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at court than he."--Id. and Smollett cor. "Tell the Cardinal that I understand poetry better than he."--Iid. "An inhabitant of Crim Tartary was far more happy than he."--Iid. "My father and he have been very intimate since."--Fair Am. cor. "Who was the agent, and who, the object struck or kissed?"--Mrs. Bethune cor. "To find the person who, he imagined, was concealed there."--Kirkham cor. "He offered a great recompense to whosoever would help him." Better: "He offered a great recompense to any one who would help him."--Hume and Pr. cor. "They would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever (or any one who) might exercise the right of judgement."--Haynes cor. "They had promised to accept whosoever (or any one who) should be born in Wales."--Croker cor. "We sorrow not as they that have no hope."--Maturin cor. "If he suffers, he suffers as they that have no hope."--Id. "We acknowledge that he, and he only, hath been our peacemaker."--Gratton cor. "And what can be better than he that made it?"--Jenks cor. "None of his school-fellows is more beloved than he."--Cooper cor. "Solomon, who was wiser than they all."--Watson cor. "Those who the Jews thought were the last to be saved, first entered the kingdom of God."--Tract cor. "A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than both."--Bible cor. "A man of business, in good company, is hardly more insupportable, than she whom they call a notable woman."--Steele cor. "The king of the Sarmatians, who we may imagine was no small prince, restored to him a hundred thousand Roman prisoners."--Life of Anton. cor. "Such notions would be avowed at this time by none but rosicrucians, and fanatics as mad as they."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 203. "Unless, as I said, Messieurs, you are the masters, and not I."--Hall cor. "We had drawn up against peaceable travellers, who must have been as glad as we to escape."--Burnes cor. "Stimulated, in turn, by their approbation and that of better judges than they, she turned to their literature with redoubled energy."--Quarterly Rev. cor. "I know not who else are expected."--Scott cor. "He is great, but truth is greater than we all." Or: "He is great, but truth is greater than any of us."--H. Mann cor.. "He I accuse has entered." Or, by ellipsis of the antecedent, thus: "Whom I accuse has entered."--Fowler cor.; also Shakspeare.

   "Scotland and thou did each in other live."--Dryden cor.

    "We are alone; here's none but thou and I."--Shak. cor.

    "I rather would, my heart might feel your love,
    Than my unpleas'd eye see your courtesy."--Shak. cor.

    "Tell me, in sadness, who is she you love?"--Shak. cor.

    "Better leave undone, than by our deeds acquire
    Too high a fame, when he we serve's away."--Shak. cor.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE III; OF APPOSITION.

"Now, therefore, come thou, let us make a covenant, thee and me."--Bible cor. "Now, therefore, come thou, we will make a covenant, thou and I."--Variation corrected. "The word came not to Esau, the hunter, that stayed not at home; but to Jacob, the plain man, him that dwelt in tents."--Penn cor. "Not to every man, but to the man of God, (i.e.,) him that is led by the spirit of God."--Barclay cor. "For, admitting God to be a creditor, or him to whom the debt should be paid, and Christ him that satisfies or pays it on behalf of man the debtor, this question will arise, whether he paid that debt as God, or man, or both?"--Penn cor. "This Lord Jesus Christ, the heavenly Man, the Emmanuel, God with us, we own and believe in: him whom the high priests raged against," &c.--Fox cor. "Christ, and He crucified, was the Alpha and Omega of all his addresses, the fountain and foundation of his hope and trust."--Exp. cor. "Christ, and He crucified, is the head, and the only head, of the church."--Denison cor. "But if Christ, and He crucified, is the burden of the ministry, such disastrous results are all avoided."--Id. "He never let fall the least intimation, that himself, or any other person whosoever, was the object of worship."--View cor. "Let the elders that rule well, be counted worthy of double honour, especiallythem who labour in the word and doctrine."--Bible cor. "Our Shepherd, he who is styled King of saints, will assuredly give his saints the victory."--Sermon cor. "It may seem odd, to talk of us subscribers."--Fowle cor. "And they shall have none to bury them: they, their wives, nor their sons, nor[533] their daughters; for I will pour their wickedness upon them."--Bible cor. "Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellow-soldier, but your messenger, and him that ministered to my wants."-- Bible cor.

   "Amidst the tumult of the routed train,
    The sons of false Antimachus were slain;
    Him who for bribes his faithless counsels sold,
    And voted Helen's stay for Paris' gold."--Pope cor.

    "See the vile King his iron sceptre bear--
    His only praise attends the pious heir;
    Him in whose soul the virtues all conspire,
    The best good son, from the worst wicked sire."--Lowth cor.

    "Then from thy lips poured forth a joyful song
    To thy Redeemer!--yea, it poured along
    In most melodious energy of praise,
    To God, the Saviour, him of ancient days."--Arm Chair cor.