CHAPTER VI.—VERBS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIV AND ITS NOTES.
UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.—VERB AFTER THE NOMINATIVE.
"Before you left Sicily, you were reconciled to Verres."—Duncan cor. "Knowing that you were my old master's good friend."—Spect. cor. "When the judge dares not act, where is the loser's remedy?"—Webster cor. "Which extends it no farther than the variation of the verb extends."—Mur. cor. "They presently dry without hurt, as myself have often proved."—R. Williams cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."—Micah, v, 2. "You were paid to fight against Alexander, not to rail at him."—Porter cor. "Where more than one part of speech are almost always concerned."—Churchill cor. "Nothing less than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employs their thoughts." Or: "No less things than murders, rapines, and conflagrations, employ their thoughts."—Duncan cor. "I wondered where you were, my dear."—Lloyd cor. "When thou most sweetly singst."—Drummond cor. "Who dares, at the present day, avow himself equal to the task?"—Gardiner cor. "Every body is very kind to her, and not discourteous to me."—Byron cor. "As to what thou sayst respecting the diversity of opinions."—M. B. cor. "Thy nature, Immortality, who knows?"—Everest cor. "The natural distinction of sex in animals, gives rise to what, in grammar, are called genders."—Id. "Some pains have likewise been taken."—Scott cor. "And many a steed in his stables was seen."—Penwarne cor. "They were forced to eat what never was esteemed food."—Josephus cor. "This that you yourself have spoken, I desire that they may take their oaths upon."—Hutchinson cor. "By men whose experience best qualifies them to judge."—Committee cor. "He dares venture to kill and destroy several other kinds of fish."—Walton cor. "If a gudgeon meet a roach, He ne'er will venture to approach." Or thus: "If a gudgeon meets a roach, He dares not venture to approach."—Swift cor. "Which thou endeavourst to establish to thyself."—Barclay cor. "But they pray together much oftener than thou insinuat'st."—Id. "Of people of all denominations, over whom thou presidest."—N. Waln cor. "I can produce ladies and gentlemen whose progress has been astonishing."—Chazotte cor. "Which of these two kinds of vice is the more criminal?"—Dr. Brown cor. "Every twenty-four hours afford to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith's False Syntax, New Gram., p. 103. Or thus: "Every period of twenty-four hours affords to us the vicissitudes of day and night."—Smith cor. "Every four years add an other day."—Smith's False Syntax, Gram., p. 103. Better thus: "Every fourth year adds an other day."—Smith cor. "Every error I could find, Has my busy muse employed."—Swift cor. "A studious scholar deserves the approbation of his teacher."—Sanborn cor. "Perfect submission to the rules of a school indicates good breeding."—Id. "A comparison in which more than two are concerned."—Lennie's Gram., p. 78. "By the facilities which artificial language affords them."—O. B. Peirce cor. "Now thyself hast lost both lop and top."—Spencer cor. "Glad tidings are brought to the poor."—Campbell cor. "Upon which, all that is pleasurable or affecting in elocution, chiefly depends."—Sher. cor. "No pains have been spared to render this work complete."—Bullions cor. "The United States contain more than a twentieth part of the land of this globe."—Clinton cor. "I am mindful that myself am strong."—Fowler cor. "Myself am (not is) weak;"—"Thyself art (not is) weak."—Id.
"How pale each worshipful and reverend guest
Rises from clerical or city feast!"—Pope cor.