cor. “If you will replace what has been, for a long time expunged from the language.”  Or:  “If you will replace what was long ago expunged from the language.”—­Campbell and Murray cor. “As in all those faulty instances which I have just been giving.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “This mood is also used improperly in the following places.”—­L.  Murray cor. “He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to have known what it was that nature had bestowed upon him.”—­Johnson cor. “Of which I have already given one instance, the worst indeed that occurred in the poem.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “It is strange he never commanded you to do it.”—­Anon.  “History painters would have found it difficult, to invent such a species of beings.”—­Addison cor. “Universal Grammar cannot be taught abstractedly; it must be explained with referenc [sic—­KTH] to some language already known.”—­Lowth cor. “And we might imagine, that if verbs had been so contrived as simply to express these, no other tenses would have been needful.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “To a writer of such a genius as Dean Swift’s, the plain style is most admirably fitted.”—­Id. “Please to excuse my son’s absence.”—­Inst., p. 279.  “Bid the boys come in immediately.”—­Ib.

   “Gives us the secrets of his pagan hell,
    Where restless ghosts in sad communion dwell.”—­Crabbe cor.

    “Alas! nor faith nor valour now remains;
    Sighs are but wind, and I must bear my chains.”—­Walpole cor.

LESSON VII.—­PARTICIPLES.

“Of which the author considers himself, in compiling the present work, as merely laying the foundation-stone.”—­David Blair cor. “On the raising of such lively and distinct images as are here described.”—­Kames cor. “They are necessary to the avoiding of ambiguities.”—­Brightland cor. “There is no neglecting of it without falling into a dangerous error.”  Or better:  “None can neglect it without falling,” &c.—­Burlamaqui cor. “The contest resembles Don Quixote’s fighting of (or with) windmills.”—­Webster cor. “That these verbs associate with other verbs in all the tenses, is no proof that they have no particular time of their own.”—­L.  Murray cor. “To justify myself in not following the track of the ancient rhetoricians.”—­Dr. H. Blair cor. “The putting-together of letters, so as to make words, is called Spelling.”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “What is the putting-together of vowels and consonants called?”—­Id. “Nobody knows of their charitableness, but themselves.”  Or:  “Nobody knows that they are charitable, but themselves.”—­Fuller