cor. “And so much are they for allowing every one to follow his own mind.”—­Barclay cor. “More than one overture for peace were made, but Cleon prevented them from taking effect.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Neither in English, nor in any other language, is this word, or that which corresponds to it in meaning, any more an article, than TWO, THREE, or FOUR.”—­Webster cor. “But the most irksome conversation of all that I have met with in the neighbourhood, has been with two or three of your travellers.”—­Spect. cor. “Set down the first two terms of the supposition, one under the other, in the first place.”—­Smiley cor. “It is a useful practice too, to fix one’s eye on some of the most distant persons in the assembly.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “He will generally please his hearers most, when to please them is not his sole or his chief aim.”—­Id. “At length, the consuls return to the camp, and inform the soldiers, that they could obtain for them no other terms than those of surrendering their arms and passing under the yoke.”—­Id. “Nor are mankind so much to blame, in their choice thus determining them.”—­Swift cor. “These forms are what are called the Numbers.”  Or:  “These forms are called Numbers.”—­Fosdick cor. “In those languages which admit but two genders, all nouns are either masculine or feminine, even though they designate beings that are neither male nor female.”—­Id. “It is called Verb or Word by way of eminence, because it is the most essential word in a sentence, and one without which the other parts of speech cannot form any complete sense.”—­Gould cor. “The sentence will consist of two members, and these will commonly be separated from each other by a comma.”—­Jamieson cor. “Loud and soft in speaking are like the forte and piano in music; they only refer to the different degrees of force used in the same key:  whereas high and low imply a change of key.”—­Sheridan cor. “They are chiefly three:  the acquisition of knowledge; the assisting of the memory to treasure up this knowledge; and the communicating of it to others.”—­Id.

   “This kind of knaves I know, who in this plainness
    Harbour more craft, and hide corrupter ends,
    Than twenty silly ducking observants.”—­Shak. cor.

LESSON XVII.—­MANY ERRORS.