PART V. PERSPICUITY AND ACCURACY. FIRST, With respect to single words and phrases. CHAPTER I. Corrections of the errors that relate to PURITY. See Vol. 2. p. 117. WE should be daily employed in doing good. I am wearied with seeing so perverse a disposition. He is in no wise thy inferior; and, in this instance, is not at all to blame. The assistance was welcome and seasonably afforded. For want of employment, he wandered idly about the fields. We ought to live soberly, righteously, and piously in the world. He was long indisposed, and at length died of melancholy. That word follows the general rule, and takes the penultimate accent. He was an extraordinary genius, and attracted much attention. The haughtiness of Florio was very ungraceful, and disgusted both his friends and strangers. He charged me with want of resolution, but in this censure he was greatly mistaken. They have manifested great candour in all the transaction. The conformity of the thought to truth and nature greatly recommended it. The importance, as well as the authenticity of the books, has been clearly displayed. It is difficult to discover the spirit and design of some laws. The disposition which he exhibited, was both unnatural and uncomfortable. He might have perceived, by a transient view, the diffi culties to which his conduct exposed him.. If I should have a little leisure to-morrow, I intend to pay them a short visit. This performance is of the same value as the other. The scene was new, and he was seized with wonder at all he saw. SECTION 2. See Vol. 2. p. 119. LET us consider the works of nature and those of art, with proper attention. He is engaged in a treatise on the interests of the soul and of the body. Some productions of nature rise or sink in value, according as they more or less resemble those of art. The Latin tongue was never spoken, in its purity, in this island. For some centuries, there was a constant intercourse between France and England, by reason of the dominions which we possessed there, and the conquests which we made. Oroccasioned by the dominions, &c. ERNSTEINARS He is impressed with a true sense of the importance of that function, when chosen from a regard to the interests of piety and virtue. The wise and the foolish, the virtuous and the vile, the learned and the ignorant, the temperate and the profligate, must often, like the wheat and the tares, be blended together. SECTION 3. See Vol. 2. p. 119. AN eloquent speaker may give more numerous, but cannot give more convincing Or-may give more arguments, than this plain man offered. but cannot give stronger, &c. These persons possessed very moderate intellects, even before they had impaired them by the extravagance of passion. True wit is nature dressed to advantage; but some works have more ornament than does them good. The sharks, that prey upon the inadvertency of young heirs, are more pardonable than those, who trespass upon the good It has been said, that Jesuits can not only equivocate. OrJesuits are not the only persons who can equivocate. We must not think that these people, when injured, have no right at all to our protection. Or-have less right than others to our protection. Solomon the son of David, and the builder of the temple of Jerusalem, was the richest monarch that reigned over the Jewish people. Solomon, whose father David was persecuted by Saul, was the richest monarch of the Jews. It is certain that all the words which are signs of complex ideas, may furnish matter of mistake and cavil. Or-all those words, &c. Lisias, speaking of his friends, promised to his father, never to abandon them. Or-Lisias speaking of his father's friends, promised to his father, never to abandon them. The Divine Being, ever liberal and faithful, heapeth favours on his servants. Or-The Divine Being heapeth favours on his liberal and faithful servants. Every well-instructed scribe, is like a householder, who bringeth out of his treasure new things and old. He was willing to spend one or two hundred pounds, rather than be enslaved. Dryden, in the following words, makes a very handsome observation, on Ovid's writing a letter from Dido to Eneas. Imprudent associations disqualify us for instructing or reproving others. Or-disqualify us for receiving instruction or reproof of others. SECTION 6. See Vol. 2. p. 121. I SELDOM see a noble building, or any great piece of magnificence and pomp, but I think, how little is all this to satisfy. the ambition of an immortal soul! A poet speaking of the universal deluge, says; Yet when that flood in its own depth was drown'd, When the waters of the deluge had subsided, they left, &c. The author of the Spectator says, that a man is not qualified for a bust, who has not a good deal of wit and vivacity. And Bezaleel made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the mirrors used by the women. VOL. II. Kk |