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in the same manner in which I would receive you." Or thus: "He received me as I would receive you."--R. C. Smith cor. "Consisting of both the direct and the collateral evidence."--Bp. Butler cor. "If any man or woman that believeth hath widows, let him or her relieve them, and let not the church be charged."--Bible cor. "For men's sake are beasts bred."--W. Walker cor. "From three o'clock, there were drinking and gaming."--Id. "Is this he that I am seeking, or not?"--Id. "And for the upholding of every one's own opinion, there is so much ado."--Sewel cor. "Some of them, however, will necessarily be noticed."--Sale cor. "The boys conducted themselves very indiscreetly."--Merchant cor. "Their example, their influence, their fortune,--every talent they possess,--dispenses blessings on all persons around them."--Id. and Murray cor. "The two Reynoldses reciprocally converted each other."--Johnson cor. "The destroying of the last two, Tacitus calls an attack upon virtue itself."--Goldsmith cor. "Moneys are your suit."--Shak. cor. "Ch is commonly sounded like tch, as in church; but in words derived from Greek, it has the sound of k."--L. Murray cor. "When one is obliged to make some utensil serve for purposes to which it was not originally destined."--Campbell cor. "But that a baptism with water is a washing-away of sin, thou canst not hence prove."--Barclay cor. "Being spoken to but one, it infers no universal command."--Id. "For if the laying-aside of copulatives gives force and liveliness, a redundancy of them must render the period languid."--Buchanan cor. "James used to compare him to a cat, which always falls upon her legs."--Adam cor.

  "From the low earth aspiring genius springs,
   And sails triumphant borne on eagle's wings."--Lloyd cor.


LESSON XIII.--TWO ERRORS

"An ostentatious, a feeble, a harsh, or an obscure style, for instance, is always faulty."--Dr. Blair cor. "Yet in this we find that the English pronounce quite agreeably to rule." Or thus: "Yet in this we find the English pronunciation perfectly agreeable to rule." Or thus: "Yet in this we find that the English pronounce in a manner perfectly agreeable to rule."--J. Walker cor. "But neither the perception of ideas, nor knowledge of any sort, is a habit, though absolutely necessary to the forming of habits."--Bp. Butler cor. "They were cast; and a heavy fine was imposed upon them."--Goldsmith cor. "Without making this reflection, he cannot enter into the spirit of the author, or relish the composition."--Dr. Blair cor. "The scholar should be instructed in relation to the finding of his words." Or thus: "The scholar should be told how to find his words."--Osborn cor. "And therefore they could neither have forged, nor have reversified them."--Knight cor. "A dispensary is a place at which medicines are dispensed to the poor."--L. Mur. cor. "Both the connexion and the number of words are determined by general laws."--Neef cor. "An Anapest has the first two syllables unaccented, and the last one accented; as, c~ontr~av=ene, acquiésce."--L. Mur. cor. "An explicative sentence is one in which a thing is said, in a direct manner, to be or not to be, to do or not to do, to suffer or not to suffer."--Lowth and Mur. cor. "BUT is a conjunction whenever it is neither an adverb nor a preposition." [551]--R. C. Smith cor. "He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed the writing with the king's ring."--Bible cor. "Camm and Audland had departed from the town before this time."--Sewel cor. "Before they will relinquish the practice, they must be convinced."--Webster cor. "Which he had thrown up before he set out."--Grimshaw cor. "He left to him the value of a hundred drachms in Persian money."--Spect cor. "All that the mind can ever contemplate concerning them, must be divided among the three."--Cardell cor. "Tom Puzzle is one of the most eminent immethodical disputants, of all that have fallen under my observation."--Spect. cor. "When you have once got him to think himself compensated for his suffering, by the praise which is given him for his courage."--Locke cor. "In all matters in which simple reason, or mere speculation is concerned."--Sheridan cor. "And therefore he should be spared from the trouble of attending to anything else than his meaning."--Id. "It is this kind of phraseology that is distinguished by the epithet idiomatical; a species that was originally the spawn, partly of ignorance, and partly of affectation."--Campbell and Murray cor. "That neither the inflection nor the letters are such as could have been employed by the ancient inhabitants of Latium."--Knight cor. "In those cases in which the verb is intended to be applied to any one of the terms."--L. Murray cor. "But these people who know not the law, are accursed."--Bible cor. "And the magnitude of the choruses has weight and sublimity."--Gardiner cor. "Dares he deny that there are some of his fraternity guilty?"--Barclay cor. "Giving an account of most, if not all, of the papers which had passed betwixt them."--Id. "In this manner, as to both parsing and correcting, should all the rules of syntax be treated, being taken up regularly according to their order."--L. Murray cor. "To Ovando were allowed a brilliant retinue and a body-guard."--Sketch cor. "Was it I or he, that you requested to go?"--Kirkham cor. "Let thee and me go on."--Bunyan cor. "This I nowhere affirmed; and I do wholly deny it."--Barclay cor. "But that I deny; and it remains for him to prove it."--Id. "Our country sinks beneath the yoke: She weeps, she bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds."--Shak. cor. "Thou art the Lord who chose Abraham and brought him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees."--Bible and Mur. cor. "He is the exhaustless fountain, from which emanate all these attributes that exist throughout this wide creation."--Wayland cor. "I am he who has communed with the son of Neocles; I am he who has entered the gardens of pleasure."--Wright cor.

  "Such were in ancient times the tales received, 
   Such by our good forefathers were believed."--Rowe cor.