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The insolence or caprice of those mercenaries were often no less fatal to their friends, than their valour and discipline were formidable to their enemies. -Robertson's History of Charles V.

The daring soul of the first Cæsar, or the deep policy of Augustus, were scarcely equal to the task of curbing the insolence of the victorious legions.— Gibbon's History of the Roman Empire.

His ignorance or severity were alike unworthy of the important office with which he was entrusted. He gave laws which, according to the lively expression of an orator, seemed to be written, not with ink, but with blood; since death or punishment were his ordinary penalties for the most trivial offences.— Gillies's History of Greece.

Neither death nor torture were sufficient to subdue the minds of Cargill and his intrepid followers.-Fox's History of James the Second.

Each of these words imply some pursuit or object relinquished.-Blair's Lectures.

It is requisite that the language of a heroic poem should be both perspicuous and sublime. In proportion as either of these two qualities are wanting, the language is imperfect.-Addison, Spectator.

Neither of them are remarkable for precision.—Blair's Lectures.

We should reckon every circumstance which enable them to divide and to maintain themselves in distinct and independent communities.-Ferguson's History of Civil Society.

'Tis observable that every one of the letters bear date after his banishment.Bentley's Dissertation upon Themistocles's Epistles.

Every invention known in the European art of war, as well as every precau tion suggested by his long acquaintance with the Indian mode of fighting, were employed to ensure success.-Robertson's History of America.

No nation gives greater encouragement to learning than we do; yet, at the same time, none are so injudicious in the application.-Goldsmith's Inquiry into Polite Learning.

None of these passions seem to contain anything curious or remarkable, except hope and fear.-Hume's Dissertations on the Passions.

None were permitted to enter the holy precincts without confessing, by their servile bonds and suppliant posture, the immediate presence of their sovereign deity.-Gibbon's History of the Roman Empire.

3. IN THE USE OF PARTICIPLES.

I had no sooner drank, but (than) I found a pimple rising in my forehead.— Addison, Tatler.

Notwithstanding the prophetical predictions of this critic, I do not find that any science hath throve among us of late, so much as the minute philosophy.— Berkeley's Minute Philosopher.

Had he wrote English poetry in so unenlightened a period, the world would have lost his refined diction and harmonious versification.-Warton's Observations on Spenser.

Every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner as it is writ.-Fielding's Tom Jones.

The court of Augustus had not wore off the manners of the Republic.-Hume's Essays.

A free constitution, when it has been shook by the iniquity of former administrations.-Bolingbroke's Idea of a Patriot King.

He is God in his friendship, as well as his nature, and therefore we sinful creatures are not took upon advantages, nor consumed in our provocations South's Sermons.

Which some philosophers, not considering so well as I, have mistook to be different in their causes.-Swift's Tale of a Tub.

Moses tells us that the fountains of the earth were broke open, or clove asunder.-Burnet's Theory of the Earth.

I easily foresee that, as soon as I lay down my pen, will have stole it.-Swift's Tale of a Tub.

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By this expedient, the public peace of libraries might certainly have been preserved, if a new species of controversial books had not arose of late years. -Swift's Battle of the Books.

The steps which lead to perfection are many, and we are at a loss on whom to bestow the greatest share of our praise; on the first or on the last who may have bore a part in the progress.-Ferguson's History of Civil Society.

The author is informed that the bookseller has prevailed on several gentlemen to write some explanatory notes, for the goodness of which he is not to answer, having never seen any of them, nor intends it, till they appear in print. -Swift's Tale of a Tub.

Nor is it then a welcome guest, affording only an uneasy sensation, and brings always with it a mixture of concern and compassion.-Fielding's Essay on Conversation.

4. IN THE USE OF ADJECTIVES.

The last are indeed more preferable, because they are founded on some new knowledge or improvement in the mind of man.—Addison, Spectator.

From these various causes, which in a greater or lesser degree affected every individual in the colony, the indignation of the people became general.Robertson's History of America.

The chiefest of which was known by the name of Archon among the Grecians.-Dryden's Life of Plutarch.

The two chiefest properties of air, its gravity and elastic force, have been discovered by mechanical experiments.-Arbuthnot's Essay on Mathematical Learning.

The chiefest and largest are removed to certain magazines they call libraries. -Swift's Battle of the Books.

The extremest parts of the earth were meditating a submission.-Atterbury's Sermons.

When only two objects are compared, it is improper to use the superlative degree.

This was in reality the casiest manner of the two.-Shaftesbury's Advice to an Author.

In every well-formed mind, this second desire seems to be the strongest of the two.-A. Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments.

Were it not for this, the secondary rocks, being in position superincumbent on the primary, ought to be the highest of the two.-Playfair's Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory.

Of impossibility there are no degrees; and we must therefore condemn such phraseology as occurs in the following quotations:

As it was impossible they should know the words, thoughts, and secret actions of all men, so was it more impossible they should pass judgment on them according to these things.- Whitby's Necessity of the Christian Revelation.

It will every day be more impossible to engage in that occupation.—Edinburgh Review, vol. xxi. p. 23.

Adjectives are sometimes improperly used as adverbs:

I shall endeavour to live hereafter suitable to a man in my station.—Addison, Spectator.

The queen having changed her ministry suitable to her own wisdom.—Swift, Examiner.

He behaved himself conformable to that blessed example.-Sprat's Sermons. His expectations run high, and the fund to supply them is extreme scanty.— Lancaster's Essay on Delicacy.

I can never think so very mean of him.--Bentley's Dissertation upon Phalaris. There is scarce any society so wretched as to be destitute of some sort of weak protection against the injustice of their governors.-Mackintosh's Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations.

The two-fold action of heat, to expand and to melt, could scarce be pointed out more clearly by any system of appearances.-Playfair's Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory.

5. IN THE USE OF NEGATIVE AND DISJUNCTIVE PARTICLES.

That neither partiality or prejudice appear, but that truth may everywhere be sacred.-Dryden's Life of Plutarch.

There is another use that, in my opinion, contributes rather to make a man learned than wise, and is neither capable of pleasing the understanding or imagination.-Addison on Medals.

These, like a hand with an inscription, can point out the straight way upon the road, but can neither tell you the next turnings, resolve your doubts, or answer your questions, like a guide that has traced it over, and perhaps knows it as well as his chamber.--- Temple on Ancient and Modern Learning.

He was early charged by Asinius Pollio as neither faithful or exact.Ledwich's Antiquities of Ireland.

Neither Cellarius or D'Anville have (has) sufficiently attended to this object. -Vincent's Voyage of Nearchus.

The legitimate correspondent of neither is nor.

We need not, nor do not, confine the purposes of God.-Bentley's Sermons. In the growth and stature of souls, as well as bodies, the common productions are of different sizes, that occasion no gazing, nor no wonder.-Temple on Ancient and Modern Learning.

I'll prove, by twenty-five substantial reasons, that you're no composer, nor know no more of music than you do of algebra.—Arbuthnot's Harmony in an Uproar.

Nor is danger ever apprehended in such a government from the violence of the sovereign, no more than we commonly apprehend danger from thunder or earthquakes.-Hume's. Essays.

Among them the people were obliged to consider, not what was safe, but what was necessary; and could not always defend themselves against usurpations, neither by legal forms nor by open war.-Ferguson's History of the Roman Republic.

In each of these sentences there is a double negative, which, in English, amounts to an affirmative.

6. IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS.

The only action to (upon) which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.-Burke's Vindication of Natural Society.

To (with) which, as Bishop Burnet tells us, the Prince of Orange was willing to comply.-Bolingbroke's Dissertation on Parties.

He had been perplexed with a long compliance to (with) foreign manners.— Sprat's Life of Cowley.

Your character, which I or any other writer may now value ourselves by (upon) drawing, will probably be dropt, on account of the antiquated style and manner they are delivered in.—Swift on the English Tongue.

The discovery he made and communicated with (to) his friends.-Swift's Tale of a Tub.

The people being only convoked upon such occasions as, by this institution of Romulus, fell into (under) their cognisance.-Swift's Contests and Dissensions in Athens and Rome.

Not from any personal hatred to them, but in justification to (of) the best of queens.-Swift, Examiner.

The wisest princes need not think it any diminution to (of) their greatness, or derogation to (from) their sufficiency, to rely upon counsel.-Bacon's Essays. A supercilious attention to minute formalities is a certain indication of a little mind, conscious to (of) the want of innate dignity.-Hawkesworth's Almoran and Hamet.

He found the greatest difficulty of (in) writing.-Hume's History of England. The esteem which Philip had conceived of (for) the ambassador.—Ibid. The greatest difficulty was found of (in) fixing just sentiments.-Ibid. The Christians were driven out of all their Asiatic possessions, in acquiring of which (in acquiring which) incredible numbers of men had perished.— Robertson's View of Society.

You know the esteem I have of (for) his philosophy.-Kames's Law Tracts. Meanwhile the prudence of Gylippus profited of (by) the fame of his victory. -Gillies's History of Greece.

He is so resolved of (on) going to the Persian court.-Bentley's Dissertation upon Themistocles's Epistles.

Neither the one nor the other shall make me swerve out of (from) the path which I have traced to myself.-Bolingbroke's Letter to Wyndham.

I do likewise dissent with (from) the Examiner.-Addison, Whig Examiner. Dr. Johnson, with (from) whom I am sorry to differ in opinion, has treated it as a work of merit.-J. Scott's Critical Essays.

Ovid, whom ye accuse for (of) luxuriancy of verse.—Dryden on Dramatick Poesie.

If policy can prevail upon (over) force.-Addison's Travels.

This effect, we may safely say, no one beforehand could have promised upon. -Hume's History of England.

A greater quantity may be taken from the heap, without making any sensible alteration upon (in) it.—Hume's Essays.

Every office of command should be intrusted to persons on (in) whom the parliament shall confide.— C. Macaulay's History of England.

All of which required abundance of finesse and delicatesse to manage with advantage, as well as a strict observance after (of) times and fashions.-Swift's Tale of a Tub.

The memory of Lord Peter's injuries produced a degree of hatred and spite, which had a much greater share of (in) inciting him than any regards after (for) his father's commands.-Swift's Tale of a Tub.

THE BIRD LET LOOSE.—THOMAS MOORE, 1780-1852.

THE bird let loose in the eastern skies,
When hast'ning fondly home,

Ne'er stoops to earth her wing, nor flies
Where idle warblers roam.

But high she shoots through air and light,
Above all low delay,

Where nothing earthly bounds her flight,
Nor shadow dims her way.

So grant me, God, from every care
And stain of passion free,
Aloft, through Virtue's purer air,
To hold my course to Thee!
No sin to cloud, no lure to stay

My soul, as home she springs ;-
Thy sunshine on her joyful way,

Thy freedom in her wings!

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