those _authors who_
are too fond of innovations."--_L. Murray cor._

CHAPTER VI.--VERBS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF VERBS.

LESSON I.--PRETERITS.

"In speaking on a matter which _touched_ their hearts."--_Phil. Museum
cor._ "Though Horace _published_ it some time after."--_Id._ "The best
subjects with which the Greek models _furnished_ him."--_Id._ "Since he
_attached_ no thought to it."--_Id._ "By what slow steps the Greek alphabet
_reached_ its perfection."--_Id._ "Because Goethe _wished_ to erect an
affectionate memorial."--_Id._ "But the Saxon forms soon _dropped_
away."--_Id._ "It speaks of all the towns that _perished_ in the age of
Philip."--_Id._ "This _enriched_ the written language with new
words."--_Id._ "He merely _furnished_ his friend with matter for
laughter."--_Id._ "A cloud arose, and _stopped_ the light."--_Swift cor._
"She _slipped_ spadillo in her breast."--_Id._ "I _guessed_ the
hand."--_Id._ "The tyrant _stripped_ me to the skin; My skin he _flayed_,
my hair he _cropped_; At head and foot my body _lopped_."--_Id._ "I see the
greatest owls in you, That ever _screeched_ or ever flew."--_Id._ "I _sat_
with delight, From morning till night."--_Id._ "Dick nimbly _skipped_ the
gutter."--_Id._ "In at the pantry door this morn I _slipped_."--_Id._"
Nobody living ever _touched_ me, but you."--_W. Walker cor._ "_Present_, I
ship; _Preterit_, I shipped; _Perf. Participle_, shipped."--_A. Murray
cor._ "Then the king arose, and _tore_ his garments."--_Bible cor._ "When
he _lifted_ up his foot, he knew not where he should set it next."--_Bunyan
cor._ "He _lifted_ up his spear against eight hundred, whom he slew at one
time."--_Bible cor._ "Upon this chaos _rode_ the distressed ark."--_Burnet
cor._ "On whose foolish honesty, my practices _rode_ easy."--_Shakspeare
cor._ "That form of the first or primogenial Earth, which _rose_
immediately out of chaos."--_Burnet cor._ "Sir, how _came_ it, you have
_helped_ to make this rescue?"--_Shak. cor._ "He _swore_ he _would_ rather
lose all his father's images, than that table."--_Peacham cor._ "When our
language _dropped_ its ancient terminations."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "When
themselves they _vilified_."--_Milton cor._ "But I _chose_ rather to do
thus."--_Barclay cor._ "When he _pleaded_ (or _pled_) against the
parsons."--_Hist. cor._ "And he that saw it, _bore_ record." Or: "And he
that saw it, _bare_ record."--_John_, xix, 35. "An irregular verb has one
more varia