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Blair cor_ ”The farther he searches, the firion consists in these things”--_Barclay cor_ ”Except the king delighted in her, and she were called by na these lines, is, to read them as the sense dictates”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”When any words become obsolete, or are used _only in_ particular phrases, it is better to dispense with their service entirely, and give up the phrases”--_Cae people seemed to have no element but war”--_L
Mur cor_ ”_Man_ is a coender, and nominative case”--_J Flint cor_ ”The orator, as circumstances require, will e repentence [sic--KTH], we accumulate our sorrows”--_L Murray cor_ ”There is no doubt that public speaking becaoverns_ of these tords, may not at first occur”--_Id_ ”The sentiment is well expressed by Plato, but much better by Soloreater privilege than we”--_L Mur cor_ ”Every thing should be so arranged, that what goes before, ht and force to what follows”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”So that his doctrines were ereat numbers”--_Hist cor_ ”They have taken _an other_ and shorter cut”--_South cor_ ”The iular verb is for _d_ or _ed_; as, _love, loved_”--_Frost cor_ ”The pronoun _their_ does not agree in number with the noun '_man_', for which it stands”--_Kirkharief, or sudden emotion”--_Bucke cor_ ”We all are accountable, each for himself”--_L Mur et al cor_ ”If he has commanded it, I must obey”--_R C Smith cor_ ”I now present him a form of the diatonic scale”--_Barber cor_ ”One after an other, their favourite rivers have been reluctantly abandoned” Or: ”One after an other _of_ their favourite rivers have _they_ reluctantly abandoned”--_Hodgson cor_ ”_Particular_ and _peculiar_ are words of different import”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”Some adverbs admit of co exposed himself too freely in different climates, he entirely lost his health”--_L Mur cor_ ”The verb ree with its nominative in number and person”--_Buchanan cor_ ”Write twenty short sentences containing adjectives”--_Abbott cor_ ”This general tendency of the language seereat corruption”-- _Churchill's Gram_, p 113 ”The second requisite of a perfect sentence is _unity_”--_L Murray cor_ ”It is scarcely necessary to apologize for olish alphabet are twenty-six”--_Id et al cor_ ”He who en; he cannot err froar expressions”--_Jarammars, is wholly omitted; why, if we must have cases, I could never understand”--_Bucke cor_ ”Active verbs are conjugated with the auxiliary verb _have_; passive verbs, with the auxiliary _am_ or _be_”--_Id_ ”What then may AND be called? A conjunction”--_Save the information?”--_Bullions cor_
UNDER CRITICAL NOTE X--OF IMPROPER OMISSIONS
”All _words signifying concrete_ qualities of things, are called adnouns, or adjectives”--_Rev D Blair cor_ ”The _ or accented syllable, and the breve [[~]] indicates a short or unaccented syllable”--_Id_ ”Whose duty _it_ is, to help young e is closely connected hat precedes and _what_ follows”--_Phil Mu cor_ ”The work is not completed, but _it_ soon will be”--_R C Smith cor_ ”Of whom hast thou been afraid, or _whom hast thou_ feared?”--_Bible cor_ ”There is a God who overns, the world”--_Bp Butler cor_ ”It was this _that_ hty”--_Goldse affected him, _it_ is not easy to determine”--_Id_ ”They saw _these wonders of nature_, and _worshi+ped_ the God that made them”--_Bucke cor_ ”The errors frequent in the use of hyperboles, arise either fro them on unsuitable occasions”--_L Mur cor_ ”The preposition _in_ is set before _the nae towns; as, 'He lives _in_ France, _in_ London, or _in_ Birle houses, _or foreign_ cities, _at_ is used; as, 'He lives _at_ Hackney'”--_Id et al cor_ ”And, in such recollection, the thing is not figured as in our view, nor _is_ any ie formed”--_Kames cor_ ”Intrinsic _beauty_ and relative beauty uard not to do the the_ that work, we are frequently interrupted by _the author's_ unnatural thoughts”--_L Murray cor_ ”To this point have tended all the rules _which_ I have _just_ given”--_Dr Blair cor_ ”To _this point_ have tended all the rules which have _just_ been given”--_L Murray cor_ ”Language, as written, or _as_ oral, is addressed to the eye, or to the ear”--_Journal cor_ ”He will learn, Sir, that to accuse and _to_ prove are very different”--_Walpole cor_ ”They crowded around the door so as to prevent others _fro_ one person or thing, is _of the_ singular nu: is _of the_ plural nu to the sense or relation in which they are used, are in the nominative, _the_ possessive, or _the objective_ case: thus, Nom man
Poss man's, Obj man”--_Rev D Blair cor_ ”Nouns or pronouns in the possessive case are placed before the nouns which govern the”--_Sanborn cor_ ”A teacher is explaining the difference between a noun and _a_ verb”--_Abbott cor_ ”And therefore the two ends, or extremities, must directly answer to the north and _the_ south pole”--_Harris cor_ ”WALKS or WALKETH, RIDES or RIDETH, _and_ STANDS or STANDETH, are of the third person singular”--_Kirkhah_ degree, in the same strain”--_Swift cor_ ”An _Anapest_ has the first _two_ syllables unaccented, and the last _one_ accented”--_Rev D Blair cor_; also _Kirkha and vision differ notand vision _do not differ_ more than _spoken words_ and written”--_Wilson cor_ ”They are considered by some _authors to be_ prepositions”--_Cooper cor_ ”When those powers have been deluded and _have_ gone astray”--_Phil Mu cor_ ”They will understand this, and _will_ like it”--_Abbott cor_ ”They had been expelled _frona”--_Hunt cor_ ”Future time is expressed _in_ two different ways”--_Ada _of some noted event_ froree with its nominative in number and person”--_Bucke cor_ ”We are struck, we know not hoith the sy we see”--_L Murray cor_ ”Under this head, I shall consider every thing _that is_ necessary to a good delivery”--_Sheridan cor_ ”A good ear is the gift of nature; it may be much improved, but _it cannot be_ acquired by art”--_L Murray cor_ ”'_Truth_' _is a coular _nuender_, and nominative _case_”--_Bullions cor_ by _Brown's Forular_ active-transitive verb, _found in_ the indicative mood, present _tense_, third person, _and_ plural number”--_Id_ ”'_Fear_' is a _coular _nuender_, and no to the Rule which says, 'A noun or a pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb,is--'_fear is_'”--_Id_ ”'_Is_' is an irregular _neuter_ verb, _fro_, been; _found_ in the indicative _ular _nu to the_ Rule _which says_, '_Every finite_ verb _ree with its subject, or no is--'_fear is_'”--_Id_ ”_Ae in the word Gaelic_, has the sound of long _a_”--_Wells cor_
UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XI--OF LITERARY BLUNDERS
”Repeat some adverbs that are composed of the _prefix or preposition a_ and nouns”--_Kirkham cor_ ”Participles are so called, because _they participate or partake the properties of verbs and of adjectives or nouns_
The Latin word _participiunifies _a participle, is_ derived from _participo_, to partake”--_Merchant cor_ ”The possessive _precedes_ an other noun, and is known by the sign _'s_, or by this ', the apostrophe only”--_Beck cor_ ”Reciprocal pronouns, _or co _self_ or _selves_ to the _simple_ possessives _of the first and second persons, and to the objectives of the third person_; as, _myself, yourselves, himself, themselves_”--_Id_ ”The word SELF, and its plural SELVES, _when used separately as names_, must be considered as nouns; _but when joined to the simple pronouns, they are not nouns, but parts of the coht cor_ ”The _Spondee 'rolls round_,' expresses beautifully the majesty of the sun in his course”--_Webster and Frazee cor_ ”_Active-transitive verbs_ govern the objective case; as, 'John _learned_ his _lesson_'”--_Frazee cor_ ”Prosody prinified _accent_, or _the modulation of the voice_; and, as the na_”--_Hendrick cor_ ”On such a principle of for _them_, there would be as many _moods_ as verbs; and, _in stead_ of four moods, we should have _four thousand three hundred_, which is the nu to Lowth” [556]--_Hallock cor_ ”The phrases, 'To let _out_ blood,'--'To go _a_ hunting,' are _not_ elliptical; for _out_ is needless, and _a_ is a preposition, governing _hunting_”--_Bullions cor_ ”In Rhyme, the last syllable of every _line corresponds in_ sound _with that of some other line or lines_”--_Id_ ”The possessive case plural, _where the noles'_ wings,'--'_lions'_ whelps,'--'_bears'_ claws'”--_Weld cor_ ”'_Horses-manes_,' plural, should be written _possessively, 'horses' manes_:'” [_one ”mane”_ is never possessed by many ”_horses_”]--_Id_ ”W takes its _usual_ forure_ of the Roman capital letter which was anciently called _U_”--_Fowler cor_ ”In the sentence, 'I saw the lady who sings,' ord _is nominative to_ SINGS?”--_J Flint cor_ ”In the sentence, 'This is the pen which John made,' ord _expresses the object of_ MADE?”--_Id_ ”'That we fall into _no_ sin:' _no_ is a definitive or pronominal _adjective_, not compared, and relates to _sin_”--_Rev D Blair cor_ ”'That _all_ our doings overnance:' _all_ is a pronos_”--_Id_ ”'Let hin _to_ expressed before _study_? Because _be made_ is passive; and passive verbs do not take the infinitive after them without the preposition _to_”--_Sanborn cor_ ”The following verbs have _both the preterit tense and the perfect participle like the present_: viz, Cast, cut, cost, shut, let, bid, shed, hurt, hit, put, &c”--_Buchanan cor_ ”The agreement which _any_ word has with _an other_ in person, _nuender, _or_ case, is called CONCORD; and _the_ pohich one _word_ has over _an other_, in respect to ruling its case, mood, or _form_, is called GOVERNMENT”--_Bucke cor_ ”The word _ticks_ tells what the watch is _doing_”--_Sanborn cor_ ”_The_ Breve ([~]) marks a short vowel or syllable, and the _Macron_ ([=]), a long _one_”--_Bullions and Lennie cor_ ”'Charles, you, by your diligence, iven you by your preceptor' The first _you_ is in the _no the subject of the verb _make_”--_Kirkha; eau_ in _fla_”--_Sanborn cor_ ”'While I of things to co of things to cos that are_ past'”--_Kirkham cor_ ”A simple sentence _usually_ has in it but one nominative, and _but_ one _finite_ verb”--_Folker cor_ ”An irregular verb is _a verb that does not for d or ed_”--_Brown's Inst_, p 75 ”But, when the antecedent is used in a _restricted_ sense, a comma is _sometimes_ inserted before the relative; as, 'There is no _charm_ in the female sex, _which_ can supply the place of virtue'”--_L Murray's Gram_, p 273 Or: ”But, when the antecedent is used in a _restricted_ sense, no comma is _usually_ inserted before the relative; as, 'There is in the female sex no _charm which_ can supply the place of virtue'”--_Kirkham cor_ ”Two capitals _used_ in this way, denote _different words_; but _one repeated, is Doctor_; LL D _Legum Doctor_”--_Gould cor_ ”Was any person _present besides_ the mercer? Yes; his clerk”--_L Murray cor_ ”The word _adjective_ comes from the Latin _adjectivum_; and this, from _ad_, to, and _jacio_, I cast”--_Kirkhaure _by which the speaker represents the objects of his iination_, as actually before _his_ eyes, and _present to his senses_ Thus Cicero, in his fourth oration against Cataline: 'I seem to myself to behold this city, the ornament of the earth, and the capital of all nations, suddenly involved in one conflagration I see beforeunburied in the midst of their ruined country The furious countenance of Ceth[=e]'gus rises toin your miseries'”--_Dr Blair cor_; also _L Murray_ ”When _two or more_ verbs follow the same nominative, _an_ auxiliary _that is common to them both or all_, is _usually expressed to_ the first, and understood to the rest: as, 'He _has gone_ and _left_ one_ and _has left_ me'”--_Comly cor_ ”When I use the word _pillar to denote a column that supports_ an edifice, I employ it literally”--_Hiley cor_ ”_In poetry_, the conjunction _nor_ is often used for _neither_; as
'A stately superstructure, that _nor_ wind, Nor wave, nor shock of falling years, could move'--POLLOK”--_Id_
UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XII--OF PERVERSIONS
”In the beginning God created the _heaven_ and the earth”--_Genesis_, i, 1 ”Canst thou by searching find out _God_?”--_Job_, xi, 7 ”Great _and hty_; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints”--_Rev_, xv 3 ”_Not_ every one that saith unto doh he was rich, yet for _your_ sakes he became poor”--_2 Cor_, viii, 9 ”Whose foundation was _overthroith a flood”--SCOTT'S BIBLE: _Job_, xxii, 16 ”Take my yoke upon _you, and learn of o_ to prepare a place for you”--_John_, xiv, 2 ”_And you_ hath he quickened, ere_ dead _in_ trespasses _and sins_”--_Ephesians_, ii, 1 ”Go, flee thee away into the land of _Judah_”--_Amos_, vii, 12; _Lowth's Gram_, p 44 Or: ”Go, flee away into the land of _Judah_”--_Hart cor_ ”Hitherto shalt thou come, _but_ no _further_”--_Job_, xxxviii, 11 ”The day is thine, the night also is thine”--_Psal_, lxxiv, 16 ”_Tribulation_ worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope”--_Romans_, v, 4 ”_Then_ shall the dust return to _the earth as it was_; and the _spirit shall return unto God_ who gave it”--_Ecclesiastes_, xii, 7 ”_At the last_ it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder _Thine eyes shall behold strange wos: _Yea_, thou _shalt_ be _as he that_ lieth down in the midst of the sea”--_Prov_, xxiii, 32, 33, 34
”The memory of the just _is blessed_; but the name of the wicked shall rot”--_Prov_, x, 7 ”He that is slow _to_ anger, is better than the hty; _and_ he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city”--_Prov_, xvi, 32 ”_For whom the Lord loveth_, he correcteth; _even_ as _a_ father the son in whohteth”--_Prov_, iii, 12
”The _first-future_ tense _is that which expresses_ what _will_ take place hereafter”--_Brown's Inst of E Gram_, p 54 ”Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide _the fault_ I see”--_Pope's Univ Prayer_ ”Surely thou art one of them; for thou art a _Galilean_”--_Mark_, xiv, 70 ”Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech bewrayeth thee”--_Matt_, xxvi, 73 ”Strait is the gate, and narrow _is_ the way, _which leadeth_ unto life”--_Matt_, vii, 14 ”Thou buildest the wall, that thou _iveness with thee, that thou _mayest_ be feared”--_Psalht Have stood against the world”--_Beauties of Shakspeare_, p
250 ”The North-East spends _his_ rage”--_Thooblin_ swet”--_Milton's Allegro_, l 105 ”And to his faithful _chaloriously”--_Milton's Saon_, l 1752 ”Then, if thou _fall'st_, O Cromwell, Thou _fall'st_ a blessed martyr”--_Beauties of Shakspeare_, p
173 Better: ”Then, if thou _fall_, O Cromwell! thou _fallst_ a blessed er-crest of Mar, I see the _Moray's_ silver star, _Wave_ o'er the cloud of Saxon war, That up the lake _co far!”--_Scott's Lady of the Lake_, p 162 ”Each _beast_, each insect, happy in its own”--_Pope, on Man_, Ep i, l 185 ”_And he that is_ learning to arrange _his_ sentences with accuracy and order, _is_ learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order”--_Blair's Lect_, p 120 ”We, then, as workers together with _hirace of God in vain”--_2 Cor_, vi, 1 ”And on the _boundless_ of thy goodness calls”--_Young's Last Day_, B ii, l 320
”Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds _attentive_ to their own”--_Cowper's Task_, B vi, l 90 ”_O_! let me listen to the _words_ of life!”--_Thomson's Paraphrase on Matt_ vi
”Save that, froy_, l 9
”_Weighs_ the _ainst the _Lady's hair_”--_Pope's Rape of the Lock_, Canto v, l 72 ”_Till_ the publication of _Dr_ Lowth's _se formed no part of the ordinary method of instruction”--_Hiley's Preface_, p vi ”Let there be no strife, _I pray thee, between_ me and thee”--_Gen_, xiii, 8
”What! canst thou not _forbear_ me half an hour?”--_Shakspeare_
”Till then who knew the force of those dire _arms_?”--_Milton_
”In words, as fashi+ons, the _same_ rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new or old: Be not the first by whom the new _are_ tried Nor yet the last to lay the old aside”--_Pope, on Criticism_, l 333
UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIII--OF AWKWARDNESS
”They slew Varus, _whom_ I mentioned before”--_L Murray cor_ ”Maria rejected Valerius, _whom_ she had rejected before” Or: ”Maria rejected Valerius _a second tie, nouns have_ but two different terminations for cases”--_Churchill's Gram_, p 64
”Socrates and Plato were _the wisest men, and_ the most eminent philosophers _in_ Greece”--_Buchanan's Gram_, Pref, p viii ”Whether more than one were concerned in the business, does not yet appear” Or: ”_How many_ were concerned in the business, does not yet appear”--_L
Murray cor_ ”And that, consequently, the verb _or_ pronoun agreeing with it, _can never_ with propriety be used in the plural number”--_Id et al
cor_ ”A second help may be, _frequent_ and _free converse_ with _others_ of your own sex who are like minded”--_Wesley cor_ ”Four of the _semivowels_, namely, _l, m, n_, and _r_, are _termed_ LIQUIDS, _on account of the fluency of_ their sounds”--See _Brown's Inst_, p 16 ”Some conjunctions _are used in pairs_, so that _one_ answers to _an other, as its regular_ correspondent”--_Lowth et al cor_ ”The mutes are those consonants whose sounds cannot be protracted; the _semivowels have imperfect_ sounds _of their ohich can be continued at pleasure”--_Murray et al cor_ ”HE _and_ SHE _are_ soularly declined: as, 'The _hes_ in birds'--BACON 'The _shes_ of Italy'--SHAK”--_Churchill cor_ ”The separation of a preposition frooverns, is [censured by so i to soood writers _still occasionally_ use it _with reference to_ things”--_Priestley et al cor_ ”New and surpassing wonders present therees of comparison are often _inaccurately_ applied and construed”--_Alger's Murray_ Or: ”_Passages_ are often found in which the degrees of comparison _have not an accurate construction_”--_Can of possession_ is placed too _far from the nareeable”--_L Murray cor_ ”_The simple tenses_ are those which are formed _by_ the principal verb without an auxiliary”--_Id_ ”The _more intimate_ men _are_, the more _they affect one another's happiness_”--_Id_ ”This is the ive this sentence the interrogative form, _we must express it_ thus” Or: ”This sentence, _to have_ the interrogative form, should be expressed thus”--_L Murray cor_ ”Never employ words _that are_ susceptible of a sense different from _that which_ you intend _to convey_”--_Hiley cor_ ”Sixty pages are occupied in explaining what, according to the ordinary method, would not require _ always expresses action, suffering, or being, as continuing, _or in progress_”--_Bullions cor_ ”The _first_ participle of all active verbs, has _usually_ an active signification; as, 'Ja_ the house' _Often_, however, it _takes_ a passive __'”--_Id_ ”_Previously_ to parsing this sentence, the young pupil ht to analyze_ it, by such questions as the following: viz”--_Id_ ”_Since_ that period, however, attention has been paid to this important subject”--_Id
and Hiley cor_ ”A definition of a word is _a brief_ explanation _of_ what _it means_”--G BROWN: _Hiley cor_
UNDER CRITICAL NOTE XIV--OF IGNORANCE