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 liberal education, and who are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things."--Campbell cor. "For those energies and bounties which created, and which preserve, the universe."--J. Q. Adams cor. "I shall make it once for all, and I hope it will be remembered."--Blair cor. "This consequence is drawn too abruptly. The argument needed more explanation." Or: "This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and without sufficient explanation."--Id. "They must be used with more caution, and they require more preparation."--Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which made an addition of a syllable to the word."--Priestley cor. "The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, it is unavoidable."--Kames cor. "It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is it agreeable in any respect."--Id.  "Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords No flight for thoughts,--they poorly stick at words."--Denham cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.

"Let us read the living page, whose every character delights and instructs us."--Maunder cor. "For if it is in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and does not please."--Kames cor. "When a speaker addresses himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers."--Campbell cor. "As the wine which strengthens and refreshes the heart."--H. Adams cor. "This truth he wraps in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other."--Pope cor. "God searcheth and understandeth the heart." Or: "God searches and understands the heart."--T. à. Kempis cor. "The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men."--Titus, ii, 11. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."--1 Cor., ii, 13. "But he has an objection, which he urges, and by which he thinks to overturn all."--Barclay cor. "In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it gives to them who love it."--Id. "Thou here misunderstood the place and misapplied it." Or: "Thou here misunderstoodst the place and misappliedst it."--Id. Or: (as many of our grammarians will have it:) "Thou here misunderstoodest the place and misappliedst it."--Id. "Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good cometh."--See Jer., xvii, 6. "It speaks of the time past, and shows that something was then doing, but not quite finished."--Devis cor. "It subsists in spite of them; it advances unobserved."--Pascal cor. "But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?--   Methinks he lingers late and tarries long."--Byron cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--CONFUSION OF MOODS.

"If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them go (or be gone) astray," &c.--Matt., xviii, 12. Or: "If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them goes (or is gone) astray," &c. Or: "If a man hath a hundred sheep, and one of them goeth (or is gone) astray," &c.--Kirkham cor. "As a speaker advances in his discourse, and increases in energy and earnestness, a higher and a louder tone will naturally steal upon him."--Id. "If one man esteem one day above an other, and an other esteem every day alike; let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind."--Barclay cor. See Rom., xiv, 5. "If there be but one body of legislators, it will be no better than a tyranny; if there be only two, there will want a casting voice."--Addison cor. "Should you come up this way, and I be still here, you need not be assured how glad I should be to see you."--Byron cor. "If he repent and become holy, let him enjoy God and heaven."--Brownson cor. "If thy fellow approach thee, naked and destitute, and thou say unto him, 'Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,' and yet thou give him not those things which are needful to him, what benevolence is there in thy conduct?"--Kirkham cor. "Get on your nightgown, lest occasion call us,   And show us to be watchers."--Singer's Shakspeare.

"But if it climb, with your assisting hand,   The Trojan walls, and in the city stand."--Dryden cor.

"Though Heaven's King   Ride on thy wings, and thou with thy compeers,    Used to the yoke, draw his triumphant wheels."--Milton cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.--IMPROPER ELLIPSES.

"Indeed we have seriously wondered that Murray should leave some things as he has left them."--Reporter cor. "Which they neither have done nor can do."--Barclay cor. "The Lord hath revealed, and doth and will reveal, his will to his people; and hath raised up, and doth raise up, members of his body," &c.--Id. "We see, then, that the Lord hath given, and doth give, such."--Id. "Towards those that have declared, or do declare, themselves members."--Id. "For which we can give, and have given, our sufficient reasons."--Id. "When we mention the several properties of the different words in sentences, as we have mentioned those of the word William's above, what is the exercise called?"--R. C. Smith cor. "It is however to be doubted, whether this Greek idiom ever has obtained, or ever will obtain, extensively, in English."--Nutting cor. "Why did not the Greeks and Romans abound in auxiliary words as much as we do?"--Murray cor. "Who delivers his sentiments in earnest, as they ought to be delivered in order to move and persuade."--Kirkham cor.