“One can scarcely think that Pope was capable of epic or tragic poetry; but, within a certain limited region, he has been outdone by no poet.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “I who now read, have nearly finished this chapter.”—­Harris cor. “And yet, to refine our taste with respect to beauties of art or of nature, is scarcely endeavoured in any seminary of learning.”—­Kames cor. “The numbers being confounded, and the possessives wrongly applied, the passage is neither English nor grammar.”—­Buchanan cor. “The letter G is wrongly named Jee.”—­Creighton cor. “Lastly, remember that in science, as in morals, authority cannot make right what in itself is wrong.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “They regulate our taste even where we are scarcely sensible of them.”—­Kames cor. “Slow action, for example, is imitated by words pronounced slowly.”—­Id. “Surely, if it be to profit withal, it must be in order to save.”—­Barclay cor. “Which is scarcely possible at best.”—­Sheridan cor. “Our wealth being nearly finished.”—­Harris cor.

CHAPTER IX.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXII.

UNDER NOTE I.—­OF TWO TERMS WITH ONE.

“The first proposal was essentially different from the second, and inferior to it.”—­Inst.  “A neuter verb expresses the state which a subject is in, without acting upon any other thing, or being acted upon by an other.”—­A.  Murray cor. “I answer, You may use stories and anecdotes, and ought to do so.”—­Todd cor. “ORACLE, n. Any person from whom, or place at which, certain decisions are obtained.”—­Webster cor. “Forms of government may, and occasionally must, be changed.”—­Lyttelton cor. “I have been, and I still pretend to be, a tolerable judge.”—­Sped. cor. “Are we not lazy in our duties, or do we not make a Christ of them?”—­Baxter cor. “They may not express that idea which the author intends, but some other which only resembles it, or is akin to it.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “We may therefore read them, we ought to read them, with a distinguishing eye.”—­Ib. “Compare their poverty with what they might possess, and ought to possess.”—­Sedgwick cor. “He is much better acquainted with grammar than they are.”—­L.  Murray cor. “He was more beloved than Cinthio, but [he was] not so much admired.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., i, 222.  “Will it be urged, that the four gospels are as old as tradition, and even older?”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 207.  “The court of chancery frequently mitigates and disarms the common law.”—­Spect. and Ware cor. “Antony, coming along side of her ship, entered