Part 142 (1/2)

NOTE X--Adverbs that end in _ly_, are in general preferable to those forms which, for want of this distinction, may seem like adjectives misapplied

Exa in nature as a folio”--_Addison_ Better:--”_scarcely_”

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION

FALSE SYNTAX UNDER RULE XXI

EXAMPLES UNDER NOTE I--THE PLACING OF ADVERBS

”All that is favoured by good use, is not proper to be retained”--_Murray's Gram_, ii, p 296

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the adverb _not_ is not put in theto Note 1st under Rule 21st, ”Adverbs must be placed in that position which will render the sentence the reeable” The sentence will be i _not_ before _all_; thus, ”_Not all_ that is favoured by good use, is proper to be retained”]

”Every thing favoured by good use, [is] not on that account worthy to be retained”--_Ib_, i, 369; _Campbell's Rhet_, p 179 ”Most men dream, but all do not”--_Beattie's Moral Science_, i, 72 ”By hasty composition, we shall acquire certainly a very bad style”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 191 ”The co on one point only of rese had once some considerable object set before us”--_Ib_, p 116 ”The positive seeree”--_Adaenitive is only used”--_Adam_, 159; _Gould_, 161 ”This blunder is said actually to have occurred”--_Smith's Inductive Gram_, p 5 ”But every man is not called James, nor every woman Mary”--_Buchanan's Gram_, p 15 ”Crotchets are employed for the same purpose nearly as the parenthesis”--_Churchill's Grareater impropriety in a double comparative”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 78 ”We have often occasion to speak of ti sentence cannot be possibly understood”--_Ib_, p 104 ”The words enerally separated fro in _ator_ have the accent generally on the penulties, with respect to voices, eneral, differently constructed froinally to have been contrived to express compendiously in one word, what must otherwise have required two or more”--_Ib_, i, 114 ”But it is only so, when the expression can be converted into the regular form of the possessive case”--_Ib_, i, 174

”Enter, (says he) boldly, for here too there are Gods”--_Harris's Hermes_, p 8 ”For none work for ever so little a pittance that sowick's Economy_, p 190 ”For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as ain”--_Luke_, vi, 34 ”They ht”--_Murray's Gram_, ii, 24 ”If he does but speak to display his abilities, he is unworthy of attention”--_Ib, Key_, ii, 207

UNDER NOTE II--ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES

”Motion upwards is coreeable than motion doards”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 48 ”There are but tays possibly of justification before God”--_Dr cox, on Quakerism_, p 413 ”This construction sounds rather harshly”--_Murray's Graersoll's_, 199 ”A clear conception in the ularly and well-forreat hearer ofAttalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes often mention”--_Seneca's Morals_, p 11 ”It is only the Often doing of a thing that ht of Tythes_, p 72

”Because W R takes oft occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and things”--_Barclay's Works_, i, 570 ”Yet often touching ear gold”--_Beauties of Shak_, p 18 ”Uneducated persons frequently use an adjective, when they ought to use an adverb: as, 'The country looks _beautiful_;' instead of _beautifully_”--_Bucke's Gram_, p 84 ”The adjective is put absolutely, or without its substantive”--_Ash's Gram_, p 57 ”A noun or pronoun in the second person, may be put absolutely in the nominative case”--_Harrison's Gram_, p 45 ”A noun or pronoun, when put absolutely with a participle,” &c--_Ib_, p 44; _Jaudon's Gram_, 108 ”A verb in the infinitivepart of the sentence”--_Wilbur and Livingston's Graland, I e'”--_Cowley's Preface_, p v ”But he can discover no better foundation for any of theil”--_Kames, El of Criticism, Introd_, p xxv

UNDER NOTE III--HERE FOR HITHER, &c

”It is reported that the governour will come here to-morrow”--_Kirkhaovernour will come here to-morrow”--_Ib, Key_, p 227 ”To catch a prospect of that lovely land where his steps are tending”--_Maturin's Sermons_, p 244 ”Plautuswith that Vulcan shut up in a horn; that is, with a lanthorn in his hand”--_Adae, we intended to return there in a few days”--_Anonyht”--_Shak, Macbeth_ ”They talked of returning here last week”--_J M Putnam's Gram_, p 116

UNDER NOTE IV--FROM HENCE, &c

”From hence he concludes that no inference can be drawn froher authority than a law or statute”--_Webster's Essays_, p 67 ”From whence we may likewise date the period of this event”--_Murray's Key_, ii, p 202 ”From hence it becomes evident, that LANGUAGE, taken in thecertain Meanings”--_Harris's Hermes_, p 315 ”They returned to the city from whence they ca ellipses, soely in their ideas; and from thence has arisen a very whirammar”--_Author_ ”What am I and from whence? ie what am I, and from whence _am_ I?”--_Jaudon's Gram_, p 171

UNDER NOTE V--THE ADVERB HOW

”It is strange horiter, so accurate as Dean Swift, should have stumbled on so improper an application of this particle”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 112 ”Ye kno that a good while ago Godus,”

&c--_Acts_, xv, 7 ”Let us take care _hoe sin; ie _that_ we _do not_ sin”--_Priestley's Gram_, p 135 ”We see by these instances, how prepositions nification are not naturally connected”--_Murray's Gram_, p 118

”Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”--_2 Cor_, xiii, 5 ”That thou mayest kno that the earth is the Lord's”--_Exod_, ix, 29

UNDER NOTE VI--WHEN, WHILE, OR WHERE

”Ellipsis is when one or , to complete the sense”--_Adam's Gram_, p 235; _Gould's_, p 229; _B F Fisk's Greek Gram_ 184 ”Pleonasm is when a word more is added than is absolutely necessary to express the sense”--_Same works_ ”Hyst~eron prot~eron is when that is put in the for to the sense, should be in the latter”--_Adam_, p 237; _Gould_, 230

”Hysteron proteron, _n_ A rhetorical figure when that is said last which was done first”--_Webster's Dict_ ”A Barbarise word is _made use_ of”--_Adam's Gram_, p 242; _Gould's_, 234 ”A Solecisressed”--_Iidem, ib_ ”An Idiotise is used in another”--_Iid, ib_ ”Tautology is e either uselessly repeat the same words, or repeat the same sense in different words”--_Ada words are used withoutoccasion”--_Iid, ib_ ”Auity of the construction, themay be taken in two different senses”--_Iid, ib_ ”Irony is when one means the contrary of what is said”--_Adam_, p 247; _Gould_, 237 ”The Periphrasis, or Circumlocution, is when several words are eht be expressed in fewer”--_Iid, ib_ ”Hyperbole is when a thing is nified above the truth,”--_Adam_, p 249; _Gould_, 240 ”Personification is e ascribe life, sentis, or to abstract qualities”--_Iid, ib_ ”Apostrophe, or Address, is when the speaker breaks off from the series of his discourse, and addresses hi or dead, or to inanimate nature, as if endoith sense and reason”--_Iid, ib_ ”A Simile or Comparison is when the reseinary_, is expressed in form”--_Kirkha is illustrated or heightened by co it to another”--_Adam's Gram_, p 250; _Gould's_, 240 ”Antithesis, or Opposition, is when things contrary or different are contrasted, to ht”--_Iid, ib_ ”Description, or I is painted in a lively manner, as if done before our eyes”--_Adam's Gram_, p 250 ”Emphasis is when a particular stress is laid on some word in a sentence”--_Ib_ ”Epanorthosis, or Correction, is when the speaker either recalls or corrects what he had last said”--_Ib_ ”Paralepsis, or Omission, is when one pretends to omit or pass by, what he at the same time declares”--_Ib_ ”Incrementum, or Climax in sense, is when one hest”--_Ib_, p 251 ”A Metonymy is where the cause is put for the effect, or the effect for the cause; the container for the thing contained; or the sign for the thing signified”--_Kirkhareeender, or person”--_Frost's Gram_, p

43; _Greenleaf's_, 32 ”Government is when one word causes another to be in some particular number, person, or case”--_Webster's Imp Gram_, p 89; _Greenleaf's_, 32; _Frost's_, 43 ”Fusion is while some solid substance is converted into a fluid by heat”--_B_ ”A Proper Diphthong is where both the Vowels are sounded together; as, _oi_ in _Voice, ou_ in _House_”-- _Fisher's Gra is where the Sound of but one of the tels is heard; as _e_ in _People_”--_Ib_, p 11

UNDER NOTE VII--THE ADVERB NO FOR NOT

”An adverb is joined to a verb to sho, or whether or no, or when, or where one is, does, or suffers”--_Buchanan's Syntax_, p 62 ”We must be immortal, whether ill or no”--_Maturin's Sermons_, p 33 ”He cares not whether the world was made for Caesar or no”--_American Quarterly Review_ ”I do not knohether they are out or no”--_Byron's Letters_