to Augustus."--_Ib._, i,
466. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talkt about two
such."--_Ib._, i, 467. "And the reformers of language have generally rusht
on."--_Ib._, i, 649. "Three centuries and a half had then elapst since the
date."--_Ib._, i, 249. "Of such criteria, as has been remarkt already,
there is an abundance."--_Ib._, i, 261. "The English have surpast every
other nation in their services."--_Ib._, i, 306. "The party addrest is next
in dignity to the speaker."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 66. "To which we are
many times helpt."--_Walker's Particles_, p. 13. "But for him, I should
have lookt well enough to myself."--_Ib._, p. 88. "Why are you vext, Lady?
why do frown?"--_Milton, Comus_, l. 667. "Obtruding false rules prankt in
reason's garb."--_Ib._, l. 759. "But, like David equipt in Saul's armour,
it is encumbered and oppressed."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 378.
"And when their merchants are blown up, and crackt,
Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wreckt."
--_Butler_, p. 163.
LESSON III.--MIXED.
"The lands are holden in free and common soccage."
--_Trumbull's Hist_, i, 133.
[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the participle _holden_ is not in that form
which present usage authorizes. But, according to the table of irregular
verbs, the four parts of the verb _to hold_, as now used, are _hold, held,
holding, held_. Therefore, _holden_ should be _held_; thus, "The lands are
_held_ in free and common soccage."]
"A stroke is drawed under such words."--_Cobbett's E. Grammar_, Edition of
1832, 154. "It is striked even, with a strickle."--_Walkers Particles_,
p. 115. "Whilst I was wandring, without any care, beyond my
bounds."--_Ib._, p. 83. "When one would do something, unless hindred by
something present."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 311. "It is used
potentially, but not so as to be rendred by these signs."--_Ib._, p. 320.
"Now who would dote upon things hurryed down the stream thus
fast?"--_Collier's Antoninus_, p. 89. "Heaven hath timely try'd their
growth."--_Milton, Comus_, l. 970. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatcht
his wand."--_Ib._, p. 815. "Of true virgin here distrest."--_Ib._, p. 905.
"So that they have at last come to be substitute in the stead of
it."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 339. "Though ye have lien among the
pots."--_Psal._, lxviii, 13. "And, lo, in her mouth was an olive-leaf
pluckt off."--FRIENDS' BIBLE, and BRUCE'S: _Gen._, viii, 11. "Brutus and
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