_Spectator_, Nº 110. Better thus: The knight, seeing his habitation reduced to so small a compass, and himself in a manner shut out of his own house, ordered, upon the death of his mother, all the apartments to be flung open. Speaking of some indecencies in conversation: As it is impossible for such an irrational way of conversation to last long among a people that make any profession of religion, or show of modesty, _if the country-gentlemen get into it_, they will certainly be left in the lurch. _Spectator_, Nº. 119. The ambiguity vanishes in the following arrangement. ---- the country-gentlemen, if they get into it, will certainly be left in the lurch. Speaking of a discovery in natural philosophy, that colour is not a quality of matter: As this is a truth which has been proved incontestably by many modern philosophers, and is indeed one of the finest speculations in that science, _if the English reader would see the notion explained at large_, he may find it in the eighth chapter of the second book of Mr Locke’s essay on human understanding. _Spectator_, Nº 413. Better thus: As this is a truth, _&c._ the English reader, if he would see the notion explained at large, may find it, _&c._ A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding-cloaths. When she has made her own choice, _for form’s sake_ she sends a _conge d’elire_ to her friends. _Ibid._ Nº 475. Better thus: ---- she sends for form’s sake a _conge d’elire_ to her friends. And since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, _where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punish it_, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. _Gulliver’s Travels, part 1. chap. 6._ Better thus: And since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, the honest dealer, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punish it, is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage.