“Of all the vices, covetousness is that
which enters the most deeply into the soul.”—Campbell
cor. “The vice of covetousness is a fault
which enters more deeply into the soul than
any other.”—Guardian cor.
“WOULD primarily denotes inclination of will;
and SHOULD, obligation: but they vary
their import, and are often used to express simple
events.” Or:—“but
both of them vary their import,” &c.
Or:—“but both vary their import,
and are used to express simple events.”—Lowth,
Murray, et al. cor.; also Comly and Ingersoll;
likewise Abel Flint. “A double condition,
in two correspondent clauses of a sentence, is sometimes
made by the word HAD; as, ’Had
he done this, he had escaped.’”—Murray
and Ingersoll cor. “The pleasures of the
understanding are preferable to those of the imagination,
as well as to those of sense.”—L.
Murray cor. “Claudian, in a fragment upon
the wars of the giants, has contrived to render this
idea of their throwing of the mountains, which
in itself has so much grandeur, burlesque and
ridiculous.”—Dr. Blair cor.
“To which not only no other writings are to
be preferred, but to which, even in divers respects,
none are comparable.”—Barclay
cor. “To distinguish them in the understanding,
and treat of their several natures, in the same cool
manner that we use with regard to other
ideas.”—Sheridan cor. “For
it has nothing to do with parsing, or the analyzing
of language.”—Kirkham cor.
Or: “For it has nothing to do with the
parsing, or analyzing, of language.”—Id.
“Neither has that language [the Latin]
ever been so common in Britain.”—Swift
cor. “All that I purpose, is, to
give some openings into the pleasures of taste.”—Dr.
Blair cor. “But the following sentences
would have been better without it.”—L.
Murray cor. “But I think the following sentence
would be better without it.”
Or: “But I think it should be expunged
from the following sentence.”—
Priestley cor. “They appear, in this case,
like ugly excrescences jutting out from the
body.”—Dr. Blair cor. “And
therefore the fable of the Harpies, in the third book
of the AEneid, and the allegory of Sin and Death,
in the second book of Paradise Lost, ought not to
have been inserted in these celebrated poems.”—Id.
“Ellipsis is an elegant suppression, or omission,
of some word or words, belonging to a
sentence.”—Brit. Gram. and
Buchanan cor. “The article A or AN is
not very proper in this construction.”—D.
Blair cor. “Now suppose the articles had
not been dropped from these passages.”—Bucke
cor. “To have given a separate name