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 a foundation has been been laid in Zion, and the church is built--(or, continues to be built--) upon it."--The Friend cor. "And one fourth of the people are receiving education."--E. I. Mag. cor. "The present [tense,] or that [form of the verb] which [expresses what] is now doing."--Beck cor. "A new church, called the Pantheon, is about being completed, in an expensive style."--Thompson cor. "When I last saw him, he had grown considerably."--Murray cor. "I know what a rugged and dangerous path I have got into."--Duncan cor. "You might as well preach ease to one on the rack."--Locke cor. "Thou hast heard me, and hast become my salvation."--Bible cor. "While the Elementary Spelling-Book was preparing (or, was in progress of preparation) for the press."--Cobb cor. "Language has become, in modern times, more correct."--Jamieson cor. "If the plan has been executed in any measure answerable to the author's wishes."--Robbins cor. "The vial of wrath is still pouring out on the seat of the beast."--Christian Ex. cor. "Christianity had become the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire."--Gurney cor. "Who wrote before the first century had elapsed."--Id. "The original and analogical form has grown quite obsolete."--Lowth cor. "Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have perished."--Murray cor. "The poems had got abroad, and were in a great many hands."--Waller cor. "It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, 'The bubble is ready to burst.'"--Cobbett cor. "I drove my suitor from his mad humour of love."--''Shak. cor. "Se viriliter expedivit."--Cic. "He has played the man."--Walker cor. "Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?"--Bible cor. "And we, methought, [or thought I] looked up to him from our hill"--Cowley cor. "I fear thou dost not think so much of the best things as thou ought."--Memoir cor. "When this work was commenced."--Wright cor. "Exercises and a Key to this work are about being prepared."--Id. "James is loved by John."--Id. "Or that which is exhibited."--Id. "He was smitten."--Id. "In the passive voice we say, 'I am loved.'"--Id. "Subjunctive Mood: If I be smitten, If thou be smitten, If he be smitten."--Id. "I shall not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is."--Chalmers cor. "I said to myself, I shall be obliged to expose the folly."--Chazotte cor. "When Clodius, had he meant to return that day to Rome, must have arrived."--J. Q. Adams cor. "That the fact has been done, is doing, or will be done."--Peirce cor. "Am I to be instructed?"--Wright cor. "I choose him."--Id. "John, who respected his father, was obedient to his commands."--Barrett cor.'' "The region echoes to the clash of arms."--Beattie cor.

"And sitst on high, and mak'st creation's top   Thy footstool; and beholdst below thee--all."--Pollok cor.

"And see if thou canst punish sin and let   Mankind go free. Thou failst--be not surprised."--Idem.

LESSON III--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"What follows, might better have been wanting altogether."--Dr. Blair cor. "This member of the sentence might much better have been omitted altogether."--Id. "One or the other of them, therefore, might better have been omitted."--Id. "The whole of this last member of the sentence might better have been dropped."--Id. "In this case, they might much better be omitted."--Id. "He might better have said 'the productions.'"--Id. "The Greeks ascribed the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musæus."--Id. "It was noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables."--''Phil. Museum cor. "When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I determined to send him."--Bible cor. "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God."--Id. "As for such, I wish the Lord would open'' their eyes." Or, better: "May the Lord open (or, I pray the Lord to open) their eyes."--Barclay cor. "It would have made our passage over the river very difficult."--Walley cor. "We should not have been able to carry our great guns."--Id. "Others would have questioned our prudence, if we had."--Id. "Beware thou be not BECÆSARED; i.e., Beware that thou do not dwindle--or, lest thou dwindle--into a mere Cæsar."--Harris cor. "Thou raisedst (or, familiarly, thou raised) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes."--Arbuthnot cor. "Life hurries off apace; thine is almost gone already."--Collier cor. "'How unfortunate has this accident made me!' cries such a one."--Id. "The muse that soft and sickly woos the ear."--Pollok cor. "A man might better relate himself to a statue."--Bacon cor. "I heard thee say but now, thou liked not that."--''Shak. cor. "In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, (or, familiarly, thou cried,) Indeed!"--Id. "But our ears have grown familiar with I have wrote, I have drank,' &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical."--Lowth et al. cor. "The court was in session before Sir Roger came"--Addison cor. "She needs--(or, if you please, need,--) be no more with the jaundice possessed"--Swift cor. "Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day when you were here."--Id. "If spirit of other sort, So minded, hath (or has) o'erleaped these earthy bounds."--Milton cor. "It would have been more rational to have forborne this."--Barclay cor. "A student is not master of it till he has seen all these."--Dr. Murray cor. "The said justice shall summon the party."--Brevard cor. "Now what has become of thy former wit and humour?"--Spect. cor. "Young stranger, whither wanderst thou?"--Burns cor. "SUBJ. Pres. If I love, If thou love, If he love. Imp. If I loved, If thou loved, If he loved."--Merchant cor. "SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou do not love, If he do not love."--Id. "If he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."--Bible cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to call, second person singular: If thou call, (rarely, If thou do call,) If thou called."--Hiley cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to love, second person singular: If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou loved."--Bullions cor. "I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were."--White cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, (familiarly, thou taught'',) he