"A nation, by the reparation of the wrongs which it has done, achieves a triumph more glorious than any field of blood can ever give."—Adams cor. "The English nation, from whom we descended, have been gaining their liberties inch by inch."—Webster cor. "If a Yearly Meeting should undertake to alter its fundamental doctrines, is there any power in the society to prevent it from doing so?"—Foster's Rep. cor. "There is[537] a generation that curse their father, and do not bless their mother."—Bible cor. "There is[537] a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet are not washed from their filthiness."—Id. "He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord their God is with them, and the shout of a king is among them."—Id. "My people have forgotten me, they have burnt incense to vanity."—Id. "When a quarterly meeting has come to a judgement respecting any difference, relative to any monthly meeting belonging to it" &c.—Discip. cor. "The number of such compositions is every day increasing, and it appears to be limited only by the pleasure or the convenience of writers."—Booth cor. "The Church of Christ has the same power now as ever, and is led by the same spirit into the same practices."—Barclay cor. "The army, whom their chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile their miserable march." Or thus: "The army, which its chief had thus abandoned, pursued meanwhile its miserable march."—Lockhart cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY AND.
"Discontent and sorrow manifested themselves in his countenance."—Brown's Inst., p. 146. "Both conversation and public speaking became more simple and plain, such as we now find them."—Blair cor. "Idleness and ignorance, if they be suffered to proceed, &c."—Johnson and Priestley cor. "Avoid questions and strife: they show a busy and contentious disposition."—Penn cor. "To receive the gifts and benefits of God with thanksgiving, and witness them blessed and sanctified to us by the word and prayer, is owned by us."—Barclay cor. "Both minister and magistrate are compelled to choose between their duty and their reputation."—Junius cor. "All the sincerity, truth, and faithfulness, or disposition of heart or conscience to approve them, found among rational creatures, necessarily originate from God."—Rev. J. Brown cor. "Your levity and heedlessness, if they continue, will prevent all substantial improvement."—Brown's Inst., p. 269. "Poverty and obscurity will oppress him only who esteems them oppressive."—Ib. "Good sense and refined policy are obvious to few, because they cannot be discovered but by a train of reflection."—Ib. "Avoid haughtiness of behaviour, and affectation of manners: they imply a want of solid merit."—Ib. "If love and unity continue, they will make you partakers of one an other's joy."—Ib. "Suffer not jealousy and distrust to enter: they will destroy, like a canker, every germ of friendship."—Ib. "Hatred and animosity are inconsistent with Christian charity: guard, therefore, against the slightest indulgence of them."—Ib. "Every man is entitled to liberty of conscience, and freedom of opinion, if he does not pervert them to the injury of others."—Ib.
"With the azure and vermilion Which are mix'd for my pavilion."—Byron cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIII; OF PRONOUNS.
ANTECEDENTS CONNECTED BY OR OR NOR.
"Neither prelate nor priest can give his [flock or] flocks any decisive evidence that you are lawful pastors."—Brownlee cor. "And is there a heart of parent or of child, that does not beat and burn within him?"— Maturin cor. "This is just as if an eye or a foot should demand a salary for its service to the body."—Collier cor. "If thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee."—Bible cor. "The same might as well be said of Virgil, or any great author; whose general character will infallibly raise many casual additions to his reputation."—Pope cor. "Either James or John,—one or the other,—will come."—Smith cor. "Even a rugged rock or a barren heath, though in itself disagreeable, contributes, by contrast, to the beauty of the whole."—Kames cor. "That neither Count Rechteren nor Monsieur Mesnager had behaved himself right in this affair."—Spect. cor. "If an Aristotle, a Pythagoras, or a Galileo, suffers for his opinions, he is a 'martyr.'"—Fuller cor. "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that he or she die; then the ox shall surely be stoned."—Exod. cor. "She was calling out to one or an other, at every step, that a Habit was ensnaring him."—Johnson cor. "Here is a task put upon children, which neither this author himself, nor any other, has yet undergone."—R. Johnson cor. "Hence, if an adjective or a participle be subjoined to the verb when the construction is singular, it will agree both in gender and in number with the collective noun."—Adam and Gould cor. "And if you can find a diphthong or a triphthong, be pleased to point that out too."—Bucke cor. "And if you can find a trissyllable or a polysyllable, point it out."—Id. "The false refuges in which the atheist or the sceptic has intrenched himself."—Chr. Spect. cor. "While the man or woman thus assisted by art, expects his charms or hers will be imputed to nature alone."—Opie cor. "When you press a watch, or pull a clock, it answers your question with precision; for it repeats exactly the hour of the day, and tells you neither more nor less than you desire to know."—Bolingbroke cor.
"Not the Mogul, or Czar of Muscovy, Not Prester John, or Cham of Tartary, Is in his mansion monarch more than I."—King cor.