Murray cor. “To see bad men honoured and prosperous in the world, is some discouragement to virtue.”  Or:  “It is some discouragement to virtue, to see bad men,” &c.—­L.  Murray cor. “It is a happiness to young persons, to be preserved from the snares of the world, as in a garden enclosed.”—­Id. “At the court of Queen Elizabeth, where all was prudence and economy.”—­Bullions cor. “It is no wonder, if such a man did not shine at the court of Queen Elizabeth, who was so remarkable for her prudence and economy.”—­Priestley, Murray, et al cor. “A defective verb is a verb that wants some parts. The defective verbs are chiefly the auxiliaries and the impersonal verbs.”—­Bullions cor. “Some writers have given to the moods a much greater extent than I have assigned to them.”—­L.  Murray cor. “The personal pronouns give such information as no other words are capable of conveying.”—­M’Culloch cor. “When the article a, an, or the, precedes the participle, the latter also becomes a noun.”—­Merchant cor. “To some of these, there is a preference to be given, which custom and judgement must determine.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Many writers affect to subjoin to any word the preposition with which it is compounded, or that of which it literally implies the idea.”—­Id. and Priestley cor.

   “Say, dost thou know Vectidius? Whom, the wretch
    Whose lands beyond the Sabines largely stretch?”—­Dryden cor.

LESSON V.—­VERBS.

“We should naturally expect, that the word depend would require from after it.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 158.  “A dish which they pretend is made of emerald.”—­L.  Murray cor. “For the very nature of a sentence implies that one proposition is expressed.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 311.  “Without a careful attention to the sense, we should be naturally led, by the rules of syntax, to refer it to the rising and setting of the sun.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “For any rules that can be given, on this subject, must be very general.”—­Id. “He would be in the right, if eloquence were what he conceives it to be.”—­Id. “There I should prefer a more free and diffuse manner.”—­Id. “Yet that they also resembled one an other, and agreed in certain qualities.”—­Id. “But, since he must restore her, he insists on having an other in her place.”—­Id. “But these are far from being so frequent, or so common, as they have been supposed to be.”—­Id. “We are not led to assign a wrong place to the pleasant or the painful feelings.”—­Kames cor. “Which are of greater importance than they are commonly thought.”—­Id.