CHAPTER VIII.—­ADVERBS.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS.

“We can much more easily form the conception of a fierce combat.”—­Blair corrected.  “When he was restored agreeably to the treaty, he was a perfect savage.”—­Webster cor. “How I shall acquit myself suitably to the importance of the trial.”—­Duncan cor. “Can any thing show your Holiness how unworthily you treat mankind?”—­Spect. cor. “In what other, consistently with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?”—­Lowth cor. “Agreeably to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters.”—­Wilson cor. “We shall give a remarkably fine example of this figure.”—­See Blair’s Rhet., p. 156.  “All of which is most abominably false.”—­Barclay cor. “He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserably.”—­Murray cor. “He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simply.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clearly and exactly, he appears dry.”—­Id. “Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the most softly.”  Or:  “Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest.”—­Id. “The simplest points, such as are most easily apprehended.”—­Id. “Too historical to be accounted a perfectly regular epic poem.”—­Id. “Putting after them the oblique case, agreeably to the French construction.”—­Priestley cor. “Where the train proceeds with an extremely slow pace.”—­Kames cor. “So as scarcely to give an appearance of succession.”—­Id. “That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, independently of artful pronunciation.”—­Id. “Cornaro had become very corpulent, previously to the adoption of his temperate habits.”—­Hitchcock cor. “Bread, which is a solid, and tolerably hard, substance.”—­Day cor. “To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself.”—­Id. “Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors.”—­J.  Ward cor. “Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deeply.”—­Wilson cor. “The people are miserably poor, and subsist on fish.”—­Hume cor. “A scale, which I took great pains, some years ago, to make.”—­Bucke cor. “There is no truth on earth better established than the truth of the Bible.”—­Taylor cor. “I know of no work more wanted than the one which Mr. Taylor has now furnished.”—­Dr. Nott cor. “And therefore their requests are unfrequent and reasonable.”—­Taylor cor. “Questions are more easily proposed, than answered rightly.”—­Dillwyn cor. “Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from which they are all derived.”—­Murray cor. “If there be no special rule which requires it to be put further forward.”—­Milnes cor. “The masculine and the neuter have the same dialect in all the numbers, especially when they end alike.”—­Id.