EXERCISE XII.—TWO ERRORS.
"Independent on the conjunction, the sense requires the subjunctive mood."—Grant's Latin Gram., p. 77. "A Verb in past time without a sign is Imperfect tense."—C. Adams's Gram., p. 33. "New modelling your household and personal ornaments is, I grant, an indispensable duty."—West's Letters to Y. L., p. 58. "For grown ladies and gentlemen learning to dance, sing, draw, or even walk, is now too frequent to excite ridicule."—Ib., p. 123. "It is recorded that a physician let his horse bleed on one of the evil days, and it soon lay dead."—Constable's Miscellany, xxi. 99. "As to the apostrophe, it was seldom used to distinguish the genitive case till about the beginning of the present century, and then seems to have been introduced by mistake."—Dr. Ash's Gram., p. 23. "One of the relatives only varied to express the three cases."—Lowth's Gram., p. 24. "What! does every body take their morning draught of this liquor?"—Collier's Cebes. "Here, all things comes round, and bring the same appearances a long with them."—Collier's Antoninus, p. 103. "Most commonly both the relative and verb are elegantly left out in the second member."—Buchanan's Gram., p. ix. "A fair receipt of water, of some thirty or forty foot square."—Bacon's Essays, p. 127. "The old know more indirect ways of outwiting others, than the young."—Burgh's Dignity, i, 60. "The pronoun singular of the third person hath three genders."—Lowth's Gram., p. 21. "The preposition to is made use of before nouns of place, when they follow verbs and participles of motion."—Murray's Gram., p. 203. "It is called, understanding human nature, knowing the weak sides of men, &c."—Wayland's Moral Science, p. 284. "Neither of which are taken notice of by this Grammar."—Johnson's Gram. Com., p. 279. "But certainly no invention is entitled to such degree of admiration as that of language."—Blair's Rhet., p. 54. "The Indians, the Persians, and Arabians, were all famous for their tales."—Ib., p. 374. "Such a leading word is the preposition and the conjunction."— Felch's Comp. Gram., p. 21. "This, of all others, is the most encouraging circumstance in these times."—Sheridan's Elocution, p. 37. "The putting any constraint on the organs of speech, or urging them to a more rapid action than they can easily perform in their tender state, must be productive of indistinctness in utterance."—Ib., p. 35. "Good articulation is the foundation of a good delivery, in the same manner as the sounding the simple notes in music, is the foundation of good singing."—Ib., p. 33. "The offering praise and thanks to God, implies our having a lively and devout sense of his excellencies and of his benefits."—ATTERBURY: Blair's Rhet., p. 295. "The pause should not be made till the fourth or sixth syllable."—Blair, ib., p. 333. "Shenstone's pastoral ballad, in four parts, may justly be reckoned one of the most elegant poems of this kind, which we have in English."—Ib., p. 394. "What need Christ to have died, if heaven could have contained imperfect souls?"—Baxter. "Every person is not a man of genius, nor is it necessary that he should."—Seattle's Moral Science, i, 69. "They were alarmed from a quarter where they least expected."—Goldsmith's Greece, ii, 6.
"If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak,
And peg thee in his knotty intrails."—SHAK.: White's Verb, p. 94.