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._