said to myself, I will be obliged to
expose the folly."--_Chazotte's Essay_, p. 3. "When Clodius, had he meant
to return that day to Rome, must have been arrived."--_Adams's Rhetoric_,
i, 418. "That the fact has been done, is being done, or shall or will be
done."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, pp. 347 and 356. "Am I being
instructed?"--_Wright's Gram._, p. 70. "I am choosing him."--_Ib._, p. 112.
"John, who was respecting his father, was obedient to his
commands."--_Barrett's Revised Gram._, p. 69. "The region echos to the
clash of arms."--_Beattie's Poems_, p. 63.

"And sitt'st on high, and mak'st creation's top
Thy footstool; and behold'st below thee, all."
--_Pollok_, B. vi, l. 663.

"And see if thou can'st punish sin, and let
Mankind go free. Thou fail'st--be not surprised."
--_Id._, B. ii, l. 118.

LESSON III.--MIXED.

"What follows, had better been wanting altogether."--_Blair's Rhet._, p.
201.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the phrase _had better been_, is used in the
sense of the potential pluperfect. But, according to Observation 17th, on
the conjugations, this substitution of one form for another is of
questionable propriety. Therefore, the regular form should here be
preferred; thus, "What follows, _might better have been_ wanting
altogether."]

"This member of the sentence had much better have been omitted
altogether."--_Ib._, p. 212. "One or [the] other of them, therefore, had
better have been omitted."--_Ib._, p. 212. "The whole of this last member
of the sentence had better have been dropped."--_Ib._, p. 112. "In this
case, they had much better be omitted."--_Ib._, p. 173. "He had better have
said, 'the _productions_'"--_Ib._, p. 220. "The Greeks have ascribed the
origin of poetry to Orpheus, Linus, and Musaeus."--_Ib._, p. 377. "It has
been noticed long ago, that all these fictitious names have the same number
of syllables."--_Phil. Museum_, i, 471. "When I found that he had committed
nothing worthy of death, I have determined to send him."--_Acts_, xxv, 25.
"I had rather be a door-keeper in the house of my God."--_Ps._, lxxxiv, 10.
"As for such, I wish the Lord open their eyes."--_Barclay's Works_, iii.
263. "It would a made our passidge over the river very difficult."--
_Walley, in_ 1692. "We should not a been able to have carried our great
guns."--_Id._ "Others would a questioned our prudence, if wee had."--_Id._
See _Hutchinson's Hist. of Mass._, i, 478. "Beware t