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UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XII--OF PERVERSIONS.

"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."--Genesis, i, 1. "Canst thou by searching find out God?"--Job, xi, 7. "Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints."--Rev., xv. 3. "Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven."--Matt., vii, 21. "Though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor."--2 Cor., viii, 9. "Whose foundation was overthrown with a flood."--SCOTT'S BIBLE: Job, xxii, 16. "Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;" &c.--Matt., xi, 29. "I go to prepare a place for you."--John, xiv, 2. "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins."--Ephesians, ii, 1. "Go, flee thee away into the land of Judah."--Amos, vii, 12; Lowth's Gram., p. 44. Or: "Go, flee away into the land of Judah."--Hart cor. "Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further."--Job, xxxviii, 11. "The day is thine, the night also is thine."--Psal., lxxiv, 16. "Tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope."--Romans, v, 4. "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was; and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."--Ecclesiastes, xii, 7. "At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things: Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea."--Prov., xxiii, 32, 33, 34. "The memory of the just is blessed; but the name of the wicked shall rot."--Prov., x, 7. "He that is slow to anger, is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city."--Prov., xvi, 32. "For whom the Lord loveth, he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth."--Prov., iii, 12. "The first-future tense is that which expresses what will take place hereafter."--''Brown's Inst. of E. Gram.'', p. 54. "Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see."--Pope's Univ. Prayer. "Surely thou art one of them; for thou art a Galilean."--Mark, xiv, 70. "Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee."--Matt., xxvi, 73. "Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life."--Matt., vii, 14. "Thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king."--Nehemiah, vi, 6. "There is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared."--Psalms, cxxx, 4. "But yesterday, the word of Cæsar might Have stood against the world."--Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 250. "The North-East spends his rage."--Thomson's Seasons, p. 34. "Tells how the drudging goblin swet."--Milton's Allegro, l. 105. "And to his faithful champion hath in place Borne witness gloriously."--''Milton's Sam. Agon.'', l. 1752. "Then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr."--Beauties of Shakspeare, p. 173. Better: "Then, if thou fall, O Cromwell! thou fallst a blessed martyr."--''Shak. and Kirk. cor. "I see the dagger-crest of Mar, I see the Moray's silver star, Wave o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake comes winding far!"--Scott's Lady of the Lake'', p. 162. "Each beast, each insect, happy in its own."--Pope, on Man, Ep. i, l. 185. "And he that is learning to arrange his sentences with accuracy and order, is learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order."--Blair's Lect., p. 120. "We, then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain."--2 Cor., vi, 1. "And on the boundless of thy goodness calls."--Young's Last Day, B. ii, l. 320. "Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own."--Cowper's Task, B. vi, l. 90. "O! let me listen to the words of life!"--Thomson's Paraphrase on Matt. vi. "Save that, from yonder ivy-mantled tower." &c.--Gray's Elegy, l. 9. "Weighs the men's wits against the Lady's hair."--Pope's Rape of the Lock, Canto v, l. 72. "Till the publication of Dr. Lowth's small Introduction, the grammatical study of our language formed no part of the ordinary method of instruction."--Hiley's Preface, p. vi. "Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee."--Gen., xiii, 8.

"What! canst thou not forbear me half an hour?"--Shakspeare.

"Till then who knew the force of those dire arms?"--Milton.

"In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;   Alike fantastic, if too new or old:    Be not the first by whom the new are tried     Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."--Pope, on Criticism, l. 333.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIII.--OF AWKWARDNESS.

"They slew Varus, whom I mentioned before."--L. Murray cor. "Maria rejected Valerius, whom she had rejected before." Or: "Maria rejected Valerius a second time."--Id. "In the English language, nouns have but two different terminations for cases."--Churchill's Gram., p. 64. "Socrates and Plato were the wisest men, and the most eminent philosophers in Greece."--Buchanan's Gram., Pref., p. viii. "Whether more than one were concerned in the business, does not yet appear." Or: "How many were concerned in the business, does not yet appear."--L. Murray cor. "And that, consequently, the verb or pronoun agreeing with it, can never with propriety be used in the plural number."--''Id. et al. cor. "A second help may be, frequent and free converse with others of your own sex who are like minded."--Wesley cor. "Four of the semivowels, namely, l, m, n, and r, are termed LIQUIDS, on account of the fluency of their sounds."--See Brown's Inst.'', p. 16. "Some conjunctions are used in pairs, so that one answers to an other, as its regular correspondent."--Lowth et al. cor. "The mutes are those consonants whose sounds cannot be protracted; the semivowels have imperfect sounds of their own, which can be continued at pleasure."--Murray et al. cor. "HE and SHE are sometimes used as nouns, and, as such, are regularly declined: as, 'The hes in birds.'--BACON. 'The shes of Italy.'--SHAK."--Churchill cor. "The separation of a preposition from the word which it governs, is [censured by