purity, and precision, in his language; which qualities form one degree, and no inconsiderable one, of beauty.”—­Id. “Many critical terms have unfortunately been employed in a sense too loose and vague; none with less precision, than the word sublime.”—­Id. “Hence no word in the language is used with a more vague signification, than the word beauty.”—­Id. “But still, in speech, he made use of general terms only.”—­Id. “These give life, body, and colouring, to the facts recited; and enable us to conceive of them as present, and passing before our eyes.”—­Id. “Which carried an ideal chivalry to a still more extravagant height, than the adventurous spirit of knighthood had ever attained in fact.”—­Id. “We write much more supinely, and with far less labour, than did the ancients.”—­Id. “This appears indeed to form the characteristical difference between the ancient poets, orators, and historians, and the modern.”—­Id. “To violate this rule, as the English too often do, shows great incorrectness.”—­Id. “It is impossible, by means of any training, to prevent them from appearing stiff and forced.”—­Id.  “And it also gives to the speaker the disagreeable semblance of one who endeavours to compel assent.”—­Id. “And whenever a light or ludicrous anecdote is proper to be recorded, it is generally better to throw it into a note, than to run the hazard of becoming too familiar.”—­Id.  “It is the great business of this life, to prepare and qualify ourselves for the enjoyment of a better.”—­L.  Murray cor.  “From some dictionaries, accordingly, it was omitted; and in others it is stigmatized as a barbarism.”—­Crombie cor. “You cannot see a thing, or think of one, the name of which is not a noun.”—­Mack cor.  “All the fleet have arrived, and are moored in safety.”  Or better:  “The whole fleet has arrived, and is moored in safety.”—­L.  Murray cor.

LESSON XIII.—­OF TWO ERRORS.

“They have severally their distinct and exactly-limited relations to gravity.”—­Hasler cor. “But where the additional s would give too much of the hissing sound, the omission takes place even in prose.”—­L.  Murray cor. “After o, it [the w] is sometimes not sounded at all; and sometimes it is sounded like a single u.”—­Lowth cor. “It is situation chiefly, that decides the fortunes and characters of men.”—­Hume cor.; also Murray.  “The vice of covetousness is that [vice] which enters more deeply into the soul than any other.”—­Murray et al. cor.  “Of all vices, covetousness enters the most deeply into the soul.”—­Iid.