UNDER NOTE II.—ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.
"Upward motion is commonly more agreeable than motion downward."—Dr. Blair cor. "There are but two possible ways of justification before God."—Cox cor. "This construction sounds rather harsh."—Mur. and Ing. cor. "A clear conception, in the mind of the learner, of regular and well-formed letters."—C. S. Jour. cor. "He was a great hearer of * * * Attalus, Sotion, Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes frequent mention."—L'Estrange cor. "It is only the frequent doing of a thing, that makes it a custom."—Leslie cor. "Because W. R. takes frequent occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and things."—Barclay cor. "Yet frequent touching will wear gold."—Shak. cor. "Uneducated persons frequently use an adverb when they ought to use an adjective: as, 'The country looks beautifully;' in stead of beautiful." [544]— Bucke cor. "The adjective is put absolute, or without its substantive."—Ash cor. "A noun or a pronoun in the second person, may be put absolute in the nominative case."—Harrison cor. "A noun or a pronoun, when put absolute with a participle," &c.—Id. and Jaudon cor. "A verb in the infinitive mood absolute, stands independent of the remaining part of the sentence."—Wilbur and Liv. cor. "At my late return into England, I met a book entitled, 'The Iron Age.'"—Cowley cor. "But he can discover no better foundation for any of them, than the mere practice of Homer and Virgil."—Kames cor.
UNDER NOTE III.—HERE FOR HITHER, &C.
"It is reported, that the governor will come hither to-morrow."—Kirkham cor. "It has been reported that the governor will come hither to-morrow."—Id. "To catch a prospect of that lovely land whither his steps are tending."—Maturin cor. "Plautus makes one of his characters ask an other, whither he is going with that Vulcan shut up in a horn; that is, with a lantern in his hand."—Adams cor. "When we left Cambridge we intended to return thither in a few days."—Anon. cor. "Duncan comes hither to-night."—Churchill's Gram., p. 323. "They talked of returning hither last week."—See J. M. Putnam's Gram., p. 129.
UNDER NOTE IV.—FROM HENCE, &C.
"Hence he concludes, that no inference can be drawn from the meaning of the word, that a constitution has a higher authority than a law or statute,"—Webster cor. "Whence we may likewise date the period of this event."—L. Murray cor. "Hence it becomes evident that LANGUAGE, taken in the most comprehensive view, implies certain sounds, [or certain written signs,] having certain meanings."—Harris cor. "They returned to the city whence they came out."—A. Murray cor. "Respecting ellipses, some grammarians differ strangely in their ideas; and thence has arisen a very whimsical diversity in their systems of grammar."—G. Brown. "What am I, and whence? That is, What am I, and whence am I?"—Jaudon cor.