of a second in duration, or less.”—­Id. “The rule which directs us to put other words into the place of it, is wrong.”—­Id. “They direct us to call the specifying adjectives, or adnames, adjective pronouns.”—­Id. “William dislikes to attend court.”—­Frost cor. “It may perhaps be worth while to remark, that Milton makes a distinction.”—­Phil.  Mu. cor. “To profess regard and act injuriously, discovers a base mind.”—­Murray et al. cor. “To profess regard and act indifferently, discovers a base mind.”—­Weld cor. “You have proved beyond contradiction, that this course of action is the sure way to procure such an object.”—­Campbell cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­PARTICIPLES AFTER BE, IS, &c.

“Irony is a figure in which the speaker sneeringly utters the direct reverse of what he intends shall be understood.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 235. [Correct by this the four false definitions of “Irony” cited from Murray, Peirce, Fisher, and Sanborn.] “This is, in a great measure, a delivering of their own compositions.”—­Buchanan cor. “But purity is a right use of the words of the language.”—­Jamieson cor. “But the most important object is the settling of the English quantity.”—­Walker cor. “When there is no affinity, the transition from one meaning to an other is a very wide step taken.”—­Campbell cor. “It will be a loss of time, to attempt further to illustrate it.”—­Id. “This leaves the sentence too bare, and makes it to be, if not nonsense, hardly sense.”—­Cobbett cor. “This is a requiring of more labours from every private member.”—­J.  West cor. “Is not this, to use one measure for our neighbours and an other for ourselves?”—­Same. “Do we not charge God foolishly, when we give these dark colourings to human nature?”—­Same.  “This is not, to endure the cross, as a disciple of Jesus Christ; but, to snatch at it, like a partisan of Swift’s Jack.”—­Same.  “What is spelling?  It is the combining of letters to form syllables and words.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “It is the choosing of such letters to compose words,” &c.—­Id. “What is parsing? (1.) It is a describing of the nature, use, and powers of words.”—­Id. (2.) “For Parsing is a describing of the words of a sentence as they are used.”—­Id. (3.) “Parsing is only a describing of the nature and relations of words as they are used.”—­Id. (4.) “Parsing, let the pupil understand and remember, is a statement of facts concerning words; or a describing of words in their offices and relations as they are.”—­Id. (5.) “Parsing is the resolving and explaining