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 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