e (3).

64. "When Burgoyne was born, in 1782, Napoleon and Wellington _were
both boys_ (11)."

Napoleon studied at Brienne, Wellington at Eton. Mention this,
and, in order to imply the _boyhood_, call Wellington "Arthur
Wellesley."

65. "An honourable friend of mine, who is now, I believe, near
me--(38) to whom I never can on any occasion refer without feelings of
respect, and, on this subject, (36) feelings of the most grateful
homage; (38) whose abilities upon this occasion, as upon some former
ones, are not entrusted merely to the perishable eloquence of the
(_a_) day, but will live to be the admiration of that (_a_) hour when
all of us are mute and most of us forgotten: (_b_) (38) has told you
that prudence _is_ (52) the first of virtues, _and_ (52) can never be
used in the cause of vice."

(_a_) Though "of the day" is a recognized expression for
"ephemeral" or "transitory," yet to use "day" for a short time,
and "hour" for a longer, is objectionable. Write _moment_ for
_day_. Else write _future_ for _hour_. (_b_) "--this gentleman
has told &c."

66. "To see the British artisan and his wife on the Sabbath, neat and
clean and cheerful, with their children by their sides, (_a_) (19)
_disporting_ themselves under the open canopy of heaven, _is_ (15)
_pleasant_."

(_a_) There is no reasonable ground for mistaking the sense here,
as the context makes it clear; but since Lord Shaftesbury was
questioned whether he meant _disporting_ to qualify "artisan and
his wife" or "children," write "and, by their sides, their
children disporting &c."

67. "Even if (_a_) _it were_ attended with extenuating circumstances,
such conduct would deserve severe reprobation, (_b_) _and it_ is the
more called for because _it_ would seem that (_c_) _it_ was the
intention of _the author of the crime_, in perpetrating (_e_) _it_, to
inflict all the misery that was possible, upon his victim." See (5).

(_a_) Omit "it were." (_b_) "which." (_c_) "to have been." (_d_)
Express "author of the crime" in one word. (_e_) Use the noun.

68. "The (_a_) (1) _observance_ of the heavenly bodies must have been
attended with great difficulties, (_b_) (30) before the telescope was
(_a_) (1) _discovered_, and it is not to be wondered at if the
investigations of astronomers were often unsatisfactory, and failed to
produce complete (_a_) (1) _persuasion_, (30) (15, _a_) under thes