Correct the following errors.

The next new year's day I shall be at school three years. And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. I should be obliged to him if he will gratify me in that particular. Mr. Smith would* respectfully inform his friends and the public, that he has just opened a choice collection of goods. And the multitude wondered when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame walk, and the blind seeing. I have compassion on the multitude, because they continue with me now three days. In the treasury belonging to the cathedral in this city, is preserved with the greatest veneration, for upwards of six hundred years, a dish which they pretend to be made of emerald. The court of Rome gladly laid hold on all the opportunities which the imrudence, weakness or necessities of princes afford it, to extend its authority. Fierce as he moved, his silver shafts resound. They maintained that Scripture conclusion, that all mankind arise from one head. John will earn his wages when his service is completed. Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life. Be that as it will, he cannot justify his conduct. I have been at London a year, and seen the king last summer. After we visited London, we returned content and thankful to our retired and peaceful habitation. I purpose to go to London in a few months, and, after I shall finish my business there, to proceed to America. These prosecutions of William seem to be the most iniquitous measures pursued by the court, during the time that the use of parliaments was suspended. From the little conversation. I had with him, he appeared to have been a man of letters. I always intended to have rewarded my son according to his merit. It would, on reflection, have given me great satisfaction to relieve him from that distressed situation. It required so much care, that I thought I should have lost it before I reached home. We have done no more than it was our duty to have done. He would have assisted one of his friends, if he could do it without injuring the other; but as that could not have been done, he avoided all interference. Must it not be expected that he would have defended an au

*The use of would in this manner, although very common in the advertisements of the day, is very improper. It must be recollected that it is the sign of past time, and never can express present.

thority which had been so long exercised without controversy? These enemies of Christianity were confounded, whilst they were expecting to have found an opportunity to have betrayed its author. His sea-sickness was so great, that I often feared he would have died before our arrival. If. these persons had intended to deceive, they would have taken care to have avoided what would expose them to the objections of their opponents. It was a pleasure to have received his approbation of my labors, for which I cordially thanked him. It would have afforded me still greater pleasure to receive his approbation at an earlier period; but to receive it at all, reflected credit upon me. To be censured by him would soon have proved an insuperable discouragement. The doctor, in his lecture, said that fever always produced thirst.

Him portioned maids, apprenticed orphans blest;
The young who labor, and the old who rest.

109. All the parts of a sentence should be constructed in such a manner that there shall appear to be no want of agreement among them. Thus, the following sentence, "He was more beloved, hut not so much admired as Cynthio," is inaccurate, because, when it is analyzed, it will be, “He was more beloved as Cynthio," &c. The adverb more requires the conjunction than after it; and the sentence should be, "He was more beloved than Cynthio, but not so much admired."

Again, in the sentence, " If a man have a hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray," &c., the subjunctive mood, have, is used after the conjunction if in the first part of the sentence, and the indicative, goes, in the second. Both of these verbs should be in the indicative, or both in the subjunctive mood.

[No definite rule can be given which will enable the learner to make the parts of a sentence agree in themselves and with one another. They should be diligently compared and a similarity of construction be carefully maintained; while the learner will recollect, that no sentence can be considered grammatically correct, which cannot be analyzed or parsed by the authorized rules of syntax.]

Correct the following sentences.*

If the privileges to which he has an undoubted right, and which he has long enjoyed, should now be wrested from him, would be flagrant injustice. These curiosities we have imported from China, and are similar to those which were some time ago brought from Africa.

Will martial flames forever fire thy mind,

And never, never be to Heaven resigned?

Two substantives, when they come together, and do not signify the same thing, the former must be in the genitive case. Virtue, however it may be neglected for a time, men are so constituted as ultimately to acknowledge and respect genuine merit. If one man prefer a life of industry, it is because he has an idea of comfort in wealth; if another prefers a life of gayety, it is from a like idea concerning pleasure. No one engages in that business, unless he aim at reputation, or hopes for some singular advantage. Though the design be laudable, and is favorable to our interest, it will involve much anxiety and labor. Several alterations and additions have been made to the work. The first proposal was essential different and inferior to the second. He is more bold and active, but not so wise and studious as his companion. Thou hearest the sound of the wind, but thou canst not tell whence it cometh and whither it goeth. Neither has he nor any other persons suspected so much dissimulation. The court of France, or England, was to have been the umpire. In the reign of Henry II., all foreign commodities were plenty in England. There is no talent so useful towards success in business, or which puts men more out of the reach of accidents, than that quality generally possessed by persons of cool temper, and is, in common language, called discretion. The first project was to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one. I shall do all I can, to persuade others to take the same measures for their cure, which I have. The greatest masters of critical learning differ among one another. Micaiah said, If thou certainly return in peace, then hath not the Lord spoken by me. I do not suppose, that we Britons want a genius, more than the rest of our neighbors. The deaf man, whose ears were

*The pupil must take especial care that the verbs are properly supplied with nominatives, and the nominatives with verbs.

opened, and his tongue loosened, doubtless glorified the great Physician. Groves, fields, and meadows, are at any season of the year, pleasant to look upon; but never so much as in the opening of the spring. The multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace. The intentions of some of these philosophers, nay, of many, might and probably were good. It is an unanswerable argument of a very refined age, the wonderful civilities that have passed between the nation of authors and that of readers. It was an unsuccessful undertaking, which, although it has failed, is no objection at all to an enterprise so well concerted. The reward is his due, and it has already, or will hereafter, be given to him. By intercourse with wise and experienced persons, who know the world, we may improve and rub off the rust of a private and retired education. Sincerity is as valuable, and even more valuable, than knowledge. No person was ever so perplexed, or sustained the mortifications, as he has done to-day. The Romans gave, not only the freedom of the city, but capacity for employments, to several towns in Gaul, Spain and Germany. Such writers have no other standard on which to form themselves, except what chances to be fashionable and popular. Whatever we do secretly, shall be displayed and heard in the clearest light. To the happiness of possessing a person of such uncommon merit, Boethius soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the highest honor his country could bestow.

THE preceding principles of Synthesis embrace all that is necessary, in the form of rules, for the correct grammatical construction of sentences. In many grammatical treatises may be found rules which are purely rhetorical. The authors of this Grammar have deemed it inconsistent with the unity of their plan, to incorporate rhetorical principles with grammatical rules. It remains to be observed that idiomatic phrases, provincialisms, and anomalies, sometimes occur in the English as well as every other language, which cannot be met with formal rules. Many of them may be traced to ellipsis; and when the ellipsis is supplied, the expressions are restored to regular grammatical construction. Some common errors remain to be noticed, which could not properly be embraced by any of the preceding principles. And first, with regard to the defective verb ought. We frequently hear such expressions as the following-" He had not ought to do so;" "He does not ought to go," &c. These expressions are erroneous, because the verb ought is never used with an auxiliary verb. In both cases, the expression should be, "He ought not," &c.

The allowable abbreviations of words have sometimes led into errors which have almost incorporated themselves with the language. Thus

the abbreviation of you had and you would into you'd, has caused you had, &c. to be mistaken for you would; as, "You'd better go," &c. frequently pronounced, "You had better go.' This expression is incorrect, because the auxiliary had can never be joined with any other tense than the perfect participle It should be," You would better go," &c. In like manner, the expression "I had as lief not be," should be, "I would as lief, (that is, as willingly) not be," &c.

Many of the difficulties in supplying ellipses may be removed by reference to the proper use of the moods as they are explained in Part I. p. 94, Nos. 72 to 80. The poets very frequently, and other writers sometimes, appear to use one mood or tense for another. Thus Thomson, in the following lines

"Had unambitious mortals minded nought

But in loose joy, their time to wear away,
Rude nature's state had been our state to-day:"

and Shakspeare, in the following—

"Help me, Cassius, or I sink;"

both appear to have used the mood or tense of the verbs minded and sink in a manner foreign to their purpose. But when the ellipsis of the conjunction is supplied in the former sentence, and of the auxiliary verb in the latter, the sentences become regular.

The following sentences are promiscuously arranged. The pupil will correct the errors by the preceding principles of synthesis.

Though great has been his disobedience and his folly, yet, if he sincerely acknowledges his misconduct, he will be forgiven. On these causes depend all the happiness or misery which exists among men. The property of James, I mean his books and furniture, were wholly destroyed. This prodigy of learning, this scholar, critic, and antiquarian, were entirely destitute of breeding and civility. That writer has given an account of the manner, in which Christianity has formerly been propagated among the heathens. We adore the Divine Being, he who is from eternity to eternity. Thou, Lord, who hath permitted affliction to come upon us, shall deliver us from it, in due time. In this place, there were not only security, but an abundance of provisions. By these attainments are the master honored, and the scholars encouraged. The sea appeared to be more than usually agitated. Not one in fifty of those who call themselves deists, understand the nature of the religion they reject. Virtue and mutual confidence is the soul of friendship. Where these are wanting, disgust or hatred often follow little differences. Time and chance happeneth to all men; but every person do not consider who govern those powerful causes. The active mind of man never or seldom rests satisfied with their present condition, howsoever prosperous. Habits must be acquired of temperance and of self-denial, that we may be able to resist pleasure, and to endure pain, when either of them interfere with our duty. The error of resting wholly on faith, or on works, is one of those seductions which most easily misleads men; under the semblance of piety, on the one hand, and of virtue on the other hand. It was no exaggerated tale; for she was really in that sad condition that her friend represented her. An army present a painful sight to a feeling mind. The enemies who we have most to fear, are those of our own hearts. Thou art the Messiah, the Son of God, who was to come into the world, and hast been so long promised and desired. Thomas disposition is better than his