Mur. et al. cor. “To obey our parents, is an obvious duty.”—­Parker and Fox cor. “Almost all the political papers of the kingdom have touched upon these things.”—­H.  C. Wright cor. “I shall take the liberty to make a few observations on the subject.”—­Hiley cor. “His loss I have endeavoured to supply, so far as by additional vigilance and industry I could.”—­Id. “That they should make vegetation so exuberant as to anticipate every want.”—­Frazee cor. “The guillemets, or quotation points, ["”] denote that one or more words are extracted from an other author.”—­P.  E. Day cor. “Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, was one of the most noted cities of ancient times.”—­Id. “It may, however, be rendered definite by the mention of some particular time; as, yesterday, last week, &c.”—­Bullions cor. “The last is called heroic measure, and is the same that is used by Milton, Young, Thomson, Pollok. &c.”—­Id. “Perennial ones must be sought in the delightful regions above.”—­Hallock cor. “Intransitive verbs are those which are inseparable from the effect produced.”  Or better:  “Intransitive verbs are those which express action without governing an object.”—­Cutler cor. “The Feminine gender belongs to women, and animals of the female kind.”—­Id. “Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!”—­ALGER’S BIBLE:  Luke, xi, 44.  “A pyrrhic, which has both its syllables short.”—­Day cor. “What kind of jessamine?  A jessamine in flower, or a flowery jessamine.”—­Barrett cor. “LANGUAGE, a word derived from LINGUA, the tongue, now signifies any series of sounds or letters formed into words, and used for the expression of thought.”—­Id. See this Gram. of E. Grammars, p. 145.  “Say ‘none,’ not ‘ne’er a one.’”—­Staniford cor. “‘E’er a one,’ [is sometimes used for ‘any’] or ‘either.’”—­Pond cor.

   “Earth loses thy pattern for ever and aye;
    O sailor-boy! sailor-boy! peace to thy soul.”
        —­Dymond.

    “His brow was sad; his eye beneath
    Flashed like a falchion from its sheath.”
        —­Longfellow’s Ballads, p. 129.

[Fist] [The examples exhibited for exercises under Critical Notes 15th and 16th, being judged either incapable of correction, or unworthy of the endeavour, are submitted to the criticism of the reader, without any attempt to amend them, or to offer substitutes in this place.]

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SYNTAX.

LESSON I.—­UNDER VARIOUS RULES.