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UNDER NOTE X.-DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.

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"And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be avoided." Or: "I would avoid it altogether, if to avoid it were practicable."—Kames cor. "Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic; and it must elevate the mind to the greatest height to which it can be raised by a single expression."—Id. Successive images, thus making deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate the mind more than any single image can."—Id. 'Besides making a deeper impression than can be made by cool reasoning."-Id. "Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, may rise higher than a public speaker can." Or:-" than can a public speaker."-Blair "And the very same reason that has induced several grammarians to go so far as they have gone, should have induced them to go farther."-Priestley cor. "The pupil should commit the first section to memory perfectly, before he attempts (or enters upon) the second part of grammar." -Bradley cor. "The Greek ch was pronounced hard, as we now pronounce it in chord."--Booth cor. "They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they adopt (or, in a manner different from that which they are accustomed to use) at other times."-L. Murray cor. "And give him the cool and formal reception that Simon had given."-Scott cor. "I do not say, as some have said."-Bolingbroke cor. "If he suppose the first, he may the last."-Barclay cor. "Who are now despising Christ in his inward appearance, as the Jews of old despised him in his outward [advent]." Id. "That text of Revelations must not be understood as he understands it.”—Id. Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him that he can parse it readily."—R. C. Smith cor. "Perhaps it is running the same course that Rome had run before."-Middleton cor. "It ought even on this ground to be avoided; and it easily may be, by a different construction." -Churchill cor. "These two languages are now pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe pronounces them."-Creighton cor. "Germany ran the same risk that Italy had run.”— Bolingbroke, Murray, et al., cor.

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UNDER NOTE XI.--PRETERITS AND PARTICIPLES.

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"The beggars themselves will be broken in a trice."-Swift cor. "The hoop is hoisted abore his nose."-Id. "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord."—2 Chron., xvii, G. Who sin so oft have mourned, Yet to temptation run."- Burns cor. "Who would not have let them appear."-Steele cor. "He would have had you seek for ease at the hands of Mr. Legality."Bunyan cor. 'From me his madding mind is turned; He woos the widow's daughter, of the glen."-Spenser cor. "The man has spoken, and he still speaks."—Ash cor. "For you have but mistaken me all this while.”—Shak. cor. "And will you rend our ancient love asunder?"—Id. “Mr. Birney has pled (or pleaded) the inexpediency of passing such resolutions.”—Liberator cor. "Who have worn out their years in such most painful labours."-Littleton cor. "And in the conclusion you were chosen probationer."-Spectator cor.

"How she was lost, ta'en captive, made a slave;

And how against him set that should her save."-Bunyan cor.

UNDER NOTE XII.-OF VERBS CONFOUNDED.

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"But Moses preferred to while away his time."-Parker cor. "His face shone with the rays of the sun."-John Allen cor. "Whom they had set at defiance so lately."-Bolingbroke cor. And when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him."-Bible cor. "When he had sat down on the judgement-seat." Or: "While he was sitting on the judgement-scat."-Id. "And, they having kindled a fire in the midst of the hall, and sat down together, Peter sat down among them."-Id. "So, after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and had sat down again, [or, literally, sitting down again,'] he said to them, Do ye know what I have done to you?" -Id. Or: "Even as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father in his throne."-Id. (rather less literally :) "Even as I have overcome, and am sitting with my Father on his throne." -Id. "We have such a high priest, who sitteth on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens."-Id. "And is now sitting at the right hand of the throne of God."—Id. He set on foot a furious persecution."-Payne cor. There lieth (or lies) an obligation upon the saints to help such."-Barclay cor. "There let him lie."-Byron cor. "Nothing but moss, and shrubs, and stunted trees, can grow upon it."-Morse cor. "Who had laid out considerable sums purely to distinguish themselves."-Goldsmith cor. "Whereunto the righteous flee, and are safe." -Barclay cor. "He rose from supper, and laid aside his garments."-Id. "Whither-oh! whither-shall I flee?"-L. Murray cor. "Fleeing from an adopted murderer."-Id. "To you I flee for refuge."-Id. "The sign that should warn his disciples to flee from the approaching ruin." -Keith cor. "In one she sits as a prototype for exact imitation."-Rush cor. In which some only bleat, bark, mew, whinny, and bray, a little better than others."--Id. "Who represented to him the unreasonableness of being affected with such unmanly fears."-Rollin cor. "Thou sawest every action." Or, familiarly: "Thou saw every action."-Guy cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, or taught, he or she taught."-Coar cor. "Valerian was taken by Sapor and flayed alive, A. D. 260."-Lempriere cor. What a fine vehicle has it now become, for all conceptions of the mind !" "What has become of so many productions?"- Volney cor. "What has become of those ages of abundance and of life?"-Keith cor. "The Spartan admiral had sailed to the Hellespont."-Goldsmith cor. "As soon as he landed, the multitude thronged about him."-Id. "Cyrus had arrived at Sardis."—Id. "Whose year had expired."-Id. "It might better have been, that faction which.'" Or: "That faction which,' would have been better."-Murray's

-Blair cor.

Gran, . p. 157. "This people has become a great nation."-Murray and Ingersoll cor. "And here we enter the region of ornament."-Dr. Blair cor. "The ungraceful parenthesis which follows, might far better have been avoided."-Id. "Who forced him under water, and there held him until he was drowned."-Hist. cor.

"I would much rather be myself the slave,

And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him."-Cowper cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII-WORDS THAT EXPRESS TIME.

As I

"I finished my letter before my brother arrived." Or: "I had finished my letter when my brother arrived."—Kirkham cor. "I wrote before I received his letter."-Dr. Blair cor. "From what was formerly delivered."—Id. "Arts were at length introduced among them." Or: "Arts have been of late introduced among them."--Id. [But the latter reading suits not the Doctor's context.] "I am not of opinion that such rules can be of much use, unless persons see them exemplified." Or:-" could be," and "saw."-Id. "If we use the noun itself. we say, (or must say,) This composition is John's."" Or: "If we used the noun itself, we should say," &c.-L. Murray cor. "But if the assertion refer to something that was transient, or to something that is not supposed to be always the same, the past tense must be preferred:" [as,] "They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by."-Luke and L. Murray cor. "There is no particular intimation but that I have continued to work, even to the present moment."-R. W. Green cor. "Generally, as has been observed already, it is but hinted in a single word or phrase.”—Campbell cor. "The wittiness of the passage has been alrea ly illustrated."-Id. “As was observed before." Or: “As has been observed already.”—Id. "It has been said already in general terms.”—Id. hinted before." Or: "As I have hinted already."-Id. "What, I believe, was hinted once before." -Id. It is obvious, as was hinted formerly, that this is but an artificial and arbitrary connexion."-Id. “They did anciently a great deal of hurt.”—Bolingbroke cor. "Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he was the high priest."-See Acts, xxiii, 5; Webster cor. Most prep ositions originally denoted the relations of place; and from these they were transferred, to denote, by similitude, other relations."-Lowth and Churchill cor. "His gift was but a poor offering, in comparison with his great estate."-L. Murray cor. "If he should succeed, and obtain his end, he would not be the happier for it." Or, better: "If he succeed, and fully attain his end, he will not be the happier for it."-Id. "These are torrents that swell to-day, and that will have spent themselves by to-morrow."-Dr. Blair cor. "Who have called that wheat on one day, which they have called tares on the next."-Barclay cor. "He thought it was one of his tenants."-Id "But if one went unto them from the dead, they would repent."-Bible cor. "Neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."-Id. "But it is while men sleep, that the archenemy always sows his tares."-The Friend cor. "Crescens would not have failed to expose him." -Addison cor.

"Bent is his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound;
Fierce as he moves, his silver shafts resound."-Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.-VERBS OF COMMANDING, &C.

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"Had I commanded you to do this, you would have thought hard of it."-G. B. "I found him better than I expected to find him.”—L. Murray's Gram., i, 187. "There are several smaller faults which I at first intended to enumerate."-Webster cor. "Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object shall make."—Dr. Blair cor. "The girl said, if her master would but have let her have money, she might have been well long ago."-Priestley et al. cor. "Nor is there the least ground to fear that we shall here be cramped within too narrow limits.”—Campbell cor. "The Romans, flushed with success, expected to retake it."-Hooke cor. "I would not have let fall an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered."-Sterne cor. "We expected that he would arrive last night.”— Brown's Inst., p. 282. "Our friends intended to meet us."-Ib. "We hoped to see you."-Ib.

"He would not have been allowed to enter.”—Ib.

UNDER NOTE XV. PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.

"Cicero maintained, that whatsoever is useful is good."-G. B. "I observed that love constitutes the whole moral character of God."-Dwight cor. "Thinking that one gains nothing by being a good man.' Voltaire cor. "I have already told you, that I am a gentleman."-Fontaine cor. "If I should ask, whether ice and water are two distinct species of things."-Locke cor. 64 "A stranger to the poem would not easily discover that this is verse."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, i, 260. "The doctor affirmed that fever always produces thirst."-Brown's Inst., p. 282. ancients asserted, that virtue is its own reward."-1b. "They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that the infinitive is a mere noun."-Tooke cor. "It was observed in Chap. III, that the distinctive OR has a double use."-Churchill cor. "Two young gentlemen, who have made a

discovery that there is no God."-Campbell's Rhet., p. 206.

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CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVIII; INFINITIVES.
INSTANCES DEMANDING THE PARTICLE TO.

"The

William, please to hand me that pencil."-Smith cor. "Please to insert points so as to make

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sense."-P. Davis cor. "I have known lords to abbreviate almost half of their words."-Cobbett "We shall find the practice perfectly to accord with the theory."-Knight cor. "But it would tend to obscure, rather than to elucidate, the subject."-L. Murray cor. "Please to divide it for them, as it should be divided."―J. Willetis cor. "So as neither to embarrass nor to weaken the sentence."-Blair and Mur. cor. "Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and to hear his heavenly discourse."-Same. "That we need not be surprised to find this to hold [i. e., to find the same to be true, or to find it so] in eloquence."--Blair cor. "Where he has no occasion either to divide or to explain" [the topic in debate.]—Id. "And they will find their pupils to improve by hasty and pleasant steps."--Russell cor. The teacher, however, will please to observe," &c.— Di. S. Gr. cor. "Please to attend to a few rules in what is called syntax."-Id. "They may dispense with the laws, to favour their friends, or to secure their office."--Webster cor. "To take back a gift, or to break a contract, is a wanton abuse."-Id. "The legislature has nothing to do, but to let it bear its own price."-Id. "He is not to form, but to copy characters."--Rambler cor. "I have known a woman to make use of a shoeing-horn."--Spect. cor. "Finding this experiment to answer, in every respect, their wishes.”—Day cor. "In fine, let him cause his arrangement to conclude in the term of the question."—Barclay cor.

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"That he permitted not the winds of heaven

To visit her too roughly." [Omit "face," to keep the measure: or say,] "That he did never let the winds of heaven

Visit her face too roughly.”—Shak, cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIX.-OF INFINITIVES.

INSTANCES AFTER BID, DARE, FEEL, HEAR, LET, MAKE, NEED, SEE.

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"I dare not proceed so hastily, lest I give offence.”—See Murray's Key, Rule xiicharacter is formed, and made to appear."-Butler cor. "Let there be but matter and opportunity offered, and you shall see them quickly revive again."-Bacon cor. It has been made to appear, that there is no presumption against a revelation."-Bp. Butler cor. "MANIFEST, v. t. To reveal; to make appear; to show plainly."-Webster cor. "Let him reign, like good Aurelius, or let him bleed like Seneca:" [Socrates did not bleed, he was poisoned.]-Kirkham's transposition of Pope cor. "Sing I could not; complain I durst not."-Fothergill cor. "If T. M. be not so frequently heard to pray by them."-Barclay cor. "How many of your own church members were never heard to pray?"-Id. "Yea, we are bidden to pray one for an other."-Id. "He was made to believe that neither the king's death nor his imprisonment would help him."-Sheffield cor. "I felt a chilling sensation creep over me."-Inst., p. 279. "I dare say he has not got home yet."-Ib. "We sometimes see bad men honoured."-Ib. "I saw him move"-Felch cor. "For see thou, ah! see thou, a hostile world its terrors raise."-Kirkham cor. "But that he make him rehearse so."-Lily cor. "Let us rise."-Fowle cor.

"Scripture, you know, exhorts us to it;

It bids us seek peace, and ensue it."-Swift cor. "Who bade the mud from Dives' wheel

Bedash the rags of Lazarus?

Come, brother, in that dust we'll kneel,

Confessing heaven that ruled it thus."-Christmas Book cor.

CHAPTER VII.-PARTICIPLES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XX.

UNDER NOTE I.-EXPUNGE OF.

"The

"In forming his sentences, he was very exact.”—L. Murray. "For not believing which, I condemn them."-Barclay cor. "To prohibit his hearers from reading that book.”—ld. "You will please them exceedingly in crying down ordinances."—Mitchell cor. "The warwolf subsequently became an engine for casting stones." Or:-" for the casting of stones."-Cons. Misc. cor. art of dressing hides and working in leather was practised."-Id. "In the choice they had made of him for restoring order."-Rollin cor. "The Arabians exercised themselves by composing orations and poems.”—Sale cor. "Behold, the widow-woman was there, gathering sticks."Bible cor. The priests were busied in offering burnt-offerings."-Id. "But Asahel would not turn aside from following him."—Id. "He left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah."-Id. "Those who accuse us of denying it, belie us."-Barclay cor. "And breaking bread from house to house."-Acts, iv, 46. "Those that set about repairing the walls."-Barclay cor. And secretly begetting divisions."-Id. "Whom he has made use of in gathering his church.”—Id. “In defining and distinguishing the acceptations and uses of those particles."— W. Walker cor,

"In making this a crime, we overthrow

The laws of nations and of nature too."-Dryden cor.

UNDER NOTE II.-ARTICLES REQUIRE OF.

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"The mixing of them makes a miserable jumble of truth and fiction."-Kames cor. "The same objection lies against the employing of statues."-Id. "More efficacious than the venting of

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opulence upon the fine arts."-Id. "It is the giving of different names to the same object.”—Id. "When we have in view the erecting of a column."-Id. "The straining of an elevated subject beyond due bounds, is a vice not so frequent."--Id. "The cutting of evergreens in the shape of animals, is very ancient."-Id. "The keeping of juries without meat, drink, or fire, can be accounted for only on the same idea."-Webster cor. "The writing of the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise."-Beck cor. "The avoiding of them is not an object of any moment."-Sheridan cor. “Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the signification of a word by degrees."-Brit. Gram. cor. "Comparison is the increasing or decreasing of the quality by degrees."-Buchanan cor. "The placing of a circumstance before the word with which it is connected is the easiest of all inversion."—Id. What is emphasis? It is the emitting of a stronger and fuller sound of voice," &c.—Bradley cor. "Besides, the varying of the terms will render the use of them more familiar."-A. Mur. cor. "And yet the contining of themselves to this true principle, has misled them."-Tooke cor. "What is here commanded, is merely the relieving of his misery."- Wayland cor. "The accumulating of too great a quantity of knowledge at random, overloads the mind in stead of adorning it."-Formey cor. "For the compassing of his point."-Rollin cor. "To the introducing of such an inverted order of things."—Bp. Butler cor. "Which require only the doing of an external action."-Id. "The imprisoning of my body is to satisfy your wills."-Fox cor. Who oppose the conferring of such extensive command on one person."-Duncan cor. Luxury contributed not a little to the enervating of their forces."-Sale "The keeping of one day of the week for a sabbath."-Barclay cor. "The doing of a thing is contrary to the forbearing of it."-Id. "The doubling of the Sigma is, however, sometimes regular."-Knight cor. "The inserting of the common aspirate too, is improper."-Id. "But in Spenser's time the pronouncing of the ed [as a separate syllable.] seems already to have been something of an archaism."-Phil. Mu. cor. "And to the reconciling of the effect of their verses on the eye."-Id. "When it was not in their power to hinder the taking of the whole.”—Dr. Brown cor. "He had indeed given the orders himself for the shutting of the gates."-Id. "So his whole life was a doing of the will of the Father."-Penington cor. "It signifies the suffering or receiving of the action expressed.”—Priestley cor. "The pretended crime therefore was the declaring of himself to be the Son of God."— West cor. "Parsing is the resolving of a sentence into its different parts of speech."—Beck cor.

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UNDER NOTE II.-ADJECTIVES REQUIRE OF. "There is no expecting of the admiration of beholders."-Baxter cor. "There is no hiding of you in the house."-Shak. cor. "For the better regulating of government in the province of Massachusetts."-Brit. Parl. cor. "The precise marking of the shadowy boundaries of a complex government."-Adams cor. "This state of discipline requires the voluntary foregoing of imany things which we desire, and the setting of ourselves to what we have no inclination to. Bp. Butler cor. "This amounts to an active setting of themselves against religion."-Id. “Which engaged our ancient friends to the orderly establishing of our Christian discipline."-Friends cor. "Some men are so unjust that there is no securing of our own property or life, but by opposing force to force."-Rev. John Brown cor. "An Act for the better securing of the Rights and Liberties of the Subject."-Geo. III cor. "Miraculous curing of the sick is discontinued."—Barclay cor. "It would have been no transgressing of the apostle's rule.”—Id. "As far as consistent with the proper conducting of the business of the House."—Elmore cor. "Because he would have no quarrelling at the just condemning of them at that day." Or:-" at their just condemna tion at that day." -Bunyan cor. "That transferring of this natural manner will insure propri ety."-Rush cor. "If a man were porter of heil-gate, he should have old [i. e., frequent] turning of the key."--Singer's Shakspeare cor.

UNDER NOTE II.-POSSESSIVES REQUIRE OF.

"Or

"So very simple a thing as a man's wounding of himself."--Dr. Blair cor., and Murray. with that man's avowing of his designs."-Blair, Mur., et al. cor. "On his putting of the question."-Adams cor. "The importance of teachers' requiring of their pupils to read each section many times over."-Kirkham cor. "Politeness is a kind of forgetting of one's self, in order to be agreeable to others."-Ramsay cor. "Much, therefore, of the merit and the agreeableness of epistolary writing, will depend on its introducing of us into some acquaintance with the writer." -Blair and Mack cor. "Richard's restoration to respectability depends on his paying of his debts."--0. B. Peirce cor. "Their supplying of ellipses where none ever existed; their parsing of the words of sentences already full and perfect, as though depending on words understood."Id. "Her veiling of herself, and shedding of tears, &c, her upbraiding of Paris for his cowardice," &c.-Blair cor. A preposition may be made known by its admitting of a personal pronoun after it, in the objective case."-Murray et al. cor. "But this forms no just objection to its denoting of time."-L. Mur. cor. "Of men's violating or disregarding of the relations in which God has here placed them."-Bp. Butler cor. "Success, indeed, no more decides for the right, than a man's killing of his antagonist in a duel."-Campbell cor. "His reminding of them."-Kirkham cor. "This mistake was corrected by his preceptor's causing of him to plant some beans."--Id "Their neglecting of this was ruinous."-Frost cor. "That he was serious, appears from his distinguishing of the others as 'finite.'"-Felch cor. "His hearers are not at all sensible of his doing of it." Or:-" that he does it."-Sheridan cor.

UNDER NOTE III-CHANGE THE EXPRESSION.

"An allegory is a fictitious story the meaning of which is figurative, not literal; a double meaning, or dilogy, is the saying of only one thing, when we have two in view."-Phil. Mu. cor. "A verb may generally be distinguished by the sense which it makes with any of the personal pronouns, or with the word To, before it."-Murray et al. cor. "A noun may in general be distinguished by the article which comes before it, or by the sense which it makes of itself."-Merchant et al. cor. "An adjective may usually be known by the sense which it makes with the word thing; as, a good thing, a bad thing."--lid. "It is seen to be in the objective case, because it denotes the object affected by the act of leaving."-O. B. Peirce cor. "It is seen to be in the possessive case, because it denotes the possessor of something."-Id. "The noun MAN is caused by the adjective WHATEVER to seem like a twofold nominative, as if it denoted, of itself, one person as the subject of the two remarks."- Id. "WHEN, as used in the last line, is a connective, because it joins that line to the other part of the sentence."-Id. "Because they denote reciprocation."-Id. "To allow them to make use of that liberty;"--"To allow them to use that liberty;"-or, "To allow them that liberty."-Sale cor. "The worst effect of it is, that it fixes on your mind a habit of indecision."-Todd cor. "And you groan the more deeply, as you reflect that you have not power to shake it off."-Id. "I know of nothing that can justify the student in having recourse to a Latin translation of a Greek writer."-Coleridge cor. "Humour is the conceit of making others act or talk absurdly."-Hazlitt cor. "There are remarkable instances in which they do not affect each other."-Bp. Butler cor. "That Caesar was left out of the commission, was not from any slight."Life cor. "Of the thankful reception of this toleration, I shall say no more," Or: "Of the propriety of receiving this toleration thankfully, I shall say no more."-Dryden cor. "Henrietta was delighted with Julia's skill in working lace."-0. B. Peirce cor. "And it is because each of them represents two different words, that the confusion has arisen."-Booth cor. "Eschylus died of a fracture of his skull, caused by an eagle's dropping of a tortoise on his head." Or:-" caused by a tortoise which an eagle let fall on his head."-Biog. Dict. cor. "He doubted whether they had it."-Felch cor. "To make ourselves clearly understood, is the chief end of speech."-Sheridan cor. "One cannot discover in their countenances any signs which are the natural concomitants of the feelings of the heart."-Id. "Nothing can be more common or less proper, than to speak of a river as emptying itself."--Campbell cor. "Our non-use of the former expression, is owing to this."-Bullions cor.

UNDER NOTE IV.-DISPOSAL OF ADVERBS.

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"To this generally succeeds the division, or the laying-down of the method of the discourse."Dr. Blair cor. "To the pulling-down of strong holds."-Bible cor. "Can a mere buckling-on of military weapon infuse courage?"-Dr. Brown cor. Expensive and luxurious living destroys health."-L. Murray cor. 'By frugal and temperate living, health is preserved." Or: "By living frugally and temperately, we preserve our health."-Id. By the doing-away of the necessity.' The Friend cor. "He recommended to them, however, the immediate calling of-(or, imme. diately to call-) the whole community to the church."-Gregory cor. "The separation of large numbers in this manner, certainly facilitates the right reading of them."-Churchill cor. "From their mere admitting of a twofold grammatical construction."-Phil. Mu. cor. "His grave lecturing of his friend about it."-Id. "For the blotting-out of sin."-Gurney cor. "From the notusing of water."-Barclay cor. "By the gentle dropping-in of a pebble."-Sheridan cor. "To the carrying-on of a great part of that general course of nature."-Bp. Butler cor. "Then the not-interposing is so far from being a ground of complaint.”—Id. "The bare omission, (or rather, the not-employing,) of what is used.' -Campbell and Jamieson cor. "The bringing-together of incongruous adverbs is a very common fault."-Churchill cor. "This is a presumptive proof that it does not proceed from them."-Bp. Butler cor. "It represents him in a character to which any injustice is peculiarly unsuitable."-Campbell cor. "They will aim at something higher than a mere dealing-out of harmonious sounds."-Kirkham cor. "This is intelligible and sufficient; and any further account of the matter seems beyond the reach of our faculties."-Bp. Butler cor. "Apostrophe is a turning-off from the regular course of the subject."-Mur. et al. cor. "Even Isabella was finally prevailed upon to assent to the sending-out of a commission to investigate his conduct."-Life of Columbus cor. "For the turning-away of the simple shall slay them."Bible cor.

"Thick fingers always should command
Without extension of the hand."-King cor.

UNDER NOTE V.-OF PARTICIPLES WITH ADJECTIVES.

"For I be

"Is there any Scripture which speaks of the light as being inward?"-Barclay cor. lieve not positiveness therein essential to salvation."-Id. "Our inability to act a uniformly right part without some thought and care."-Bp. Butler cor. "On the supposition that it is reconcilable with the constitution of nature."-Id. "On the ground that it is not discoverable by reason or experience."-Id. "On the ground that they are unlike the known course of nature."-Id. "Our power to discern reasons for them, gives a positive credibility to the history of them."Id. 'From its lack of universality."-Id. "That they may be turned into passive participles in dus, is no decisive argument to prove them passive."-Grant cor. "With the implied idea that St. Paul was then absent from the Corinthians."-Kirkham cor. "Because it becomes gradually weaker, until it finally dies away into silence."-Id. "Not without the author's full knowledge."

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