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.
LESSON III—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"What follows, might better have been wanting altogether."—Dr. Blair cor. "This member of the sentence might much better have been omitted altogether."—Id. "One or the other of them, therefore, might better have been omitted."—Id. "The whole of this last member of the sentence might better have been dropped."—Id. "In this case, they might much better be omitted."—Id. "He might better have said 'the productions.'"—Id. "The Greeks ascribed the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musæus."—Id. "It was noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables."—Phil. Museum cor. "When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I determined to send him."—Bible cor. "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God."—Id. "As for such, I wish the Lord would open their eyes." Or, better: "May the Lord open (or, I pray the Lord to open) their eyes."—Barclay cor. "It would have made our passage over the river very difficult."—Walley cor. "We should not have been able to carry our great guns."—Id. "Others would have questioned our prudence, if we had."—Id. "Beware thou be not BECÆSARED; i.e., Beware that thou do not dwindle—or, lest thou dwindle—into a mere Cæsar."—Harris cor. "Thou raisedst (or, familiarly, thou raised) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes."—Arbuthnot cor. "Life hurries off apace; thine is almost gone already."—Collier cor. "'How unfortunate has this accident made me!' cries such a one."—Id. "The muse that soft and sickly woos the ear."—Pollok cor. "A man might better relate himself to a statue."—Bacon cor. "I heard thee say but now, thou liked not that."—Shak. cor. "In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, (or, familiarly, thou cried,) Indeed!"—Id. "But our ears have grown familiar with 'I have wrote, 'I have drank,' &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical."—Lowth et al. cor. "The court was in session before Sir Roger came"—Addison cor. "She needs—(or, if you please, need,—) be no more with the jaundice possessed"—Swift cor. "Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day when you were here."—Id. "If spirit of other sort, So minded, hath (or has) o'erleaped these earthy bounds."—Milton cor. "It would have been more rational to have forborne this."—Barclay cor. "A student is not master of it till he has seen all these."—Dr. Murray cor. "The said justice shall summon the party."—Brevard cor. "Now what has become of thy former wit and humour?"—Spect. cor. "Young stranger, whither wanderst thou?"—Burns cor. "SUBJ. Pres. If I love, If thou love, If he love. Imp. If I loved, If thou loved, If he loved."—Merchant cor. "SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou do not love, If he do not love."—Id. "If he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."—Bible cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to call, second person singular: If thou call, (rarely, If thou do call,) If thou called."—Hiley cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to love, second person singular: If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou loved."—Bullions cor. "I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were."—White cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, (familiarly, thou taught,) he taught."— Coar cor. "We say, 'If it rain,' 'Suppose it rain?' 'Lest it rain,' 'Unless it rain.' This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD."—Weld cor. "He has arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood."—Priestley cor. "He might much better have let it alone."—Tooke cor. "He were better without it. Or: He would be better without it."—Locke cor. "Hadst thou not been by. Or: If thou hadst not been by. Or, in the familiar style: Had not thou been by,"—Shak. cor. "I learned geography. Thou learned arithmetic. He learned grammar."—Fuller cor. "Till the sound has ceased."—Sheridan cor. "Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, died."—Six English Grammars corrected.
"Thou bow'dst thy glorious head to none, fear'dst none." Or:—
"Thou bowed thy glorious head to none, feared none."
—Pollok cor.
"Thou lookst upon thy boy as though thou guess'd it."
—Knowles cor.
"As once thou slept, while she to life was formed."
—Milton cor.