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 first nine chapters of the book of Proverbs are highly poetical."--Id. "For, of these five heads, only the first two have any particular relation to the sublime."--Id. "The resembling sounds of the last two syllables give a ludicrous air to the whole."--Kames cor. "The last three are arbitrary."--Id. "But in the sentence, 'She hangs the curtains,' hangs is an active-transitive verb."--Comly cor. "If our definition of a verb, and the arrangement of active-transitive, active-intransitive, passive, and neuter verbs, are properly understood."--Id. "These last two lines have an embarrassing construction."--Rush cor. "God was provoked to drown them all, but Noah and seven other persons."--Wood cor. "The first six books of the Æneid are extremely beautiful."--Formey cor. "Only a few instances more can here be given."--Murray cor. "A few years more will obliterate every vestige of a subjunctive form."--Nutting cor. "Some define them to be verbs devoid of the first two persons."--Crombie cor. "In an other such Essay-tract as this."--White cor. "But we fear that not an other such man is to be found."--Edward Irving cor. "O for an other such sleep, that I might see an other such man!" Or, to preserve poetic measure, say:-- "O for such sleep again, that I might see   An other such man, though but in a dream!"--''Shak. cor.''

UNDER NOTE X.--ADJECTIVES FOR ADVERBS.

"The is an article, relating to the noun balm, agreeably to Rule 11th."--Comly cor. "Wise is an adjective, relating to the noun man's, agreeably to Rule 11th."--Id. "To whom I observed, that the beer was extremely good."--Goldsmith cor. "He writes very elegantly." Or: "He writes with remarkable elegance."--O. B. Peirce cor. "John behaves very civilly (or, with true civility) to all men."--Id. "All the sorts of words hitherto considered, have each of them some meaning, even when taken separately."--Beattie cor. "He behaved himself conformably to that blessed example."--Sprat cor. "Marvellously graceful."--Clarendon cor. "The Queen having changed her ministry, suitably to her wisdom."--Swift cor. "The assertions of this author are more easily detected."--Id. "The characteristic of his sect allowed him to affirm no more strongly than that."--Bentley cor. "If one author had spoken more nobly and loftily than an other."--Id. "Xenophon says expressly."--Id. "I can never think so very meanly of him."--Id. "To convince all that are ungodly among them, of all their ungodly deeds, which they have impiously committed."--Bible cor. "I think it very ably written." Or: "I think it written in a very masterly manner."--Swift cor. "The whole design must refer to the golden age, which it represents in a lively manner."--Addison cor. "Agreeably to this, we read of names being blotted out of God's book."--Burder et al. cor. "Agreeably to the law of nature, children are bound to support their indigent parents."--Paley. "Words taken independently of their meaning, are parsed as nouns of the neuter gender."--Maltby cor. "Conceit in weakest bodies strongliest works."--''Shak. cor.''

UNDER NOTE XI.--THEM FOR THOSE.

"Though he was not known by those letters, or the name CHRIST."--Bayly cor. "In a gig, or some of those things." Better: "In a gig, or some such vehicle."--M. Edgeworth cor. "When cross-examined by those lawyers."--Same. "As the custom in those cases is."--Same. "If you had listened to those slanders."--Same. "The old people were telling stories about those fairies; but, to the best of my judgement, there is nothing in them."--Same. "And is it not a pity that the Quakers have no better authority to substantiate their principles, than the testimony of those old Pharisees?"--Hibbard cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.--THIS AND THAT.

"Hope is as strong an incentive to action, as fear: that is the anticipation of good, this of evil."--Inst., p. 265. "The poor want some advantages which the rich enjoy; but we should not therefore account these happy, and those miserable."--Inst., p. 266. "Ellen and Margaret, fearfully,   Sought comfort in each other's eye;

Then turned their ghastly look each one, That to her sire, this to her son."--Scott cor.

"Six youthful sons, as many blooming maids,   In one sad day beheld the Stygian shades;    Those by Apollo's silver bow were slain,    These Cynthia's arrows stretch'd upon the plain."--Pope cor.

"Memory and forecast just returns engage,   That pointing back to youth, this on to age."--Pope, on Man.

UNDER NOTE XIII.--EITHER AND NEITHER.

"These make the three great subjects of discussion among mankind; namely, truth, duty, and interest: but the arguments directed towards any of them are generically distinct."--Dr. Blair cor. "A thousand other deviations may be made, and still any of the accounts may be correct in principle; for all these divisions, and their technical terms, are arbitrary."--R. W. Green cor. "Thus it appears, that our alphabet is deficient; as it has but seven vowels to represent thirteen different sounds; and has no letter to represent any of five simple consonant sounds."--Churchill cor. "Then none of these five verbs can be neuter."--O. B. Peirce cor. "And the assertor[534] is in none