"Each of these words _imply_, some pursuit or object relinquished."
--_Ibid_.

"Magnus, with four thousand of his supposed accomplices _were_ put
to death."--_Gibbon_.

"No nation gives greater encouragements to learning than we do; yet at
the same time _none are_ so injudicious in the application."
--_Goldsmith_.

"_There's two_ or _three_ of us have seen strange sights."--_Shakespeare_.

The past participle should not be used for the past tense, yet the
learned Byron overlooked this fact. He thus writes in the _Lament of
Tasso_:--

"And with my years my soul _begun to pant_ With feelings of strange
tumult and soft pain."

Here is another example from Savage's _Wanderer_ in which there is
double sinning:

"From liberty each nobler science _sprung_, A Bacon brighten'd and a
Spenser _sung_."

Other breaches in regard to the participles occur in the following:--

"Every book ought to be read with the same spirit and in the same manner
as it is _writ_"--Fielding's _Tom Jones_.