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“Bent is his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound;
Fierce as he moves, his silver shafts resound.”—Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—VERBS OF COMMANDING, &C.

“Had I commanded you to do this, you would have thought hard of it.”—G. B. “I found him better than I expected to find him.”—L Murray’s Gram., i, 187. “There are several smaller faults which I at first intended to enumerate.”—Webster cor. “Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object shall make.”—Dr. Blair cor. “The girl said, if her master would but have let her have money, she might have been well long ago.”—Priestley et al. cor. “Nor is there the least ground to fear that we shall here be cramped within too narrow limits.”—Campbell cor. “The Romans, flushed with success, expected to retake it.”—Hooke cor. “I would not have let fall an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered.”—Sterne cor. “We expected that he would arrive last night.”—Brown’s Inst., p. 282. “Our friends intended to meet us.”—Ib. “We hoped to see you.”—Ib. “He would not have been allowed to enter.”—Ib.

UNDER NOTE XV.—PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.

“Cicero maintained, that whatsoever is useful is good.”—G. B. “I observed that love constitutes the whole moral character of God.”—Dwight cor. “Thinking that one gains nothing by being a good man.”—Voltaire cor. “I have already told you, that I am a gentleman.”—Fontaine cor. “If I should ask, whether ice and water are two distinct species of things.”—Locke cor. “A stranger to the poem would not easily discover that this is verse.”—Murray’s Gram., 8vo, i, 260. “The doctor affirmed that fever always produces thirst.”—Brown’s Inst., p. 282. “The ancients asserted, that virtue is its own reward.”—Ib. “They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that the infinitive is a mere noun.”—Tooke cor. “It was observed in Chap. III, that the distinctive OR has a double use.”—Churchill cor. “Two young gentlemen, who have made a discovery that there is no God.”—Campbell’s Rhet., p. 206.