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 politeness, his obliging behaviour, was changed." Or thus: "His polite and obliging behaviour was changed."--Priestley and Hume cor. "War and its honours were their employment and ambition." Or thus: "War was their employment; its honours were their ambition."--Goldsmith cor. "Do A and AN mean the same thing?"--R. W. Green cor. "When several words come in between the discordant parts, the ear does not detect the error."--Cobbett cor. "The sentence should be, 'When several words come in,' &c."--Wright cor. "The nature of our language, the accent and pronunciation of it, incline us to contract even all our regular verbs."--Churchill's New Gram., p. 104. Or thus: "The nature of our language,--(that is, the accent and pronunciation of it,--) inclines us to contract even all our regular verbs."--Lowth cor. "The nature of our language, together with the accent and pronunciation of it, inclines us to contract even all our regular verbs."--Hiley cor. "Prompt aid, and not promises, is what we ought to give."--G. B. "The position of the several organs, therefore, as well as their functions, is ascertained."--Med. Mag. cor. "Every private company, and almost every public assembly, affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution."--Enfield cor. "Such submission, together with the active principle of obedience, makes up in us the temper or character which answers to his sovereignty."--''Bp. Butler cor. "In happiness, as in other things, there are a false and a true, an imaginary and a real."--A. Fuller cor. "To confound things that differ, and to make a distinction where there is no difference, are equally unphilosophical."--G. Brown''. "I know a bank wheron doth wild thyme blow,    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grow."--''Shak. cor.''

LESSON VI.--VERBS.

"Whose business or profession prevents their attendance in the morning."--Ogilby cor. "And no church or officer has power over an other."--Lechford cor. "While neither reason nor experience is sufficiently matured to protect them."--Woodbridge cor. "Among the Greeks and Romans, almost every syllable was known to have a fixed and determined quantity." Or thus: "Among the Greeks and Romans, all syllables, (or at least the far greater number,) were known to have severally a fixed and determined quantity."--Blair and Jamieson cor. "Their vanity is awakened, and their passions are exalted, by the irritation which their self-love receives from contradiction."--''Tr. of Mad. De Staël cor. "He and I were neither of us any great swimmer."--Anon''. "Virtue, honour--nay, even self-interest, recommends the measure."--L. Murray cor. (See Obs. 5th on Rule 16th.) "A correct plainness, an elegant simplicity, is the proper character of an introduction."--Dr. Blair cor. "In syntax, there is what grammarians call concord or agreement, and there is government."--''Inf. S. Gram. cor.'' "People find themselves able, without much study, to write and speak English intelligibly, and thus are led to think that rules are of no utility."--Webster cor. "But the writer must be one who has studied to inform himself well, who has pondered his subject with care, and who addresses himself to our judgement, rather than to our imagination."--Dr. Blair cor. "But practice has determined it otherwise; and has, in all the languages with which we are much acquainted, supplied the place of an interrogative mood, either by particles of interrogation, or by a peculiar order of the words in the sentence."--Lowth cor. "If the Lord hath stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering."--Bible cor. "But if the priest's daughter be a widow, or divorced, and have no child, and she return unto her father's house, as in her youth, she shall eat of her father's meat."--Id. "Since we never have studied, and never shall study, your sublime productions."--Neef cor. "Enabling us to form distincter images of objects, than can be formed, with the utmost attention, where these particulars are not found."--Kames cor. "I hope you will consider that what is spoken comes from my love."--Shak. cor. "We shall then perceive how the designs of emphasis may be marred."--Rush cor. "I knew it was Crab, and went to the fellow that whips the dogs."--Shak. cor. "The youth was consuming by a slow malady."--Murray's Gram., p. 64; Ingersoll's, 45; Fisk, 82. "If all men thought, spoke, and wrote alike, something resembling a perfect adjustment of these points might be accomplished."--Wright cor. "If you will replace what has been, for a long time expunged from the language." Or: "If you will replace what was long ago expunged from the language."--Campbell and Murray cor. "As in all those faulty instances which I have just been giving."--Dr. Blair cor. "This mood is also used improperly in the following places."--L. Murray cor. "He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to have known what it was that nature had bestowed upon him."--Johnson cor. "Of which I have already given one instance, the worst indeed that occurred in the poem."--Dr. Blair cor. "It is strange he never commanded you to do it."--Anon. "History painters would have found it difficult, to invent such a species of beings."--Addison cor. "Universal Grammar cannot be taught abstractedly; it must be explained with referenc [sic--KTH] to some language already known."--Lowth cor. "And we might imagine, that if verbs had been so contrived as simply to express these, no other tenses would have been needful."--Dr. Blair cor. "To a writer of such a genius as Dean Swift's, the plain style is most admirably fitted."--Id. "Please to excuse my son's absence."--Inst., p. 279. "Bid the boys come in immediately."--Ib.  "Gives us the secrets of his pagan hell, Where restless ghosts in sad communion dwell."--Crabbe cor.

"Alas! nor faith nor valour now remains;    Sighs are but wind, and I must bear my chains."--Walpole cor.