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 and grace presupposes conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion presupposes the having of light and grace."--Barclay cor. "They cried down the wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do."--Id. "Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of the plaiting of the hair, and of the wearing of gold, or of the putting-on of apparel."--Bible cor. "In the spelling of derivative words, the primitives must be kept whole."--Brit. Gram. and Buchanan's cor. "And the princes offered for the dedicating of the altar."--Numb. cor. "Boasting is not only a telling of lies, but also of many unseemly truths."--Sheffield cor. "We freely confess that the forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful."--Barclay cor. "For the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy."--G. Brown. "He turned all his thoughts to the composing of laws for the good of the State."--Rollin cor.

UNDER NOTE XVI.--PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.

"It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after falling in."--Barclay cor. "For in receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased."--Id. "True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it."--''Phil. Museum cor. "To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth attending to."--Say cor. "To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by ordering their temple to be rebuilt," &c.--Rollin cor. "And for preserving them from being defiled."--Discip. cor. "A wise man will forbear to show any excellence in trifles."--Kames cor. "Hirsutus had no other reason for valuing a book."--Johnson, and Wright, cor.'' "To being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver himself with ease." Perhaps better: "To be heard, &c." Or: "In order to be heard, &c."--Sheridan cor. "And, to the end of being well heard and clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than can even the greatest power of voice."--Id. "Potential purports, having power or will;   As, If you would improve, you should be still."--Tobitt cor.

UNDER NOTE XVII.--VARIOUS ERRORS.

"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."--Lowth cor. "A period is a whole sentence complete in itself."--Id. "A colon, or member, is a chief constructive part, or the greatest division, of a sentence."--Id. "A semicolon, or half-member, is a smaller constructive part, or a subdivision, of a sentence or of a member."--Id. "A sentence or a member is again subdivided into commas, or segments."--Id. "The first error that I would mention is, too general an attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own tongue."--Webster cor. "One third of the importations would supply the demands of the people."--Id. "And especially in a grave style."--Murray's Gram., i, 178. "By too eager a pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed."--Murray cor. "The letters are divided into vowels and consonants."--''Mur. et al. cor. "The consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels."--Iidem''. "The first of these forms is the most agreeable to the English idiom."--Murray cor. "If they gain, it is at too dear a rate."--Barclay cor. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it."--Maunder cor. "This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too partial a fondness for the Latin."--Ash cor. "The groans which too heavy a load extorts from her."--Hitchcock cor. "The numbers of a verb are, of course, the singular and the plural."--Bucke cor. "To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great mind."--Murray cor. "This mode of expression rather suits the familiar than the grave style."--Id. "This use of the word best suits a familiar and low style."--Priestley cor. "According to the nature of the composition, the one or the other may be predominant."--Blair cor. "Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end."--Campbell cor. "A eulogy or a philippic may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon a subject of an other."--J. Q. Adams cor. "A French sermon is, for the most part, a warm animated exhortation."--Blair cor. "I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable lot."--Channing cor. "The auxiliary and the principal united constitute a tense."--Murray cor. "There are some verbs which are defective with respect to the persons."--Id. "In youth, habits of industry are the most easily acquired."--Id. "The apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out."--Bullions cor.

CHAPTER III.--CASES, OR NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES.

"The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."--Bunyan cor. "He will in no wise cast out whosoever cometh unto him." Better: "He will in no wise cast out any that come unto him."--Hall cor. "He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, who, he saw, were off their guard."--Hutchinson cor. "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."--Matt., v, 41. "The ideas of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers."--Swift cor. "You are a much greater loser than I, by his death." Or: "Thou art a much greater loser by his death than I."--Id. "Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds."--Barclay cor. "In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."--Id. "Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb."--Addison cor. "His wealth and he bid adieu to each other."--Priestley cor. "So that, 'He is greater than I,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than me.'"--Id. "The Jesuits had more interests