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UNDER NOTE VIII.--PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &c.

"Irony is a figure in which the speaker sneeringly utters the direct reverse of what he intends shall be understood."--Brown's Inst., p. 235. [Correct by this the four false definitions of "Irony" cited from Murray, Peirce, Fisher, and Sanborn.] "This is, in a great measure, a delivering of their own compositions."--Buchanan cor. "But purity is a right use of the words of the language."--Jamieson cor. "But the most important object is the settling of the English quantity."--Walker cor. "When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to an other is a very wide step taken."--Campbell cor. "It will be a loss of time, to attempt further to illustrate it."--Id. "This leaves the sentence too bare, and makes it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense."--Cobbett cor. "This is a requiring of more labours from every private member."--J. West cor. "Is not this, to use one measure for our neighbours and an other for ourselves?"--Same. "Do we not charge God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?"--Same. "This is not, to endure the cross, as a disciple of Jesus Christ; but, to snatch at it, like a partisan of Swift's Jack."--Same. "What is spelling? It is the combining of letters to form syllables and words."--O. B. Peirce cor. "It is the choosing of such letters to compose words," &c.--Id. "What is parsing? (1.) It is a describing of the nature, use, and powers of words."--Id. (2.) "For Parsing is a describing of the words of a sentence as they are used."--Id. (3.) "Parsing is only a describing of the nature and relations of words as they are used."--Id. (4.) "Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is a statement of facts concerning words; or a describing of words in their offices and relations as they are."--Id. (5.) "Parsing is the resolving and explaining of words according to the rules of grammar."--Id. Better: "Parsing is the resolving or explaining of a sentence according to the definitions and rules of grammar."--Brown's Inst., p. 28. (6.) "The parsing of a word, remember, is an enumerating and describing of its various qualities, and its grammatical relations to other words in the sentence."--Peirce cor. (7.) "For the parsing of a word is an enumerating and describing of its various properties, and [its] relations to [other words in] the sentence."--Id. (8.) "The parsing of a noun is an explanation of its person, number, gender, and case; and also of its grammatical relation in a sentence, with respect to some other word or words."--Ingersoll cor. (9.) "The parsing of any part of speech is an explanation of all its properties and relations."--Id. (10.)" Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its elements."--Fowler cor. "The highway of the upright is, to depart from evil."--Prov., xvi, 17. "Besides, the first step towards exhibiting the truth, should be, to remove the veil of error."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Punctuation is the dividing of sentences, and the words of sentences, by points for pauses."--Id. "An other fault is the using of the imperfect tense SHOOK in stead of the participle SHAKEN."--Churchill cor. "Her employment is the drawing of maps."--Alger cor. "To go to the play, according to his notion, is, to lead a sensual life, and to expose one's self to the strongest temptations. This is a begging of the question, and therefore requires no answer."--Formey cor. "It is an overvaluing of ourselves, to reduce every thing to the narrow measure of our capacities."--Comly's Key, in his Gram., p. 188; Fisk's Gram., p. 135. "What is vocal language? It is speech, or the expressing of ideas by the human voice."--C. W. Sanders cor.

UNDER NOTE IX.--VERBS OF PREVENTING.

"The annulling power of the constitution prevented that enactment from becoming a law."--O. B. Peirce cor. "Which prevents the manner from being brief."--Id. "This close prevents them from bearing forward as nominatives."--Rush cor. "Because this prevents it from growing drowsy."--Formey cor. "Yet this does not prevent him from being great."--Id. "To prevent it from being insipid."--Id. "Or whose interruptions did not prevent its continuance." Or thus: "Whose interruptions did not prevent it from being continued."--Id. "This by no means prevents them from being also punishments."--Wayland cor. "This hinders them not from being also, in the strictest sense, punishments."--Id. "The noise made by the rain and wind, prevented them from being heard."--Goldsmith cor. "He endeavoured to prevent it from taking effect."--Id. "So sequestered as to prevent them from being explored."--Jane West cor. "Who prevented her from making a more pleasant party."--Same. "To prevent us from being tossed about by every wind of doctrine."--Same. "After the infirmities of age prevented him from bearing his part of official duty."--R. Adam cor. "To prevent splendid trifles from passing for matters of importance."--Kames cor. "Which prevents him from exerting himself to any good purpose."--Beattie cor. "The nonobservance of this rule very frequently prevents us from being punctual in the performance of our duties."--Todd cor. "Nothing will prevent him from being a student, and possessing the means of study."--Id. "Does the present accident hinder you from being honest and brave?"--Collier cor. "The e is omitted to prevent two Ees from coming together."--Fowle cor. "A pronoun is used for, or in place of, a noun,--to prevent a repetition of the noun."--Sanborn cor. "Diversity in the style relieves the ear, and prevents it from being tired with the frequent recurrence of the rhymes."--Campbell cor.; also Murray. "Timidity and false shame prevent us from opposing vicious customs."--''Mur. et al. cor. "To prevent them from being moved by such."--Campbell cor. "Some obstacle, or impediment, that prevents it from taking place."--Priestley cor. "Which prevents us from making a progress towards perfection."--Sheridan cor. "This method of distinguishing words, must prevent any regular proportion of time from being settled."--Id. "That nothing but affectation can prevent it from always taking place."--Id. "This did not prevent John from'' being acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy." Or: "Notwithstanding this, John was acknowledged and solemnly inaugurated Duke of Normandy."--Henry, Webster, Sanborn, and Fowler cor.