our'd forth on me, be doubled from above."--_Young_.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

ERRORS OF PARTICIPLES.

[Fist] [As the principles upon which our participles ought to be formed,
were necessarily anticipated in the preceding chapter on verbs, the reader
must recur to that chapter for the doctrines by which the following errors
are to be corrected. The great length of that chapter seemed a good reason
for separating these examples from it, and it was also thought, that such
words as are erroneously written for participles, should, for the sake of
order, be chiefly noticed in this place. In many of these examples,
however, the participle is not really a separate part of speech, but is in
fact taken with an auxiliary to form some compound tense of its verb.]

LESSON I.--IRREGULARS.

"Many of your readers have mistook that passage."--_Steele, Spect._, No.
544.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the preterit verb _mistook_ is here used for
the perfect participle. But, according to the table of irregular verbs, we
ought to say, _mistake, mistook, mistaking, mistaken_; after the form of
the simple verb, _take, took, taking, taken_. Therefore, the sentence
should be amended thus: "Many of your readers have _mistaken_ that
passage."]

"Had not my dog of a steward ran away."--_Addison, Spect._ "None should be
admitted, except he had broke his collar-bone thrice."--_Spect._, No. 474.
"We could not know what was wrote at twenty."--_Pref. to Waller_. "I have
wrote, thou hast wrote, he has wrote; we have wrote, ye have wrote, they
have wrote."--_Ash's Gram._, p. 62. "As if God had spoke his last words
there to his people."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 462. "I had like to have came
in that ship myself."--_N. Y. Observer_, No. 453. "Our ships and vessels
being drove out of the harbour by a storm."--_Hutchinson's Hist. of Mass._,
i, 470. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have wrote,
had he writ in the same language."--_Bolingbroke, on Hist._, i, 68. "When
his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies."--_Atterbury_.
"The immortal mind that hath forsook Her mansion."--_Milton_. "Grease
that's sweaten from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."--_Shak.,
Macbeth_. "The court also was chided for allowing such questions to be
put."--_Col. Stone, on Freemasonry_, p. 470. "He would have spoke."--
_Milton, P. L._, B. x, 1. 517. "Words interwove with sighs found out their
way."--_Id., ib._, i, 621. "T