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 --Id. "Wit out of season is one sort of folly."--Sheffield cor. "Its general susceptibility of a much stronger evidence."--Campbell cor. "At least, that they are such, rarely enhances our opinion, either of their abilities or of their virtues."--Id. "Which were the ground of our unity."--Barclay cor. "But they may be distinguished from it by their intransitiveness."--L. Murray cor. "To distinguish the higher degree of our persuasion of a thing's possibility."--Churchill cor. "That he was idle, and dishonest too,    Was that which caused his utter overthrow."--Tobitt cor.

UNDER NOTE VI.--OF COMPOUND VERBAL NOUNS.

"When it denotes subjection to the exertion of an other."--Booth cor. "In the passive sense, it signifies a subjection to the influence of the action."--Felch cor. "To be abandoned by our friends, is very deplorable."--Goldsmith cor. "Without waiting to be attacked by the Macedonians."--Id. "In progress of time, words were wanted to express men's connexion with certain conditions of fortune."--Dr. Blair cor. "Our acquaintance with pain and sorrow has a tendency to bring us to a settled moderation."--''Bp. Butler cor. "The chancellor's attachment to the king, secured to the monarch his crown."--L. Murray et al. cor. "The general's failure in this enterprise occasioned his disgrace."-- Iid. "John's long application to writing had wearied him."--Iid. "The sentence may be, 'John's long application to writing has wearied him.'"--Wright cor. "Much depends on the observance of this rule."-- L. Murray cor. "He mentioned that a boy had been corrected for his faults."--Alger and Merchant cor. "The boy's punishment is shameful to him."--Iid. "The greater the difficulty of remembrance is, and the more important the being-remembered is to the attainment of the ultimate end."--Campbell cor. "If the parts in the composition of similar objects were always in equal quantity, their being-compounded (or their compounding) would make no odds."--Id. "Circumstances, not of such importance as that the scope of the relation is affected by their being-known"--or, "by the mention of them."--Id. "A passive verb expresses the receiving of an action, or represents its subject as being acted upon; as, 'John is beaten.'"--Frost cor. "So our language has an other great advantage; namely, that it is little diversified by genders."--Buchanan cor. "The slander concerning Peter is no fault of his."--Frost cor. "Without faith in Christ, there is no justification."--Penn cor. "Habituation to danger begets intrepidity; i.e., lessens fear."--Bp. Butler cor. "It is not affection of any kind, but action that forms those habits."--Id. "In order that we may be satisfied of the truth of the apparent paradox."--Campbell cor. "A trope consists in the employing of a word to signify something that is different from its original or usual meaning."--Blair, Jamieson, Murray, and Kirkham cor.; also Hiley''. "The scriptural view of our salvation from punishment."--Gurney cor. "To submit and obey, is not a renouncing of the Spirit's leading."--Barclay cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.--PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &c.

"To teach little children is a pleasant employment." Or: "The teaching of little children," &c.--Bartlett cor. "To deny or compromise the principles of truth, is virtually to deny their divine Author."--Reformer cor. "A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear retrenching"--"retrenchment"--or, "to be retrenched."--Dr. Blair cor. "Never attempt to prolong the pathetic too much."--Id. "I now recollect to have mentioned--(or, that I mentioned--) a report of that nature."--Whiting cor. "Nor of the necessity which there is, for their restraint--(or, for them to be restrained--) in them."--''Bp. Butler cor. "But, to do what God commands because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear."--Id. "Simply to close the nostrils, does not so entirely prevent resonance."--Gardiner cor. "Yet they absolutely refuse to do so."--Harris cor. "But Artaxerxes could not refuse to pardon him."--Goldsmith cor. "The doing of them in the best manner, is signified by the names of these arts."--Rush cor. "To behave well for the time to come, may be insufficient."--Bp. Butler cor. "The compiler proposed to publish that part by itself."--Adam cor. "To smile on those whom we should censure, is, to bring guilt upon ourselves."--Kirkham cor. "But it would be great injustice to that illustrious orator, to bring his genius down to the same level."--Id. "The doubt that things go ill, often hurts more, than to be sure they do."--Shak. cor. "This is called the straining of a metaphor."-- Blair and Murray cor. "This is what Aristotle calls the giving of manners to the poem."--Dr. Blair cor. "The painter's entire confinement to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action."--L. Mur. cor. "It imports the retrenchment of all superfluities, and a pruning of the expression."--Blair et al. cor. "The necessity for us to be thus exempted is further apparent."--Jane West cor. "Her situation in life does not allow her to be genteel in every thing."--Same''. "Provided you do not dislike to be dirty when you are invisible."--Same. "There is now an imperious necessity for her to be acquainted with her title to eternity."--Same. "Disregard to the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness."--Same. "The legislature prohibits the opening of shops on Sunday."--Same. "To attempt to prove that any thing is right."--O. B. Peirce cor. "The comma directs us to make a pause of a second in duration, or less."--Id. "The rule which directs us to put other words into the place of it, is wrong."--Id. "They direct us to call the specifying adjectives, or adnames, adjective pronouns."--Id. "William dislikes to attend court."--Frost cor. "It may perhaps be worth while to remark, that Milton makes a distinction."--''Phil. Mu. cor. "To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind."--Murray et al. cor. "To profess regard and act indifferently, discovers a base mind."--Weld cor. "You have proved beyond contradiction, that this course of action is the sure way to procure such an object."--Campbell Cor.''