UNDER NOTE VII.—PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &C.
“Teaching little children is a pleasant employment.”—Bartlett’s School Manual, ii, 68. “Denying or compromising principles of truth is virtually denying their divine Author.”—Reformer, i, 34. “A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear being retrenched.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 206. “Never attempt prolonging the pathetic too much.”—Ib., p. 323. “I now recollect having mentioned a report of that nature.”— Whiting’s Reader, p. 132. “Nor of the necessity which there is for their being restrained in them.”—Butler’s Analogy, p. 116. “But doing what God commands, because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear.”—Ib., p. 124. “Simply closing the nostrils does not so entirely prevent resonance.”—Music of Nature, p. 484. “Yet they absolutely refuse doing so.”—Harris’s Hermes, p. 264. “But Artaxerxes could not refuse pardoning him.”—Goldsmith’s Greece, i, 173. “Doing them in the best manner is signified by the name of these arts.”—Rush, on the Voice, p. 360. “Behaving well for the time to come, may be insufficient.” —Butler’s Analogy, p. 198. “The compiler proposed publishing that part by itself.”—Dr. Adam, Rom. Antiq., p. v. “To smile upon those we should censure, is bringing guilt upon ourselves.”—Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 108. “But it would be doing great injustice to that illustrious orator to bring his genius down to the same level.”—Ib., p. 28. “Doubting things go ill, often hurts more than to be sure they do.”—Beauties of Shak., p. 203. “This is called straining a metaphor.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 150; Murray’s Gram., i, 341. “This is what Aristotle calls giving manners to the poem.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 427. “The painter’s being entirely confined to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action.”—Murray’s Gram., i, 195. “It imports retrenching all superfluities, and pruning the expression.”— Blair’s Rhet., p. 94; Jamieson’s,