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LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The lands are held in free and common soccage."--Trumbull cor. "A stroke is drawn under such words."--Cobbett's Gr., 1st Ed. "It is struck even, with a strickle."--W. Walker cor. "Whilst I was wandering, without any care, beyond my bounds."--Id. "When one would do something, unless hindered by something present."--B. Johnson cor. "It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendered by these signs."--Id. "Now who would dote upon things hurried down the stream thus fast?"--Collier cor. "Heaven hath timely tried their growth."--Milton cor. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand."--Id. "Of true virgin here distressed."--Id. "So that they have at last come to be substituted in the stead of it."--Barclay cor. "Though ye have lain among the pots."--Bible cor. "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off."--Scott's Bible, and Alger's. "Brutus and Cassius Have ridden, (or rode,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."--''Shak. cor. "He shall be spit upon."--Bible cor. "And are not the countries so overflowed still situated between the tropics?"--Bentley''. "Not tricked and frounced as she was wont, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud."--Milton cor. "To satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never."--Id. "With him there crucified."--Id. "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd air darked with plumes."--Id. "And now their way to Earth they had descried."--Id. "Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."--Id. "And in a troubled sea of passion tossed."--Id. "The cause, alas! is quickly guessed."--Swift cor. "The kettle to the top was hoised, or hoisted."--Id. "In chains thy syllables are linked."--Id. "Rather than thus be overtopped, Would you not wish their laurels cropped."--Id. "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line drawn to connect words, or parts of words."--Cobbett cor. "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broken."--R. Johnson cor. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixed to them."--Grant cor. "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a laughing."--J. Walker cor. "Being mocked, scourged, spit upon, and crucified."--Gurney cor. "For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,   Till barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown."--Roscommon cor.

"In my own Thames may I be drowned,   If e'er I stoop beneath the crowned." Or thus:-- "In my own Thames may I be drown'd dead,   If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."--Swift cor.

CHAPTER VIII.--ADVERBS.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.

"We can much more easily form the conception of a fierce combat."--Blair corrected. "When he was restored agreeably to the treaty, he was a perfect savage."--Webster cor. "How I shall acquit myself suitably to the importance of the trial."--Duncan cor. "Can any thing show your Holiness how unworthily you treat mankind?"--''Spect. cor. "In what other, consistently with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?"--Lowth cor. "Agreeably to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters."--Wilson cor. "We shall give a remarkably fine example of this figure."--See Blair's Rhet.'', p. 156. "All of which is most abominably false."--Barclay cor. "He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserably."--Murray cor. "He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simply."--Dr. Blair cor. "Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clearly and exactly, he appears dry."--Id. "Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the most softly." Or: "Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest."--Id. "The simplest points, such as are most easily apprehended."--Id. "Too historical to be accounted a perfectly regular epic poem."--Id. "Putting after them the oblique case, agreeably to the French construction."--Priestley cor. "Where the train proceeds with an extremely slow pace."--Kames cor. "So as scarcely to give an appearance of succession."--Id. "That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, independently of artful pronunciation."--Id. "Cornaro had become very corpulent, previously to the adoption of his temperate habits."--Hitchcock cor. "Bread, which is a solid, and tolerably hard, substance."--Day cor. "To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself."--Id. "Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors."--J. Ward cor. "Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deeply."--Wilson cor. "The people are miserably poor, and subsist on fish."--Hume cor. "A scale, which I took great pains, some years ago, to make."--Bucke cor. "There is no truth on earth better established than the truth of the Bible."--Taylor cor. "I know of no work more wanted than the one which Mr. Taylor has now furnished."--Dr. Nott cor. "And therefore their requests are unfrequent and reasonable."--Taylor cor. "Questions are more easily proposed, than answered rightly."--Dillwyn cor. "Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from which they are all derived."--Murray cor. "If there be no special rule which requires it to be put further forward."--Milnes cor. "The masculine and the neuter have the same dialect in all the numbers, especially when they end alike."--Id. "And children are more busy in their play   Than those that wiseliest pass their time away."--Butler cor.