“O’er barren mountains, o’er the flow’ry plain,
    Extends thy uncontrolled and boundless reign.”—­Dryden cor.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

LESSON I.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic.”—­Pope (or Johnson) cor. “Produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, governor of this state.”—­Jefferson’s Notes, p. 94.  “We have none synonymous to supply its place.”—­Jamieson cor. “There is a probability that the effect will be accelerated.”—­Id. “Nay, a regard to sound has controlled the public choice.”—­Id. “Though learnt [better, learned] from the uninterrupted use of guttural sounds.”—­Id. “It is by carefully filing off all roughness and all inequalities, that languages, like metals, must be polished.”—­Id. “That I have not misspent my time in the service of the community.”—­Buchanan cor. “The leaves of maize are also called blades.”—­Webster cor. “Who boast that they know what is past, and can foretell what is to come.”—­Robertson cor. “Its tasteless dullness is interrupted by nothing but its perplexities.”—­Abbott, right.  “Sentences constructed with the Johnsonian fullness and swell.”—­Jamieson, right.  “The privilege of escaping from his prefatory dullness and prolixity.”—­Kirkham, right.  “But, in poetry, this characteristic of dullness attains its full growth.”—­Id. corrected.  “The leading characteristic consists in an increase of the force and fullness.”—­Id cor. “The character of this opening fullness and feebler vanish.”—­Id. cor. “Who, in the fullness of unequalled power, would not believe himself the favourite of Heaven?”—­Id. right.  “They mar one an other, and distract him.”—­Philol.  Mus. cor. “Let a deaf worshiper of antiquity and an English prosodist settle this.”—­Rush cor. “This Philippic gave rise to my satirical reply in self-defence.”—­Merchant cor. “We here saw no innuendoes, no new sophistry, no falsehoods.”—­Id. “A witty and humorous vein has often produced enemies.”—­Murray cor. “Cry hollo! to thy tongue, I pray thee:[527] it curvets unseasonably.”—­Shak. cor. “I said, in my sliest manner, ‘Your health, sir.’”—­Blackwood cor. “And attorneys also travel the circuit in pursuit of business.”—­Barnes cor. “Some whole counties in Virginia would hardly sell for the value of the debts due from the inhabitants.”—­Webster cor. “They were called the Court of Assistants, and exercised all powers, legislative and judicial.”—­Id. “Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of liquors.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 295.  “Most of the inflections may be analyzed in a way somewhat similar.”—­Murray cor.