Jaudon cor. “A verb in the infinitive mood absolute, stands independent of the remaining part of the sentence.”—­Wilbur and Liv. cor. “At my late return into England, I met a book entitled, ‘The Iron Age.’”—­Cowley cor. “But he can discover no better foundation for any of them, than the mere practice of Homer and Virgil.”—­Kames cor.

UNDER NOTE III.—­HERE FOR HITHER, &C.

“It is reported, that the governor will come hither to-morrow.”—­Kirkham cor. “It has been reported that the governor will come hither to-morrow.”—­Id. “To catch a prospect of that lovely land whither his steps are tending.”—­Maturin cor. “Plautus makes one of his characters ask an other, whither he is going with that Vulcan shut up in a horn; that is, with a lantern in his hand.”—­Adams cor. “When we left Cambridge we intended to return thither in a few days.”—­Anon. cor. “Duncan comes hither to-night.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 323.  “They talked of returning hither last week.”—­See J.  M. Putnam’s Gram., p. 129.

UNDER NOTE IV.—­FROM HENCE, &C.

“Hence he concludes, that no inference can be drawn from the meaning of the word, that a constitution has a higher authority than a law or statute,”—­Webster cor. “Whence we may likewise date the period of this event.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Hence it becomes evident that LANGUAGE, taken in the most comprehensive view, implies certain sounds, [or certain written signs,] having certain meanings.”—­Harris cor. “They returned to the city whence they came out.”—­A.  Murray cor. “Respecting ellipses, some grammarians differ strangely in their ideas; and thence has arisen a very whimsical diversity in their systems of grammar.”—­G.  Brown.  “What am I, and whence?  That is, What am I, and whence am I?”—­Jaudon cor.

UNDER NOTE V.—­THE ADVERB HOW.

“It is strange, that a writer so accurate as Dean Swift, should have stumbled on so improper an application of this particle.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Ye know, that a good while ago God made choice among us,” &c.—­Bible cor. “Let us take care lest we sin; i.e.,—­that we do not sin.”—­Priestley cor. “We see by these instances, that prepositions may be necessary, to connect such words as are not naturally connected by their own signification.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Know ye not your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”—­Bible cor. “That thou mayst know that the earth is the Lord’s.”—­Id.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­WHEN, WHILE, OR WHERE.