than a fanciful refinement”—­_ Id._ “The regular and thorough resolution of a complete passage.”—­Churchill cor. “The infinitive is distinguished by the word TO, which immediately precedes it.”—­Maunder cor. “It will not be a gain of much ground, to urge that the basket, or vase, is understood to be the capital.”—­Kames cor. “The disgust one has to drink ink in reality, is not to the purpose, where the drinking of it is merely figurative.”—­_ Id._ “That we run not into the extreme of pruning so very closely.”—­See L.  Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 318.  “Being obliged to rest for a little while on the preposition itself.”  Or:  “Being obliged to rest a while on the preposition itself.”  Or:  “Being obliged to rest [for] a moment on the preposition alone.”—­Blair and Jam. cor. “Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.”—­Bible cor. “There may be attempted a more particular expression of certain objects, by means of imitative sounds.”—­Blair, Jam., and Mur. cor. “The right disposition of the shade, makes the light and colouring the more apparent.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “I observe that a diffuse style is apt to run into long periods.”—­_ Id._ “Their poor arguments, which they only picked up in the highways.”—­Leslie cor. “Which must be little else than a transcribing of their writings.”—­Barclay cor. “That single impulse is a forcing-out of almost all the breath.”  Or:  “That single impulse forces out almost all the breath.”—­Hush cor. “Picini compares modulation to the turning-off from a road.”—­Gardiner cor. “So much has been written on and off almost every subject.”—­Sophist cor. “By the reading of books written by the best authors, his mind became highly improved.”  Or:  “By the study of the most instructive books, his mind became highly improved.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “For I never made a rich provision a token of a spiritual ministry.”—­Barclay cor.

UNDER CRITICAL NOTE II.—­OF DOUBTFUL REFERENCE.

“However disagreeable the task, we must resolutely perform our duty.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The formation of all English verbs, whether they be regular or irregular, is derived from the Saxon tongue.”—­Lowth cor. “Time and chance have an influence on all things human, and nothing do they affect more remarkably than language.”—­Campbell cor. “Time and chance have an influence on all things human, and on nothing a more remarkable influence than on language.”—­Jamieson cor. “That Archytases, who was a virtuous man, happened to perish once upon a time, is with him a sufficient ground.” &c.—­Phil Mu. cor. “He will be the better qualified