VII. PARTICIPLES
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XX.
UNDER NOTE I.--EXPUNGE OF.
"In forming his sentences, he was very exact."--L. Murray. "For not believing which, I condemn them."--Barclay cor. "To prohibit his hearers from reading that book."--Id. "You will please them exceedingly in crying down ordinances."--Mitchell cor. "The warwolf subsequently became an engine for casting stones." Or:--"for the casting of stones."--Cons. Misc. cor. "The art of dressing hides and working in leather was practised."--Id. "In the choice they had made of him for restoring order."--Rollin cor. "The Arabians exercised themselves by composing orations and poems."--Sale cor. "Behold, the widow-woman was there, gathering sticks."--Bible cor. "The priests were busied in offering burnt-offerings."--Id. "But Asahel would not turn aside from following him."--Id. "He left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."--Id. "Those who accuse us of denying it, belie us."--Barclay cor. "And breaking bread from house to house."--Acts, iv, 46. "Those that set about repairing the walls."--Barclay cor. "And secretly begetting divisions."--Id. "Whom he has made use of in gathering his church."--Id. "In defining and distinguishing the acceptations and uses of those particles."--W. Walker cor.
"In making this a crime, we overthrow The laws of nations and of nature too."--Dryden cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--ARTICLES REQUIRE OF.
"The mixing of them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction."--Kames cor. "The same objection lies against the employing of statues."--Id. "More efficacious than the venting of opulence upon the fine arts."--Id. "It is the giving of different names to the same object."--Id. "When we have in view the erecting of a column."--Id. "The straining of an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so frequent."--Id. "The cutting of evergreens in the shape of animals, is very ancient."--Id. "The keeping of juries without meat, drink, or fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea."--Webster cor. "The writing of the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise."--Beck cor. "The avoiding of them is not an object of any moment."--Sheridan cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the signification of a word by degrees."--Brit. Gram. cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the quality by degrees."--Buchanan cor. "The placing of a circumstance before the word with which it is connected is the easiest of all inversion."--Id. "What is emphasis? It is the emitting of a stronger and fuller sound of voice," &c.--Bradley cor. "Besides, the varying of the terms will render the use of them more familiar."--A. Mur. cor. "And yet the confining of themselves to this true principle, has misled them."--Tooke cor. "What is here commanded, is merely the relieving of his misery."--Wayland cor. "The accumulating of too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind in stead of adorning it."--Formey cor. "For the compassing of his point."--Rollin cor. "To the introducing of such an inverted order of things."--Bp. Butler cor. "Which require only the doing of an external action."--Id. "The imprisoning of my body is to satisfy your wills."--Fox cor. "Who oppose the conferring of such extensive command on one person."--Duncan cor. "Luxury contributed not a little to the enervating of their forces."--Sale cor. "The keeping of one day of the week for a sabbath."--Barclay cor. "The doing of a thing is contrary to the forbearing of it."--Id. "The doubling of the Sigma is, however, sometimes regular."--Knight cor. "The inserting of the common aspirate too, is improper."--Id. "But in Spenser's time the pronouncing of the ed [as a separate syllable,] seems already to have been something of an archaism."--Phil. Mu. cor. "And to the reconciling of the effect of their verses on the eye."--Id. "When it was not in their power to hinder the taking of the whole."--Dr. Brown cor. "He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting of the gates."--Id. "So his whole life was a doing of the will of the Father."--Penington cor. "It signifies the suffering or receiving of the action expressed."--Priestley cor. "The pretended crime therefore was the declaring of himself to be the Son of God."--West cor. "Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its different parts of speech."--Beck cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF.
"There is no expecting of the admiration of beholders."--Baxter cor. "There is no hiding of you in the house."--Shak. cor. "For the better regulating of government in the province of Massachusetts."--Brit. Parl. cor. "The precise marking of the shadowy boundaries of a complex government."--Adams cor. "This state of discipline requires the voluntary foregoing of many things which we desire, and the setting of ourselves to what we have no inclination to."--Bp. Butler cor. "This amounts to an active setting of themselves against religion."--Id. "Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing of our Christian discipline."--Friends cor. "Some men are so unjust that there is no securing of our own property or life, but by opposing force to force."--Rev. John Brown cor. "An Act for the better securing of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject."--Geo. III cor. "Miraculous curing of the sick is discontinued."--Barclay cor. "It would have been no transgressing of the apostle's rule."--Id. "As far as consistent with the proper conducting of the business of the House."--Elmore cor. "Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning of them at that day." Or:--"at their just condemnation at that day."--Bunyan cor. "That transferring of this natural manner will insure propriety."--Rush cor. "If a man were porter of hell-gate, he should have old [i.e., frequent] turning of the key."--Singer's Shakspeare cor.
UNDER NOTE II.--POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.
"So very simple a thing as a man's wounding of himself."--Dr. Blair cor., and Murray. "Or with that man's avowing of his designs."--Blair, Mur., et al. cor. "On his putting of the question."--Adams cor. "The importance of teachers' requiring of their pupils to read each section many times over."--Kirkham cor. "Politeness is a kind of forgetting of one's self, in order to be agreeable to others."--Ramsay cor. "Much, therefore, of the merit and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing of us into some acquaintance with the writer."--Blair and Mack cor. "Richard's restoration to respectability depends on his paying of his debts."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Their supplying of ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing of the words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."--Id. "Her veiling of herself, and shedding of tears, &c., her upbraiding of Paris for his cowardice," &c.--Blair cor. "A preposition may be made known by its admitting of a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case."--Murray et al. cor. "But this forms no just objection to its denoting of time."--L. Mur. cor. "Of men's violating or disregarding of the relations in which God has here placed them."--Bp. Butler cor. "Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man's killing of his antagonist in a duel."--Campbell cor. "His reminding of them."--Kirkham cor. "This mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing of him to plant some beans."--Id. "Their neglecting of this was ruinous."--Frost cor. "That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing of the others as 'finite.'"--Felch cor. "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing of it." Or:--"that he does it."--Sheridan cor.
UNDER NOTE III.--CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.
"An allegory is a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying of only one thing, when we have two in view."--Phil. Mu. cor. "A verb may generally be distinguished by the sense which it makes with any of the personal pronouns, or with the word TO, before it."--Murray et al. cor. "A noun may in general be distinguished by the article which comes before it, or by the sense which it makes of itself."--Merchant et al. cor. "An adjective may usually be known by the sense which it makes with the word thing; as, a good thing, a bad thing."--Iid. "It is seen to be in the objective case, because it denotes the object affected by the act of leaving."--O. B. Peirce cor. "It is seen to be in the possessive case, because it denotes the possessor of something."--Id. "The noun MAN is caused by the adjective WHATEVER to seem like a twofold nominative, as if it denoted, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks."--Id. "WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, because it joins that line to the other part of the sentence."--Id. "Because they denote reciprocation."--Id. "To allow them to make use of that liberty;"--"To allow them to use that liberty;"--or, "To allow them that liberty."--Sale cor. "The worst effect of it is, that it fixes on your mind a habit of indecision."--Todd cor. "And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that you have not power to shake it off."--Id. "I know of nothing that can justify the student in having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer."--Coleridge cor. "Humour is the conceit of making others act or talk absurdly."--Hazlitt cor. "There are remarkable instances in which they do not affect each other."--Bp. Butler cor. "That Cæsar was left out of the commission, was not from any slight."--Life cor. "Of the thankful reception of this toleration, I shall say no more," Or: "Of the propriety of receiving this toleration thankfully, I shall say no more."--Dryden cor. "Henrietta was delighted with Julia's skill in working lace."--O. B. Peirce cor. "And it is because each of them represents two different words, that the confusion has arisen."--Booth cor. "Æschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's dropping of a tortoise on his head." Or:--"caused by a tortoise which an eagle let fall on his head."--Biog. Dict. cor. "He doubted whether they had it."--Felch cor. "To make ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech."--Sheridan cor. "One cannot discover in their countenances any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart."--Id. "Nothing can be more common or less proper, than to speak of a river as emptying itself."--Campbell cor. "Our non-use of the former expression, is owing to this."--Bullions cor.
UNDER NOTE IV.--DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.
"To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying-down of the method of the discourse."--Dr. Blair cor. "To the pulling-down of strong holds."--Bible cor. "Can a mere buckling-on of a military weapon infuse courage?"--Dr. Brown cor. "Expensive and luxurious living destroys health."--L. Murray cor. "By frugal and temperate living, health is preserved." Or: "By living frugally and temperately, we preserve our health."--Id. "By the doing-away of the necessity."--The Friend cor. "He recommended to them, however, the immediate calling of--(or, immediately to call--) the whole community to the church."--Gregory cor. "The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly facilitates the right reading of them."--Churchill cor. "From their mere admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."--Phil. Mu. cor. "His grave lecturing of his friend about it."--Id. "For the blotting-out of sin."--Gurney cor. "From the not-using of water."-- Barclay cor. "By the gentle dropping-in of a pebble."--Sheridan cor. "To the carrying-on of a great part of that general course of nature."--Bp. Butler cor. "Then the not-interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint."--Id. "The bare omission, (or rather, the not-employing,) of what is used."--Campbell and Jamieson cor. "The bringing-together of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."-- Churchill cor. "This is a presumptive proof that it does not proceed from them."--Bp. Butler cor. "It represents him in a character to which any injustice is peculiarly unsuitable."--Campbell cor. "They will aim at something higher than a mere dealing-out of harmonious sounds."-- Kirkham cor. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and any further account of the matter seems beyond the reach of our faculties."--Bp. Butler cor. "Apostrophe is a turning-off from the regular course of the subject."--Mur. et al. cor. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending-out of a commission to investigate his conduct."--Life of Columbus cor. "For the turning-away of the simple shall slay them."--Bible cor.
"Thick fingers always should command Without extension of the hand."--King cor.
UNDER NOTE V.--OF PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.
"Is there any Scripture which speaks of the light as being inward?"--Barclay cor. "For I believe not positiveness therein essential to salvation."--Id. "Our inability to act a uniformly right part without some thought and care."--Bp. Butler cor. "On the supposition that it is reconcilable with the constitution of nature."--Id. "On the ground that it is not discoverable by reason or experience."--Id. "On the ground that they are unlike the known course of nature."--Id. "Our power to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."--Id. "From its lack of universality."--Id. "That they may be turned into passive participles in dus, is no decisive argument to prove them passive."--Grant cor. "With the implied idea that St. Paul was then absent from the Corinthians."--Kirkham cor. "Because it becomes gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence."--Id. "Not without the author's full knowledge."--Id. "Wit out of season is one sort of folly."--Sheffield cor. "Its general susceptibility of a much stronger evidence."-- Campbell cor. "At least, that they are such, rarely enhances our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."--Id. "Which were the ground of our unity."--Barclay cor. "But they may be distinguished from it by their intransitiveness."--L. Murray cor. "To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing's possibility."--Churchill cor.
"That he was idle, and dishonest too, Was that which caused his utter overthrow."--Tobitt cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.--OF COMPOUND VERBAL NOUNS.
"When it denotes subjection to the exertion of an other."--Booth cor. "In the passive sense, it signifies a subjection to the influence of the action."--Felch cor. "To be abandoned by our friends, is very deplorable."--Goldsmith cor. "Without waiting to be attacked by the Macedonians."--Id. "In progress of time, words were wanted to express men's connexion with certain conditions of fortune."--Dr. Blair cor. "Our acquaintance with pain and sorrow has a tendency to bring us to a settled moderation."--Bp. Butler cor. "The chancellor's attachment to the king, secured to the monarch his crown."--L. Murray et al. cor. "The general's failure in this enterprise occasioned his disgrace."-- Iid. "John's long application to writing had wearied him."--Iid. "The sentence may be, 'John's long application to writing has wearied him.'"--Wright cor. "Much depends on the observance of this rule."-- L. Murray cor. "He mentioned that a boy had been corrected for his faults."--Alger and Merchant cor. "The boy's punishment is shameful to him."--Iid. "The greater the difficulty of remembrance is, and the more important the being-remembered is to the attainment of the ultimate end."--Campbell cor. "If the parts in the composition of similar objects were always in equal quantity, their being-compounded (or their compounding) would make no odds."--Id. "Circumstances, not of such importance as that the scope of the relation is affected by their being-known"--or, "by the mention of them."--Id. "A passive verb expresses the receiving of an action, or represents its subject as being acted upon; as, 'John is beaten.'"--Frost cor. "So our language has an other great advantage; namely, that it is little diversified by genders."--Buchanan cor. "The slander concerning Peter is no fault of his."--Frost cor. "Without faith in Christ, there is no justification."--Penn cor. "Habituation to danger begets intrepidity; i.e., lessens fear."--Bp. Butler cor. "It is not affection of any kind, but action that forms those habits."--Id. "In order that we may be satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox."--Campbell cor. "A trope consists in the employing of a word to signify something that is different from its original or usual meaning."--Blair, Jamieson, Murray, and Kirkham cor.; also Hiley. "The scriptural view of our salvation from punishment."--Gurney cor. "To submit and obey, is not a renouncing of the Spirit's leading."--Barclay cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.--PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &c.
"To teach little children is a pleasant employment." Or: "The teaching of little children," &c.--Bartlett cor. "To deny or compromise the principles of truth, is virtually to deny their divine Author."--Reformer cor. "A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear retrenching"--"retrenchment"--or, "to be retrenched."--Dr. Blair cor. "Never attempt to prolong the pathetic too much."--Id. "I now recollect to have mentioned--(or, that I mentioned--) a report of that nature."--Whiting cor. "Nor of the necessity which there is, for their restraint--(or, for them to be restrained--) in them."--Bp. Butler cor. "But, to do what God commands because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear."--Id. "Simply to close the nostrils, does not so entirely prevent resonance."--Gardiner cor. "Yet they absolutely refuse to do so."--Harris cor. "But Artaxerxes could not refuse to pardon him."--Goldsmith cor. "The doing of them in the best manner, is signified by the names of these arts."--Rush cor. "To behave well for the time to come, may be insufficient."--Bp. Butler cor. "The compiler proposed to publish that part by itself."--Adam cor. "To smile on those whom we should censure, is, to bring guilt upon ourselves."--Kirkham cor. "But it would be great injustice to that illustrious orator, to bring his genius down to the same level."--Id. "The doubt that things go ill, often hurts more, than to be sure they do."--Shak. cor. "This is called the straining of a metaphor."-- Blair and Murray cor. "This is what Aristotle calls the giving of manners to the poem."--Dr. Blair cor. "The painter's entire confinement to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action."--L. Mur. cor. "It imports the retrenchment of all superfluities, and a pruning of the expression."--Blair et al. cor. "The necessity for us to be thus exempted is further apparent."--Jane West cor. "Her situation in life does not allow her to be genteel in every thing."--Same. "Provided you do not dislike to be dirty when you are invisible."--Same. "There is now an imperious necessity for her to be acquainted with her title to eternity."--Same. "Disregard to the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness."--Same. "The legislature prohibits the opening of shops on Sunday."--Same. "To attempt to prove that any thing is right."--O. B. Peirce cor. "The comma directs us to make a pause of a second in duration, or less."--Id. "The rule which directs us to put other words into the place of it, is wrong."--Id. "They direct us to call the specifying adjectives, or adnames, adjective pronouns."--Id. "William dislikes to attend court."--Frost cor. "It may perhaps be worth while to remark, that Milton makes a distinction."--Phil. Mu. cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."--Murray et al. cor. "To profess regard and act indifferently, discovers a base mind."--Weld cor. "You have proved beyond contradiction, that this course of action is the sure way to procure such an object."--Campbell cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.--PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &c.
"Irony is a figure in which the speaker sneeringly utters the direct reverse of what he intends shall be understood."--Brown's Inst., p. 235. [Correct by this the four false definitions of "Irony" cited from Murray, Peirce, Fisher, and Sanborn.] "This is, in a great measure, a delivering of their own compositions."--Buchanan cor. "But purity is a right use of the words of the language."--Jamieson cor. "But the most important object is the settling of the English quantity."--Walker cor. "When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to an other is a very wide step taken."--Campbell cor. "It will be a loss of time, to attempt further to illustrate it."--Id. "This leaves the sentence too bare, and makes it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense."--Cobbett cor. "This is a requiring of more labours from every private member."--J. West cor. "Is not this, to use one measure for our neighbours and an other for ourselves?"--Same. "Do we not charge God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?"--Same. "This is not, to endure the cross, as a disciple of Jesus Christ; but, to snatch at it, like a partisan of Swift's Jack."--Same. "What is spelling? It is the combining of letters to form syllables and words."--O. B. Peirce cor. "It is the choosing of such letters to compose words," &c.--Id. "What is parsing? (1.) It is a describing of the nature, use, and powers of words."--Id. (2.) "For Parsing is a describing of the words of a sentence as they are used."--Id. (3.) "Parsing is only a describing of the nature and relations of words as they are used."--Id. (4.) "Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is a statement of facts concerning words; or a describing of words in their offices and relations as they are."--Id. (5.) "Parsing is the resolving and explaining of words according to the rules of grammar."--Id. Better: "Parsing is the resolving or explaining of a sentence according to the definitions and rules of grammar."--Brown's Inst., p. 28. (6.) "The parsing of a word, remember, is an enumerating and describing of its various qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence."--Peirce cor. (7.) "For the parsing of a word is an enumerating and describing of its various properties, and [its] relations to [other words in] the sentence."--Id. (8.) "The parsing of a noun is an explanation of its person, number, gender, and case; and also of its grammatical relation in a sentence, with respect to some other word or words."--Ingersoll cor. (9.) "The parsing of any part of speech is an explanation of all its properties and relations."--Id. (10.)" Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its elements."--Fowler cor. "The highway of the upright is, to depart from evil."--Prov., xvi, 17. "Besides, the first step towards exhibiting the truth, should be, to remove the veil of error."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Punctuation is the dividing of sentences, and the words of sentences, by points for pauses."--Id. "An other fault is the using of the imperfect tense SHOOK in stead of the participle SHAKEN."--Churchill cor. "Her employment is the drawing of maps."--Alger cor. "To go to the play, according to his notion, is, to lead a sensual life, and to expose one's self to the strongest temptations. This is a begging of the question, and therefore requires no answer."--Formey cor. "It is an overvaluing of ourselves, to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities."--Comly's Key, in his Gram., p. 188; Fisk's Gram., p. 135. "What is vocal language? It is speech, or the expressing of ideas by the human voice."--C. W. Sanders cor.
UNDER NOTE IX.--VERBS OF PREVENTING.
"The annulling power of the constitution prevented that enactment from becoming a law."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Which prevents the manner from being brief."--Id. "This close prevents them from bearing forward as nominatives."--Rush cor. "Because this prevents it from growing drowsy."--Formey cor. "Yet this does not prevent him from being great."--Id. "To prevent it from being insipid."--Id. "Or whose interruptions did not prevent its continuance." Or thus: "Whose interruptions did not prevent it from being continued."--Id. "This by no means prevents them from being also punishments."--Wayland cor. "This hinders them not from being also, in the strictest sense, punishments."--Id. "The noise made by the rain and wind, prevented them from being heard."--Goldsmith cor. "He endeavoured to prevent it from taking effect."--Id. "So sequestered as to prevent them from being explored."--Jane West cor. "Who prevented her from making a more pleasant party."--Same. "To prevent us from being tossed about by every wind of doctrine."--Same. "After the infirmities of age prevented him from bearing his part of official duty."--R. Adam cor. "To prevent splendid trifles from passing for matters of importance."--Kames cor. "Which prevents him from exerting himself to any good purpose."--Beattie cor. "The nonobservance of this rule very frequently prevents us from being punctual in the performance of our duties."--Todd cor. "Nothing will prevent him from being a student, and possessing the means of study."--Id. "Does the present accident hinder you from being honest and brave?"--Collier cor. "The e is omitted to prevent two Ees from coming together."--Fowle cor. "A pronoun is used for, or in place of, a noun,--to prevent a repetition of the noun."--Sanborn cor. "Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents it from being tired with the frequent recurrence of the rhymes."--Campbell cor.; also Murray. "Timidity and false shame prevent us from opposing vicious customs."--Mur. et al. cor. "To prevent them from being moved by such."--Campbell cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."--Priestley cor. "Which prevents us from making a progress towards perfection."--Sheridan cor. "This method of distinguishing words, must prevent any regular proportion of time from being settled."--Id. "That nothing but affectation can prevent it from always taking place."--Id. "This did not prevent John from being acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy." Or: "Notwithstanding this, John was acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy."--Henry, Webster, Sanborn, and Fowler cor.
UNDER NOTE X.--THE LEADING WORD IN SENSE.
"This would make it impossible for a noun, or any other word, ever to be in the possessive case."--O. B. Peirce cor. "A great part of our pleasure arises from finding the plan or story well conducted."--Dr. Blair cor. "And we have no reason to wonder that this was the case."--Id. "She objected only, (as Cicero says,) to Oppianicus as having two sons by his present wife."--Id. "The subjugation of the Britons by the Saxons, was a necessary consequence of their calling of these Saxons to their assistance."--Id. "What he had there said concerning the Saxons, that they expelled the Britons, and changed the customs, the religion, and the language of the country, is a clear and a good reason why our present language is Saxon, rather than British."--Id. "The only material difference between them, except that the one is short and the other more prolonged, is, that a metaphor is always explained by the words that are connected with it."--Id. et Mur. cor. "The description of Death, advancing to meet Satan on his arrival."--Rush cor. "Is not the bare fact, that God is the witness of it, sufficient ground for its credibility to rest upon?"--Chalmers cor. "As in the case of one who is entering upon a new study."--Beattie cor. "The manner in which these affect the copula, is called the imperative mood."--Wilkins cor. "We are freed from the trouble, because our nouns have scarcely any diversity of endings."--Buchanan cor. "The verb is rather indicative of the action as being doing, or done, than of the time of the event; but indeed the ideas are undistinguishable."--Booth cor. "Nobody would doubt that this is a sufficient proof."--Campbell cor. "Against the doctrine here maintained, that conscience as well as reason, is a natural faculty."--Beattie cor. "It is one cause why the Greek and English languages are much more easy to learn, than the Latin."--Bucke cor. "I have not been able to make out a solitary instance in which such has been the fact."--Lib. cor. "An angel, forming the appearance of a hand, and writing the king's condemnation on the wall, checked their mirth, and filled them with terror."--Wood cor. "The prisoners, in attempting to escape, aroused the keepers."--O. B. Peirce cor. "I doubt not, in the least, that this has been one cause of the multiplication of divinities in the heathen world."--Dr. Blair cor. "From the general rule he lays down, that the verb is the parent word of all language."--Tooke cor. "He was accused of being idle." Or: "He was accused of idleness."--Felch cor. "Our meeting is generally dissatisfied with him for so removing." Or: "with the circumstances of his removal."--Edmondson cor. "The spectacle is too rare, of men deserving solid fame while not seeking it."--Bush cor. "What further need was there that an other priest should rise?"--Heb., vii, 11.
UNDER NOTE XI.--REFERENCE OF PARTICIPLES.
"Viewing them separately, we experience different emotions." Or: "Viewed separately, they produce different emotions."--Kames cor. "But, this being left doubtful, an other objection occurs."--Id. "As he proceeded from one particular to an other, the subject grew under his hand."--Id. "But this is still an interruption, and a link of the chain is broken."--Id. "After some days' hunting,--(or, After some days spent in hunting,)--Cyrus communicated his design to his officers."--Rollin cor. "But it is made, without the appearance of being made in form."--Dr. Blair cor. "These would have had a better effect, had they been disjoined, thus."--Blair and Murray cor. "In an improper diphthong, but one of the vowels is sounded."--Murray, Alger, et al. cor. "And I being led to think of both together, my view is rendered unsteady."--Blair, Mur., and Jam. cor. "By often doing the same thing, we make the action habitual." Or: "What is often done, becomes habitual."--L. Murray cor. "They remain with us in our dark and solitary hours, no less than when we are surrounded with friends and cheerful society."--Id. "Besides showing what is right, one may further explain the matter by pointing out what is wrong."--Lowth cor. "The former teaches the true pronunciation of words, and comprises accent, quantity, emphasis, pauses, and tones."--L. Murray cor. "A person may reprove others for their negligence, by saying, 'You have taken great care indeed.'"--Id. "The word preceding and the word following it, are in apposition to each other."--Id. "He having finished his speech, the assembly dispersed."--Cooper cor. "Were the voice to fall at the close of the last line, as many a reader is in the habit of allowing it to do."--Kirkham cor. "The misfortunes of his countrymen were but negatively the effects of his wrath, which only deprived them of his assistance."--Kames cor. "Taking them as nouns, we may explain this construction thus."--Grant cor. "These have an active signification, except those which come from neuter verbs."--Id. "From its evidence not being universal." Or: "From the fact that its evidence is not universal."--Bp. Butler cor. "And this faith will continually grow, as we acquaint ourselves with our own nature."--Channing cor. "Monosyllables ending with any consonant but f, l, or s, never double the final consonant, when it is preceded by a single vowel; except add, ebb," &c.--Kirkham's Gram., p. 23. Or: "Words ending with any consonant except f, l, or s, do not double the final letter. Exceptions. Add, ebb, &c."--Bullions's E. Gram., p. 3. (See my 2d Rule for Spelling, of which this is a partial copy.) "The relation of Maria as being the object of the action, is expressed by the change of the noun Maria to Mariam;" [i. e., in the Latin language.]--Booth cor. "In analyzing a proposition, one must first divide it into its logical subject and predicate."--Andrews and Stoddard cor. "In analyzing a simple sentence, one should first resolve it into its logical subject and logical predicate."--Wells cor.
UNDER NOTE XII.--OF PARTICIPLES AND NOUNS.
"The instant discovery of passions at their birth, is essential to our well-being."--Kames cor. "I am now to enter on a consideration of the sources of the pleasures of taste."--Blair cor. "The varieties in the use of them are indeed many."--Murray cor. "The changing of times and seasons, the removing and the setting-up of kings, belong to Providence alone."--Id. "Adherence to the partitions, seemed the cause of France; acceptance of the will, that of the house of Bourbon."--Bolingbroke cor. "An other source of darkness in composition, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases."--Campbell cor. "These are the rules of grammar; by observing which, you may avoid mistakes."--L. Murray et al. cor. "By observing the rules, you may avoid mistakes."--Alger cor. "By observing these rules, he succeeded."--Frost cor. "The praise bestowed on him was his ruin."--Id. "Deception is not convincement."--Id. "He never feared the loss of a friend."--Id. "The making of books is his amusement."--Alger cor. "We call it the declining--(or, the declension--) of a noun."--Ingersoll cor. "Washington, however, pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly the taking of any part in the wars of Europe."--Hall and Baker cor. "The following is a note of Interrogation, or of a question: (?)."--Inf. S. Gram. cor. "The following is a note of Admiration, or of wonder: (!)."--Id. "The use or omission of the article A forms a nice distinction in the sense."--Murray cor. "The placing of the preposition before the word, which it governs, is more graceful."--Churchill cor. (See Lowth's Gram., p. 96; Murray's, i, 200; Fisk's, 141; Smith's, 167.) "Assistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and the retrieving of their affairs."--Bp. Butler cor. "Which termination, [ish,] when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or a lessening of the quality."--Mur. and Kirkham cor. "After what has been said, will it be thought an excess of refinement, to suggest that the different orders are qualified for different purposes?"--Kames cor. "Who has nothing to think of, but the killing of time."--West cor. "It requires no nicety of ear, as in the distinguishing of tones, or the measuring of time."--Sheridan cor. "The possessive case [is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which] denotes possession, or the relation of property."--S. R. Hall cor.
UNDER NOTE XIII.--PERFECT PARTICIPLES.
"Garcilasso was master of the language spoken by the Incas."--Robertson cor. "When an interesting story is broken off in the middle."--Kames cor. "Speaking of Hannibal's elephants driven back by the enemy."--Id. "If Du Ryer had not written for bread, he would have equalled them."--Formey cor. "Pope describes a rock broken off from a mountain, and hurling to the plain."--Kames cor. "I have written, Thou hast written, He hath or has written; &c."--Ash and Maltby cor. "This was spoken by a pagan."--Webster cor. "But I have chosen to follow the common arrangement."--Id. "The language spoken in Bengal."--Id. "And sound sleep thus broken off with sudden alarms, is apt enough to discompose any one."--Locke cor. "This is not only the case of those open sinners before spoken of."--Leslie cor. "Some grammarians have written a very perplexed and difficult doctrine on Punctuation."--Ensell cor. "There hath a pity arisen in me towards thee."--G. Fox Jun. cor. "Abel is the only man that has undergone the awful change of death."--De Genlis, Death of Adam.
"Meantime, on Afric's glowing sands, Smit with keen heat, the traveller stands."--Ode cor.
VIII. ADVERBS
CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXI.
UNDER NOTE I.--THE PLACING OF ADVERBS.
"Not all that is favoured by good use, is proper to be retained."--L. Murray corrected. "Not everything favoured by good use, is on that account worthy to be retained."--Campbell cor. "Most men dream, but not all."--Beattie cor. "By hasty composition, we shall certainly acquire a very bad style."--Dr. Blair cor. "The comparisons are short, touching on only one point of resemblance."--Id. "Having once had some considerable object set before us."--Id. "The positive seems to be improperly called a degree." [543]--Adam and Gould cor. "In some phrases, the genitive only is used."--Iid. "This blunder is said to have actually occurred."--Smith cor. "But not every man is called James, nor every woman, Mary."--Buchanan cor. "Crotchets are employed for nearly the same purpose as the parenthesis."--Churchill cor. "There is a still greater impropriety in a double comparative."--Priestley cor. "We often have occasion to speak of time."--Lowth cor. "The following sentence cannot possibly be understood."--Id. "The words must generally be separated from the context."--Comly cor. "Words ending in ator, generally have the accent on the penultimate."--L. Mur. cor. "The learned languages, with respect to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in general, constructed differently from the English tongue."--Id. "Adverbs seem to have been originally contrived to express compendiously, in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more."--Id. "But it is so, only when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case."--Id. "'Enter boldly,' says he, 'for here too there are gods.'"--Harris cor. "For none ever work for so little a pittance that some cannot be found to work for less."--Sedgwick cor. "For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive again as much."--Bible cor. Or, as Campbell has it in his version:--"that they may receive as much in return."--Luke, vi, 34. "They must be viewed in exactly the same light."--L. Murray cor. "If he speaks but to display his abilities, he is unworthy of attention."--Id.
UNDER NOTE II.--ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.
"Upward motion is commonly more agreeable than motion downward."--Dr. Blair cor. "There are but two possible ways of justification before God."--Cox cor. "This construction sounds rather harsh."--Mur. and Ing. cor. "A clear conception, in the mind of the learner, of regular and well-formed letters."--C. S. Jour. cor. "He was a great hearer of * * * Attalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes frequent mention."--L'Estrange cor. "It is only the frequent doing of a thing, that makes it a custom."--Leslie cor. "Because W. R. takes frequent 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 Cæsar 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.
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 Staël 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 Noëtians 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.
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."--Lévizac 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 congé-d'élire 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.
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.
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 (§) 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 aërial 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 Staël 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 Æschylus 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. "Cæsar 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 Cæsar 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, acquiésce."--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 languages which admit but two genders, all nouns are either masculine or feminine, even though they designate beings that are neither male nor female."--Id. "It is called Verb or Word by way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence, and one without which the other parts of speech cannot form any complete sense."--Gould cor. "The sentence will consist of two members, and these will commonly be separated from each other by a comma."--Jamieson cor. "Loud and soft in speaking are like the fortè and piano in music; they only refer to the different degrees of force used in the same key: whereas high and low imply a change of key."--Sheridan cor. "They are chiefly three: the acquisition of knowledge; the assisting of the memory to treasure up this knowledge; and the communicating of it to others."--Id.
"This kind of knaves I know, who in this plainness Harbour more craft, and hide corrupter ends, Than twenty silly ducking observants."--Shak. cor.
LESSON XVII.--MANY ERRORS.
"A man will be forgiven, even for great errors, committed in a foreign language; but, in the use he makes of his own, even the least slips are justly pointed out and ridiculed."--Amer. Chesterfield cor. "LET expresses not only permission, but entreaty, exhortation, and command."--Lowth cor.; also Murray, et al. "That death which is our leaving of this world, is nothing else than the putting-off of these bodies."--Sherlock cor. "They differ from the saints recorded in either the Old or the New Testament."--Newton cor. "The nature of relation, therefore, consists in the referring or comparing of two things to each other; from which comparison, one or both come to be denominated."--Locke cor. "It is not credible, that there is any one who will say, that through the whole course of his life he has kept himself entirely undefiled, without the least spot or stain of sin."--Witsius cor. "If to act conformably to the will of our Creator,--if to promote the welfare of mankind around us,--if to secure our own happiness, is an object of the highest moment; then are we loudly called upon to cultivate and extend the great interests of religion and virtue." Or: "If, to act conformably to the will of our Creator, to promote the welfare of mankind around us, and to secure our own happiness, are objects of the highest moment; then," &c.--Murray et al. cor. "The verb being in the plural number, it is supposed, that the officer and his guard are joint agents. But this is not the case: the only nominative to the verb is 'officer.' In the expression, 'with his guard,' the noun 'guard' is in the objective case, being governed by the preposition with; and consequently it cannot form the nominative, or any part of it. The prominent subject for the agreement, the true nominative to the verb, or the term to which the verb peculiarly refers, is the word 'officer.'"--L. Murray cor. "This is an other use, that, in my opinion, contributes to make a man learned rather than wise; and is incapable of pleasing either the understanding or the imagination."--Addison cor. "The work is a dull performance; and is incapable of pleasing either the understanding or the imagination."--L. Murray cor. "I would recommend the 'Elements of English Grammar,' by Mr. Frost. The plan of this little work is similar to that of Mr. L. Murray's smallest Grammar; but, in order to meet the understanding of children, its definitions and language are simplified, so far as the nature of the subject will admit. It also embraces more examples for Parsing, than are usual in elementary treatises."--S. R. Hall cor. "More rain falls in the first two summer months, than in the first two months of winter; but what falls, makes a much greater show upon the earth, in winter than in summer, because there is a much slower evaporation."--L. Murray cor. "They often contribute also to render some persons prosperous, though wicked; and, what is still worse, to reward some actions, though vicious; and punish other actions, though virtuous."--Bp. Butler cor. "Hence, to such a man, arise naturally a secret satisfaction, a sense of security, and an implicit hope of somewhat further."--Id. "So much for the third and last cause of illusion, that was noticed above; which arises from the abuse of very general and abstract terms; and which is the principal source of the abundant nonsense that has been vented by metaphysicians, mystagogues, and theologians."--Campbell cor. "As to those animals which are less common, or which, on account of the places they inhabit, fall less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or which their diminutive size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English, employ a single noun to designate both genders, the masculine and the feminine."--Fosdick cor. "Adjectives may always be distinguished by their relation to other words: they express the quality, condition, or number, of whatever things are mentioned."--Emmons cor. "An adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb; and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner."--Brown's Inst., p. 29. "The joining-together of two objects, so grand, and the representing of them both, as subject at one moment to the command of God, produce a noble effect."--Dr. Blair cor. "Twisted columns, for instance, are undoubtedly ornamental; but, as they have an appearance of weakness, they displease the eye, whenever they are used to support any massy part of a building, or what seems to require a more substantial prop."--Id. "In a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks, some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet different from the Greeks', the Latins', and the Hebrews', and also unlike that of any modern nation."--W. C. Fowler cor.
LESSON XVIII.--MANY ERRORS.
"The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated on the northeast side of Lilliput, from which it is parted by a channel of only 800 yards in width."--Swift and Kames cor. "The nominative case usually denotes the agent or doer; and any noun or pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, is always in this case."--R. C. Smith cor. "There are, in his allegorical personages, an originality, a richness, and a variety, which almost vie with the splendours of the ancient mythology."--Hazlitt cor. "As neither the Jewish nor the Christian revelation has been universal, and as each has been afforded to a greater or a less part of the world at different times; so likewise, at different times, both revelations have had different degrees of evidence."--Bp. Butler cor. "Thus we see, that, to kill a man with a sword, and to kill one with a hatchet, are looked upon as no distinct species of action; but, if the point of the sword first enter the body, the action passes for a distinct species, called stabbing."--Locke cor. "If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour concerning that which was delivered him to keep, or deceive his neighbour, or find that which was lost, and lie concerning it, and swear falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein, then it shall be," &c.--Bible cor. "As, to do and teach the commandments of God, is the great proof of virtue; so, to break them, and to teach others to break them, are the great proofs of vice."--Wayland cor. "The latter simile, in Pope's terrific maltreatment of it, is true neither to the mind nor to the eye."--Coleridge cor. "And the two brothers were seen, transported with rage and fury, like Eteocles and Polynices, each endeavouring to plunge his sword into the other's heart, and to assure himself of the throne by the death of his rival."--Goldsmith cor. "Is it not plain, therefore, that neither the castle, nor the planet, nor the cloud, which you here see, is that real one which you suppose to exist at a distance?"--Berkley cor. "I have often wondered, how it comes to pass, that every body should love himself best, and yet value his neighbours' opinion about himself more than his own."--Collier cor. "Virtue, ([Greek: Aretæ], Virtus,) as well as most of its species, when sex is figuratively ascribed to it, is made feminine, perhaps from its beauty and amiable appearance."--Harris cor. "Virtue, with most of its species, is made feminine when personified; and so is Vice, perhaps for being Virtue's opposite."--Brit. Gram. cor.; also Buchanan. "From this deduction, it may easily be seen, how it comes to pass, that personification makes so great a figure in all compositions in which imagination or passion has any concern."--Dr. Blair cor. "An Article is a word placed before a noun, to point it out as such, and to show how far its signification extends."--Folker cor. "All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights;--among which are the rights of enjoying and defending life and liberty; of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and, in a word, of seeking and obtaining happiness."--Const. of N. H. cor. "From those grammarians who form their ideas and make their decisions, respecting this part of English grammar, from the principles and construction of other languages,--of languages which do not in these points accord with our own, but which differ considerably from it,--we may naturally expect grammatical schemes that will be neither perspicuous nor consistent, and that will tend rather to perplex than to inform the learner."--Murray and Hall cor. "Indeed there are but very few who know how to be idle and innocent, or who have a relish for any pleasures that are not criminal; every diversion which the majority take, is at the expense of some one virtue or other, and their very first step out of business is into vice or folly."--Addison cor.
"Hail, holy Love! thou bliss that sumst all bliss! Giv'st and receiv'st all bliss; fullest when most Thou giv'st; spring-head of all felicity!"--Pollok cor.