The suppositive verb were,(as, "Were I a king,""If I were a king,") which this author formerly rejected, preferring was, is now, after six and twenty years, replaced in his own examples; and yet he still attempts to disgrace it, by falsely representing it as being only "the indicative plural" very grossly misapplied!

Nor is the term thus ignorantly misapplied solely in disparagement, but occasionally in compliment; as though it implied superiority to frivolity and the mere pleasures of the moment.

This has been suggested as an example worthy of our imitation; many legacies, &c. have from time to time been bequeathed for the encouragement of faithful servants in England; some are claimed, but the majority are shamefully misapplied by those to whom their distribution has been entrusted.

Most of the later letters referred to the payment of the annuity, although they all contained cold inquiries after the 'pet,' and answers so vague and general, as sufficiently to prove that the term was singularly misapplied.

The word, however, was to strike him as strangely misapplied, for from the day of their arrival she was in state of perpetual activity.

He loved a classical quotation subtly misapplied.

Page accepted it with no sign that he considered it anything remarkable, with the habit of a man for whom people produced their best: "She's using some very fine language for her warning, but like some other fine language it's a trifle misapplied.

For a good many years these two had beennot friends: she was incapable of so true a passion; he was too capable to misapply it so unerringly.

of entirely needless, how to be disposed of unintelligently misapplied, what indicates, Words, PUNCT.

Here reconciling refers to the death of Christ, and reconciled, to the desired conversion of the Corinthians; and if we call the former a present participle, and the latter a past, (as do Bullions, Burn, Clark, Felton, S. S. Greene, Lennie, Pinneo, and perhaps others,) we nominally reverse the order of time in respect to the events, and egregiously misapply both terms. OBS.

[FORMULE.Not proper, because the term "Asserter" which is here put for Verb, is both ignorantly misspelled, and whimsically misapplied.