are guilty of bad actions, is scarcely one remove from an actual commission of the same crimes.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “’To countenance persons that are guilty of bad actions,’ is a phrase or clause which is made the subject of the verb ‘is.’”—­Id. “What is called the splitting of particles,—­that is, the separating of a preposition from the noun which it governs, is always to be avoided.”—­Dr. Blair et al. cor. (See Obs. 15th on Rule 23d.) “There is properly but one pause, or rest, in the sentence; and this falls betwixt the two members into which the sentence is divided.”—­Iid. “To go barefoot, does not at all help a man on, in the way to heaven.”—­Steele cor. “There is nobody who does not condemn this in others, though many overlook it in themselves.”—­Locke cor. “Be careful not to use the same word in the same sentence either too frequently or in different senses.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Nothing could have made her more unhappy, than to have married a man of such principles.”—­Id. “A warlike, various, and tragical age is the best to write of, but the worst to write in.”—­Cowley cor. “When thou instancest Peter’s babtizing [sic—­KTH] of Cornelius.”—­Barclay cor. “To introduce two or more leading thoughts or topics, which have no natural affinity or mutual dependence.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Animals, again, are fitted to one an other, and to the elements or regions in which they live, and to which they are as appendices.”—­Id. “This melody, however, or so frequent varying of the sound of each word, is a proof of nothing, but of the fine ear of that people.”—­Jamieson cor. “They can, each in its turn, be used upon occasion.”—­Duncan cor. “In this reign, lived the poets Gower and Chaucer, who are the first authors that can properly be said to have written English.”—­Bucke cor. “In translating expressions of this kind, consider the [phrase] ‘it is’ as if it were they are.”—­W.  Walker cor. “The chin has an important office to perform; for, by the degree of its activity, we disclose either a polite or a vulgar pronunciation.”—­Gardiner cor. “For no other reason, than that he was found in bad company.”—­Webster cor. “It is usual to compare them after the manner of polysyllables.”—­Priestley cor. “The infinitive mood is recognized more easily than any other, because the preposition TO precedes it.”—­Bucke cor. “Prepositions, you recollect, connect words, and so do conjunctions:  how, then, can you tell a conjunction from a preposition?” Or:—­“how, then, can you distinguish the former from the latter?”—­R.  C. Smith cor.