said, will it be thought an excess of refinement, to suggest that the different orders are qualified for different purposes?”—­Kames cor. “Who has nothing to think of, but the killing of time.”—­West cor. “It requires no nicety of ear, as in the distinguishing of tones, or the measuring of time.”—­Sheridan cor. “The possessive case [is that form or state of a noun or pronoun, which] denotes possession, or the relation of property.”—­S.  R. Hall cor.

UNDER NOTE XIII.—­PERFECT PARTICIPLES.

“Garcilasso was master of the language spoken by the Incas.”—­Robertson cor. “When an interesting story is broken off in the middle.”—­Kames cor. “Speaking of Hannibal’s elephants driven back by the enemy.”—­Id. “If Du Ryer had not written for bread, he would have equalled them.”—­Formey cor. “Pope describes a rock broken off from a mountain, and hurling to the plain.”—­Kames cor. “I have written, Thou hast written, He hath or has written; &c.”—­Ash and Maltby cor. “This was spoken by a pagan.”—­Webster cor. “But I have chosen to follow the common arrangement.”—­Id. “The language spoken in Bengal.”—­Id. “And sound sleep thus broken off with sudden alarms, is apt enough to discompose any one.”—­Locke cor. “This is not only the case of those open sinners before spoken of.”—­Leslie cor. “Some grammarians have written a very perplexed and difficult doctrine on Punctuation.”—­Ensell cor. “There hath a pity arisen in me towards thee.”—­G.  Fox Jun. cor. “Abel is the only man that has undergone the awful change of death.”—­De Genlis, Death of Adam.

   “Meantime, on Afric’s glowing sands,
    Smit with keen heat, the traveller stands.”—­Ode cor.

CHAPTER VIII.—­ADVERBS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXI.

UNDER NOTE I.—­THE PLACING OF ADVERBS.

“Not all that is favoured by good use, is proper to be retained.”—­L.  Murray corrected. “Not everything favoured by good use, is on that account worthy to be retained.”—­Campbell cor. “Most men dream, but not all.”—­Beattie cor. “By hasty composition, we shall certainly acquire a very bad style.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The comparisons are short, touching on only one point of resemblance.”—­Id. “Having once had some considerable object set before us.”—­Id. “The positive seems to be improperly called a degree.” [543]—­Adam and Gould cor. “In some phrases, the genitive only is used.”—­Iid. “This blunder is said to have actually occurred.”—­Smith cor. “But