in the forum; but the public were no longer interested, nor was any general attention drawn to what passed there.”—­Id. “Nay, what evidence can be brought to show, that the inflections of the classic tongues were not originally formed out of obsolete auxiliary words?”—­L.  Murray cor. “If the student observe that the principal and the auxiliary form but one verb, he will have little or no difficulty in the proper application of the present rule.”—­Id. “For the sword of the enemy, and fear, are on every side.”—­Bible cor. “Even the Stoics agree that nature, or certainty, is very hard to come at.”—­Collier cor. “His politeness, his obliging behaviour, was changed.”  Or thus:  “His polite and obliging behaviour was changed.”—­Priestley and Hume cor. “War and its honours were their employment and ambition.”  Or thus:  “War was their employment; its honours were their ambition.”—­Goldsmith cor. “Do A and AN mean the same thing?”—­R.  W. Green cor. “When several words come in between the discordant parts, the ear does not detect the error.”—­Cobbett cor. “The sentence should be, ’When several words come in,’ &c.”—­Wright cor. “The nature of our language, the accent and pronunciation of it, incline us to contract even all our regular verbs.”—­Churchill’s New Gram., p. 104.  Or thus:  “The nature of our language,—­(that is, the accent and pronunciation of it,—­) inclines us to contract even all our regular verbs.”—­Lowth cor. “The nature of our language, together with the accent and pronunciation of it, inclines us to contract even all our regular verbs.”—­Hiley cor. “Prompt aid, and not promises, is what we ought to give.”—­G.  B. “The position of the several organs, therefore, as well as their functions, is ascertained.”—­Med.  Mag. cor. “Every private company, and almost every public assembly, affords opportunities of remarking the difference between a just and graceful, and a faulty and unnatural elocution.”—­Enfield cor. “Such submission, together with the active principle of obedience, makes up in us the temper or character which answers to his sovereignty.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “In happiness, as in other things, there are a false and a true, an imaginary and a real.”—­A.  Fuller cor. “To confound things that differ, and to make a distinction where there is no difference, are equally unphilosophical.”—­G.  Brown.

   “I know a bank wheron doth wild thyme blow,
    Where oxlips and the nodding violet grow.”—­Shak. cor.

LESSON VI.—­VERBS.