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UNDER NOTE II.--ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.

"Upward motion is commonly more agreeable than motion downward."--Dr. Blair cor. "There are but two possible ways of justification before God."--Cox cor. "This construction sounds rather harsh."--''Mur. and Ing. cor. "A clear conception, in the mind of the learner, of regular and well-formed letters."--C. S. Jour. cor. "He was a great hearer of * * * Attalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes frequent mention."--L'Estrange cor. "It is only the frequent doing of a thing, that makes it a custom."--Leslie cor. "Because W. R. takes frequent occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and things."--Barclay cor. "Yet frequent touching will wear gold."--Shak. cor. "Uneducated persons frequently use an adverb when they ought to use an adjective: as, 'The country looks beautifully;' in stead of beautiful''." [544]-- Bucke cor. "The adjective is put absolute, or without its substantive."--Ash cor. "A noun or a pronoun in the second person, may be put absolute in the nominative case."--Harrison cor. "A noun or a pronoun, when put absolute with a participle," &c.--''Id. and Jaudon cor. "A verb in the infinitive mood absolute, stands independent of the remaining part of the sentence."--Wilbur and Liv. cor. "At my late return into England, I met a book entitled, 'The Iron Age.'"--Cowley cor. "But he can discover no better foundation for any of them, than the mere practice of Homer and Virgil."--Kames cor.''

UNDER NOTE III.--HERE FOR HITHER, &C.

"It is reported, that the governor will come hither to-morrow."--Kirkham cor. "It has been reported that the governor will come hither to-morrow."--Id. "To catch a prospect of that lovely land whither his steps are tending."--Maturin cor. "Plautus makes one of his characters ask an other, whither he is going with that Vulcan shut up in a horn; that is, with a lantern in his hand."--Adams cor. "When we left Cambridge we intended to return thither in a few days."--''Anon. cor. "Duncan comes hither to-night."--Churchill's Gram.'', p. 323. "They talked of returning hither last week."--See J. M. Putnam's Gram., p. 129.

UNDER NOTE IV.--FROM HENCE, &C.

"Hence he concludes, that no inference can be drawn from the meaning of the word, that a constitution has a higher authority than a law or statute,"--Webster cor. "Whence we may likewise date the period of this event."--L. Murray cor. "Hence it becomes evident that LANGUAGE, taken in the most comprehensive view, implies certain sounds, [or certain written signs,] having certain meanings."--Harris cor. "They returned to the city whence they came out."--A. Murray cor. "Respecting ellipses, some grammarians differ strangely in their ideas; and thence has arisen a very whimsical diversity in their systems of grammar."--G. Brown. "What am I, and whence? That is, What am I, and whence am I?"--Jaudon cor.

UNDER NOTE V.--THE ADVERB HOW.

"It is strange, that a writer so accurate as Dean Swift, should have stumbled on so improper an application of this particle."--Dr. Blair cor. "Ye know, that a good while ago God made choice among us," &c.--Bible cor. "Let us take care lest we sin; i.e.,--that we do not sin."--Priestley cor. "We see by these instances, that prepositions may be necessary, to connect such words as are not naturally connected by their own signification."--L. Murray cor. "Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?"--Bible cor. "That thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord's."--Id.

UNDER NOTE VI.--WHEN, WHILE, OR WHERE.

"ELLIPSIS is the omission of some word or words which are necessary to complete the construction, but not requisite to complete the sense."--Adam, Gould, and Fisk, cor. "PLEONASM is the insertion of some word or words more than are absolutely necessary either to complete the construction, or to express the sense."--''Iid. cor. "HYSTERON-PROTERON is a figure in which that is put in the former part of the sentence, which, according to the sense, should be in the latter."--Adam and Gould cor. "HYSTERON-PROTERON is a rhetorical figure in which that is said last, which was done first."--Webster cor. "A BARBARISM is a foreign or strange word, an expression contrary to the pure idiom of the language."--Adam and Gould cor. "A SOLECISM is an impropriety in respect to syntax, an absurdity or incongruity in speech."--Iid. cor. "An IDIOTISM is a manner of expression peculiar to one language childishly transferred to an other."--Iid. cor. "TAUTOLOGY is a disagreeable repetition, either of the same words, or of the same sense in different words."--Iid. cor. "BOMBAST, or FUSTIAN, is an inflated or ambitious style, in which high-sounding words are used, with little or no meaning, or upon a trifling occasion."--Iid. cor. "AMPHIBOLOGY is ambiguity of construction, phraseology which may be taken in two different senses."--Iid. cor. "IRONY is a figure in which one means the contrary of what is said."--Adam and Gould cor. "PERIPHRASIS, or CIRCUMLOCUTION, is the use of several words, to express what might be said in fewer."--Iid. cor. "HYPERBOLE is a figure in which a thing is magnified above the truth."--Iid. cor. "PERSONIFICATION is a figure which ascribes human life, sentiments, or actions, to inanimate beings, or to abstract qualities."--Iid. cor. "APOSTROPHE is a turning from the tenor of one's discourse, into an animated address to some person, present or absent, living or dead, or to some object personified''."--