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 taught."--Coar cor. "We say, If it rain,' 'Suppose it rain?' 'Lest it rain,' 'Unless it rain. This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD."--Weld cor. "He has arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood."--Priestley cor. "He might much better have let it alone."--Tooke cor. "He were better without it. Or: He would be better without it."--Locke cor. "Hadst thou not been by. Or: If thou hadst not been by. Or, in the familiar style: Had not thou been by,"--Shak. cor. "I learned geography. Thou learned arithmetic. He learned grammar."--Fuller cor. "Till the sound has ceased."--Sheridan cor. "Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, died."--Six English Grammars corrected.  "Thou bow'dst thy glorious head to none, fear'dst none." Or:--    "Thou bowed thy glorious head to none, feared none."        --Pollok cor.

"Thou lookst upon thy boy as though thou guess'd it." --Knowles cor.

"As once thou slept, while she to life was formed." --Milton cor.

"Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,   But may imagine how the bird was killed?" --''Shak. cor.''

"Which might have well become the best of men." --Idem cor.

CHAPTER VII.--PARTICIPLES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.

LESSON I.--IRREGULARS.

"Many of your readers have mistaken that passage."--Steele cor. "Had not my dog of a steward run away."--Addison cor. "None should be admitted, except he had broken his collarbone thrice."--Id. "We could not know what was written at twenty."--Waller cor. "I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we have written, you have written, they have written."--Ash cor. "As if God had spoken his last words there to his people."--Barclay cor. "I had like to have come in that ship myself."--Observer cor. "Our ships and vessels being driven out of the harbour by a storm."--Hutchinson cor. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have written, had he written in the same language."--Bolingbroke cor. "When his doctrines grew too strong to be shaken by his enemies."--Atterbury cor. "The immortal mind that hath forsaken her mansion."--Milton cor. "Grease that's sweated (or sweat) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."--''Shak. cor. "The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put."--Stone cor. "He would have spoken."--Milton cor. "Words interwoven (or interweaved) with sighs found out their way."--Id. "Those kings and potentates who have strived (or striven.)"--Id. "That even Silence was taken."--Id. "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stolen them from me."--Id. "I have chosen this perfect man."--Id. "I shall scarcely think you have swum in a gondola."--Shak. cor. "The fragrant brier was woven (or weaved) between."--Dryden cor. "Then finish what you have begun."--Id. "But now the years a numerous train have run."--Pope cor. "Repeats your verses written (or writ) on glasses."--Prior cor. "Who by turns have risen."--Id. "Which from great authors I have taken."--Id. "Even there he should have fallen."--Id.'' "The sun has ris'n, and gone to bed.   Just as if Partridge were not dead."--Swift cor.

"And, though no marriage words are spoken,   They part not till the ring is broken."--Swift cor.

LESSON II.--REGULARS.

"When the word is stripped of all the terminations."--Dr. Murray cor. "Forgive him, Tom; his head is cracked."--Swift cor. "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoised (or hoisted) with his own petar."--''Shak. cor. "As great as they are, I was nursed by their mother."--Swift cor. "If he should now be cried down since his change."--Id. "Dipped over head and ears--in debt."--Id. "We see the nation's credit cracked."--Id. "Because they find their pockets picked."--Id. "O what a pleasure mixed with pain!"--Id. "And only with her brother linked."--Id. "Because he ne'er a thought allowed, That might not be confessed."--Id. "My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixed."--Id. "The observations annexed to them will be intelligible."--Phil. Mus. cor. "Those eyes are always fixed on the general principles."--Id. "Laborious conjectures will be banished from our commentaries."--Id. "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablished, in his stead."--Id. "A Roman who was attached to Augustus."--Id. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talked about two such."--Id. "And the reformers of language have generally rushed on."--Id. "Three centuries and a half had then elapsed since the date,"--Ib. "Of such criteria, as has been remarked already, there is an abundance."--Id. "The English have surpassed every other nation in their services."--Id. "The party addressed is next in dignity to the speaker."--Harris cor. "To which we are many times helped."--W. Walker cor. "But for him, I should have looked well enough to myself."--Id. "Why are you vexed'', Lady? why do frown?"--Milton cor. "Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb."--Id. "But, like David equipped in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."--Campbell cor.  "And when their merchants are blown up, and cracked, Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wrecked."--Butler cor.