Murray cor. “Surely, Romans, what I am now about to say, ought neither to be omitted, nor to pass without notice.”—­Duncan cor. “Their language frequently amounts, not only to bad sense, but to nonsense.”—­Kirkham cor. “Hence arises the necessity of a social state to man, both for the unfolding, and for the exerting, of his nobler faculties.”—­Sheridan cor. “Whether the subject be of the real or of the feigned kind.”—­Dr. H. Blair cor. “Not only was liberty entirely extinguished, but arbitrary power was felt in its heaviest and most oppressive weight.”—­Id. “This rule is also applicable both to verbal Critics and to Grammarians.”—­Hiley cor. “Both the rules and the exceptions of a language must have obtained the sanction of good usage.”—­Id.

CHAPTER X.—­PREPOSITIONS.

CORRECTIONS UNDER THE NOTES TO RULE XXIII.

UNDER NOTE I.—­CHOICE OF PREPOSITIONS.

“You have bestowed your favours upon the most deserving persons.”—­Swift corrected. “But, to rise above that, and overtop the crowd, is given to few.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “This [also is a good] sentence [, and] gives occasion for no material remark.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 203.  “Though Cicero endeavours to give some reputation to the elder Cato, and those who were his contemporaries.” Or:—­“to give some favourable account of the elder Cato,” &c.—­Dr. Blair cor. “The change that was produced in eloquence, is beautifully described in the dialogue.”—­Id. “Without carefully attending to the variation which they make in the idea.”—­Id. “All on a sudden, you are transported into a lofty palace.”—­Hazlitt cor. “Alike independent of one an other.” Or:  “Alike independent one of an other.”—­Campbell cor. “You will not think of them as distinct processes going on independently of each other.”—­Channing cor. “Though we say to depend on, dependent on, and dependence on, we say, independent of, and independently of.”—­Churchill cor. “Independently of the rest of the sentence.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 80; Buchanan’s, 83; Bullions’s, 110; Churchill’s, 348.[545] “Because they stand independent of the rest of the sentence.”—­Allen Fisk cor. “When a substantive is joined with a participle, in English, independently of the rest of the sentence.”—­Dr. Adam cor. “CONJUNCTION comes from the two Latin words con, together, and jungo, to join.”—­Merchant cor. “How different from this is the life of Fulvia!”—­Addison cor. “LOVED is a participle or adjective, derived from the word love.”—­Ash cor. “But I would inquire of him, what an office is.”—­Barclay cor.