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"In what regards the laws of grammatical purity," says Dr. Campbell, "the violation is much more conspicuous than the observance."--See Philosophy of Rhetoric, p. 190. It therefore falls in with my main purpose, to present to the public, in the following ample work, a condensed mass of special criticism, such as is not elsewhere to be found in
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"And, when some rival bids a higher price,
Will not be sluggish in the work, or nice."βButler cor.
"All the words employed to denote spiritual or intellectual things, are in their origin metaphors."βDr. Campbell cor. "A reply to an argument commonly brought forward by unbelievers."βDr. Blair cor. "It was once the only form used in the past tenses."βDr. Ash cor. "Of the points and other characters used in writing."βId. "If THY be the personal pronoun adopted."βWalker cor. "The Conjunction is a word used to connect [words or] sentences."βBurn cor. "The points which answer these purposes, are the four following."βHarrison cor. "INCENSE signifies perfume exhaled by fire, and used in religious ceremonies."βL. Mur. cor. "In most of his orations, there is too much art; he carries it even to ostentation."βBlair cor. "To illustrate the great truth, so often overlooked in our times."βC. S. Journal cor. "The principal figures calculated to affect the heart, are Exclamation, Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation."βFormey cor. "Disgusted at the odious artifices employed by the judge."βJunius cor. "All the reasons for which there was allotted to us a condition out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise."βBp. Butler cor. "Some characteristical circumstance being generally invented or seized upon."βLd. Kames cor.
"And BY is likewise used with names that shew
The method or the means of what we do."βWard cor.
"Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison, as do adjectives."βPriestley cor. "But the author who, by the number and reputation of his works, did more than any one else, to bring our language into its present state, was Dryden."βBlair cor. "In some states, courts of admiralty have no juries, nor do courts of chancery employ any at all."βWebster cor. "I feel grateful to my friend."βMurray cor. "This requires a writer to have in his own mind a very clear apprehension of the object which he means to present to us."βBlair cor. "Sense has its own harmony, which naturally contributes something to the harmony of sound."βId. "The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which gave to the word an additional syllable."βPriestley cor. "There are few to whom I can refer with more advantage than to Mr. Addison."βBlair cor. "DEATH, (in theology,) is a perpetual separation from God, a state of eternal torments."βWebster cor. "That could inform the traveller as well as could the old man himself!"βO. B. Peirce cor.
UNDER NOTE VIII.βOF YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE."Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth."βSCOTT, FRIENDS, and the COMPREHENSIVE BIBLE: Jer., xlix, 3. "Wash you, make you clean."βSCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, i, 16. "Strip you, and make you bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins."βSCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Isaiah, xxxii, 11. "Ye are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me."βSCOTT, BRUCE, and BLAYNEY: Job, xix, 3. "If ye knew the gift of God." Or: "If thou knew the gift of God."βSee John, iv, 10. "Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity; I know you not."βPenington cor.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VI; OF SAME CASES. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.βOF PROPER IDENTITY."Who would not say, 'If it be I,' rather than, 'If it be me?"βPriestley cor. "Who is there? It is I."βId. "It is he."βId. "Are these the houses you were speaking of? Yes; they are the same."βId. "It is not I, that you are in love with."βAddison cor. "It cannot be I."βSwift cor. "To that which once was thou."βPrior cor. "There is but one man that she can have, and that man is myself."βPriestley cor. "We enter, as it were, into his body, and become in some measure he." Or, better:β"and become in some measure identified with him."βA. Smith and Priestley cor. "Art thou proud yet? Ay, that I am not thou."βShak. cor. "He knew not who they were."βMilnes cor. "Whom do you think me to be?"βDr. Lowth's Gram., p. 17. "Who do men say that I, the Son of man, am?"βBible cor. "But who say ye that I am?"βId. "Who think ye that I am? I am not he."βId. "No; I am in error; I perceive it is not the person that I supposed it was."βWinter in London cor. "And while it is He that I serve, life is not without value."βWare cor. "Without ever dreaming it was he."βCharles XII cor. "Or he was not the illiterate personage that he affected to be."βMontgom. cor. "Yet was he the man who was to be the greatest apostle of the Gentiles."βBarclay cor. "Sweet was the thrilling ecstacy; I know not if 'twas love, or thou."βJ. Hogg cor. "Time was, when none would cry, that oaf was I."βDryden cor. "No matter where the vanquished be, or who."βRowe cor. "No; I little thought it had been he."βGratton cor. "That reverence, that godly fear, which is ever due to 'Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell.'"βMaturin cor. "It is we that they seek to please, or rather to astonish."βJ. West cor. "Let the same be her that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac."βBible cor. "Although I knew it to be him."βDickens cor. "Dear gentle youth, is't none but thou?"βDorset cor. "Who do they say it is?"βFowler cor.
"These are her garb, not she; they but express
Her form, her semblance, her appropriate dress."βMore cor.
"I had no knowledge of any connexion between them."βCol. Stone cor. "To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing, as to be the actors of it ourselves." (That is, "For us to promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same thing as for us to be the actors of it ourselves.")βMurray cor. "It must arise from a delicate feeling in ourselves."βBlair and Murray cor. "Because there has not been exercised a competent physical power for their enforcement."βMass. Legisl. cor. "PUPILAGE, n. The state of a pupil, or scholar."βDictionaries cor. "Then the other part, being the definition, would include all verbs, of every description."βPeirce cor. "John's friendship for me saved me from inconvenience."βId. "William's judgeship"βor, "William's appointment to the office of judge,βchanged his whole demeanour."βId. "William's practical acquaintance with teaching, was the cause of the interest he felt."βId. "To be but one among many, stifleth the chidings of conscience."βTupper cor. "As for the opinion that it is a close translation, I doubt not that many have been led into that error by the shortness of it."βPope cor. "All presumption that death is the destruction of living beings, must go upon the supposition that they are compounded, and therefore discerptible."βBp. Butler cor. "This argues rather that they are proper names."βChurchill cor. "But may it not be retorted, that this gratification itself, is that which excites our resentment?"βCampbell cor. "Under the common notion, that it is a system of the whole poetical art."βBlair cor. "Whose want of time, or whose other circumstances, forbid them to become classical scholars."βLit. Jour. cor. "It would prove him not to have been a mere fictitious personage." Or: "It would preclude the notion that he was merely a fictitious personage."βPhil. Mu. cor. "For heresy, or under pretence that they are heretics or infidels."βOath cor. "We may here add Dr. Horne's sermon on Christ, as being the Object of religious adoration."βRel. World cor. "To say nothing of Dr. Priestley, as being a strenuous advocate," &c.βId. "Through the agency of Adam, as being their public head." Or: "Because Adam was their public head."βId. "Objections against the existence of any such moral plan as this."βButler cor. "A greater instance of a man being a blockhead."βSpect. cor. "We may insure or promote what will make it a happy state of existence to ourselves."βGurney cor. "Since it often undergoes the same kind of unnatural treatment."βKirkham cor. "Their apparent foolishness"β"Their appearance of foolishness"βor, "That they appear foolishness,βis no presumption against this."βButler cor. "But what arises from them as being offences; i.e., from their liability to be perverted."βId. "And he went into the house of a certain man named Justus, one that worshiped God."βActs cor.
UNDER NOTE II.βOF FALSE IDENTIFICATION."But popular, he observes, is an ambiguous word."βBlair cor. "The infinitive mood, a phrase, or a sentence, is often made the subject of a verb."βMurray cor. "When any person, in speaking, introduces his name after the pronoun I, it is of the first person; as, 'I, James, of the city of Boston.'"βR. C. Smith cor. "The name of the person spoken to, is of the second person; as, 'James, come to me.'"βId. "The name of the person or thing merely spoken of, or about, is of the third person; as, 'James has come.'"βId. "The passive verb has no object, because its subject or nominative always represents what is acted upon, and the object of a verb must needs be in the objective case."βId. "When a noun is in the nominative to an active verb, it denotes the actor."βKirkham cor. "And the pronoun THOU or YE, standing for the name of the person or persons commanded, is its nominative."βIngersoll cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker."βBrown's Institutes, p. 32. "The conjugation of a verb is a regular arrangement of its different variations or inflections throughout the moods and tenses."βWright cor. "The first person is that which denotes the speaker or writer."βG. BROWN: for the correction of Parker and Fox, Hiley, and Sanborn. "The second person is that which denotes the hearer, or the person addressed."βId.: for the same. "The third person is that which denotes the person or thing merely spoken of."βId.: for the same, "I is of the first person, singular; WE, of the first person, plural."βMur. et al. cor. "THOU is of the second person, singular; YE or You, of the second person, plural."βIid. "HE, SHE, or IT, is of the third person, singular; THEY, of the third person, plural."βIid. "The nominative case denotes the actor, and is the subject of the verb."βKirkham cor. "John is the actor, therefore the noun JOHN is in the nominative case."βId. "The actor is always expressed by the nominative case, unless the verb be passive."βR. C. Smith cor. "The nominative case does not always denote an agent or actor."βMack cor. "In mentioning each name, tell the part of speech."βJohn Flint cor. "Of what number is boy? Why?"βId. "Of what number is pens? Why?"βId. "The speaker is denoted by the first person; the person spoken to is denoted by the second person; and the person or thing spoken of is denoted by the third person."βId. "What nouns are of the masculine gender? The names of all males are of the masculine gender."βId. "An interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind."βG. Brown's Grammars.
CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE VII; OF OBJECTIVES. UNDER THE RULE ITSELF.βOF THE OBJECTIVE IN FORM."But I do not remember whom they were for."βAbbott cor. "But if you can't help it, whom do you complain of?"βCollier cor. "Whom was it from? and what was it about?"βM. Edgeworth cor. "I have plenty of victuals, and, between you and me, something in a corner."βDay cor. "The upper one, whom I am now about to speak of."βLeigh Hunt cor. "And to poor us, thy enmity is most capital."βShak. cor. "Which, thou dost confess, 'twere fit for thee to use, as them to claim." That is,β"as for them to claim."βId. "To beg of thee, it is my more dishonour, than thee of them." That is,β"than for thee to beg of them."βId. "There are still a few, who, like thee and me, drink nothing but water."βGil Bias cor. "Thus, 'I shall fall,'β'Thou shalt love thy neighbour,'β'He shall be rewarded,'βexpress no resolution on the part of me, thee, or him." Or better:β"on the part of the persons signified by the nominatives, I, Thou, He."βLennie and Bullions cor. "So saucy with the hand of her hereβwhat's her name?"βShak. cor. "All debts are cleared between you and me."βId. "Her price is paid, and she is sold like thee."βHARRISON'S E. Lang., p. 172. "Search through all the most flourishing eras of Greece."βDr. Brown cor. "The family of the Rudolphs has been long distinguished."βThe Friend cor. "It will do well enough for you and me."βEdgeworth cor. "The public will soon discriminate between him who is the sycophant, and him who is the teacher."βChazotte cor. "We are still much at a loss to determine whom civil power belongs to."βLocke cor. "What do you call it? and to whom does it belong?"βCollier
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