“There all thy gifts and graces we display,
    Thou, only thou, directing all our way.”—­Pope, Dunciad.

CHAPTER IV.—­ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE IX.

UNDER NOTE I.—­OF AGREEMENT.

“I am not recommending this kind of sufferings to your liking.”—­Sherlock cor. “I have not been to London these five years.”—­Webster cor. “Verbs of this kind are more expressive than their radicals.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “Few of us would be less corrupted than kings are, were we, like them, beset with flatterers, and poisoned with those vermin.”—­Kames cor. “But it seems these literati had been very ill rewarded for their ingenious labours.”—­R.  Random cor. “If I had not left off troubling myself about things of that kind.”—­Swift cor. “For things of this sort are usually joined to the most noted fortune.”—­Bacon cor. “The nature of those riches and that long-suffering, is, to lead to repentance.”—­Barclay cor. “I fancy it is this kind of gods, that Horace mentions.”—­Addison cor. “During those eight days, they are prohibited from touching the skin.”—­Hope of Is. cor. “Besides, he had but a small quantity of provisions left for his army.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Are you not ashamed to have no other thoughts than those of amassing wealth, and of acquiring glory, credit, and dignities?”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 115.  “It distinguishes still more remarkably the feelings of the former from those of the latter.”—­Kames cor. “And these good tidings of the reign shall be published through all the world.”—­Campbell cor. “These twenty years have I been with thee.”—­Gen. cor. “In this kind of expressions, some words seem to be understood.”—­W.  Walker cor. “He thought this kind of excesses indicative of greatness.”—­Hunt cor. “This sort of fellows is very numerous.”  Or thus:  “Fellows of this sort are very numerous.”—­Spect. cor. “Whereas men of this sort cannot give account of their faith.”  Or:  “Whereas these men cannot give account of their faith.”—­Barclay cor. “But the question is, whether those are the words.”—­Id. “So that expressions of this sort are not properly optative.”—­R.  Johnson cor. “Many things are not such as they appear to be.”—­Sanborn cor. “So that all possible means are used.”—­Formey cor.

   “We have strict statutes, and most biting laws,
    Which for these nineteen years we have let sleep.”—­Shak. cor.

    “They could not speak, and so I left them both,
    To bear these tidings to the bloody king.”—­Shak. cor.