iving ever
toucht me but you."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 92. "_Present_, I ship;
_Past_, I shipped or shipt; _Participle_, shipped or shipt."--_Murray the
schoolmaster. Gram._, p. 31. "Then the king arose, and tare his
garments."--_2 Sam._, xiii, 31. "When he lift up his foot, he knew not
where he should set it next."--_Bunyan_. "He lift up his spear against
eight hundred, whom he slew at one time."--2 SAM.: _in Joh. Dict._ "Upon
this chaos rid the distressed ark."--BURNET: _ib._ "On whose foolish
honesty, my practices rid easy."--SHAK.: _ib._ "That form of the first or
primogenial Earth, which rise immediately out of chaos."--BURNET: _ib._
"Sir, how come it you have holp to make this rescue?"--SHAK.: _in Joh.
Dict._ "He sware he had rather lose all his father's images than that
table."--PEACHAM: _ib._ "When our language dropt its ancient
terminations."--_Dr. Murray's Hist._, ii, 5. "When themselves they
vilify'd."--_Milton_, P. L., xi, 515. "But I choosed rather to do
thus."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 456. "When he plead against the parsons."--
_School History_, p. 168. "And he that saw it, bear record."--_Cutler's
Gram._, p. 72. "An irregular verb has one more variation, as drive,
drivest, drives, drivedst, drove, driving, driven."--REV. MATT. HARRISON,
_on the English Language_, p. 260. "Beside that village Hannibal pitcht his
camp."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 79. "He fetcht it even from Tmolus."--
_Ib._, p. 114. "He supt with his morning gown on."--_Ib._, p. 285. "There
stampt her sacred name."--_Barlow's Columbiad_, B. i, l. 233.

"Fixt on the view the great discoverer stood,
And thus addrest the messenger of good."--_Barlow_, B, i, l. 658.

LESSON II.--MIXED.

"Three freemen were being tried at the date of our last
information."--_Newspaper_.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the participle _being_ is used after its own
verb _were_. But, according to Observation 4th, on the compound form of the
conjugation, this complex passive form is an absurd innovation. Therefore,
the expression should be changed; thus, "Three freemen _were on
trial_"--or, "_were receiving their trial_--at the date of our last
information."]

"While the house was being built, many of the tribe arrived."--_Ross Cox's
Travels_, p. 102. "But a foundation has been laid in Zion, and the church
is being built upon it."--_The Friend_, ix, 377. "And one fourth of the
people are being educated."--_East India Magazine_. "The present, or that
whi