False Syntax, ii, 62.  Or:  “If such maxims and practices prevail, what will become of decency and virtue?”—­Murray and Bullions cor. “Especially if the subject does not require so much pomp.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “However, the proper mixture of light and shade in such compositions,—­the exact adjustment of all the figurative circumstances with the literal sense,—­has ever been found an affair of great nicety.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 151.  “And adding to that hissing in our language, which is so much noticed by foreigners.”—­Addison, Coote, and Murray, cor. “To speak impatiently to servants, or to do any thing that betrays unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal.”  Or better:  “Impatience, unkindness, or ill-humour, is certainly criminal.”—­Mur. et al. cor. “Here are a fullness and grandeur of expression, well suited to the subject.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “I single out Strada from among the moderns, because he had the foolish presumption to censure Tacitus.”—­L.  Murray cor. “I single him out from among the moderns, because,” &c.—­Bolingbroke cor. “This rule is not always observed, even by good writers, so strictly as it ought to be.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “But this gravity and assurance, which are beyond boyhood, being neither wisdom nor knowledge, do never reach to manhood.”—­Pope cor. “The regularity and polish even of a turnpike-road, have some influence upon the low people in the neighbourhood.”—­Kames cor. “They become fond of regularity and neatness; and this improvement of their taste is displayed, first upon their yards and little enclosures, and next within doors.”—­Id. “The phrase, ‘it is impossible to exist,’ gives us the idea, that it is impossible for men, or any body, to exist.”—­Priestley cor. “I’ll give a thousand pounds to look upon him.”—­Shak. cor. “The reader’s knowledge, as Dr. Campbell observes, may prevent him from mistaking it.”—­Crombie and Murray cor. “When two words are set in contrast, or in opposition to each other, they are both emphatic.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The number of the persons—­men, women, and children—­who were lost in the sea, was very great.”  Or thus:  “The number of persons—­men, women, and children—­that were lost in the sea, was very great.”—­Id. “Nor is the resemblance between the primary and the resembling object pointed out.”—­Jamieson cor. “I think it the best book of the kind, that I have met with.”—­Mathews cor.

   “Why should not we their ancient rites restore,
    And be what Rome or Athens was before?”—­Roscommon cor.

LESSON XII.—­TWO ERRORS.