UNDER NOTE X.—DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.
"And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be avoided." Or: "I would avoid it altogether, if to avoid it were practicable."—Kames cor. "Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic; and it must elevate the mind to the greatest height to which it can be raised by a single expression."—Id. "Successive images, thus making deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate the mind more than any single image can."—Id. "Besides making a deeper impression than can be made by cool reasoning."—Id. "Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, may rise higher than a public speaker can." Or:—"than can a public speaker."—Blair cor. "And the very same reason that has induced several grammarians to go so far as they have gone, should have induced them to go farther."—Priestley cor. "The pupil should commit the first section to memory perfectly, before he attempts (or enters upon) the second part of grammar."—Bradley cor. "The Greek ch was pronounced hard, as we now pronounce it in chord."—Booth cor. "They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they adopt (or, in a manner different from that which they are accustomed to use) at other times."—L. Murray cor. "And give him the cool and formal reception that Simon had given."—Scott cor. "I do not say, as some have said."—Bolingbroke cor. "If he suppose the first, he may the last."—Barclay cor. "Who are now despising Christ in his inward appearance, as the Jews of old despised him in his outward [advent]."—Id. "That text of Revelations must not be understood as he understands it."—Id. "Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him that he can parse it readily."—R. C. Smith cor. "Perhaps it is running the same course that Rome had run before."—Middleton cor. "It ought even on this ground to be avoided; and it easily may be, by a different construction."—Churchill cor. "These two languages are now pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe pronounces them."—Creighton cor. "Germany ran the same risk that Italy had run."—Bolingbroke, Murray, et al., cor.