“William, please to hand me that pencil.”—­Smith cor. “Please to insert points so as to make sense.”—­P.  Davis cor. “I have known lords to abbreviate almost half of their words.”—­Cobbett cor. “We shall find the practice perfectly to accord with the theory.”—­Knight cor. “But it would tend to obscure, rather than to elucidate, the subject.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Please to divide it for them, as it should be divided”—­J.  Willetts cor. “So as neither to embarrass nor to weaken the sentence.”—­Blair and Mur. cor. “Carry her to his table, to view his poor fare, and to hear his heavenly discourse.”—­Same.  “That we need not be surprised to find this to hold [i.e., to find the same to be true, or to find it so] in eloquence.”—­Blair cor. “Where he has no occasion either to divide or to explain” [the topic in debate.]—­Id. “And they will find their pupils to improve by hasty and pleasant steps.”—­Russell cor. “The teacher, however, will please to observe,” &c.—­Inf.  S. Gr. cor. “Please to attend to a few rules in what is called syntax.”—­Id. “They may dispense with the laws, to favour their friends, or to secure their office.”—­Webster cor. “To take back a gift, or to break a contract, is a wanton abuse.”—­Id. “The legislature has nothing to do, but to let it bear its own price.”—­Id. “He is not to form, but to copy characters.”—­Rambler cor. “I have known a woman to make use of a shoeing-horn.”—­Spect. cor. “Finding this experiment to answer, in every respect, their wishes.”—­Day cor. “In fine, let him cause his arrangement to conclude in the term of the question.”—­Barclay cor.

“That he permitted not the winds of heaven
To visit her too roughly.”
[Omit “face,” to keep the measure:  or say,]
“That he did never let the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly.”—­Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE XIX.—­OF INFINITIVES.

Instances after Bid, Dare, Feel, Hear, Let, Make, Need, See.

“I dare not proceed so hastily, lest I give offence.”—­See Murray’s Key, Rule xii.  “Their character is formed, and made to appear.”—­Butler cor. “Let there be but matter and opportunity offered, and you shall see them quickly revive again.”—­Bacon cor. “It has been made to appear, that there is no presumption against a revelation.”—­Bp.  Butler cor. “MANIFEST, v. t.  To reveal; to make appear; to show plainly.”—­Webster cor. “Let him reign, like good Aurelius, or let him bleed like Seneca:”  [Socrates did not bleed, he was poisoned.]—­Kirkham’s transposition of Pope cor. “Sing