distinguished.”  Or:—­“he is not so highly distinguished.”—­Id. “Whether the author was altogether happy in the choice of his subject, may be questioned.”—­Id. “But, with regard to this matter also, there is a great error in the common practice.”—­Webster cor. “This order is the very order of the human mind, which makes things we are sensible of, a means to come at those that are not known.”  Or:—­“which makes things that are already known, its means of finding out those that are not so.”—­Foreman cor. “Now, who is not discouraged, and does not fear want, when he has no money?”—­C.  Leslie cor. “Which the authors of this work consider of little or no use.”—­Wilbur and Liv. cor. “And here indeed the distinction between these two classes begins to be obscure.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “But this is a manner which deserves to be avoided.”  Or:—­“which does not deserve to be imitated.”—­Id. “And, in this department, a person effects very little, whenever he attempts too much.”—­Campbell and Murray cor. “The verb that signifies mere being, is neuter.”—­Ash cor. “I hope to tire but little those whom I shall not happen to please.”—­Rambler cor. “Who were utterly unable to pronounce some letters, and who pronounced others very indistinctly.”—­Sheridan cor. “The learner may point out the active, passive, and neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons for thus distinguishing them.”  Or:  “The learner may point out the active, the passive, and the neuter verbs in the following examples, and state the reasons for calling them so.”—­C.  Adams cor. “These words are almost always conjunctions.”—­Barrett cor.

   “How glibly nonsense trickles from his tongue! 
    How sweet the periods, neither said nor sung!”—­Pope cor.

LESSON VIII.—­CONJUNCTIONS.

“Who, at least, either knew not, or did not love to make, a distinction.”  Or better thus:  “Who, at least, either knew no distinction, or did not like to make any.”—­Dr. Murray cor. “It is childish in the last degree to let this become the ground of estranged affection.”—­L.  Murray cor. “When the regular, and when the irregular verb, is to be preferred [sic—­KTH], p. 107.”—­Id. “The books were to have been sold this day.”  Or:—­“on this day.”—­Priestley cor. “Do, an you will.”  Or:  “Do, if you will.”—­Shak. cor. “If a man had a positive idea either of infinite duration or of infinite space, he could add two infinites together.”  Or:  “If a man had a positive idea of what is infinite, either in duration or in space, he could,” &c.—­Murray’s proof-text