in the United States of America. 533 
#, R.S, Edin, the following remark is made upon it: “ The copeladan [of 
the sermon] is termed, somewhat inaccurately, making an improvement of 
the whole. The author, we presume, means, deducing from the whole 
what may contribute to the general improvement.” Brit. Crit, vol. i. p. 
379. In the review of another publication, the word improvement, used in 
the same manner, is noticed by being printed in Italics.- B. Crit. vol. iii. 
p- 345. 
In for Inro ; and vice versa. Mr, Coleman, in remarking upon the preva- 
lence of this inaccuracy in Vewyork, says—* We get in the etage, 
and have the rheumatism into our knees.” Newyork Evening Post, Jan. 
6,1814. An observing friend in Philadelphia says—“ The preposition 
into is almost unknown Aere. They say, when did you come in town? J 
met him riding in town.” 
InFeRior, “ Inferior and superior (says an English friend), in a positive sense, 
are almost universal in New England: A very sufterior mare, a most infe- 
rior horse,”’ &c. 
To Issur. (See Vocab.) The following is an instance of this use of to issue in 
a well-known Engiish author : “ This is our first justification, which, if du- 
ly improved, will issze in our full and final justification.”” Teylor on Ro. 
mans, as cited in Brit. Crit. vol. iv. p. 30. 
To Jeoparvize. This verb is often seen” in the Debates of C ingress, as they 
are reported in the newspapers, It is, perhaps, a corruption of the ancient 
verb to jeopard,as to defiutize isof to depute. But even the verb ¢o jeop- 
ard, which is in all the dictionaries, Dr. Johnson pronounces to be “ obso- 
lete ;” Ash says, it is “ not much used,” and Barc/ay, that it is “ used only 
om wo Pininity,? It is hardly necessary to remark, that ‘o jeopardize is neither 
in Mr. Wedster’s, nor the English dictionaries. 
nae 7. This noun, as well as the preceding verb, is sei to be found 
in our writers : Dr. Johnson says, it is “ not in use.” 
To Lar for to Liz. (See Vocaé.) One of the latest instances, which I have 
met with, of this error in an English work, is the following (which is quot- 
ed in the British Critic, vol. iii. p. 532, note) from Poems by John Bidlake, 
B.A. London, 1794, The Reviewers observe—“ In p. 4, we have the com~ 
_ mon but vulgar mistake of the verb to day for to tie : 
And on the ground to catch each sound would Jay.” 
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