gether
artificial: men who, inured to the sweets of society, cultivate humanity,
find an elegant pleasure in preferring others, and making them happy, of
which the proud, the selfish, scarcely have a conception."--_Kames, El. of
Crit._, i, 105.

"Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape
Crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine."--_Milton_.

IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.

ERRORS RESPECTING PREPOSITIONS.

"Nouns are often formed by participles."--_L. Murray's Index, Octavo
Gram._, ii, 290.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the relation here intended, between _are
formed_ and _participles_, is not well signified by the preposition by.
But, according to Observation 7th, on this part of speech, "The
prepositions have, from their own nature, or from custom, such an
adaptation to particular terms and relations, that they can seldom be used
one for an other without manifest impropriety." This relation would be
better expressed by _from_; thus, "Nouns are often formed _from_
participles."]

"What tenses are formed on the perfect participle?"--_Ingersoll's Gram._,
p. 104. "Which tense is formed on the present?"--_Ibid._ "When a noun or
pronoun is placed before a participle, independently on the rest of the
sentence," &c.--_Ib._, p. 150; _Murray_, 145; and others. "If the addition
consists in two or more words."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 176; _Ingersoll's_,
177. "The infinitive mood is often made absolute, or used independently on
the rest of the sentence."--_Mur._, p. 184; _Ing._, 244; and others. "For
the great satisfaction of the reader, we shall present him with a variety
of false constructions."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 189. "For your satisfaction,
I shall present you with a variety of false constructions."--_Ingersoll's
Gram._, p. 258. "I shall here present you with a scale of
derivation."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 81. "These two manners of representation
in respect of number."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 15; _Churchill's_, 57; "There
are certain adjectives, which seem to be derived without any variation from
verbs."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 89. "Or disqualify us for receiving
instruction or reproof of others."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 253. "For being
more studious than any other pupil of the school."--_Ib._, p. 226. "From
misunderstanding the directions, we lost our way."--_Ib._, p. 201. "These
people reduced the greater part of the island to their own power."--_Ib._,
p. 261.[317] "The principal accent distinguishes one syllabl