R. Hall cor. “More rain falls in the first two summer months, than in the first two months of winter; but what falls, makes a much greater show upon the earth, in winter than in summer, because there is a much slower evaporation.”—­L.  Murray cor. “They often contribute also to render some persons prosperous, though wicked; and, what is still worse, to reward some actions, though vicious; and punish other actions, though virtuous.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “Hence, to such a man, arise naturally a secret satisfaction, a sense of security, and an implicit hope of somewhat further.”—­Id. “So much for the third and last cause of illusion, that was noticed above; which arises from the abuse of very general and abstract terms; and which is the principal source of the abundant nonsense that has been vented by metaphysicians, mystagogues, and theologians.”—­Campbell cor. “As to those animals which are less common, or which, on account of the places they inhabit, fall less under our observation, as fishes and birds, or which their diminutive size removes still further from our observation, we generally, in English, employ a single noun to designate both genders, the masculine and the feminine.”—­Fosdick cor. “Adjectives may always be distinguished by their relation to other words:  they express the quality, condition, or number, of whatever things are mentioned.”—­Emmons cor. “An adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb; and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner.”—­Brown’s Inst., p. 29.  “The joining-together of two objects, so grand, and the representing of them both, as subject at one moment to the command of God, produce a noble effect.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Twisted columns, for instance, are undoubtedly ornamental; but, as they have an appearance of weakness, they displease the eye, whenever they are used to support any massy part of a building, or what seems to require a more substantial prop.”—­Id. “In a vast number of inscriptions, some upon rocks, some upon stones of a defined shape, is found an Alphabet different from the Greeks’, the Latins’, and the Hebrews’, and also unlike that of any modern nation.”—­W.  C. Fowler cor.

LESSON XVIII.—­MANY ERRORS.