"To practise tale-bearing, or even to countenance it, is great injustice."—Inst., Key, p. 273. "To reveal secrets, or to betray one's friends, is contemptible perfidy."—Id. "To write all substantives with capital letters, or to exclude capitals from adjectives derived from proper names, may perhaps be thought an offence too small for animadversion; but the evil of innovation is always something."—Dr. Barrow cor. "To live in such families, or to have such servants, is a blessing from God."—Fam. Com. cor. "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, or what wars they maintained, is utterly unknown." Or: "How they portioned out the country, what revolutions they experienced, and what wars they maintained, are things utterly unknown."—Goldsmith cor. "To speak or to write perspicuously and agreeably, is an attainment of the utmost consequence to all who purpose, either by speech or by writing, to address the public."—Dr. Blair cor.
UNDER NOTE V.—MAKE THE VERBS AGREE.
"Doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and go into the mountains, and seek that which is gone astray?"—Bible cor. "Did he not fear the Lord, and beseech the Lord, and did not the Lord repent of the evil which he had pronounced?"—Id. "And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, and bring me into judgement with thee?"—Id. "If any man among you seemeth to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain."—Id. "If thou sell aught unto thy neighbour, or buy aught of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall not oppress one an other."—Id. "And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee, become poor, and be sold to thee, thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bond-servant."—Id. "If thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there remember that thy brother hath aught against thee," &c.—Id. "Anthea was content to call a coach, and so to cross the brook." Or:—"and in that she crossed the brook."—Johnson cor. "It is either totally suppressed, or manifested only in its lowest and most imperfect form."—Blair cor. "But if any man is a worshiper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth." Or: "If any man be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him will he hear."—Bible cor. "Whereby his righteousness and obedience, death and sufferings without, become profitable unto us, and are made ours."—Barclay cor. "Who ought to have been here before thee, and to have objected, if they had any thing against me."—Bible cor.
"Yes! thy proud lords, unpitied land, shall see,
That man has yet a soul, and dares be free."—Campbell cor.
UNDER NOTE VI.—USE SEPARATE NOMINATIVES.
"H is only an aspiration, or breathing; and sometimes, at the beginning of a word, it is not sounded at all."—Lowth cor. "Man was made for society, and he ought to extend his good will to all men."—Id. "There is, and must be, a Supreme Being, of infinite goodness, power, and wisdom, who created, and who supports them."—Beattie cor. "Were you not affrighted, and did you not mistake a spirit for a body?"—Bp. Watson cor. "The latter noun or pronoun is not governed by the conjunction than or as, but it either agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood."—Mur. et al. cor. "He had mistaken his true interest, and he found himself forsaken."—Murray cor. "The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and it saved the patient's life."—Id. "The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might have been, and probably they were, good."—Id. "This may be true, and yet it will not justify the practice."—Webster cor. "From the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and who are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things."—Campbell cor. "For those energies and bounties which created, and which preserve, the universe."—J. Q. Adams cor. "I shall make it once for all, and I hope it will be remembered."—Blair cor. "This consequence is drawn too abruptly. The argument needed more explanation." Or: "This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and without sufficient explanation."—Id. "They must be used with more caution, and they require more preparation."—Id. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which made an addition of a syllable to the word."—Priestley cor. "The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, it is unavoidable."—Kames cor. "It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is it agreeable in any respect."—Id.
"Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords
No flight for thoughts,—they poorly stick at words."—Denham cor.
UNDER NOTE VII.—MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.
"Let us read the living page, whose every character delights and instructs us."—Maunder cor. "For if it is in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and does not please."—Kames cor. "When a speaker addresses himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers."—Campbell cor. "As the wine which strengthens and refreshes the heart."—H. Adams cor. "This truth he wraps in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other."—Pope cor. "God searcheth and understandeth the heart." Or: "God searches and understands the heart."—T. à. Kempis cor. "The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men."—Titus, ii, 11. "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth."—1 Cor., ii, 13. "But he has an objection, which he urges, and by which he thinks to overturn all."—Barclay cor. "In that it gives them not that comfort and joy which it gives to them who love it."—Id. "Thou here misunderstood the place and misapplied it." Or: "Thou here misunderstoodst the place and misappliedst it."—Id. Or: (as many of our grammarians will have it:) "Thou here misunderstoodest the place and misappliedst it."—Id. "Like the barren heath in the desert, which knoweth not when good cometh."—See Jer., xvii, 6. "It speaks of the time past, and shows that something was then doing, but not quite finished."—Devis cor. "It subsists in spite of them; it advances unobserved."—Pascal cor.
"But where is he, the pilgrim of my song?—
Methinks he lingers late and tarries long."—Byron cor.