“O thou, whom all mankind in vain withstand,
    Who with the blood of each must one day stain thy hand!”
        —­Sheffield cor.

LESSON XII.—­OF TWO ERRORS.

“Pronouns sometimes precede the terms which they represent.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Most prepositions originally denoted relations of place.”—­Lowth cor. “WHICH is applied to brute animals, and to things without life.”—­Bullions cor. “What thing do they describe, or of what do they tell the kind?”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “Iron cannons, as well as brass, are now universally cast solid.”—­Jamieson cor. “We have philosophers, more eminent perhaps than those of any other nation.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “This is a question about words only, and one which common sense easily determines.”—­Id. “The low pitch of the voice, is that which approaches to a whisper.”—­Id. “Which, as to the effect, is just the same as to use no such distinctions at all.”—­Id. “These two systems, therefore, really differ from each other but very little.”—­Id. “It is needless to give many instances, as examples occur so often.”—­Id. “There are many occasions on which this is neither requisite nor proper.”—­Id. “Dramatic poetry divides itself into two forms, comedy and tragedy.”—­Id. “No man ever rhymed with more exactness than he.” [I.e., than Roscommon.]—­Editor of Waller cor. “The Doctor did not reap from his poetical labours a profit equal to that of his prose.”—­Johnson cor. “We will follow that which we find our fathers practised.”  Or:  “We will follow that which we find to have been our fathers’ practice.”—­Sale cor. “And I should deeply regret that I had published them.”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor. “Figures exhibit ideas with more vividness and power, than could be given them by plain language.”—­Kirkham cor. “The allegory is finely drawn, though the heads are various.”—­Spect. cor. “I should not have thought it worthy of this place.”  Or:  “I should not have thought it worthy of being placed here.”—­Crombie cor. “In this style, Tacitus excels all other writers, ancient or modern.”—­Kames cor. “No other author, ancient or modern, possesses the art of dialogue so completely as Shakspeare.”—­ Id. “The names of all the things we see, hear, smell, taste, or feel, are nouns.”—­Inf.  S. Gram. cor.  “Of what number are the expressions, ‘these boys,’ ‘these pictures,’ &c.?”—­Id. “This sentence has faults somewhat like those of the last.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Besides perspicuity, he pursues propriety,