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 finished this chapter."--Harris cor. "And yet, to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature, is scarcely endeavoured in any seminary of learning."--Kames cor. "The numbers being confounded, and the possessives wrongly applied, the passage is neither English nor grammar."--Buchanan cor. "The letter G is wrongly named Jee."--Creighton cor. "Lastly, remember that in science, as in morals, authority cannot make right what in itself is wrong."--O. B. Peirce cor. "They regulate our taste even where we are scarcely sensible of them."--Kames cor. "Slow action, for example, is imitated by words pronounced slowly."--Id. "Surely, if it be to profit withal, it must be in order to save."--Barclay cor. "Which is scarcely possible at best."--Sheridan cor. "Our wealth being nearly finished."--Harris cor.

CHAPTER IX.--CONJUNCTIONS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXII.

UNDER NOTE I.--OF TWO TERMS WITH ONE.

"The first proposal was essentially different from the second, and inferior to it."--Inst. "A neuter verb expresses the state which a subject is in, without acting upon any other thing, or being acted upon by an other."--A. Murray cor. "I answer, You may use stories and anecdotes, and ought to do so."--Todd cor. "ORACLE, n. Any person from whom, or place at which, certain decisions are obtained."--Webster cor. "Forms of government may, and occasionally must, be changed."--Lyttelton cor. "I have been, and I still pretend to be, a tolerable judge."--''Sped. cor. "Are we not lazy in our duties, or do we not make a Christ of them?"--Baxter cor. "They may not express that idea which the author intends, but some other which only resembles it, or is akin to it."--Dr. Blair cor. "We may therefore read them, we ought to read them, with a distinguishing eye."--Ib. "Compare their poverty with what they might possess, and ought to possess."--Sedgwick cor. "He is much better acquainted with grammar than they are."--L. Murray cor. "He was more beloved than Cinthio, but [he was] not so much admired."--L. Murray's Gram.'', i, 222. "Will it be urged, that the four gospels are as old as tradition, and even older?"--Campbell's Rhet., p. 207. "The court of chancery frequently mitigates and disarms the common law."--''Spect. and Ware cor. "Antony, coming along side of her ship, entered it without seeing her, or being seen by her."--Goldsmith cor. "Into candid minds, truth enters as a welcome guest."--L. Murray cor. "There are many designs in which we may succeed, to our ultimate ruin."--Id. "From many pursuits in which we embark with pleasure, we are destined to land sorrowfully."--Id. "They gain much more than I, by this unexpected event."--Id.''

UNDER NOTE II.--OF HETEROGENEOUS TERMS.

"Athens saw them entering her gates and filling her academies."--Chazotte cor. "Neither have we forgot his past achievements, nor do we despair of his future success."--Duncan cor. "Her monuments and temples had long been shattered, or had crumbled into dust."--Journal cor. "Competition is excellent; it is the vital principle in all these things."--Id. "Whether provision should, or should not, be made, in order to meet this exigency."--Ib.. "That our Saviour was divinely inspired, and that he was endued with supernatural powers, are positions that are here taken for granted."--''L. Mur. cor. "It would be much more eligible, to contract or enlarge their extent by explanatory notes and observations, than to sweep away our ancient landmarks and set up others."--Id. "It is certainly much better to supply defects and abridge superfluities by occasional notes and observations, than to disorganize or greatly alter a system which has been so long established."--Id. "To have only one tune, or measure, is not much better than to have none at all."--Dr. Blair cor. "Facts too well known and too obvious to be insisted on."--Id. "In proportion as all these circumstances are happily chosen, and are of a sublime kind."--Id. "If the description be too general, and be divested of circumstances."--Id. "He gained nothing but commendation."--L. Mur. cor. "I cannot but think its application somewhat strained and misplaced."--Vethake cor. "Two negatives standing in the same clause, or referring to the same thing, destroy each other, and leave the sense affirmative."--Maunder cor. "Slates are thin plates of stone, and are often used to cover the roofs of houses."--Webster cor. "Every man of taste, and of an elevated mind, ought to feel almost the necessity of apologizing for the power he possesses."--Translator of De Staël cor. "They very seldom trouble themselves with inquiries, or make any useful observations of their own."--Locke cor.'' "We've both the field and honour won;   Our foes are profligate, and run."--S. Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE III.--IMPORT OF CONJUNCTIONS.

"THE is sometimes used before adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."--Lennie, Bullions, and Brace cor. "The definite article THE is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."--''Lowth. Murray, et al, cor. "Conjunctions usually connect verbs in the same mood and'' tense." Or, more truly: "Verbs connected by a conjunction, are usually in the same mood and tense."--Sanborn cor. "Conjunctions connect verbs in the same style, and usually in the same mood, tense, and form." Or better: "Verbs connected by a conjunction, are usually of the same mood, tense, and form, as well as style."--Id. "The ruins of Greece or Rome are but the monuments of her former greatness."--P. E. Day cor. "It is not