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316 On the other hand, words placed between the two correlatives are declared by their position not to be common:

It is not very uncommon, on regaining the high road after a divergent clause or phrase, to get confused between the two, and continue quite wrongly the subordinate construction instead of that actually required.

Sometimes the confusion is not merely of the pen, but is in the writer's thought; and it is then almost incurable.

...the privilege by which the mind, like the lamps of a mailcoach, moving rapidly through the midnight woods, illuminate, for one instant, the foliage or sleeping umbrage of the thickets, and, in the next instant, have quitted them, to carry their radiance forward upon endless successions of objects.–.