occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and things.”–_Barclay cor._ “Yet _frequent_ touching will wear gold.”–_Shak. cor._ “Uneducated persons frequently use an _adverb_ when they ought to use an _adjective_: as, ‘The country looks _beautifully_;’ in stead of _beautiful_.” [544]– _Bucke cor._ “The adjective is put _absolute_, or without its substantive.”–_Ash cor._ “A noun or _a_ pronoun in the second person, may be put _absolute_ in the nominative case.”–_Harrison cor._ “A noun or _a_ pronoun, when put _absolute_ with a participle,” &c.–_Id. and Jaudon cor._ “A verb in the infinitive mood absolute, stands _independent_ of the remaining part of the sentence.”–_Wilbur and Liv. cor._ “At my _late_ return into England, I met a book _entitled_, ‘The Iron Age.'”–_Cowley cor._ “But he can discover no better foundation for any of them, than the _mere_ practice of Homer and Virgil.”–_Kames cor._
UNDER NOTE III.–HERE FOR HITHER, &c.
“It is reported, that the _governor_ will come _hither_ to-morrow.”–_Kirkham cor._ “It has been reported that the _governor_ will come _hither_ to-morrow.”–_Id._ “To catch a prospect of that lovely land _whither_ his steps are tending.”–_Maturin cor._ “Plautus makes one of his characters ask _an other, whither_ he is going with that Vulcan shut up in a horn; that is, with a _lantern_ in his hand.”–_Adams cor._ “When we left Cambridge we intended to return _thither_ in a few days.”–_Anon. cor._ “Duncan comes _hither_ to-night.”–_Churchill’s Gram._, p. 323. “They talked of returning _hither_ last week.”–See _J. M. Putnam’s Gram._, p. 129.
UNDER NOTE IV.–FROM HENCE, &C.
“Hence he concludes, that no inference can be drawn from the meaning of the word, that a _constitution_ has a higher authority than a law or statute,”–_Webster cor._ “Whence we may likewise date the period of this event.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Hence it becomes evident that LANGUAGE, taken in the most comprehensive view, implies certain sounds, [or certain written signs,] having certain meanings.”–_Harris cor._ “They returned to the city whence they came out.”–_A. Murray cor._ “Respecting ellipses, some grammarians differ strangely in their ideas; and thence has arisen a very whimsical diversity in their systems of grammar.”–_G. Brown_. “What am I, and whence? That is, What am I, and whence _am I_?”–_Jaudon cor._
UNDER NOTE V.–THE ADVERB HOW.
“It is strange, _that_ a writer so accurate as Dean Swift, should have stumbled on so improper an application of this particle.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Ye know, _that_ a good while ago God made choice among us,” &c.–_Bible cor._ “Let us take care _lest_ we sin; i.e.,–_that_ we _do not_ sin.”–_Priestley cor._ “We see by these instances, _that_ prepositions may be necessary, to connect _such_ words _as_ are not naturally connected _by_ their _own_ signification.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Know ye not your own selves, _that_ Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”–_Bible cor._ “That thou _mayst_ know _that_ the earth is the Lord’s.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE VI.–WHEN, WHILE, OR WHERE.
“ELLIPSIS is _the omission of some word or_ words _which are necessary to complete the construction, but not_ requisite to complete the sense.”–_Adam, Gould, and Fisk, cor._ “PLEONASM is _the insertion of some word or words_ more than _are_ absolutely necessary _either to complete the construction, or_ to express the sense.”–_Iid. cor._ “HYSTERON-PROTERON is a _figure in which_ that is put in the former part of the sentence, which, according to the sense, should be in the latter.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “HYSTERON-PROTERON is a rhetorical figure _in which_ that is said last, which was done first.”–_Webster cor._ “A BARBARISM is a foreign or strange word, _an expression contrary to the pure idiom of the language_.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “A SOLECISM is _an impropriety in respect to_ syntax, _an absurdity or incongruity in speech_.”–_Iid. cor._ “An IDIOTISM is _a_ manner of expression peculiar to one language _childishly transferred to an other_.”–_Iid. cor._ “TAUTOLOGY is _a disagreeable repetition_, either _of_ the same words, or _of_ the same sense in different words.”–_Iid. cor._ “BOMBAST, _or_ FUSTIAN, is _an inflated or ambitious style, in which high-sounding_ words are used, _with little or no_ meaning, or upon a trifling occasion.”–_Iid. cor._ “AMPHIBOLOGY is ambiguity of construction, _phraseology which_ may be taken in two different senses.”–_Iid. cor._ “IRONY is _a figure in which_ one means the contrary of what is said.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “PERIPHRASIS, _or_ CIRCUMLOCUTION, is _the use of_ several words, to express what might be _said_ in fewer.”–_Iid. cor._ “HYPERBOLE is _a figure in which_ a thing is magnified above the truth.”–_Iid. cor._ “PERSONIFICATION is _a figure which ascribes human_ life, sentiments, or actions, to inanimate beings, or to abstract qualities.”–_Iid. cor._ “APOSTROPHE is a _turning from the tenor of one’s_ discourse, _into an animated address_ to some person, present or absent, living or dead, or _to some object personified_.”–_Iid. cor._ “A SIMILE is _a simple and express comparison; and is generally introduced by_ LIKE, AS, _or_ so.”–_G. B., Inst._, p. 233; Kirkham cor.; also Adam and Gould. “ANTITHESIS is a placing of things in opposition, to heighten their effect by contrast.”–_Inst._, p. 234; _Adam and Gould corrected_. “VISION, or IMAGERY, _is a figure in which what is present only to the mind, is represented as actually before one’s eyes, and present_ to the senses.”–_G. B.; Adam cor._ “EMPHASIS is a particular stress _of voice_ laid on some word in a sentence.”–_Gould’s Adam’s Gram._, p. 241. “EPANORTHOSIS, or CORRECTION, is _the recalling or correcting by the speaker_, of what he last said.”–_Ibid._ “PARALIPSIS, or OMISSION, is _the pretending_ to omit or pass by, what one at the same time declares.”–_Ibid._ “INCREMENTUM, or CLIMAX in sense, is the _rising_ of one member above an other to the highest.”–_Ibid._ “METONYMY is _a change of names: as when_ the cause is _mentioned_ for the effect, or the effect for the cause; the container for the thing contained, or the sign for the thing signified.”–_Kirkham cor._ “_The_ Agreement _of words_ is _their similarity_ in person, number, gender, case, _mood, tense, or form_.”–_Brown’s Inst._, p. 104. “_The_ Government _of words is that power which one_ word has _over an other, to cause it to assume some particular modification_.”–_Ib._ “Fusion is _the converting of_ some solid substance into a fluid by heat.”–_G. B_. “A proper diphthong is _a diphthong in which_ both the vowels are sounded together; as, _oi_ in _voice, ou_ in _house_.”–_Fisher cor._ “An improper diphthong is _a diphthong in which_ the sound of but one of the two vowels is heard; as, _eo_ in _people_.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE VII.–THE ADVERB NO FOR NOT.
“An adverb is _added_ to a verb to show how, or when, or where, or whether or _not_, one is, does, or suffers.”–_Buchanan cor._ “We must be immortal, whether we will or _not_.”–_Maturin cor._ “He cares not whether the world was made for Caesar or _not_.”–_A. Q. Rev. cor._ “I do not know whether they are out or _not_.”–_Byron cor._ “Whether it can be proved or _not_, is not the thing.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “Whether he makes use of the means commanded by God, or _not_.”–_Id._ “Whether it pleases the world or _not_, the care is taken.”–_L’Estrange cor._ “How comes this to be never heard of, nor in the least questioned, whether the Law was undoubtedly of Moses’s writing or _not_?”–_Tomline cor._ “Whether he be a sinner or _not_, I _do not know_.” Or, as the text is more literally translated by Campbell: “Whether he be a sinner, I know not.”–_Bible cor._ “Can I make men live, whether they will or _not_?”–_Shak. cor._
“Can hearts not free, be _tried_ whether they serve Willing or _not_, who will but what they must?”–_Milton cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.–OF DOUBLE NEGATIVES.
“We need not, nor do _we_, confine the purposes of God.” Or: “We need not, _and_ do not, confine,” &c.–_Bentley cor._ “I cannot by _any_ means allow him that.”–_Id._ “We must try whether or _not_ we _can_ increase the attention by the help of the senses.”–_Brightland cor._ “There is nothing more admirable _or_ more useful.”–_Tooke cor._ “And what in time to come he can never be said to have done, he can never be supposed to do.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “No skill could obviate, no remedy dispel, the terrible infection.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Prudery cannot be an indication _either_ of sense _or_ of taste.”–_Spurzheim cor._ “But _neither_ that scripture, nor _any_ other, speaks of imperfect faith.”–_Barclay cor._ “But _neither_ this scripture, nor _any_ other, proves that faith was or is always accompanied with doubting.”–_Id._ “The light of Christ is not, _and_ cannot be, darkness.”–_Id._ “Doth not the Scripture, which cannot lie, give _some_ of the saints this testimony?”–_Id._ “Which do not continue, _and_ are not binding.”–_Id._ “It not being perceived directly, _any_ more than the air.”–_Campbell cor._ “Let us be no Stoics, _and_ no stocks, I pray.”–_Shak. cor._ “Where there is no marked _or_ peculiar character in the style.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “There can be no rules laid down, nor _any_ manner recommended.”–_Sheridan cor._
“_Bates_. ‘He hath not told his thought to the king?’ _K. Henry_. ‘No; _and_ it is not meet he should.'” Or thus: “‘No; nor _is it_ meet he should.'”–_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IX.–EVER AND NEVER.
“The prayer of Christ is more than sufficient both to strengthen us, be we _everso_ weak; and to overthrow all adversary power, be it _everso_ strong.”–_Hooker cor._ “He is like to have no share in it, or to be _never_ the better for it.” Or: “He is _not likely_ to have any share in it, or to be _ever_ the better for it.”–_Bunyan cor._ “In some parts of Chili it seldom or _never_ rains.”–_Willetts cor._ “If Pompey shall but _everso_ little seem to like it.”–_W. Walker cor._ “Though _everso_ great a posse of dogs and hunters pursue him.”–_Id._ “Though you be _everso_ excellent.”–_Id._ “If you do amiss _everso_ little.”–_Id._ “If we cast our eyes _everso_ little down.”–_Id._ “A wise man scorneth nothing, be it _everso_ small or homely.”–_M. F. Tupper cor._ “Because they have seldom _if_ ever an opportunity of learning them at all.”–_Clarkson cor._ “We seldom or _never_ see those forsaken who trust in God.”–_Atterbury cor._
“Where, playing with him at bo-peep, He solved all problems, _e’erso_ deep.”–_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE X.–OF THE FORM OF ADVERBS.
“One can _scarcely_ think that Pope was capable of epic or tragic poetry; but, within a certain limited region, he has been outdone by no poet.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “I who now read, have _nearly_ finished this chapter.”–_Harris cor._ “And yet, to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature, is _scarcely_ endeavoured in any seminary of learning.”–_Kames cor._ “The numbers being confounded, and the possessives _wrongly_ applied, the passage is neither English nor grammar.”–_Buchanan cor._ “The letter G is _wrongly_ named _Jee_.”–_Creighton cor._ “_Lastly_, remember that in science, as in morals, authority cannot make right what in itself is wrong.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “They regulate our taste even where we are _scarcely_ sensible of them.”–_Kames cor._ “Slow action, for example, is imitated by words pronounced _slowly_.”–_Id._ “_Surely_, if it be to profit withal, it must be in order to save.”–_Barclay cor._ “Which is _scarcely_ possible at best.”–_Sheridan cor._ “Our wealth being _nearly_ finished.”–_Harris cor._
CHAPTER IX.–CONJUNCTIONS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXII.
UNDER NOTE I.–OF TWO TERMS WITH ONE.
“The first proposal was essentially different _from_ the second, and inferior _to it._”–_Inst_. “A neuter verb _expresses_ the state _which_ a subject is in, without acting upon _any other thing_, or being acted upon by an other.”–_A. Murray cor._ “I answer, You _may use_ stories and anecdotes, and ought to _do_ so.”–_Todd cor._ “ORACLE, _n._ Any person _from whom_, or place _at which_, certain decisions are obtained.”–_Webster cor._ “Forms of government may, and _occasionally must, be_ changed.”–_Lyttelton cor._ “I have _been_, and _I still_ pretend to be, a tolerable judge.”–_Sped. cor._ “Are we not lazy in our duties, or _do we not_ make a Christ of them?”–_Baxter cor._ “They may not express that idea which the author intends, but some other which only resembles _it_, or is _akin_ to it.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “We may _therefore read them_, we ought to read them, with a distinguishing eye.”–_Ib._ “Compare their poverty with what they might _possess_, and ought to possess.”–_Sedgwick cor._ “He is much better _acquainted with grammar_ than they are.”–_L. Murray cor._ “He was more beloved _than Cinthio_, but [he was] not so much admired.”–_L. Murray’s Gram._, i, 222. “Will it be urged, that the four gospels are as old _as tradition, and even_ older?”–_Campbell’s Rhet._, p. 207. “The court of chancery frequently mitigates and _disarms_ the common law.”–_Spect. and Ware cor._ “Antony, coming along side of her ship, entered it without seeing _her_, or being seen by her.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “_Into_ candid minds, truth _enters as_ a welcome _guest_.”–_L. Murray cor._ “_There are_ many designs _in which_ we may succeed, _to our ultimate ruin_.”–_Id._ “_From_ many pursuits _in which_ we embark with pleasure, _we are destined to_ land sorrowfully.”–_Id._ “They _gain_ much _more_ than I, by this unexpected event.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE II.–OF HETEROGENEOUS TERMS.
“Athens saw them entering her gates and _filling_ her academies.”–_Chazotte cor._ “_Neither_ have we forgot his past _achievements_, nor _do we_ despair of his future success.”–_Duncan cor._ “Her monuments and temples had long been shattered, or _had_ crumbled into dust.”–_Journal cor._ “Competition is excellent; _it is_ the vital principle in all these things.”–_Id._ “Whether provision should, or _should_ not, be made, _in order_ to meet this exigency.”–_Ib._. “That our Saviour was divinely inspired, and _that he was_ endued with supernatural powers, are positions that are here taken for granted.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “It would be much more eligible, to contract or enlarge their extent by explanatory notes and observations, than _to sweep_ away our ancient landmarks and _set_ up others.”–_Id._ “It is certainly much better to supply defects and abridge superfluities by occasional notes and observations, than _to disorganize_ or _greatly alter_ a system which has been so long established.”–_Id._ “To have only one tune, or measure, is not much better than _to have_ none at all.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Facts too well known and _too_ obvious to be insisted on.”–_Id._ “In proportion as all these circumstances are happily chosen, and _are_ of a sublime kind.”–_Id._ “If the description be too general, and _be_ divested of circumstances.”–_Id._ “He gained nothing _but commendation_.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “I cannot but think its application somewhat strained and _misplaced_.”–_Vethake cor._ “Two negatives _standing_ in the same clause, or referring to the same thing, destroy each other, and leave the sense affirmative.”–_Maunder cor._ “Slates are _thin plates of stone_, and _are often_ used to cover _the_ roofs of houses.”–_Webster cor._ “Every man of taste, and _of_ an elevated mind, ought to feel almost the necessity of apologizing for the power he possesses.”–_Translator of De Stael cor._ “They very seldom trouble themselves with _inquiries_, or _make any_ useful observations of their own.”–_Locke cor._
“We’ve both the field and honour won; _Our foes_ are profligate, and run.”–_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE III.–IMPORT OF CONJUNCTIONS.
“THE is sometimes used before adverbs in the comparative _or the_ superlative degree.”–_Lennie, Bullions, and Brace cor._ “The definite article THE is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative _or the_ superlative degree.”–_Lowth. Murray, et al, cor._ “Conjunctions usually connect verbs in the same mood _and_ tense.” Or, more truly: “Verbs connected by _a conjunction, are_ usually in the same mood _and_ tense.”–_Sanborn cor._ “Conjunctions connect verbs in the same style, and usually in the same mood, tense, _and_ form.” Or better: “Verbs connected by _a conjunction_, are usually _of_ the same mood, tense, _and_ form, _as well as_ style.”–_Id._ “The ruins of Greece _or_ Rome are but the monuments of her former greatness.”–_P. E. Day cor._ “It is not improbably, _that in many of these cases_ the articles were used originally.”–_Priestley cor._ “I cannot doubt that these objects are really what they appear to be.”–_Kames cor._ “I question not _that_ my reader will be as much pleased with it.”–_Spect. cor._ “It is ten to one _that_ my friend Peter is among them.”–_Id._ “I doubt not _that_ such objections as these will be made”–_Locke cor._ “I doubt not _that_ it will appear in the perusal of the following sheets.”–_Buchanan cor._ “It is not improbable, that in time these different constructions maybe appropriated to different uses.”–_Priestley cor._ “But to forget _and_ to remember at pleasure, are equally beyond the power of man.”–_Idler cor._ “The nominative case follows the verb, in interrogative _or_ imperative sentences.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? _or_ a vine, figs?”–_Bible cor._ “Whose characters are too profligate _for_ the managing of them _to_ be of any consequence.”–_Swift cor._ “You, that are a step higher than a philosopher, a divine, yet have too much grace and wit to be a bishop.”–_Pope cor._ “The terms _rich and poor_ enter not into their language.”–_Robertson cor._ “This pause is but seldom, _if_ ever, sufficiently dwelt upon.” Or: “This pause is seldom _or never_ sufficiently dwelt upon.”–_Gardiner cor._ “There would be no possibility of any such thing as human life _or_ human happiness.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “The multitude rebuked them, _that_ they should hold their peace.”–_Bible cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.–THE CONJUNCTION THAN.
“A metaphor is nothing _else than_ a short comparison.” Or: “A metaphor is nothing _but_ a short comparison.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “There being no other dictator here _than_ use.”–_Murray’s Gram._, i, 364. “This construction is no otherwise known in English, _than_ by supplying the first or _the_ second person plural.”–_Buchanan cor._ “Cyaxares was no sooner _on_ the throne, _than_ he was engaged in a terrible war.”–_Rollin cor._ “Those classics contain little else _than_ histories of murders.”–_Am. Mu. cor._ “Ye shall not worship any other _than_ God.”–_Sale cor._ “Their relation, therefore, is not otherwise to be ascertained, _than_ by their place.”–_Campbell cor._ “For he no sooner accosted her, _than_ he gained his point.”–_Burder cor._ “And all the modern writers on this subject, have done little else _than_ translate them.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “One who had no other aim _than_ to talk copiously and plausibly.”–_Id._ “We can refer it to no other cause _than_ the structure of the eye.”–_Id._ “No more is required _than_ singly an act of vision.”–_Kames cor._ “We find no more in its composition, _than_ the particulars now mentioned.”–_Id._ “_He does not pretend_ to say, that it _has_ any other effect _than_ to raise surprise.”–_Id._ “No sooner was the princess dead, _than_ he freed himself.”–_Dr. S. Johnson cor._ “OUGHT is an imperfect verb, for it has no modification besides this one.”–_Priestley cor._ “The verb is palpably nothing else _than_ the tie.”–_Neef cor._ “Does he mean that theism is capable of nothing else _than_ of being opposed to polytheism or atheism?”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Is it meant that theism is capable of nothing else _than of_ being opposed to polytheism or atheism?”–_L. Murray cor._ “There is no other method of teaching that of which any one is ignorant, _than_ by means of something already known.”–_Ingersoll’s Grammar, Titlepage: Dr. Johnson cor._ “O fairest flower, no sooner blown _than_ blasted!”–_Milton cor._ “Architecture and gardening cannot otherwise entertain the mind, than by raising certain agreeable emotions or feelings.”–_Kames cor._ “Or, rather, they are nothing else _than_ nouns.”–_Brit. Gram. cor._
“As if religion were intended
For nothing else than to be mended.”–_S. Butler cor._
UNDER NOTE V.–RELATIVES EXCLUDE CONJUNCTIONS.
“To prepare the Jews for the reception of a prophet mightier than _himself, a teacher_ whose shoes he was not worthy to bear.”–_Anon, or Mur. cor._ “Has this word, which represents an action, an object after it, on which _the action_ terminates?”–_Osborne cor._ “The stores of literature lie before him, from which he may collect for use many lessons of wisdom.”– _Knapp cor._ “Many and various great advantages of this grammar _over_ others, might be enumerated.”–_Greenleaf cor._ “The custom which still prevails, of writing in lines from left to right, is said to have been introduced about the time of Solon, the Athenian legislator.”–_Jamieson cor._ “The fundamental rule _for_ the construction of sentences, _the rule_ into which all others might be resolved, undoubtedly is, to communicate, in the clearest and most natural order, the ideas which we mean to _express_.”–_Blair and Jamieson cor._ “He left a son of a singular character, who behaved so ill that he was put in prison.”–_L. Murray cor._ “He discovered in the youth some disagreeable qualities which to him were wholly unaccountable.”–_Id._ “An emphatical pause is made after something _of_ peculiar moment has been said, on which we _wish_ to fix the hearer’s attention.” Or: “An emphatical pause is made after something has been said _which is_ of peculiar moment, _and_ on which we _wish_ to fix the hearer’s attention.”–_Blair and Murray cor._ “But we have duplicates of each, agreeing in movement, though differing in measure, and _making_ different impressions on the ear,”–_Murray cor._
UNDER NOTE VI.–OF THE WORD THAT.
“It will greatly facilitate the labours of the teacher, _and_, at the same time, it will relieve the pupil _from_ many difficulties.”–_Frost cor._ “_While_ the pupil is engaged in the exercises just mentioned, it will be proper _for him_ to study the whole grammar in course.”–_Bullions cor._ “On the same ground _on which_ a participle and _an_ auxiliary are allowed to form a tense.”–_Beattie and Murray cor._ “On the same ground _on which_ the voices, moods, and tenses, are admitted into the English tongue.”–_L. Murray cor._ “The five examples last mentioned, are corrected on the same principle that _is applied to the errors_ preceding _them_.”–_Murray and Ingersoll cor._ “The brazen age began at the death of Trajan, and lasted till Rome was taken by the Goths.”–_Gould cor._ “The introduction to the duodecimo edition is retained in this volume, for the same reason _for which_ the original introduction to the Grammar is retained in the first volume.”–_L. Murray cor._ “The verb must also _agree in person with its subject or_ nominative.”–_Ingersoll cor._ “The personal pronoun ‘THEIR’ is plural for the same reason _for which_ ‘WHO’ is plural.”–_Id._ “The Sabellians could not justly be called Patripassians, in the same sense _in which_ the Noetians were so called.”–_R. Adam cor._ “This is one reason _why_ we pass over such smooth language without suspecting that it contains little or no meaning.”–_L. Murray cor._ “The first place _at which the two_ armies came _within_ sight of each other, was on the opposite banks of the river Apsus.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “At the very time _at which_ the author gave him the first book for his perusal.”–_Campbell cor._ “Peter will sup at the time _at which_ Paul will dine.”–_Fosdick cor._ “Peter will be supping _when_ Paul will enter.”–_Id._ “These, _while_ they may serve as models to those who may wish to imitate them, will give me an opportunity to cast more light upon the principles of this book.”–_Id._
“Time was, like thee, they life _possess’d_, And time shall be, _when_ thou shalt rest.”–_Parnell cor._
UNDER NOTE VII.–OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.
“Our manners should be _neither_ gross nor excessively refined.”–_Murray’s Key_, ii, 165. “A neuter verb expresses neither action _nor_ passion, but being, or a state of being.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “The old books are neither English grammars, _nor in any sense_ grammars of the English language.”–_Id._ “The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet _so_ accurate and _so_ much simplified as it may be.”–_Kirkham cor._ “The writer could not treat some _topics so_ extensively as [it] was desirable [to treat them].”–_Id._ “Which would be a matter of such nicety, _that_ no degree of human wisdom could regulate _it_.”–_L. Murray cor._ “No undertaking is so great or difficult, _that_ he cannot direct _it_.”–_Duncan cor._ “It is a good which depends _neither_ on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune.”–_Harris cor._ “Not only his estate, _but_ his reputation too, has suffered by his misconduct.”–_Murray and Ingersoll cor._ “Neither do they extend _so_ far as might be imagined at first view.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “There is no language so poor, but _that_ it _has_ (or, _as not to have_) two or three past tenses.”–_Id. “So_ far as this system is founded in truth, language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin.”–_Id._ “I have not _such_ command of these convulsions as is necessary.” Or: “I have not _that_ command of these convulsions _which_ is necessary.”–_Spect. cor._ “Conversation with such _as_ (or, _those who_) know no arts _that_ polish life.”–_Id._ “And which cannot be _either_ very lively or very forcible.”–_Jamieson cor._ “To _such a_ degree as to give proper names to rivers.”–_Dr. Murray cor._ “In the utter overthrow of such _as_ hate to be reformed.”–_Barclay cor._ “But still so much of it is retained, _that it_ greatly injures the uniformity of the whole.”–_Priestley cor._ “Some of them have gone to _such a_ height of extravagance, as to assert,” &c.–_Id._ “A teacher is confined, not more than a merchant, and probably not _so_ much.”–_Abbott cor._ “It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, _nor_ in the world to come.” Or: “It shall not be forgiven him, _either_ in this world, _or_ in the world to come.”–_Bible cor._ “Which _nobody_ presumes, or is so sanguine _as_ to hope.”–_Swift cor._ “For the torrent of the voice left neither time, _nor_ power in the organs, to shape the words properly.”–_Sheridan cor._ “That he may neither unnecessarily waste his voice by throwing out too much, _nor_ diminish his power by using too little.”–_Id._ “I have retained only such _as_ appear most agreeable to the measures of analogy.”–_Littleton cor._ “He is a man both prudent and industrious.”–_P. E. Day cor._ “Conjunctions connect either words or sentences.”–_Brown’s Inst._, p. 169.
“Such silly girls _as_ love to chat and play, Deserve no care; their time is thrown away.”–_Tobitt cor._
“Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, _That_ to be hated _she_ but needs be seen.”–_Pope cor._
“Justice must punish the rebellious deed; Yet punish so _that_ pity shall exceed.”–_Dryden cor._
UNDER NOTE VIII.–IMPROPER ELLIPSES.
“THAT, WHOSE, and AS, relate either to persons or _to_ things.” Or better:–“relate _as well_ to persons _as to_ things.”–_Sanborn cor._ “WHICH and WHAT, as adjectives, relate either to persons or _to_ things.” Or better:–“relate to persons _as well as to_ things.”–_Id._ “Whether of a public or _of a_ private nature.”–_J. Q. Adams cor._ “Which are included _among both_ the public and _the_ private wrongs.”–_Id._ “I might extract, both from the Old and _from the_ New Testament, numberless examples of induction.”–_Id._ “Many verbs are used both in an active and _in a_ neuter signification.” Or thus: “Many verbs are used _in both_ an active and _a_ neuter signification.”–_Lowth, Mur., et al., cor._ “Its influence is likely to be considerable, both on the morals and _on the_ taste of a nation.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The subject afforded a variety of scenes, both of the awful and _of the_ tender kind.”–_Id._ “Restlessness of mind disqualifies us both for the enjoyment of peace, and _for_ the performance of our duty.”–_Mur. and Ing. cor. “Pronominal adjectives_ are of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and _of_ adjectives.”–_Mur. et al. cor. “Pronominal adjectives_ have the nature both of the adjective and _of_ the pronoun.”–_Frost cor._ Or: “[Pronominal adjectives] partake of the properties _of both_ adjectives _and_ pronouns.”–_Bucke’s Gram._, p. 55. “Pronominal adjectives are a kind of compound part of speech, partaking the nature both of pronouns and _of_ adjectives.”–_Nutting cor._ “Nouns are used either in the singular or _in the_ plural number.” Or perhaps better: “Nouns are used _in either_ the singular or _the_ plural number.”–_David Blair cor._ “The question is not, whether the nominative or _the_ accusative ought to follow the particles THAN and AS; but, whether these particles are, in such particular cases, to be regarded as conjunctions or _as_ prepositions”–_Campbell cor._ “In English, many verbs are used both as transitives and _as_ intransitives.”–_Churchill cor._ “He sendeth rain both on the just and _on the_ unjust.”–See _Matt._, v, 45. “A foot consists either of two or _of_ three syllables.”–_David Blair cor._ “Because they participate the nature both of adverbs and _of_ conjunctions.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Surely, Romans, what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted, nor _to_ pass without notice.”–_Duncan cor._ “Their language frequently amounts, not only to bad sense, but _to nonsense_.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Hence arises the necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and _for the_ exerting, of his nobler faculties.”–_Sheridan cor._ “Whether the subject be of the real or _of the_ feigned kind.”–_Dr. H. Blair cor._ “Not only was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power _was_ felt in its heaviest and most oppressive weight.”–_Id._ “This rule is _also_ applicable both to verbal Critics and _to_ Grammarians.”–_Hiley cor._ “Both the rules and _the_ exceptions of a language must have obtained the sanction of good usage.”–_Id._
CHAPTER X.–PREPOSITIONS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXIII.
UNDER NOTE I.–CHOICE OF PREPOSITIONS.
“You have bestowed your favours _upon_ the most deserving persons.”–_Swift corrected._ “But, to rise _above_ that, and overtop the crowd, is given to few.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “This [also is a good] sentence [, and] gives occasion _for_ no material remark.”–_Blair’s Rhet._, p. 203. “Though Cicero endeavours to give some reputation _to_ the elder Cato, and those who were his _contemporaries._” Or:–“to give some _favourable account_ of the elder Cato,” &c.–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The change that was produced _in_ eloquence, is beautifully described in the dialogue.”–_Id._ “Without carefully attending to the variation which they make _in_ the idea.”–_Id._ “All _on_ a sudden, you are transported into a lofty palace.”–_Hazlitt cor._ “Alike independent of one _an other._” Or: “Alike independent _one of an other_.”–_Campbell cor._ “You will not think of them as distinct processes going on independently _of_ each other.”–_Channing cor._ “Though we say to _depend on, dependent on_, and _dependence on_, we say, _independent of_, and _independently of._”–_Churchill cor._ “Independently _of_ the rest of the sentence.”–_Lowth’s Gram._, p. 80; _Buchanan’s_, 83; _Bullions’s_, 110; _Churchill’s_, 348.[545] “Because they stand independent _of_ the rest of the sentence.”–_Allen Fisk cor._ “When a substantive is joined with a participle, in English, independently _of_ the rest of the sentence.”–_Dr. Adam cor._ “CONJUNCTION comes _from_ the two Latin words _con_, together, and _jungo_, to join.”–_Merchant cor._ “How different _from_ this is the life of Fulvia!”–_Addison cor._ “LOVED is a participle or adjective, derived _from_ the word _love_.”–_Ash cor._ “But I would inquire _of_ him, what an office is.”–_Barclay cor._ “For the capacity is brought _into_ action.”–_Id._ “In this period, language and taste arrive _at_ purity.”–_Webster cor._ “And, should you not aspire _to_ (or _after_) distinction in the _republic_ of letters.”–_Kirkham cor._ “Delivering you up to the synagogues, and _into_ prisons.”–_Luke_, xxi, 12. “_He_ that is kept from falling _into_ a ditch, is as truly saved, as he that is taken out of one.”–_Barclay cor._ “The best _of_ it is, they are but a sort of French Hugonots.”–_Addison cor._ “These last ten examples are indeed of a different nature _from_ the former.”–_R. Johnson cor._ “For the initiation of students _into_ the principles of the English language.”–_Ann. Rev. cor._ “Richelieu profited _by_ every circumstance which the conjuncture afforded.”–_Bolingbroke cor._ “In the names of drugs and plants, the mistake _of_ a word may endanger life.”–_Merchant’s Key_, p. 185. Or better: “In _naming_ drugs _or_ plants, _to mistake_ a word, may endanger life.”–_L. Murray cor._ “In order to the carrying _of_ its several parts into execution.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “His abhorrence _of_ the superstitious figure.”–_Priestley._ “Thy prejudice _against_ my cause.”–_Id._ “Which is found _in_ every species of liberty.”–_Hume cor._ “In a hilly region _on_ the north of Jericho.”–_Milman cor._ “Two or more singular nouns coupled _by_ AND require a verb _or_ pronoun in the plural.”–_Lennie cor._
“Books should to one of these four ends conduce, _To_ wisdom, piety, delight, or use.”–_Denham cor._
UNDER NOTE II.–TWO OBJECTS OR MORE.
“The Anglo-Saxons, however, soon quarrelled _among_ themselves for precedence.”–_Const. Misc. cor._ “The distinctions _among_ the principal parts of speech are founded in nature.”–_Webster cor._ “I think I now understand the difference between the active verbs and those _which are_ passive _or_ neuter.”–_Ingersoll cor._ “Thus a figure including a space _within_ three lines, is the real as well as nominal essence of a triangle.”–_Locke cor._ “We must distinguish between an imperfect phrase _and_ a simple sentence, _and between a simple sentence_ and a compound sentence.”–_Lowth, Murray, et al., cor._ “The Jews are strictly forbidden by their law to exercise usury _towards one an_ other.”–_Sale cor._ “All the writers have distinguished themselves among _themselves_.”–_Addison cor._ “This expression also better secures the systematic uniformity _of_ the three cases.”–_Nutting cor._ “When two or more _infinitives_ or clauses _are connected disjunctively as the subjects of an affirmation_, the verb must be singular.”–_Jaudon cor._ “Several nouns or pronouns together in the same case, require a comma _after_ each; [except the last, which must sometimes be followed by a greater point.]”–_David Blair cor._ “The difference between _one vowel and an other_ is produced by opening the mouth differently, and placing the tongue in a different manner for each.”–_Churchill cor._ “Thus feet composed of syllables, being pronounced with a sensible interval between _one foot and an other_, make a more lively impression than can be made by a continued sound.”–_Kames cor._ “The superlative degree implies a comparison, _sometimes_ between _two, but generally among_ three or more.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “They are used to mark a distinction _among_ several objects.”–_Levizac cor._
UNDER NOTE III.–OMISSION OF PREPOSITIONS.
“This would have been less worthy _of_ notice.”–_Churchill cor._ “But I passed it, as a thing unworthy _of_ my notice.”–_Werter cor._ “Which, in compliment to me, perhaps you may one day think worthy _of_ your attention.”–_Bucke cor._ “To think this small present worthy _of_ an introduction to the young ladies of your very elegant establishment.”– _Id._ “There are but a few miles _of_ portage.”–_Jefferson cor._ “It is worthy _of_ notice, that our mountains are not solitary.”–_Id._ “It is _about_ one hundred feet _in_ diameter.” [546]–_Id._ “Entering a hill a quarter or half _of_ a mile.”–_Id._ “And herself seems passing to _an_ awful dissolution, whose issue _it_ is not given _to_ human foresight to scan.”–_Id._ “It was of a spheroidical form, _about_ forty feet _in_ diameter at the base, and had been _about_ twelve feet _in_ altitude.”–_Id._ “Before this, it was covered with trees of twelve inches _in_ diameter; and, round the base, _there_ was an excavation of five feet _in_ depth and _five in_ width.”–_Id._ “Then thou _mayst_ eat grapes _to_ thy fill, at thine own pleasure.”–_Bible cor._ “Then he brought me back _by_ the way of the gate of the outward sanctuary.”–_Id._ “They will bless God, that he has peopled one half _of_ the world with a race of freemen.”–_Webster cor._ “_Of_ what use can these words be, till their meaning is known?”–_Town cor._ “The tents of the Arabs now are black, or _of_ a very dark colour.”–_The Friend cor._ “They may not be unworthy _of_ the attention of young men.”–_Kirkham cor._ “The pronoun THAT is frequently applied to persons as well as _to_ things.”–_Merchant cor._ “And ‘_who_’ is in the same case that ‘_man_’ is _in_.”–_Sanborn cor._ “He saw a flaming stone, apparently about four feet _in_ diameter.”–_The Friend cor._ “Pliny informs us, that this stone was _of_ the size of a cart.”–_Id._ “Seneca was about twenty years of age in the fifth year of Tiberius, when the Jews were expelled _from_ Rome.”–_L’Estrange cor._ “I was prevented _from_ reading a letter which would have undeceived me.”–_Hawkesworth cor._ “If the problem can be solved, we may be pardoned _for_ the inaccuracy of its demonstration.”–_Booth cor._ “The army must of necessity be the school, not of honour, but _of_ effeminacy.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “Afraid of the virtue of a nation in its opposing _of_ bad measures:” or,–“in its _opposition to_ bad measures.”–_Id._ “The uniting _of_ them in various ways, so as to form words, would be easy.”–_Gardiner cor._ “I might be excused _from_ taking any more notice of it.”–_Watson cor._ “Watch therefore; for ye know not _at_ what hour your Lord _will_ come.”–_Bible cor._ “Here, not even infants were spared _from_ the sword.”–_M’Ilvaine cor._ “To prevent men _from_ turning aside to _false_ modes of worship.”–_John Allen cor._ “God expelled them _from_ the garden of Eden.”–_Burder cor._ “Nor could he refrain _from_ expressing to the senate the agonies of his mind.”–_Hume cor._ “Who now so strenuously opposes the granting _to_ him _of_ any new powers.”–_Duncan cor._ “That the laws of the censors have banished him _from_ the forum.”–_Id._ “We read not that he was degraded _from_ his office _in_ any other way.”–_Barclay cor._ “To all _to_ whom these presents shall come, greeting.”–_Hutchinson cor._ “On the 1st _of_ August, 1834.”–_Brit. Parl. cor._
“Whether you had not some time in your life Err’d in this point _on_ which you censure him.”–_Shak. cor._
UNDER NOTE IV.–OF NEEDLESS PREPOSITIONS.
“And the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter.”–_Barclay cor._; also _Acts_. “Adjectives, in our language, have neither case, _nor_ gender, nor number; the only variation they have, is comparison.”–_Buchanan cor._ “‘It is to you that I am indebted for this privilege;’ that is, ‘To you am I indebted;’ or, ‘It is you to whom I am indebted.'”–_Sanborn cor._ “BOOKS is a _common_ noun, of the third person, plural number, _and_ neuter gender.”–_Ingersoll cor._ “BROTHER’S is a common _noun_, of the third person, singular number, masculine gender, and possessive case.”–_L. Murray cor._ “VIRTUE’S is a common _noun_, of the third person, singular number, [neuter gender,] and possessive case.”–_Id._ “When the authorities on one side greatly preponderate, it is vain to oppose the prevailing usage.”–_Campbell and Murray cor._ “A captain of a troop of banditti, had a mind to be plundering Rome.”–_Collier cor._ “And, notwithstanding its verbal power, we have added the TO and other signs of exertion.”–_Booth cor._ “Some of these situations are termed CASES, and are expressed by additions to the noun, _in stead of_ separate words:” or,–“_and not by_ separate words.”–_Id._ “Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and bow down his head like a bulrush?”–_Bacon cor._ Compare _Isa._, lviii, 5. “And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental _in stead of_ the necessary antecedent.”–_Wayland cor._ “About the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed.”–_Balbi cor._ “God divided between the light and the darkness.”–_Burder cor._ “Notwithstanding this, we are not against outward significations of honour.”–_Barclay cor._ “Whether these words and practices of Job’s friends, _ought_ to be our rule.”–_Id._ “Such verb cannot admit an objective case after it.”–_Lowth cor._ “For which, God is now visibly punishing these nations.”–_C. Leslie cor._ “In this respect, Tasso yields to no poet, except Homer.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Notwithstanding the numerous panegyrics on the ancient English liberty.”–_Hume cor._ “Their efforts seemed to anticipate the spirit which became so general afterwards.”–_Id._
UNDER NOTE V.–THE PLACING OF THE WORDS.
“But how short _of_ its excellency are my expressions!”–_Baxter cor._ “_In_ his style, there is a remarkable union _of_ harmony with ease.”–_Dr. H. Blair cor._ “It disposes _of_ the light and shade _in_ the most artificial manner, _that_ every thing _may be viewed_ to the best advantage.”–_Id._ “_For_ brevity, Aristotle too holds an eminent rank among didactic writers.”–_Id._ “In an introduction, correctness _of_ expression should be carefully studied.”–_Id._ “_In_ laying down a method, _one ought_ above all things _to study_ precision.”–_Id._ “Which shall make _on_ the mind the impression _of_ something that is one, whole, and entire.”–_Id._ “At the same time, there are _in_ the Odyssey some defects which must be acknowledged.” Or: “At the same time, _it_ must be acknowledged _that_ there are some defects in the Odyssey.”–_Id._ “_In_ the concluding books, however, there are beauties _of_ the tragic kind.”–_Id._ “These forms of conversation multiplied _by_ degrees, and grew troublesome.”–_Kames, El. of Crit._, ii, 44. “When she has made her own choice, she sends, _for_ form’s sake, a conge-d’elire to her friends.”–_Ib._, ii, 46. “Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in him who holds _in_ his hand the reins of the whole creation.”–_Spectator cor._; also _Kames_. “Next to this, the measure most frequent _in_ English poetry, is that of eight syllables.”–_David Blair cor._ “To introduce as great a variety _of_ cadences as possible.”– _Jamieson cor._ “He addressed _to_ them several exhortations, suitable to their circumstances.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Habits _of_ temperance and self-denial must be acquired.”–_Id._ “In reducing _to_ practice the rules prescribed.”–_Id._ “But these parts must be so closely bound together, as to make _upon_ the mind the impression _of_ one object, not of many.”–_Blair and Mur. cor._ “Errors _with_ respect to the use of _shall_ and _will_, are sometimes committed by the most distinguished writers.”–_N. Butler cor._
CHAPTER XI.–PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES.
CORRECTIONS OF THE PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES.
LESSON I.–ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.
“Such _a_ one, I believe, yours will be proved to be.”–_Peet and Farnum cor._ “Of the distinction between the imperfect and the perfect _tense_, it may be observed,” &c.–_L. Ainsworth cor._ “The subject is certainly worthy _of_ consideration.”–_Id._ “By this means, all ambiguity and controversy _on this point are avoided_.”–_Bullions cor._ “The perfect participle, in English, has both an active and _a_ passive signification.” Better: “The perfect participle, in English, has _sometimes_ an active, and _sometimes_ a passive, signification.”–_Id._ “The old house _has_ at length fallen down.”–_Id._ “The king, the lords, and _the_ commons, constitute the English form of government.”–_Id._ “The verb in the singular agrees with the person next _to_ it.” Better: “The singular verb agrees _in_ person with _that nominative which is_ next _to_ it.”–_Id._ “Jane found Seth’s gloves in _James’s_ hat.”–_O. C. Felton cor._ “_Charles’s_ task is too great.”–_Id._ “The conjugation of a verb is the naming _of_ its several _moods_, tenses, numbers, and persons, _in regular order_.”–_Id._ “The _long-remembered_ beggar was his guest.”–_Id._ “Participles refer to nouns _or_ pronouns.”–_Id._ “F has _a_ uniform sound, in every position, except in OF.” Better: “F has _one unvaried_ sound, in every position, except in OF.”–_E. J. Hallock cor._ “There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and _the_ neuter.”–_Id._ “When SO _and_ THAT occur together, sometimes the particle SO is taken as an adverb.”–_Id._ “The definition of the articles _shows_ that they modify [the import of] the words to which they belong.”–_Id._ “The _auxiliary_, SHALL, WILL, or SHOULD, is implied.”–_Id. “Single-rhymed_ trochaic omits the final short syllable.”–_Brown’s Inst._, p. 237. “_Agreeably_ to this, we read of names being blotted out of God’s book.”–_Burder, Hallock, and Webster, cor._ “The first person is _that which denotes the speaker_.”–_Inst._, p. 32. “Accent is the laying _of_ a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word.”–_L. Murray’s Gram._, p. 235; _Felton’s_, 134. “_Thomas’s_ horse was caught.”–_Felton cor._ “You _were_ loved.”–_Id._ “The nominative and _the_ objective end _alike_.”–_T. Smith cor._ “The _numbers_ of pronouns, like those of substantives, are two; the singular and the plural.”–_Id._ “_I_ is called the pronoun of the first person, _because it represents_ the person speaking.”–_Frost cor._ “The essential elements of the phrase _are_ an intransitive gerundive and an adjective.”–_Hazen cor._ “_Wealth_ is no justification for such impudence.”–_Id._ “_That he was_ a soldier in the revolution, is not doubted.”–_Id._ “_Fishing_ is the chief employment of the inhabitants.”–_Id._ “The chief employment of the inhabitants, is _the_ catching _of_ fish.”–_Id._ “The cold weather did not prevent the _work from_ being finished at the time specified.”–_Id._ “The _man’s_ former viciousness caused _him to be_ suspected of this crime.”–_Id._ “But person and number, applied to verbs, _mean_ certain terminations.”–_Barrett cor._ “Robert _felled_ a tree.”–_Id._ “Charles raised _himself_ up.”–_Id._ “It might not be _a_ useless waste of time.”–_Id._ “Neither will you have that implicit faith in the writings and works of others, which _characterizes_ the vulgar.”–_Id._ “_I_ is _of_ the first person, because it denotes the speaker.”–_Ib._ “I would refer the student to _Hedge’s_ or _Watts’s_ Logic.”–_Id._ “Hedge’s _Watts’s_, Kirwin’s, and Collard’s Logic.”–_Parker and Fox cor._ “Letters _that_ make a full and perfect sound of themselves, are called vowels.” Or: “_The_ letters _which_ make,” &c.–_Cutler cor._ “It has both a singular and _a_ plural construction.”–_Id._ “For he _beholds_ (or _beholdeth_) thy beams no more.”–_Id. Carthon._ “To this sentiment the Committee _have_ the candour to incline, as it will appear by their _summing-up_.”–_Macpherson cor._ “This _reduces_ the point at issue to a narrow compass.”–_Id._ “Since the English _set_ foot upon the soil.”–_Exiles cor._ “The arrangement of its different parts _is_ easily retained by the memory.”–_Hiley cor._ “The words employed are the most appropriate _that_ could have been selected.”–_Id._ “To prevent it _from_ launching!”–_Id._ “Webster has been followed in preference to others, where _he_ differs from them.” Or: “_Webster’s Grammar_ has been followed in preference to others, where _it_ differs from them.”–_Frazee cor._ “Exclamation and interrogation are often mistaken _the_ one _for the_ other.”–_Buchanan cor._ “When all nature is hushed in sleep, and neither love nor guilt _keeps its_ vigils.”–_Felton cor._ Or thus:–
“When all nature’s hush’d asleep.
Nor love, nor guilt, _doth_ vigils keep.”
LESSON II.–ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.
“A _Versifier_ and _a_ Poet are two different things.”–_Brightland cor._ “Those qualities will arise from the _well-expressing_ of the subject.”–_Id._ “Therefore the explanation of NETWORK is _not noticed_ here.”–_Mason cor._ “When emphasis or pathos _is_ necessary to be expressed.”–_Humphrey cor._ “Whether this mode of punctuation is correct, _or_ whether it _is_ proper to close the sentence with the mark of admiration, may be made a question.”–_Id._ “But not every writer in those days _was_ thus correct.”–_Id._ “The sounds of A, in English orthoepy, are no _fewer_ than four.”–_Id._ “Our present code of rules _is_ thought to be generally correct.” Or: “_The rules in_ our present code are thought to be generally correct.”–_Id._ “To prevent _it from_ running into _an other_”–_Id._ “_Shakspeare_, perhaps, the greatest poetical genius _that_ England has produced.”–_Id._ “This I will illustrate by example; but, _before doing so_, a few preliminary remarks may be necessary.”–_Id._ “All such are entitled to two accents each, and some of _them_ to two accents nearly equal.”–_Id._ “But some cases of the kind are so plain, that no one _needs_ to exercise (or, need exercise) his _judgement_ therein.”–_Id._ “I have _forborne_ to use the word.”–_Id._ “The propositions, ‘He may study,’ ‘He might study,’ ‘He could study,’ _affirm_ an ability or power to study.”–_E. J. Hallock cor._ “The divisions of the tenses _have_ occasioned grammarians much trouble and perplexity.”–_Id._ “By adopting a familiar, inductive method of presenting this subject, _one may render it_ highly attractive to young learners.”–_Wells cor._ “The definitions and rules of different grammarians were carefully compared with _one an_ other:” or–“_one_ with _an_ other.”–_Id._ “So as not wholly to prevent some _sound from_ issuing.”–_Sheridan cor._ “Letters of the Alphabet, not yet _noticed_.”–_Id._ “‘IT _is sad_,’ ‘IT _is strange_,’ &c., _seem_ to express only that _the thing_ is sad, strange, &c.”–_Well-Wishers cor._ “The winning is easier than the preserving _of_ a conquest.”–_Same_. “The United States _find themselves_ the _owners_ of a vast region of country at the west.”–_H. Mann cor._ “One or more letters placed before a word _are_ a prefix.”–_S. W. Clark cor._ “One or more letters added to a word, _are_ a Suffix.”–_Id._ “_Two thirds_ of my hair _have_ fallen off.” Or: “My hair has, two thirds of it, fallen off.”–_Id._ “‘Suspecting’ describes _us, the speakers_, by expressing, incidentally, an act of _ours_.”–_Id._ “Daniel’s predictions are now _about_ being fulfilled.” Or thus: “Daniel’s predictions are now _receiving their fulfillment_”–_Id._ “His _scholarship_ entitles him to respect.”–_Id._ “I doubted _whether he had_ been a soldier.”–_Id._ “_The_ taking _of_ a madman’s sword to prevent _him from_ doing mischief, cannot be regarded as _a robbery_.”–_Id._ “I thought it to be him; but it was not _he_.”–_Id._ “It was not _I_ that you saw.”–_Id._ “Not to know what happened before you _were_ born, is always to be a boy.”–_Id._ “How long _were_ you going? Three days.”–_Id._ “The qualifying adjective is placed next _to_ the noun.”–_Id._ “All went but _I_.”–_Id._ “This is _a_ parsing _of_ their own language, and not _of_ the author’s.”–_Wells cor._ “_Those_ nouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender.” Or: “Nouns _that_ denote males, are of the masculine gender.”–_Wells, late Ed._ “_Those_ nouns which denote females, are of the feminine gender.” Or: “Nouns _that_ denote females, are of the feminine gender.”–_Wells, late Ed._ “When a comparison _among_ more than two objects of the same class is expressed, the superlative degree is employed.”–_Wells cor._ “Where _d_ or _t goes_ before, the additional letter _d_ or _t_, in this contracted form, _coalesces_ into one letter with the radical _d_ or _t_.”–_Dr. Johnson cor._ “Write words which will show what kind of _house_ you live in–what kind of _book_ you hold in your hand–what kind of _day_ it is.”–_Weld cor._ “One word or more _are_ often joined to nouns or pronouns to modify their meaning.”–_Id._ “_Good_ is an adjective; it explains the quality or character of every person _to whom_, or thing to which, it is applied.” Or:–“of every person or thing _that_ it is applied to.”–_Id._ “A great public as well as private advantage arises from every one’s devoting _of_ himself to that occupation which he prefers, and for which he is specially fitted.”–_Wayland, Wells, and Weld, cor._ “There was a chance _for_ him _to recover_ his senses.” Or: “There was a chance _that he might recover_ his senses.”–_Wells and Macaulay cor._ “This may be known by _the absence of_ any connecting word immediately preceding it.”–_Weld cor._ “There are irregular expressions occasionally to be met with, which usage, or custom, rather than analogy, _sanctions_.”–_Id._ “He added an anecdote of _Quin_ relieving Thomson from prison.” Or: “He added an anecdote of _Quin_ as relieving Thomson from prison.” Or: “He added an anecdote of Quin’s relieving _of_ Thomson from prison.” Or better: “He _also told how Quin relieved_ Thomson from prison.”–_Id._ “The daily labour of her hands _procures_ for her all that is necessary.”–_Id._ “_That it is I, should_ make no change in your determination.”–_Hart cor._ “The classification of words into what _are_ called the Parts of Speech.”–_Weld cor._ “Such licenses may be explained _among_ what _are_ usually termed Figures.”–_Id._
“Liberal, not lavish, is kind Nature’s _hand_.”–_Beattie_.
“They fall successive, and successive _rise_.”–_Pope_.
LESSON III.–ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.
“A Figure of Etymology is _an_ intentional deviation _from_ the usual form of a word.”–_See Brown’s Institutes_, p. 229. “A Figure of Syntax is _an_ intentional deviation _from_ the usual construction of a word.”–_See Brown’s Inst._, p. 230. “Synecdoche is _the naming_ of the whole of _any thing_ for a part, or a part for the whole.”–_Weld cor._ “Apostrophe is a _turning-off_[547] from the regular course of the subject, to address some person or thing.”–_Id._ “Even young pupils will perform such exercises with surprising interest and facility, and will unconsciously gain, in a little time, more knowledge of the structure of _language_, than _they_ can acquire by a drilling of several years in the usual routine of parsing.”–_Id._ “A few _rules_ of construction are employed in this _part_, to guide _the pupil_ in the exercise of parsing.”–_Id._ “The name of _any_ person, object, or thing, _that_ can be thought of, or spoken of, is a noun.”–_Id._ “A dot, resembling our period, is used between every _two words_, as well as at the close of _each verse_.”–_W. Day cor._ “_The_ casting _of_ types in matrices was invented by Peter Schoeffer, in 1452.”–_Id._ “On perusing it, he said, that, so far [_was it_] _from_ showing the prisoner’s guilt [that] it positively established his innocence.”–_Id._ “By printing the nominative and verb in Italic letters, _we shall enable_ the reader to distinguish them at a glance.”–_Id._ “It is well, no doubt, to avoid unnecessary words.”–_Id._ “_I_ meeting a friend the other day, he said to me, ‘Where are you going?'”–_Id._ “To John, apples _were_ first denied; then _they were_ promised _to him_; then _they were_ offered _to him_.”–_Lennie cor._ “Admission was denied _him_.”–_Wells cor._ “A pardon _was_ offered _to them_.”–_L. Murray’s Gram._, 8vo, p. 183. “A new _potato_ was this day shown me.”–_Darwin, Webster, Frazee, and Weld, cor._ “_Those_ nouns or pronouns which denote males, are of the masculine gender.”–_S. S. Greene, cor._ “There are three degrees of comparison; the positive, _the_ comparative, and _the_ superlative.”–_Id._ “The first two refer to direction; the third _refers_ to locality.”–_Id._ “The following are some of the verbs which take a direct and _an_ indirect object.”–_Id._ “I was not aware _that he was_ the judge of the supreme court.”–_Id._ “An indirect question may refer to _any_ of the five elements of a declarative sentence.”–_Id._ “I am not sure that he will be present.”–_Id._ “We left _New York_ on Tuesday.”–_Id._ “He left _the city_, as he told me, before the arrival of the steamer.”–_Id._ “We told him that he must leave _us_;”–_Id._ “We told him to leave _us_.”–_Id._ “Because he was unable to persuade the multitude, he left _the place_, in disgust.”–_Id._ “He left _the company_, and took his brother with him.”–_Id._ “This stating, or declaring, or denying _of_ any thing, is called the indicative _mood_, or manner of speaking.”–_Weld cor._ “This took place at our friend Sir Joshua _Reynolds’s_.”–_Id._ “The manner _in which_ a young _lady may employ_ herself usefully in reading, will be the subject of _an other_ paper.”–_Id._ “Very little time is necessary for _Johnson to conclude_ a treaty with the bookseller.”–_Id._ “My father is not now sick; but if he _were_, your services would be welcome.”–_Chandler’s Common School Gram., Ed. of 1847_, p. 79. “_Before_ we begin to write or speak, we ought to fix in our minds a clear conception of the end to be aimed at.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Length of days _is_ in her right hand; and, in her left hand, _are_ riches and honour.”–See _Proverbs_, iii, 16. “The active and _the_ passive present express different ideas.”–_Bullions cor._ “An _Improper Diphthong_, (_sometimes called a_ Digraph,) is a diphthong in which only one of the vowels _is_ sounded.”–_Fowler cor._ (See G. Brown’s definition.) “The real origin of the words _is_ to be sought in the Latin.”–_Fowler cor._ “What sort of alphabet the Gothic languages possess, we know; what sort of alphabet they require, we can determine.”–_Id._ “The Runic alphabet, whether borrowed or invented by the early Goths, is of greater antiquity than either the oldest Teutonic or the Moeso-Gothic _alphabet_.”–_Id._ “Common to the masculine and neuter genders.”–_Id._ “In the Anglo-Saxon, HIS was common to both the masculine and _the_ Neuter _Gender_.”–_Id._ “When time, number, or dimension, _is_ specified, the adjective follows the substantive.”–_Id._ “Nor pain, nor grief nor anxious fear, _Invades_ thy bounds.”–_Id._ “To Brighton, the Pavilion lends a _lath-and-plaster_ grace.”–_Fowler cor._ “From this consideration, _I have given to nouns_ but one person, the THIRD.”–_D. C. Allen cor._
“For it seems to guard and cherish
E’en the wayward dreamer–_me_.”–_Anon. cor._
CHAPTER XII.–GENERAL REVIEW.
CORRECTIONS UNDER ALL THE PRECEDING RULES AND NOTES.
LESSON I.–ARTICLES.
“And they took stones, and made _a_ heap.”–ALGER’S BIBLE: _Gen._, xxxi, 46. “And I do know many fools, that stand in better place.”–_Shak. cor._ “It is a strong antidote to the turbulence of passion, and _the_ violence of pursuit.”–_Kames cor._ “The word NEWS may admit of either a singular or _a_ plural application.”–_Wright cor._ “He has gained a fair and honourable reputation.”–_Id._ “There are two general forms, called the solemn and _the_ familiar style.” Or:–“called the solemn and familiar _styles_.”–_Sanborn cor._ “Neither the article nor _the_ preposition can be omitted.”–_Wright cor._ “A close union is also observable between the subjunctive and _the_ potential _mood_.”–_Id._ “Should we render service equally to a friend, _a_ neighbour, and an enemy?”–_Id._ “Till _a_ habit is obtained, of aspirating strongly.”–_Sheridan cor._ “There is _a_ uniform, steady use of the same signs.”–_Id._ “A traveller remarks most _of the_ objects _which_ he sees.”–_Jamieson cor._ “What is the name of the river on which London stands? _Thames_.”–_G. B._ “We sometimes find the last line of a couplet or _a_ triplet stretched out to twelve syllables.”–_Adam cor._ “_The_ nouns which follow active verbs, are not in the nominative case.”–_David Blair cor._ “It is a solemn duty to speak plainly of _the_ wrongs which good men perpetrate.”–_Channing cor._ “_The_ gathering of riches is a pleasant torment.”–_L. Cobb cor._ “It is worth being quoted.” Or better: “It is worth quoting.”–_Coleridge cor._ “COUNCIL is a noun which admits of a singular and _a_ plural form.”–_Wright cor._ “To exhibit the connexion between the Old _Testament_ and the New.”–_Keith cor._ “An apostrophe discovers the omission of a letter or _of_ letters.”–_Guy cor._ “He is immediately ordained, or rather acknowledged, _a_ hero.”–_Pope cor._ “Which is the same in both the leading and _the_ following state.”–_Brightland cor._ “Pronouns, as will be seen hereafter, have _three_ distinct _cases; the_ nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective.”–_D. Blair cor._ “A word of many syllables is called _a_ polysyllable.”–_Beck cor._ “Nouns have two numbers; _the_ singular and _the_ plural.”–_Id._ “They have three genders; _the_ masculine, _the_ feminine, and _the_ neuter.”–_Id._ “They have three cases; _the_ nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective.”–_Id._ “Personal pronouns have, like nouns, two numbers; _the_ singular and _the_ plural;–three genders; _the_ masculine, _the_ feminine, and _the_ neuter;–_three_ cases; _the_ nominative, _the possessive_, and _the_ objective.”–_Id._ “He must be wise enough to know the singular from _the_ plural”–_Id._ “Though they may be able to meet every reproach which any one of their fellows may prefer.”–_Chalmers cor._ “Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such _a_ one as Paul the aged.”–_Bible cor._; also _Webster_. “A people that jeoparded their lives unto death.”–_Bible cor._ “By preventing too great _an_ accumulation of seed within too narrow _a_ compass.”–_The Friend cor._ “Who fills up the middle space between the animal and _the_ intellectual nature, the visible and _the_ invisible world.”–_Addison cor._ “The Psalms abound with instances of _the_ harmonious arrangement of words.”–_Murray cor._ “On _an_ other table, were _a_ ewer and _a_ vase, likewise of gold.”–_Mirror cor._ “TH is said to have two sounds, _a_ sharp and _a_ flat.”–_Wilson cor._ “_The_ SECTION (Sec.) is _sometimes_ used in _the_ subdividing of a chapter into lesser parts.”–_Brightland cor._ “Try it in a dog, or _a_ horse, or any other creature.”–_Locke cor._ “But particularly in _the_ learning of languages, there is _the_ least occasion _to pose_ children.”–_Id._ “_Of_ what kind is _the_ noun RIVER, and why?”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “Is WILLIAM’S a proper or _a_ common noun?”–_Id._ “What kind of article, then, shall we call _the_?” Or better: “What then shall we call the article _the_?”–_Id._
“Each burns alike, who can, or cannot write, Or with a rival’s, or _a_ eunuch’s spite.”–_Pope cor._
LESSON II.–NOUNS, OR CASES.
“And there _are_ stamped upon their imaginations _ideas_ that follow them with terror and _affright_.”–_Locke cor._ “There’s not a wretch that lives on common charity, but’s happier than _I_.”–_Ven. Pres. cor._ “But they overwhelm _every one who_ is ignorant of them.”–_H. Mann cor._ “I have received a letter from my cousin, _her_ that was here last week.”–_Inst._, p. 129. “_Gentlemen’s_ houses are seldom without variety of company.”–_Locke cor._ “Because Fortune has laid them below the level of others, at their _masters_’ feet.”–_Id._ “We blamed neither _John’s_ nor Mary’s delay.”–_Nixon cor._ “The book was written by order _of Luther_ the _reformer_.”–_Id._ “I saw on the table of the saloon Blair’s sermons, and _somebody’s_ else, (I forget _whose_,) and [_about the room_] a set of noisy children.”–_Byron cor._ “Or saith he it altogether for our _sake_?”–_Bible cor._ “He was not aware _that the Duke was_ his competitor.”–_Sanborn cor._ “It is no condition of an adjective, that _the word_ must be placed before a noun.” Or: “It is no condition _on which a word becomes_ an adjective, that it must be placed before a noun.”–_Id., and Fowle cor._ “Though their reason corrected the wrong _ideas which_ they had taken in.”–_Locke cor._ “It was _he that_ taught me to hate slavery.”–_Morris cor._ “It is _he_ and his kindred, who live upon the labour of others.”–_Id._ “Payment of tribute is an acknowledgement of _him as_ being King–(of _him as_ King–or, _that he is_ King–) to whom we think it due.”–_C. Leslie cor._ “When we comprehend what _is taught us_.”–_Ingersoll cor._ “The following words, and parts of words, must be _noticed_.”–_Priestley cor._ “Hence tears and commiseration are so often _employed_.”–_Dr. H. Blair cor._ “JOHN-A-NOKES, _n._ A fictitious name _used_ in law proceedings.”–_A. Chalmers cor._ “The construction of _words denoting_ matter, and _the_ part _grasped_.”–_B. F. Fisk cor._ “And such other names as carry with them the _idea_ of _something_ terrible and hurtful.”–_Locke cor._ “Every learner then would surely be glad to be spared _from_ the trouble and fatigue.”–_Pike cor._ “_It_ is not the owning of _one’s_ dissent from _an other_, that I speak against.”–_Locke cor._ “A man that cannot fence, will be more careful to keep out of bullies and _gamesters’_ company, and will not be half so apt to stand upon _punctilios_.”–_Id._ “From such persons it is, _that_ one may learn more in one day, than in a _year’s_ rambling from one inn to _an other_.”–_Id._ “A long syllable is generally considered to be twice _as long as_ a short one.”–_D. Blair cor._ “I is of the first person, and _the_ singular number. THOU is _of the_ second person singular. HE, SHE, or IT, is _of the_ third person singular. WE is _of the_ first person plural. YE or YOU is _of the_ second person plural. THEY is _of the_ third person plural.”–_Kirkham cor._ “This actor, doer, or producer of the action, is _denoted by some word in_ the nominative _case_.”–_Id._ “_Nobody_ can think, _that_ a boy of three or seven years _of age_ should be argued with as a grown man.”–_Locke cor._ “This was in _the house of_ one of the Pharisees, not in Simon the leper’s.”–_Hammond cor._ “Impossible! it can’t be _I_.”–_Swift cor._ “Whose grey top shall tremble, _He_ descending.”–_Milton, P. L._, xii, 227. “_Of_ what gender is _woman_, and why?”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “_Of_ what gender, then, is _man_, and why?”–_Id._ “Who is _this I; whom_ do you mean when you say _I_?”–_R. W. Green cor._ “It _has_ a pleasant air, but _the soil_ is barren.”–_Locke cor._ “You may, in three _days’_ time, go from Galilee to Jerusalem.”–_W. Whiston cor._ “And that which is left of the meat-offering, shall be Aaron’s and his _sons’_.”–FRIENDS’ BIBLE.
“For none in all the world, without a lie, Can say _of_ this, ‘_’T_is mine,’ but _Bunyan_, I.”–_Bunyan cor._
LESSON III.–ADJECTIVES.
“When he can be their remembrancer and advocate _at all assizes_ and sessions.”–_Leslie cor._ “DOING denotes _every_ manner of action; as, to dance, to play, to write, &c.”–_Buchanan cor._ “Seven _feet_ long,”–“eight _feet_ long,”–“fifty _feet_ long.”–_W. Walker cor._ “Nearly the whole of _these_ twenty-five millions of dollars is a dead loss to the nation.”–_Fowler cor._ “Two negatives destroy _each_ other.”–_R. W. Green cor._ “We are warned against excusing sin in ourselves, or in _one an_ other.”–_Friend cor._ “The Russian empire is more extensive than any _other_ government in the world.”–_Inst._, p. 265. “You will always have the satisfaction to think it, of all _your expenses_, the money best laid out.”–_Locke cor._ “There is no _other_ passion which all mankind so naturally _indulge_, as pride.”–_Steele cor._ “O, throw away the _viler_ part of it.”–_Shak. cor._ “He showed us _an easier_ and _more agreeable_ way.”–_Inst._, p. 265. “And the _last four_ are to point out those further improvements.”–_Jamieson and Campbell cor._ “Where he has not clear _ideas_, distinct and different.”–_Locke cor._ “Oh, when shall we have _an other such_ Rector of Laracor!”–_Hazlitt cor._ “Speech must have been absolutely necessary _previously_ to the formation of society.” Or better thus: “Speech must have been absolutely necessary to the formation of society.”–_Jamieson cor._ “Go and tell _those_ boys to be still.”–_Inst._, p. 265. “Wrongs are engraved on marble; benefits, on sand: _those_ are apt to be requited; _these_, forgot.”–_G. B._ “_None_ of these several interpretations is the true one.”–_G. B._ “My friend indulged himself in some freaks _not befitting_ the gravity of a clergyman.”–_G. B._ “And their pardon is all that _any_ of their impropriators will have to plead.”–_Leslie cor._ “But the time usually chosen to send young men abroad, is, I think, of all _periods_, that _at_ which _they are_ least capable of reaping those advantages.”–_Locke cor._ “It is a mere figment of the human imagination, a rhapsody of the _transcendently_ unintelligible.”–_Jamieson cor._ “It contains a greater assemblage of sublime ideas, of bold and daring figures, than is perhaps _anywhere else_ to be met with.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The order in which the _last two_ words are placed should have been reversed.”–_Dr. Blair cor._; also _L. Murray_. “In Demosthenes, eloquence _shone_ forth with higher splendour, than perhaps in any _other_ that ever bore the name of _orator_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The circumstance of his _poverty_ (or, _that he is_ poor) is decidedly favourable.”–_Todd cor._ “The temptations to dissipation are greatly lessened by his _poverty_.”–_Id._ “For, with her death, _those_ tidings came.”–_Shak. cor._ “The next objection is, that _authors of this sort_ are poor.”–_Cleland cor._ “Presenting Emma, as Miss Castlemain, to these _acquaintances_:” or,–“to these _persons of her_ acquaintance.”–_Opie cor._ “I doubt not _that_ it will please more _persons_ than the opera:” or,–“that it will be _more pleasing_ than the opera.”–_Spect. cor._ “The world knows only two; _these are_ Rome and I.”–_Ben Jonson cor._ “I distinguish these two things from _each_ other.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “And, in this case, mankind reciprocally claim and allow indulgence to _one an_ other.”–_Sheridan cor._ “The _last six_ books are said not to have received the finishing hand of the author.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The _best-executed_ part of the work, is the first six books.”–_Id._
“To reason how can we be said to rise? So _hard the task for mortals to be_ wise!”–_Sheffield cor._
LESSON IV.–PRONOUNS.
“Once upon a time, a goose fed _her_ young by a _pond’s_ side:” or–“by a _pondside_.”–_Goldsmith cor._ (See OBS. 33d on Rule 4th.) “If either _has_ a sufficient degree of merit to recommend _it_ to the attention of the public.”–_J. Walker cor._ “Now W. _Mitchell’s_ deceit is very remarkable.”–_Barclay cor._ “My brother, I did not put the question to thee, for that I doubted of the truth of _thy_ belief.”–_Bunyan cor._ “I had two elder brothers, one of _whom_ was a lieutenant-colonel.”–_De Foe cor._ “Though James is here the object of the action, yet _the word James_ is in the nominative case.”–_Wright cor._ “Here John is the actor; and _the word John_ is known to be _in_ the nominative, by its answering to the question, ‘_Who_ struck Richard?'”–_Id._ “One of the most distinguished privileges _that_ Providence has conferred upon mankind, is the power of communicating their thoughts to one _an other_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “With some of the most refined feelings _that_ belong to our frame.”–_Id._ “And the same instructions _that_ assist others in composing _works of elegance_, will assist them in judging of, and relishing, the beauties of composition.”–_Id._ “To overthrow all _that_ had been yielded in favour of the army.”–_Macaulay cor._ “Let your faith stand in the Lord God, who changes not, _who_ created all, and _who_ gives the increase of all.”–_Friends cor._ “For it is, in truth, the sentiment of passion which lies under the figured expression, that gives it _all its_ merit.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Verbs are words _that_ affirm the being, doing, or suffering of a thing, together with the time _at which_ it happens.”–_A. Murray cor._ “The _bias_ will always hang on that side _on which_ nature first placed it.”–_Locke cor._ “They should be brought to do the things _which_ are fit for them.”–_Id._ “_The_ various sources _from which_ the English language is derived.”–_L. Murray cor._ “This attention to the several cases _in which_ it is proper to omit _or_ to redouble the copulative, is of considerable importance.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Cicero, for instance, speaking of the cases _in which it_ is lawful _to kill an other in self-defence_, uses the following words.”–_Id._ “But there is no nation, hardly _are there_ any _persons_, so phlegmatic as not to accompany their words with some actions, _or_ gesticulations, _whenever_ they are much in earnest.”–_Id._ “_William’s_ is said to be governed by _coat_, because _coat_ follows _William’s_” Or better:–“because _coat_ is the name of the thing possessed by William.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “In life, there are many _occasions on which_ silence and simplicity are _marks of_ true wisdom.”–_L. Murray cor._ “In choosing umpires _whose_ avarice is excited.”–_Nixon cor._ “The boroughs sent representatives, _according to law_.”–_Id._ “No man believes but _that_ there is some order in the universe.”–_G. B._ “The moon is orderly in her changes, _and_ she could not be _so_ by accident.”–_Id._ “_The riddles of the Sphynx_ (or, The _Sphynx’s_ riddles) are generally _of_ two kinds.”–_Bacon cor._ “They must generally find either their friends or _their_ enemies in power.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “For, of old, _very many_ took upon them to write what happened in their own time.”–_Whiston cor._ “The Almighty cut off the family of Eli the high priest, for _their_ transgressions.”–_The Friend_, vii, 109. “The convention then resolved _itself_ into a committee of the whole.”–_Inst._, p. 269. “The severity with which _persons of_ this denomination _were_ treated, appeared rather to invite _them to the colony_, than to deter them from flocking _thither_.”–_H. Adams cor._ “Many Christians abuse the Scriptures and the traditions of the apostles, to uphold things quite contrary to _them_.”–_Barclay cor._ “Thus, a circle, a square, a triangle, or a hexagon, _pleases_ the eye by _its_ regularity, _and is a_ beautiful _figure_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Elba is remarkable for being the place to which Bonaparte was banished in 1814.”–_Olney’s Geog_. “The editor has the reputation of being a good linguist and critic.”–_Rel. Herald_. “It is a pride _which_ should be cherished in them.”–_Locke cor._ “And to restore _to_ us the _hope_ of fruits, to reward our pains in _their_ season.”–_Id._ “The comic representation of Death’s victim relating _his_ own tale.”–_Wright cor._ “As for _Scioppius’s_ Grammar, that wholly _concerns_ the Latin tongue.”–_Wilkins cor._
“And chiefly _Thou_, O Spirit, _that_ dost prefer Before all temples _th’_ upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou _knowst_.”–_Milton, P. L._, B. i, l. 17.
LESSON V.–VERBS.
“And there _were_ in the same country shepherds abiding in the field.”–_Friends’ Bible_; also _Bruce’s, and Alger’s_. “Whereof every one _bears_ [or _beareth_] twins.”–BIBLE COR.: _Song_, vi, 6. “He strikes out of his nature one of the most divine principles that _are_ planted in it.”–_Addison cor._ “GENII [i.e., the _word_ GENII] _denotes aerial_ spirits.”–_Wright cor._ “In proportion as the long and large prevalence of such corruptions _has_ been obtained by force.”–_Halifax cor._ “Neither of these _is set before any_ word of a general signification, or _before a_ proper name.”–_Brightland cor._ “Of which, a few of the opening lines _are_ all I shall give.”–_Moore cor._ “The _wealth_ we had in England, was the slow result of long industry and wisdom.” Or: “The _riches_ we had in England _were_,” &c.–_Davenant cor._ “The following expression appears to be correct: ‘Much _public gratitude_ is due.'” Or this: “‘_Great public_ thanks _are_ due.'”–_-Wright cor._ “He _has_ been enabled to correct many mistakes.”–_Lowth cor._ “Which road _dost_ thou take here?”–_Ingersoll cor._ “_Dost_ thou _learn_ thy lesson?”–_Id._ “_Did_ they _learn_ their pieces perfectly?”–_Id._ “Thou _learned_ thy task well.”–_Id._ “There are some _who_ can’t relish the town, and others can’t _bear_ with the country.”–_Sir Wilful cor._ “If thou _meet_ them, thou must put on an intrepid mien.”–_Neef cor._ “Struck with terror, as if Philip _were_ something more than human.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “If the personification of the form of Satan _were_ admissible, _the pronoun_ should certainly have been masculine.”–_Jamieson cor._ “If only one _follows_, there seems to be a defect in the sentence.”–_Priestley cor._ “Sir, if thou _hast_ borne him hence, tell me where thou hast laid him.”–_Bible cor._ “Blessed _are_ the people that know the joyful sound.”–_Id._ “Every auditory _takes_ in good part those marks of respect and awe _with which a modest speaker commences a public discourse_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Private causes were still pleaded in the forum; but the public _were_ no longer interested, nor _was_ any general attention drawn to what passed there.”–_Id._ “Nay, what evidence can be brought to show, that the _inflections_ of the _classic_ tongues were not originally formed out of obsolete auxiliary words?”–_L. Murray cor._ “If the student _observe_ that the principal and the auxiliary _form but_ one verb, he will have little or no difficulty in the proper application of the present rule.”–_Id._ “For the sword of the enemy, and fear, _are_ on every side.”–_Bible cor._ “Even the Stoics agree that nature, _or_ certainty, is very hard to come at.”–_Collier cor._ “His politeness, _his_ obliging behaviour, _was_ changed.” Or thus: “His _polite_ and obliging behaviour was changed.”–_Priestley and Hume cor._ “War and its honours _were_ their employment and ambition.” Or thus: “War _was_ their employment; its honours _were their_ ambition.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “_Do_ A and AN mean the same thing?”–_R. W. Green cor._ “When _several_ words _come_ in between the discordant parts, the ear does not detect the error.”–_Cobbett cor._ “The sentence should be, ‘When _several_ words _come_ in,’ &c.”–_Wright cor._ “The nature of our language, the accent and pronunciation of it, _incline_ us to contract even all our regular verbs.”–_Churchill’s New Gram._, p. 104. Or thus: “The nature of our language,–(_that is_, the accent and pronunciation of it,–) inclines us to contract even all our regular verbs.”–_Lowth cor._ “The nature of our language, together with the accent and pronunciation of it, _inclines_ us to contract even all our regular verbs.”–_Hiley cor._ “Prompt aid, and not promises, _is_ what we ought to give.”–_G. B._ “The position of the several organs, therefore, as well as their functions, _is_ ascertained.”–_Med. Mag. cor._ “Every private company, and almost every public assembly, _affords_ opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution.”–_Enfield cor._ “Such submission, together with the active principle of obedience, _makes_ up _in us_ the temper _or_ character which answers to his sovereignty.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “In happiness, as in other things, there _are_ a false and a true, an imaginary and a real.”–_A. Fuller cor._ “To confound things that differ, and to make a distinction where there is no difference, _are_ equally unphilosophical.”–_G. Brown_.
“I know a bank wheron _doth_ wild thyme _blow_, Where oxlips and the nodding violet _grow_.”–_Shak. cor._
LESSON VI.–VERBS.
“Whose business or profession _prevents_ their attendance in the morning.”–_Ogilby cor._ “And no church or officer _has_ power over _an other_.”–_Lechford cor._ “While neither reason nor experience _is_ sufficiently matured to protect them.”–_Woodbridge cor._ “Among the Greeks and Romans, _almost_ every syllable was known to have a fixed and determined quantity.” Or thus: “Among the Greeks and Romans, _all syllables_, (or at least the far _greater_ number,) _were_ known to have _severally_ a fixed and determined quantity.”–_Blair and Jamieson cor._ “Their vanity is awakened, and their passions _are_ exalted, by the irritation which their self-love receives from contradiction.”–_Tr. of Mad. De Stael cor._ “_He and I were_ neither of us any great swimmer.”–_Anon_. “Virtue, honour–nay, even self-interest, _recommends_ the measure.”–_L. Murray cor._ (See Obs. 5th on Rule 16th.) “A correct plainness, _an_ elegant simplicity, is the proper character of an introduction.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “In syntax, there is what grammarians call concord or agreement, and _there is_ government.”–_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ “People find themselves able, without much study, to write and speak English intelligibly, and thus _are_ led to think _that_ rules _are_ of no utility.”–_Webster cor._ “But the writer must be one who has studied to inform himself well, _who_ has pondered his subject with care, and who addresses himself to our _judgement_, rather than to our imagination.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “But practice _has_ determined it otherwise; and has, in all the languages with which we are much acquainted, supplied the place of an interrogative _mood_, either by particles of interrogation, or by a peculiar order of the words in the sentence.”–_Lowth cor._ “If the Lord _hath_ stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering.”–_Bible cor._ “But if the priest’s daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and _she return_ unto her father’s house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father’s meat.”–_Id._ “Since we never have _studied, and never_ shall study, your sublime productions.”–_Neef cor._ “Enabling us to form _distincter_ images of objects, than can be _formed_, with the utmost attention, where these particulars are not found.”–_Kames cor._ “I hope you will consider _that_ what is _spoken_ comes from my love.”–_Shak. cor._ “We _shall_ then perceive how the designs of emphasis may be marred.”–_Rush cor._ “I knew it was Crab, and _went_ to the fellow that whips the dogs.”–_Shak. cor._ “The youth _was consuming_ by a slow malady.”–_Murray’s Gram._, p. 64; _Ingersoll’s_, 45; _Fisk_, 82. “If all men thought, spoke, and wrote alike, something resembling a perfect adjustment of these points _might_ be accomplished.”–_Wright cor._ “If you will replace what has been, _for a_ long _time_ expunged from the language.” Or: “If you will replace what _was_ long _ago_ expunged from the language.”–_Campbell and Murray cor._ “As in all those faulty instances _which_ I have _just_ been giving.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “This mood _is_ also used _improperly_ in the following places.”–_L. Murray cor._ “He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to _have known_ what it was that nature had bestowed upon him.”–_Johnson cor._ “Of which I _have_ already _given_ one instance, the worst indeed that occurred in the poem.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “It is strange he never commanded you to _do_ it.”–_Anon_. “History painters would have found it difficult, to _invent_ such a species of beings.”–_Addison cor._ “Universal Grammar cannot be taught abstractedly; it must be _explained_ with referenc [sic–KTH] to some language already known.”–_Lowth cor._ “And we might imagine, that if verbs had been so contrived as simply to express these, _no other tenses would have been_ needful.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “To a writer of such a genius as _Dean Swift’s_, the plain style _is_ most admirably fitted.”–_Id._ “Please _to_ excuse my son’s absence.”–_Inst._, p. 279. “Bid the boys come in immediately.”–_Ib._
“Gives us the secrets of his pagan hell, Where _restless ghosts_ in sad communion dwell.”–_Crabbe cor._
“Alas! nor faith nor valour now _remains_; Sighs are but wind, and I must bear my _chains_.”–_Walpole cor._
LESSON VII.–PARTICIPLES.
“Of which the author considers himself, in compiling the present work, as merely laying the foundation-stone.”–_David Blair cor._ “On the raising _of_ such lively and distinct images as are here described.”–_Kames cor._ “They are necessary to the avoiding _of_ ambiguities.”–_Brightland cor._ “There is no neglecting _of_ it without falling into a dangerous error.” Or better: “_None can neglect_ it without falling,” &c.–_Burlamaqui cor._ “The contest resembles Don Quixote’s fighting _of_ (or _with_) windmills.”–_Webster cor._ “That these verbs associate with _other_ verbs in all the tenses, is no proof _that they have_ no particular time of their own.”–_L. Murray cor._ “To justify _myself in_ not following the _track_ of the ancient rhetoricians.”–_Dr. H. Blair cor._ “The _putting-together of_ letters, so as to make words, is called Spelling.”–_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ “What is the _putting-together of_ vowels and consonants called?”–_Id._ “Nobody knows of their _charitableness_, but themselves.” Or: “Nobody knows _that they are_ charitable, but themselves.”–_Fuller cor._ “Payment was at length made, but no reason _was_ assigned for so long _a postponement of it_.”–_Murray et al. cor._ “Which will bear _to be_ brought into comparison with any composition of the kind.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “To render vice ridiculous, is _to do_ real service to the world.”–_Id._ “It is _a direct_ copying from nature, a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation.”–_Id._ “Propriety of pronunciation _consists in_ giving to every word that sound which the most polite usage of the language appropriates to it.”–_Murray’s Key_, 8vo, p. 200; and again, p. 219. “To occupy the mind, and prevent _us from_ regretting the insipidity of _a_ uniform plain.”–_Kames cor._ “There are a hundred ways _in which_ any thing _may happen_.”–_Steele cor._ “Tell me, _seignior, for_ what cause (or _why) Antonio sent_ Claudio to Venice yesterday.”–_Bucke cor._ “As _you are_ looking about for an outlet, some rich prospect unexpectedly opens to view.”–_Kames cor._ “A hundred volumes of modern novels may be read without _communicating_ a new idea.” Or thus: “_A person may read_ a hundred volumes of modern novels without acquiring a new idea.”–_Webster cor._ “Poetry admits of greater latitude than prose, with respect to _the_ coining, or at least _the_ new compounding, _of_ words.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “When laws were _written_ on brazen tablets, _and enforced_ by the sword.”–_Pope cor._ “A pronoun, which saves the naming _of_ a person or thing a second time, ought to be placed as near as possible to the name of that person or thing.”–_Kames cor._ “The using _of_ a preposition in this case, is not always a matter of choice.”–_Id._ “To save _the_ multiplying _of_ words, I would be understood to comprehend both circumstances.”–_Id._ “Immoderate grief is mute: _complaint_ is _a struggle_ for consolation.”–_Id._ “On the other hand, the accelerating or _the_ retarding _of_ the natural course, excites a pain.”–_Id._ “Human affairs require the distributing _of_ our attention.”–_Id._ “By neglecting this circumstance, _the author of_ the following example _has made it_ defective in neatness.”–_Id._ “And therefore the suppressing _of_ copulatives must animate a description.”–_Id._ “If the _omission of_ copulatives _gives_ force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid.”–_Id._ “It skills not, _to ask_ my leave, said Richard.”–_Scott cor._ “To redeem his credit, he proposed _to be_ sent once more to Sparta.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Dumas relates _that he gave_ drink to a dog.”–_Stone cor._ “Both are, in a like way, instruments of our _reception of_ such ideas from external objects.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “In order to your proper handling _of_ such a subject.”–_Spect. cor._ “For I do not recollect _it_ preceded by an open vowel.”–_Knight cor._ “Such is _the setting up of_ the form above the power of godliness.”–_Barclay cor._ “I remember _that I was_ walking once with my young acquaintance.”–_Hunt cor._ “He did not like _to pay_ a debt.”–_Id._ “I do not remember _to have seen_ Coleridge when I was a child.”–_Id._ “In consequence of the dry _rot discovered in it_, the mansion has undergone a thorough repair.”–_Maunder cor._ “I would not advise the following _of_ the German system _in all its parts_.”–_Lieber cor._ “Would it not be _to make_ the students judges of the professors?”–_Id._ “Little time should intervene between _the proposing of them_ and _the deciding_ upon _them_.”–_Verthake [sic–KTH] cor._ “It would be nothing less than _to find_ fault with the Creator.”–_Lit. Journal cor._ “_That we were once friends_, is a powerful reason, both of prudence and _of_ conscience, to restrain us from ever becoming enemies.”–_Secker cor._ “By using the word as a conjunction, _we prevent_ the ambiguity.”–_L. Murray cor._
“He forms his schemes the flood of vice to stem, But _faith in Jesus has no part in_ them.”–_J Taylor cor._
LESSON VIII.–ADVERBS.
“Auxiliaries _not only can_ be inserted, but are really understood.”–_Wright cor._ “He was _afterwards_ a hired scribbler in the Daily Courant.”–_Pope’s Annotator cor._ “In gardening, luckily, relative beauty _never need stand_ (or, perhaps better, _never needs to stand_) in opposition to intrinsic beauty.”–_Kames cor._ “I _much_ doubt the propriety of the following examples.”–_Lowth cor._ “And [we see] how far they have spread, in this part of the world, one of the worst languages _possible_”–_Locke cor._ “And, in this manner, _merely to place_ him on a level with the beast of the forest.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “_Whither_, ah! _whither_, has my darling fled.”–_Anon_. “As for this fellow, we know not whence he is.”–_Bible cor._ “Ye see then, that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.”–_Id._ “The _Mixed_ kind is _that in which_ the poet sometimes speaks in his own person, and sometimes makes other characters speak.”–_Adam and Gould cor._ “Interrogation is _a rhetorical figure in which_ the writer or orator raises questions, and, _if he pleases_, returns answers.”–_Fisher cor._ “Prevention is _a figure in which_ an author starts an objection which he foresees may be made, and gives an answer to it.”–_Id._ “Will you let me alone, or _not_?”–_W. Walker cor._ “Neither man nor woman _can_ resist an engaging exterior.”– _Chesterfield cor._ “Though the cup be _everso_ clean.”–_Locke cor._ “Seldom, or _never_, did any one rise to eminence, by being a witty lawyer.” Or thus: “Seldom, _if ever, has_ any one _risen_ to eminence, by being a witty lawyer.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The second rule which I give, respects the choice of _the_ objects from _which_ metaphors, and other figures, are to be drawn.”–_Id._ “In the figures which it uses, it sets mirrors before us, _in which_ we may behold objects _reflected_ in their likeness.”–_Id._ “Whose business _it_ is, to seek the true measures of right and wrong, and not the arts _by which he may_ avoid doing the one, and secure himself in doing the other.”–_Locke cor._ “The occasions _on which_ you ought to personify things, and _those on which_ you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule.”–_Cobbett cor._ “They reflect that they have been much diverted, but _scarcely_ can _they_ say about what.”–_Kames cor._ “The eyebrows and shoulders should seldom or _never_ be remarked by any perceptible motion.”–_J. Q. Adams cor._ “And the left hand or arm should seldom or never attempt any motion by itself.”–_Id., right_. “_Not_ every speaker _purposes_ to please the imagination.”– _Jamieson cor._ “And, like Gallio, they care for none of these things.” Or: “And, like Gallio, they care _little_ for _any_ of these things.”–_S. cor._ “They may inadvertently be _used_ where _their_ meaning would be obscure.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Nor _can_ a man make him laugh.”–_Shak. cor._ “The Athenians, in their present distress, _scarcely_ knew _whither_ to turn.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “I do not remember where God _ever_ delivered his oracles by the multitude.”–_Locke cor._ “The object of this government is twofold, _outward_ and _inward_.”–_Barclay cor._ “In order _rightly_ to understand what we read”–_R. Johnson cor._ “That a design had been formed, to _kidnap_ or _forcibly abduct_ Morgan.”–_Col. Stone cor._ “But such imposture can never _long_ maintain its ground.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “But _surely_ it is _as_ possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art, as to any other that is cultivated among men.”–_Id._ “It would have been better for you, to have remained illiterate, and _even_ to have been hewers of wood.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Dissyllables that have two vowels which are separated in the pronunciation, _always_ have the accent on the _first_ syllable.”–_Id._ “And they all turned their backs, _almost_ without drawing a sword.” Or: “And they all turned their backs, _scarcely venturing to draw_ a sword.”–_Kames cor._ “The principle of duty _naturally_ takes _precedence_ of every other.”–_Id. “Not_ all that glitters, is gold.”–_Maunder cor._ “Whether now, or _everso_ many myriads of ages hence.”–_Edwards cor._
“England never did, nor _ever_ shall, Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror.”–_Shak. cor._
LESSON IX.–CONJUNCTIONS.
“He readily comprehends the rules of syntax, their use in _the constructing of sentences_, and _their_ applicability _to_ the examples before him.”–_Greenleaf cor._ “The works of AEschylus have suffered more by time, than _those of_ any _other_ ancient _tragedian_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “There is much more story, more bustle, and _more_ action, than on the French theatre.”–_Id._ (See Obs. 8th on Rule 16th.) “Such an unremitted anxiety, _or such a_ perpetual application, as engrosses _all_ our time and thoughts, _is_ forbidden.”–_Jenyns cor._ “It seems to be nothing else _than_ the simple form of the adjective.”–_Wright cor._ “But when I talk of _reasoning_, I do not intend any other _than_ such as is suited to the child’s capacity.”–_Locke cor._ “Pronouns have no other use in language, _than_ to represent nouns.”–_Jamieson cor._ “The speculative relied no farther on their own judgement, _than_ to choose a leader, whom they implicitly followed.”–_Kames cor._ “Unaccommodated man is no more _than_ such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.”–_Shak. cor._ “A Parenthesis is a _suggestion which is_ introduced into the body of a sentence obliquely, _and which_ may be omitted without injuring the grammatical construction.”–_Mur. et al. cor. “The_ Caret (marked thus ^) is placed where _something that happened_ to be left out, _is to be put into_ the line.”–_Iid. “When_ I visit them, they shall be cast down.”–_Bible cor._ “Neither our virtues _nor our_ vices are all our own.”–_Johnson and Sanborn cor._ “I could not give him _so early_ an answer as he had desired.”–_O. B. Peirce cor._ “He is not _so_ tall as his brother.”–_Nixon cor._ “It is difficult to judge _whether_ Lord Byron is serious or not.”–_Lady Blessington cor._ “Some nouns are of _both_ the second and _the_ third declension.”–_Gould cor._ “He was discouraged neither by danger _nor by_ misfortune.”–_Wells cor._ “This is consistent neither with logic nor _with_ history.”–_Dial cor._ “Parts of sentences are _either_ simple _or_ compound.”–_David Blair cor._ “English verse is regulated rather by the number of syllables, than _by_ feet:” or,–“than by the number of feet.”–_Id._ “I know not what more he can do, _than_ pray for him.”–_Locke cor._ “Whilst they are learning, and _are applying_ themselves with attention, they are to be kept in good humour.”–_Id._ “A man cannot have too much of it, nor _have it_ too perfectly.”–_Id._ “That you may so run, as _to_ obtain; and so fight, as _to_ overcome.” Or thus: “That you may so run, _that_ you may obtain; and so fight, _that_ you may overcome.”–_Penn cor._ “It is the _artifice_ of some, to contrive false periods of business, _that_ they may seem men of despatch.”–_Bacon cor._ “‘A tall man and a woman.’ In this _phrase_, there is no ellipsis; the adjective _belongs only to the former noun_; the quality _respects_ only the man.”–_Ash cor._ “An abandonment of the policy is neither to be expected _nor to be_ desired.”–_Jackson cor._ “Which can be acquired by no other means _than by_ frequent exercise in speaking.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The chief _or_ fundamental rules of syntax are common to the English _and_ the Latin tongue.” Or:–“are _applicable_ to the English as well as _to_ the Latin tongue.”–_Id._ “Then I exclaim, _either_ that my antagonist is void of all taste, or that his taste is corrupted in a miserable degree.” Or thus: “Then I exclaim, that my antagonist is _either_ void of all taste, or _has a taste that is miserably_ corrupted.”–_Id._ “I cannot pity any one who is under no distress _either_ of body _or_ of mind.”–_Kames cor._ “There was much genius in the world, before there were learning _and_ arts to refine it.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Such a writer can have little else to do, _than_ to _new-model_ the paradoxes of ancient scepticism.”–_Dr. Brown cor._ “Our ideas of them being nothing else _than collections_ of the ordinary qualities observed in them.”–_Duncan cor._ “A _non-ens_, or negative, can give _neither_ pleasure nor pain.”–_Kames cor._ “So _that_ they shall not justle and embarrass one an other.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “He firmly refused to make use of any other voice _than_ his own.”–_Murray’s Sequel_, p. 113. “Your marching regiments, sir, will not make the guards their example, either as soldiers or _as_ subjects.”–_Junius cor._ “Consequently they had neither meaning _nor_ beauty, to any but the natives of each country.”–_Sheridan cor._
“The man of worth, _who_ has not left his peer, Is in his narrow house forever darkly laid.”–_Burns cor._
LESSON X.–PREPOSITIONS.
“These may be carried on progressively _beyond_ any assignable limits.”–_Kames cor._ “To crowd different subjects _into_ a single member of a period, is still worse than to crowd them into one period.”–_Id._ “Nor do we rigidly insist _on having_ melodious prose.”–_Id._ “The aversion we have _to_ those who differ from us.”–_Id._ “For we cannot bear his shifting _of_ the scene _at_ every line.”–_Halifax cor._ “We shall find that we come by it _in_ the same way.”–_Locke cor._ “_Against_ this he has no better _defence_ than that.”–_Barnes cor._ “Searching the person whom he suspects _of_ having stolen his casket.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Who, as vacancies occur, are elected _by_ the whole Board.”–_Lit. Jour. cor._ “Almost the only field of ambition _for_ a German, is science.”–_Lieber cor._ “The plan of education is very different _from_ the one pursued in the sister country.”–_Coley cor._ “Some writers on grammar have contended, that adjectives _sometimes_ relate to _verbs_, and modify _their_ action.”–_Wilcox cor._ “They are therefore of a mixed nature, participating the properties both of pronouns and _of_ adjectives.”– _Ingersoll cor._ “For there is no authority which can justify the inserting _of_ the aspirate or _the_ doubling _of_ the vowel.”–_Knight cor._ “The distinction and arrangement _of_ active, passive, and neuter verbs.”– _Wright cor._ “And see thou a hostile world spread its delusive snares.”–_Kirkham cor._ “He may be precautioned, and be made _to_ see how those _join_ in the contempt.”–_Locke cor._ “The contenting _of_ themselves in the _present_ want of what they wished for, is a _virtue_.”– _Id._ “If the complaint be _about_ something really worthy _of_ your notice.”–_Id._ “True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man’s self, and an undisturbed doing _of_ his duty.”–_Id._ “For the custom of tormenting and killing beasts, will, by degrees, harden their minds even towards men.”–_Id._ “Children are whipped to it, and made _to_ spend many hours of their precious time uneasily _at_ Latin.”–_Id. “On_ this subject, [the Harmony of Periods,] the ancient rhetoricians have entered into a very minute and particular detail; more particular, indeed, than _on_ any other _head_ that regards language.”–See _Blair’s Rhet._, p. 122. “But the one should not be omitted, _and the other retained_.” Or: “But the one should not be _used without_ the other.”–_Bullions cor. “From_ some common forms of speech, the relative pronoun is usually omitted.”–_Murray and Weld cor._ “There are _very many_ causes which disqualify a witness _for_ being received to testify in particular cases.”–_Adams cor._ “Aside _from_ all regard to interest, we should expect that,” &c.–_Webster cor._ “My opinion was given _after_ a rather cursory perusal of the book.”–_L. Murray cor._ “And, [_on_] the next day, he was put on board _of_ his ship.” Or thus: “And, the next day, he was put _aboard_ his ship.”–_Id._ “Having the command of no emotions, but what are raised by sight.”–_Kames cor._ “Did these moral attributes exist in some other being _besides_ himself.” Or:–“in some other being _than_ himself.”–_Wayland cor._ “He did not behave in that manner _from_ pride, or [_from_] contempt of the tribunal.”–_Murray’s Sequel_, p. 113. “These prosecutions _against_ William seem to have been the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court.”–_Murray and Priestley cor._ “To restore myself _to_ the good graces of my fair critics.”–_Dryden cor._ “Objects denominated beautiful, please not _by_ virtue of any one quality common to them all.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “This would have been less worthy _of_ notice, had not a writer or two of high rank lately adopted it.”–_Churchill cor._
“A Grecian youth, _of_ talents rare, Whom Plato’s philosophic care,” &c.–WHITEHEAD: E. R., p. 196.
LESSON XI.–PROMISCUOUS.
“To excel _has_ become a much less considerable object.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “My robe, and my integrity to _Heav’n_, are all I dare now call _my_ own.”–_Enfield’s Speaker_, p. 347. “_For_ thou the garland _wearst_ successively.”–_Shak. cor._; also _Enfield_. “If _then_ thou _art_ a _Roman_, take it forth.”–_Id._ “If thou _prove_ this to be real, thou must be a smart lad indeed.”–_Neef cor._ “And _an other_ bridge of four hundred _feet_ in length.”–_Brightland cor._ “METONYMY is _the_ putting _of_ one name for _an other_, on account of the near relation _which_ there is between them.”–_Fisher cor._ “ANTONOMASIA is _the_ putting _of_ an appellative or common name for a proper name.”–_Id._ “_That it is I, should_ make no difference in your determination.”–_Bullions cor._ “The first and second _pages_ are torn.” Or. “The first and _the_ second _page_ are torn.” Or: “The first _page_ and _the_ second are torn.”–_Id._ “John’s _absence_ from home occasioned the delay.”–_Id._ “His _neglect of_ opportunities for improvement, was the cause of his disgrace.”–_Id._ “He will regret his _neglect of his_ opportunities _for_ improvement, when it _is_ too late.”–_Id._ “His _expertness at dancing_ does not entitle him to our regard.”–_Id._ “Caesar went back to Rome, to take possession of the public treasure, which his opponent, by a most unaccountable oversight, had neglected _to carry away_ with him.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “And Caesar took out of the treasury, _gold_ to the amount of three thousand _pounds’_ weight, besides an immense quantity of silver.” [548]–_Id._ “Rules and definitions, which should always be _as_ clear and intelligible as possible, are thus rendered obscure.”–_Greenleaf cor._ “So much both of ability and _of_ merit is seldom found.” Or thus: “So much _of both_ ability and merit is seldom found.”[549]–_L. Murray cor._ “If such maxims, and such practices prevail, what _has_ become of decency and virtue?”[550]–_Murray’s False Syntax_, ii, 62. Or: “If such maxims and practices prevail, what _will_ become of decency and virtue?”–_Murray and Bullions cor._ “Especially if the subject _does not require_ so much pomp.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “However, the proper mixture of light and shade in such compositions,–the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense,–_has_ ever been _found an affair_ of great nicety.”–_Blair’s Rhet._, p. 151. “And adding to that hissing in our language, which is so much _noticed_ by foreigners.”–_Addison, Coote, and Murray, cor._ “_To speak_ impatiently to servants, or _to do_ any thing that betrays unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal.” Or better: “Impatience, unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal.”–_Mur. et al. cor._ “_Here are_ a _fullness_ and grandeur of expression, well suited to the subject.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “I single _out_ Strada _from_ among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus.”–_L. Murray cor._ “I single him out _from_ among the moderns, because,” &c.–_Bolingbroke cor._ “This _rule is not_ always observed, even by good writers, _so_ strictly as it ought to be.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “But this gravity and assurance, which _are_ beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood.”–_Pope cor._ “The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road, _have_ some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood.”–_Kames cor._ “They become fond of regularity and neatness; _and this improvement of their taste_ is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors.”–_Id._ “The phrase, ‘_it is impossible to exist_,’ gives us the idea, _that it is_ impossible for men, or any body, to exist.”–_Priestley cor._ “I’ll give a thousand _pounds_ to look upon him.”–_Shak. cor._ “The reader’s knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent _him from_ mistaking it.”–_Crombie and Murray cor._ “When two words are set in contrast, or in opposition to _each_ other, they are both emphatic.”–_L. Murray cor._ “The number of _the_ persons–men, women, and children–who were lost in the sea, was very great.” Or thus: “The number of persons–men, women, and children–_that_ were lost in the sea, was very great.”–_Id._ “Nor is the resemblance between the primary and _the_ resembling object pointed out.”–_Jamieson cor._ “I think it the best book of the kind, _that_ I have met with.”–_Mathews cor._
“Why should not we their ancient rites restore, And be what Rome or Athens _was_ before?”–_Roscommon cor._
LESSON XII.–TWO ERRORS.
“It is labour only _that_ gives relish to pleasure.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Groves are never _more_ agreeable _than_ in the opening of spring.”–_Id._ “His Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas _of_ the Sublime and _the_ Beautiful, soon made him known to the literati.”–See _Blair’s Lect._, pp. 34 and 45. “An awful precipice or tower _from which_ we look down on the objects which _are_ below.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “This passage, though very poetical, is, however, harsh and obscure; _and for_ no other cause _than_ this, that three distinct metaphors are crowded together.”–_Id._ “I _purpose to make_ some observations.”–_Id._ “I shall _here_ follow the same method _that_ I have all along pursued.”–_Id._ “Mankind _at no other time_ resemble _one an_ other so much as they do in the beginnings of society.”–_Id._ “But no ear is sensible of the termination of each foot, in _the_ reading _of a_ hexameter line.”–_Id._ “The first thing, says he, _that_ a writer _either_ of fables or of heroic poems does, is, to choose some maxim or point of morality.”–_Id._ “The fourth book has _always_ been most justly admired, and _indeed it_ abounds with beauties of the highest kind.”–_Id._ “There is _in_ the poem no attempt towards _the_ painting _of_ characters.”–_Id._ “But the artificial contrasting of characters, and the _constant_ introducing _of_ them in pairs and by opposites, _give_ too theatrical and affected an air to the piece.”–_Id._ “Neither of them _is_ arbitrary _or_ local.”–_Kames cor._ “If _the_ crowding _of_ figures _is_ bad, it is still worse to graft one figure upon _an other_.”–_Id._ “The _crowding-together of_ so many objects lessens the pleasure.”–_Id._ “This therefore lies not in the _putting-off of_ the hat, nor _in the_ making of compliments.”–_Locke cor._ “But the Samaritan Vau may have been used, as the Jews _used_ the Chaldaic, both for a vowel and _for a_ consonant.”–_Wilson cor._ “But if a solemn and _a_ familiar pronunciation really _exist_ in our language, is it not the business of a grammarian to mark both?”–_J. Walker cor._ “By making sounds follow _one an_ other _agreeably_ to certain laws.”–_Gardiner cor._ “If there _were_ no drinking _of_ intoxicating draughts, there could be no drunkards.”–_Peirce cor._ “Socrates knew his own defects, and if he was proud of any thing, it was _of_ being thought to have none.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Lysander, having brought his army to Ephesus, erected an arsenal for _the_ building of _galleys_.”–_Id._ “The use of these signs _is_ worthy _of_ remark.”–_Brightland cor._ “He received me in the same manner _in which_ I would _receive_ you.” Or thus: “He received me _as_ I would _receive_ you.”–_R. C. Smith cor._ “Consisting of _both_ the direct and _the_ collateral evidence.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “If any man or woman that believeth _hath_ widows, let _him_ or _her_ relieve them, and let not the church be charged.”–_Bible cor._ “For _men’s sake_ are beasts bred.”–_W. Walker cor._ “From three _o’clock_, there _were_ drinking and gaming.”–_Id._ “Is this he that I am seeking, or _not?_”–_Id._ “And for the upholding _of_ every _one’s_ own opinion, there is so much ado.”–_Sewel cor._ “Some of them, however, will _necessarily_ be _noticed_.”–_Sale cor._ “The boys conducted themselves _very indiscreetly_.”–_Merchant cor._ “Their example, their influence, their fortune,–every talent they possess,–_dispenses_ blessings on all _persons_ around them.”–_Id. and Murray cor._ “The two _Reynoldses_ reciprocally converted _each_ other.”–_Johnson cor._ “The destroying _of_ the _last two_, Tacitus calls an attack upon virtue itself.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “_Moneys are_ your suit.”–_Shak. cor._ “_Ch_ is commonly sounded like _tch_, as in _church_; but in words derived from Greek, _it_ has the sound of _k_.”–_L. Murray cor._ “When one is obliged to make some utensil _serve for_ purposes to which _it was_ not originally destined.”–_Campbell cor._ “But that a _baptism_ with water is a _washing-away_ of sin, thou canst not hence prove.”–_Barclay cor._ “Being _spoken_ to _but_ one, it infers no universal command.”–_Id._ “For if the _laying-aside of_ copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid.”–_Buchanan cor._ “James used to compare him to a cat, _which_ always _falls_ upon her legs.”–_Adam cor._
“From the low earth aspiring genius springs, And sails triumphant _borne_ on _eagle’s_ wings.”–_Lloyd cor._
LESSON XIII.–TWO ERRORS
“An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, _is_ always _faulty_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Yet in this we find _that_ the English pronounce _quite agreeably_ to rule.” Or thus: “Yet in this we find the English _pronunciation_ perfectly agreeable to rule.” Or thus: “Yet in this we find _that_ the English pronounce _in a manner_ perfectly agreeable to rule.”–_J. Walker cor._ “But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, _is a habit_, though absolutely necessary to the forming of _habits_.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “They were cast; and _a_ heavy fine _was_ imposed upon them.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Without making this reflection, he cannot enter into the spirit _of the author, or_ relish the composition.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The scholar should be instructed _in relation_ to _the_ finding _of_ his words.” Or thus: “The scholar should be _told how_ to _find_ his words.”–_Osborn cor._ “And therefore they could neither have forged, _nor have_ reversified them.”–_Knight cor._ “A dispensary is _a_ place _at which_ medicines are dispensed _to the poor_.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “Both the connexion and _the_ number of words _are_ determined by general laws.”–_Neef cor._ “An Anapest has the _first two_ syllables unaccented, and the last _one_ accented; as, c~ontr~av=ene, acquiesce.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “An explicative sentence is _one in which_ a thing is said, _in a direct manner_, to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer.”–_Lowth and Mur. cor._ “BUT is a conjunction _whenever_ it is neither an adverb nor _a_ preposition.” [551]–_R. C. Smith cor._ “He wrote in the name _of_ King _Ahasuerus_, and sealed _the writing_ with the king’s ring.”–_Bible cor._ “Camm and Audland _had_ departed _from_ the town before this time.”–_Sewel cor._ “_Before they will relinquish_ the practice, they must be convinced.”–_Webster cor._ “Which he had thrown up _before he set_ out.”–_Grimshaw cor._ “He left _to him_ the value of _a_ hundred drachms in Persian money.”–_Spect cor._ “All _that_ the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided _among_ the three.”–_Cardell cor._ “Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants, of _all_ that _have_ fallen under my observation.”–_Spect. cor._ “When you have once got him to think himself _compensated_ for his suffering, by the praise _which_ is given him for his courage.”–_Locke cor._ “In all matters _in which_ simple reason, _or_ mere speculation is concerned.”–_Sheridan cor._ “And therefore he should be spared _from_ the trouble of attending to anything else _than_ his meaning.”–_Id._ “It is this kind of phraseology _that_ is distinguished by the epithet _idiomatical; a species that was_ originally the spawn, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation.”–_Campbell and Murray cor._ “That neither the inflection nor _the letters_ are such as could have been employed by the ancient inhabitants of Latium.”–_Knight cor._ “In _those_ cases _in which_ the verb is intended to be applied to any one of the terms.”–_L. Murray cor._ “But _these_ people _who_ know not the law, are accursed.”–_Bible cor._ “And the magnitude of the _choruses has_ weight and sublimity.”–_Gardiner cor._ “_Dares_ he deny _that_ there are some of his fraternity guilty?”–_Barclay cor._ “Giving an account of most, if not all, _of_ the papers _which_ had passed betwixt them.”–_Id._ “In this manner, _as to both_ parsing and correcting, _should_ all the rules of syntax be treated, _being taken up_ regularly according to their order.”–_L. Murray cor._ “_To_ Ovando _were_ allowed a brilliant retinue and a _body-guard_.”–_Sketch cor._ “_Was_ it I or he, _that_ you requested to go?”–_Kirkham cor._ “Let _thee_ and _me_ go on.”–_Bunyan cor._ “This I nowhere affirmed; and _I_ do wholly deny _it_.”–_Barclay cor._ “But that I deny; and _it_ remains for him to prove _it_.”–_Id._ “Our country sinks beneath the yoke: _She_ weeps, _she_ bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds.”–_Shak. cor._ “Thou art the Lord who _chose_ Abraham and _brought_ him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees.”–_Bible and Mur. cor._ “He is the exhaustless fountain, from which _emanate_ all these attributes that _exist_ throughout this wide creation.”–_Wayland cor._ “I am he who _has_ communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who _has_ entered the gardens of pleasure.”–_Wright cor._
“Such _were_ in ancient times the tales received, Such by our good forefathers _were_ believed.”–_Rowe cor._
LESSON XIV.–TWO ERRORS.
“The noun or pronoun that _stands_ before the active verb, _usually represents_ the agent.”–_A. Murray cor._ “Such _seem_ to _have been_ the musings of our hero of the grammar-quill, when he penned the first part of his grammar.”–_Merchant cor._ “Two dots, the one placed above the other [:], _are_ called Sheva, and _are used to represent_ a very short _e_.”–_Wilson cor._ “Great _have_ been, and _are_, the obscurity and difficulty, in the nature and application of them” [: i.e.–of natural remedies].–_Butler cor._ “As two _are_ to four, so _are_ four to eight.”–_Everest cor._ “The invention and use of arithmetic, _reach_ back to a period so remote, as _to be_ beyond the knowledge of history.”– _Robertson cor._ “What it presents as objects of contemplation or enjoyment, _fill_ and _satisfy_ his mind.”–_Id._ “If he _dares_ not say they are, as I know he _dares_ not, how must I then distinguish?”–_Barclay cor._ “He _had_ now grown so fond of solitude, that all company _had_ become uneasy to him.”–_Life of Cic. cor._ “Violence and spoil _are_ heard in her; before me continually _are_ grief and wounds.”–_Bible cor._ “Bayle’s Intelligence from the Republic of Letters, which _makes_ eleven volumes in duodecimo, _is_ truly a model in this kind.”–_Formey cor._ “Pauses, to _be rendered_ pleasing and expressive, must not only be made in the right place, but also _be_ accompanied with a proper tone of voice.”–_L. Murray cor._ “_To oppose_ the opinions and _rectify_ the mistakes of others, is what truth and sincerity sometimes require of us.”–_Locke cor._ “It is very probable, that this assembly was called, to clear some doubt which the king had, _whether it were lawful for the Hollanders to throw_ off the monarchy of Spain, and _withdraw_ entirely their allegiance to that crown.” Or:–“About the lawfulness of the Hollanders’ _rejection of_ the monarchy of Spain, and _entire withdrawment of_ their allegiance to that crown.”–_L. Murray cor._ “_A_ naming _of_ the numbers and cases of a noun in their order, is called _the_ declining _of_ it, or _its declension_.”–_Frost cor._ “The embodying _of_ them is, therefore, only _a_ collecting _of_ such component parts of words.”–_Town cor._ “The one is the voice heard _when Christ was_ baptized; the other, _when he was_ transfigured.”–_Barclay cor._ “_An_ understanding _of_ the literal sense”–or, “_To have understood_ the literal sense, would not have prevented _them from_ condemning the guiltless.”–_Bp. Butler cor._ “As if this were, _to take_ the execution of justice out of the hands of God, and _to give_ it to nature.”–_Id._ “They will say, you must conceal this good opinion of yourself; which yet is _an_ allowing _of_ the thing, though not _of_ the showing _of_ it.” Or:–“which yet is, _to allow_ the thing, though not the showing _of_ it.”–_Sheffield cor._ “So as to signify not only the doing _of_ an action, but the causing _of_ it to be done.”–_Pike cor._ “This, certainly, was both _a_ dividing _of_ the unity of God, and _a_ limiting _of_ his immensity.”–_Calvin cor._ “Tones being infinite in number, and varying in almost every individual, the arranging _of_ them under distinct heads, and _the_ reducing _of_ them to any fixed and permanent rules, may be considered as the last refinement in language.”–_Knight cor._ “The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, until he _hath_ done it, and until he _hath_ performed the intents of his heart.”–_Bible cor._ “We seek for deeds _more_ illustrious and heroic, for events more diversified and surprising.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “We distinguish the genders, or the male and _the_ female sex, _in_ four different ways.”–_Buchanan cor._ “Thus, _ch_ and _g_ are ever hard. It is therefore proper to retain these sounds in _those_ Hebrew names which have not been _modernized_, or changed by public use.”–_Dr. Wilson cor._ “_A_ Substantive, or Noun, is the name of any thing _which is_ conceived to subsist, or of which we have any notion.”–_Murray and Lowth cor._ “_A_ Noun is the name of any thing _which_ exists, or of which we have, or can form, an idea.”–_Maunder cor._ “A Noun is the name of any thing in existence, or _of any thing_ of which we can form an idea.”–_Id._ “The next thing to be _attended to_, is, to keep him exactly to _the_ speaking of truth.”–_Locke cor._ “The material, _the_ vegetable, and _the_ animal world, receive this influence according to their several capacities.”–_Dial cor._ “And yet it is fairly defensible on the principles of the schoolmen; if _those things_ can be called principles, which _consist_ merely in words.”–_Campbell cor._
“Art thou so bare, and full of wretchedness, And _fearst_ to die? Famine is in thy cheeks, Need and oppression _starve_ in thy _sunk_ eyes.”–_Shak. cor._
LESSON XV.–THREE ERRORS.
“The silver age is reckoned to have commenced _at_ the death of Augustus, and _to have_ continued _till_ the end of Trajan’s reign.”–_Gould cor._ “Language _has indeed_ become, in modern times, more correct, and _more determinate_.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “It is evident, that _those_ words are _the_ most agreeable to the ear, which are composed of smooth and liquid sounds, _and in which_ there is a proper intermixture of vowels and consonants.”–_Id._ “It would have had no other effect, _than_ to add _to_ the sentence _an unnecessary_ word.”–_Id._ “But as rumours arose, _that_ the judges _had_ been corrupted by money in this cause, these gave _occasion_ to much popular clamour, and _threw_ a heavy odium on Cluentius.”–_Id._ “A Participle is derived _from_ a verb, and partakes of the nature both of the verb and _of an_ adjective.”–_Ash and Devis cor._ “I _shall_ have learned my grammar before you _will have learned yours_.”–_Wilbur and Livingston cor._ “There is no _other_ earthly object capable of making _so_ various and _so_ forcible impressions upon the human mind, as a complete speaker.”–_Perry cor._ “It was not the carrying _of_ the bag, _that_ made Judas a thief and _a_ hireling.”–_South cor._ “As the reasonable soul and _the_ flesh _are_ one man, so God and man _are_ one Christ.”–_Creed cor._ “And I will say to them _who_ were not my people, _Ye are_ my people; and they shall say, Thou art _our_ God.”–_Bible cor._ “Where there is _in the sense_ nothing _that_ requires the last sound to be elevated or _suspended_, an easy fall, sufficient to show that the sense is finished, will be proper.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “Each party _produce_ words _in which_ the letter _a_ is sounded in the manner _for which_ they contend.”–_J. Walker cor._ “To countenance persons _that_ are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove from _an actual commission of the same crimes_.”–_L. Mur. cor._ “‘To countenance persons _that_ are guilty of bad actions,’ is a _phrase or clause_ which is _made_ the _subject of_ the verb ‘is.'”–_Id._ “What is called _the_ splitting of particles,–_that is, the_ separating _of_ a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided.”–_Dr. Blair et al. cor._ (See Obs. 15th on Rule 23d.) “There is properly _but_ one pause, or rest, in the sentence; _and this falls_ betwixt the two members into which _the sentence_ is divided.”–_Iid._ “_To go_ barefoot, does not at all help _a man_ on, _in_ the way to heaven.”–_Steele cor._ “There is _nobody who does not condemn_ this in others, though _many_ overlook it in themselves.”–_Locke cor._ “Be careful not to use the same word _in_ the same sentence _either_ too frequently _or_ in different senses.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Nothing could have made her _more_ unhappy, _than to have married_ a man _of_ such principles.”–_Id._ “A warlike, various, and tragical age is _the_ best to write of, but _the_ worst to write in.”–_Cowley cor._ “When thou _instancest Peter’s_ babtizing [sic–KTH] _of_ Cornelius.”–_Barclay cor._ “To introduce two or more leading thoughts or _topics_, which have no natural _affinity_ or _mutual_ dependence.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Animals, again, are fitted to one _an other_, and to the elements _or regions in which_ they live, and to which they are as appendices.”–_Id._ “This melody, _however_, or so _frequent_ varying _of_ the sound of each word, is a proof of nothing, but of the fine ear of that people.”–_Jamieson cor._ “They can, each in _its turn_, be _used_ upon occasion.”–_Duncan cor._ “In this reign, lived the _poets_ Gower and Chaucer, who are the first authors _that_ can properly be said to have written English.”–_Bucke cor._ “In translating expressions _of this_ kind, consider the [phrase] ‘_it is_’ as if it were _they are_.”–_W. Walker cor._ “The chin has an important office to perform; for, _by the degree of_ its activity, we disclose _either_ a polite or _a_ vulgar pronunciation.”–_Gardiner cor._ “For no other reason, _than that he was_ found in bad company.”–_Webster cor._ “It is usual to compare them _after_ the manner _of polysyllables_.”–_Priestley cor._ “The infinitive mood is _recognized more easily_ than any _other_, because the preposition TO precedes it.”–_Bucke cor._ “Prepositions, you recollect, connect words, _and so do_ conjunctions: how, then, can you tell _a conjunction_ from _a preposition_?” Or:–“how, then, can you _distinguish_ the _former_ from the _latter_?”–_R. C. Smith cor._
“No kind of work requires _a nicer_ touch, And, _this_ well finish’d, _none else_ shines so much.” –_Sheffield cor._
LESSON XVI.–THREE ERRORS.
“_On_ many occasions, it is the final pause alone, _that_ marks the difference between prose and verse: _this_ will be evident from the following arrangement of a few poetical lines.”–_L. Murray cor._ “I shall do all I can to persuade others to take _for their cure_ the same measures _that_ I have _taken for mine_.”–_Guardian cor._; also _Murray_. “It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, _that_ they will set _a_ house on fire, _as_ it were, but to roast their eggs.”–_Bacon cor._ “Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause _in which_ both his honour and _his_ life _were_ concerned?”–_Duncan cor._ “So the rests, _or_ pauses, _which separate_ sentences _or_ their parts, are marked by points.”–_Lowth cor._ “Yet the case and _mood are_ not influenced by them, but _are_ determined by the nature of the sentence.”–_Id._ “_Through inattention_ to this rule, many errors have been committed: _several_ of which _are here_ subjoined, as a further caution and direction to the learner.”–_L. Murray cor._ “Though thou _clothe_ thyself with crimson, though thou _deck_ thee with ornaments of gold, though thou _polish_ thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair.” [552]–_Bible cor._ “But that the doing _of_ good to others, will make us happy, is not so evident; _the_ feeding _of_ the hungry, for example, or _the_ clothing _of_ the naked.” Or: “But that, _to do_ good to others, will make us happy, is not so evident; _to feed_ the hungry, for example, or _to clothe_ the naked.”–_Kames cor._ “There is no other God _than he_, no other light _than_ his.” Or: “There is no God _but he_, no light _but_ his.”–_Penn cor._ “How little reason _is there_ to wonder, that a _powerful_ and accomplished orator should be one of the characters that _are_ most rarely found.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “Because they express _neither the_ doing nor _the_ receiving _of_ an action.”–_Inf. S. Gram. cor._ “To find the answers, will require an effort of mind; and, when _right answers are_ given, _they_ will be the result of reflection, _and show_ that the subject is understood.”–_Id._ “‘The sun rises,’ is _an expression_ trite and common; but _the same idea_ becomes a magnificent image, when expressed _in the language of_ Mr. Thomson.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “The declining _of_ a word is the giving _of its_ different endings.” Or: “_To decline_ a word, is _to give_ it different endings.”–_Ware cor._ “And so much are they for _allowing_ every _one to follow his_ own mind.”–_Barclay cor._ “More than one overture for peace _were_ made, but Cleon prevented _them from_ taking effect.”–_Goldsmith cor._ “Neither in English, _nor_ in any other language, is this word, _or_ that which corresponds to it in _meaning_, any more an article, than TWO, THREE, _or_ FOUR.”–_Webster cor._ “But the most irksome conversation of all that I have met _with in_ the neighbourhood, has been _with_ two or three of your travellers.”–_Spect. cor._ “Set down the _first two_ terms of _the_ supposition, _one under the other_, in the first place.”–_Smiley cor._ “It is _a_ useful _practice_ too, to fix _one’s_ eye on some of the most distant persons in the assembly.”–_Dr. Blair cor._ “He will generally please _his hearers_ most, when _to please them_ is not his sole _or his_ chief aim.”–_Id._ “At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform _the soldiers, that_ they could _obtain for them_ no other terms _than those_ of surrendering their arms and passing under the yoke.”–_Id._ “Nor _are_ mankind so much to blame, in _their_ choice thus determining _them_.”–_Swift cor._ “These forms are what _are_ called _the Numbers_.” Or: “These forms are called _Numbers_.”–_Fosdick cor._ “In _those_