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 editions: the first impression sinks the deepest, and with the credulous it can rarely be effaced; nay, he will be vainly employed who endeavours to eradicate it."--Werter, p. 82.

"It is well ordered, that even the most innocent blunder is not committed with impunity; because, were errors licensed where they do no hurt, inattention would grow into habit, and be the occasion of much hurt."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', i, 285.

"The force of language consists in raising complete images; which have the effect to transport the reader, as by magic, into the very place of the important action, and to convert him as it were into a spectator, beholding every thing that passes."--Id., ib., ii, 241.

"An orator should not put forth all his strength at the beginning, but should rise and grow upon us, as his discourse advances."--Blair's Rhet., p. 309.

"When a talent is given to any one, an account is open with the giver of it, who appoints a day in which he will arrive and 'redemand his own with usury.'"--West's Letters to a Young Lady, p. 74.

"Go, and reclaim the sinner, instruct the ignorant, soften the obdurate, and (as occasion shall demand) cheer, depress, repel, allure, disturb, assuage, console, or terrify."--Jerningham's Essay on Eloquence, p. 97.

"If all the year were playing holydays,   To sport would be as tedious as to work:    But when they seldom come, they wish'd-for come,    And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents." --''Shak., Hen. V''.

"The man that once did sell the lion's skin   While the beast liv'd, was kill'd with hunting him." --''Id., Joh. Dict., w. Beast''.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

ERRORS OF VERBS.

LESSON I.--PRETERITS.

"In speaking on a matter which toucht their hearts."--''Philological Museum'', Vol. i, p. 441.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the verb toucht is terminated in t. But, according to Observation 2nd, on the irregular verbs, touch is regular. Therefore, this t should be changed to ed; thus, "In speaking on a matter which touched their hearts."]

"Though Horace publisht it some time after."--Ib., i, 444. "The best subjects with which the Greek models furnisht him."--Ib., i, 444. "Since he attacht no thought to it."--Ib., i, 645. "By what slow steps the Greek alphabet reacht its perfection."--Ib., i, 651. "Because Goethe wisht to erect an affectionate memorial."--Ib., i, 469. "But the Saxon forms soon dropt away."--Ib., i, 668. "It speaks of all the towns that perisht in the age of Philip."--Ib., i, 252. "This enricht the written language with new words."--Ib., i, 668. "He merely furnisht his friend with matter for laughter."--Ib., i, 479. "A cloud arose and stopt the light."--Swift's Poems, p. 313. "She slipt zpadillo in her breast."--Ib., p. 371. "I guest the hand."--Ib., p. 372. "The tyrant stript me to the skin: My skin he flay'd, my hair he cropt; At head and foot my body lopt."--Ib., On a Pen, p. 338. "I see the greatest owls in you, That ever screecht or ever flew."--Ib., p. 403. "I sate with delight, from morning till night."--Ib., p. 367. "Dick nimbly skipt the gutter."--Ib., p. 375. "In at the pantry door this morn I slipt."--Ib., p. 369. "Nobody living ever toucht me but you."--Walker's Particles, p. 92. "Present, I ship; Past, I shipped or shipt; Participle, shipped or shipt."--''Murray the schoolmaster. Gram.'', p. 31. "Then the king arose, and tare his garments."--2 Sam., xiii, 31. "When he lift up his foot, he knew not where he should set it next."--Bunyan. "He lift up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time."--2 SAM.: ''in Joh. Dict. "Upon this chaos rid the distressed ark."--BURNET: ib. "On whose foolish honesty, my practices rid easy."--SHAK.: ib. "That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which rise immediately out of chaos."--BURNET: ib.'' "Sir, how come it you have holp to make this rescue?"--SHAK.: ''in Joh. Dict. "He sware he had rather lose all his father's images than that table."--PEACHAM: ib. "When our language dropt its ancient terminations."--Dr. Murray's Hist.'', ii, 5. "When themselves they vilify'd."--Milton, P. L., xi, 515. "But I choosed rather to do thus."--Barclay's Works, i, 456. "When he plead against the parsons."-- School History, p. 168. "And he that saw it, bear record."--Cutler's Gram., p. 72. "An irregular verb has one more variation, as drive, drivest, drives, drivedst, drove, driving, driven."--REV. MATT. HARRISON, on the English Language, p. 260. "Beside that village Hannibal pitcht his camp."--Walker's Particles, p. 79. "He fetcht it even from Tmolus."-- Ib., p. 114. "He supt with his morning gown on."--Ib., p. 285. "There stampt her sacred name."--Barlow's Columbiad, B. i, l. 233.

"Fixt on the view the great discoverer stood,   And thus addrest the messenger of good."--Barlow, B, i, l. 658.