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.