"Hence less is a privative suffix, denoting destitution; as in fatherless, faithless, penniless."—Webster cor. "Bay; red, or reddish, inclining to a chestnut colour."—Id. "To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimicks."—Id. "Counterroll, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; Counterrollment, a counter account."—Id. "Millennium, [from mille and annus,] the thousand years during which Satan shall be bound."—See Johnson's Dict. "Millennial, [like septennial, decennial, &c.,] pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years."—See Worcester's Dict. "Thralldom; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude."—Webster's Dict. "Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers; Sweetbrier, a fragrant shrub."—See Ainsworth's Dict., Scott's, Gobb's, and others. "Will, in the second and third persons, barely foretells."—Brit. Gram. cor. "And therefore there is no word false, but what is distinguished by Italics."—Id. "What should be repeated, is left to their discretion."—Id. "Because they are abstracted or separated from material substances."—Id. "All motion is in time, and therefore, wherever it exists, implies time as its concomitant."— Harris's Hermes, p. 95. "And illiterate grown persons are guilty of blamable spelling."—Brit. Gram. cor. "They will always be ignorant, and of rough, uncivil manners."—Webster cor. "This fact will hardly be believed in the northern states."—Id. "The province, however, was harassed with disputes."—Id. "So little concern has the legislature for the interest of learning."—Id. "The gentlemen will not admit that a schoolmaster can be a gentleman."—Id. "Such absurd quid-pro-quoes cannot be too strenuously avoided."—Churchill cor. "When we say of a man, 'He looks slily;' we signify, that he takes a sly glance or peep at something."—Id. "Peep; to look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely, or slily"—Webster cor. "Hence the confession has become a hackneyed proverb."—Wayland cor. "Not to mention the more ornamental parts of gilding, varnish, &c."—Tooke cor. "After this system of self-interest had been riveted."—Dr. Brown cor. "Prejudice might have prevented the cordial approbation of a bigoted Jew."—Dr. Scott cor.
"All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen,
The brier-rose fell in streamers green."—Sir W. Scott cor.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"The infinitive mood has, commonly, the sign to before it."—Harrison cor. "Thus, it is advisable to write singeing, from the verb to singe, by way of distinction from singing, the participle of the verb to sing."—Id. "Many verbs form both the preterit tense and the preterit participle irregularly."—Id. "Much must be left to every one's taste and judgement."—Id. "Verses of different lengths, intermixed, form a Pindaric poem."—Priestley cor. "He'll surprise you."—Frost cor. "Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?"— Knowles. "So gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow."—Byron cor. "When is a diphthong called a proper diphthong?"—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "How many Esses would the word then end with? Three; for it would be goodness's."—Id. "Qu. What is a triphthong? Ans. A triphthong is a coalition of three vowels in one syllable."—Bacon cor. "The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken separately."—Murray. "The cubic foot of matter which occupies the centre of the globe."—Cardell cor. "The wine imbibes oxygen, or the acidifying principle, from the air."—Id. "Charcoal, sulphur, and nitre, make gunpowder."—Id. "It would be readily understood, that the thing so labelled was a bottle of Madeira wine."—Id. "They went their ways, one to his farm, an other to his merchandise."—Matt., xxii, 5. "A diphthong is the union of two vowels, both in one syllable."—Russell cor. "The professors of the Mohammedan religion are called Mussulmans."—Maltby cor. "This shows that let is not a mere sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb."—Id. "Those preterits and participles which are first mentioned in the list, seem to be the most eligible."—Murray's Gram., p. 107; Fisk's, 81; Ingersoll's, 103. "Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by er and est, and dissyllables, by more and most."—Murray's Gram., p. 47. "This termination, added to a noun or an adjective, changes it into a verb: as, modern, to modernize; a symbol, to symbolize."— Churchill cor. "An Abridgement of Murray's Grammar, with additions from Webster, Ash, Tooke, and others."—Maltby's Gram., p. 2. "For the sake of occupying the room more advantageously, the subject of Orthography is merely glanced at."—Nutting cor. "So contended the accusers of Galileo."—O. B. Peirce cor. Murray says, "They were travelling post when he met them."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 69. "They fulfill the only purposes for which they were designed."—Peirce cor.—See Webster's Dict. "On the fulfillment of the event."—Peirce, right. "Fullness consists in expressing every idea."—Id. "Consistently with fullness and perspicuity."—Peirce cor. "The word veriest is a regular adjective; as, 'He is the veriest fool on earth.'"—Wright cor. "The sound will recall the idea of the object."—Hiley cor. "Formed for great enterprises."—Hiley's Gram., p. 113. "The most important rules and definitions are printed in large type, Italicized."—Hart cor. "HAMLETED, a., accustomed to a hamlet, countrified."—Webster, and Worcester. "Singular, spoonful, cupful, coachful, handful; plural, spoonfuls, cupfuls, coachfuls, handfuls."—Worcester's Universal and Critical Dictionary.
"Between superlatives and following names, Of, by grammatic right, a station claims."—Brightland cor.
THE KEY.—PART II.—ETYMOLOGY.
CHAPTER I.—PARTS OF SPEECH.
The first chapter of Etymology, as it exhibits only the distribution of words into the ten Parts of Speech, contains no false grammar for correction. And it may be here observed, that as mistakes concerning the forms, classes, or modifications of words, are chiefly to be found in sentences, rather than in any separate exhibition of the terms; the quotations of this kind, with which I have illustrated the principles of etymology, are many of them such as might perhaps with more propriety be denominated false syntax. But, having examples enough at hand to show the ignorance and carelessness of authors in every part of grammar, I have thought it most advisable, so to distribute them as to leave no part destitute of this most impressive kind of illustration. The examples exhibited as false etymology, are as distinct from those which are called false syntax, as the nature of the case will admit.
CHAPTER II.—ARTICLES.
CORRECTIONS RESPECTING A, AN, AND THE.
LESSON I.—ARTICLES ADAPTED.
"Honour is a useful distinction in life."—Milnes cor. "No writer, therefore, ought to foment a humour of innovation."—Jamieson cor. "Conjunctions [generally] require a situation between the things of which they form a union."—Id. "Nothing is more easy than to mistake a u for an a."—Tooke cor. "From making so ill a use of our innocent expressions."—Penn cor. "To grant thee a heavenly and incorruptible crown of glory."—Sewel cor. "It in no wise follows, that such a one was able to predict."—Id. "With a harmless patience, they have borne most heavy oppressions."—Id. "My attendance was to make me a happier man."—Spect. cor. "On the wonderful nature of a human mind."—Id. "I have got a hussy of a maid, who is most craftily given to this."—Id. "Argus is said to have had a hundred eyes, some of which were always awake."—Stories cor. "Centiped, having a hundred feet; centennial, consisting of a hundred years."—Town cor. "No good man, he thought, could be a heretic."—Gilpin cor. "As, a Christian, an infidel, a heathen."—Ash cor. "Of two or more words, usually joined by a hyphen."—Blair cor. "We may consider the whole space of a hundred years as time present."—Ingersoll's Gram., p. 138. "In guarding against such a use of meats and drinks."—Ash cor. "Worship is a homage due from man to his Creator."—Monitor cor. "Then a eulogium on the deceased was pronounced."—Grimshaw cor. "But for Adam there was not found a help meet for him."—Bible cor. "My days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as a hearth."—Id. "A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof."—Id. "The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; a high hill, as the hill of Bashan."—Id. "But I do declare it to have been a holy offering, and such a one too as was to be once for all."—Penn cor. "A hope that does not make ashamed those that have it."—Barclay cor. "Where there is not a unity, we may exercise true charity."—Id. "Tell me, if in any of these such a union can be found?"—Dr. Brown cor.
"Such holy drops her tresses steeped,
Though 'twas a hero's eye that weeped."—Sir W. Scott cor.
LESSON II.—ARTICLES INSERTED.
"This veil of flesh parts the visible and the invisible world."—Sherlock cor. "The copulative and the disjunctive conjunctions operate differently on the verb."—L. Murray cor. "Every combination of a preposition and an article with the noun."—Id. "Either signifies, 'the one or the other:' neither imports, 'not either;' that is, 'not the one nor the other.'"—Id. "A noun of multitude may have a pronoun or a verb agreeing with it, either of the singular number or of the plural."—Bucke cor. "The principal copulative conjunctions are, and, as, both, because, for, if, that, then, since."—Id. "The two real genders are the masculine and the feminine."—Id. "In which a mute and a liquid are represented by the same character, th."—Gardiner cor. "They said, John the Baptist hath sent us unto thee."—Bible cor. "They indeed remember the names of an abundance of places."—Spect. cor. "Which created a great dispute between the young and the old men."—Goldsmith cor. "Then shall be read the Apostles' or the Nicene Creed."—Com. Prayer cor. "The rules concerning the perfect tenses and the supines of verbs are Lily's."—K. Henry's Gr. cor. "It was read by the high and the low, the learned and the illiterate."—Dr. Johnson cor. "Most commonly, both the pronoun and the verb are understood."—Buchanan cor. "To signify the thick and the slender enunciation of tone."—Knight cor. "The difference between a palatial and a guttural aspirate is very small."—Id. "Leaving it to waver between the figurative and the literal sense."—Jamieson cor. "Whatever verb will not admit of both an active and a passive signification."—Alex. Murray cor. "The is often set before adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."—Id. and Kirkham cor. "Lest any should fear the effect of such a change, upon the present or the succeeding age of writers."—Fowle cor. "In all these measures, the accents are to be placed on the even syllables; and every line is, in general, the more melodious, as this rule is the more strictly observed."—L. Murray et al. cor. "How many numbers do nouns appear to have? Two: the singular and the plural."—R. C. Smith cor. "How many persons? Three; the first, the second, and the third."—Id. "How many cases? Three; the nominative, the possessive, and the objective."—Id.
"Ah! what avails it me, the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd the sheep:"—or, "my sheep."
LESSON III.—ARTICLES OMITTED.
"The negroes are all descendants of Africans."—Morse cor. "Sybarite was applied as a term of reproach to a man of dissolute manners."—Id. "The original signification of knave was boy."—Webster cor. "The meaning of these will be explained, for greater clearness and precision."—Bucke cor. "What sort of noun is man? A noun substantive, common."—Buchanan cor. "Is what ever used as three kinds of pronoun?"—Kirkham's Question cor. [Answer: "No; as a pronoun, it is either relative or interrogative."—G. Brown.] "They delighted in having done it, as well as in the doing of it."—R. Johnson cor. "Both parts of this rule are exemplified in the following sentences."—Murray cor. "He has taught them to hope for an other and better world."—Knapp cor. "It was itself only preparatory to a future, better, and perfect revelation."—Keith cor. "Es then makes an other and distinct syllable."—Brightland cor. "The eternal clamours of a selfish and factious people."—Dr. Brown cor. "To those whose taste in elocution is but little cultivated."—Kirkham cor. "They considered they had but a sort of gourd to rejoice in."—Bennet cor. "Now there was but one such bough, in a spacious and shady grove."—Bacon cor. "Now the absurdity of this latter supposition will go a great way towards making a man easy."—Collier cor. "This is true of mathematics, with which taste has but little to do."—Todd cor. "To stand prompter to a pausing yet ready comprehension."—Rush cor. "Such an obedience as the yoked and tortured negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer."—Chalmers cor. "For the gratification of a momentary and unholy desire."—Wayland cor. "The body is slenderly put together; the mind, a rambling sort of thing."—Collier cor. "The only nominative to the verb, is officer."—Murray cor. "And though in general it ought to be admitted, &c."—Blair cor. "Philosophical writing admits of a polished, neat, and elegant style."—Id. "But notwithstanding this defect, Thomson is a strong and beautiful describer."—Id. "So should he be sure to be ransomed, and many poor men's lives should be saved."—Shak. cor.
"Who felt the wrong, or feared it, took alarm,
Appealed to law, and Justice lent her arm."—Pope cor.
LESSON IV.—ARTICLES CHANGED.
"To enable us to avoid too frequent a repetition of the same word."—Bucke cor. "The former is commonly acquired in a third part of the time."—Burn cor. "Sometimes an adjective becomes a substantive; and, like other substantives, it may have an adjective relating to it: as, 'The chief good.'"—L. Murray cor. "An articulate sound is a sound of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech."—Id. "A tense is a distinction of time: there are six tenses."—Maunder cor. "In this case, an ellipsis of the last article would be improper."—L. Hurray cor. "Contrast always has the effect to make each of the contrasted objects appear in a stronger light."—Id. et al. "These remarks may serve to show the great importance of a proper use of the articles."—Lowth et al. cor. "'Archbishop Tillotson,' says the author of a history of England, 'died in this year.'"—Dr. Blair cor. "Pronouns are used in stead of substantives, to prevent too frequent a repetition of them."—A. Murray cor. "THAT, as a relative, seems to be introduced to prevent too frequent a repetition of WHO and WHICH."—Id. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it."—L. Murray cor. "THAT is often used as a relative, to prevent too frequent a repetition of WHO and WHICH."—Id. et al. cor. "His knees smote one against the other."—Logan cor. "They stand now on one foot, then on the other."—W. Walker cor. "The Lord watch between thee and me, when we are absent one from the other."—Bible cor. "Some have enumerated ten parts of speech, making the participle a distinct part."—L. Murray cor. "Nemesis rides upon a hart because the hart is a most lively creature."—Bacon cor. "The transition of the voice from one vowel of the diphthong to the other."—Dr. Wilson cor. "So difficult it is, to separate these two things one from the other."—Dr. Blair cor. "Without a material breach of any rule."—Id. "The great source of looseness of style, in opposition to precision, is an injudicious use of what are termed synonymous words."—Blair cor.; also Murray. "Sometimes one article is improperly used for the other."—Sanborn cor.
"Satire of sense, alas! can Sporus feel?
Who breaks a butterfly upon the wheel?"—Pope cor.
LESSON V.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"He hath no delight in the strength of a horse."—Maturin cor. "The head of it would be a universal monarch."—Butler cor. "Here they confound the material and the formal object of faith."—Barclay cor. "The Irish [Celtic] and the Scottish Celtic are one language; the Welsh, the Cornish, and the Armorican, are an other."—Dr. Murray cor. "In a uniform and perspicuous manner."—Id. "SCRIPTURE, n. Appropriately, and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and the New Testament; the Bible."—Webster cor. "In two separate volumes, entitled, 'The Old and New Testaments.'"—Wayland cor. "The Scriptures of the Old and the New Testament, contain a revelation from God."—Id. "Q has always a u after it; which, in words of French origin, is not sounded."—Wilson cor. "What should we say of such a one? that he is regenerate? No."—Hopkins cor. "Some grammarians subdivide the vowels into simple and compound."—L. Murray cor. "Emphasis has been divided into the weaker and the stronger emphasis."—Id. "Emphasis has also been divided into the superior and the inferior emphasis."—Id. "Pronouns must agree with their antecedents, or the nouns which they represent, in gender, number, and person."—Merchant cor. "The adverb where is often used improperly, for a relative pronoun and a preposition": as, "Words where [in which] the h is not silent."—Murray, p. 31. "The termination ish imports diminution, or a lessening of the quality."—Merchant cor. "In this train, all their verses proceed: one half of a line always answering to the other."—Dr. Blair cor. "To a height of prosperity and glory, unknown to any former age."—L. Murray cor. "Hwilc, who, which, such as, such a one, is declined as follows."—Gwilt cor. "When a vowel precedes the y, s only is required to form the plural; as, day, days."—Bucke cor. "He is asked what sort of word each is; whether a primitive, a derivative, or a compound."—British Gram. cor. "It is obvious, that neither the second, the third, nor the fourth chapter of Matthew, is the first; consequently, there are not 'four first chapters.'"—Churchill cor. "Some thought, which a writer wants the art to introduce in its proper place."—Dr. Blair cor. "Groves and meadows are the most pleasing in the spring."—Id. "The conflict between the carnal and the spiritual mind, is often long."—Gurney cor. "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful"—Burke cor.
"Silence, my muse! make not these jewels cheap,
Exposing to the world too large a heap."—Waller cor.
CHAPTER III.—NOUNS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE MODIFICATIONS OF NOUNS.
LESSON I.—NUMBERS.
"All the ablest of the Jewish rabbies acknowledge it."—Wilson cor. "Who has thoroughly imbibed the system of one or other of our Christian rabbies."—Campbell cor. "The seeming singularities of reason soon wear off."—Collier cor. "The chiefs and arikies, or priests, have the power of declaring a place or object taboo."—Balbi cor. "Among the various tribes of this family, are the Pottawatomies, the Sauks and Foxes, or Saukies and Ottogamies."—Id. "The Shawnees, Kickapoos, Menom'onies, Miamies, and Delawares, are of the same region."—Id. "The Mohegans and Abenaquies belonged also to this family."—Id. "One tribe of this family, the Winnebagoes, formerly resided near lake Michigan."—Id. "The other tribes are the Ioways, the Otoes, the Missouries, the Quapaws."—Id." The great Mexican family comprises the Aztecs, the Toltecs, and the Tarascoes."—Id." The Mulattoes are born of negro and white parents; the Zamboes, of Indians and Negroes."—Id. "To have a place among the Alexanders, the Cæsars, the Louises, or the Charleses,—the scourges and butchers of their fellow-creatures."—Burgh cor." Which was the notion of the Platonic philosophers and the Jewish rabbies."—Id. "That they should relate to the whole body of virtuosoes."—Cobbeti cor." What thanks have ye? for sinners also love those that love them."—Bible cor." There are five ranks of nobility; dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons."—Balbi cor." Acts which were so well known to the two Charleses."—Payne cor. "Courts-martial are held in all parts, for the trial of the blacks."—Observer cor. "It becomes a common noun, and may have the plural number; as, the two Davids, the two Scipios, the two Pompeys."—Staniford cor. "The food of the rattlesnake is birds, squirrels, hares, rats, and reptiles."—Balbi cor. "And let fowls multiply in the earth."—Bible cor. "Then we reached the hillside, where eight buffaloes were grazing."—Martineau cor. "CORSET, n. a bodice for a woman."—Worcester cor. "As, the Bees, the Cees, the Double-ues."—Peirce cor. "Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity."—Pope cor. "You have disguised yourselves like tipstaffs."—Gil Bias cor. "But who, that has any taste, can endure the incessant quick returns of the alsoes, and the likewises, and the moreovers, and the howevers, and the notwithstandings?"—Campbell cor.
"Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise,
Let ays seem noes, and noes seem ays."—Gay cor.
LESSON II.—CASES.
"For whose name's sake, I have been made willing."—Penn cor. "Be governed by your conscience, and never ask any body's leave to be honest."—Collier cor. "To overlook nobody's merit or misbehaviour."— Id. "And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of Ajax's ship."—Coleridge cor. "Nothing is lazier, than to keep one's eye upon words without heeding their meaning."—Museum cor. "Sir William Jones's division of the day."—Id. "I need only refer here to Voss's excellent account of it."—Id. "The beginning of Stesichorus's palinode has been preserved."—Id. "Though we have Tibullus's elegies, there is not a word in them about Glyc~era."—Id. "That Horace was at Thaliarchus's country-house."—Id. "That Sisyphus's foot-tub should have been still in existence."—Id. "How everything went on in Horace's closet, and Mecenas's antechamber."—Id. "Who, for elegant brevity's sake, put a participle for a verb."—W. Walker cor. "The country's liberty being oppressed, we have no more to hope."—Id. "A brief but true account of this people's principles."—Barclay cor. "As, The Church's peace, or, The peace of the Church; Virgil's Æneid, or, The Æneid of Virgil."—Brit. Gram. cor. "As, Virgil's Æneid, for, The Æneid of Virgil; The Church's peace, for, The peace of the Church."—Buchanan cor. "Which, with Hubner's Compend, and Well's Geographia Classica, will be sufficient."—Burgh cor. "Witness Homer's speaking horses, scolding goddesses, and Jupiter enchanted with Venus's girdle."—Id. "Dr. Watts's Logic may with success be read to them and commented on."—Id. "Potter's Greek, and Kennet's Roman Antiquities, Strauchius's and Helvicus's Chronology."—Id. "SING. Alice's friends, Felix's property; PLUR. The Alices' friends, the Felixes' property."—Peirce cor. "Such as Bacchus's company—at Bacchus's festivals."—Ainsworih cor. "Burns's inimitable Tam o' Shanter turns entirely upon such a circumstance."—Scott cor. "Nominative, men; Genitive, [or Possessive,] men's; Objective, men."—Cutler cor. "Men's happiness or misery is mostly of their own making."—Locke cor. "That your son's clothes be never made strait, especially about the breast."—Id. "Children's minds are narrow and weak."—Id. "I would not have little children much tormented about punctilios, or niceties of breeding."—Id. "To fill his head with suitable ideas."—Id. "The Burgusdisciuses and the Scheiblers did not swarm in those days, as they do now."—Id. "To see the various ways of dressing—a calf's head!"—Shenstone cor.
"He puts it on, and for decorum's sake
Can wear it e'en as gracefully as she."—Cowper cor.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"Simon the wizard was of this religion too"—Bunyan cor. "MAMMODIES, n. Coarse, plain, India muslins."—Webster cor. "Go on from single persons to families, that of the Pompeys for instance."—Collier cor. "By which the ancients were not able to account for phenomena."—Bailey cor. "After this I married a woman who had lived at Crete, but a Jewess by birth."—Josephus cor. "The very heathens are inexcusable for not worshiping him."—Todd cor. "Such poems as Camoens's Lusiad, Voltaire's Henrinde, &c."—Dr. Blair cor. "My learned correspondent writes a word in defence of large scarfs."—Sped. cor. "The forerunners of an apoplexy are dullness, vertigoes, tremblings."—Arbuthnot cor." Vertigo, [in Latin,] changes the o into ~in=es, making the plural vertig~in=es:" [not so, in English.]—Churchill cor. "Noctambulo, [in Latin,] changes the o into =on=es, making the plural noctambul=on=es:" [not so in English.]—Id. "What shall we say of noctambuloes? It is the regular English plural."—G. Brown. "In the curious fretwork of rocks and grottoes."—Blair cor. "Wharf makes the plural wharfs, according to the best usage."—G. Brown. "A few cents' worth of macaroni supplies all their wants."—Balbi cor. "C sounds hard, like k, at the end of a word or syllable."—Blair cor. "By which the virtuosoes try The magnitude of every lie."—Butler cor. "Quartoes, octavoes, shape the lessening pyre."—Pope cor. "Perching within square royal roofs"—Sidney cor. "Similes should, even in poetry, be used with moderation."—Dr. Blair cor. "Similes should never be taken from low or mean objects."—Id. "It were certainly better to say, 'The House of Lords,' than, 'The Lords' House.'"—Murray cor. "Read your answers. Units' figure? 'Five.' Tens'? 'Six.' Hundreds'? 'Seven.'"—Abbott cor. "Alexander conquered Darius's army."—Kirkham cor. "Three days' time was requisite, to prepare matters."—Dr. Brown cor. "So we say, that Cicero's style and Sallust's were not one; nor Cæsar's and Livy's; nor Homer's and Hesiod's; nor Herodotus's and Thucydides's; nor Euripides's and Aristophanes's; nor Erasmus's and Budæus's."—Puttenham cor. "LEX (i.e., legs, a law,) is no other than our ancestors' past participle loeg, laid down"—Tooke cor. "Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the Atridoe's sake."—Cowper cor. "The corpses of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly."—Addison cor.
"Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear;
And spotted corpses load the frequent bier."—Dryden cor.
CHAPTER IV.—ADJECTIVES.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.
LESSON I.—DEGREES.
"I have the real excuse of the most honest sort of bankrupts."—Cowley corrected. "The most honourable part of talk, is, to give the occasion."—Bacon cor. "To give him one of the most modest of his own proverbs."—Barclay cor. "Our language is now, certainly, more proper and more natural, than it was formerly."—Burnet cor. "Which will be of the greatest and most frequent use to him in the world."—Locke cor. "The same is notified in the most considerable places in the diocese."—Whitgift cor. "But it was the most dreadful sight that ever I saw."—Bunyan cor. "Four of the oldest, soberest, and discreetest of the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it."—Locke cor. "Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially of more ancient time, without this skill."—W. Walker cor. "Far the most learned of the Greeks."—Id. "The more learned thou art, the humbler be thou."—Id. "He is none of the best, or most honest."—Id. "The most proper methods of communicating it to others."—Burn cor. "What heaven's great King hath mightiest to send against us."—Milton cor. "Benedict is not the most unhopeful husband that I know."—Shakspeare cor. "That he should immediately do all the meanest and most trifling things himself."—Ray cor. "I shall be named among the most renowned of women."—Milton cor. "Those have the most inventive heads for all purposes."—Ascham cor. "The more wretched are the contemners of all helps."—B. Johnson cor. "I will now deliver a few of the most proper and most natural considerations that belong to this piece."—Wotton cor. "The most mortal poisons practised by the West Indians, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man."—Bacon cor. "He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the most faithful and most affectionate allies the Medes ever had."—Rollin cor. "'You see before you,' says he to him, 'the most devoted servant, and the most faithful ally, you ever had.'"—Id. "I chose the most flourishing tree in all the park."—Cowley cor. "Which he placed, I think, some centuries earlier than did Julius Africanus afterwards."—Bolingbroke cor. "The Tiber, the most noted river of Italy."—Littleton cor.
"To farthest shores th' ambrosial spirit flies."—Pope.
——"That what she wills to do or say,
Seems wisest, worthiest, discreetest, best."—Milton cor.
LESSON II.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"During the first three or four years of its existence."—Taylor cor. "To the first of these divisions, my last ten lectures have been devoted."—Adams cor. "There are, in the twenty-four states, not fewer than sixty thousand common schools."—J. O. Taylor cor. "I know of nothing which gives teachers more trouble, than this want of firmness."—Id. "I know of nothing else that throws such darkness over the line which separates right from wrong."—Id. "None need this purity and this simplicity of language and thought, more than does the instructor of a common school."—Id. "I know of no other periodical that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education."—Id. "Are not these schools of the highest importance? Should not every individual feel a deep interest in their character and condition?"—Id. "If instruction were made a liberal profession, teachers would feel more sympathy for one an other."—Id. "Nothing is more interesting to children, than novelty, or change."—Id. "I know of no other labour which affords so much happiness as the teacher's."—Id. "Their school exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable duties, that they engage in."—Id. "I know of no exercise more beneficial to the pupil than that of drawing maps."—Id. "I know of nothing in which our district schools are more defective, than they are in the art of teaching grammar."—Id. "I know of no other branch of knowledge, so easily acquired as history."—Id. "I know of no other school exercise for which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as for composition."—Id. "There is nothing belonging to our fellow-men, which we should respect more sacredly than their good name."—Id. "Surely, never any other creature was so unbred as that odious man."—Congreve cor. "In the dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the deceased."—Phil. Museum cor. "These master-works would still be less excellent and finished."—Id. "Every attempt to staylace the language of polished conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy."—Id. "Here are a few of the most unpleasant words that ever blotted paper."—Shakespeare cor. "With the most easy and obliging transitions."—Broome cor. "Fear is, of all affections, the least apt to admit any conference with reason."—Hooker cor. "Most chymists think glass a body less destructible than gold itself."—Boyle cor. "To part with unhacked edges, and bear back our barge undinted."—Shak. cor. "Erasmus, who was an unbigoted Roman Catholic, was transported with this passage."—Addison cor. "There are no fewer than five words, with any of which the sentence might have terminated."—Campbell cor. "The ones preach Christ of contention; but the others, of love." Or, "The one party preach," &c.—Bible cor. "Hence we find less discontent and fewer heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally burdened."—H. Home, Ld. Kames, cor.
"The serpent, subtlest beast of all the field."
—Milton, P. L., B. ix, l. 86.
"Thee, Serpent, subtlest beast of all the field,
I knew, but not with human voice indued."
—Id., P. L., B. ix, l. 560.
"How much more grievous would our lives appear.
To reach th' eight-hundredth, than the eightieth year!"
—Denham cor.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced each other at the same time."—Lempriere cor. "Her two brothers were, one after the other, turned into stone."—Kames cor. "Nouns are often used as adjectives; as, A gold ring, a silver cup."—Lennie cor. "Fire and water destroy each other"—Wanostrocht cor. "Two negatives, in English, destroy each other, or are equivalent to an affirmative."—Lowth, Murray, et al. cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative."—Kirkham and Felton cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, and make an affirmative."—Flint cor. "Two negatives destroy each other, being equivalent to an affirmative."—Frost cor. "Two objects, resembling each other, are presented to the imagination."—Parker cor. "Mankind, in order to hold converse with one an other, found it necessary to give names to objects."—Kirkham cor. "Derivative words are formed from their primitives in various ways."—Cooper cor. "There are many different ways of deriving words one from an other."—Murray cor. "When several verbs have a joint construction in a sentence, the auxiliary is usually expressed with the first only."—Frost cor. "Two or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and coming in immediate succession, are also separated by the comma."—Murray et al. cor. "Two or more adverbs, coming in immediate succession, must be separated by the comma."—Iidem. "If, however, the two members are very closely connected, the comma is unnecessary."—Iidem. "Gratitude, when exerted towards others, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a generous man."—L. Murray cor. "Several verbs in the infinitive mood, coming in succession, and having a common dependence, are also divided by commas."—Comly cor. "The several words of which it consists, have so near a relation one to an other."—Murray et al. cor. "When two or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] occur in immediate succession, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by the comma."—Comly cor. "One noun frequently follows an other, both meaning the same thing."—Sanborn cor. "And these two tenses may thus answer each other."—R. Johnson cor. "Or some other relation which two objects bear to each other."—Jamieson cor. "That the heathens tolerated one an other is allowed."—A. Fuller cor. "And yet these two persons love each other tenderly."—E. Reader cor. "In the six hundred and first year."—Bible cor. "Nor is this arguing of his, any thing but a reiterated clamour."—Barclay cor. "In several of them the inward life of Christianity is to be found."—Ib. "Though Alvarez, Despauter, and others, do not allow it to be plural."—R. Johnson cor. "Even the most dissipated and shameless blushed at the sight."—Lempriere cor. "We feel a higher satisfaction in surveying the life of animals, than [in contemplating] that of vegetables."— Jamieson cor. "But this man is so full-fraught with malice."—Barclay cor. "That I suggest some things concerning the most proper means."—Dr. Blair cor.
"So, hand in hand, they passed, the loveliest pair
That ever yet in love's embraces met."—Milton cor.
"Aim at supremacy; without such height,
Will be for thee no sitting, or not long."—Id. cor.
CHAPTER V.—PRONOUNS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF PRONOUNS.
LESSON I.—RELATIVES.
"While we attend to this pause, every appearance of singsong must be carefully avoided."—Murray cor. "For thou shalt go to all to whom I shall send thee."—Bible cor. "Ah! how happy would it have been for me, had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years during which I have possessed my kingdom."—Sanborn cor. "In the same manner in which relative pronouns and their antecedents are usually parsed."—Id. "Parse or explain all the other nouns contained in the examples, after the very manner of the word which is parsed for you."—Id. "The passive verb will always have the person and number that belong to the verb be, of which it is in part composed."—Id. "You have been taught that a verb must always agree in person and number with it subject or nominative."—Id. "A relative pronoun, also, must always agree in person, in number, and even in gender, with its antecedent."—Id. "The answer always agrees in case with the pronoun which asks the question."—Id. "One sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the definite manner of a personal pronoun." [529]—Id. "The mind, being carried forward to the time at which the event is to happen, easily conceives it to be present." "SAVE and SAVING are [seldom to be] parsed in the manner in which EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly explained]."—Id. "Adverbs qualify verbs, or modify their meaning, as adjectives qualify nouns [and describe things.]"—Id. "The third person singular of verbs, terminates in s or es, like the plural number of nouns."—Id. "He saith further: that, 'The apostles did not baptize anew such persons as had been baptized with the baptism of John.'"—Barclay cor. "For we who live,"—or, "For we that are alive, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake."—Bible cor. "For they who believe in God, must be careful to maintain good works."—Barclay cor. "Nor yet of those who teach things that they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."—Id. "So as to hold such bound in heaven as they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven as they loose on earth."—Id. "Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife; then such things as are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided and forsaken?"—Id. "All such as do not satisfy themselves with the superfices of religion."—Id. "And he is the same in substance, that he was upon earth,—the same in spirit, soul, and body."—Id. "And those that do not thus, are such, as the Church of Rome can have no charity for." Or: "And those that do not thus, are persons toward whom the Church of Rome can have no charity."—Id. "Before his book, he places a great list of what he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the Quakers."—Id. "And this is what he should have proved."—Id. "Three of whom were at that time actual students of philosophy in the university."—Id. "Therefore it is not lawful for any whomsoever * * * to force the consciences of others."—Id. "Why were the former days better than these?"—Bible cor. "In the same manner in which"—or, better, "Just as—the term my depends on the name books."—Peirce cor. "Just as the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition to, understood after the adjective] NEAR."—Id. "James died on the day on which Henry returned."—Id.
LESSON II.—DECLENSIONS.
"OTHER makes the plural OTHERS, when it is found without its substantive."—Priestley cor. "But his, hers, ours, yours, and theirs, have evidently the form of the possessive case."—Lowth cor. "To the Saxon possessive cases, hire, ure, eower, hira, (that is, hers, ours, yours, theirs,) we have added the s, the characteristic of the possessive case of nouns."—Id. "Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours."—Friends cor. "In this place, His is clearly preferable either to Her or to Its."—Harris cor. "That roguish leer of yours makes a pretty woman's heart ache."—Addison cor. "Lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block."—Bible cor. "First person: Sing. I, my or mine, me; Plur. we, our or ours, us."—Wilbur and Livingston cor. "Second person: Sing, thou, thy or thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, your or yours, you."—Iid. "Third person: Sing, she, her or hers, her; Plur. they, their or theirs, them."—Iid. "So shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours."—ALGER, BRUCE, ET AL.; Jer., v, 19. "Second person, Singular: Nom. thou, Poss. thy or thine, Obj. thee."—Frost cor. "Second person, Dual; Nom. Gyt, ye two; Gen. Incer, of you two; Dat. Inc, incrum, to you two; Acc. Inc, you two; Voc. Eala inc, O ye two; Abl. Inc, incrum, from you two."—Gwilt cor. "Second person, Plural: Nom. Ge, ye; Gen. Eower, of you; Dat. Eow, to you; Acc. Eow, you; Voc Eala ge, O ye; Abl. Eow, from you."—Id. "These words are, mine, thine, his, hers, ours, yours, theirs, and whose."—Cardell cor. "This house is ours, and that is yours. Theirs is very commodious."—Murray's Gram., p. 55. "And they shall eat up thy harvest, and thy bread; they shall eat up thy flocks and thy herds."—Bible cor. "Whoever and Whichever are thus declined: Sing. Nom. whoever, Poss. whosever, Obj. whomever; Plur. Nom. whoever, Poss. whosever, Obj. whomever. Sing. Nom. whichever, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. whichever; Plur. Nom. whichever, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. whichever."—Cooper cor. "The compound personal pronouns are thus declined: Sing. Nom. myself, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. myself; Plur. Nom. ourselves, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. ourselves. Sing. Nom. thyself or yourself, Poss. (wanting,) Obj. thyself, &c."—Perley cor. "Every one of us, each for himself, laboured to recover him."—Sidney cor. "Unless when ideas of their opposites manifestly suggest themselves."—Wright cor. "It not only exists in time, but is itself time." "A position which the action itself will palpably confute."—Id. "A difficulty sometimes presents itself."—Id. "They are sometimes explanations in themselves."—Id. "Ours, Yours, Theirs, Hers, Its."—Barrett cor.
"Theirs, the wild chase of false felicities;
His, the composed possession of the true."
—Young, N. Th., N. viii, l. 1100.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"It is the boast of Americans, without distinction of parties, that their government is the most free and perfect that exists on the earth."—Dr. Allen cor. "Children that are dutiful to their parents, enjoy great prosperity."—Sanborn cor. "The scholar that improves his time, sets an example worthy of imitation."—Id. "Nouns and pronouns that signify the same person, place, or thing, agree in case."—Cooper cor. "An interrogative sentence is one that asks a question."—Id. "In the use of words and phrases that in point of time relate to each other, the order of time should be duly regarded."—Id. "The same observations that show the effect of the article upon the participle, appear to be applicable [also] to the pronoun and participle."—Murray cor. "The reason why they have not the same use of them in reading, may be traced to the very defective and erroneous method in which the art of reading is taught."—Id. "Ever since reason began to exert her powers, thought, during our waking hours, has been active in every breast, without a moment's suspension or pause."—Id. et al. cor. "In speaking of such as greatly delight in the same."—Pope cor. "Except him to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live."—Bible cor. "But the same day on which Lot went out of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all."—Bible cor. "In the next place, I will explain several constructions of nouns and pronouns, that have not yet come under our notice."—Kirkham cor. "Three natural distinctions of time are all that can exist."—Hall cor. "We have exhibited such only as are obviously distinct; and these seem to be sufficient, and not more than sufficient."—Murray et al. cor. "The parenthesis encloses a phrase or clause that may be omitted without materially injuring the connexion of the other members."—Hall cor. "Consonants are letters that cannot be sounded without the aid of a vowel."—Bucke cor. "Words are not mere sounds, but sounds that convey a meaning to the mind."—Id. "Nature's postures are always easy; and, what is more, nothing but your own will can put you out of them."—Collier cor. "Therefore ought we to examine our own selves, and prove our own selves."—Barclay cor. "Certainly, it had been much more natural, to have divided Active verbs into Immanent, or those whose action is terminated within itself, and Transient, or those whose action is terminated in something without itself."—R. Johnson cor. "This is such an advantage as no other lexicon will afford."—Dr. Taylor cor. "For these reasons, such liberties are taken in the Hebrew tongue, with those words which are of the most general and frequent use."—Pike cor. "While we object to the laws which the antiquarian in language would impose on us, we must also enter our protest against those authors who are too fond of innovations."—L. Murray cor.
CHAPTER VI.—VERBS.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF VERBS.
LESSON I.—PRETERITS.
"In speaking on a matter which touched their hearts."—Phil. Museum cor. "Though Horace published it some time after."—Id. "The best subjects with which the Greek models furnished him."—Id. "Since he attached no thought to it."—Id. "By what slow steps the Greek alphabet reached its perfection."—Id. "Because Goethe wished to erect an affectionate memorial."—Id. "But the Saxon forms soon dropped away."—Id. "It speaks of all the towns that perished in the age of Philip."—Id. "This enriched the written language with new words."—Id. "He merely furnished his friend with matter for laughter."—Id. "A cloud arose, and stopped the light."—Swift cor. "She slipped spadillo in her breast."—Id. "I guessed the hand."—Id. "The tyrant stripped me to the skin; My skin he flayed, my hair he cropped; At head and foot my body lopped."—Id. "I see the greatest owls in you, That ever screeched or ever flew."—Id. "I sat with delight, From morning till night."—Id. "Dick nimbly skipped the gutter."—Id. "In at the pantry door this morn I slipped."—Id." Nobody living ever touched me, but you."—W. Walker cor. "Present, I ship; Preterit, I shipped; Perf. Participle, shipped."—A. Murray cor. "Then the king arose, and tore his garments."—Bible cor. "When he lifted up his foot, he knew not where he should set it next."—Bunyan cor. "He lifted up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one time."—Bible cor. "Upon this chaos rode the distressed ark."—Burnet cor. "On whose foolish honesty, my practices rode easy."—Shakspeare cor. "That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which rose immediately out of chaos."—Burnet cor. "Sir, how came it, you have helped to make this rescue?"—Shak. cor. "He swore he would rather lose all his father's images, than that table."—Peacham cor. "When our language dropped its ancient terminations."—Dr. Murray cor. "When themselves they vilified."—Milton cor. "But I chose rather to do thus."—Barclay cor. "When he pleaded (or pled) against the parsons."—Hist. cor. "And he that saw it, bore record." Or: "And he that saw it, bare record."—John, xix, 35. "An irregular verb has one more variation; as, drive, drivest, [driveth,] drives, drove, drovest, driving, driven."—Matt. Harrison cor. "Beside that village, Hannibal pitched his camp."—W. Walker cor. "He fetched it from Tmolus."—Id. "He supped with his morning-gown on."—Id. "There stamped her sacred name."—Barlow cor.
"Fix'd[530] on the view the great discoverer stood; And thus address'd the messenger of good."—Barlow cor.
LESSON II.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"Three freemen were on trial"—or, "were receiving their trial—at the date of our last information."—Editor cor. "While the house was building, many of the tribe arrived."—Cox cor. "But a foundation has been laid in Zion, and the church is built—(or, continues to be built—) upon it."—The Friend cor. "And one fourth of the people are receiving education."—E. I. Mag. cor. "The present [tense,] or that [form of the verb] which [expresses what] is now doing."—Beck cor. "A new church, called the Pantheon, is about being completed, in an expensive style."—Thompson cor. "When I last saw him, he had grown considerably."—Murray cor. "I know what a rugged and dangerous path I have got into."—Duncan cor. "You might as well preach ease to one on the rack."—Locke cor. "Thou hast heard me, and hast become my salvation."—Bible cor. "While the Elementary Spelling-Book was preparing (or, was in progress of preparation) for the press."—Cobb cor. "Language has become, in modern times, more correct."—Jamieson cor. "If the plan has been executed in any measure answerable to the author's wishes."—Robbins cor. "The vial of wrath is still pouring out on the seat of the beast."—Christian Ex. cor. "Christianity had become the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire."—Gurney cor. "Who wrote before the first century had elapsed."—Id. "The original and analogical form has grown quite obsolete."—Lowth cor. "Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have perished."—Murray cor. "The poems had got abroad, and were in a great many hands."—Waller cor. "It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, 'The bubble is ready to burst.'"—Cobbett cor. "I drove my suitor from his mad humour of love."—Shak. cor. "Se viriliter expedivit."—Cic. "He has played the man."—Walker cor. "Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?"—Bible cor. "And we, methought, [or thought I] looked up to him from our hill"—Cowley cor. "I fear thou dost not think so much of the best things as thou ought."—Memoir cor. "When this work was commenced."—Wright cor. "Exercises and a Key to this work are about being prepared."—Id. "James is loved by John."—Id. "Or that which is exhibited."—Id. "He was smitten."—Id. "In the passive voice we say, 'I am loved.'"—Id. "Subjunctive Mood: If I be smitten, If thou be smitten, If he be smitten."—Id. "I shall not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is."—Chalmers cor. "I said to myself, I shall be obliged to expose the folly."—Chazotte cor. "When Clodius, had he meant to return that day to Rome, must have arrived."—J. Q. Adams cor. "That the fact has been done, is doing, or will be done."—Peirce cor. "Am I to be instructed?"—Wright cor. "I choose him."—Id. "John, who respected his father, was obedient to his commands."—Barrett cor.
"The region echoes to the clash of arms."—Beattie cor.
"And sitst on high, and mak'st creation's top
Thy footstool; and beholdst below thee—all."—Pollok cor.
"And see if thou canst punish sin and let
Mankind go free. Thou failst—be not surprised."—Idem.
LESSON III—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"What follows, might better have been wanting altogether."—Dr. Blair cor. "This member of the sentence might much better have been omitted altogether."—Id. "One or the other of them, therefore, might better have been omitted."—Id. "The whole of this last member of the sentence might better have been dropped."—Id. "In this case, they might much better be omitted."—Id. "He might better have said 'the productions.'"—Id. "The Greeks ascribed the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musæus."—Id. "It was noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables."—Phil. Museum cor. "When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I determined to send him."—Bible cor. "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God."—Id. "As for such, I wish the Lord would open their eyes." Or, better: "May the Lord open (or, I pray the Lord to open) their eyes."—Barclay cor. "It would have made our passage over the river very difficult."—Walley cor. "We should not have been able to carry our great guns."—Id. "Others would have questioned our prudence, if we had."—Id. "Beware thou be not BECÆSARED; i.e., Beware that thou do not dwindle—or, lest thou dwindle—into a mere Cæsar."—Harris cor. "Thou raisedst (or, familiarly, thou raised) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes."—Arbuthnot cor. "Life hurries off apace; thine is almost gone already."—Collier cor. "'How unfortunate has this accident made me!' cries such a one."—Id. "The muse that soft and sickly woos the ear."—Pollok cor. "A man might better relate himself to a statue."—Bacon cor. "I heard thee say but now, thou liked not that."—Shak. cor. "In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, (or, familiarly, thou cried,) Indeed!"—Id. "But our ears have grown familiar with 'I have wrote, 'I have drank,' &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical."—Lowth et al. cor. "The court was in session before Sir Roger came"—Addison cor. "She needs—(or, if you please, need,—) be no more with the jaundice possessed"—Swift cor. "Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day when you were here."—Id. "If spirit of other sort, So minded, hath (or has) o'erleaped these earthy bounds."—Milton cor. "It would have been more rational to have forborne this."—Barclay cor. "A student is not master of it till he has seen all these."—Dr. Murray cor. "The said justice shall summon the party."—Brevard cor. "Now what has become of thy former wit and humour?"—Spect. cor. "Young stranger, whither wanderst thou?"—Burns cor. "SUBJ. Pres. If I love, If thou love, If he love. Imp. If I loved, If thou loved, If he loved."—Merchant cor. "SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou do not love, If he do not love."—Id. "If he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."—Bible cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to call, second person singular: If thou call, (rarely, If thou do call,) If thou called."—Hiley cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to love, second person singular: If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou loved."—Bullions cor. "I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were."—White cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, (familiarly, thou taught,) he taught."— Coar cor. "We say, 'If it rain,' 'Suppose it rain?' 'Lest it rain,' 'Unless it rain.' This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD."—Weld cor. "He has arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood."—Priestley cor. "He might much better have let it alone."—Tooke cor. "He were better without it. Or: He would be better without it."—Locke cor. "Hadst thou not been by. Or: If thou hadst not been by. Or, in the familiar style: Had not thou been by,"—Shak. cor. "I learned geography. Thou learned arithmetic. He learned grammar."—Fuller cor. "Till the sound has ceased."—Sheridan cor. "Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, died."—Six English Grammars corrected.
"Thou bow'dst thy glorious head to none, fear'dst none." Or:—
"Thou bowed thy glorious head to none, feared none."
—Pollok cor.
"Thou lookst upon thy boy as though thou guess'd it."
—Knowles cor.
"As once thou slept, while she to life was formed."
—Milton cor.
"Who finds the partridge in the puttock's nest,
But may imagine how the bird was killed?"
—Shak. cor.
"Which might have well become the best of men."
—Idem cor.
CHAPTER VII.—PARTICIPLES.
CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES.
LESSON I.—IRREGULARS.
"Many of your readers have mistaken that passage."—Steele cor. "Had not my dog of a steward run away."—Addison cor. "None should be admitted, except he had broken his collarbone thrice."—Id. "We could not know what was written at twenty."—Waller cor. "I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we have written, you have written, they have written."—Ash cor. "As if God had spoken his last words there to his people."—Barclay cor. "I had like to have come in that ship myself."—Observer cor. "Our ships and vessels being driven out of the harbour by a storm."—Hutchinson cor. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have written, had he written in the same language."—Bolingbroke cor. "When his doctrines grew too strong to be shaken by his enemies."—Atterbury cor. "The immortal mind that hath forsaken her mansion."—Milton cor. "Grease that's sweated (or sweat) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."—Shak. cor. "The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put."—Stone cor. "He would have spoken."—Milton cor. "Words interwoven (or interweaved) with sighs found out their way."—Id. "Those kings and potentates who have strived (or striven.)"—Id. "That even Silence was taken."—Id. "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stolen them from me."—Id. "I have chosen this perfect man."—Id. "I shall scarcely think you have swum in a gondola."—Shak. cor. "The fragrant brier was woven (or weaved) between."—Dryden cor. "Then finish what you have begun."—Id. "But now the years a numerous train have run."—Pope cor. "Repeats your verses written (or writ) on glasses."—Prior cor. "Who by turns have risen."—Id. "Which from great authors I have taken."—Id. "Even there he should have fallen."—Id.
"The sun has ris'n, and gone to bed.
Just as if Partridge were not dead."—Swift cor.
"And, though no marriage words are spoken,
They part not till the ring is broken."—Swift cor.
LESSON II.—REGULARS.
"When the word is stripped of all the terminations."—Dr. Murray cor. "Forgive him, Tom; his head is cracked."—Swift cor. "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoised (or hoisted) with his own petar."—Shak. cor. "As great as they are, I was nursed by their mother."—Swift cor. "If he should now be cried down since his change."—Id. "Dipped over head and ears—in debt."—Id. "We see the nation's credit cracked."—Id. "Because they find their pockets picked."—Id. "O what a pleasure mixed with pain!"—Id. "And only with her brother linked."—Id. "Because he ne'er a thought allowed, That might not be confessed."—Id. "My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixed."—Id. "The observations annexed to them will be intelligible."—Phil. Mus. cor. "Those eyes are always fixed on the general principles."—Id. "Laborious conjectures will be banished from our commentaries."—Id. "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablished, in his stead."—Id. "A Roman who was attached to Augustus."—Id. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talked about two such."—Id. "And the reformers of language have generally rushed on."—Id. "Three centuries and a half had then elapsed since the date,"—Ib. "Of such criteria, as has been remarked already, there is an abundance."—Id. "The English have surpassed every other nation in their services."—Id. "The party addressed is next in dignity to the speaker."—Harris cor. "To which we are many times helped."—W. Walker cor. "But for him, I should have looked well enough to myself."—Id. "Why are you vexed, Lady? why do frown?"—Milton cor. "Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb."—Id. "But, like David equipped in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."—Campbell cor.
"And when their merchants are blown up, and cracked,
Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wrecked."—Butler cor.
LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"The lands are held in free and common soccage."—Trumbull cor. "A stroke is drawn under such words."—Cobbett's Gr., 1st Ed. "It is struck even, with a strickle."—W. Walker cor. "Whilst I was wandering, without any care, beyond my bounds."—Id. "When one would do something, unless hindered by something present."—B. Johnson cor. "It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendered by these signs."—Id. "Now who would dote upon things hurried down the stream thus fast?"—Collier cor. "Heaven hath timely tried their growth."—Milton cor. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand."—Id. "Of true virgin here distressed."—Id. "So that they have at last come to be substituted in the stead of it."—Barclay cor. "Though ye have lain among the pots."—Bible cor. "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off."—Scott's Bible, and Alger's. "Brutus and Cassius Have ridden, (or rode,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."—Shak. cor. "He shall be spit upon."—Bible cor. "And are not the countries so overflowed still situated between the tropics?"—Bentley. "Not tricked and frounced as she was wont, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud."—Milton cor. "To satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never."—Id. "With him there crucified."—Id. "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd air darked with plumes."—Id. "And now their way to Earth they had descried."—Id. "Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."—Id. "And in a troubled sea of passion tossed."—Id. "The cause, alas! is quickly guessed."—Swift cor. "The kettle to the top was hoised, or hoisted."—Id. "In chains thy syllables are linked."—Id. "Rather than thus be overtopped, Would you not wish their laurels cropped."—Id. "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line drawn to connect words, or parts of words."—Cobbett cor. "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broken."—R. Johnson cor. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixed to them."—Grant cor. "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a laughing."—J. Walker cor. "Being mocked, scourged, spit upon, and crucified."—Gurney cor.
"For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known,
Till barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown."—Roscommon cor.
"In my own Thames may I be drowned,
If e'er I stoop beneath the crowned." Or thus:—
"In my own Thames may I be drown'd dead,
If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."—Swift cor.
CHAPTER VIII.—ADVERBS.
CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.
"We can much more easily form the conception of a fierce combat."—Blair corrected. "When he was restored agreeably to the treaty, he was a perfect savage."—Webster cor. "How I shall acquit myself suitably to the importance of the trial."—Duncan cor. "Can any thing show your Holiness how unworthily you treat mankind?"—Spect. cor. "In what other, consistently with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?"—Lowth cor. "Agreeably to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters."—Wilson cor. "We shall give a remarkably fine example of this figure."—See Blair's Rhet., p. 156. "All of which is most abominably false."—Barclay cor. "He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserably."—Murray cor. "He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simply."—Dr. Blair cor. "Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clearly and exactly, he appears dry."—Id. "Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the most softly." Or: "Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest."—Id. "The simplest points, such as are most easily apprehended."—Id. "Too historical to be accounted a perfectly regular epic poem."—Id. "Putting after them the oblique case, agreeably to the French construction."—Priestley cor. "Where the train proceeds with an extremely slow pace."—Kames cor. "So as scarcely to give an appearance of succession."—Id. "That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, independently of artful pronunciation."—Id. "Cornaro had become very corpulent, previously to the adoption of his temperate habits."—Hitchcock cor. "Bread, which is a solid, and tolerably hard, substance."—Day cor. "To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself."—Id. "Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors."—J. Ward cor. "Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deeply."—Wilson cor. "The people are miserably poor, and subsist on fish."—Hume cor. "A scale, which I took great pains, some years ago, to make."—Bucke cor. "There is no truth on earth better established than the truth of the Bible."—Taylor cor. "I know of no work more wanted than the one which Mr. Taylor has now furnished."—Dr. Nott cor. "And therefore their requests are unfrequent and reasonable."—Taylor cor. "Questions are more easily proposed, than answered rightly."—Dillwyn cor. "Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from which they are all derived."—Murray cor. "If there be no special rule which requires it to be put further forward."—Milnes cor. "The masculine and the neuter have the same dialect in all the numbers, especially when they end alike."—Id.