UNDER NOTE VII.—­PARTICIPLES FOR INFINITIVES, &c.

“To teach little children is a pleasant employment.”  Or:  “The teaching of little children,” &c.—­Bartlett cor. “To deny or compromise the principles of truth, is virtually to deny their divine Author.”—­Reformer cor. “A severe critic might point out some expressions that would bear retrenching”—­“retrenchment”—­or, “to be retrenched.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Never attempt to prolong the pathetic too much.”—­Id. “I now recollect to have mentioned—­(or, that I mentioned—­) a report of that nature.”—­Whiting cor. “Nor of the necessity which there is, for their restraint—­(or, for them to be restrained—­) in them.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “But, to do what God commands because he commands it, is obedience, though it proceeds from hope or fear.”—­Id. “Simply to close the nostrils, does not so entirely prevent resonance.”—­Gardiner cor. “Yet they absolutely refuse to do so.”—­Harris cor. “But Artaxerxes could not refuse to pardon him.”—­Goldsmith cor. “The doing of them in the best manner, is signified by the names of these arts.”—­Rush cor. “To behave well for the time to come, may be insufficient.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “The compiler proposed to publish that part by itself.”—­Adam cor. “To smile on those whom we should censure, is, to bring guilt upon ourselves.”—­Kirkham cor. “But it would be great injustice to that illustrious orator, to bring his genius down to the same level.”—­Id. “The doubt that things go ill, often hurts more, than to be sure they do.”—­Shak. cor. “This is called the straining of a metaphor.”—­ Blair and Murray cor. “This is what Aristotle calls the giving of manners to the poem.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The painter’s entire confinement to that part of time which he has chosen, deprives him of the power of exhibiting various stages of the same action.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “It imports the retrenchment of all superfluities, and a pruning of the expression.”—­Blair et al. cor. “The necessity for us to be thus exempted is further apparent.”—­Jane West cor. “Her situation in life does not allow her to be genteel in every thing.”—­Same.  “Provided you do not dislike to be dirty when you are invisible.”—­Same.  “There is now an imperious necessity for her to be acquainted with her title to eternity.”—­Same. “Disregard to the restraints of virtue, is misnamed ingenuousness.”—­Same.  “The legislature prohibits the opening of shops on Sunday.”—­Same.  “To attempt to prove that any thing is right.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “The comma directs us to make a pause