as to overcome.”  Or thus:  “That you may so run, that you may obtain; and so fight, that you may overcome.”—­Penn cor. “It is the artifice of some, to contrive false periods of business, that they may seem men of despatch.”—­Bacon cor. “‘A tall man and a woman.’  In this phrase, there is no ellipsis; the adjective belongs only to the former noun; the quality respects only the man.”—­Ash cor. “An abandonment of the policy is neither to be expected nor to be desired.”—­Jackson cor. “Which can be acquired by no other means than by frequent exercise in speaking.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The chief or fundamental rules of syntax are common to the English and the Latin tongue.”  Or:—­“are applicable to the English as well as to the Latin tongue.”—­Id. “Then I exclaim, either that my antagonist is void of all taste, or that his taste is corrupted in a miserable degree.”  Or thus:  “Then I exclaim, that my antagonist is either void of all taste, or has a taste that is miserably corrupted.”—­Id. “I cannot pity any one who is under no distress either of body or of mind.”—­Kames cor. “There was much genius in the world, before there were learning and arts to refine it.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Such a writer can have little else to do, than to new-model the paradoxes of ancient scepticism.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “Our ideas of them being nothing else than collections of the ordinary qualities observed in them.”—­Duncan cor. “A non-ens, or negative, can give neither pleasure nor pain.”—­Kames cor. “So that they shall not justle and embarrass one an other.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “He firmly refused to make use of any other voice than his own.”—­Murray’s Sequel, p. 113.  “Your marching regiments, sir, will not make the guards their example, either as soldiers or as subjects.”—­Junius cor. “Consequently they had neither meaning nor beauty, to any but the natives of each country.”—­Sheridan cor.

   “The man of worth, who has not left his peer,
    Is in his narrow house forever darkly laid.”—­Burns cor.

LESSON X.—­PREPOSITIONS.

“These may be carried on progressively beyond any assignable limits.”—­Kames cor. “To crowd different subjects into a single member of a period, is still worse than to crowd them into one period.”—­Id. “Nor do we rigidly insist on having melodious prose.”—­Id. “The aversion we have to those who differ from us.”—­Id. “For we cannot bear his shifting of the scene at every line.”—­Halifax cor. “We shall find that we come by it in the same way.”—­Locke cor. “Against