UNDER NOTE X.—­DO, USED AS A SUBSTITUTE.

“And I would avoid it altogether, if it could be done.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., i, 36.  “Such a sentiment from a man expiring of his wounds, is truly heroic, and must elevate the mind to the greatest height that can be done by a single expression.”—­Ib., i, 204.  “Successive images making thus deeper and deeper impressions, must elevate more than any single image can do.”—­Ib., i, 205.  “Besides making a deeper impression than can be done by cool reasoning.”—­Ib., ii, 273.  “Yet a poet, by the force of genius alone, can rise higher than a public speaker can do.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 338.  “And the very same reason that has induced several grammarians to go so far as they have done, should have induced them to go farther.”—­Priestley’s Gram., Pref., p. vii.  “The pupil should commit the first section perfectly, before he does the second part of grammar.”—­ Bradley’s Gram., p. 77.  “The Greek ch was pronounced hard, as we now do in chord.”—­Booth’s Introd. to Dict., p. 61.  “They pronounce the syllables in a different manner from what they do at other times.”—­ Murray’s Eng.  Reader, p. xi.  “And give him the formal cool reception that Simon had done.”—­Dr. Scott, on Luke, vii.  “I do not say, as some have done.”—­Bolingbroke, on Hist., p. 271.  “If he suppose the first, he may do the last.”—­Barclay’s Works, ii, 406.  “Who are now despising Christ in his inward appearance, as the Jews of old did him in his outward.”—­Ib., i, 506.  “That text of Revelations must not be understood, as he doth it.”—­ Ib., iii, 309.  “Till the mode of parsing the noun is so familiar to him, that he can do it readily.”—­Smith’s New Gram., p. 13.  “Perhaps it is running the same course which Rome had done before.”—­Middleton’s Life of Cicero.  “It ought even on this ground to be avoided; which may easily be done by a different construction.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 312.  “These two languages are now pronounced in England as no other nation in Europe does besides.”—­Creighton’s Dict., p. xi.  “Germany ran the same risk that Italy had done.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 211:  see Priestley’s Gram., p. 196.

UNDER NOTE XI.—­PRETERITS AND PARTICIPLES.

“The Beggars themselves will be broke in a trice.”—­Swift’s Poems, p. 347.  “The hoop is hoist above his nose.”—­Ib., p. 404.  “My heart was lift up in the ways of the Lord. 2 CHRON.”—­Joh.  Dict., w.  Lift.  “Who sin so oft have mourned, Yet to temptation ran.”—­Burns.  “Who would not have let them appeared.”—­Steele.  “He would have had you sought for ease at the hands of Mr. Legality.”—­Pilgrim’s Progress, p. 31.  “From me his madding mind is start, And wooes the widow’s daughter