"At a wide remove," for "distance."
"In community," for "the community."
"The works of Deity," for " of the Deity."

3. Verbs.

"I admire to hear," for "I like to hear."

"I admire that he should do it," "I wonder," &c. "I expect he did it," for "suspect."

"He does not fellowship with him," for "hold fellowship. "I learned him the lesson," for "I taught." "He was raised in China," for " brought up. Mr. L. supplied at Kingston," for "preached." "They calculate to go," for "intend, "There let him lay," for "lie."

"The council was setting," for "sitting." "To fall trees, for "to fell."

"I reckon he did."

"He conducts well," for "conducts himself."

"It was predicated on other grounds."

"The work progresses rapidly."

"Such doctrines revolt us. 22.

"The proceedings of the cabinet have not transpired,"

for "been made public."

"Property appreciates," for "rises in value."

4. Conjunctions and Adverbs.

"Like he did," for "as he did."

"Directly they came, I went away," for "as soon

"He was quite sick," for "very.'

"I feel as though," for “if."

"Equally as well," for "equally well."

"As old or older than tradition."

5. Prepositions.

"Averse from," instead of "averse to."
"In comparison to," for "with."
"In accordance to," for "with.'
"Militate with," for "against."
"Confide on," for "in.
"Independent on," for "of."
"Worthy," for "worthy of."
"Differ with," for "from."

II. IMPROPRIETIES IN PHRASES.

Celebrates the church of England as the most perfect of all others.

I had like to have gotten one or two broken heads.

MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES.

The only actions to which we have always seen, and still see all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.-Burke.

To which, as Bishop Burnet tells us, the Prince of Orange was willing to comply.-Bolingbroke.

The discovery he made and communicated with his iends.--Swift.

The people being only convoked upon such occasions, as, by this institution of Romulus, fell into their cognizance.-ld.

The wisest princes need not think it any diminution to their greatness or derogation to their sufficiency to rely upon counsel.-Bacon's Essays.

The esteem which Philip had conceived of the embassador.-Hume.

The christians were driven out of all their Asatic posessions, in acquiring of which incredible numbers of men had perished. Robertson.

I do likewise dissent with the Examiner.-Addison.

Dr. Johnson, with whom I am sorry to differ in opinion, has treated it as a work of merit.--Scott.

The memory of Lord Peter's injuries produced a degree of hatred and spite, which had a much greater share of inciting him,than regards after his father's commands.-Swift. You stand to him in the relation of a son; of consequence you should obey him.

It is no more but his due.

The ship lays in the harbor.

He will become enamored for virtue and patriotism, and acquire a detestation of vice, cruelty, and corruption.-Goldsmith.

Having been for a fortnight together, they are then mighty good company to be sure.-Id.

Now the difference between one audience and another is very great, not only in intellectual, but in moral attainments. It may be clearly intelligible to a House of Commons, which would appear as if spoken in an unknown tongue to a conventicle of enthusiasts. It may kindle fury in the latter, what would create no emotion in the former, but laughter and contempt.--Campbell.

This effect, we may safely say, no one beforehand could have promised upon.-Hume.

PART II.-SUBJECTIVE PROPERTIES.

CHAPTER I.

GENERAL VIEW.

§ 293. The subjective properties of style are those which are determined to discourse by the mental condition of the speaker. § 244. (

Speech is the expression of thought, not as abstract and, so to speak, separate from the thinking mind, not of mere truth or of ideas, but rather of the thinking states of the living speaker. Just so far as it becomes the mere representative of abstract propositions, it sinks from its proper character and elevation. On the other hand, just so far as it is an expression of the thinking mind itself, partaking of its individual life and glow, it fulfils more perfectly its proper object, and consequently is more pleasing and more impressive.

§ 294. The mental condition of the speaker is determined by the natural and acquired characteristics of his own mind, whether common to all mind or peculiar to individuals;

By his physical structure and habits;

By the relations which he sustains to those whom he addresses; and,

By the particular subject and occasion of his dis

course.

Mind has properties as mind; and discourse as the expression of mind must exhibit, more or less, these properties. There are only two, however, which demand particular consideration here. They are these;-that mind is a thinking substance; and that it thinks continuously.

The analogies of external nature, ever multifarious and diverse, lead us at once to the conjecture that there are also native idiosyncracies of mind; that each thinking, like each material existence, has peculiarities of its own. At all events, in the development of mind under diverse influences, there arises a great diversity of mental habits.

The physical structure has its influence, not only in determining the mental habits and modes of thought generally, but, also, particularly in the framing of thought for expression. A narrow chest and weak lungs reject long periods and vehement harangue.

Farther, the professional standing and official character of the speaker should be regarded in style. There is a proper dignity belonging to the pulpit; and the elevated and commanding tones of the general would be ludicrous in the familiar discourse of colloquial equality.

The subject, likewise, and the occasion generally of the discourse naturally impress themselves on the mind of the speaker and leave on it their own peculiar characters. The style, consequently, ever shaping itself by the state of the speaker's mind, at the time, is modified by these outward circumstances.

§ 295. The subjective properties of style include those of SIGNIFICANCE, CONTINUOUSNESS, and NAT

URALNESS.