“I had no idea but that the story was true.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 268.  “The postboy is not so weary but that he can whistle.”—­Ib. “He had no intimation but that the men were honest.”—­Ib. “Neither Lady Haversham nor Miss Mildmay will ever believe but that I have been entirely to blame.”—­Priestley cor. “I am not satisfied but that the integrity of our friends is more essential to our welfare than their knowledge of the world.”—­Id. “Indeed, there is in poetry nothing so entertaining or descriptive, but that an ingenious didactic writer may introduce it in some part of his work.”—­Blair cor. “Brasidas, being bit by a mouse he had catched, let it slip out of his fingers:  ‘No creature,’ says he, ’is so contemptible but that it may provide for its own safety, if it have courage.’”—­Ld.  Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—­ADJECTIVES FOR ANTECEDENTS.

“In narration, Homer is, at all times, remarkably concise, and therefore lively and agreeable.”—­Blair cor. “It is usual to talk of a nervous, a feeble, or a spirited style; which epithets plainly indicate the writer’s manner of thinking.”—­Id. “It is too violent an alteration, if any alteration were necessary, whereas none is.”—­Knight cor. “Some men are too ignorant to be humble; and without humility there can be no docility.”—­Berkley cor. “Judas declared him innocent; but innocent he could not be, had he in any respect deceived the disciples.”—­Porteus cor. “They supposed him to be innocent, but he certainly was not so.”—­Murray et al. cor. “They accounted him honest, but he certainly was not so.”—­Felch cor. “Be accurate in all you say or do; for accuracy is important in all the concerns of life.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 268.  “Every law supposes the transgressor to be wicked; and indeed he is so, if the law is just.”—­Ib. “To be pure in heart, pious, and benevolent, (and all may be so,) constitutes human happiness.”—­Murray cor. “To be dexterous in danger, is a virtue; but to court danger to show our dexterity, is a weakness.”—­Penn cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—­SENTENCES FOR ANTECEDENTS.

“This seems not so allowable in prose; which fact the following erroneous examples will demonstrate.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The accent is laid upon the last syllable of a word; which circumstance is favourable to the melody.”—­Kames cor. “Every line consists of ten syllables, five short and five long; from which rule there are but two exceptions, both of them rare.”—­Id. “The soldiers refused obedience, as has been explained.”—­Nixon cor. “Caesar overcame Pompey—­a