cor. “Payment was at length made, but no reason was assigned for so long a postponement of it.”—­Murray et al. cor. “Which will bear to be brought into comparison with any composition of the kind.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “To render vice ridiculous, is to do real service to the world.”—­Id. “It is a direct copying from nature, a plain rehearsal of what passed, or was supposed to pass, in conversation.”—­Id. “Propriety of pronunciation consists in giving to every word that sound which the most polite usage of the language appropriates to it.”—­Murray’s Key, 8vo, p. 200; and again, p. 219.  “To occupy the mind, and prevent us from regretting the insipidity of a uniform plain.”—­Kames cor. “There are a hundred ways in which any thing may happen.”—­Steele cor. “Tell me, seignior, for what cause (or why) Antonio sent Claudio to Venice yesterday.”—­Bucke cor. “As you are looking about for an outlet, some rich prospect unexpectedly opens to view.”—­Kames cor. “A hundred volumes of modern novels may be read without communicating a new idea.”  Or thus:  “A person may read a hundred volumes of modern novels without acquiring a new idea.”—­Webster cor. “Poetry admits of greater latitude than prose, with respect to the coining, or at least the new compounding, of words.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “When laws were written on brazen tablets, and enforced by the sword.”—­Pope cor. “A pronoun, which saves the naming of a person or thing a second time, ought to be placed as near as possible to the name of that person or thing.”—­Kames cor. “The using of a preposition in this case, is not always a matter of choice.”—­Id. “To save the multiplying of words, I would be understood to comprehend both circumstances.”—­Id. “Immoderate grief is mute:  complaint is a struggle for consolation.”—­Id. “On the other hand, the accelerating or the retarding of the natural course, excites a pain.”—­Id. “Human affairs require the distributing of our attention.”—­Id. “By neglecting this circumstance, the author of the following example has made it defective in neatness.”—­Id. “And therefore the suppressing of copulatives must animate a description.”—­Id. “If the omission of copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid.”—­Id. “It skills not, to ask my leave, said Richard.”—­Scott cor. “To redeem his credit, he proposed to be sent once more to Sparta.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Dumas relates that he gave drink to a dog.”—­Stone cor. “Both are, in a like way, instruments of our reception of such ideas from external objects.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “In order to your proper handling