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 words:" or,--"and not by separate words."--Id. "Is it such a fast that I have chosen, that a man should afflict his soul for a day, and bow down his head like a bulrush?"--Bacon cor. Compare Isa., lviii, 5. "And this first emotion comes at last to be awakened by the accidental in stead of the necessary antecedent."--Wayland cor. "About the same time, the subjugation of the Moors was completed."--Balbi cor. "God divided between the light and the darkness."--Burder cor. "Notwithstanding this, we are not against outward significations of honour."--Barclay cor. "Whether these words and practices of Job's friends, ought to be our rule."--Id. "Such verb cannot admit an objective case after it."--Lowth cor. "For which, God is now visibly punishing these nations."--C. Leslie cor. "In this respect, Tasso yields to no poet, except Homer."--Dr. Blair cor. "Notwithstanding the numerous panegyrics on the ancient English liberty."--Hume cor. "Their efforts seemed to anticipate the spirit which became so general afterwards."-- Id.

UNDER NOTE V.--THE PLACING OF THE WORDS.

"But how short of its excellency are my expressions!"--Baxter cor. "In his style, there is a remarkable union of harmony with ease."--Dr. H. Blair cor. "It disposes of the light and shade in the most artificial manner, that every thing may be viewed to the best advantage."--Id. "For brevity, Aristotle too holds an eminent rank among didactic writers."--Id. "In an introduction, correctness of expression should be carefully studied."--Id. "In laying down a method, one ought above all things to study precision."--Id. "Which shall make on the mind the impression of something that is one, whole, and entire."--Id. "At the same time, there are in the Odyssey some defects which must be acknowledged." Or: "At the same time, it must be acknowledged that there are some defects in the Odyssey."--Id. "In the concluding books, however, there are beauties of the tragic kind."--Id. "These forms of conversation multiplied by degrees, and grew troublesome."--''Kames, El. of Crit.'', ii, 44. "When she has made her own choice, she sends, for form's sake, a congé-d'élire to her friends."--Ib., ii, 46. "Let us endeavour to establish to ourselves an interest in him who holds in his hand the reins of the whole creation."--Spectator cor.; also Kames. "Next to this, the measure most frequent in English poetry, is that of eight syllables."--David Blair cor. "To introduce as great a variety of cadences as possible."-- Jamieson cor. "He addressed to them several exhortations, suitable to their circumstances."--L. Murray cor. "Habits of temperance and self-denial must be acquired."--Id. "In reducing to practice the rules prescribed."--Id. "But these parts must be so closely bound together, as to make upon the mind the impression of one object, not of many."--''Blair and Mur. cor. "Errors with respect to the use of shall and will, are sometimes committed by the most distinguished writers."--N. Butler cor.''

CHAPTER XI.--PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES.

CORRECTIONS OF THE PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES.

LESSON I.--ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

"Such a one, I believe, yours will be proved to be."--Peet and Farnum cor. "Of the distinction between the imperfect and the perfect tense, it may be observed," &c.--L. Ainsworth cor. "The subject is certainly worthy of consideration."--Id. "By this means, all ambiguity and controversy on this point are avoided."--Bullions cor. "The perfect participle, in English, has both an active and a passive signification." Better: "The perfect participle, in English, has sometimes an active, and sometimes a passive, signification."--Id. "The old house has at length fallen down."--Id. "The king, the lords, and the commons, constitute the English form of government."--Id. "The verb in the singular agrees with the person next to it." Better: "The singular verb agrees in person with that nominative which is next to it."--Id. "Jane found Seth's gloves in James's hat."--O. C. Felton cor. "Charles's task is too great."--Id. "The conjugation of a verb is the naming of its several moods, tenses, numbers, and persons, in regular order."--Id. "The long-remembered beggar was his guest."--Id. "Participles refer to nouns or pronouns."--Id. "F has a uniform sound, in every position, except in OF." Better: "F has one unvaried sound, in every position, except in OF."--E. J. Hallock cor. "There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter."--Id. "When SO and THAT occur together, sometimes the particle SO is taken as an adverb."--Id. "The definition of the articles shows that they modify [the import of] the words to which they belong."--Id. "The auxiliary, SHALL, WILL, or SHOULD, is implied."--''Id. "Single-rhymed trochaic omits the final short syllable."--Brown's Inst.'', p. 237. "Agreeably to this, we read of names being blotted out of God's book."--Burder, Hallock, and Webster, cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker."--Inst., p. 32. "Accent is the laying of a peculiar stress of the voice, on a certain letter or syllable in a word."--L. Murray's Gram., p. 235; Felton's, 134. "Thomas's horse was caught."--Felton cor. "You were loved."--Id. "The nominative and the objective end alike."--T. Smith cor. "The numbers of pronouns, like those of substantives, are two; the singular and the plural."--Id. "I is called the pronoun of the first person, because it represents the person speaking."--Frost cor. "The essential elements of the phrase are an intransitive gerundive and an adjective."--Hazen cor. "Wealth is no justification for such impudence."--Id. "That he was a soldier in the revolution, is not doubted."--Id. "Fishing is the chief employment of the inhabitants."--Id. "The chief employment of the inhabitants, is the catching of fish."--Id. "The cold weather did not prevent the work from being