which lies under the figured expression, that gives it all its merit.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Verbs are words that affirm the being, doing, or suffering of a thing, together with the time at which it happens.”—­A.  Murray cor. “The bias will always hang on that side on which nature first placed it.”—­Locke cor. “They should be brought to do the things which are fit for them.”—­Id. “The various sources from which the English language is derived.”—­L.  Murray cor. “This attention to the several cases in which it is proper to omit or to redouble the copulative, is of considerable importance.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Cicero, for instance, speaking of the cases in which it is lawful to kill an other in self-defence, uses the following words.”—­Id. “But there is no nation, hardly are there any persons, so phlegmatic as not to accompany their words with some actions, or gesticulations, whenever they are much in earnest.”—­Id. “William’s is said to be governed by coat, because coat follows William’s” Or better:—­“because coat is the name of the thing possessed by William.”—­R.  C. Smith cor. “In life, there are many occasions on which silence and simplicity are marks of true wisdom.”—­L.  Murray cor. “In choosing umpires whose avarice is excited.”—­Nixon cor. “The boroughs sent representatives, according to law.”—­Id. “No man believes but that there is some order in the universe.”—­G.  B. “The moon is orderly in her changes, and she could not be so by accident.”—­Id. “The riddles of the Sphynx (or, The Sphynx’s riddles) are generally of two kinds.”—­Bacon cor. “They must generally find either their friends or their enemies in power.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “For, of old, very many took upon them to write what happened in their own time.”—­Whiston cor. “The Almighty cut off the family of Eli the high priest, for their transgressions.”—­The Friend, vii, 109.  “The convention then resolved itself into a committee of the whole.”—­Inst., p. 269.  “The severity with which persons of this denomination were treated, appeared rather to invite them to the colony, than to deter them from flocking thither.”—­H.  Adams cor. “Many Christians abuse the Scriptures and the traditions of the apostles, to uphold things quite contrary to them.”—­Barclay cor. “Thus, a circle, a square, a triangle, or a hexagon, pleases the eye by its regularity, and is a beautiful figure.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Elba is remarkable for being the place to which Bonaparte was banished in 1814.”—­Olney’s Geog.  “The editor has the reputation of being a good linguist and critic.”—­Rel.