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 UNDER NOTE X.--DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.

"And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be avoided." Or: "I would avoid it altogether, if to avoid it were practicable."--Kames cor. "Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic; and it must elevate the mind to the greatest height to which it can be raised by a single expression."--Id. "Successive images, thus making deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate the mind more than any single image can."--Id. "Besides making a deeper impression than can be made by cool reasoning."--Id. "Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, may rise higher than a public speaker can." Or:--"than can a public speaker."--Blair cor. "And the very same reason that has induced several grammarians to go so far as they have gone, should have induced them to go farther."--Priestley cor. "The pupil should commit the first section to memory perfectly, before he attempts (or enters upon) the second part of grammar."--Bradley cor. "The Greek ch was pronounced hard, as we now pronounce it in chord."--Booth cor. "They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they adopt (or, in a manner different from that which they are accustomed to use) at other times."--L. Murray cor. "And give him the cool and formal reception that Simon had given."--Scott cor. "I do not say, as some have said."--Bolingbroke cor. "If he suppose the first, he may the last."--Barclay cor. "Who are now despising Christ in his inward appearance, as the Jews of old despised him in his outward [advent]."--Id. "That text of Revelations must not be understood as he understands it."--Id. "Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him that he can parse it readily."--R. C. Smith cor. "Perhaps it is running the same course that Rome had run before."--Middleton cor. "It ought even on this ground to be avoided; and it easily may be, by a different construction."--Churchill cor. "These two languages are now pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe pronounces them."--Creighton cor. "Germany ran the same risk that Italy had run."--Bolingbroke, Murray, et al., cor.

UNDER NOTE XI.--PRETERITS AND PARTICIPLES.

"The beggars themselves will be broken in a trice."--Swift cor. "The hoop is hoisted above his nose."--Id. "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord."--2 Chron., xvii, 6. "Who sin so oft have mourned, Yet to temptation run."--Burns cor. "Who would not have let them appear."--Steele cor. "He would have had you seek for ease at the hands of Mr. Legality."--Bunyan cor. "From me his madding mind is turned: He woos the widow's daughter, of the glen."--Spenser cor. "The man has spoken, and he still speaks."--Ash cor. "For you have but mistaken me all this while."--''Shak. cor. "And will you rend our ancient love asunder?"--Id. "Mr. Birney has pled (or pleaded) the inexpediency of passing such resolutions."--Liberator cor. "Who have worn out their years in such most painful labours."--Littleton cor. "And in the conclusion you were chosen probationer."--Spectator cor.'' "How she was lost, ta'en captive, made a slave;    And how against him set that should her save."--Bunyan cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.--OF VERBS CONFOUNDED.

"But Moses preferred to while away his time."--Parker cor. "His face shone with the rays of the sun."--John Allen cor. "Whom they had set at defiance so lately."--Bolingbroke cor. "And when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him."--Bible cor. "When he had sat down on the judgement-seat." Or: "While he was sitting on the judgement-seat."-- Id. "And, they having kindled a fire in the midst of the hall and sat down together, Peter sat down among them."--Id. "So, after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and had sat down again,[or, literally,'sitting down again,'] he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you?"--Id. "Even as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne."--Id. Or: (rather less literally:) "Even as I have overcome, and am sitting with my Father on his throne."--Id. "We have such a high priest, who sitteth on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens."--Id. "And is now sitting at the right hand of the throne of God."--Id. "He set on foot a furious persecution."-- Payne cor. "There lieth (or lies) an obligation upon the saints to help such."--Barclay cor. "There let him lie."--Byron cor. "Nothing but moss, and shrubs, and stunted trees, can grow upon it."--Morse cor. "Who had laid out considerable sums purely to distinguish themselves."-- Goldsmith cor. "Whereunto the righteous flee and are safe."--Barclay cor. "He rose from supper, and laid aside his garments."--Id. "Whither--oh! whither--shall I flee?"--L. Murray cor. "Fleeing from an adopted murderer."--Id. "To you I flee for refuge."--Id. "The sign that should warn his disciples to flee from the approaching ruin."--Keith cor. "In one she sits as a prototype for exact imitation."--Rush cor. "In which some only bleat, bark, mew, whinny, and bray, a little better than others."--Id. "Who represented to him the unreasonableness of being affected with such unmanly fears."--Rollin cor. "Thou sawest every action." Or, familiarly: "Thou saw every action."--Guy cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, or taught, he or she taught."--Coar cor. "Valerian was taken by Sapor and flayed alive, A. D. 260."--Lempriere cor. "What a fine vehicle has it now become, for all conceptions of the mind!"--Blair cor. "What has become of so many productions?"--Volney cor. "What has become of those ages of abundance and of life?"--Keith cor. "The Spartan admiral had sailed to the Hellespont."--Goldsmith cor. "As soon as he landed, the multitude thronged about him."--Id. "Cyrus had arrived at Sardis."--Id. "Whose year had expired."--Id. "It might better have been, 'that faction which,'" Or; "'That faction which,' would have been better."--Murray's