UNDER NOTE VII.—OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.
"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as do adjectives."—Priestley cor. "But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, did more than any one else, to bring our language into its present state, was Dryden."—Blair cor. "In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor do courts of chancery employ any at all."—Webster cor. "I feel grateful to my friend."—Murray cor. "This requires a writer to have in his own mind a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us."—Blair cor. "Sense has its own harmony, which naturally contributes something to the harmony of sound."—Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which gave to the word an additional syllable."—Priestley cor. "There are few to whom I can refer with more advantage than to Mr. Addison."—Blair cor. "DEATH, (in theology,) is a perpetual separation from God, a state of eternal torments."—Webster cor. "That could inform the traveller as well as could the old man himself!"—O. B. Peirce cor.