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 Gram., p. 157. "This people has become a great nation."--Murray and Ingersoll cor. "And here we enter the region of ornament."--Dr. Blair cor. "The ungraceful parenthesis which follows, might far better have been avoided." "Who forced him under water, and there held him until he was drowned."--''Hist. cor.'' "I would much rather be myself the slave,     And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him."--Cowper cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.--WORDS THAT EXPRESS TIME.

"I finished my letter before my brother arrived." Or: "I had finished my letter when my brother arrived."--Kirkham cor. "I wrote before I received his letter."--Dr. Blair cor. "From what was formerly delivered."--Id. "Arts were at length introduced among them." Or: "Arts have been of late introduced among them."--Id. [But the latter reading suits not the Doctor's context.] "I am not of opinion that such rules can be of much use, unless persons see them exemplified." Or:--"could be," and "saw."--Id. "If we use the noun itself, we say, (or must say,) 'This composition is John's.'" Or: "If we used the noun itself, we should say," &c.--L. Murray cor. "But if the assertion refer to something that was transient, or to something that is not supposed to be always the same, the past tense must be preferred:" [as,] "They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by."--Luke and L. Murray cor. "There is no particular intimation but that I have continued to work, even to the present moment."--R. W. Green cor. "Generally, as has been observed already, it is but hinted in a single word or phrase."--Campbell cor. "The wittiness of the passage has been already illustrated."--Id. "As was observed before."--Id. Or: "As has been observed already"--Id. "It has been said already in general terms."--Id. "As I hinted before."--Id. Or: "As I have hinted already."--Id. "What, I believe, was hinted once before."--Id. "It is obvious, as was hinted formerly, that this is but an artificial and arbitrary connexion."--Id. "They did anciently a great deal of hurt."-- Bolingbroke cor. "Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he was the high priest."--See Acts, xxiii, 5; Webster cor. "Most prepositions originally denoted the relations of place; and from these they were transferred, to denote, by similitude, other relations."--Lowth and Churchill cor. "His gift was but a poor offering, in comparison with his great estate."--L. Murray cor. "If he should succeed, and obtain his end, he would not be the happier for it." Or, better: "If he succeed, and fully attain his end, he will not be the happier for it."--Id. "These are torrents that swell to-day, and that will have spent themselves by to-morrow."--Dr. Blair cor. "Who have called that wheat on one day, which they have called tares on the next."--Barclay cor. "He thought it was one of his tenants."--Id. "But if one went unto them from the dead, they would repent."--Bible cor. "Neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."--Id. "But it is while men sleep, that the arch-enemy always sows his tares."--The Friend cor. "Crescens would not have failed to expose him."--Addison cor. "Bent is his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound;    Fierce as he moves, his silver shafts resound."--Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.--VERBS OF COMMANDING, &C.

"Had I commanded you to do this, you would have thought hard of it."--G. B. "I found him better than I expected to find him."--L Murray's Gram., i, 187. "There are several smaller faults which I at first intended to enumerate."--Webster cor. "Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object shall make."--Dr. Blair cor. "The girl said, if her master would but have let her have money, she might have been well long ago."--Priestley et al. cor. "Nor is there the least ground to fear that we shall here be cramped within too narrow limits."--Campbell cor. "The Romans, flushed with success, expected to retake it."--Hooke cor. "I would not have let fall an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered."--Sterne cor. "We expected that he would arrive last night."--Brown's Inst., p. 282. "Our friends intended to meet us."--Ib. "We hoped to see you."--Ib. "He would not have been allowed to enter."--Ib.

UNDER NOTE XV.--PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.

"Cicero maintained, that whatsoever is useful is good."--G. B. "I observed that love constitutes the whole moral character of God."--Dwight cor. "Thinking that one gains nothing by being a good man."--Voltaire cor. "I have already told you, that I am a gentleman."--Fontaine cor. "If I should ask, whether ice and water are two distinct species of things."--Locke cor. "A stranger to the poem would not easily discover that this is verse."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, i, 260. "The doctor affirmed that fever always produces thirst."--Brown's Inst., p. 282. "The ancients asserted, that virtue is its own reward."--Ib. "They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that the infinitive is a mere noun."--Tooke cor. "It was observed in Chap. III, that the distinctive OR has a double use."--Churchill cor. "Two young gentlemen, who have made a discovery that there is no God."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 206.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVIII; INFINITIVES.

INSTANCES DEMANDING THE PARTICLE TO.

"William, please to hand me that pencil."--Smith cor. "Please to insert points so as