“Since these qualities are both coarse and common,
let us find out the mark of a man of probity.”—Collier
cor. “Cicero did what no man had ever done
before him; he drew up a treatise of consolation
for himself.”—Biographer cor.
“Then there can remain no other doubt
of the truth.”—Brightland cor.
“I have observed that some satirists use
the term.” Or: “I have observed
some satirists to use the term.”—Bullions
cor. “Such men are ready to despond, or
to become enemies.”—Webster
cor. “Common nouns are names common
to many things.”—Inf. S. Gram.
cor. “To make ourselves heard by
one to whom we address ourselves.”—Dr.
Blair cor. “That, in reading poetry, he
may be the better able to judge of its correctness,
and may relish its beauties.” Or:—“and
to relish its beauties.”—L.
Murray cor. “On the stretch to keep pace
with the author, and comprehend his meaning.”—Dr.
Blair cor. “For it might have been sold for
more than three hundred pence, and the money
have been given to the poor.”—Bible
cor. “He is a beam that has departed,
and has left no streak of light behind.”—Ossian
cor. “No part of this incident ought to have
been represented, but the whole should have been
reserved for a narrative.”—Kames
cor. “The rulers and people debauching themselves,
a country is brought to ruin.” Or:
“When the rulers and people debauch
themselves, they bring ruin on a country.”—Ware
cor. “When a title, (as Doctor,
Miss, Master, &c.,) is prefixed to a name, the
latter only, of the two words, is commonly
varied to form the plural; as, ’The Doctor
Nettletons,’—’The two Miss
Hudsons.’”—A. Murray
cor. “Wherefore that field has been
called, ‘The Field of Blood,’ unto
this day.”—Bible cor. “To
comprehend the situations of other countries, which
perhaps it may be necessary for him to explore.”—Dr.
Brown cor. “We content ourselves now with
fewer conjunctive particles than our ancestors used.”—Priestley
cor. “And who will be chiefly liable to make
mistakes where others have erred before them.”—Id.
“The voice of nature and that of revelation
unite.” Or: “Revelation
and the voice of nature unite.”
Or: “The voice of nature unites with
revelation.” Or: “The voice
of nature unites with that of revelation.”—Wayland
cor.
“This adjective, you see,
we can’t admit;
But, changed to ‘WORSE,’
the word is just and fit.”—Tobitt
cor.