is not governed by the conjunction than or as, but it either agrees with the verb, or is governed by the verb or the preposition, expressed or understood.”—­Mur. et al. cor. “He had mistaken his true interest, and he found himself forsaken.”—­Murray cor. “The amputation was exceedingly well performed, and it saved the patient’s life.”—­Id. “The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might have been, and probably they were, good.”—­Id. “This may be true, and yet it will not justify the practice.”—­Webster cor. “From the practice of those who have had a liberal education, and who are therefore presumed to be best acquainted with men and things.”—­Campbell cor. “For those energies and bounties which created, and which preserve, the universe.”—­J.  Q. Adams cor. “I shall make it once for all, and I hope it will be remembered.”—­Blair cor. “This consequence is drawn too abruptly. The argument needed more explanation.”  Or:  “This consequence is drawn too abruptly, and without sufficient explanation.”—­Id. “They must be used with more caution, and they require more preparation.”—­Id. “The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i, which was formerly inserted, and which made an addition of a syllable to the word.”—­Priestley cor. “The succession may be rendered more various or more uniform, but, in one shape or an other, it is unavoidable.”—­Kames cor. “It excites neither terror nor compassion; nor is it agreeable in any respect.”—­Id.

   “Cheap vulgar arts, whose narrowness affords
    No flight for thoughts,—­they poorly stick at words.”—­Denham cor.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­MIXTURE OF DIFFERENT STYLES.

“Let us read the living page, whose every character delights and instructs us.”—­Maunder cor. “For if it is in any degree obscure, it puzzles, and does not please.”—­Kames cor. “When a speaker addresses himself to the understanding, he proposes the instruction of his hearers.”—­Campbell cor. “As the wine which strengthens and refreshes the heart.”—­H.  Adams cor. “This truth he wraps in an allegory, and feigns that one of the goddesses had taken up her abode with the other.”—­Pope cor. “God searcheth and understandeth the heart.”  Or:  “God searches and understands the heart.”—­T. a.  Kempis cor. “The grace of God, that bringeth salvation, hath appeared to all men.”—­Titus, ii, 11.  “Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth.”—­1 Cor., ii, 13.  “But he has an objection, which he urges, and by which he thinks to overturn all.”—­Barclay cor.