“The sentence may run thus:  ’He is related to the same person, and is governed by him.’”—­Hart cor. “Always remember this ancient proverb:  ‘Know thyself.’”—­Hallock cor. “Consider this sentence:  ’The boy runs swiftly.’”—­Frazee cor. “The comparative is used thus:  ’Greece was more polished than any other nation of antiquity.’  The same idea is expressed by the superlative, when the word other is left out:  thus, ’Greece was the most polished nation of antiquity.’”—­Bullions and Lennie cor. “Burke, in his speech on the Carnatic war, makes the following allusion to the well known fable of Cadmus sowing dragon’s teeth:—­’Every day you are fatigued and disgusted with this cant:  ’The Carnatic is a country that will soon recover, and become instantly as prosperous as ever.’  They think they are talking to innocents, who believe that by the sowing of dragon’s teeth, men may come up ready grown and ready made.’”—­Hiley and Hart cor.

   “For sects he car’d not:  ’They are not of us,
    Nor need we, brethren, their concerns discuss.’”—­Crabbe cor.

    “Habit, with him, was all the test of truth: 
    ‘It must be right; I’ve done it from my youth.’ 
    Questions he answer’d in as brief a way: 
    ‘It must be wrong; it was of yesterday.’”—­Id.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

“This would seem to say, ’I doubt nothing, save one thing; namely, that he will fulfill his promise:’  whereas that is the very thing not doubted.”—­Bullions cor. “The common use of language requires, that a distinction be made between morals and manners:  the former depend upon internal dispositions; the latter, upon outward and visible accomplishments.”—­Beattie cor. “Though I detest war in each particular fibre of my heart, yet I honour the heroes among our fathers, who fought with bloody hand.  Peacemakers in a savage way, they were faithful to their light:  the most inspired can be no more; and we, with greater light, do, it may be, far less.”—­T.  Parker cor. “The article the, like a, must have a substantive joined with it; whereas that, like one, may have it understood:  thus, speaking of books, I may select one, and say, ’Give me that;’ but not, ’Give me the;’—­[so I may say,] ‘Give me one;’ but not, ‘Give me a.’”—­Bullions cor. “The Present tense has three distinct forms:  the simple; as, I read:  the emphatic; as, I do read:  and the progressive; as, I am reading.”  Or thus:  “The Present tense has three distinct forms;—­the simple; as, ’I read;’—­the emphatic; as, ’I do read;’—­and the progressive; as, ‘I am reading.’”—­Id. “The tenses in English are usually reckoned six:  the Present, the Imperfect, the Perfect, the Pluperfect, the First-future,