the measure most frequent in English poetry, is that of eight syllables.”—­David Blair cor. “To introduce as great a variety of cadences as possible.”—­ Jamieson cor. “He addressed to them several exhortations, suitable to their circumstances.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Habits of temperance and self-denial must be acquired.”—­Id. “In reducing to practice the rules prescribed.”—­Id. “But these parts must be so closely bound together, as to make upon the mind the impression of one object, not of many.”—­Blair and Mur. cor. “Errors with respect to the use of shall and will, are sometimes committed by the most distinguished writers.”—­N.  Butler cor.

CHAPTER XI.—­PROMISCUOUS EXERCISES.

CORRECTIONS OF THE PROMISCUOUS EXAMPLES.

LESSON I.—­ANY PARTS OF SPEECH.

“Such a one, I believe, yours will be proved to be.”—­Peet and Farnum cor. “Of the distinction between the imperfect and the perfect tense, it may be observed,” &c.—­L.  Ainsworth cor. “The subject is certainly worthy of consideration.”—­Id. “By this means, all ambiguity and controversy on this point are avoided.”—­Bullions cor. “The perfect participle, in English, has both an active and a passive signification.”  Better:  “The perfect participle, in English, has sometimes an active, and sometimes a passive, signification.”—­Id. “The old house has at length fallen down.”—­Id. “The king, the lords, and the commons, constitute the English form of government.”—­Id. “The verb in the singular agrees with the person next to it.”  Better:  “The singular verb agrees in person with that nominative which is next to it.”—­Id. “Jane found Seth’s gloves in James’s hat.”—­O.  C. Felton cor. “Charles’s task is too great.”—­Id. “The conjugation of a verb is the naming of its several moods, tenses, numbers, and persons, in regular order.”—­Id. “The long-remembered beggar was his guest.”—­Id. “Participles refer to nouns or pronouns.”—­Id. “F has a uniform sound, in every position, except in OF.”  Better:  “F has one unvaried sound, in every position, except in OF.”—­E.  J. Hallock cor. “There are three genders; the masculine, the feminine, and the neuter.”—­Id. “When SO and THAT occur together, sometimes the particle SO is taken as an adverb.”—­Id. “The definition of the articles shows that they modify [the import of] the words to which they belong.”—­Id. “The auxiliary, SHALL, WILL, or SHOULD, is implied.”—­Id.  “Single-rhymed trochaic omits the final short syllable.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 237. “Agreeably to this, we read of