I myself have seen what utterly confounded me, and while I reject all idea of supernatural agencies, all interposition of departed spirits, yet I have become thoroughly satisfied that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

But in old books the forms of these two letters are continually confounded or transposed.

" Odyssey, B. xviii, l. 310. OBS. 2.Interjections, being in general little else than mere natural voices or cries, must of course be adapted to the sentiments which are uttered with them, and never carelessly confounded one with an other when we express them on paper.

The obscure sound of which I speak, is sometimes improperly confounded with that of short u; thus a recent writer, who professes great skill in respect to such matters, says, "One of the most common sounds in our language is that of the vowel u, as in the word urn, or as the diphthong ea in the word earth, for which we have no character.

The practice of preserving the bodies of those belonging to the whaling classa custom peculiar to the Kadiak Innuithas erroneously been confounded with the one now described.

While his crew were busied in coiling ropes, and clearing the decks, their young Commander leaned his head on the taffrail, (that part of the vessel which the good relict of the Rear-Admiral had so strangely confounded with a very different object in the other end of the ship), remaining for many minutes in an attitude of deep abstraction.

" There is another class of affections which are truly termedthough commonly confounded with those which I describespectral illusions.

A circumstance carelessly told, carelessly listened to, half comprehended, and imperfectly remembered, has a poor chance of being repeated accurately by the first hearer; but when, after passing through the moulding of countless hands, it comes, with time, place, and person, gloriously confounded, into those of a bookmaker ignorant of all its bearings, it will be lucky indeed if any trace of the original groundwork remains distinguishable.

He gains all points, who pleasingly confounds, Surprizes, varies, and conceals the bounds.

Euclid was questioned, menaced, and even anathematized, more than once, during the next ten minutes; but the cunning slave succeeded in confounding himself so effectually with the rest of his connexions of the half-blood, during the search which instantly followed the report of François, that his crime was partially forgotten.

" This speech confounded Birkendelly a good deal.

And as for the copie of my lettar sent to the Frenche kinge, I pray God confound me eternally, if ever I sent him word, message, token, or lettar by any menes: and to this my truith I will stande in to my dethe.

The upshot of his missive was that he was sorry if he had done anything to offend her, but might he be everlastingly confounded if he thought she had the slightest ground for complaint!

A doctrine cannot be contrived, which will more evidently or more extensively confound accent with emphasis, than does this!

If the two kinds of dramatick poetry had been defined only by their effects upon the mind, some absurdities might have been prevented, with which the compositions of our greatest poets are disgraced, who, for want of some settled ideas and accurate distinctions, have unhappily confounded tragick with comick sentiments.

Sometimes he retained them in his own hands; and they were gradually confounded with the royal demesnes, and became difficult to be distinguished from them.

" "No," said I, hastily (confound the great hulking camel!), "I mean such a faithful friend as yourself.

Letters and sounds, though often heedlessly confounded in the definitions given of vowels, consonants, &c., are, in their own nature, very different things.

Historians attach some antiquarian importance to the village of St. Cloud, it being historically confounded with the earliest times of the French monarchy; for, from the beginning of the first race, the kings of France had a country-seat here.

His manners are by his friends pronounced "modest;" and the word modest has since been amiably confounded by his biographers with "pure."

Most likely she confounded in one common detestation the luxury of the rich and the pomps of the Church service.

The arguments confounded my conscience: no matter.

Damn'd confounded niceness, prudery, affectation, or pretty ignorance, if not affectation!By my soul, Belford, I told thee allI was more indebted to her struggles, than to my own forwardness.

One very specious objection is made as regards feudalism, which some clear-minded people obstinately confound with chivalry.

" It is in comparison with these Bechuanas that Chapman calls the Bushmen moral, obviously confounding morality with licentiousness.