cor. a foundation has been laid in Zion, and the church is built―(or, continues to be built-) upon it.”— The Friend cor. "And one fourth of the people are receiving education."-E. I. Mag. cor. **The present [tense,] or that [form of the verb] which [expresses what] is now doing."-Beck cor. A new church, called the Pantheon, is about being completed, in an expensive style."-Thompson "When I last saw him, he had grown considerably.”—Murray cor. "I know what a rugged and dangerous path I have got into."-Duncan cor. "You might as well preach ease to one on the rack."-Locke cor. Thou hast heard me, and hast become my salvation."-Bible cor. "While the Elementary Spelling-Book was preparing vor, was in progress of preparation) for the press."-Cobb cor. "Language has become, in modern times, more correct.”—Jamieson cor. **If the plan has been executed in any measure answerable to the author's wishes.”—Robbins cor. "The vial of wrath is still pouring out on the seat of the beast."-Christian Ex. cor. "Christianity had become the generally-adopted and established religion of the whole Roman Empire."-Gurney cor. "Who wrote before the first century had elapsed."—Id. "The original and analogical form has grown quite obsolete."-Lowth cor. "Their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have perished."-Murray cor. "The poems had got abroad, and were in a great many hands."— Wal"It is more harmonious, as well as more correct, to say, 'The bubble is ready to burst." -Cobbett cor. "I drove my suitor from his mad humour of love."-Shak. cor. "Se viriliter expedivit."-Cic. "He has played the man."-- Walker cor. "Wilt thou kill me, as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday ?"--Bible cor. "And we, methought, [or thought I] looked up to him from our hill."- Cowley cor. "I fear thou dost not think so much of the best things as thou ought."Memoir cor. "When this work was commenced."-- Wright cor. "Exercises and a Key to this work are about being prepared.”—Id. "James is loved by John."-Id. Or that which is exhibited."-Id. He was smitten."--Id. "In the passive voice we say, 'I am loved." "”—Id. "Subjunctive Mood: If I be smitten, If thou be smitten, If he be smitten."—Id. "I shall not be able to convince you how superficial the reformation is."-Chalmers cor. "I said to myself, I shall be obliged to expose the folly."-Chazotte cor. "When Clodius, had he meant to return that day to Rome, must have arrived "-J. Q. Adams cor. "That the fact has been done, is doing, or will be done."-Peirce cor. "Am I to be instructed?"-Wright cor. "I choose him."Id. John, who respected his father, was obedient to his commands.”—Barrett cor. ler cor. "The region echoes to the clash of arms.”—Beattie cor. Thy footstool; and beholdst below thee-all."-Pollok cor. Mankind go free. Thou failst-be not surprised.”—Idem. LESSON III-MIXED EXAMPLES. "This member of "What follows, might better have been wanting altogether."-Dr. Blair cor. the sentence might much better have been omitted altogether."-Id. One or the other of them, therefore, might better have been omitted."-Id. "The whole of this last member of the sentence might better have been dropped."—Id. "In this case, they might much better be omitted.”—Id. "He might better have said 'the productions." "—Id. "The Greeks ascribed the origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musaus."-Id. "It was noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number of syllables."-Phil. Museum cor. "When I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, I determined to send him."-Bible cor. "I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God."-Id. "As for such, I wish the Lord would open their eyes." Or, better: "May the Lord open (or, I pray the Lord to open) their eyes."—Barclay cor. "It would have made our passage over the river very difficult."- Walley cor. "We should not have been able to carry our great guns."-Id. "Others would have questioned our prudence, if we had."— Id. "Beware thou be not BECESARED; i. e., Beware that thou do not dwindle-or, lest thou dwindle-into a mere Cæsar."-Harris cor. "Thou raisedst (or, familiarly, thou raised) thy voice to record the stratagems of needy heroes."-Arbuthnot cor. "Life hurries off apace; thine is almost gone already."-Collier cor. "How unfortunate has this accident made me!' cries such a one."-Id. "The muse that soft and sickly woos the ear."-Pollok cor. "A man might better relate himself to a statue."-Bacon cor. "I heard thee say but now, thou liked not that.”—Shak. cor. "In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst, (or, familiarly, thou cried,) Indeed !”—Id. But our ears have grown familiar with 'I have wrote,' 'I have drank,' &c., which are altogether as ungrammatical."-Lowth et al. cor. "The court was in session before Sir Roger came."-Addison "She needs-(or, if you please, need,-) be no more with the jaundice possessed."-Swift cor. "Besides, you found fault with our victuals one day when you were here."-Id. "If spirit of other sort, So minded, hath (or has) o'erleaped these earthy bounds.”—-Milton cor. "It would have been more rational to have forborne this.”—Barclay cor. "A student is not master of it till he has seen all these."-Dr. Murray cor. "The said justice shall summon the party."- Brevard cor. "Now what has become of thy former wit and humour ?"-Spect. cor. "Young stranger, whither wanderst thou?"-Burns cor. "SUBJ. Pres. If I love, If thou love, If he love. Imp. If I loved, If thou loved, If he loved."-Merchant cor. "SUBJ. If I do not love, If thou do not love. If he do not love."-Id. "If he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him."-Bible cor. "Subjunc tive Mood of the verb to call, second person singular: If thou call, (rarely, If thou do call,) If thou called."-Hiley cor. "Subjunctive Mood of the verb to love, second person singular: If thou love, (rarely, If thou do love,) If thou loved."-Bullions cor. "I was; thou wast; he, she, or it, was: We, you or ye, they, were."- White cor. "I taught, thou taughtest, (familiarly, thou taught,) be cor. taught."-Coar cor. "We say, 'If it rain,' 'Suppose it rain,' 'Lest it rain,'' Unless it rain.' This manner of speaking is called the SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD."- Weld cor. "He has arrived at what is deemed the age of manhood."-Priestley cor. "He might much better have let it alone."-Tooke cor. "He were better without it. Or: He would be better without it."-Locke cor. "Hadst thou not been by. Or: If thou hadst not been by. Or, in the familiar style: Had not thou been by."-Shak. "I learned geography. Thou learned arithmetic. He learned grammar."-Fuller cor. "Till the sound has ceased."-Sheridan cor. "Present, die; Preterit, died; Perf. Participle, died."-Six English Grammars corrected. cor. Or:- "Thou bow'dst thy glorious head to none, fear'dst none." But may imagine how the bird was killed?"—Shak. cor. CHAPTER VII.-PARTICIPLES. CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF PARTICIPLES. "Had not my dog of a "Many of your readers have mistaken that passage."-Steele cor. steward run away."-Addison cor. “None should be admitted, except he had broken his collar bone thrice."-Id. "We could not know what was written at twenty.". -Waller cor. "I have written, thou hast written, he has written; we have written, you have written, they have written." -Ash cor. As if God had spoken his last words there to his people."-Barclay cor. "I had like to have come in that ship myself."- Observer cor. "Our ships and vessels being driven out of the harbour by a storm."-Hutchinson cor. "He will endeavour to write as the ancient author would have written, had he written in the same language."-Bolingbroke cor. "When his docrines grew too strong to be shaken by his enemies."-Atterbury cor. "The immortal mind that hath forsaken her mansion."--Milton cor. "Grease that's sweated (or sweat) from the murderer's gibbet, throw into the flame."—Shak. cor. "The court also was chidden (or chid) for allowing such questions to be put."-Stone cor. "He would have spoken."--Milton cor. "Words interwoven (or interweaved) with sighs found out their way."-Id. "Those kings and potentates who have strived (or striven.)"-Id. "That even Silence was taken."-Id. "And envious Darkness, ere they could return, had stolen them from me."-Id. "I have chosen this perfect man."-Id. "I shall scarcely think you have swum in a gondola.”—Shak. cor. "The fragrant brier was woven (or weaved) between."-Dryden cor. Then finish what you have begun.”—Id. "But now the years a numerous train have run."-Pope cor. Repeats your verses written (or writ) on glasses."Prior cor. "Who by turns have risen."—Id. "Which from great authors I have taken."-Id. "Even there he should have fallen.”—Id. "The sun has ris'n, and gone to bed, Just as if Partridge were not dead.”—Swift cor. LESSON II.-REGULARS. "When the word is stripped of all the terminations.”—Dr. Murray cor. Forgive him, Tom; his head is cracked."-Swift cor. "For 'tis the sport, to have the engineer hoised (or hoisted) with his own petar."-Shak. cor. "As great as they are, I was nursed by their mother."-Swift cor. "If he should now be cried down since his change."―Id. Dipped over head and ears-in debt."-ld. "We see the nation's credit cracked.”—Id. "Because they find their pockets picked."— Id. "O what a pleasure mixed with pain!”—Id. And only with her brother linked." - Id. "Because he ne'er a thought allowed, That might not be confessed.”-ld. "My love to Sheelah is more firmly fixed."-Id. "The observations annexed to them will be intelligible "— Phil. Mus. cor. "Those eyes are always fixed on the general principles."-Id. "Laborious conjectures will be banished from our commentaries."-Id. "Tiridates was dethroned, and Phraates was reestablished, in his stead."-Id. "A Roman who was attached to Augustus."-Id. "Nor should I have spoken of it, unless Baxter had talked about two such."—Id. And the reformers of language have generally rushed on."-Id. "Three centuries and a half had then elapsed since the date."-Ib. "Of such criteria, as has been remarked already, there is an abundance."-Id. "The English have surpassed every other nation in their services.”—Id. "The party addressed is next in dignity to the speaker."-Harris cor. "To which we are many times helped."-W. Walker cor. "But for him, I should have looked well enough to myself."-Id. "Why are you vered, Lady? why do frown?"—Milton cor. "Obtruding false rules pranked in reason's garb."Id. "But, like David equipped in Saul's armour, it is encumbered and oppressed."— Campbell cor. 66 And when their merchants are blown up, and cracked, Whole towns are cast away in storms, and wrecked."-Butler cor. LESSON III.-MIXED EXAMPLES. "The lands are held in free and common soccage."-Trumbull cor. "A stroke is drawn under such words."-Cobbett's Gr., 1st Ed. "It is struck even, with a strickle."- W. Walker cor. "Whilst I was wandering, without any care, beyond my bounds."-Id. "When one would do something. unless hindered by something present."-R. Johnson cor. "It is used potentially, but not so as to be rendered by these signs."--Id. "Now who would dote upon things hurried down the stream thus fast?"-Collier cor. "Heaven hath timely tried their growth."-Milton cor. "O! ye mistook, ye should have snatched his wand."-Id. "Of true virgin here distressed."—Id. "So that they have at last come to be substituted in the stead of it.”—Barclay cor. "Though ye have lais among the pots."-Bible cor. "And, lo! in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off."-Scott's Bible, and Alger's. "Brutus and Cassius Have ridden, (or rode,) like madmen, through the gates of Rome."-Shak. cor. He shall be spit upon."-Bible cor. "And are not the countries so overflowed still situated between the tropics?"-Bentley. "Not tricked and frounced as she was wont, But kerchiefed in a comely cloud."-Milton cor. "To satisfy his rigour, Satisfied never.""With him there crucified."—Id. "Th' earth cumbered, and the wing'd air darked with plumes." -Id. "And now their way to Earth they had descried."—Id. "Not so thick swarmed once the soil Bedropped with blood of Gorgon."--Id. "And in a troubled sea of passion tossed."-Id. "The cause, alas! is quickly guessed."-Swift cor. "The kettle to the top was hoised, or hoisted."-Id "In chains thy syllables are linked.”—Id. "Rather than thus be overtopped, Would you not wish their laurels cropped."-Id. "The HYPHEN, or CONJOINER, is a little line drawn to connect words, or parts of words."-Cobbett cor. "In the other manners of dependence, this general rule is sometimes broken."-R. Johnson cor. "Some intransitive verbs may be rendered transitive by means of a preposition prefixed to them."-Grant cor. "Whoever now should place the accent on the first syllable of Valerius, would set every body a laughing."-J. Walker cor. "Being mocked, scourged, spit upon, and crucified."— Gurney cor. "For rhyme in Greece or Rome was never known, Till barb'rous hordes those states had overthrown."-Roscommon cor. "In my own Thames may I be drowned, If e'er I stoop beneath the crowned." Or thus:— "In my own Thames may I be drown'd dead, If e'er I stoop beneath a crown'd head."-Swift cor. CHAPTER VIII.-ADVERBS. CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FORMS OF ADVERBS. "We can much more easily form the conception of a fierce combat."-Blair corrected. "When he was restored agreeably to the treaty, he was a perfect savage."-Webster cor. "How I shall acquit myself suitably to the importance of the trial."-Duncan cor. "Can any thing show your Holiness how unworthily you treat mankind?"-Spect. cor. "In what other, consistently with reason and common sense, can you go about to explain it to him?"—Lowth cor. “Agreeably to this rule, the short vowel Sheva has two characters."- Wilson cor. "We shall give a remarkably fine example of this figure."-See Blair's Rhet., p. 156. "All of which is most abominably false."" -Barclay cor. "He heaped up great riches, but passed his time miserably.”—Murray cor. He is never satisfied with expressing any thing clearly and simply."—Dr. Blair cor. "Attentive only to exhibit his ideas clearly and exactly, he appears dry."-Id. "Such words as have the most liquids and vowels, glide the most softly." Or: "Where liquids and vowels most abound, the utterance is softest."-Id. "The simplest points, such as are most easily apprehended."-Id. "Too historical to be accounted a perfectly regular epic poem."-Id. "Putting after them the oblique case, agreeably to the French construction."-Priestley cor. "Where the train proceeds with an extremely slow pace."-Kames cor. "So as scarcely to give an appearance of succession.”—Id "That concord between sound and sense, which is perceived in some expressions, independently of artful pronunciation."—Id. "Cornaro had become very corpulent, previously to the adoption of his temperate habits."-Hitchcock cor. “Bread, which is a solid, and tolerably hard, substance."-Day cor. "To command every body that was not dressed as finely as himself."-Id. "Many of them have scarcely outlived their authors."-J. Ward cor. "Their labour, indeed, did not penetrate very deeply."- Wilson cor. "The people are miserably poor, and subsist on fish." -Hume cor. "A scale, which I took great pains, some years ago, to make."-Bucke cor. “There is no truth on earth better established than the truth of the Bible."-Taylor cor. "I know of no work more wanted than the one which Mr. Taylor has now furnished."-Dr. Nott cor. "And therefore their requests are unfrequent and reasonable."-Taylor cor. "Questions are more easily proposed, than answered rightly."-Dillwyn cor. "Often reflect on the advantages you possess, and on the source from which they are all derived."-Murray cor. "If there be no special rule which requires it to be put further forward."-Milnes cor. "The masculine and the neuter have the same dialect in all the numbers, especially when they end alike.”—Id. "And children are more busy in their play Than those that wiseliest pass their time away."-Butler cor. CHAPTER IX.-CONJUNCTIONS. CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF CONJUNCTIONS. "Lest, แ "A Verb is so called from the Latin verbum, a word."-Bucke cor. "References are often marked by letters or figures."-Adam and Gould cor. (1.) "A Conjunction is a word which joins words or sentences together."-Lennie, Bullions and Brace, cor. (2.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences together."-R. C. Smith cor. (3.) "A Conjunction is used to connect words or sentences."-Maunder cor. (4.) "Conjunctions are words used to join words or sentences."- Wilcox cor. (5.) "A Conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences."M Culloch, Hart, and Day, cor. (6.) "A Conjunction joins words or sentences together."-Macintosh and Hiley cor. (7.) "The Conjunction joins words or sentences together."-L. Murray cor. (8.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences to each other."-Wright cor. (9.) "Conjunctions connect words or sentences."-Wells and Wilcox cor. (10.) "The conjunction is a part of speech, used to connect words or sentences."- Weld cor. (11.) "A conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences together."-Fowler cor. (12.)" Connectives are particles that unite words or sentences in construction."- Webster cor. English Grammar is miserably taught in our district schools; the teachers know little or nothing about it."-J. O. Taylor cor. instead of preventing diseases, you draw them on."-Locke cor. "The definite article the is frequently applied to adverbs in the comparative or the superlative degree."-Murray et al. cor. "When nouns naturally neuter are assumed to be masculine or feminine."-Murray cor. "This form of the perfect tense represents an action as completely past, though often as done at no great distance of time, or at a time not specified."-Id. "The Copulative Conjunction serves to connect words or clauses, so as to continue a sentence, by expressing an addition, a supposition, a cause, or a consequence."-Id. "The Disjunctive Conjunction serves, not only to continue a sentence by connecting its parts, but also to express opposition of meaning, either real or nominal.”—Id. If we open the volumes of our divines, philosophers, historians, or artists, we shall find that they abound with all the terms necessary to communicate the observations and discoveries of their authors."-Id. "When a disjunctive conjunction occurs between a singular noun or pronoun and a plural one, the verb is made to agree with the plural noun or pronoun."-Murray et al. cor. Pronouns must always agree with their antecedents, or the nouns for which they stand, in gender and number."-Murray cor. "Neuter verbs do not express action, and consequently do not govern nouns or pronouns."-Id. "And the auxiliary of the past imperfect as well as of the present tense."-Id. "If this rule should not appear to apply to every example that has been produced, or to others which might be cited."-Id. "An emphatical pause is made, after something of peculiar moment has been said, on which we desire to fix the hearer's attention."-Murray and Hart cor. "An imperfect* phrase contains no assertion, and does not amount to a proposition, or sentence."-Murray cor. "The word was in the mouth of every one, yet its meaning may still be a secret."-Id. "This word was in the mouth of every one, and yet, as to its precise and definite idea, this may still be a secret."—Harris cor. "It cannot be otherwise, because the French prosody differs from that of every other European language."-Smollet cor. "So gradually that it may be engrafted on a subtonic."-Rush cor. "Where the Chelsea and Malden bridges now are." Or better: "Where the Chelsea or the Malden bridge now is."-Judge Parker cor. "Adverbs are words added to verbs, to participles, to adjectives, or to other adverbs."-R. C. Smith cor. could not have told you who the hermit was, or on what mountain he lived."-Bucke cor. and BE (for they are the same verb) naturally, or in themselves, signify being."-Brightland cor. "Words are signs, either oral or written, by which we express our thoughts, or ideas.”—Mrs. Bethune "His fears will detect him, that he shall not escape."-Comly cor. "Whose is equally applicable to persons and to things." -Webster cor. are equivalent to an affirmative."-Bullions cor. cor. "I "AM "One negative destroys an other, so that two "No sooner does he peep into the world, Than he has done his do."-Hudibras cor. CHAPTER X.-PREPOSITIONS. CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF PREPOSITIONS. "For "Nouns are often formed from participles."-L. Murray corrected. "What tenses are formed from the perfect participle ?"-Ingersoll cor. "Which tense is formed from the present, or root of the verb ?"-Id. "When a noun or a pronoun is placed before a participle, independently of the rest of the sentence."-Churchill's Gram., p. 348. "If the addition consists of two or more words." -Mur. et al. cor. "The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently of the rest of the sentence."-Lowth's Gram., 80; Churchill's, 143; Bucke's, 96; Merchant's, 92. the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present a variety of false constructions."—Murray cor. "For your satisfaction, I shall present you a variety of false constructions."-Ingersoll cor. "I shall here present [to] you a scale of derivation."-Bucke cor. "These two manners of representation in respect to number."-Lowth and Churchill cor. "There are certain adjectives which *The word "imperfect" is not really necessary here; for the declaration is true of any phrase, as this name is commonly applied.-G. BROWN. แ seem to be derived from verbs, without any variation."-Lowth cor. "Or disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof from others.”—Murray cor. "For being more studious than any other pupa in the school."-Id. Misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."—Id. "These peope reduced the greater part of the island under their own power.”—Id. "The principal accent distinguishes one syllable of a word from the rest."-Id. "Just numbers are in unison with the human mind.”—Id. "We must accept of sound in stead of sense."-Id. "Also, in stead of consultation, he uses consult."-Priestley cor. "This ablative seems to be governed by a preposition understood."-W. Walker cor. "Lest my father hear of it, by some means or other.”—Id. "And besides, my wife would hear of it by some means."-Id. "For insisting on a requisition so odious to them."-Robertson cor. "Based on the great self-evident truths of liberty and equality,”— Manual cor. "Very little knowledge of their nature is acquired from the spelling-book."-Marray cor. "They do not cut it off: except from a few words; as, due, duly, &c."-Id. "Whether passing at such time, or then finished."-Lowth cor. "It hath disgusted hundreds with that confession."-Barclay cor. "But they have egregiously fallen into that inconveniency."-Id. “For is not this, to set nature at work?"-Id. "And, surely, that which should set all its springs at work. is God."-Atterbury cor. "He could not end his treatise without a panegyric on modern learning." -Temple cor. "These are entirely independent of the modulation of the voice."—J. Walker cor. "It is dear at a penny. It is cheap at twenty pounds."-W. Walker cor. "It will be despatched, on most occasions, without resting."-Locke cor. "Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!-Pope. "When the objects or the facts are presented to him."—R. C. Smith cor. "I will now present you a synopsis."-Id. "The disjunctive conjunction connects words or sentences, and suggests an opposition of meaning, more or less direct."—Id. "I shall now present to you a few lines."— Bucke cor. "Common names, or substantives, are those which stand for things assorted."-K "Adjectives, in the English language, are not varied by genders, numbers, or cases; their only inflection is for the degrees of comparison."-Id. "Participles are [little more than] adjectives formed from verbs."—Id. "I do love to walk out on a fine summer evening."—Id. Ellipsis. when applied to grammar, is the elegant omission of one or more words of a sentence."-METchant cor. "The preposition to is generally required before verbs in the infinitive mood, but ajt the following verbs it is properly omitted; namely, bid, dare, feel, need, let, make, hear, see: as, 'He bid me do it;' not, 'He bid me to do it.'"-Id. "The infinitive sometimes follows than, for the latter term of a comparison; as, [* Murray should have known better than to write, and Merchant, better than to copy, the text here corrected, or the ambiguous example they appended to it.']"-Id. "Or, by prefixing the adverb more or less, for the comparative, and most or least, for the superlative."-Id. A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun."-Id. From monosyllables, the comparative is regularly formed by adding r or er."—Perley cor. "He has partic larly named these, in distinction from others."-Harris cor. "To revive the decaying taste for ancient literature."―Id. "He found the greatest difficulty in writing."-Hume cor. "And the tear, that is wiped with a little address, May be followed perhaps by a smile."-Cowper, i, 216. CHAPTER XI.-INTERJECTIONS. CORRECTIONS IN THE USE OF INTERJECTIONS. 64 "Of chance or change, O let not man complain."-Beattie's Minstrel, B. ii, 1. 1. "O thou persecutor! O ye hypocrites!"-Russell's Gram., p. 92. "O thou my voice inspire, Who touch'd Isaiah's hallow'd lips with fire!"-Pope's Messiah. "O happy we! surrounded by so many blessings!"-Merchant cor. "O thou who art so unmindful of thy duty!"-Id. "If I am wrong, O teach my heart To find that better way."-Murray's Reader, p. 248. "Heus! evocate lac DavumTer. "Ho! call Davus out hither."-W. Walker cor. "It was represented by an analogy (0 how inadequate!) which was borrowed from the ceremonies of paganism."-Murray cor. "O that Ishmael might live before thee!"-Friends' Bible, and Scott's. "And he said unto him, 0 let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak."-Alger's Bible, and Scott's. "And he said, Olet not the Lord be angry."-Alger; Gen., xviii, 32. O my Lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word."-Scott's Bible. "O Virtue! how amiable thou art!"-Murray's Gram., p. 128. "Alas! I fear for life."-See Ib. "Ah me! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain!" See Bucke's Gram., p. 87. "O that I had digged myself a cave!"-Fletcher cor. "Oh, my good lord thy comfort comes too late."-Shak. cor. "The vocative takes no article: it is distinguished thus: 0 Pedro! O Peter! O Dios! O God!"-Bucke cor. "Oho! But, the relative is always the same."-Cobbett cor. "All-hail, ye happy men!"-Jaudon cor. "O that I had wings like a dovel-Scott's Bible. "O glorious hope! O bless'd abode!"-0. B. Peirce's Gram, p 304. "Welcome friends! how joyous is your presence!"-T. Smith cor. "O blissful days!al! how soon ye pass!"-Parker and Fox cor. "O golden days! O bright unvalued hours! What bliss, did ye but know that bliss, were yours!"-Barbauld cor. "Ah me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!"-Hudibras cor. |