to understand the meaning of the numerous words into which they enter as material parts.”—­L.  Murray cor. “We should continually have the goal in view, that it may direct us in the race.”—­_ Id._ “But Addison’s figures seem to rise of their own accord from the subject and constantly to embellish it” Or:—­“and they constantly embellish it.”—­Blair and Jam. cor. “So far as they signify persons, animals, and things that we can see, it is very easy to distinguish nouns.”—­Cobbett cor. “Dissyllables ending in y or mute e, or accented on the final syllable, may sometimes be compared like monosyllables.”—­Frost cor. “If the foregoing objection be admitted, it will not overrule the design.”—­Rush cor. “These philosophical innovators forget, that objects, like men, are known only by their actions.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “The connexion between words and ideas, is arbitrary and conventional; it has arisen mainly from the agreement of men among themselves.”—­Jamieson cor. “The connexion between words and ideas, may in general be considered as arbitrary and conventional, or as arising from the agreement of men among themselves.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “A man whose inclinations led him to be corrupt, and who had great abilities to manage and multiply and defend his corruptions.”—­Swift cor. “They have no more control over him than have any other men.”—­Wayland cor. “All his old words are true English, and his numbers are exquisite.”—­Spect. cor. “It has been said, that not Jesuits only can equivocate.”—­Mur. in Ex. and Key, cor. “In Latin, the nominative of the first or second person, is seldom expressed.”—­Adam and Gould cor. “Some words have the same form in both numbers.”—­Murray et al. cor. “Some nouns have the same form in both numbers.”—­Merchant et al. cor. “Others have the same form in both numbers; as, deer, sheep, swine.”—­Frost cor. “The following list denotes the consonant sounds, of which there are twenty-two.”  Or:  “The following list denotes the twenty-two simple sounds of the consonants.”—­Mur. et al. cor. “And is the ignorance of these peasants a reason for other persons to remain ignorant; or does it render the subject the less worthy of our inquiry?”—­Harris and Mur. cor. “He is one of the most correct, and perhaps he is the best, of our prose writers.”—­Lowth cor. “The motions of a vortex and of a whirlwind are perfectly similar.”  Or:  “The motion of a vortex and that of a whirlwind are perfectly similar.”—­Jamieson cor. “What I have been saying, throws light upon one important verse in the Bible; which verse I should like to hear some one read.”—­Abbott