“No kind of work requires a nicer touch,
    And, this well finish’d, none else shines so much.”
        —­Sheffield cor.

LESSON XVI.—­THREE ERRORS.

“On many occasions, it is the final pause alone, that marks the difference between prose and verse:  this will be evident from the following arrangement of a few poetical lines.”—­L.  Murray cor. “I shall do all I can to persuade others to take for their cure the same measures that I have taken for mine.”—­Guardian cor.; also Murray.  “It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, that they will set a house on fire, as it were, but to roast their eggs.”—­Bacon cor. “Did ever man struggle more earnestly in a cause in which both his honour and his life were concerned?”—­Duncan cor. “So the rests, or pauses, which separate sentences or their parts, are marked by points.”—­Lowth cor. “Yet the case and mood are not influenced by them, but are determined by the nature of the sentence.”—­Id. “Through inattention to this rule, many errors have been committed:  several of which are here subjoined, as a further caution and direction to the learner.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Though thou clothe thyself with crimson, though thou deck thee with ornaments of gold, though thou polish thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair.” [552]—­Bible cor. “But that the doing of good to others, will make us happy, is not so evident; the feeding of the hungry, for example, or the clothing of the naked.”  Or:  “But that, to do good to others, will make us happy, is not so evident; to feed the hungry, for example, or to clothe the naked.”—­Kames cor. “There is no other God than he, no other light than his.”  Or:  “There is no God but he, no light but his.”—­Penn cor. “How little reason is there to wonder, that a powerful and accomplished orator should be one of the characters that are most rarely found.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Because they express neither the doing nor the receiving of an action.”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “To find the answers, will require an effort of mind; and, when right answers are given, they will be the result of reflection, and show that the subject is understood.”—­Id. “‘The sun rises,’ is an expression trite and common; but the same idea becomes a magnificent image, when expressed in the language of Mr. Thomson.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The declining of a word is the giving of its different endings.”  Or:  “To decline a word, is to give it different endings.”—­Ware