Part 3 — CHAPTER VI.—VERBS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.

"Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres."—Duncan cor. "Knowing that you were my old master's good friend."—Spect. cor. "When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"—Webster cor. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends."—Mur. cor. "They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved."—R. Williams cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."—Micah, v, 2. "You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him."—Porter cor. "Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned."—Churchill cor. "Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts." Or: "No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts."—Duncan cor. "I wondered where you were, my dear."—Lloyd cor. "When thou most sweetly singst."—Drummond cor. "Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?"—Gardiner cor. "Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."—Byron cor. "As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions."—M. B. cor. "Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?"—Everest cor. "The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders."—Id. "Some pains have likewise been taken."—Scott cor. "And many a steed in his stables was seen."—Penwarne cor. "They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food."—Josephus cor. "This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."—Hutchinson cor. "By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge."—Committee cor. "He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."—Walton cor. "If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach." Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach."—Swift cor. "Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself."—Barclay cor. "But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat'st."—Id. "Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest."—N. Waln cor. "I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing."—Chazotte cor. "Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?"—Dr. Brown cor. "Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith's False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103. Or thus: "Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith cor. "Every four years add an other day."—Smith's False Syntax, Gram., p. 103. Better thus: "Every fourth year adds an other day."—Smith cor. "Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed."—Swift cor. "A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher."—Sanborn cor. "Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicates good breeding."—Id. "A comparison in which more than two are concerned."—Lennie's Gram., p. 78. "By the facilities which artificial language affords them."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Now thyself hast lost both lop and top."—Spencer cor. "Glad tidings are brought to the poor."—Campbell cor. "Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends."—Sher. cor. "No pains have been spared to render this work complete."—Bullions cor. "The United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe."—Clinton cor. "I am mindful that myself am strong."—Fowler cor. "Myself am (not is) weak;"—"Thyself art (not is) weak."—Id.

"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest Rises from clerical or city feast!"—Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—VERB BEFORE THE NOMINATIVE.

"Where were you born? In London."—Buchanan cor. "There are frequent occasions for commas."—Ingersoll cor. "There necessarily follow from thence these plain and unquestionable consequences."—Priestley cor. "And to this impression contributes the redoubled effort."—Kames cor. "Or, if he was, were there no spiritual men then?"—Barclay cor. "So, by these two also, are signified their contrary principles."—Id. "In the motions made with the hands, consists the chief part of gesture in speaking."—Blair cor. "Dares he assume the name of a popular magistrate?"—Duncan cor. "There were no damages as in England, and so Scott lost his wager."—Byron cor. "In fact, there exist such resemblances."—Kames cor. "To him give all the prophets witness."—Acts, x, 43. "That there were so many witnesses and actors."—Addison cor. "How do this man's definitions stand affected?"—Collier cor. "Whence come all the powers and prerogatives of rational beings?"—Id. "Nor do the scriptures cited by thee prove thy intent."—Barclay cor. "Nor does the scripture cited by thee prove the contrary."—Id. "Why then citest thou a scripture which is so plain and clear for it?"—Id. "But what say the Scriptures as to respect of persons among Christians?"—Id. "But in the mind of man, while in the savage state, there seem to be hardly any ideas but what enter by the senses;"—Robertson cor. "What sounds has each of the vowels?"—Griscom cor. "Out of this have grown up aristocracies, monarchies, despotisms, tyrannies."—Brownson cor. "And there were taken up, of fragments that remained to them, twelve baskets."—Bible cor. "There seem to be but two general classes."—Day cor. "Hence arise the six forms of expressing time."—Id. "There seem to be no other words required."—Chandler cor. "If there are two, the second increment is the syllable next to the last."—Bullions cor. "Hence arise the following advantages."—Id. "There are no data by which it can be estimated."—Calhoun cor. "To this class, belongs the Chinese language, in which we have nothing but naked primitives."—Fowler cor. [[Fist] "Nothing but naked roots" is faulty; because no word is a root, except some derivative spring from it."—G. B.] "There were several other grotesque figures that presented themselves."—Spect. cor. "In these consists that sovereign good which ancient sages so much extol."—Percival cor. "Here come those I have done good to against my will."—Shak. cor. "Where there are more than one auxiliary." Or: "Where there are more auxiliaries than one."—O. B. Peirce cor.

"On me to cast those eyes where shines nobility." —Sidney cor.

"Here are half-pence in plenty, for one you'll have twenty." —Swift cor.

"Ah, Jockey, ill advisest thou. I wis, To think of songs at such a time as this." —Churchill cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—THE RELATIVE AND VERB.

"Thou, who lovest us, wilt protect us still."—A. Murray cor. "To use that endearing language, 'Our Father, who art in heaven.'"—Bates cor. "Resembling the passions that produce these actions."—Kames cor. "Except dwarf, grief, hoof, muff, &c., which take s to make the plural."—Ash cor. "As the cattle that go before me, and the children, be able to endure."—Gen. cor. "Where is the man who dares affirm that such an action is mad?"—Dr. Pratt cor. "The ninth book of Livy affords one of the most beautiful exemplifications of historical painting, that are anywhere to be met with."—Dr. Blair cor. "In some studies, too, that relate to taste and fine writing, which are our object," &c.—Id. "Of those affecting situations which make man's heart feel for man."—Id. "We see very plainly, that it is neither Osmyn nor Jane Shore that speaks."—Id. "It should assume that briskness and ease which are suited to the freedom of dialogue."—Id. "Yet they grant, that none ought to be admitted into the ministry, but such as are truly pious."—Barclay cor. "This letter is one of the best that have been written about Lord Byron."—Hunt cor. "Thus, besides what were sunk, the Athenians took above two hundred ships."—Goldsmith cor. "To have made and declared such orders as were necessary."—Hutchinson cor. "The idea of such a collection of men as makes an army."—Locke cor. "I'm not the first that has been wretched."—Southern cor. "And the faint sparks of it which are in the angels, are concealed from our view."—Calvin cor. "The subjects are of such a nature, as allows room (or, as to allow room) for much diversity of taste and sentiment."—Dr. Blair cor. "It is in order to propose examples of such perfection, as is not to be found in the real examples of society."—Formey cor. "I do not believe that he would amuse himself with such fooleries as have been attributed to him."—Id. "That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed."—Milton, P. L., B. i, l. 8. "With respect to the vehemence and warmth which are allowed in popular eloquence."—Dr. Blair cor. "Ambition is one of those passions that are never to be satisfied."—Home cor. "Thou wast he that led out and brought in Israel."—Bible cor. "Art thou the man of God, that came from Judah?"—Id.

"How beauty is excell'd by manly grace And wisdom, which alone are truly fair."—Milton cor.

"What art thou, speak, that on designs unknown, While others sleep, thus roamst the camp alone?"—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—NOMINATIVE WITH ADJUNCTS.

"The literal sense of the words is, that the action had been done."—Dr. Murray cor. "The rapidity of his movements was beyond example."—Wells cor. "Murray's Grammar, together with his Exercises and Key, has nearly superseded every thing else of the kind."—Murray's Rec. cor. "The mechanism of clocks and watches was totally unknown."—Hume cor. "The it, together with the verb to be, expresses a state of being."—Cobbett cor. "Hence it is, that the profuse variety of objects in some natural landscapes, occasions neither confusion nor fatigue."—Kames cor. "Such a clatter of sounds indicates rage and ferocity."—Gardiner cor. "One of the fields makes threescore square yards, and the other, only fifty-five."—Duncan cor. "The happy effects of this fable are worth attending to."—Bailey cor. "Yet the glorious serenity of its parting rays, still lingers with us."—Gould cor. "Enough of its form and force is retained to render them uneasy."—Maturin cor. "The works of nature, in this respect, are extremely regular."—Pratt cor. "No small addition of exotic and foreign words and phrases, has been made by commerce."—Bicknell cor. "The dialect of some nouns is noticed in the notes."—Milnes cor. "It has been said, that a discovery of the full resources of the arts, affords the means of debasement, or of perversion."—Rush cor. "By which means, the order of the words is disturbed."—Holmes cor. "The two-fold influence of these and the others, requires the verb to be in the plural form."—Peirce cor. "And each of these affords employment."—Percival cor. "The pronunciation of the vowels is best explained under the rules relative to the consonants."—Coar cor. "The judicial power of these courts extends to all cases in law and equity."—Hall and Baker cor. "One of you has stolen my money."—Humorist cor. "Such redundancy of epithets, in stead of pleasing, produces satiety and disgust."—Kames cor. "It has been alleged, that a compliance with the rules of Rhetoric, tends to cramp the mind."—Hiley cor. "Each of these is presented to us in different relations."—Hendrick cor. "The past tense of these verbs, (should, would, might, could,) is very indefinite with respect to time."—Bullions cor. "The power of the words which are said to govern this mood, is distinctly understood."—Chandler cor.

"And now, at length, the fated term of years The world's desire hath brought, and lo! the God appears." —Lowth cor.

"Variety of numbers still belongs To the soft melody of odes, or songs." —Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—COMPOSITE OR CONVERTED SUBJECTS.

"Many are the works of human industry, which to begin and finish, is hardly granted to the same man."—Johnson cor. "To lay down rules for these, is as inefficacious."—Pratt cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."—L. Murray et al. cor. "To magnify to the height of wonder things great, new, and admirable, extremely pleases the mind of man."—Fisher cor. "In this passage, 'according as' is used in a manner which is very common."—Webster cor. "A CAUSE DE, is called a preposition; A CAUSE QUE, a conjunction."—Webster cor. "To these it is given to speak in the name of the Lord."—The Friend cor. "While wheat has no plural, oats has seldom any singular."—Cobbett cor. "He cannot assert that ll (i.e., double Ell) is inserted in fullness to denote the sound of u"—Cobb cor. "Ch, in Latin, has the power of k."—Gould cor. "Ti, before a vowel, and unaccented, has the sound of si or ci."—Id. "In words derived from French, as chagrin, chicanery, and chaise, ch is sounded like sh."—Bucke cor. "But, in the words schism, schismatic, &c., the ch is silent."—Id. "Ph, at the beginning of words, is always sounded like f."—Bucke cor. "Ph has the sound of f as in philosophy."—Webster cor. "Sh has one sound only, as in shall."—Id. "Th has two sounds."—Id. "Sc, before a, o, u, or r, has the sound of sk."—Id. "Aw has the sound of a in hall."—Bolles cor. "Ew sounds like u"—Id. "Ow, when both vowels are sounded, has the power of ou in thou."—Id. "Ui, when both vowels are pronounced in one syllable, sounds like wi short, as in languid."—Id.

"Ui three other sounds at least expresses, As who hears GUILE, REBUILD, and BRUISE, confesses." —Brightland cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, ONE, EITHER, AND NEITHER.

"When each of the letters which compose this word, has been learned."—Dr. Weeks cor. "As neither of us denies that both Homer and Virgil have great beauties."—Dr. Blair cor. "Yet neither of them is remarkable for precision."—Id. "How far each of the three great epic poets has distinguished himself."—Id. "Each of these produces a separate, agreeable sensation."—Id. "On the Lord's day, every one of us Christians keeps the sabbath."—Tr. of Iren. cor. "And each of them bears the image of purity and holiness."—Hope of Is. cor. "Was either of these meetings ever acknowledged or recognized?"—Foster cor. "Whilst neither of these letters exists in the Eugubian inscription."—Knight cor. "And neither of them is properly termed indefinite."—Dr. Wilson cor. "As likewise of the several subjects, which have in effect their several verbs:" or,—"each of which has in effect its own verb."—Lowth cor. "Sometimes, when the word ends in s, neither of the signs is used."—A. Mur. cor. "And as neither of these manners offends the ear."—J. Walker cor. "Neither of these two tenses is confined to this signification only."—R. Johnson cor. "But neither of these circumstances is intended here."—Tooke cor. "So that all are indebted to each, and each is dependent upon all."—Bible Rep. cor. "And yet neither of them expresses any more action in this case, than it did in the other."—Bullions cor. "Each of these expressions denotes action."—Hallock cor. "Neither of these moods seems to be defined by distinct boundaries."—Butler cor. "Neither of these solutions is correct."—Bullions cor. "Neither bears any sign of case at all."—Fowler cor.

"Each in his turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalks." Or:— "All in their turn, like Banquo's monarchs, stalk."—Byron cor.

"And tell what each doth by the other lose."—Shak. cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—VERB BETWEEN TWO NOMINATIVES.

"The quarrels of lovers are but a renewal of love."—Adam et al. cor. "Two dots, one placed above the other, are called a Sheva."—Wilson cor. "A few centuries more or less are a matter of small consequence."—Id. "Pictures were the first step towards the art of writing; hieroglyphics were the second step."—Parker cor. "The comeliness of youth is modesty and frankness; of age, condescension and dignity." Or, much better: "The great ornaments of youth are," &c.—Murray cor. "Merit and good works are the end of man's motion."—Bacon cor. "Divers philosophers hold, that the lips are parcel of the mind."—Shak. cor. "The clothing of the natives was the skins of wild beasts." Or thus: "The clothes of the natives were skins of wild beasts."—Hist. cor. "Prepossessions in favour of our native town, are not a matter of surprise."—Webster cor. "Two shillings and sixpence are half a crown, but not a half crown."—Priestley and Bicknell cor. "Two vowels, pronounced by a single impulse of the voice, and uniting in one sound, are called a diphthong."—Cooper cor. "Two or more sentences united together are called a Compound Sentence."—Day cor. "Two or more words rightly put together, but not completing an entire proposition, are called a Phrase."—Id. "But the common number of times is five." Or, to state the matter truly: "But the common number of tenses is six."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Technical terms, injudiciously introduced, are an other source of darkness in composition."—Jamieson cor. "The United States are the great middle division of North America."—Morse cor. "A great cause of the low state of industry, was the restraints put upon it."—Priestley's Gram., p. 199; Churchill's, 414. "Here two tall ships become the victor's prey."—Rowe cor. "The expenses incident to an outfit are surely no object."—The Friend cor.

"Perhaps their loves, or else their sheep, Were all that did their silly thoughts so busy keep."—Milt. cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—CHANGE OF THE NOMINATIVE.

"Much care has been taken, to explain all the kinds of words."—Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Not fewer [years] than three years, are spent in attaining this faculty." Or, perhaps better: "Not less than three years' time, is spent in attaining this faculty." Or thus: "Not less time than three years, is spent," &c.—Gardiner cor. "Where this night are met in state Many friends to gratulate His wish'd presence."—Milton cor. "Peace! my darling, here's no danger, Here's no ox anear thy bed."—Watts cor. "But all of these are mere conjectures, and some of them very unhappy ones."—Coleridge cor. "The old theorists' practice of calling the Interrogatives and Repliers ADVERBS, is only a part of their regular system of naming words."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Where several sentences occur, place them in the order of the facts."—Id. "And that all the events in conjunction make a regular chain of causes and effects."—Kames cor. "In regard to their origin, the Grecian and Roman republics, though equally involved in the obscurities and uncertainties of fabulous events, present one remarkable distinction."—Adams cor. "In these respects, man is left by nature an unformed, unfinished creature."—Bp. Butler cor. "The Scriptures are the oracles of God himself."—Hooker cor. "And at our gates are all kinds of pleasant fruits."—S. Song cor. "The preterits of pluck, look, and toss, are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst."—Fowler corrected.

"Severe the doom that days prolonged impose, To stand sad witness of unnumbered woes!"—Melmoth cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—FORMS ADAPTED TO DIFFERENT STYLES.

1. Forms adapted to the Common or Familiar Style. "Was it thou[538] that built that house?"—Brown's Institutes, Key, p. 270. "That boy writes very elegantly."—Ib. "Could not thou write without blotting thy book?"—Ib. "Dost not thou think—or, Don't thou think, it will rain to-day?"—Ib. "Does not—or, Don't your cousin intend to visit you?"—Ib. "That boy has torn my book."—Ib. "Was it thou that spread the hay?"—Ib. "Was it James, or thou, that let him in?"—Ib. "He dares not say a word."—Ib. "Thou stood in my way and hindered me."—Ib.

"Whom do I see?—Whom dost thou see now?—Whom does he see?—Whom dost thou love most?—What art thou doing to-day?—What person dost thou see teaching that boy?—He has two new knives.—Which road dost thou take?—What child is he teaching?"—Ingersoll cor. "Thou, who mak'st my shoes, sellst many more." Or thus: "You, who make my shoes, sell many more."—Id.

"The English language has been much cultivated during the last two hundred years. It has been considerably polished and refined."—Lowth cor. "This style is ostentatious, and does not suit grave writing."—Priestley cor. "But custom has now appropriated who to persons, and which to things" [and brute animals].—Id. "The indicative mood shows or declares something; as, Ego amo, I love; or else asks a question; as, Amas tu? Dost thou love?"—Paul's Ac. cor. "Though thou cannot do much for the cause, thou may and should do something."—Murray cor. "The support of so many of his relations, was a heavy tax: but thou knowst (or, you know) he paid it cheerfully."—Id. "It may, and often does, come short of it."—Murray^s Gram., p. 359.

"'Twas thou, who, while thou seem'd to chide, To give me all thy pittance tried."—Mitford cor.

2. Forms adapted to the Solemn or Biblical Style. "The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all."—Psalms, ciii, 19. "Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God; thou wast a God that forgave[539] them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions."—See Psalms, xcix, 8. "Then thou spakest in vision to thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon one that is mighty."—Ib., lxxxix, 19. "'So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy;' who dispenseth his blessings, whether temporal or spiritual, as seemeth good in his sight."—Christian Experience of St. Paul, p. 344; see Rom., ix, 16.

"Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought; Yea, with my life, and life's own secret joy."—Coleridge cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—EXPRESS THE NOMINATIVE.

"Who is here so base, that he would be a bondman?"—Shak. cor. "Who is here so rude, he would not be a Roman?"—Id. "There is not a sparrow which falls to the ground without his notice." Or better: "Not a sparrow falls to the ground, without his notice."—Murray cor. "In order to adjust them in such a manner as shall consist equally with the perspicuity and the strength of the period."—Id. and Blair cor. "But sometimes there is a verb which comes in." Better: "But sometimes there is a verb introduced."—Cobbett cor. "Mr. Prince has a genius which would prompt him to better things."—Spect. cor. "It is this that removes that impenetrable mist."—Harris cor. "By the praise which is given him for his courage."—Locke cor. "There is no man who would be more welcome here."—Steele cor. "Between an antecedent and a consequent, or what goes before, and what immediately follows."—Blair cor. "And as connected with what goes before and what follows."—Id. "No man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake."—Bacon cor. "All the various miseries of life, which people bring upon themselves by negligence or folly, and which might have been avoided by proper care, are instances of this."—Bp. Butler cor. "Ancient philosophers have taught many things in favour of morality, so far at least as it respects justice and goodness towards our fellow-creatures."—Fuller cor. "Indeed, if there be any such, who have been, or who appear to be of us, as suppose there is not a wise man among us all, nor an honest man, that is able to judge betwixt his brethren; we shall not covet to meddle in their matters."—Barclay cor. "There were some that drew back; there were some that made shipwreck of faith; yea, there were some that brought in damnable heresies."—Id. "The nature of the cause rendered this plan altogether proper; and, under similar circumstances, the orator's method is fit to be imitated."—Blair cor. "This is an idiom to which our language is strongly inclined, and which was formerly very prevalent."—Churchill cor. "His roots are wrapped about the heap, and he seeth the place of stones."—Bible cor.

"New York, Fifthmonth 3d, 1823.

Dear friend,

I am sorry to hear of thy loss; but I hope it may be retrieved. I should be happy to render thee any assistance in my power. I shall call to see thee to-morrow morning. Accept assurances of my regard. A. B."

"New York, May 3d, P. M., 1823.

Dear sir,

I have just received the kind note you favoured me with this morning; and I cannot forbear to express my gratitude to you. On further information, I find I have not lost so much as I at first supposed; and I believe I shall still be able to meet all my engagements. I should, however, be happy to see you. Accept, dear sir, my most cordial thanks. C. D."

See Brown's Institutes, p. 271.

"Will martial flames forever fire thy mind, And wilt thou never be to Heaven resign'd?"—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—APPLICATION OF MOODS.

First Clause of the Note.—The Subjunctive Present.

"He will not be pardoned unless he repent."—Inst., p. 191. "If thou find any kernelwort in this marshy meadow, bring it to me."—Neef cor. "If thou leave the room, do not forget to shut that drawer."—Id. "If thou grasp it stoutly, thou wilt not be hurt:" or, (familiarly,)—"thou will not be hurt."—Id. "On condition that he come, I will consent to stay."—Murray's Key, p. 208. "If he be but discreet, he will succeed."—Inst., p. 280. "Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob."—Gen., xxxi, 24. "If thou cast me off, I shall be miserable."—Inst., p. 280. "Send them to me, if thou please."—Ib. "Watch the door of thy lips, lest thou utter folly."—Ib. "Though a liar speak the truth, he will hardly be believed."—Bartlett cor. "I will go, unless I be ill."—L. Murray cor. "If the word or words understood be supplied, the true construction will be apparent."—Id. "Unless thou see the propriety of the measure, we shall not desire thy support."—Id. "Unless thou make a timely retreat, the danger will be unavoidable."—Id. "We may live happily, though our possessions be small."—Id. "If they be carefully studied, they will enable the student to parse all the exercises."—Id. "If the accent be fairly preserved on the proper syllable, this drawling sound will never be heard."—Id. "One phrase may, in point of sense, be equivalent to an other, though its grammatical nature be essentially different."—Id. "If any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man."—2 Thess., iii, 14. "Thy skill will be the greater, if thou hit it."—Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "We shall overtake him, though he run."—Priestley et al. cor. "We shall be disgusted, if he give us too much."—Blair cor.

"What is't to thee, if he neglect thy urn, Or without spices let thy body burn?"—Dryden cor.

Second Clause of Note IX.—The Subjunctive Imperfect.[540]

"And so would I, if I were he."—Inst., p. 191. "If I were a Greek, I should resist Turkish despotism."—Cardell cor. "If he were to go, he would attend to your business."—Id. "If thou felt as I do, we should soon decide."—Inst., p. 280. "Though thou shed thy blood in the cause, it would but prove thee sincerely a fool."—Ib. "If thou loved him, there would be more evidence of it."—Ib. "If thou convinced him, he would not act accordingly."—Murray cor. "If there were no liberty, there would be no real crime."—Formey cor. "If the house were burnt down, the case would be the same."—Foster cor. "As if the mind were not always in action, when it prefers any thing."—West cor. "Suppose I were to say, 'Light is a body.'"—Harris cor. "If either oxygen or azote were omitted, life would be destroyed."—Gurney cor. "The verb dare is sometimes used as if it were an auxiliary."—Priestley cor. "A certain lady, whom I could name, if it were necessary."—Spect. cor. "If the e were dropped, c and g would assume their hard sounds."—Buchanan cor. "He would no more comprehend it, than if it were the speech of a Hottentot."—Neef cor. "If thou knew the gift of God," &c.—Bible cor. "I wish I were at home."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Fact alone does not constitute right: if it did, general warrants were lawful."—Junius cor. "Thou lookst upon thy boy, as though thou guessed it."—Putnam, Cobb, or Knowles, cor. "He fought as if he contended for life."—Hiley cor. "He fought as if he were contending for his life."—Id.

"The dewdrop glistens on thy leaf, As if thou shed for me a tear; As if thou knew my tale of grief, Felt all my sufferings severe."—Letham cor.

Last Clause of Note IX.—The Indicative Mood.

"If he knows the way, he does not need a guide."—Inst., p. 191. "And if there is no difference, one of them must be superfluous, and ought to be rejected."—Murray cor. "I cannot say that I admire this construction though it is much used."—Priestley cor. "We are disappointed, if the verb does not immediately follow it."—Id. "If it was they, that acted so ungratefully, they are doubly in fault."—Murray cor. "If art becomes apparent, it disgusts the reader."—Jamieson cor. "Though perspicuity is more properly a rhetorical than a grammatical quality, I thought it better to include it in this book."—Campbell cor. "Although the efficient cause is obscure, the final cause of those sensations lies open."—Blair cor. "Although the barrenness of language, or the want of words, is doubtless one cause of the invention of tropes."—Id. "Though it enforces not its instructions, yet it furnishes a greater variety."—Id. "In other cases, though the idea is one, the words remain quite separate."—Priestley cor. "Though the form of our language is more simple, and has that peculiar beauty."—Buchanan cor. "Human works are of no significancy till they are completed."—Kames cor. "Our disgust lessens gradually till it vanishes altogether."—Id. "And our relish improves by use, till it arrives at perfection."—Id. "So long as he keeps himself in his own proper element."—Coke cor. "Whether this translation was ever published or not, I am wholly ignorant."—Sale cor. "It is false to affirm, 'As it is day, it is light,' unless it actually is day."—Harris cor. "But we may at midnight affirm, 'If it is day, it is light.'"—Id. "If the Bible is true, it is a volume of unspeakable interest."—Dickinson cor. "Though he was a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered."—Bible cor. "If David then calleth (or calls) him Lord, how is he his son?"—Id.

"'Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appears in writing, or in judging, ill."—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—FALSE SUBJUNCTIVES.

"If a man has built a house, the house is his."—Wayland cor. "If God has required them of him, as is the fact, he has time."—Id. "Unless a previous understanding to the contrary has been had with the principal."—Berrian cor. "O! if thou hast hid them in some flowery cave."—Milton cor. "O! if Jove's will has linked that amorous power to thy soft lay."—Id. "SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD: If thou love, If thou loved."—Dr. Priestley, Dr. Murray, John Burn, David Blair, Harrison, and others. "Till Religion, the pilot of the soul, hath lent thee her unfathomable coil."—Tupper cor. "Whether nature or art contributes most to form an orator, is a trifling inquiry."—Blair cor. "Year after year steals something from us, till the decaying fabric totters of itself, and at length crumbles into dust."—Murray cor. "If spiritual pride has not entirely vanquished humility."—West cor. "Whether he has gored a son, or has gored a daughter."—Bible cor. "It is doubtful whether the object introduced by way of simile, relates to what goes before or to what follows."—Kames cor.

"And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou our summons answer'd hast." Or:— "And bridle in thy headlong wave, Till thou hast granted what we crave."—Milt. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XV AND ITS NOTE.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE IDEA OF PLURALITY.

"The gentry are punctilious in their etiquette."—G. B. "In France, the peasantry go barefoot, and the middle sort make use of wooden shoes."—Harvey cor. "The people rejoice in that which should cause sorrow."—Murray varied. "My people are foolish, they have not known me."—Bible and Lowth cor. "For the people speak, but do not write."—Phil. Mu. cor. "So that all the people that were in the camp, trembled."—Bible cor. "No company like to confess that they are ignorant."—Todd cor. "Far the greater part of their captives were anciently sacrificed."—Robertson cor. "More than one half of them were cut off before the return of spring."—Id. "The other class, termed Figures of Thought, suppose the words to be used in their proper and literal meaning."—Blair and Mur. cor. "A multitude of words in their dialect approach to the Teutonic form, and therefore afford excellent assistance."—Dr. Murray cor. "A great majority of our authors are defective in manner."—J. Brown cor. "The greater part of these new-coined words have been rejected."—Tooke cor. "The greater part of the words it contains, are subject to certain modifications or inflections."—The Friend cor. "While all our youth prefer her to the rest."—Waller cor. "Mankind are appointed to live in a future state."—Bp. Butler cor. "The greater part of human kind speak and act wholly by imitation."—Rambler, No. 146. "The greatest part of human gratifications approach so nearly to vice."—Id., No. 160.

"While still the busy world are treading o'er The paths they trod five thousand years before."—Young cor.

UNDER THE NOTE.—THE IDEA OF UNITY.

"In old English, this species of words was numerous."—Dr. Murray cor. "And a series of exercises in false grammar is introduced towards the end."—Frost cor. "And a jury, in conformity with the same idea, was anciently called homagium, the homage, or manhood."—Webster cor. "With respect to the former, there is indeed a plenty of means."—Kames cor. "The number of school districts has increased since the last year."—Throop cor. "The Yearly Meeting has purchased with its funds these publications."—Foster cor. "Has the legislature power to prohibit assemblies?"—Sullivan cor. "So that the whole number of the streets was fifty."—Rollin cor. "The number of inhabitants was not more than four millions."—Smollett cor. "The house of Commons was of small weight."—Hume cor. "The assembly of the wicked hath (or has) inclosed me."—Psal. cor. "Every kind of convenience and comfort is provided."—C. S. Journal cor. "Amidst the great decrease of the inhabitants in Spain, the body of the clergy has suffered no diminution; but it has rather been gradually increasing."—Payne cor. "Small as the number of inhabitants is, yet their poverty is extreme."—Id. "The number of the names was about one hundred and twenty."—Ware and Acts cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVI AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF—THE VERB AFTER JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"So much ability and [so much] merit are seldom found."—Mur. et al. cor. "The etymology and syntax of the language are thus spread before the learner."—Bullions cor. "Dr. Johnson tells us, that, in English poetry, the accent and the quantity of syllables are the same thing."—Adams cor. "Their general scope and tendency, having never been clearly apprehended, are not remembered at all."—L. Murray cor. "The soil and sovereignty were not purchased of the natives."—Knapp cor. "The boldness, freedom, and variety, of our blank verse, are infinitely more favourable to sublimity of style, than [are the constraint and uniformity of] rhyme."—Blair cor. "The vivacity and sensibility of the Greeks seem to have been much greater than ours."—Id. "For sometimes the mood and tense are signified by the verb, sometimes they are signified of the verb by something else."—R. Johnson cor. "The verb and the noun making a complete sense, whereas the participle and the noun do not."—Id. "The growth and decay of passions and emotions, traced through all their mazes, are a subject too extensive for an undertaking like the present."—Kames cor. "The true meaning and etymology of some of his words were lost."—Knight cor. "When the force and direction of personal satire are no longer understood."—Junius cor. "The frame and condition of man admit of no other principle."—Dr. Brown cor. "Some considerable time and care were necessary."—Id. "In consequence of this idea, much ridicule and censure have been thrown upon Milton."—Blair cor. "With rational beings, nature and reason are the same thing."—Collier cor. "And the flax and the barley were smitten."—Bible cor. "The colon and semicolon divide a period; this with, and that without, a connective."—Ware cor. "Consequently, wherever space and time are found, there God must also be."—Newton cor. "As the past tense and perfect participle of LOVE end in ED, it is regular."—Chandler cor. "But the usual arrangement and nomenclature prevent this from being readily seen."—N. Butler cor. "Do and did simply imply opposition or emphasis."—A. Murray cor. "I and an other make the plural WE; thou and an other are equivalent to YE; he, she, or it, and an other, make THEY."—Id. "I and an other or others are the same as WE, the first person plural; thou and an other or others are the same as YE, the second person plural; he, she, or it, and an other or others, are the same as THEY, the third person plural."—Buchanan and Brit. Gram. cor. "God and thou are two, and thou and thy neighbour are two."—Love Conquest cor. "Just as AN and A have arisen out of the numeral ONE."—Fowler cor. "The tone and style of all of them, particularly of the first and the last, are very different."—Blair cor. "Even as the roebuck and the hart are eaten."—Bible cor. "Then I may conclude that two and three do not make five."—Barclay cor. "Which, at sundry times, thou and thy brethren have received from us."—Id. "Two and two are four, and one is five:" i, e., "and one, added to four, is five."—Pope cor. "Humility and knowledge with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance under costly array."—See Murray's Key, Rule 2d. "A page and a half have been added to the section on composition."—Bullions cor. "Accuracy and expertness in this exercise are an important acquisition."—Id.

"Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale proclaim thy blessing." Or thus:— "Hill and valley boast thy blessing."—Milton cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—THE VERB BEFORE JOINT NOMINATIVES.

"There are a good and a bad, a right and a wrong, in taste, as in other things."—Blair cor. "Whence have arisen much stiffness and affectation."—Id. "To this error, are owing, in a great measure, that intricacy and [that] harshness, in his figurative language, which I before noticed."—Blair and Jamieson cor. "Hence, in his Night Thoughts, there prevail an obscurity and a hardness of style."—Blair cor. See Jamieson's Rhet., p. 167. "There are, however, in that work, much good sense and excellent criticism."—Blair cor. "There are too much low wit and scurrility in Plautus." Or: "There is, in Plautus, too much of low wit and scurrility."—Id. "There are too much reasoning and refinement, too much pomp and studied beauty, in them." Or: "There is too much of reasoning and refinement, too much of pomp and studied beauty, in them."—Id. "Hence arise the structure and characteristic expression of exclamation."—Rush cor. "And such pilots are he and his brethren, according to their own confession."—Barclay cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Philetus; who concerning the truth have erred."—Bible cor. "Of whom are Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan."—Id. "And so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee."—Id. "Out of the same mouth, proceed blessing and cursing."—Id. "Out of the mouth of the Most High, proceed not evil and good."—Id. "In which there are most plainly a right and a wrong."—Bp. Butler cor. "In this sentence, there are both an actor and an object."—R. C. Smith cor. "In the breastplate, were placed the mysterious Urim and Thummim."—Milman cor. "What are the gender, number, and person, of the pronoun[541] in the first example?"—R. C. Smith cor. "There seem to be a familiarity and a want of dignity in it."—Priestley cor. "It has been often asked, what are Latin and Greek?"—Lit. Journal cor. "For where do beauty and high wit, But in your constellation, meet?"—Sam. Butler cor. "Thence to the land where flow Ganges and Indus."—Milton cor. "On these foundations, seem to rest the midnight riot and dissipation of modern assemblies."—Dr. Brown cor. "But what have disease, deformity, and filth, upon which the thoughts can be allured to dwell?"—Dr. Johnson cor. "How are the gender and number of the relative known?"—Bullions cor.

"High rides the sun, thick rolls the dust, And feebler speed the blow and thrust."—Scott cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—CHANGE THE CONNECTIVE.

"In every language, there prevails a certain structure, or analogy of parts, which is understood to give foundation to the most reputable usage."—Dr. Blair cor. "There runs through his whole manner a stiffness, an affectation, which renders him [Shaftsbury] very unfit to be considered a general model."—Id. "But where declamation for improvement in speech is the sole aim."—Id. "For it is by these, chiefly, that the train of thought, the course of reasoning, the whole progress of the mind, in continued discourse of any kind, is laid open."—Lowth cor. "In all writing and discourse, the proper composition or structure of sentences is of the highest importance."—Dr. Blair cor. "Here the wishful and expectant look of the beggar naturally leads to a vivid conception of that which was the object of his thoughts."—Campbell cor. "Who say, that the outward naming of Christ, with the sign of the cross, puts away devils."—Barclay cor. "By which an oath with a penalty was to be imposed on the members."—Junius cor. "Light, or knowledge, in what manner soever afforded us, is equally from God."—Bp. Butler cor. "For instance, sickness or untimely death is the consequence of intemperance."—Id. "When grief or blood ill-tempered vexeth him." Or: "When grief, with blood ill-tempered, vexes him"—Shak. cor. "Does continuity, or connexion, create sympathy and relation in the parts of the body?"—Collier cor. "His greatest concern, his highest enjoyment, was, to be approved in the sight of his Creator."—L. Murray cor. "Know ye not that there is[542] a prince, a great man, fallen this day in Israel?"—Bible cor. "What is vice, or wickedness? No rarity, you may depend on it."—Collier cor. "There is also the fear or apprehension of it."—Bp. Butler cor. "The apostrophe with s ('s) is an abbreviation for is, the termination of the old English genitive."—Bullions cor. "Ti, ce, OR ci, when followed by a vowel, usually has the sound of sh; as in partial, ocean, special."—Weld cor.

"Bitter constraint of sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due."—Milton cor.

"Debauch'ry, or excess, though with less noise, As great a portion of mankind destroys."—Waller cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—AFFIRMATION WITH NEGATION.

"Wisdom, and not wealth, procures esteem."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "Prudence, and not pomp, is the basis of his fame."—Ib. "Not fear, but labour has overcome him."—Ib. "The decency, and not the abstinence, makes the difference."—Ib. "Not her beauty, but her talents attract attention."—Ib. "It is her talents, and not her beauty, that attract attention."—Ib. "It is her beauty, and not her talents, that attracts attention."—Ib.

"His belly, not his brains, this impulse gives: He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live." Or thus:— "His bowels, not his brains, this impulse give: He'll grow immortal; for he cannot live."—Young cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—AS WELL AS, BUT, OR SAVE.

"Common sense, as well as piety, tells us these are proper."—Fam. Com. cor. "For without it the critic, as well as the undertaker, ignorant of any rule, has nothing left but to abandon himself to chance."—Kames cor. "And accordingly hatred, as well as love, is extinguished by long absence'."—Id. "But at every turn the richest melody, as well as the sublimest sentiments, is conspicuous."—Id. "But it, as well as the lines immediately subsequent, defies all translation."—Coleridge cor. "But their religion, as well as their customs and manners, was strangely misrepresented."—Bolingbroke, on History, Paris Edition of 1808, p. 93. "But his jealous policy, as well as the fatal antipathy of Fonseca, was conspicuous."—Robertson cor. "When their extent, as well as their value, was unknown."—Id. "The etymology, as well as the syntax, of the more difficult parts of speech, is reserved for his attention at a later period."—Parker and Fox cor. "What I myself owe to him, no one but myself knows."—Wright cor. "None, but thou, O mighty prince! can avert the blow."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "Nothing, but frivolous amusements, pleases the indolent."—Ib.

"Nought, save the gurglings of the rill, was heard."—G. B.

"All songsters, save the hooting owl, were mute."—G. B.

UNDER NOTE IV.—EACH, EVERY, OR NO.

"Give every word, and every member, its due weight and force."—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 316. "And to one of these belongs every noun, and every third person of every verb."—Dr. Wilson cor. "No law, no restraint, no regulation, is required to keep him within bounds."—Lit. Journal cor. "By that time, every window and every door in the street was full of heads."—Observer cor. "Every system of religion, and every school of philosophy, stands back from this field, and leaves Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example." Or: "All systems of religion, and all schools of philosophy, stand back from this field, and leave Jesus Christ alone, the solitary example."—Abbott cor. "Each day, and each hour, brings its portion of duty."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, resorted unto him."—Bible cor. "Every private Christian, every member of the church, ought to read and peruse the Scriptures, that he may know his faith and belief to be founded upon them."—Barclay cor. "And every mountain and every island was moved out of its place."—Bible cor.

"No bandit fierce, no tyrant mad with pride, No cavern'd hermit rests self-satisfied."—Pope.

UNDER NOTE V.—WITH, OR, &c., FOR AND.

"The sides, A, B, and C, compose the triangle."—Tobitt, Felch, and Ware cor. "The stream, the rock, and the tree, must each of them stand forth, so as to make a figure in the imagination."—Dr. Blair cor. "While this, with euphony, constitutes, finally, the whole."—O. B. Peirce cor. "The bag, with the guineas and dollars in it, was stolen."—Cobbett cor. "Sobriety, with great industry and talent, enables a man to perform great deeds." Or: "Sobriety, industry, and talent, enable a man to perform great deeds."—Id. "The it, together with the verb, expresses a state of being."—Id. "Where Leonidas the Spartan king, and his chosen band, fighting for their country, were cut off to the last man."—Kames cor.. "And Leah also, and her children, came near and bowed themselves."—Bible cor. "The First and the Second will either of them, by itself, coalesce with the Third, but they do not coalesce with each other."—Harris cor. "The whole must centre in the query, whether Tragedy and Comedy are hurtful and dangerous representations."—Formey cor. "Both grief and joy are infectious: the emotions which they raise in the spectator, resemble them perfectly."—Kames cor. "But, in all other words, the q and u are both sounded."—Ensell cor. "Q and u (which are always together) have the sound of kw, as in queen; or of k only, as in opaque." Or, better: "Q has always the sound of k; and the u which follows it, that of w; except in French words, in which the u is silent."—Goodenow cor. "In this selection, the a and i form distinct syllables."—Walker cor. "And a considerable village, with gardens, fields, &c., extends around on each side of the square."—Lib. cor. "Affection and interest guide our notions and behaviour in the affairs of life; imagination and passion affect the sentiments that we entertain in matters of taste."—Jamieson cor. "She heard none of those intimations of her defects, which envy, petulance, and anger, produce among children."—Johnson cor. "The King, Lords, and Commons, constitute an excellent form of government."—Crombie et al. cor. "If we say, 'I am the man who commands you,' the relative clause, with the antecedent man, forms the predicate."—Crombie cor.

"The spacious firmament on high, The blue ethereal vault of sky, And spangled heav'ns, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim."—Addison cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS.

"There are a reputable and a disreputable practice." Or: "There is a reputable, and there is a disreputable practice."—Adams cor. "This man and this were born in her."—Milton cor. "This man and that were born in her."—Bible cor. "This and that man were born there."—Hendrick cor. "Thus le in l~ego, and le in l=egi, seem to be sounded equally long."—Adam and Gould cor. "A distinct and an accurate articulation form the groundwork of good delivery." Or: "A distinct and accurate articulation forms the groundwork of good delivery."—Kirkham cor. "How are vocal and written language understood?"—Sanders cor. "The good, the wise, and the learned man, are ornaments to human society." Or: "The good, wise, and learned man is an ornament to human society."—Bartlett cor. "In some points, the expression of song and that of speech are identical."—Rush cor. "To every room, there were an open and a secret passage."—Johnson cor. "There are such things as a true and a false taste; and the latter as often directs fashion, as the former."—Webster cor. "There are such things as a prudent and an imprudent institution of life, with regard to our health and our affairs."—Bp. Butler cor. "The lot of the outcasts of Israel, and that of the dispersed of Judah, however different in one respect, have in an other corresponded with wonderful exactness."—Hope of Israel cor. "On these final syllables, the radical and the vanishing movement are performed."—Rush cor. "To be young or old, and to be good, just, or the contrary, are physical or moral events."—Spurzheim cor., and Felch. "The eloquence of George Whitfield and that of John Wesley were very different in character each from the other."—Dr. Sharp cor. "The affinity of m for the series beginning with b, and that of n for the series beginning with t, give occasion for other euphonic changes."—Fowler cor.

"Pylades' soul, and mad Orestes', were In these, if right the Greek philosopher." Or thus:— "Pylades' and Orestes' soul did pass To these, if we believe Pythagoras." Or, without ellipsis:— "Pylades and Orestes' souls did pass To these, if we believe Pythagoras."—Cowley corrected.

UNDER NOTE VII.—DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.

"To be moderate in our views, and to proceed temperately in the pursuit of them, are the best ways to ensure success."—L. Murray cor. "To be of any species, and to have a right to the name of that species, are both one."—Locke cor. "With whom, to will, and to do, are the same."—Dr. Jamieson cor. "To profess, and to possess, are very different things."—Inst., Key, p. 272. "To do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God, are duties of universal obligation."—Ib. "To be round or square, to be solid or fluid, to be large or small, and to be moved swiftly or slowly, are all equally alien from the nature of thought."—Dr. Johnson. "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, and [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, are called PARSING." Or, according to Note 1st above: "The resolving of a sentence into its elements, or parts of speech, with [a] stating [of] the accidents which belong to these, is called PARSING."—Bullions cor. "To spin and to weave, to knit and to sew, were once a girl's employments; but now, to dress, and to catch a beau, are all she calls enjoyments."—Kimball cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVII AND ITS NOTES.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY OR.

"We do not know in what either reason or instinct consists."—Johnson corrected. "A noun or a pronoun joined with a participle, constitutes a nominative case absolute."—Bicknell cor. "The relative will be of that case which the verb or noun following, or the preposition going before, uses to govern:" or,—"usually governs."—Adam, Gould, et al., cor. "In the different modes of pronunciation, which habit or caprice gives rise to."—Knight cor. "By which he, or his deputy, was authorized to cut down any trees in Whittlebury forest."—Junius cor. "Wherever objects were named, in which sound, noise, or motion, was concerned, the imitation by words was abundantly obvious."—Dr. Blair cor. "The pleasure or pain resulting from a train of perceptions in different circumstances, is a beautiful contrivance of nature for valuable purposes."—Kames cor. "Because their foolish vanity, or their criminal ambition, represents the principles by which they are influenced, as absolutely perfect."—D. Boileau cor. "Hence naturally arises indifference or aversion between the parties."—Dr. Brown cor. "A penitent unbeliever, or an impenitent believer, is a character nowhere to be found."—Tract cor. "Copying whatever is peculiar in the talk of all those whose birth or fortune entitles them to imitation."—Johnson cor. "Where love, hatred, fear, or contempt, is often of decisive influence."—Duncan cor. "A lucky anecdote, or an enlivening tale, relieves the folio page."—D'Israeli cor. "For outward matter or event fashions not the character within." Or: (according to the antique style of this modern book of proverbs:)—"fashioneth not the character within."—Tupper cor. "Yet sometimes we have seen that wine, or chance, has warmed cold brains."—Dryden cor. "Motion is a genus; flight, a species; this flight or that flight is an individual."—Harris cor. "When et, aut, vel, sive, or nec, is repeated before different members of the same sentence."—Adam, Gould, and Grant, cor. "Wisdom or folly governs us."—Fisk cor. "A or an is styled the indefinite article"—Folker cor. "A rusty nail, or a crooked pin, shoots up into a prodigy."—Spect. cor. "Is either the subject or the predicate in the second sentence modified?"—Prof. Fowler cor.

"Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Is lost on hearers that our merits know."—Pope cor.

UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—NOMINATIVES CONNECTED BY NOR.

"Neither he nor she has spoken to him."—Perrin cor. "For want of a process of events, neither knowledge nor elegance preserves the reader from weariness."—Johnson cor. "Neither history nor tradition furnishes such information."—Robertson cor. "Neither the form nor the power of the liquids has varied materially."—Knight cor. "Where neither noise nor motion is concerned."—Blair cor. "Neither Charles nor his brother was qualified to support such a system."—Junius cor. "When, therefore, neither the liveliness of representation, nor the warmth of passion serves, as it were, to cover the trespass, it is not safe to leave the beaten track."—Campbell cor. "In many countries called Christian, neither Christianity, nor its evidence, is fairly laid before men."—Bp. Butler cor. "Neither the intellect nor the heart is capable of being driven."—Abbott cor. "Throughout this hymn, neither Apollo nor Diana is in any way connected with the Sun or Moon."—Coleridge cor. "Of which, neither he, nor this grammar, takes any notice."—R. Johnson cor. "Neither their solicitude nor their foresight extends so far."—Robertson cor. "Neither Gomara, nor Oviedo, nor Herrera, considers Ojeda, or his companion Vespucci, as the first discoverer of the continent of America."—Id. "Neither the general situation of our colonies, nor that particular distress which forced the inhabitants of Boston to take up arms, has been thought worthy of a moment's consideration."—Junius cor.

"Nor war nor wisdom yields our Jews delight, They will not study, and they dare not fight."—Crabbe cor.

"Nor time nor chance breeds such confusions yet, Nor are the mean so rais'd, nor sunk the great."—Rowe cor.

UNDER NOTE I.—NOMINATIVES THAT DISAGREE.

"The definite article, the, designates what particular thing or things are meant."—Merchant cor. "Sometimes a word, or several words, necessary to complete the grammatical construction of a sentence, are not expressed, but are omitted by ellipsis."—Burr cor. "Ellipsis, (better, Ellipses,) or abbreviations, are the wheels of language."—Maunder cor. "The conditions or tenor of none of them appears at this day." Or: "The tenor or conditions of none of them appear at this day."— Hutchinson cor. "Neither men nor money was wanting for the service." Or: "Neither money nor men were wanting for the service."—Id. "Either our own feelings, or the representation of those of others, requires emphatic distinction to be frequent."—Dr. Barber cor. "Either Atoms and Chance, or Nature, is uppermost: now I am for the latter part of the disjunction."—Collier cor. "Their riches or poverty is generally proportioned to their activity or indolence."—Cox cor. "Concerning the other part of him, neither he nor you seem to have entertained an idea."—Horne cor. "Whose earnings or income is so small."—Discip. cor. "Neither riches nor fame renders a man happy."—Day cor. "The references to the pages always point to the first volume, unless the Exercises or Key is mentioned." Or, better:—"unless mention is made of the Exercises or Key." Or: "unless the Exercises or Key be named."—L. Murray cor.

UNDER NOTE II.—COMPLETE THE CONCORD.

"My lord, you wrong my father; neither is he, nor am I, capable of harbouring a thought against your peace."—Walpole cor. "There was no division of acts; there were no pauses, or intervals, in the performance; but the stage was continually full; occupied either by the actors, or by the chorus."—Dr. Blair cor. "Every word ending in b, p, or f, is of this order, as also are many that end in v."—Dr. Murray cor. "Proud as we are of human reason, nothing can be more absurd than is the general system of human life and human knowledge."— Bolingbroke cor. "By which the body of sin and death is done away, and we are cleansed."—Barclay cor. "And those were already converted, and regeneration was begun in them."—Id. "For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years."—Bible cor. "Who is my mother? or who are my brethren?"—See Matt., xii, 48. "Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor are the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering."— Bible cor. "Information has been obtained, and some trials have been made."—Martineau cor. "It is as obvious, and its causes are more easily understood."—Webster cor. "All languages furnish examples of this kind, and the English contains as many as any other."—Priestley cor. "The winters are long, and the cold is intense."—Morse cor. "How have I hated instruction, and how hath my heart despised reproof!"—Prov. cor. "The vestals were abolished by Theodosius the Great, and the fire of Vesta was extinguished."—Lempriere cor. "Riches beget pride; pride begets impatience."—Bullions cor. "Grammar is not reasoning, any more than organization is thought, or letters are sounds."—Enclytica cor. "Words are implements, and grammar is a machine."—Id.

UNDER NOTE III.—PLACE OF THE FIRST PERSON.

"Thou or I must undertake the business."—L. Murray cor. "He and I were there."—Ash cor. "And we dreamed a dream in one night, he and I."—Bible cor. "If my views remain the same as his and mine were in 1833."—Goodell cor. "My father and I were riding out."—Inst., Key, p. 273. "The premiums were given to George and me."—Ib. "Jane and I are invited."—Ib. "They ought to invite my sister and me."—Ib. "You and I intend to go."—Guy cor. "John and I are going to town."—Brit. Gram. cor. "He and I are sick."—James Brown cor. "Thou and I are well."—Id. "He and I are."—Id. "Thou and I are."—Id. "He, and I write."—Id. "They and I are well."—Id. "She, and thou, and I, were walking."—Id.

UNDER NOTE IV.—DISTINCT SUBJECT PHRASES.

"To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, is great injustice."—Inst., Key, p. 273. "To reveal secrets, or to betray one's friends, is contemptible perfidy."—Id. "To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude capitals from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought an offence too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something."—Dr. Barrow cor. "To live in such families, or to have such servants, is a blessing from God."—Fam. Com. cor. "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, is utterly unknown." Or: "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, and what wars they maintained, are things utterly unknown."—Goldsmith cor. "To speak or to write perspicuously and agreeably, is an attainment of the utmost consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or by writing, to address the public."—Dr. Blair cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.

"Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?"—Bible cor. "Did he not fear the Lord, and beseech the Lord, and did not the Lord repent of the evil which he had pronounced?"—Id. "And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgement with thee?"—Id. "If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain."—Id. "If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one an other."—Id. "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee, become poor, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant."—Id. "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee," &c.—Id. "Anthea was content to call a coach, and so to cross the brook." Or:—"and in that she crossed the brook."—Johnson cor. "It is either totally suppressed, or manifested only in its lowest and most imperfect form."—Blair cor. "But if any man is a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." Or: "If any man be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him will he hear."—Bible cor. "Whereby his righteousness and obedience, death and sufferings without, become profitable unto us, and are made ours."—Barclay cor. "Who ought to have been here before thee, and to have objected, if they had any thing against me."—Bible cor.

"Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see, That man has yet a soul, and dares be free."—Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.—USE SEPARATE NOMINATIVES.

"H is only an aspiration, or breathing; and sometimes, at the beginning of a word, it is not sounded at all."—Lowth cor. "Man was made for society, and he ought to extend his good will to all men."—Id. "There is, and must be, a Supreme Being, of infinite goodness, power, and wisdom, who created, and who supports them."—Beattie cor. "Were you not affrighted, and did you not mistake a spirit for a body?"—Bp. Watson cor. "The latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction than or as, but it either agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood."—Mur. et al. cor. "He had mistaken his true interest, and he found himself forsaken."—Murray cor. "The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and it saved the patient's life."—Id. "The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might have been, and probably they were, good."—Id. "This may be true, and yet it will not justify the practice."—Webster cor. "From the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and who are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things."—Campbell cor. "For those energies and bounties which created, and which preserve, the universe."—J. Q. Adams cor. "I shall make it once for all, and I hope it will be remembered."—Blair cor. "This consequence is drawn too abruptly. The argument needed more explanation." Or: "This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and without sufficient explanation."—Id. "They must be used with more caution, and they require more preparation."—Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which made an addition of a syllable to the word."—Priestley cor. "The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, it is unavoidable."—Kames cor. "It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is it agreeable in any respect."—Id.

"Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts,—they poorly stick at words."—Denham cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.

"Let us read the living page, whose every character delights and instructs us."—Maunder cor. "For if it is in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and does not please."—Kames cor. "When a speaker addresses himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers."—Campbell cor. "As the wine which strengthens and refreshes the heart."—H. Adams cor. "This truth he wraps in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other."—Pope cor. "God searcheth and understandeth the heart." Or: "God searches and understands the heart."—T. à. Kempis cor. "The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men."—Titus, ii, 11. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."—1 Cor., ii, 13. "But he has an objection, which he urges, and by which he thinks to overturn all."—Barclay cor. "In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it gives to them who love it."—Id. "Thou here misunderstood the place and misapplied it." Or: "Thou here misunderstoodst the place and misappliedst it."—Id. Or: (as many of our grammarians will have it:) "Thou here misunderstoodest the place and misappliedst it."—Id. "Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good cometh."—See Jer., xvii, 6. "It speaks of the time past, and shows that something was then doing, but not quite finished."—Devis cor. "It subsists in spite of them; it advances unobserved."—Pascal cor.

"But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?— Methinks he lingers late and tarries long."—Byron cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—CONFUSION OF MOODS.

"If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go (or be gone) astray," &c.—Matt., xviii, 12. Or: "If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes (or is gone) astray," &c. Or: "If a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them goeth (or is gone) astray," &c.—Kirkham cor. "As a speaker advances in his discourse, and increases in energy and earnestness, a higher and a louder tone will naturally steal upon him."—Id. "If one man esteem one day above an other, and an other esteem every day alike; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."—Barclay cor. See Rom., xiv, 5. "If there be but one body of legislators, it will be no better than a tyranny; if there be only two, there will want a casting voice."—Addison cor. "Should you come up this way, and I be still here, you need not be assured how glad I should be to see you."—Byron cor. "If he repent and become holy, let him enjoy God and heaven."—Brownson cor. "If thy fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou say unto him, 'Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,' and yet thou give him not those things which are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy conduct?"—Kirkham cor.

"Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us, And show us to be watchers."—Singer's Shakspeare.

"But if it climb, with your assisting hand, The Trojan walls, and in the city stand."—Dryden cor.

————————"Though Heaven's King Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers, Used to the yoke, draw his triumphant wheels."—Milton cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.—IMPROPER ELLIPSES.

"Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as he has left them."—Reporter cor. "Which they neither have done nor can do."—Barclay cor. "The Lord hath revealed, and doth and will reveal, his will to his people; and hath raised up, and doth raise up, members of his body," &c.—Id. "We see, then, that the Lord hath given, and doth give, such."—Id. "Towards those that have declared, or do declare, themselves members."—Id. "For which we can give, and have given, our sufficient reasons."—Id. "When we mention the several properties of the different words in sentences, as we have mentioned those of the word William's above, what is the exercise called?"—R. C. Smith cor. "It is however to be doubted, whether this Greek idiom ever has obtained, or ever will obtain, extensively, in English."—Nutting cor. "Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much as we do?"—Murray cor. "Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be delivered in order to move and persuade."—Kirkham cor.

UNDER NOTE X.—DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.

"And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be avoided." Or: "I would avoid it altogether, if to avoid it were practicable."—Kames cor. "Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic; and it must elevate the mind to the greatest height to which it can be raised by a single expression."—Id. "Successive images, thus making deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate the mind more than any single image can."—Id. "Besides making a deeper impression than can be made by cool reasoning."—Id. "Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, may rise higher than a public speaker can." Or:—"than can a public speaker."—Blair cor. "And the very same reason that has induced several grammarians to go so far as they have gone, should have induced them to go farther."—Priestley cor. "The pupil should commit the first section to memory perfectly, before he attempts (or enters upon) the second part of grammar."—Bradley cor. "The Greek ch was pronounced hard, as we now pronounce it in chord."—Booth cor. "They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they adopt (or, in a manner different from that which they are accustomed to use) at other times."—L. Murray cor. "And give him the cool and formal reception that Simon had given."—Scott cor. "I do not say, as some have said."—Bolingbroke cor. "If he suppose the first, he may the last."—Barclay cor. "Who are now despising Christ in his inward appearance, as the Jews of old despised him in his outward [advent]."—Id. "That text of Revelations must not be understood as he understands it."—Id. "Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him that he can parse it readily."—R. C. Smith cor. "Perhaps it is running the same course that Rome had run before."—Middleton cor. "It ought even on this ground to be avoided; and it easily may be, by a different construction."—Churchill cor. "These two languages are now pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe pronounces them."—Creighton cor. "Germany ran the same risk that Italy had run."—Bolingbroke, Murray, et al., cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.—PRETERITS AND PARTICIPLES.

"The beggars themselves will be broken in a trice."—Swift cor. "The hoop is hoisted above his nose."—Id. "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord."—2 Chron., xvii, 6. "Who sin so oft have mourned, Yet to temptation run."—Burns cor. "Who would not have let them appear."—Steele cor. "He would have had you seek for ease at the hands of Mr. Legality."—Bunyan cor. "From me his madding mind is turned: He woos the widow's daughter, of the glen."—Spenser cor. "The man has spoken, and he still speaks."—Ash cor. "For you have but mistaken me all this while."—Shak. cor. "And will you rend our ancient love asunder?"—Id. "Mr. Birney has pled (or pleaded) the inexpediency of passing such resolutions."—Liberator cor. "Who have worn out their years in such most painful labours."—Littleton cor. "And in the conclusion you were chosen probationer."—Spectator cor.

"How she was lost, ta'en captive, made a slave; And how against him set that should her save."—Bunyan cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.—OF VERBS CONFOUNDED.

"But Moses preferred to while away his time."—Parker cor. "His face shone with the rays of the sun."—John Allen cor. "Whom they had set at defiance so lately."—Bolingbroke cor. "And when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him."—Bible cor. "When he had sat down on the judgement-seat." Or: "While he was sitting on the judgement-seat."— Id. "And, they having kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and sat down together, Peter sat down among them."—Id. "So, after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and had sat down again,[or, literally,'sitting down again,'] he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you?"—Id. "Even as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne."—Id. Or: (rather less literally:) "Even as I have overcome, and am sitting with my Father on his throne."—Id. "We have such a high priest, who sitteth on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens."—Id. "And is now sitting at the right hand of the throne of God."—Id. "He set on foot a furious persecution."— Payne cor. "There lieth (or lies) an obligation upon the saints to help such."—Barclay cor. "There let him lie."—Byron cor. "Nothing but moss, and shrubs, and stunted trees, can grow upon it."—Morse cor. "Who had laid out considerable sums purely to distinguish themselves."— Goldsmith cor. "Whereunto the righteous flee and are safe."—Barclay cor. "He rose from supper, and laid aside his garments."—Id. "Whither—oh! whither—shall I flee?"—L. Murray cor. "Fleeing from an adopted murderer."—Id. "To you I flee for refuge."—Id. "The sign that should warn his disciples to flee from the approaching ruin."— Keith cor. "In one she sits as a prototype for exact imitation."—Rush cor. "In which some only bleat, bark, mew, whinny, and bray, a little better than others."—Id. "Who represented to him the unreasonableness of being affected with such unmanly fears."—Rollin cor. "Thou sawest every action." Or, familiarly: "Thou saw every action."—Guy cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, or taught, he or she taught."—Coar cor. "Valerian was taken by Sapor and flayed alive, A. D. 260."—Lempriere cor. "What a fine vehicle has it now become, for all conceptions of the mind!"—Blair cor. "What has become of so many productions?"—Volney cor. "What has become of those ages of abundance and of life?"—Keith cor. "The Spartan admiral had sailed to the Hellespont."—Goldsmith cor. "As soon as he landed, the multitude thronged about him."—Id. "Cyrus had arrived at Sardis."—Id. "Whose year had expired."—Id. "It might better have been, 'that faction which,'" Or; "'That faction which,' would have been better."—Murray's Gram., p. 157. "This people has become a great nation."—Murray and Ingersoll cor. "And here we enter the region of ornament."—Dr. Blair cor. "The ungraceful parenthesis which follows, might far better have been avoided." "Who forced him under water, and there held him until he was drowned."—Hist. cor.

"I would much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him."—Cowper cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—WORDS THAT EXPRESS TIME.

"I finished my letter before my brother arrived." Or: "I had finished my letter when my brother arrived."—Kirkham cor. "I wrote before I received his letter."—Dr. Blair cor. "From what was formerly delivered."—Id. "Arts were at length introduced among them." Or: "Arts have been of late introduced among them."—Id. [But the latter reading suits not the Doctor's context.] "I am not of opinion that such rules can be of much use, unless persons see them exemplified." Or:—"could be," and "saw."—Id. "If we use the noun itself, we say, (or must say,) 'This composition is John's.'" Or: "If we used the noun itself, we should say," &c.—L. Murray cor. "But if the assertion refer to something that was transient, or to something that is not supposed to be always the same, the past tense must be preferred:" [as,] "They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by."—Luke and L. Murray cor. "There is no particular intimation but that I have continued to work, even to the present moment."—R. W. Green cor. "Generally, as has been observed already, it is but hinted in a single word or phrase."—Campbell cor. "The wittiness of the passage has been already illustrated."—Id. "As was observed before."—Id. Or: "As has been observed already"—Id. "It has been said already in general terms."—Id. "As I hinted before."—Id. Or: "As I have hinted already."—Id. "What, I believe, was hinted once before."—Id. "It is obvious, as was hinted formerly, that this is but an artificial and arbitrary connexion."—Id. "They did anciently a great deal of hurt."— Bolingbroke cor. "Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he was the high priest."—See Acts, xxiii, 5; Webster cor. "Most prepositions originally denoted the relations of place; and from these they were transferred, to denote, by similitude, other relations."—Lowth and Churchill cor. "His gift was but a poor offering, in comparison with his great estate."—L. Murray cor. "If he should succeed, and obtain his end, he would not be the happier for it." Or, better: "If he succeed, and fully attain his end, he will not be the happier for it."—Id. "These are torrents that swell to-day, and that will have spent themselves by to-morrow."—Dr. Blair cor. "Who have called that wheat on one day, which they have called tares on the next."—Barclay cor. "He thought it was one of his tenants."—Id. "But if one went unto them from the dead, they would repent."—Bible cor. "Neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."—Id. "But it is while men sleep, that the arch-enemy always sows his tares."—The Friend cor. "Crescens would not have failed to expose him."—Addison cor.

"Bent is his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound; Fierce as he moves, his silver shafts resound."—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—VERBS OF COMMANDING, &C.

"Had I commanded you to do this, you would have thought hard of it."—G. B. "I found him better than I expected to find him."—L Murray's Gram., i, 187. "There are several smaller faults which I at first intended to enumerate."—Webster cor. "Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object shall make."—Dr. Blair cor. "The girl said, if her master would but have let her have money, she might have been well long ago."—Priestley et al. cor. "Nor is there the least ground to fear that we shall here be cramped within too narrow limits."—Campbell cor. "The Romans, flushed with success, expected to retake it."—Hooke cor. "I would not have let fall an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered."—Sterne cor. "We expected that he would arrive last night."—Brown's Inst., p. 282. "Our friends intended to meet us."—Ib. "We hoped to see you."—Ib. "He would not have been allowed to enter."—Ib.

UNDER NOTE XV.—PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.

"Cicero maintained, that whatsoever is useful is good."—G. B. "I observed that love constitutes the whole moral character of God."—Dwight cor. "Thinking that one gains nothing by being a good man."—Voltaire cor. "I have already told you, that I am a gentleman."—Fontaine cor. "If I should ask, whether ice and water are two distinct species of things."—Locke cor. "A stranger to the poem would not easily discover that this is verse."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, i, 260. "The doctor affirmed that fever always produces thirst."—Brown's Inst., p. 282. "The ancients asserted, that virtue is its own reward."—Ib. "They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that the infinitive is a mere noun."—Tooke cor. "It was observed in Chap. III, that the distinctive OR has a double use."—Churchill cor. "Two young gentlemen, who have made a discovery that there is no God."—Campbell's Rhet., p. 206.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVIII; INFINITIVES.

INSTANCES DEMANDING THE PARTICLE TO.

"William, please to hand me that pencil."—Smith cor. "Please to insert points so as to make sense."—P. Davis cor. "I have known lords to abbreviate almost half of their words."—Cobbett cor. "We shall find the practice perfectly to accord with the theory."—Knight cor. "But it would tend to obscure, rather than to elucidate, the subject."—L. Murray cor. "Please to divide it for them, as it should be divided"—J. Willetts cor. "So as neither to embarrass nor to weaken the sentence."—Blair and Mur. cor. "Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and to hear his heavenly discourse."—Same. "That we need not be surprised to find this to hold [i.e., to find the same to be true, or to find it so] in eloquence."—Blair cor. "Where he has no occasion either to divide or to explain" [the topic in debate.]—Id. "And they will find their pupils to improve by hasty and pleasant steps."—Russell cor. "The teacher, however, will please to observe," &c.—Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Please to attend to a few rules in what is called syntax."—Id. "They may dispense with the laws, to favour their friends, or to secure their office."—Webster cor. "To take back a gift, or to break a contract, is a wanton abuse."—Id. "The legislature has nothing to do, but to let it bear its own price."—Id. "He is not to form, but to copy characters."—Rambler cor. "I have known a woman to make use of a shoeing-horn."—Spect. cor. "Finding this experiment to answer, in every respect, their wishes."—Day cor. "In fine, let him cause his arrangement to conclude in the term of the question."—Barclay cor.

"That he permitted not the winds of heaven To visit her too roughly." [Omit "face," to keep the measure: or say,] "That he did never let the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly."—Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIX.—OF INFINITIVES.

Instances after Bid, Dare, Feel, Hear, Let, Make, Need, See.

"I dare not proceed so hastily, lest I give offence."—See Murray's Key, Rule xii. "Their character is formed, and made to appear."—Butler cor. "Let there be but matter and opportunity offered, and you shall see them quickly revive again."—Bacon cor. "It has been made to appear, that there is no presumption against a revelation."—Bp. Butler cor. "MANIFEST, v. t. To reveal; to make appear; to show plainly."—Webster cor. "Let him reign, like good Aurelius, or let him bleed like Seneca:" [Socrates did not bleed, he was poisoned.]—Kirkham's transposition of Pope cor. "Sing I could not; complain I durst not."—Fothergill cor. "If T. M. be not so frequently heard to pray by them."—Barclay cor. "How many of your own church members were never heard to pray?"—Id. "Yea, we are bidden to pray one for an other."—Id. "He was made to believe that neither the king's death nor his imprisonment would help him."—Sheffield cor. "I felt a chilling sensation creep over me."—Inst., p. 279. "I dare say he has not got home yet."—Ib. "We sometimes see bad men honoured."—Ib. "I saw him move"—Felch cor. "For see thou, ah! see thou, a hostile world its terrors raise."—Kirkham cor. "But that he make him rehearse so."—Lily cor. "Let us rise."—Fowle cor.

"Scripture, you know, exhorts us to it; It bids us 'seek peace, and ensue it.'"—Swift cor.

"Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel Bedash the rags of Lazarus? Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel, Confessing heaven that ruled it thus."—Christmas Book cor.