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 sense."--P. Davis cor. "I have known lords to abbreviate almost half of their words."--Cobbett cor. "We shall find the practice perfectly to accord with the theory."--Knight cor. "But it would tend to obscure, rather than to elucidate, the subject."--L. Murray cor. "Please to divide it for them, as it should be divided"--J. Willetts cor. "So as neither to embarrass nor to weaken the sentence."--Blair and Mur. cor. "Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and to hear his heavenly discourse."--Same. "That we need not be surprised to find this to hold [i.e., to find the same to be true, or to find it so] in eloquence."--Blair cor. "Where he has no occasion either to divide or to explain" [the topic in debate.]--Id. "And they will find their pupils to improve by hasty and pleasant steps."--Russell cor. "The teacher, however, will please to observe," &c.--''Inf. S. Gr. cor. "Please to attend to a few rules in what is called syntax."--Id. "They may dispense with the laws, to favour their friends, or to secure their office."--Webster cor. "To take back a gift, or to break a contract, is a wanton abuse."--Id. "The legislature has nothing to do, but to let it bear its own price."--Id. "He is not to form, but to copy characters."--Rambler cor. "I have known a woman to make use of a shoeing-horn."--Spect. cor. "Finding this experiment to answer, in every respect, their wishes."--Day cor. "In fine, let him cause his arrangement to conclude in the term of the question."--Barclay cor.'' "That he permitted not the winds of heaven    To visit her too roughly." [Omit "face," to keep the measure: or say,] "That he did never let the winds of heaven     Visit her face too roughly."--''Shak. cor.''

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIX.--OF INFINITIVES.

Instances after Bid, Dare, Feel, Hear, Let, Make, Need, See.

"I dare not proceed so hastily, lest I give offence."--See Murray's Key, Rule xii. "Their character is formed, and made to appear."--Butler cor. "Let there be but matter and opportunity offered, and you shall see them quickly revive again."--Bacon cor. "It has been made to appear, that there is no presumption against a revelation."--''Bp. Butler cor. "MANIFEST, v. t. To reveal; to make appear; to show plainly."--Webster cor. "Let him reign, like good Aurelius, or let him bleed like Seneca:" [Socrates did not bleed, he was poisoned.]--Kirkham's transposition of Pope cor. "Sing I could not; complain I durst not."--Fothergill cor. "If T. M. be not so frequently heard to pray by them."--Barclay cor. "How many of your own church members were never heard to pray?"--Id. "Yea, we are bidden to pray one for an other."--Id. "He was made to believe that neither the king's death nor his imprisonment would help him."--Sheffield cor. "I felt a chilling sensation creep over me."--Inst.'', p. 279. "I dare say he has not got home yet."--Ib. "We sometimes see bad men honoured."--Ib. "I saw him move"--Felch cor. "For see thou, ah! see thou, a hostile world its terrors raise."--Kirkham cor. "But that he make him rehearse so."--Lily cor. "Let us rise."--Fowle cor. "Scripture, you know, exhorts us to it;   It bids us 'seek peace, and ensue it.'"--Swift cor.

"Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel   Bedash the rags of Lazarus?    Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel,    Confessing heaven that ruled it thus."--Christmas Book cor.

CHAPTER VII.--PARTICIPLES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XX.

UNDER NOTE I.--EXPUNGE OF.

"In forming his sentences, he was very exact."--L. Murray. "For not believing which, I condemn them."--Barclay cor. "To prohibit his hearers from reading that book."--Id. "You will please them exceedingly in crying down ordinances."--Mitchell cor. "The warwolf subsequently became an engine for casting stones." Or:--"for the casting of stones."--''Cons. Misc. cor. "The art of dressing hides and working in leather was practised."--Id. "In the choice they had made of him for restoring order."--Rollin cor. "The Arabians exercised themselves by composing orations and poems."--Sale cor. "Behold, the widow-woman was there, gathering sticks."--Bible cor. "The priests were busied in offering burnt-offerings."--Id. "But Asahel would not turn aside from following him."--Id. "He left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."--Id. "Those who accuse us of denying it, belie us."--Barclay cor. "And breaking bread from house to house."--Acts'', iv, 46. "Those that set about repairing the walls."--Barclay cor. "And secretly begetting divisions."--Id. "Whom he has made use of in gathering his church."--Id. "In defining and distinguishing the acceptations and uses of those particles."--W. Walker cor. "In making this a crime, we overthrow    The laws of nations and of nature too."--Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.--ARTICLES REQUIRE OF.

"The mixing of them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction."--Kames cor. "The same objection lies against the employing of statues."--Id. "More efficacious than the venting of