“The empire of Blefuscu is an island situated on the northeast side of Lilliput, from which it is parted by a channel of only 800 yards in width.”—­Swift and Kames cor. “The nominative case usually denotes the agent or doer; and any noun or pronoun which is the subject of a finite verb, is always in this case.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “There are, in his allegorical personages, an originality, a richness, and a variety, which almost vie with the splendours of the ancient mythology.”—­Hazlitt cor. “As neither the Jewish nor the Christian revelation has been universal, and as each has been afforded to a greater or a less part of the world at different times; so likewise, at different times, both revelations have had different degrees of evidence.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Thus we see, that, to kill a man with a sword, and to kill one with a hatchet, are looked upon as no distinct species of action; but, if the point of the sword first enter the body, the action passes for a distinct species, called stabbing.”—­Locke cor. “If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour concerning that which was delivered him to keep, or deceive his neighbour, or find that which was lost, and lie concerning it, and swear falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein, then it shall be,” &c.—­Bible cor. “As, to do and teach the commandments of God, is the great proof of virtue; so, to break them, and to teach others to break them, are the great proofs of vice.”—­Wayland cor. “The latter simile, in Pope’s terrific maltreatment of it, is true neither to the mind nor to the eye.”—­Coleridge cor. “And the two brothers were seen, transported with rage and fury, like Eteocles and Polynices, each endeavouring to plunge his sword into the other’s heart, and to assure himself of the throne by the death of his rival.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Is it not plain, therefore, that neither the castle, nor the planet, nor the cloud, which you here see, is that real one which you suppose to exist at a distance?”—­Berkley cor. “I have often wondered, how it comes to pass, that every body should love himself best, and yet value his neighbours’ opinion about himself more than his own.”—­Collier cor. “Virtue, ([Greek:  Aretae], Virtus,) as well as most of its species, when sex is figuratively ascribed to it, is made feminine, perhaps from its beauty and amiable appearance.”—­Harris cor. “Virtue, with most of its species, is made feminine when personified; and so is Vice, perhaps for being Virtue’s