“All the words employed to denote spiritual or intellectual things, are in their origin metaphors.”—­Dr. Campbell cor. “A reply to an argument commonly brought forward by unbelievers.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “It was once the only form used in the past tenses.”—­Dr. Ash cor. “Of the points and other characters used in writing.”—­Id. “If THY be the personal pronoun adopted.”—­Walker cor. “The Conjunction is a word used to connect [words or] sentences.”—­Burn cor. “The points which answer these purposes, are the four following.”—­Harrison cor. “INCENSE signifies perfume exhaled by fire, and used in religious ceremonies.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “In most of his orations, there is too much art; he carries it even to ostentation.”—­Blair cor. “To illustrate the great truth, so often overlooked in our times.”—­C.  S. Journal cor. “The principal figures calculated to affect the heart, are Exclamation, Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation.”—­Formey cor. “Disgusted at the odious artifices employed by the judge.”—­Junius cor. “All the reasons for which there was allotted to us a condition out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Some characteristical circumstance being generally invented or seized upon.”—­Ld.  Kames cor.

   “And BY is likewise used with names that shew
    The method or the means of what we do.”—­Ward cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­OF CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.

“Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as do adjectives.”—­Priestley cor. “But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, did more than any one else, to bring our language into its present state, was Dryden.”—­Blair cor. “In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor do courts of chancery employ any at all.”—­Webster cor. “I feel grateful to my friend.”—­Murray cor. “This requires a writer to have in his own mind a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us.”—­Blair cor. “Sense has its own harmony, which naturally contributes something to the harmony of sound.”—­Id. “The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which gave to the word an additional syllable.”—­Priestley cor. “There are few to whom I can refer with more advantage than to Mr. Addison.”—­Blair cor. “DEATH, (in theology,) is a perpetual separation from God, a state of eternal torments.”—­Webster cor. “That could inform the traveller as well as could the old man himself!”—­O.  B. Peirce cor.