cor. “Though the cup be everso clean.”—­Locke cor. “Seldom, or never, did any one rise to eminence, by being a witty lawyer.”  Or thus:  “Seldom, if ever, has any one risen to eminence, by being a witty lawyer.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “The second rule which I give, respects the choice of the objects from which metaphors, and other figures, are to be drawn.”—­Id. “In the figures which it uses, it sets mirrors before us, in which we may behold objects reflected in their likeness.”—­Id. “Whose business it is, to seek the true measures of right and wrong, and not the arts by which he may avoid doing the one, and secure himself in doing the other.”—­Locke cor. “The occasions on which you ought to personify things, and those on which you ought not, cannot be stated in any precise rule.”—­Cobbett cor. “They reflect that they have been much diverted, but scarcely can they say about what.”—­Kames cor. “The eyebrows and shoulders should seldom or never be remarked by any perceptible motion.”—­J.  Q. Adams cor. “And the left hand or arm should seldom or never attempt any motion by itself.”—­Id., right. “Not every speaker purposes to please the imagination.”—­ Jamieson cor. “And, like Gallio, they care for none of these things.”  Or:  “And, like Gallio, they care little for any of these things.”—­S. cor. “They may inadvertently be used where their meaning would be obscure.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Nor can a man make him laugh.”—­Shak. cor. “The Athenians, in their present distress, scarcely knew whither to turn.”—­Goldsmith cor. “I do not remember where God ever delivered his oracles by the multitude.”—­Locke cor. “The object of this government is twofold, outward and inward.”—­Barclay cor. “In order rightly to understand what we read”—­R.  Johnson cor. “That a design had been formed, to kidnap or forcibly abduct Morgan.”—­Col.  Stone cor. “But such imposture can never long maintain its ground.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “But surely it is as possible to apply the principles of reason and good sense to this art, as to any other that is cultivated among men.”—­Id. “It would have been better for you, to have remained illiterate, and even to have been hewers of wood.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Dissyllables that have two vowels which are separated in the pronunciation, always have the accent on the first syllable.”—­Id. “And they all turned their backs, almost without drawing a sword.”  Or:  “And they all turned their backs, scarcely venturing to draw a sword.”—­Kames cor. “The principle of duty naturally takes precedence of every other.”—­Id.  “Not all that glitters, is gold.”—­Maunder cor. “Whether now, or everso many myriads of ages hence.”—­Edwards cor.