LESSON VII.—PARTICIPLES.
"Of which the author considers himself, in compiling the present work, as merely laying the foundation-stone."—David Blair cor. "On the raising of such lively and distinct images as are here described."—Kames cor. "They are necessary to the avoiding of ambiguities."—Brightland cor. "There is no neglecting of it without falling into a dangerous error." Or better: "None can neglect it without falling," &c.—Burlamaqui cor. "The contest resembles Don Quixote's fighting of (or with) windmills."—Webster cor. "That these verbs associate with other verbs in all the tenses, is no proof that they have no particular time of their own."—L. Murray cor. "To justify myself in not following the track of the ancient rhetoricians."—Dr. H. Blair cor. "The putting-together of letters, so as to make words, is called Spelling."—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "What is the putting-together of vowels and consonants called?"—Id. "Nobody knows of their charitableness, but themselves." Or: "Nobody knows that they are charitable, but themselves."—Fuller cor. "Payment was at length made, but no reason was assigned for so long a postponement of it."—Murray et al. cor. "Which will bear to be brought into comparison with any composition of the kind."—Dr. Blair cor. "To render vice ridiculous, is to do real service to the world."—Id. "It is a direct copying from nature, a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation."—Id. "Propriety of pronunciation consists in giving to every word that sound which the most polite usage of the language appropriates to it."—Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 200; and again, p. 219. "To occupy the mind, and prevent us from regretting the insipidity of a uniform plain."—Kames cor. "There are a hundred ways in which any thing may happen."—Steele cor. "Tell me, seignior, for what cause (or why) Antonio sent Claudio to Venice yesterday."—Bucke cor. "As you are looking about for an outlet, some rich prospect unexpectedly opens to view."—Kames cor. "A hundred volumes of modern novels may be read without communicating a new idea." Or thus: "A person may read a hundred volumes of modern novels without acquiring a new idea."—Webster cor. "Poetry admits of greater latitude than prose, with respect to the coining, or at least the new compounding, of words."—Dr. Blair cor. "When laws were written on brazen tablets, and enforced by the sword."—Pope cor. "A pronoun, which saves the naming of a person or thing a second time, ought to be placed as near as possible to the name of that person or thing."—Kames cor. "The using of a preposition in this case, is not always a matter of choice."—Id. "To save the multiplying of words, I would be understood to comprehend both circumstances."—Id. "Immoderate grief is mute: complaint is a struggle for consolation."—Id. "On the other hand, the accelerating or the retarding of the natural course, excites a pain."—Id. "Human affairs require the distributing of our attention."—Id. "By neglecting this circumstance, the author of the following example has made it defective in neatness."—Id. "And therefore the suppressing of copulatives must animate a description."—Id. "If the omission of copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid."—Id. "It skills not, to ask my leave, said Richard."—Scott cor. "To redeem his credit, he proposed to be sent once more to Sparta."—Goldsmith cor. "Dumas relates that he gave drink to a dog."—Stone cor. "Both are, in a like way, instruments of our reception of such ideas from external objects."—Bp. Butler cor. "In order to your proper handling of such a subject."—Spect. cor. "For I do not recollect it preceded by an open vowel."—Knight cor. "Such is the setting up of the form above the power of godliness."—Barclay cor. "I remember that I was walking once with my young acquaintance."—Hunt cor. "He did not like to pay a debt."—Id. "I do not remember to have seen Coleridge when I was a child."—Id. "In consequence of the dry rot discovered in it, the mansion has undergone a thorough repair."—Maunder cor. "I would not advise the following of the German system in all its parts."—Lieber cor. "Would it not be to make the students judges of the professors?"—Id. "Little time should intervene between the proposing of them and the deciding upon them."—Verthake [sic—KTH] cor. "It would be nothing less than to find fault with the Creator."—Lit. Journal cor. "That we were once friends, is a powerful reason, both of prudence and of conscience, to restrain us from ever becoming enemies."—Secker cor. "By using the word as a conjunction, we prevent the ambiguity."—L. Murray cor.
"He forms his schemes the flood of vice to stem,
But faith in Jesus has no part in them."—J Taylor cor.