144.  “I observed that a diffuse style inclines most to long periods.”—­Ib., p. 178.  “Their poor Arguments, which they only Pickt up and down the Highway “—­Divine Right of Tythes, p. iii.  “Which must be little, but a transcribing out of their writings.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 353.  “That single impulse is a forcing out of almost all the breath.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 254.  “Picini compares modulation to the turning off from a road.”—­Gardiner’s Music of Nature, p. 405.  “So much has been written, on and off, of almost every subject.”—­The Friend, ii, 117.  “By reading books written by the best authors, his mind became highly improved.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 201.  “For I never made the being richly provided a token of a spiritual ministry.”—­Barclay’s Works, iii, 470.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE II.—­OF DOUBTFUL REFERENCE.

“However disagreeable, we must resolutely perform our duty.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 171.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the adjective disagreeable appears to relate to the pronoun we, though such a relation was probably not intended by the author.  But, according to Critical Note 2d, “The reference of words to other words, or their syntactical relation according to the sense, should never be left doubtful, by any one who means to be understood.”  The sentence may be amended thus:  “However disagreeable the task, we must resolutely perform our duty.”]

“The formation of verbs in English, both regular and irregular, is derived from the Saxon.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 47.  “Time and chance have an influence on all things human, and on nothing more remarkably than on language.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 180.  “Time and chance have an influence on all things human, and on nothing more remarkable than on language.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 47.  “Archytases being a virtuous man, who happened to perish once upon a time, is with him a sufficient ground,” &c.—­Philological Museum, i, 466.  “He will be the better qualified to understand, with accuracy, the meaning of a numerous class of words, in which they form a material part.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 120.  “We should continually have the goal in view, which would direct us in the race.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 172.  “But [Addison’s figures] seem to rise of their own accord from the subject, and constantly embellish it.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 150; Jamieson’s, 157.  “As far as persons and other animals and things that we can see go, it is very easy to distinguish Nouns.”—­Cobbett’s Gram., 14.  “Dissyllables ending in y, e mute, or accented on the last syllable, may be sometimes compared like monosyllables.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 12.  “Admitting the above objection, it will not overrule the design.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 140.  “These philosophical