“Fix’d[530] on the view the great discoverer stood;
    And thus address’d the messenger of good.”—­Barlow cor.

LESSON II.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Three freemen were on trial”—­or, “were receiving their trial—­at the date of our last information.”—­Editor cor. “While the house was building, many of the tribe arrived.”—­Cox cor. “But a foundation has been laid in Zion, and the church is built—­(or, continues to be built—­) upon it.”—­The Friend cor. “And one fourth of the people are receiving education.”—­E.  I. Mag. cor. “The present [tense,] or that [form of the verb] which [expresses what] is now doing.”—­Beck cor. “A new church, called the Pantheon, is about being completed, in an expensive style.”—­Thompson cor. “When I last saw him, he had grown considerably.”—­Murray cor. “I know what a rugged and dangerous path I have got into.”—­Duncan cor. “You might as well preach ease to one on the rack.”—­Locke cor. “Thou hast heard me, and hast become my salvation.”—­Bible cor. “While the Elementary Spelling-Book was preparing (or, was in progress of preparation) for the press.”—­Cobb cor. “Language has become, in modern times, more correct.”—­Jamieson cor. “If the plan has been executed in any measure answerable to the author’s wishes.”—­Robbins cor. “The vial of wrath is still pouring out on the seat of the beast.”—­Christian Ex. cor. “Christianity had become the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire.”—­Gurney cor. “Who wrote before the first century had elapsed.”—­Id. “The original and analogical form has grown quite obsolete.”—­Lowth cor. “Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have perished.”—­Murray cor. “The poems had got abroad, and were in a great many hands.”—­Waller cor. “It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, ‘The bubble is ready to burst.’”—­Cobbett cor. “I drove my suitor from his mad humour of love.”—­Shak. cor. “Se viriliter expedivit.”—­Cic. “He has played the man.”—­Walker cor. “Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday?”—­Bible cor. “And we, methought, [or thought I] looked up to him from our hill”—­Cowley cor. “I fear thou dost not think so much of the best things as thou ought.”—­Memoir cor. “When this work was commenced.”—­Wright cor. “Exercises and a Key to this work are about being prepared.”—­Id. “James is loved by John.”—­Id. “Or that which is exhibited.”—­Id. “He was smitten.”—­Id.