"Great benefit may be reaped from the reading of histories."—Sewel cor. "And some attempts were made towards the writing of history."—Bolingbroke cor. "It is an invading of the priest's office, for any other to offer it"—Leslie cor. "And thus far of the forming of verbs."—W. Walker cor. "And without the shedding of blood there is no remission."—Bible cor. "For the making of measures, we have the best method here in England."—Printer's Gram. cor. "This is really both an admitting and a denying at once."—Butler cor. "And hence the origin of the making of parliaments."—Dr. Brown cor. "Next thou objectest, that the having of saving light and grace presupposes conversion. But that I deny: for, on the contrary, conversion presupposes the having of light and grace."—Barclay cor. "They cried down the wearing of rings and other superfluities, as we do."—Id. "Whose adorning, let it not be that outward adorning, of the plaiting of the hair, and of the wearing of gold, or of the putting-on of apparel."—Bible cor. "In the spelling of derivative words, the primitives must be kept whole."—Brit. Gram. and Buchanan's cor. "And the princes offered for the dedicating of the altar."—Numb. cor. "Boasting is not only a telling of lies, but also of many unseemly truths."—Sheffield cor. "We freely confess that the forbearing of prayer in the wicked is sinful."—Barclay cor. "For the revealing of a secret, there is no remedy."—G. Brown. "He turned all his thoughts to the composing of laws for the good of the State."—Rollin cor.
UNDER NOTE XVI.—PARTICIPLES, NOT NOUNS.
"It is salvation to be kept from falling into a pit, as truly as to be taken out of it after falling in."—Barclay cor. "For in receiving and embracing the testimony of truth, they felt their souls eased."—Id. "True regularity does not consist in having but a single rule, and forcing every thing to conform to it."—Phil. Museum cor. "To the man of the world, this sound of glad tidings appears only an idle tale, and not worth attending to."—Say cor. "To be the deliverer of the captive Jews, by ordering their temple to be rebuilt," &c.—Rollin cor. "And for preserving them from being defiled."—Discip. cor. "A wise man will forbear to show any excellence in trifles."—Kames cor. "Hirsutus had no other reason for valuing a book."—Johnson, and Wright, cor. "To being heard with satisfaction, it is necessary that the speaker should deliver himself with ease." Perhaps better: "To be heard, &c." Or: "In order to be heard, &c."—Sheridan cor. "And, to the end of being well heard and clearly understood, a good and distinct articulation contributes more, than can even the greatest power of voice."—Id.
"Potential purports, having power or will; As, If you would improve, you should be still."—Tobitt cor.
UNDER NOTE XVII.—VARIOUS ERRORS.
"For the same reason, a neuter verb cannot become passive."—Lowth cor. "A period is a whole sentence complete in itself."—Id. "A colon, or member, is a chief constructive part, or the greatest division, of a sentence."—Id. "A semicolon, or half-member, is a smaller constructive part, or a subdivision, of a sentence or of a member."—Id. "A sentence or a member is again subdivided into commas, or segments."—Id. "The first error that I would mention is, too general an attention to the dead languages, with a neglect of our own tongue."—Webster cor. "One third of the importations would supply the demands of the people."—Id. "And especially in a grave style."—Murray's Gram., i, 178. "By too eager a pursuit, he ran a great risk of being disappointed."—Murray cor. "The letters are divided into vowels and consonants."—Mur. et al. cor. "The consonants are divided into mutes and semivowels."—Iidem. "The first of these forms is the most agreeable to the English idiom."—Murray cor. "If they gain, it is at too dear a rate."—Barclay cor. "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to prevent too frequent a repetition of it."—Maunder cor. "This vulgar error might perhaps arise from too partial a fondness for the Latin."—Ash cor. "The groans which too heavy a load extorts from her."—Hitchcock cor. "The numbers of a verb are, of course, the singular and the plural."—Bucke cor. "To brook no meanness, and to stoop to no dissimulation, are indications of a great mind."—Murray cor. "This mode of expression rather suits the familiar than the grave style."—Id. "This use of the word best suits a familiar and low style."—Priestley cor. "According to the nature of the composition, the one or the other may be predominant."—Blair cor. "Yet the commonness of such sentences prevents in a great measure too early an expectation of the end."—Campbell cor. "A eulogy or a philippic may be pronounced by an individual of one nation upon a subject of an other."—J. Q. Adams cor. "A French sermon is, for the most part, a warm animated exhortation."—Blair cor. "I do not envy those who think slavery no very pitiable lot."—Channing cor. "The auxiliary and the principal united constitute a tense."—Murray cor. "There are some verbs which are defective with respect to the persons."—Id. "In youth, habits of industry are the most easily acquired."—Id. "The apostrophe (') is used in place of a letter left out."—Bullions cor.
CHAPTER III.—CASES, OR NOUNS.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE II; OF NOMINATIVES.
"The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick."—Bunyan cor. "He will in no wise cast out whosoever cometh unto him." Better: "He will in no wise cast out any that come unto him."—Hall cor. "He feared the enemy might fall upon his men, who, he saw, were off their guard."—Hutchinson cor. "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain."—Matt., v, 41. "The ideas of the author have been conversant with the faults of other writers."—Swift cor. "You are a much greater loser than I, by his death." Or: "Thou art a much greater loser by his death than I."—Id. "Such peccadilloes pass with him for pious frauds."—Barclay cor. "In whom I am nearly concerned, and who, I know, would be very apt to justify my whole procedure."—Id. "Do not think such a man as I contemptible for my garb."—Addison cor. "His wealth and he bid adieu to each other."—Priestley cor. "So that, 'He is greater than I,' will be more grammatical than, 'He is greater than me.'"—Id. "The Jesuits had more interests at court than he."—Id. and Smollett cor. "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he."—Iid. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he."—Iid. "My father and he have been very intimate since."—Fair Am. cor. "Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed?"—Mrs. Bethune cor. "To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there."—Kirkham cor. "He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him."—Hume and Pr. cor. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement."—Haynes cor. "They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales."—Croker cor. "We sorrow not as they that have no hope."—Maturin cor. "If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope."—Id. "We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker."—Gratton cor. "And what can be better than he that made it?"—Jenks cor. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he."—Cooper cor. "Solomon, who was wiser than they all."—Watson cor. "Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."—Tract cor. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both."—Bible cor. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman."—Steele cor. "The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."—Life of Anton. cor. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they."—Campbell's Rhet., p. 203. "Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I."—Hall cor. "We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape."—Burnes cor. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy."—Quarterly Rev. cor. "I know not who else are expected."—Scott cor. "He is great, but truth is greater than we all." Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than any of us."—H. Mann cor.. "He I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus: "Whom I accuse has entered."—Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.
"Scotland and thou did each in other live."—Dryden cor.