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 varieties in the use of them are indeed many."--Murray cor. "The changing of times and seasons, the removing and the setting-up of kings, belong to Providence alone."--Id. "Adherence to the partitions, seemed the cause of France; acceptance of the will, that of the house of Bourbon."--Bolingbroke cor. "An other source of darkness in composition, is the injudicious introduction of technical words and phrases."--Campbell cor. "These are the rules of grammar; by observing which, you may avoid mistakes."--L. Murray et al. cor. "By observing the rules, you may avoid mistakes."--Alger cor. "By observing these rules, he succeeded."--Frost cor. "The praise bestowed on him was his ruin."--Id. "Deception is not convincement."--Id. "He never feared the loss of a friend."--Id. "The making of books is his amusement."--Alger cor. "We call it the declining--(or, the declension--) of a noun."--Ingersoll cor. "Washington, however, pursued the same policy of neutrality, and opposed firmly the taking of any part in the wars of Europe."--Hall and Baker cor. "The following is a note of Interrogation, or of a question: (?)."--''Inf. S. Gram. cor. "The following is a note of Admiration, or of wonder: (!)."--Id. "The use or omission of the article A forms a nice distinction in the sense."--Murray cor. "The placing of the preposition before the word, which it governs, is more graceful."--Churchill cor. (See Lowth's Gram., p. 96; Murray's, i, 200; Fisk's, 141; Smith's, 167.) "Assistance is absolutely necessary to their recovery, and the retrieving of their affairs."--Bp. Butler cor. "Which termination, [ish,] when added to adjectives, imports diminution, or a lessening of the quality."--Mur. and Kirkham cor. "After what has been said, will it be thought an excess of refinement, to suggest that the different orders are qualified for different purposes?"--Kames cor. "Who has nothing to think of, but the killing of time."--West cor. "It requires no nicety of ear, as in the distinguishing of tones, or the measuring of time."--Sheridan cor. "The possessive case [is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which] denotes possession, or the relation of property."--S. R. Hall cor.''

UNDER NOTE XIII.--PERFECT PARTICIPLES.

"Garcilasso was master of the language spoken by the Incas."--Robertson cor. "When an interesting story is broken off in the middle."--Kames cor. "Speaking of Hannibal's elephants driven back by the enemy."--Id. "If Du Ryer had not written for bread, he would have equalled them."--Formey cor. "Pope describes a rock broken off from a mountain, and hurling to the plain."--Kames cor. "I have written, Thou hast written, He hath or has written; &c."--Ash and Maltby cor. "This was spoken by a pagan."--Webster cor. "But I have chosen to follow the common arrangement."--Id. "The language spoken in Bengal."--Id. "And sound sleep thus broken off with sudden alarms, is apt enough to discompose any one."--Locke cor. "This is not only the case of those open sinners before spoken of."--Leslie cor. "Some grammarians have written a very perplexed and difficult doctrine on Punctuation."--Ensell cor. "There hath a pity arisen in me towards thee."--G. Fox Jun. cor. "Abel is the only man that has undergone the awful change of death."--De Genlis, Death of Adam. "Meantime, on Afric's glowing sands,   Smit with keen heat, the traveller stands."--Ode cor.

CHAPTER VIII.--ADVERBS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXI.

UNDER NOTE I.--THE PLACING OF ADVERBS.

"Not all that is favoured by good use, is proper to be retained."--L. Murray corrected. "Not everything favoured by good use, is on that account worthy to be retained."--Campbell cor. "Most men dream, but not all."--Beattie cor. "By hasty composition, we shall certainly acquire a very bad style."--Dr. Blair cor. "The comparisons are short, touching on only one point of resemblance."--Id. "Having once had some considerable object set before us."--Id. "The positive seems to be improperly called a degree." [543]--Adam and Gould cor. "In some phrases, the genitive only is used."--Iid. "This blunder is said to have actually occurred."--Smith cor. "But not every man is called James, nor every woman, Mary."--Buchanan cor. "Crotchets are employed for nearly the same purpose as the parenthesis."--Churchill cor. "There is a still greater impropriety in a double comparative."--Priestley cor. "We often have occasion to speak of time."--Lowth cor. "The following sentence cannot possibly be understood."--Id. "The words must generally be separated from the context."--Comly cor. "Words ending in ator, generally have the accent on the penultimate."--''L. Mur. cor. "The learned languages, with respect to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in general, constructed differently from the English tongue."--Id. "Adverbs seem to have been originally contrived to express compendiously, in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more."--Id. "But it is so, only when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case."--Id. "'Enter boldly,' says he, 'for here too there are gods.'"--Harris cor. "For none ever work for so little a pittance that some cannot be found to work for less."--Sedgwick cor. "For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive again as much."--Bible cor. Or, as Campbell has it in his version:--"that they may receive as much in return."--Luke'', vi, 34. "They must be viewed in exactly the same light."--L. Murray cor. "If he speaks but to display his abilities, he is unworthy of attention."--Id.