“I finished my letter before my brother arrived.”  Or:  “I had finished my letter when my brother arrived.”—­Kirkham cor. “I wrote before I received his letter.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “From what was formerly delivered.”—­Id. “Arts were at length introduced among them.”  Or:  “Arts have been of late introduced among them.”—­Id. [But the latter reading suits not the Doctor’s context.] “I am not of opinion that such rules can be of much use, unless persons see them exemplified.”  Or:—­“could be,” and “saw.”—­Id. “If we use the noun itself, we say, (or must say,) ‘This composition is John’s.’” Or:  “If we used the noun itself, we should say,” &c.—­L.  Murray cor. “But if the assertion refer to something that was transient, or to something that is not supposed to be always the same, the past tense must be preferred:”  [as,] “They told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by.”—­Luke and L. Murray cor. “There is no particular intimation but that I have continued to work, even to the present moment.”—­R.  W. Green cor. “Generally, as has been observed already, it is but hinted in a single word or phrase.”—­Campbell cor. “The wittiness of the passage has been already illustrated.”—­Id. “As was observed before.”—­Id. Or:  “As has been observed already”—­Id. “It has been said already in general terms.”—­Id. “As I hinted before.”—­Id. Or:  “As I have hinted already.”—­Id. “What, I believe, was hinted once before.”—­Id. “It is obvious, as was hinted formerly, that this is but an artificial and arbitrary connexion.”—­Id. “They did anciently a great deal of hurt.”—­ Bolingbroke cor. “Then said Paul, I knew not, brethren, that he was the high priest.”—­See Acts, xxiii, 5; Webster cor. “Most prepositions originally denoted the relations of place; and from these they were transferred, to denote, by similitude, other relations.”—­Lowth and Churchill cor. “His gift was but a poor offering, in comparison with his great estate.”—­L.  Murray cor. “If he should succeed, and obtain his end, he would not be the happier for it.”  Or, better:  “If he succeed, and fully attain his end, he will not be the happier for it.”—­Id. “These are torrents that swell to-day, and that will have spent themselves by to-morrow.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Who have called that wheat on one day, which they have called tares on the next.”—­Barclay cor. “He thought it was one of his tenants.”—­Id. “But if one went unto them from the dead, they would repent.”—­Bible cor. “Neither would they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.”—­Id. “But it is while men sleep, that the arch-enemy always sows his tares.”—­The Friend cor. “Crescens would not have failed to expose him.”—­Addison cor.