.”–_Wells and Wilcox cor._ (10.) “The conjunction is a part of speech, used to connect words _or_ sentences.”–_Weld cor._ (11.) “A conjunction is a word used to connect words _or_ sentences together.”–_Fowler cor._ (12.) “Connectives are _particles that_ unite words _or_ sentences in construction.”–_Webster cor._ “English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the teachers know _little or nothing_ about it.”–_J. O. Taylor cor._ “_Lest_, instead of preventing _diseases_, you draw _them_ on.”–_Locke cor._ “The definite article _the_ is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative _or the_ superlative degree.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “When nouns naturally neuter are _assumed to be_ masculine _or_ feminine.”–_Murray cor._ “This form of the perfect tense represents an action _as_ completely past, _though_ often _as done_ at no great distance _of time, or at a time_ not specified.”–_Id._ “The _Copulative Conjunction_ serves to connect _words or clauses, so as_ to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, _or a consequence_.”–_Id._ “The _Disjunctive Conjunction_ serves, not only to continue a sentence _by connecting its parts_, but also to express opposition of meaning, _either real or nominal_.”–_Id._ “_If_ we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers, historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms necessary to communicate _the_ observations and discoveries _of their authors._”–_Id._ “When a disjunctive _conjunction_ occurs between a singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun _or_ pronoun.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, _or_ the nouns for which they stand, in gender and number.”–_Murray cor._ “Neuter verbs do not _express action, and consequently do not_ govern nouns or pronouns.”–_Id._ “And the auxiliary of the past imperfect _as well as of the_ present _tense_.”–_Id._ “If this rule should not appear to apply to every example _that_ has been produced, _or_ to others which might be cited.”–_Id._ “An emphatical pause is made, after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we desire to fix the hearer’s attention.”–_Murray and Hart cor._ “An imperfect[531] phrase contains no assertion, _and_ does not amount to a proposition, or sentence.”–_Murray cor._ “The word was in the mouth of every one, _yet_ its meaning may still be a secret.”–_Id._ “This word was in the mouth of every one, _and yet_, as to its precise and definite idea, this may still be a secret,”–_Harris cor._ “It cannot be otherwise, _because_ the French prosody differs from that of every other European language.”–_Smollet cor._ “So gradually _that it may be_ engrafted on a subtonic.”–_Rush cor._ “Where the Chelsea _and_ Malden bridges now are.” Or better: “Where the Chelsea _or the_ Malden _bridge_ now _is_.”–_Judge Parker cor._ “Adverbs are words _added_ to verbs, _to_ participles, _to_ adjectives, _or to_ other adverbs.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “I could not have told you who the hermit was, _or_ on what mountain he lived.”–_Bucke cor._ “AM _and_ BE (for they are the same _verb_) naturally, or in themselves, signify _being_.”–_Brightland cor._ “Words are _signs, either oral or written_, by which we express our thoughts, _or_ ideas.”–_Mrs. Bethune cor._ “His fears will detect him, _that_ he shall not escape.”–_Comly cor._ “_Whose_ is equally applicable to persons _and to_ things”–_Webster cor._ “One negative destroys an other, _so that two are_ equivalent to an affirmative.”–_Bullions cor._

“No sooner does he peep into the world, _Than_ he has done his do.”–_Hudibras cor._

CHAPTER X.–PREPOSITIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.

“Nouns are often formed _from_ participles.”–_L. Murray corrected_. “What tenses are formed _from_ the perfect participle?”–_Ingersoll cor._ “Which tense is formed _from_ the _present_, or root of the verb?”–_Id._ “When a noun or _a_ pronoun is placed before a participle, independently _of_ the rest of the sentence.”–_Churchill’s Gram._, p. 348. “If the addition consists _of_ two or more words.”–_Mur. et al. cor._ “The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently _of_ the rest of the sentence.”–_Lowth’s Gram._, 80; _Churchill’s_, 143; _Bucke’s_, 96; _Merchant’s_, 92. “For the great satisfaction of the reader, we _shall present a variety_ of false constructions.”–_Murray cor._ “For your satisfaction, I _shall present you a variety_ of false constructions.”– _Ingersoll cor._ “I shall here _present [to] you a scale_ of derivation.”– _Bucke cor._ “These two manners of representation in respect _to_ number.”–_Lowth and Churchill cor._ “There are certain adjectives which seem to be derived _from verbs, without_ any variation.”–_Lowth cor._ “Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof _from_ others.”–_Murray cor._ “For being more studious than any other pupil _in_ the school.”– _Id._ “Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way.”–_Id._ “These people reduced the greater part of the island _under_ their own power.”– _Id._ “The principal accent distinguishes one syllable _of_ a word from the rest.”–_Id._ “Just numbers are in unison _with_ the human mind.”–_Id._ “We must accept of sound _in stead_ of sense.”–_Id._ “Also, _in stead of consultation_, he uses _consult_.”–_Priestley cor._ “This ablative seems to be governed _by_ a preposition understood.”–_W. Walker cor._ “_Lest_ my father _hear of it_, by some means or other.”–_Id._ “And, besides, my wife would hear _of it_ by some means.”–_Id._ “For insisting _on_ a requisition so odious to them.”–_Robertson cor._ “Based _on_ the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality.”–_Manual cor._ “Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired _from_ the spelling-book.”–_Murray cor._ “They do not cut it off: except _from_ a few words; as, _due, duly_, &c.”–_Id._ “Whether passing _at_ such time, or then finished.”–_Lowth cor._ “It hath disgusted hundreds _with_ that confession.”–_Barclay cor._ “But they have egregiously fallen _into_ that inconveniency.”–_Id._ “For is not this, to set nature _at_ work?”–_Id._ “And, surely, that which should set all its springs _at_ work, is God.”–_Atterbury cor._ “He could not end his treatise without a panegyrie _on_ modern learning.”–_Temple cor._ “These are entirely independent _of_ the modulation of the voice.”–_J. Walker cor._ “It is dear _at_ a penny. It is cheap _at_ twenty pounds.”–_W. Walker cor._ “It will be despatched, _on_ most occasions, without resting.”–_Locke cor._ “_Oh_ the pain, the bliss of dying!”–_Pope_. “When the objects or the facts are presented _to him_.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “I will now present you a synopsis.”–_Id._ “The disjunctive conjunction connects _words or_ sentences, _and suggests an_ opposition of meaning, _more or less direct_.”–_Id._ “I shall now present _to_ you a few lines.”–_Bucke cor._ “Common names, _or_ substantives, are those which stand for things _assorted_.”–_Id._ “Adjectives, in the English language, _are not varied by_ genders, numbers, or cases; _their only inflection is for_ the degrees of comparison.”–_Id._ “Participles are [little more than] adjectives formed _from_ verbs.”–_Id._ “I do love to walk out _on_ a fine _summer_ evening.”–_Id._ “_Ellipsis_, when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words _of_ a sentence.”–_Merchant cor._ “The _preposition to_ is generally _required_ before verbs in the infinitive mood, but _after_ the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, _bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see_: as, ‘He _bid_ me _do_ it;’ not, ‘He _bid_ me _to_ do it.'”–_Id._ “The infinitive sometimes follows _than, for the latter term of_ a comparison; as, [‘Murray should have known _better than to write_, and Merchant, _better than to copy_, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.’]”–_Id._ “Or, by prefixing the _adverb more_ or _less, for_ the comparative, and _most_ or _least, for_ the superlative.”–_Id._ “A pronoun is a word used _in stead_ of a noun.”–_Id._ “From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding _r_ or _er_.”–_Perley cor._ “He has particularly named these, in distinction _from_ others.”–_Harris cor._ “To revive the decaying taste _for ancient_ literature.”–_Id._ “He found the greatest difficulty _in_ writing.”–_Hume cor._

“And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps _by_ a smile.”–_Cowper_, i, 216.

CHAPTER XI.–INTERJECTIONS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS.

“Of chance or change, _O_ let not man complain.”–_Beattie’s Minstrel_, B. ii, l. 1. “O thou persecutor! _O_ ye hypocrites!”–_Russell’s Gram._, p. 92. “_O_ thou my voice inspire, Who _touch’d_ Isaiah’s hallow’d lips with fire!”–_Pope’s Messiah_. “_O happy we_! surrounded by so many blessings!”–_Merchant cor._ “_O thou who_ art so unmindful of thy duty!”–_Id._ “If I am wrong, _O_ teach my heart To find that better way.”–_Murray’s Reader_, p. 248. “Heus! evocate huc Davum.”–_Ter_. “Ho! call Davus out hither.”–_W. Walker cor._ “It was represented by an analogy (_O_ how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the _ceremonies_ of paganism.”–_Murray cor._ “_O_ that Ishmael might live before thee!”–_Friends’ Bible_, and _Scott’s_. “And he said unto him, _O_ let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak.”–_Alger’s Bible_, and _Scott’s_. “And he said, _O_ let not the Lord be angry.”–_Alger; Gen._, xviii. 32. “_O_ my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word.”–_Scott’s Bible_. “_O_ Virtue! how amiable thou art!”–_Murray’s Gram._, p. 128. “_Alas_! I fear for life.”–See _Ib._ “_Ah_ me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!”–See _Bucke’s Gram._, p. 87. “_O_ that I had digged myself a cave!”–_Fletcher cor._ “_Oh_, my good lord! thy comfort comes too late.”–_Shak. cor._ “The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished thus: _O Pedro_! O Peter! _O Dios_! O God!”–_Bucke cor._ “_Oho_! But, the relative is always the same.”–_Cobbett cor._ “_All-hail_, ye happy men!”–_Jaudon cor._ “_O_ that I had wings like a dove!’–_Scott’s Bible_. “_O glorious_ hope! O _bless’d_ abode!”–_O. B. Peirce’s Gram._, p. 304. “_Welcome_ friends! how joyous is your presence!”–_T. Smith cor._ “_O_ blissful days!–_but, ah_! how soon ye pass!”–_Parker and Fox cor._

“_O_ golden days! _O_ bright unvalued hours!– What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!”–_Barbauld cor._

“_Ah_ me! what perils do environ
The man that meddles with cold iron!”–_Hudibras cor._

THE KEY.–PART III.–SYNTAX.

CHAPTER I.–SENTENCES.

The first chapter of Syntax, being appropriated to general views of this part of grammar, to an exhibition of its leading doctrines, and to the several forms of sentential analysis, with an application of its principal rules in parsing, contains no false grammar for correction; and has, of course, nothing to correspond to it, in this Key, except the title, which is here inserted for form’s sake.

CHAPTER II.–ARTICLES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE I.

UNDER NOTE I.–AN OR A.

“I have seen _a_ horrible thing in the house of Israel.”–_Bible cor._ “There is _a_ harshness in the following sentences.”–_Murray’s Gram._, 8vo, p. 152. “Indeed, such _a_ one is not to be looked for.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “If each of you will be disposed to approve himself _a_ useful citizen.”–_Id._ “Land with them had acquired almost _a_ European value.”–_Webster cor._ “He endeavoured to find out _a_ wholesome remedy.”–_Neef cor._ “At no time have we attended _a_ yearly meeting more to our own satisfaction.”–_The Friend cor._ “Addison was not _a humorist_ in character.”–_Kames cor._ “Ah me! what _a_ one was he!”–_Lily cor._ “He was such _a_ one as I never saw before”–_Id._ “No man can be a good preacher, who is not _a_ useful one.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “_A_ usage which is too frequent with Mr. Addison.”–_Id._ “Nobody joins the voice of a sheep with the shape of _a_ horse.”–_Locke cor._ “_A_ universality seems to be aimed at by the omission of the article.”–_Priestley cor._ “Architecture is _a_ useful as well as a fine art.”–_Kames cor._ “Because the same individual conjunctions do not preserve _a_ uniform signification.”– _Nutting cor._ “Such a work required the patience and assiduity of _a_ hermit.”–_Johnson cor._ “Resentment is _a_ union of sorrow with malignity.”–_Id._ “His bravery, we know, was _a_ high courage of blasphemy.”–_Pope cor._ “HYSSOP; _an_ herb of bitter taste.”–_Pike cor._

“On each enervate string they taught the note To pant, or tremble through _a eunuch’s_ throat.”–_Pope cor._

UNDER NOTE II.–AN OR A WITH PLURALS.

“At a _session_ of the court, in March, it was moved,” &c.–_Hutchinson cor._ “I shall relate my conversations, of which I kept memoranda.”–_D. D’Ab. cor._ “I took _an other_ dictionary, and with a _pair of_ scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS.”–_A. B. Johnson cor._ “A person very meet seemed he for the purpose, _and about_ forty-five years old.”–_Gardiner cor._ “And it came to pass, about eight days after these sayings.”–_Bible cor._ “There were slain of them about three thousand men.”–_1 Macc. cor._ “Until I had gained the top of these white mountains, which seemed _other_ Alps of snow.”–_Addison cor._ “To make them satisfactory amends for all the losses they had sustained.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “As a _first-fruit_ of many that shall be gathered.”–_Barclay cor._ “It makes indeed a little _amend_, (or _some amends_,) by inciting us to oblige people.”–_Sheffield cor._ “A large and lightsome _back stairway_ (or _flight of backstairs_) leads up to an entry above.”–_Id._ “Peace of mind is an _abundant recompense_ for _any_ sacrifices of interest.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “With such a spirit, and _such_ sentiments, were hostilities carried on.”–_Robertson cor._ “In the midst of a thick _wood_, he had long lived a voluntary recluse.”–_G. B_. “The flats look almost like a young _forest_.”–_Chronicle cor._ “As we went on, the country for a little _way_ improved, but scantily.”–_Freeman cor._ “Whereby the Jews were permitted to return into their own country, after _a captivity of seventy years_ at Babylon.”–_Rollin cor._ “He did not go a great _way_ into the country.”–_Gilbert cor._

“A large _amend_ by fortune’s hand is made, And the lost Punic blood is well repay’d.”–_Rowe cor._

UNDER NOTE III.–NOUNS CONNECTED.

“As where a landscape is conjoined with the music of birds, and _the_ odour of flowers.”–_Kames cor._ “The last order resembles the second in the mildness of its accent, and _the_ softness of its pause.”–_Id._ “Before the use of the loadstone, or _the_ knowledge of the compass.”–_Dryden cor._ “The perfect participle and _the_ imperfect tense ought not to be confounded.”–_Murray cor._ “In proportion as the taste of a poet or _an_ orator becomes more refined.”–_Blair cor._ “A situation can never be more intricate, _so_ long as there is an angel, _a_ devil, or _a_ musician, to lend a helping hand.”–_Kames cor._ “Avoid rude sports: an eye is soon lost, or _a_ bone broken.”–_Inst._, p. 262. “Not a word was uttered, nor _a_ sign given.”–_Ib._ “I despise not the doer, but _the_ deed.”–_Ib._ “For the sake of an easier pronunciation and _a_ more agreeable sound.”–_Lowth cor._ “The levity as well as _the_ loquacity of the Greeks made them incapable of keeping up the true standard of history.”– _Bolingbroke cor._

UNDER NOTE IV.–ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“It is proper that the vowels be a long and _a_ short one.”–_Murray cor._ “Whether the person mentioned was seen by the speaker a long or _a_ short time before.”–_Id. et al_. “There are three genders; _the_ masculine, _the_ feminine, and _the_ neuter.”–_Adam cor._ “The numbers are two; _the_ singular and _the_ plural.”–_Id. et al_. “The persons are three; _the_ first, _the_ second, and _the_ third.”–_Iidem_. “Nouns and pronouns have three cases; the nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective.”– _Comly and Ing. cor._ “Verbs have five moods; namely, the infinitive, _the_ indicative, _the_ potential, _the_ subjunctive, and _the_ imperative.”– _Bullions et al. cor._ “How many numbers have pronouns? Two, the singular and _the_ plural.”–_Bradley cor._ “To distinguish between an interrogative and _an_ exclamatory sentence.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “The first and _the_ last of which are _compound_ members.”–_Lowth cor._ “In the last lecture, I treated of the concise and _the_ diffuse, the nervous and _the_ feeble manner.”–_Blair cor._ “The passive and _the_ neuter verbs I shall reserve for some future conversation.”–_Ingersoll cor._ “There are two voices; the active and _the_ passive.”–_Adam et al. cor._ “WHOSE is rather the poetical than _the_ regular genitive of WHICH.”–_Johnson cor._ “To feel the force of a compound or _a_ derivative word.”–_Town cor._ “To preserve the distinctive uses of the copulative and _the_ disjunctive conjunctions.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “E has a long and _a_ short sound in most languages.”–_Bicknell cor._ “When the figurative and _the_ literal sense are mixed and jumbled together.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The Hebrew, with which the Canaanitish and _the_ Phoenician stand in connexion.”–_Conant_ and _Fowler cor._ “The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and _the_ Swedish.”–_Fowler cor._

UNDER NOTE V.–ADJECTIVES CONNECTED.

“The path of truth is a plain and safe path.”–_Murray cor._ “Directions for acquiring a just and happy elocution.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Its leading object is, to adopt a correct and easy method.”–_Id._ “How can it choose but wither in a long and sharp winter?”–_Cowley cor._ “Into a dark and distant unknown.”–_Dr. Chalmers cor._ “When the bold and strong enslaved his fellow man.”–_Chazotte cor._ “We now proceed to consider the things most essential to an accurate and perfect sentence.”–_Murray cor._ “And hence arises a second and very considerable source of the improvement of taste.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Novelty produces in the mind a vivid and agreeable emotion.”–_Id._ “The deepest and bitterest feeling still is _that of_ the separation.”–_Dr. M’Rie cor._ “A great and good man looks beyond time.”–See _Brown’s Inst._, p. 263. “They made but a weak and ineffectual resistance.”–_Ib._ “The light and worthless kernels will float.”–_Ib._ “I rejoice that there is an other and better world.”–_Ib._ “For he is determined to revise his work, and present to the _public an other and better_ edition.”–_Kirkham cor._ “He hoped that this title would secure _to_ him an ample and independent authority.”–_L. Murray cor. et al_. “There is, however, _an other and more limited sense_.”–_J. Q. Adams cor._

UNDER NOTE VI.–ARTICLES OR PLURALS.

“This distinction forms what are called the diffuse _style_ and the concise.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Two different modes of speaking, distinguished at first by the denominations of _the Attic manner_ and _the Asiatic_.”–_Adams cor._ “But the great design of uniting the Spanish and French monarchies under the former, was laid.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “In the solemn and poetic styles, it [_do_ or _did_] is often rejected.”–_Allen cor._ “They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ the objective _case_ and the nominative.” Or: “They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ the objective and the nominative _case_.” Or: “They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative _case_, and _also in the_ objective.” Or: “They cannot be, at the same time, in the nominative and objective cases.”–_Murray’s Gram._, 8vo, p. 148. Or, better: “They cannot be, at the same time, in _both_ cases, the nominative and _the_ objective.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “They are named the positive, comparative, and superlative degrees.”–_Smart cor._ “Certain adverbs are capable of taking an inflection; namely, that of the comparative and superlative degrees.”–_Fowler cor._ “In the subjunctive mood, the present and imperfect tenses often carry with them a future sense.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “The imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, and the first-future _tense_, of this mood, are conjugated like the same tenses of the indicative.”–_Kirkham bettered_. “What rules apply in parsing personal pronouns of the second and third _persons_?”–_Id._ “Nouns are sometimes in the nominative or _the_ objective case after the neuter verb _be_, or after an active-intransitive or _a_ passive verb.” “The verb varies its _ending_ in the singular, in order to agree with its nominative, in the first, second, and third _persons_.”–_Id._ “They are identical in effect with the radical and the vanishing _stress_.”–_Rush cor._ “In a sonnet, the first, _the_ fourth, _the_ fifth, and _the_ eighth line, _usually_ rhyme to _one an_ other: so do the second, third, sixth, and seventh _lines_; the ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth _lines_; and the tenth, twelfth, and fourteenth _lines_.”–_Churchill cor._ “The iron and golden ages are run; youth and manhood are departed.”–_Wright cor._ “If, as you say, the iron and the golden _age_ are past, the youth and the manhood of the world.”–_Id._ “An Exposition of the Old and New _Testaments_.”–_Henry cor._ “The names and order of the books of the Old and _the_ New Testament.”–_Bible cor._ “In the second and third _persons_ of that tense.”–_Murray cor._ “And who still unites in himself the human and the divine _nature_.”–_Gurney cor._ “Among whom arose the Italian, Spanish, French, and English languages.”–_Murray cor._ “Whence arise these two _numbers_, the singular and the plural.”–_Burn cor._

UNDER NOTE VII.–CORRESPONDENT TERMS.

“Neither the definitions nor _the_ examples are entirely the same _as_ his.”–_Ward cor._ “Because it makes a discordance between the thought and _the_ expression.”–_Kames cor._ “Between the adjective and _the_ following substantive.”–_Id._ “Thus Athens became both the repository and _the_ nursery of learning.”–_Chazotte cor._ “But the French pilfered from both the Greek and _the_ Latin.”–_Id._ “He shows that Christ is both the power and _the_ wisdom of God.”–_The Friend cor._ “That he might be Lord both of the dead and _of the_ living.”–_Bible cor._ “This is neither the obvious nor _the_ grammatical meaning of his words.”–_Blair cor._ “Sometimes both the accusative and _the_ infinitive are understood.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “In some cases, we can use either the nominative or _the_ accusative, promiscuously.”–_Iidem_. “Both the former and _the_ latter substantive are sometimes to be understood.”–_Iidem_. “Many _of_ which have escaped both the commentator and _the_ poet himself.”–_Pope cor._ “The verbs MUST and OUGHT, have both a present and _a_ past signification.”–_L. Murray cor._ “How shall we distinguish between the friends and _the_ enemies of the government?”–_Dr. Webster cor._ “Both the _ecclesiastical_ and _the_ secular powers concurred in those measures.”–_Dr. Campbell cor._ “As the period has a beginning and _an_ end within itself, it implies an _inflection_.”–_J. Q. Adams cor._ “Such as ought to subsist between a principal and _an_ accessory.”–_Ld. Kames cor._

UNDER NOTE VIII.–CORRESPONDENCE PECULIAR.

“When both the upward and the downward _slide_ occur in _the sound of one_ syllable, they are called a CIRCUMFLEX, or WAVE.”–_Kirkham cor._ “The word THAT is used both in the nominative and _in the objective case_.”–_Sanborn cor._ “But _in_ all the other moods and tenses, both of the active and _of the_ passive _voice_ [the verbs] are conjugated at large.”–_Murray cor._ “Some writers on grammar, admitting the second-future _tense into_ the indicative mood, _reject it from the_ subjunctive.”–_Id._ “_After_ the same conjunction, _to use_ both the indicative and the subjunctive _mood_ in the same sentence, and _under_ the same circumstances, seems to be a great impropriety.”–_Id._ “The true distinction between the subjunctive and the indicative _mood_ in this tense.”–_Id._ “I doubt of his capacity to teach either the French or _the_ English _language_.”–_Chazotte cor._ “It is as necessary to make a distinction between the active-transitive and the active-intransitive verb, as between the active and _the_ passive.”–_Nixon cor._

UNDER NOTE IX.–A SERIES OF TERMS.

“As comprehending the terms uttered by the artist, the mechanic, and _the_ husbandman.”–_Chazotte cor._ “They may be divided into four classes; the Humanists, _the_ Philanthropists, _the Pestalozzians_, and the _Productives_.”–_Smith cor._ “Verbs have six tenses; the present, the imperfect, the perfect, the pluperfect, the _first-future_, and the _second-future_.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “Is it an irregular _neuter_ verb [from _be, was, being, been_; found in] _the_ indicative mood, present tense, third person, and singular number.”–_Murray cor._ “SHOULD GIVE is an irregular _active-transitive_ verb [from _give, gave, given, giving_; found] in the potential mood, imperfect tense, first person, and plural number.”–_Id._ “US is a personal pronoun, _of the_ first person, plural number, _masculine gender_, and objective case.”–_Id._ “THEM is a personal pronoun, of the third person, plural number, _masculine gender_, and objective case.”–_Id._ “It is surprising that the Jewish critics, with all their skill in dots, points, and accents, never had the ingenuity to invent a point of interrogation, _a point_ of admiration, or a parenthesis.”–_Dr. Wilson cor._ “The fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth _verses_.” Or: “The fifth, _the_ sixth, _the_ seventh, and the eighth verse.”–_O. B. Peirce cor_. “Substitutes have three persons; the First, _the_ Second, and the Third.”–_Id._ “JOHN’S is a proper noun, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case: and _is_ governed by ‘WIFE,’ _according to_ Rule” [4th, _which says_, &c.]–_Smith cor_. “Nouns, in the English language, have three cases; the nominative, the possessive, and _the_ objective.”–_Bar. and Alex. cor._ “The potential mood has four tenses; viz., the present, the imperfect, the perfect, and _the_ pluperfect.”–_Ingersoll cor._

“Where Science, Law, and Liberty depend, And own the patron, patriot, and friend.”–_Savage cor._

UNDER NOTE X.–SPECIES AND GENUS.

“_The_ pronoun is a part of speech[532] put for _the_ noun.”–_Paul’s Ac. cor._ “_The_ verb is a part of speech declined with mood and tense.”–_Id._ “_The_ participle is a part of speech derived _from the_ verb.”–_Id._ “_The_ adverb is a part of speech joined to verbs, [participles, adjectives, or other adverbs,] to declare their signification.”–_Id._ “_The_ conjunction is a part of speech that _joins words or_ sentences together.”–_Id._ “_The_ preposition is a part of speech most commonly set before other parts.”–_Id._ “_The_ interjection is a part of speech which _betokens_ a sudden _emotion_ or passion of the mind.”–_Id._ “_The_ enigma, or riddle, is also a species of allegory.”–_Blair and Murray cor._ “We may take from the Scriptures a very fine example of _the_ allegory.”–_Iidem_. “And thus have you exhibited a sort of sketch of art.”–_Harris cor._ “We may ‘imagine a subtle kind of reasoning,’ as Mr. Harris acutely observes.”–_Churchill cor._ “But, before entering on these, I shall give one instance of _metaphor, very beautiful_, (or, one _very beautiful_ instance of metaphor,) that I may show the figure to full advantage.”–_Blair cor._ “Aristotle, in his Poetics, uses _metaphor_ in this extended sense, for any figurative meaning imposed upon a word; as _the_ whole put for _a_ part, or a part for _the_ whole; _a_ species for the genus, or _the_ genus for a species.”–_Id._ “It shows what kind of apple it is of which we are speaking.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Cleon was _an other_ sort of man.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “To keep off his right wing, as a kind of reserved body.”–_Id._ “This part of speech is called _the_ verb.”–_Mack cor._ “What sort of thing is it?”–_Hiley cor._ “What sort of charm do they possess?”–_Bullions cor._

“Dear Welsted, mark, in dirty hole, That painful animal, _the_ mole.”–_Dunciad cor._

UNDER NOTE XI.–ARTICLES NOT REQUISITE.

“Either thou or the boys were in fault.”–_Comly cor._ “It may, at first view, appear to be too general.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “When the verb has reference to future time.”–_Iidem_. “No; they are the language of imagination, rather than of passion.”–_Blair cor._ “The dislike of English Grammar, which has so generally prevailed, can be attributed _only_ to the intricacy of [our] syntax.”–_Russell cor._ “Is that ornament in good taste?”–_Kames cor._ “There are not many fountains in good taste.” Or: “Not many fountains are [ornamented] in good taste.”–_Id._ “And I persecuted this way unto death.”–_Bible cor._ “The sense of feeling can, indeed, give us a notion of extension.”–_Addison, Spect._, No. 411. “The distributive _adjectives, each, every, either_, agree with nouns, pronouns, _or_ verbs, of the singular number only.”–_Murray cor._ “Expressing by one word, what might, by a circumlocution, be resolved into two or more words belonging to other parts of speech.”–_Blair cor._ “By certain muscles which operate [in harmony, and] all at the same time.”–_Murray cor._ “It is sufficient here to have observed thus much in general concerning them.”–_Campbell cor._ “Nothing disgusts us sooner than empty pomp of language.”–_Murray cor._

UNDER NOTE XII.–TITLES AND NAMES.

“He is entitled to the appellation of _gentleman_.”–_G. Brown_. “Cromwell assumed the title of Protector”–_Id._ “Her father is honoured with the title of _Earl_.”–_Id._ “The chief magistrate is styled _President_.”– _Id._ “The highest title in the state is that of _Governor_.”–_Id._ “That boy is known by the name of _Idler_.”–_Murray cor._ “The one styled _Mufti_, is the head of the ministers of law and religion.”–_Balbi cor._ “Ranging all that possessed them under one class, he called that whole class _tree_.”–_Blair cor._ “For _oak, pine_, and _ash_, were names of whole classes of objects.”–_Id._ “It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of _trope_, or of _figure_.”–_Id._ “The collision of a vowel with itself is the most ungracious of all combinations, and has been doomed to peculiar reprobation under the name of _hiatus_.”–_Adams cor._ “We hesitate to determine, whether _Tyrant_ alone is the nominative, or whether the nominative includes the _word Spy_.”–_Cobbett cor._ “Hence originated the customary abbreviation of _twelve months_ into _twelvemonth_; of _seven nights_ into _sennight_; of _fourteen nights_ into _fortnight_.”–_Webster cor._

UNDER NOTE XIII.–COMPARISONS AND ALTERNATIVES.

“He is a better writer than reader.”–_W. Allen_. “He was an abler mathematician than linguist.”–_Id._ “I should rather have an orange than _an_ apple.”–_G. Brown_. “He was no less able _as_ a negotiator, than courageous _as_ a warrior.”–_Smollett cor._ “In an epic poem, we pardon many negligences that would not be permitted in a sonnet or _an_ epigram.”–_Kames cor._ “That figure is a sphere, globe, or ball.”–_Churchill’s Gram._, p. 357.

UNDER NOTE XIV.–ANTECEDENTS TO WHO OR WHICH.

“_The_ carriages which were formerly in use, were very clumsy.”–_Key to Inst_. “The place is not mentioned by _the_ geographers who wrote at that time.”–_Ib._ “Those questions which a person _puts to_ himself in contemplation, ought to be terminated _with_ points of interrogation.”– _Mur. et al. cor._ “The work is designed for the use of _those_ persons who may think it merits a place in their libraries.”–_Mur. cor._ “That _those_ who think confusedly, should express themselves obscurely, is not to be wondered at.”–_Id._ “_Those_ grammarians who limit the number to two, or three, do not reflect.”–_Id._ “_The_ substantives which end in _ian_, are those that signify profession.” Or: “_Those_ substantives which end in _ian_, are _such as_ signify profession.”–_Id._ “To these may be added _those_ verbs which, among the poets, _usually_ govern the dative.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “_The_ consonants are _those_ letters which cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel.”–_Bucke cor._ “To employ the curiosity of persons _skilled_ in grammar:”–“of _those_ who are skilled in grammar:”–“of persons _that_ are skilled in grammar:”–“of _such_ persons _as_ are skilled in grammar:” or–“of _those_ persons _who_ are skilled in grammar.”–_L. Murray cor._ “This rule refers only to _those_ nouns and pronouns which have the same bearing, or relation.”–_Id._ “So that _the_ things which are seen, were not made of things _that_ do appear.”–_Bible cor._ “Man is an imitative creature; he may utter _again_ the sounds which he has heard.”–_Dr. Wilson cor._ “But _those_ men whose business is wholly domestic, have little or no use for any language but their own.”–_Dr. Webster cor._

UNDER NOTE XV.–PARTICIPIAL NOUNS.

“Great benefit may be reaped from _the_ reading of histories.”–_Sewel cor._ “And some attempts were made towards _the_ writing of history.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “It is _an_ invading of the priest’s office, for any other to offer it”–_Leslie cor._ “And thus far of _the_ forming of verbs.”–_W. Walker cor._ “And without _the_ shedding of blood _there_ is no remission.”–_Bible cor._ “For _the_ making of measures, we have the best method here in England.”–_Printer’s Gram. cor._ “This is really both _an_ admitting and _a_ denying at once.”–_Butler cor._ “And hence the origin of _the_ making of parliaments.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “Next thou objectest, that _the_ having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion _presupposes the_ having _of_ light and grace.”–_Barclay cor._ “They cried down _the_ wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do.”–_Id._ “Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of _the_ plaiting _of_ the hair, and of _the_ wearing of gold, or of _the putting-on_ of apparel.”–_Bible cor._ “In _the_ spelling of derivative words, the _primitives_ must be kept whole.”–_Brit. Gram. and Buchanan’s cor._ “And the princes offered for _the_ dedicating of the altar.”–_Numb. cor._ “Boasting is not only _a_ telling of lies, but also _of_ many unseemly truths.”–_Sheffield cor._ “We freely confess that _the_ forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful.”–_Barclay cor._ “For _the_ revealing of a secret, there is no remedy.”–_G. Brown_. “He turned all his thoughts to _the_ composing of laws for the good of the State.”–_Rollin cor._

UNDER NOTE XVI.–PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.

“It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after falling in.”–_Barclay cor._ “For in receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased.”–_Id._ “True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it.”–_Phil. Museum cor._ “To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth attending to.”–_Say cor._ “To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by ordering their temple to be rebuilt,” &c.–_Rollin cor._ “And for preserving them from being defiled.”–_Discip. cor._ “A wise man will _forbear to show_ any excellence in trifles.”–_Kames cor._ “Hirsutus had no other reason for valuing a book.”–_Johnson, and Wright, cor._ “To being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver himself with ease.” Perhaps better: “_To be_ heard, &c.” Or: “_In order to be_ heard, &c.”–_Sheridan cor._ “And, to the _end of_ being well heard and clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than _can even the greatest_ power of voice.”–_Id._

“_Potential_ purports, _having power or will_; As, If you _would_ improve, you _should_ be still.”–_Tobitt cor._

UNDER NOTE XVII.–VARIOUS ERRORS.

“For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive.”–_Lowth cor._ “_A_ period is _a_ whole sentence complete in itself.”–_Id._ “_A_ colon, or member, is a chief constructive part, or _the greatest_ division, of a sentence.”–_Id._ “_A_ semicolon, or half-member, is a _smaller_ constructive part, or _a_ subdivision, of a sentence or _of_ a member.”–_Id._ “A sentence or _a_ member is again subdivided into commas, or segments.”–_Id._ “The first error that I would mention is, too general _an_ attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own _tongue_.”–_Webster cor._ “One third of the importations would supply the demands of _the_ people.”–_Id._ “And especially in _a_ grave _style_.”–_Murray’s Gram._, i, 178. “By too eager _a_ pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed.”–_Murray cor._ “_The_ letters are divided into vowels and consonants.”–_Mur. et al. cor._ “_The_ consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels.”–_Iidem_. “The first of these forms is _the_ most agreeable to the English idiom.”–_Murray cor._ “If they gain, it is _at_ too dear _a_ rate.”–_Barclay cor._ “A pronoun is a word used _in stead_ of a noun, to prevent too frequent _a_ repetition of it.”–_Maunder cor._ “This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too partial _a_ fondness for the Latin.”–_Ash cor._ “The groans which too heavy _a_ load extorts from her.”–_Hitchcock cor._ “The numbers of a verb are, of course, _the_ singular and _the_ plural.”–_Bucke cor._ “To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great mind.”–_Murray cor._ “This mode of expression rather suits _the_ familiar