n the fault of such,
Who still are pleas'd too little or too much."
--_Pope, on Crit._, 1, 384.

LESSON XI.--BAD PHRASES.

"He had as good leave his vessel to the direction of the winds."--SOUTH:
_in Joh. Dict._ "Without good nature and gratitude, men had as good live in
a wilderness as in society."--L'ESTRANGE: _ib._ "And for this reason such
lines almost never occur together."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 385. "His being a
great man did not make him a happy man."--_Crombie's Treatise_, p. 288.
"Let that which tends to the making cold your love be judged in all."--_S.
Crisp_. "It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind
of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death."--_Bacon's
Essays_, p. 4. "Accent dignifies the syllable on which it is laid, and
makes it more distinguished by the ear than the rest."--_Sheridan's Lect._,
p. 80; _Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 244. "Before he proceeds to argue either
on one side or other."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 313. "The change in general of
manners throughout all Europe."--_Ib._, p. 375. "The sweetness and beauty
of Virgil's numbers, throughout his whole works."--_Ib._, p. 440. "The
French writers of sermons study neatness and elegance in laying down their
heads."--_Ib._, p. 13. "This almost never fails to prove a refrigerant to
passion."--_Ib._, p. 321. "At least their fathers, brothers, and uncles,
cannot, as good relations and good citizens, dispense with their not
standing forth to demand vengeance."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol. i, p. 191.
"Alleging, that their crying down the church of Rome, was a joining hand
with the Turks."--_Barclay's Works_, i, 239. "To which is added the
Assembly of Divines Catechism."--_New-England Primer_, p. 1. "This
treachery was always present in both their thoughts."--_Dr. Robertson_.
"Thus far both their words agree." ("_Convenient adhuo utriusqus verba_.
Plaut.")--_Walker's Particles_, p. 125. "Aparithmesis, or Enumeration, is
the branching out into several parts of what might be expressed in fewer
words."--_Gould's Gram_, p. 241. "Aparithmesis, or Enumeration, is when
what might be expressed in a few words, is branched out into several
parts."--_Adam's Gram._, p. 251. "Which may sit from time to time where you
dwell or in the neighbouring vicinity."--_Taylor's District School_, 1st
Ed., p. 281. "Place together a large and a small sized animal of the same
species."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, i, 235. "The weight of the swim