“Bent is his bow, the Grecian hearts to wound;
    Fierce as he moves, his silver shafts resound.”—­Pope cor.

UNDER NOTE XIV.—­VERBS OF COMMANDING, &C.

“Had I commanded you to do this, you would have thought hard of it.”—­G.  B.  “I found him better than I expected to find him.”—­L Murray’s Gram., i, 187.  “There are several smaller faults which I at first intended to enumerate.”—­Webster cor. “Antithesis, therefore, may, on many occasions, be employed to advantage, in order to strengthen the impression which we intend that any object shall make.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The girl said, if her master would but have let her have money, she might have been well long ago.”—­Priestley et al. cor. “Nor is there the least ground to fear that we shall here be cramped within too narrow limits.”—­Campbell cor. “The Romans, flushed with success, expected to retake it.”—­Hooke cor. “I would not have let fall an unseasonable pleasantry in the venerable presence of Misery, to be entitled to all the wit that ever Rabelais scattered.”—­Sterne cor. “We expected that he would arrive last night.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 282.  “Our friends intended to meet us.”—­Ib. “We hoped to see you.”—­Ib. “He would not have been allowed to enter.”—­Ib.

UNDER NOTE XV.—­PERMANENT PROPOSITIONS.

“Cicero maintained, that whatsoever is useful is good.”—­G.  B.  “I observed that love constitutes the whole moral character of God.”—­Dwight cor. “Thinking that one gains nothing by being a good man.”—­Voltaire cor. “I have already told you, that I am a gentleman.”—­Fontaine cor. “If I should ask, whether ice and water are two distinct species of things.”—­Locke cor. “A stranger to the poem would not easily discover that this is verse.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, i, 260.  “The doctor affirmed that fever always produces thirst.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 282.  “The ancients asserted, that virtue is its own reward.”—­Ib. “They should not have repeated the error, of insisting that the infinitive is a mere noun.”—­Tooke cor. “It was observed in Chap.  III, that the distinctive OR has a double use.”—­Churchill cor. “Two young gentlemen, who have made a discovery that there is no God.”—­Campbell’s Rhet., p. 206.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XVIII; INFINITIVES.

INSTANCES DEMANDING THE PARTICLE TO.