“Time was, like thee, they life possess’d,
    And time shall be, when thou shalt rest.”—­Parnell cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­OF THE CORRESPONDENTS.

“Our manners should be neither gross nor excessively refined.”—­Murray’s Key, ii, 165.  “A neuter verb expresses neither action nor passion, but being, or a state of being.”—­O.  B. Peirce cor. “The old books are neither English grammars, nor in any sense grammars of the English language.”—­Id. “The author is apprehensive that his work is not yet so accurate and so much simplified as it may be.”—­Kirkham cor. “The writer could not treat some topics so extensively as [it] was desirable [to treat them].”—­Id. “Which would be a matter of such nicety, that no degree of human wisdom could regulate it.”—­L.  Murray cor. “No undertaking is so great or difficult, that he cannot direct it.”—­Duncan cor. “It is a good which depends neither on the will of others, nor on the affluence of external fortune.”—­Harris cor. “Not only his estate, but his reputation too, has suffered by his misconduct.”—­Murray and Ingersoll cor. “Neither do they extend so far as might be imagined at first view.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “There is no language so poor, but that it has (or, as not to have) two or three past tenses.”—­Id.  “So far as this system is founded in truth, language appears to be not altogether arbitrary in its origin.”—­Id. “I have not such command of these convulsions as is necessary.”  Or:  “I have not that command of these convulsions which is necessary.”—­Spect. cor. “Conversation with such as (or, those who) know no arts that polish life.”—­Id. “And which cannot be either very lively or very forcible.”—­Jamieson cor. “To such a degree as to give proper names to rivers.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “In the utter overthrow of such as hate to be reformed.”—­Barclay cor. “But still so much of it is retained, that it greatly injures the uniformity of the whole.”—­Priestley cor. “Some of them have gone to such a height of extravagance, as to assert,” &c.—­Id. “A teacher is confined, not more than a merchant, and probably not so much.”—­Abbott cor. “It shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nor in the world to come.”  Or:  “It shall not be forgiven him, either in this world, or in the world to come.”—­Bible cor. “Which nobody presumes, or is so sanguine as to hope.”—­Swift cor. “For the torrent of the voice left neither time, nor power in the organs, to shape the words properly.”—­Sheridan cor. “That he may neither unnecessarily waste his voice by throwing out too much, nor diminish his power by using too little.”—­Id. “I have retained only such as appear most agreeable to the measures of analogy.”—­Littleton cor. “He is a man both prudent and industrious.”—­P.  E. Day cor. “Conjunctions connect either words or sentences.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 169.