“Why is our language less refined than that of Italy, Spain, or France?”—­L.  Murray cor.  “Why is our language less refined than the French?”—­Ingersoll cor. “I believe your Lordship will agree with me, in the reason why our language is less refined than that of Italy, Spain, or France.”—­Swift cor. “Even in this short sentence, ’why our language is less refined than those of Italy, Spain, or France,’ we may discern an inaccuracy; the pronominal adjective ’those’ is made plural, when the substantive to which it refers, or the thing for which it stands, ’the language of Italy, Spain, or France,’ is singular.”—­Dr. H. Blair cor. “The sentence would have run much better in this way:—­’why our language is less refined than the Italian, the Spanish, or the French.’”—­Id. “But when arranged in an entire sentence, as they must be to make a complete sense, they show it still more evidently.”—­L.  Murray cor. “This is a more artificial and refined construction, than that in which the common connective is simply used.”—­Id. “I shall present to the reader a list of certain prepositions or prefixes, which are derived from the Latin and Greek languages.”—­Id.  “A relative sometimes comprehends the meaning of a personal pronoun and a copulative conjunction.”—­Id. “Personal pronouns, being used to supply the places of nouns, are not often employed in the same clauses with the nouns which they represent.”—­Id. and Smith cor. “There is very seldom any occasion for a substitute where the principal word is present.”—­L.  Mur. cor. “We hardly consider little children as persons, because the term person gives us the idea of reason, or intelligence.”—­Priestley et al. cor. “The occasions for exerting these two qualities are different.”—­Dr. Blair et al. cor. “I’ll tell you with whom time ambles withal, with whom time trots withal, with whom time gallops withal, and with whom he stands still withal.  I pray thee, with whom doth he trot withal?”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 122.  “By greatness, I mean, not the bulk of any single object only but the largeness of a whole view.”—­Addison cor. “The question may then be put, What more does he than mean?”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The question might be put, What more does he than mean?”—­Id. “He is surprised to find himself at so great a distance from the object with which he set out.”—­Id.; also Murray cor. “Few rules can be given which will hold good in all cases.”—­Lowth and Mur. cor. “Versification is the arrangement of words into metrical lines, according to the laws of verse.”—­Johnson cor. “Versification is the arrangement of