not every man is called James, nor every woman,
Mary.”—
Buchanan cor. “Crotchets
are employed for
nearly the same purpose as
the parenthesis.”—
Churchill cor.
“There is a
still greater impropriety
in a double comparative.”—
Priestley
cor. “We often have occasion to speak of
time.”—
Lowth cor. “The
following sentence cannot
possibly be understood.”—
Id.
“The words must
generally be separated
from the context.”—
Comly cor.
“Words ending in
ator, generally have
the accent on the penultimate.”—
L.
Mur. cor. “The learned languages, with respect
to voices, moods, and tenses, are, in general, constructed
differently from the English tongue.”—
Id.
“Adverbs seem to have been
originally
contrived to express compendiously, in one word, what
must otherwise have required two or more.”—
Id.
“But it is so,
only when the expression
can be converted into the regular form of the possessive
case.”—
Id. “‘Enter
boldly,’ says he, ’for here too
there are gods.’”—
Harris
cor. “For none
ever work for so little
a pittance that some cannot be found to work for less.”—
Sedgwick
cor. “For sinners also lend to sinners,
to receive
again as much.”—
Bible
cor. Or, as Campbell has it in his version:—“
that
they may receive as much
in return.”—
Luke,
vi, 34. “They must be viewed in
exactly
the same light.”—
L. Murray
cor. “If he
speaks but to display
his abilities, he is unworthy of attention.”—
Id.
UNDER NOTE II.—ADVERBS FOR ADJECTIVES.
“Upward motion is commonly more agreeable
than motion downward.”—Dr.
Blair cor. “There are but two possible
ways of justification before God.”—Cox
cor. “This construction sounds rather harsh.”—Mur.
and Ing. cor. “A clear conception, in the
mind of the learner, of regular and well-formed
letters.”—C. S. Jour. cor.
“He was a great hearer of * * * Attalus, Sotion,
Papirius, Fabianus, of whom he makes frequent
mention.”—L’Estrange cor.
“It is only the frequent doing of a thing,
that makes it a custom.”—Leslie
cor. “Because W. R. takes frequent
occasion to insinuate his jealousies of persons and
things.”—Barclay cor. “Yet
frequent touching will wear gold.”—Shak.
cor. “Uneducated persons frequently use
an adverb when they ought to use an adjective:
as, ‘The country looks beautifully;’
in stead of beautiful.” [544]—
Bucke cor. “The adjective is put absolute,
or without its substantive.”—Ash
cor. “A noun or a pronoun in the second
person, may be put absolute in the nominative
case.”—Harrison cor. “A
noun or a pronoun, when put absolute
with a participle,” &c.—Id. and