CORRECTIONS UNDER THE CRITICAL NOTES.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE I.—­OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.

“The passive voice denotes an action received.”  Or:  “The passive voice denotes the receiving of an action.”—­Maunder corrected.  “Milton, in some of his prose works, has many very finely-turned periods.”—­Dr. Blair and Alex.  Jam. cor. “These will be found to be wholly, or chiefly, of that class.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “All appearances of an author’s affecting of harmony, are disagreeable.”—­Id. and Jam. cor. “Some nouns have a double increase; that is, they increase by more syllables than one:  as iter, itin~eris.”—­Adam et al. cor. “The powers of man are enlarged by progressive cultivation.”—­Gurney cor. “It is always important to begin well; to make a favourable impression at the first setting out.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “For if one take a wrong method at his first setting-out, it will lead him astray in all that follows.”—­_ Id._ “His mind is full of his subject, and all his words are expressive.”—­_ Id._ “How exquisitely is all this performed in Greek!”—­Harris cor. “How unworthy is all this to satisfy the ambition of an immortal soul!”—­L.  Murray cor. “So as to exhibit the object in its full grandeur, and its most striking point of view.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “And that the author know how to descend with propriety to the plain style, as well as how to rise to the bold and figured.”—­_ Id._ “The heart alone can answer to the heart.”—­_ Id._ “Upon the first perception of it.”  Or:  “As it is first perceived.”—­Harris cor. “Call for Samson, that he may make sport for us.”—­Bible cor. “And he made sport before them.”—­_ Id._ “The term ‘to suffer,’ in this definition, is used in a technical sense; and means simply, to receive an action, or to be acted upon.”—­Bullions cor. “The text only is what is meant to be taught in schools.”—­Brightland cor. “The perfect participle denotes action or existence perfected or finished.”—­Kirkham cor. “From the intricacy and confusion which are produced when they are blended together.”—­L.  Murray cor. “This very circumstance, that the word is employed antithetically renders it important in the sentence.”—­Kirkham cor. “It [the pronoun that,] is applied both to persons and to things.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Concerning us, as being everywhere traduced.”—­Barclay cor. “Every thing else was buried in a profound silence.”—­Steele cor. “They raise fuller conviction, than any reasonings produce.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “It appears to me nothing but a fanciful refinement.”  Or:  “It appears to me nothing more