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 the ministers of God: as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things."--2 Cor., vi.

"O may th' indulgence of a father's love,   Pour'd forth on me, be doubled from above."--Young.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

ERRORS OF PARTICIPLES.

[Fist] [As the principles upon which our participles ought to be formed, were necessarily anticipated in the preceding chapter on verbs, the reader must recur to that chapter for the doctrines by which the following errors are to be corrected. The great length of that chapter seemed a good reason for separating these examples from it, and it was also thought, that such words as are erroneously written for participles, should, for the sake of order, be chiefly noticed in this place. In many of these examples, however, the participle is not really a separate part of speech, but is in fact taken with an auxiliary to form some compound tense of its verb.]

LESSON I.--IRREGULARS.

"Many of your readers have mistook that passage."--Steele, Spect., No. 544.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the preterit verb mistook is here used for the perfect participle. But, according to the table of irregular verbs, we ought to say, mistake, mistook, mistaking, mistaken; after the form of the simple verb, take, took, taking, taken. Therefore, the sentence should be amended thus: "Many of your readers have mistaken that passage."]

"Had not my dog of a steward ran away."--Addison, Spect. "None should be admitted, except he had broke his collar-bone thrice."--Spect., No. 474. "We could not know what was wrote at twenty."--Pref. to Waller. "I have wrote, thou hast wrote, he has wrote; we have wrote, ye have wrote, they have wrote."--Ash's Gram., p. 62. "As if God had spoke his last words there to his people."--Barclay's Works, i, 462. "I had like to have came in that ship myself."--N. Y. Observer, No. 453. "Our ships and vessels being drove out of the harbour by a storm."--''Hutchinson's Hist. of Mass.'', i, 470. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have wrote, had he writ in the same language."--Bolingbroke, on Hist., i, 68. "When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies."--Atterbury. "The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion."--Milton. "Grease that's sweaten from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."--''Shak., Macbeth''. "The court also was chided for allowing such questions to be put."--Col. Stone, on Freemasonry, p. 470. "He would have spoke."-- Milton, P. L., B. x, 1. 517. "Words interwove with sighs found out their way."--Id., ib., i, 621. "Those kings and potentates who have strove."--Id., Eiconoclast, xvii. "That even Silence was took."--''Id., Comus'', l. 557. "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stole them from me."--Id., Comus, 1. 195. "I have chose this perfect man."--Id., P. R., B. i, l. 165. "I will scarce think you have swam in a gondola."--Shak., As You Like It. "The fragrant brier was wove between."--Dryden, Fables. "Then finish what you have began."--''Id., Poems'', ii, 172. "But now the years a numerous train have ran."--Pope's Odyssey, B. xi, l. 555. "Repeats your verses wrote on glasses."--Prior. "Who by turns have rose."--Id. "Which from great authors I have took."--Id., Alma. "Ev'n there he should have fell."--Id., Solomon.

"The sun has rose, and gone to bed,   Just as if Partridge were not dead."--Swift.

"And though no marriage words are spoke,   They part not till the ring is broke."--Id., Riddles.

LESSON II.--REGULARS.

"When the word is stript of all the terminations."--''Dr. Murray's Hist. of En. L.'', i, 319.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the participle stript is terminated in t. But, according to Observation 2d, on the irregular verbs, stript is regular. Therefore, this t should be changed to ed; and the final p should be doubled, according to Rule 3d for Spelling: thus, "When the word is stripped of all the terminations."]

"Forgive him, Tom; his head is crackt."--Swift's Poems, p. 397. "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoist with his own petar."--Hamlet, Act 3. "As great as they are, I was nurst by their mother."--Swift's Poems, p. 310. "If he should now be cry'd down since his change."--Ib., p. 306. "Dipt over head and ears--in debt."--Ib., p. 312. "We see the nation's credit crackt."--Ib., p. 312. "Because they find their pockets pickt."--Ib., p. 338. "O what a pleasure mixt with pain!"--Ib., p. 373. "And only with her Brother linkt."--Ib., p. 387. "Because he ne'er a thought allow'd, That might not be confest."--Ib., p. 361. "My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixt."--Ib., p. 369. "The observations annext to them will be intelligible."--Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 457. "Those eyes are always fixt on the general principles."--Ib., i, 458. "Laborious conjectures will be banisht from our commentaries."--Ib., i, 459. "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablisht in his stead."--Ib., i, 462. "A Roman who was attacht to Augustus."--Ib., i, 466. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talkt about two such."--Ib., i, 467. "And the reformers of language have generally rusht on."--Ib., i, 649. "Three centuries and a half had then elapst since the date."--Ib., i, 249. "Of such criteria, as has been remarkt already, there is an abundance."--Ib., i, 261. "The English have surpast every other nation in their services."--Ib., i, 306. "The party addrest is next