UNDER RULE VIII.--OF COMPOUNDS.

"When Joab returned, and smote Edom in the _Valley_ of _Salt_"--FRIENDS'

BIBLE: _Ps_. lx, title. "Then Paul stood in the midst of _Mars Hill_, and

said," &c.--_Scott cor._ "And at night he went out, and abode in the mount

that is called the _Mount_ of Olives."--_Bible cor._ "Abgillus, son of the

king of the Frisii, surnamed Prester John, was in the Holy _Land_ with

Charlemagne."--_U. Biog. Dict. cor._ "Cape Palmas, in Africa, divides the

Grain _Coast_ from the Ivory _Coast_."--_Dict. of Geog. cor._ "The North

Esk, flowing from Loch _Lee_, falls into the sea three miles north of

Montrose."--_Id._ "At Queen's _Ferry_, the channel of the Forth is

contracted by promontories on both coasts."--_Id._ "The Chestnut _Ridge_ is

about twenty-five miles west of the Alleghanies, and Laurel _Ridge_, ten

miles further west."--_Balbi cor._ "Washington _City_, the metropolis of

the United States of America."--_Williams, U. Caz._, p. 380. "Washington

_City_, in the District of Columbia, population (in 1830)

18,826."--_Williams cor._ "The loftiest peak of the _White Mountains_, in

New Hampshire, is called _Mount_ Washington."--_G. Brown_. "Mount's _Bay_,

in the west of England, lies between the _Land's End_ and _Lizard

Point_."--_Id._ "Salamis, an island of the Egean Sea, off the southern

coast of the ancient Attica."--_Dict. of Geog_. "Rhodes, an island of the

Egean _Sea_, the largest and most easterly of the Cyclades."--_Id. cor._

"But he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red _Sea_."--SCOTT: _Ps_.

cxxxvi, 15. "But they provoked him at the sea, even at the Red

_Sea_."--ALGER, FRIENDS: _Ps_. cvi, 7.

UNDER RULE IX.--OF APPOSITION.

"At that time, Herod the _tetrarch_ heard of the fame of Jesus."--SCOTT,

FRIENDS, ET AL.: _Matt._, xiv, 1. "Who has been more detested than Judas

the _traitor?_"--_G. Brown_. "St. Luke the _evangelist_ was a physician of

Antioch, and one of the converts of St. Paul."--_Id._ "Luther, the

_reformer_, began his bold career by preaching against papal

indulgences."--_Id._ "The _poet_ Lydgate was a disciple and admirer of

Chaucer: he died in 1440."--_Id._ "The _grammarian_ Varro, 'the most

learned of the Romans,'[522] wrote three books when he was eighty years

old."--_Id._ "John Despauter, the great _grammarian_ of Flanders, whose

works are still valued, died in 1520."--_Id._ "Nero, the _emperor_ and

_tyrant_ of Rome, slew himself to avoid a worse death."--_Id._ "Cicero the

_orator_, 'the Father of his Country,' was assassinated at the age of

64."--_Id._ "Euripides, the Greek _tragedian_, was born in the _island_ of

Salamis, B. C. 476."--_Id._ "I will say unto God my _rock_, Why hast thou

forgotten me?"--ALGER, ET AL.: _Ps_. xlii, 9. "Staten Island, an island of

New York, nine miles below New York _city_."--_Williams cor._ "When the son

of Atreus, _king_ of _men_, and the noble Achilles first

separated."--_Coleridge cor._

"Hermes, his _patron-god_, those gifts bestow'd,

Whose shrine with _weanling_ lambs he wont to load."--_Pope cor._

UNDER RULE X.--OF PERSONIFICATIONS.

"But _Wisdom_ is justified of all her children."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Luke_,

vii, 35. "Fortune and the _Church_ are generally put in the feminine

gender: that is, when personified." "Go to your _Natural Religion_; lay

before her Mahomet and his disciples."--_Bp. Sherlock_. "O _Death!_ where

is thy sting? O _Grave!_ where is thy victory."--_Pope_: _1 Cor._, xv, 55;

_Merchant's Gram._, p. 172. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."--_Matt._, vi,

24. "Ye cannot serve God and _Mammon_"--See _Luke_, xvi, 13. "This house

was built as if _Suspicion_ herself had dictated the plan."--_Rasselas_.

"Poetry distinguishes herself from _Prose_, by yielding to a musical

law."--_Music of Nature_, p. 501. "My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her

divine instructions: 'My name is _Religion_. I am the offspring of _Truth_

and _Love_, and the parent of _Benevolence, Hope_, and _Joy_. That monster,

from whose power I have freed you, is called _Superstition_: she is called

the child of _Discontent_, and her followers are _Fear_ and

_Sorrow_.'"--_E. Carter_. "Neither _Hope_ nor _Fear_ could enter the

retreats; and _Habit_ had so absolute a power, that even _Conscience_, if

_Religion_ had employed her in their favour, would not have been able to

force an entrance."--_Dr. Johnson_.

"In colleges and halls in ancient days,

There dwelt a sage called _Discipline_."--_Cowper_.

UNDER RULE XI.--OF DERIVATIVES.

"In English, I would have _Gallicisms_ avoided."--_Felton_. "Sallust was

born in Italy, 85 years before the _Christian_ era."--_Murray cor._; "Dr.

Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and

useful _Christians_, and _Christian_ ministers."--_Id._ "They corrupt their

style with untutored _Anglicisms_"--_Milton_. "Albert of Stade, author of a

chronicle from the creation to 1286, a _Benedictine_ of the 13th

century."--_Biog. Dict. cor._ "Graffio, a _Jesuit_ of Capua in the 16th

century, author of two volumes on moral subjects."--_Id._ "They _Frenchify_

and _Italianize_ words whenever they can."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 86. "He who

sells a _Christian_, sells the grace of God."--_Mag. cor._ "The first

persecution against the _Christians_, under Nero, began A. D.

64."--_Gregory cor._ "P. Rapin, the _Jesuit_, uniformly decides in favour

of the Roman writers."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 248. "The Roman poet and

_Epicurean_ philosopher Lucretius has said," &c.--_Cohen cor._ Spell

_"Calvinistic, Atticism, Gothicism, Epicurism, Jesuitism, Sabianism,

Socinianism, Anglican, Anglicism, Anglicize, Vandalism, Gallicism_, and

_Romanize_."--_Webster cor._ "The large _Ternate_ bat."--_Id. and Bolles

cor._

"Church-ladders are not always mounted best

By learned clerks, and _Latinists_ profess'd"--_Cowper cor._

UNDER RULE XII.--OF I AND O.

"Fall back, fall back; _I_ have not room:--_O!_ methinks _I_ see a couple

whom _I_ should know."--_Lucian_. "Nay, _I_ live as _I_ did, _I_ think as

_I_ did, _I_ love you as _I_ did; but all these are to no purpose; the

world will not live, think, or love, as _I_ do."--_Swift to Pope_.

"Whither, _O!_ whither shall _I_ fly? _O_ wretched prince! _O_ cruel

reverse of fortune! _O_ father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy

generosity?"--_Tr. of Sallust._ "When _I_ was a child, _I_ spake as a

child, _I_ understood as a child, _I_ thought as a child; but when _I_

became a man, _I_ put away childish things."--_1 Cor._, xiii, 11. "And _I_

heard, but _I_ understood not; then said _I, O_ my Lord, what shall be the

end of these things?"--_Dan._, xii, 8. "Here am _I_; _I_ think _I_ am very

good, and _I_ am quite sure _I_ am very happy, yet _I_ never wrote a

treatise in my life."--_Few Days in Athens_, p. 127. "Singular, Vocative,

_O master!_ Plural, Vocative, _O masters!_"--_Bicknell cor._

"I, _I_ am he; _O_ father! rise, behold

Thy son, with twenty winters now grown old!"

--_Pope's Odyssey_, B. 24, l. 375.

UNDER RULE XIII.--OF POETRY.

"Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,

_Lie_ in three words--health, peace, and competence;

_But_ health consists with temperance alone,

_And_ peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own."--_Pope._

"Observe the language well in all you write,

_And_ swerve not from it in your loftiest flight.

The smoothest verse and the exactest sense

_Displease_ us, if ill English give offence:

_A_ barbarous phrase no reader can approve;

_Nor_ bombast, noise, or affectation love.

In short, without pure language, what you write

_Can_ never yield us profit or delight.

Take time for thinking; never work in haste;

_And_ value not yourself for writing fast."--_Dryden._

UNDER RULE XIV.--OF EXAMPLES.

"The word _rather_ is very properly used to express a small degree or

excess of a quality; as, '_She_ is _rather_ profuse in her

expenses.'"--_Murray cor._ "_Neither_ imports _not either_; that is, not

one nor the other: as, '_Neither_ of my friends was there.'"--_Id._ "When

we say, '_He_ is a tall man,'--'_This_ is a fair day,' we make some

reference to the ordinary size of men, and to different weather."--_Id._

"We more readily say, 'A million of men,' than, '_A_ thousand of

men.'"--_Id._ "So in the instances, '_Two_ and two are four;'--'_The_ fifth

and sixth volumes will complete the set of books.'"--_Id._ "The adjective

may frequently either precede or follow the verb: as, '_The_ man is

_happy_;' or, '_Happy_ is the man;'--'The interview was _delightful_;' or,

'_Delightful_ was the interview.'"--_Id._ "If we say, '_He_ writes a

pen;'--'_They_ ran the river;'--'_The_ tower fell the Greeks;'--'Lambeth is

Westminster _Abbey_;'--[we speak absurdly;] and, it is evident, there is a

vacancy which must be filled up by some connecting word: as thus, 'He

writes _with_ a pen;'--'_They_ ran _towards_ the river;'--'_The_ tower fell

_upon_ the Greeks;'--'Lambeth is _over against_ Westminster

_Abbey_.'"--_Id._ "Let me repeat it;--_He_ only is great, who has the

habits of greatness."--_Id._ "I say not unto thee, _Until_ seven times;

but, _Until_ seventy times seven."--_Matt._, xviii, 22.

"The Panther smil'd at this; and, '_When_,' said she,

'Were those first councils disallow'd by me?'"--_Dryd. cor._

UNDER RULE XV.--OF CHIEF WORDS.

"The supreme council of the nation is called the _Divan_."--_Balbi cor._

"The British _Parliament_ is composed of _King, Lords_, and

_Commons._"--_Comly's Gram._, p. 129; and _Jaudon's_, 127. "A popular

orator in the House of Commons has a sort of patent for coining as many new

terms as he pleases."--See _Campbell's Rhet._, p. 169; _Murray's Gram._,

364. "They may all be taken together, as one name; as, '_The House of

Commons._'"--_Merchant cor._ "Intrusted to persons in whom the _Parliament_

could confide."--_Murray cor._ "For 'The _Lords' House_,' it were certainly

better to say, '_The House of Lords_;' and, in stead of 'The _Commons'_

vote,' to say. 'The _vote_ of the _Commons._'"--_Id. and Priestley cor._

"The _House_ of _Lords_ were so much influenced by these

reasons."--_Iidem._ "Rhetoricians commonly divide them into two great

classes; _Figures_ of _Words_, and _Figures_ of _Thought_. The former,

_Figures_ of _Words_, are commonly called _Tropes_."--_Murray's Gram._, p.

337. "Perhaps, _Figures_ of _Imagination_, and _Figures_ of _Passion_,

might be a more useful distribution."--_Ib._ "Hitherto we have considered

sentences, under the heads of _Perspicuity, Unity_, and _Strength_."--See

_Murray's Gram._, p. 356.

"The word is then depos'd; and, in this view,

You rule the _Scripture_, not the _Scripture_ you."--_Dryd. cor._

UNDER RULE XVI.--OF NEEDLESS CAPITALS.

"Be of good cheer; _it_ is I; be not afraid."--FRIENDS' BIBLE, AND SCOTT'S:

_Matt._, xiv, 27. "Between passion and lying, there is not a _finger's_

breadth."--_Mur. cor._ "Can our _solicitude_ alter the course, or unravel

the intricacy, of human events?" "The last edition was carefully compared

with the _original manuscript_."--_Id._ "And the governor asked him,

saying, Art thou the _king_ of the Jews?"--SCOTT: _Matt._, xxvii, 11. "Let

them be turned back for a reward of their shame, that say, Aha,

_aha_!"--SCOTT ET AL.: _Ps._, lxx, 3. "Let them be desolate for a reward of

their shame, that say unto me, Aha, aha!"--IIDEM: _Ps._, xl, 15. "What

think ye of Christ? whose _son_ is he? They say unto him, The _son_ of

David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in _spirit_ call him

Lord?"--ALGER: _Matt._, xxii, 42, 43. "Among all _things_ in the

_universe_, direct your _worship_ to the _greatest_. And which is that?

_It_ is that Being _who manages_ and _governs_ all the rest."--_Collier's

Antoninus cor._ "As for _modesty_ and _good faith, truth_ and _justice_,

they have left this wicked _world_ and retired to _heaven; and_ now what is

it that can keep you here?"--_Idem_.

"If pulse of verse a nation's temper shows,

In keen iambics English metre flows."--_Brightland cor._

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS RESPECTING CAPITALS.

LESSON I.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Come, gentle _Spring, ethereal_ mildness, come."--_Thomson's Seasons_, p.

29. As, "He is the Cicero of his age;"--"_He_ is reading the _Lives_ of the

Twelve Cæsars;"--or, if no particular book is meant,--"the _lives_ of the

_twelve_ Cæsars;" (as it is in _Fisk's Grammar_, p. 57;) for the sentence,

as it stands in Murray, is ambiguous. "In the _History_ of Henry the

_Fourth_, by _Father_ Daniel, we are _surprised_ at not finding him the

great man."--_Smollett's Voltaire_, Vol. v, p. 82. "Do not those same poor

peasants use the _lever_, and the _wedge_, and many other

instruments?"--_Harris and Mur. cor._ "Arithmetic is excellent for the

gauging of _liquors; geometry_, for the measuring of _estates; astronomy_,

for the making of _almanacs_; and _grammar_, perhaps, for the drawing of

_bonds_ and _conveyances_."--See _Murray's Gram._, p. 288. "The [_History_

of the] _Wars_ of Flanders, written in Latin by Famianus Strada, is a book

of some note."--_Blair cor._ "_William_ is a noun. _Why_? _Was_ is a verb.

_Why_? _A_ is an article. _Why_? _Very_ is an adverb. _Why_?"

&c.--_Merchant cor._ "In the beginning was the _Word_, and that _Word_ was

with God, and God was that _Word_."--See _Gospel of John_, i, 1. "The

_Greeks_ are numerous in _Thessaly, Macedonia, Romelia_, and

_Albania_."--_Balbi's Geog._, p. 360. "He [the Grand Seignior] is styled by

the Turks, Sultan, Mighty, or Padishah, _Lord_."--_Balbi cor._ "I will

ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O

_Death_! I will be thy _plague_; O _Grave_! I will be thy

destruction."--_Bible cor._ "Silver and _gold_ have I none; but such as I

have, give I [unto] thee."--See _Acts_, iii, 6. "Return, we beseech thee, O

God of _hosts_! look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this

vine."--See _Psalm_ lxxx, 14. "In the Attic _commonwealth_, it was the

privilege of every citizen to rail in public."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. i,

p. 316. "They assert, that in the phrases, 'GIVE me _that_,'--'_This_ is

John's,' and, '_Such_ were _some_ of you,'--the words in _Italics_ are

pronouns; but that, in the following phrases, they are not pronouns:

'_This_ book is instructive;'--'_Some_ boys are ingenious;'--'_My_ health

is declining;'--'_Our_ hearts are deceitful.'"--_Murray partly

corrected_.[523] "And the coast bends again to the northwest, as far as

_Farout Head_."--_Geog. cor._ "Dr. Webster, and other makers of

spelling-books, very improperly write _Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,

Thursday, Friday_, and _Saturday_, without capitals."--_G. Brown_. "The

commander in chief of the Turkish navy is styled the _Capitan

Pacha_."--_Balbi cor._ "Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the

_Father_ of spirits, and live?"--ALGER'S BIBLE: _Heb._, xii, 9. "He [Dr.

Beattie] was more anxious to attain the character of a _Christian_

hero."--_Murray cor._ "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth,

is _Mount_ Zion."--_W. Allen's Gram._, p. 393. "The Lord is my _helper_,

and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."--ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.:

_Heb._, xiii, 6. "Make haste to help me, O LORD my _salvation_."--IIDEM:

_Psalms_, xxxviii, 22.

"The _city_ which _thou_ seest, no other deem

Than great and glorious Rome, _queen_ of the _earth_."

--_Paradise Regained_, B. iv.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"That range of hills, known under the general name of _Mount_

Jura."--_Account of Geneva_. "He rebuked the Red _Sea_ also, and it was

dried up."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Ps_. cvi, 9. "Jesus went unto the _Mount_ of

Olives."--_Bible cor._ "Milton's book in reply to the _Defence of the

King_, by Salmasius, gained him a thousand pounds from the _Parliament_,

and killed his antagonist with vexation."--_G. B_. "Mandeville, _Sir_ John,

an Englishman famous for his travels, born about 1300, died in 1372."--_B.

Dict. cor._ "Ettrick _Pen_, a mountain in Selkirkshire, Scotland, height

2,200 feet."--_G. Geog. cor._ "The coast bends from _Dungsby Head_, in a

northwest direction, to the promontory of _Dunnet Head_."--_Id._ "General

Gaines ordered a detachment of _nearly_ 300 men, under the command of Major

Twiggs, to surround and take an Indian _village_, called _Fowltown_, about

fourteen miles from _Fort_ Scott."--_Cohen Cor._ "And he took the damsel by

the hand, and said unto her, 'Talitha, _cumi_.'"--_Bible Editors cor._ "On

religious subjects, a frequent _adoption of Scripture_ language is attended

with peculiar force."--_Murray cor._ "Contemplated with gratitude to their

Author, the Giver of all _good_."--_Id._ "When he, the Spirit of _truth_,

is come, he will guide you into all [the] truth,"--SCOTT, ALGER, ET AL.:

_John_, xvi, 13. "See the _Lecture on Verbs, Rule XV, Note_ 4th."--_Fisk

cor._ "At the commencement of _Lecture_ 2d, I informed you that Etymology

treats, _thirdly_, of derivation."--_Kirkham cor._ "This 8th _Lecture_ is a

very important one."--_Id._ "Now read the _11th_ and _12th_ lectures, four

or five times over."--_Id._ "In 1752, he [Henry Home] was advanced to the

bench, under the title of _Lord_ Kames."--_Murray cor._ "One of his maxims

was, '_Know_ thyself.'"--_Lempriere cor._ "Good _Master_, what good thing

shall I do, that I may have eternal life?"--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Matt._, xix,

16. "His best known works, however, [John Almon's] are, '_Anecdotes_ of the

_Life_ of the _Earl_ of Chatham,' 2 vols. 4to, 3 vols. 8vo; and

'_Biographical, Literary_, and _Political Anecdotes_ of several of the

_Most Eminent Persons_ of the _Present Age_; never before printed,' 3 vols.

8vo, 1797."--_Biog. Dict. cor._ "O gentle _Sleep_, Nature's soft nurse, how

have I frighted thee?"--SHAK.: _Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 175. "And

_peace, O Virtue!_ peace is all thy own."--_Pope et al. cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Fenelon united the characters of a nobleman and a _Christian_ pastor. His

book entitled, 'An _Explication_ of the Maxims of the Saints, concerning

the _Interior Life_,' gave considerable offence to the guardians of

orthodoxy."--_Murray cor._ "When _Natural Religion_, who before was only a

spectator, is introduced as speaking by the _Centurion's_

voice."--_Murray's Gram._, Vol. i, p. 347. "You cannot deny, that the great

_Mover_ and _Author_ of nature constantly explaineth himself to the eyes of

men, by the sensible intervention of arbitrary signs, which have no

similitude to, or connexion with, the things signified."--_Berkley cor._

"The name of this letter is _Double-u_, its form, that of a double

V."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "Murray, in his _Spelling-Book_, wrote _Charlestown_

with a _hyphen_ and two capitals."--_G. Brown._ "He also wrote _European_

without a capital."--_Id._ "They profess themselves to be _Pharisees_, who

are to be heard and not imitated."--_Calvin cor._ "Dr. Webster wrote both

_Newhaven_ and _New York_ with single capitals."--_G. Brown_. "_Gay Head_,

the west point of Martha's Vineyard."--_Williams cor._ "Write _Crab

Orchard, Egg Harbour, Long Island, Perth Amboy, West Hampton, Little

Compton, New Paltz, Crown Point, Fell's Point, Sandy Hook, Port Penn, Port

Royal, Porto Bello_, and _Porto Rico_.'"--_G. Brown._ "Write the names of

the months: _January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August,

September, October, November, December_."--_Id._ "Write the following names

and words properly: _Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,

Saturn;--Christ, Christian, Christmas, Christendom, Michaelmas, Indian,

Bacchanals;--East Hampton, Omega, Johannes, Aonian, Levitical, Deuteronomy,

European_."--_Id._

"Eight _letters_ in some _syllables_ we find,

And no more _syllables_ in _words_ are join'd."--_Brightland cor._

CHAPTER II.--OF SYLLABLES.

CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SYLLABICATION.

LESSON I.--CONSONANTS.

1. Correction of _Murray_, in words of two syllables: civ-il, col-our,

cop-y, dam-ask, doz-en, ev-er, feath-er, gath-er, heav-en, heav-y, hon-ey,

lem-on, lin-en, mead-ow, mon-ey, nev-er, ol-ive, or-ange, oth-er,

pheas-ant, pleas-ant, pun-ish, rath-er, read-y, riv-er, rob-in, schol-ar,

shov-el, stom-ach, tim-id, whith-er.

2. Correction of _Murray_, in words of three syllables: ben-e-fit,

cab-i-net, can-is-ter, cat-a-logue, char-ac-ter, char-i-ty, cov-et-ous,

dil-i-gence, dim-i-ty, el-e-phant, ev-i-dent, ev-er-green, friv-o-lous,

gath-er-ing, gen-er-ous, gov-ern-ess, gov-ern-or, hon-est-y, kal-en-dar,

lav-en-der, lev-er-et, lib-er-al, mem-or-y, min-is-ter, mod-est-ly,

nov-el-ty, no-bod-y, par-a-dise, pov-er-ty, pres-ent-ly, prov-i-dence,

prop-er-ly, pris-on-er, rav-en-ous, sat-is-fy, sev-er-al, sep-ar-ate,

trav-el-ler, vag-a-bond;--con-sid-er, con-tin-ue, de-liv-er, dis-cov-er,

dis-fig-ure, dis-hon-est, dis-trib-ute, in-hab-it, me-chan-ic,

what-ev-er;--rec-om-mend, ref-u-gee, rep-ri-mand.

3. Correction of _Murray_, in words of four syllables: cat-er-pil-lar,

char-i-ta-ble, dil-i-gent-ly, mis-er-a-ble, prof-it-a-ble,

tol-er-a-ble;--be-nev-o-lent, con-sid-er-ate, di-min-u-tive, ex-per-i-ment,

ex-trav-a-gant, in-hab-i-tant, no-bil-i-ty, par-tic-u-lar, pros-per-i-ty,

ri-dic-u-lous, sin-cer-i-ty;--dem-on-stra-tion, ed-u-ca-tion, em-u-la-tion,

ep-i-dem-ic, mal-e-fac-tor, man-u-fac-ture, mem-o-ran-dum, mod-er-a-tor,

par-a-lyt-ic, pen-i-ten-tial, res-ig-na-tion, sat-is-fac-tion,

sem-i-co-lon.

4. Correction of _Murray_, in words of five syllables: a-bom-i-na-ble,

a-poth-e-ca-ry, con-sid-er-a-ble, ex-plan-a-to-ry, pre-par-a-to-ry;--

ac-a-dem-i-cal, cu-ri-os-i-ty, ge-o-graph-i-cal, man-u-fac-tor-y,

sat-is-fac-tor-y, mer-i-to-ri-ous;--char-ac-ter-is-tic, ep-i-gram-mat-ic,

ex-per-i-ment-al, pol-y-syl-la-ble, con-sid-er-a-tion.

5. Correction of _Murray_, in the division of proper names: Hel-en,

Leon-ard, Phil-ip, Rob-ert, Hor-ace, Thom-as;--Car-o-line, Cath-a-rine,

Dan-i-el, Deb-o-rah, Dor-o-thy, Fred-er-ick, Is-a-bel, Jon-a-than, Lyd-i-a,

Nich-o-las, Ol-i-ver, Sam-u-el, Sim-e-on, Sol-o-mon, Tim-o-thy,

Val-en-tine;--A-mer-i-ca, Bar-thol-o-mew, E-liz-a-beth, Na-than-i-el,

Pe-nel-o-pe, The-oph-i-lus.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

1. Correction of _Webster_, by Rule 1st:--ca-price, e-steem, dis-e-steem,

o-blige;--a-zure, ma-tron, pa-tron, pha-lanx, si-ren, trai-tor, tren-cher,

bar-ber, bur-nish, gar-nish, tar-nish, var-nish, mar-ket, mus-ket,

pam-phlet;--bra-ver-y, kna-ver-y, sla-ver-y, e-ven-ing, sce-ner-y,

bri-ber-y, ni-ce-ty, chi-ca-ner-y, ma-chin-er-y, im-a-ger-y;--a-sy-lum,

ho-ri-zon,--fin-an-cier, her-o-ism, sar-do-nyx, scur-ri-lous,--co-me-di-an,

pos-te-ri-or.

2. Correction of _Webster_, by Rule 2d: o-yer, fo-li-o, ge-ni-al, ge-ni-us,

ju-ni-or, sa-ti-ate, vi-ti-ate;--am-bro-si-a, cha-me-_le_-on, par-he-li-on,

con-ve-ni-ent, in-ge-ni-ous, om-nis-ci-ence, pe-cu-li-ar, so-ci-a-ble,

par-ti-al-i-ty, pe-cu-ni-a-ry;--an-nun-ci-ate, e-nun-ci-ate, ap-pre-ci-ate,

as-so-ci-ate, ex-pa-ti-ate, in-gra-ti-ate, in-i-ti-ate, li-cen-ti-ate,

ne-go-ti-ate, no-vi-ti-ate, of-fi-ci-ate, pro-pi-ti-ate, sub-stan-ti-ate.

3. Correction of _Cobb_ and _Webster_, by each other, under Rule 3d:

"dress-er, hast-y, past-ry, seiz-ure, roll-er, jest-er, weav-er, vamp-er,

hand-y, dross-y, gloss-y, mov-er, mov-ing, ooz-y, full-er, trust-y,

weight-y, nois-y, drows-y, swarth-y."--_Webster_. Again: "east-ern, ful-ly,

pul-let, ril-let, scant-y, need-y."--_Cobb._

4. Correction of _Webster_ and _Cobb_, under Rule 4th: a-wry, a-thwart´,

pros-pect´-ive, pa-ren´-the-sis, re-sist-i-bil´-i-ty, hem-i-spher´-ic,

mon´-o-stich, hem´-i-stich, to´-wards.

5. Correction of the words under Rule 5th; Eng-land, an oth-er,[524]

Beth-es´-da, Beth-ab´-a-ra.

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

1. Correction of _Cobb_, by Rule 3d: bend-er, bless-ing, brass-y, chaff-y,

chant-er, clasp-er, craft-y, curd-y, fend-er, film-y, fust-y, glass-y,

graft-er, grass-y, gust-y, hand-ed, mass-y, musk-y, rust-y, swell-ing,

tell-er, test-ed, thrift-y, vest-ure.

2. Corrections of _Webster_, mostly by Rule 1st: bar-ber, bur-nish,

bris-ket, can-ker, char-ter, cuc-koo, fur-nish, gar-nish, guilt-y, han-ker,

lus-ty, por-tal, tar-nish, tes-tate, tes-ty, trai-tor, trea-ty, var-nish,

ves-tal, di-ur-nal, e-ter-nal, in-fer-nal, in-ter-nal, ma-ter-nal,

noc-tur-nal, pa-ter-nal.

3. Corrections of _Webster_, mostly by Rule 1st: ar-mor-y, ar-ter-y,

_butch-er-y_, cook-er-y, eb-on-y, em-er-y, ev-er-y, fel-on-y, fop-per-y,

frip-per-y, gal-ler-y, his-tor-y, liv-er-y, lot-ter-y, mock-er-y,

_mys-ter-y_,[525] nun-ner-y, or-rer-y, pil-lor-y, quack-er-y, sor-cer-y,

witch-er-y.

4. Corrections of _Cobb_, mostly by Rule 1st: an-kle, bas-ket, blan-ket,

buc-kle, cac-kle, cran-kle, crin-kle, Eas-ter, fic-kle, frec-kle, knuc-kle,

mar-ket, mon-key, por-tress, pic-kle, poul-tice, pun-cheon, quad-rant,

quad-rate, squad-ron, ran-kle, shac-kle, sprin-kle, tin-kle, twin-kle,

wrin-kle.

5. Corrections of _Emerson_, by Rules 1st and 3d: as-cribe, blan-dish,

branch-y, cloud-y, dust-y, drear-y, e-ven-ing, fault-y, filth-y, frost-y,

gaud-y, gloom-y, health-y, heark-en, heart-y, hoar-y, leak-y, loun-ger,

marsh-y, might-y, milk-y, naught-y, pass-ing, pitch-er, read-y, rock-y,

speed-y, stead-y, storm-y, thirst-y, thorn-y, trust-y, vest-ry, west-ern,

wealth-y.

CHAPTER III.--OF WORDS.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING THE FIGURE, OR FORM, OF WORDS.

RULE I.--COMPOUNDS.

"Professing to imitate Timon, the _manhater_."--_Goldsmith corrected_. "Men

load hay with a _pitchfork._"--_Webster cor._ "A _peartree_ grows from the

seed of a pear."--_Id._ "A _toothbrush_ is good to brush your

teeth."--_Id._ "The mail is opened at the _post-office_."--_Id._ "The error

seems to me _twofold_."--_Sanborn cor._ "To _preëngage_ means to engage

_beforehand_."--_Webster cor._ "It is a mean act to deface the figures on a

_milestone_."--_Id._ "A grange is a farm, _with its farm- house_."--_Id._

"It is no more right to steal apples or _watermelons_, than [to steal]

money."--_Id._ "The awl is a tool used by shoemakers and

_harness-makers_."--_Id._ "_Twenty-five_ cents are equal to one quarter of

a dollar."--_Id._ "The _blowing-up_ of the Fulton at New York, was a

terrible disaster."--_Id._ "The elders also, and the _bringers-up_ of the

children, sent to Jehu."--ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: _2 Kings_, x, 5. "Not

with _eyeservice_ as _menpleasers_."--_Col._, iii, 22. "A _good-natured_

and equitable construction of cases."--_Ash cor._ "And purify your hearts,

ye _double-minded_."--_James_, iv, 8. "It is a _mean-spirited_ action to

steal; i.e., To steal is a _mean-spirited_ action."--_A. Murray cor._

"There is, indeed, one form of orthography which is _akin_ to the

subjunctive mood of the Latin tongue."--_Booth cor._ "To bring him into

nearer connexion with real and _everyday_ life."--_Philological Museum_,

Vol. i, p. 459. "The _commonplace_, stale declamation of its revilers would

be silenced."--_Id. cor._ "She [Cleopatra] formed a very singular and

_unheard-of_ project."--_Goldsmith cor._ "He [William Tell] had many

vigilant, though _feeble-talented_ and _mean-spirited_ enemies."--_R. Vaux

cor._ "These _old-fashioned_ people would level our psalmody,"

&c.--_Gardiner cor._ "This _slow-shifting_ scenery in the theatre of

harmony."--_Id._ "So we are assured from Scripture _itself_."--_Harris

cor._ "The mind, being disheartened, then betakes _itself_ to

trifling."--_R. Johnson cor._ "_Whosesoever_ sins ye remit, they are

remitted unto them."--_Bible cor._ "Tarry we _ourselves_ how we will."--_W.

Walker cor._ "Manage your credit so, that you need neither swear

_yourself_, nor seek a voucher."--_Collier cor._ "Whereas song never

conveys any of the _abovenamed_ sentiments."--_Dr. Rush cor._ "I go on

_horseback_."--_Guy cor._ "This requires purity, in opposition to

barbarous, obsolete, or _new-coined words_."--_Adam cor._ "May the

_ploughshare_ shine."--_White cor._ "_Whichever_ way we consider

it."--_Locke cor._

"_Where'er_ the silent _e_ a _place_ obtains,

The _voice_ foregoing, _length_ and softness gains."--_Brightland cor._

RULE II.--SIMPLES.

"It qualifies any of the four parts of speech _above named_."--_Kirkham

cor._ "After _a while_ they put us out among the rude multitude."--_Fox

cor._ "It would be a _shame_, if your mind should falter and give

in."--_Collier cor._ "They stared _a while_ in silence one upon _an

other_."--_Johnson cor._ "After passion has for _a while_ exercised its

tyrannical sway."--_Murray cor._ "Though set within the same _general

frame_ of intonation."--_Rush cor._ "Which do not carry any of the natural

_vocal signs_ of expression."--_Id._ "The measurable _constructive powers_

of a few associable constituents."--_Id._ "Before each accented syllable or

emphatic _monosyllabic word_."--_Id._ "One should not think too favourably

of _one's self_."--_Murray's Gram._, i, 154. "Know ye not your _own

selves_, how that Jesus Christ is in you?"--_2 Cor._, xiii, 5. "I judge not

my _own self_, for I know nothing of my _own self_."--See _1 Cor._, iv, 3.

"Though they were in such a rage, I desired them to tarry _a

while_."--_Josephus cor._ "_A, in stead_ of _an_, is now used before words

beginning with _u_ long."--_Murray cor._ "John will have earned his wages

_by_ next _new year's_ day."--_Id._ "A _new year's gift_ is a present made

on the first day of the year."--_Johnson et al. cor._ "When he sat on the

throne, distributing _new year's gifts_."--_Id._ "St. Paul admonishes

Timothy to refuse _old wives' fables_."--See _1 Tim._, iv, 7. "The world,

take it _all together_, is but one."--_Collier cor._ "In writings of this

stamp, we must accept of sound _in stead_ of sense."--_Murray cor._ "A

_male_ child, a _female_ child; _male_ descendants, _female_

descendants."--_Goldsbury et al. cor._ "_Male_ servants, _female_ servants;

_male_ relations, _female_ relations."--_Felton cor._

"Reserved and cautious, with no partial aim,

My muse e'er sought to blast _an other's_ fame."--_Lloyd cor._

RULE III.--THE SENSE.

"Our discriminations of this matter have been but _four-footed_

instincts."--_Rush cor._ "He is in the right, (says Clytus,) not to bear

_free-born_ men at his table."--_Goldsmith cor._ "To the _short-seeing_ eye

of man, the progress may appear little."--_The Friend cor._ "Knowledge and

virtue are, emphatically, the _stepping-stones_ to individual

distinction."--_Town cor._ "A _tin-peddler_ will sell tin vessels as he

travels."--_Webster cor._ "The beams of a _wooden house_ are held up by the

posts and joists."--_Id._ "What you mean by _future-tense_ adjective, I can

easily understand."--_Tooke cor._ "The town has been for several days very

_well-behaved_."--_Spectator cor._ "A _rounce_ is the handle of a

_printing-press_."--_Webster cor._ "The phraseology [which] we call

_thee-and-thouing_ [or, better, _thoutheeing_,] is not in so common use

with us, as the _tutoyant_ among the French."--_Walker cor._ "Hunting and

other _outdoor_ sports, are generally pursued."--_Balbi cor._ "Come unto

me, all ye that labor and are _heavy-laden_."--_Scott et al. cor._ "God so

loved the world, that he gave his _only-begotten_ Son to save it."--See

ALGER'S BIBLE, and FRIENDS': _John_, iii, 16. "Jehovah is a

_prayer-hearing_ God: Nineveh repented, and was spared."--_Observer cor._

"These are _well-pleasing_ to God, in all ranks and relations."--_Barclay

cor._ "Whosoever cometh _anything_ near unto the tabernacle."--_Bible cor._

"The words coalesce, when they have a _long-established_

association."--_Mur. cor._ "Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will

go _into_ them."--MODERN BIBLE: _Ps_. cxviii, 19. "He saw an angel of God

coming _in to_ him."--_Acts_, x, 3. "The consequences of any action are to

be considered in a _twofold_ light."--_Wayland cor._ "We commonly write

_twofold, threefold, fourfold_, and so on up to _tenfold_, without a

hyphen; and, after that, we use one."--_G. Brown_. "When the first mark is

going off, he cries, _Turn_! the _glassholder_ answers, _Done_!"--_Bowditch

cor._ "It is a kind of familiar _shaking-hands_ (or _shaking of hands_)

with all the vices."--_Maturin cor._ "She is a _good-natured_

woman;"--"James is _self-opinionated_;"--"He is _broken-hearted_."--_Wright

cor._ "These three examples apply to the _present-tense_ construction

only."--_Id._ "So that it was like a game of _hide-and-go-seek_."--_Gram.

cor._

"That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,

Whereto the _climber-upward_ turns his face."--_Shak._

RULE IV.--ELLIPSES.

"This building serves yet for a _schoolhouse_ and a meeting-house."--_G.

Brown_. "Schoolmasters and _schoolmistresses, if_ honest friends, are to be

encouraged."--_Discip. cor._ "We never assumed to ourselves a

_faith-making_ or a _worship-making_ power."--_Barclay cor._ "_Potash_ and

_pearlash_ are made from common ashes."--_Webster cor._ "Both the

_ten-syllable_ and the _eight-syllable_ verses are iambics."--_Blair cor._

"I say to myself, thou _say'st to thyself_, he says to _himself_,

&c."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "Or those who have esteemed themselves _skillful_,

have tried for the mastery in _two-horse_ or _four-horse_ chariots."--_Ware

cor._ "I remember him barefooted and _bareheaded_, running through the

streets."--_Edgeworth cor._ "Friends have the entire control of the

_schoolhouse_ and _dwelling-house_." Or:--"of the _schoolhouses_ and

_dwelling-houses_" Or:--"of the _schoolhouse_ and the _dwelling-houses_"

Or:--"of the _schoolhouses_ and the _dwelling-house_." Or:--"of the

_school_, and _of the dwelling-houses_." [For the sentence here to be

corrected is so ambiguous, that any of these may have been the meaning

intended by it.]--_The Friend cor._ "The meeting is held at the

_first-mentioned_ place in _Firstmonth_; at the _last-mentioned_, in

_Secondmonth_; and so on."--_Id._ "Meetings for worship are held, at the

same hour, on _Firstday_ and _Fourthday_." Or:--"on _Firstdays_ and

_Fourthdays_."--_Id._ "Every part of it, inside and _outside_, is covered

with gold leaf."--_Id._ "The Eastern Quarterly Meeting is held on the last

_Seventhday_ in _Secondmonth, Fifthmonth, Eighthmonth_, and

_Eleventhmonth_."--_Id._ "Trenton Preparative Meeting is held on the third

_Fifthday_ in each month, at ten o'clock; meetings for worship [are held,]

at the same hour, on _Firstdays_ and _Fifthdays_."--_Id._ "Ketch, a vessel

with two masts, a _mainmast_ and _a mizzenmast_."--_Webster cor._ "I only

mean to suggest a doubt, whether nature has enlisted herself [either] as a

_Cis-Atlantic_ or [as a] _Trans-Atlantic_ partisan."--_Jefferson cor._ "By

large hammers, like those used for _paper-mills_ and _fulling-mills_, they

beat their hemp."--_Johnson cor._ "ANT-HILL, or ANT-HILLOCK, n. A small

_protuberance_ of earth, _formed_ by ants, _for_ their _habitation_."--

_Id._ "It became necessary to substitute simple indicative terms called

_pronames_ or _pronouns_."

"Obscur'd, where highest woods, impenetrable

To _light of star or sun_, their umbrage spread."--_Milton cor._

RULE V.--THE HYPHEN.

"_Evil-thinking_; a noun, compounded of the noun _evil_ and the imperfect

participle _thinking_; singular number;" &c.--_Churchill cor._

"_Evil-speaking_; a noun, compounded of the noun _evil_ and the imperfect

participle _speaking_."--_Id._ "I am a tall, _broad-shouldered_, impudent,

black fellow."--_Spect_, or _Joh. cor._ "Ingratitude! thou _marble-hearted_

fiend."--_Shak_. or _Joh. cor._ "A popular _license_ is indeed the

_many-headed_ tyranny."--_Sydney_ or _Joh. cor._ "He from the

_many-peopled_ city flies."--_Sandys_ or _Joh. cor._ "He _many-languaged_

nations has surveyed."--_Pope_ or _Joh. cor._ "The _horse-cucumber_ is the

large green cucumber, and the best for the table."--_Mort_. or _Joh. cor._

"The bird of night did sit, even at _noon-day_, upon the

market-place."--_Shak_. or _Joh. cor._ "These make a general

_gaol-delivery_ of souls not for punishment."--_South_ or _Joh. cor._ "Thy

air, thou other _gold-bound_ brow, is like the first."--_Shak_. or _Joh.

cor._ "His person was deformed to the highest degree; _flat-nosed_ and

_blobber-lipped_."--_L'Estr._ or _Joh. cor._ "He that defraudeth the

labourer of his hire, is a _blood-shedder_."--_Ecclus._, xxxiv, 22.

"_Bloody-minded, adj._, from _bloody_ and _mind_; Cruel, inclined to

_bloodshed_."--_Johnson cor._ "_Blunt-witted_ lord, ignoble in

demeanour."--_Shak_. or _Joh. cor._ "A young fellow, with a _bob-wig_ and a

black silken bag tied to it."--_Spect_. or _Joh. cor._ "I have seen enough

to confute all the _bold-faced_ atheists of this age."--_Bramhall_ or _Joh.

cor._ "Before _milk-white_, now purple with love's wound."--_Joh. Dict., w.

Bolt_. "For what else is a _red-hot_ iron than fire? and what else is a

burning coal than _red-hot_ wood?"--_Newton_ or _Joh. cor._ "_Poll-evil_ is

a large swelling, inflammation, or imposthume, in the horse's poll, or nape

of the neck, just between the ears."--_Far_. or _Joh. cor._

"Quick-witted, _brazen-fac'd_, with fluent tongues,

Patient of labours, and dissembling wrongs."--_Dryden cor._

RULE VI.--NO HYPHEN.

"From his fond parent's eye a _teardrop_ fell."--_Snelling cor._ "How

great, poor _jackdaw_, would thy sufferings be!"--_Id._ "Placed, like a

_scarecrow_ in a field of corn."--_Id._ "Soup for the almshouse at a cent a

quart."--_Id._ "Up into the _watchtower_ get, and see all things despoiled

of fallacies."--_Donne_ or _Joh. cor._ "In the _daytime_ she [Fame] sitteth

in a _watchtower_, and flieth most by night."--_Bacon_ or _Joh. cor._ "The

moral is the first business of the poet, as being the _groundwork_ of his

instruction."--_Dryd._ or _Joh. cor._ "Madam's own hand the _mousetrap_

baited."--_Prior_ or _Joh. cor._ "By the sinking of the _airshaft_, the air

_has_ liberty to circulate."--_Ray_ or _Joh. cor._ "The multiform and

amazing operations of the _airpump_ and the loadstone."--_Watts_ or _Joh.

cor._ "Many of the _firearms_ are named from animals."--_Johnson cor._ "You

might have trussed him and all his apparel into an _eelskin_"--_Shak_. or

_Joh. cor._ "They may serve as _landmarks_, to show what lies in the direct

way of truth."--_Locke_ or _Joh. cor._ "A _packhorse_ is driven constantly

in a narrow lane and dirty road."--_Locke_ or _Joh. cor._ "A _millhorse_,

still bound to go in one circle."--_Sidney_ or _Joh. cor._ "Of singing

birds, they have linnets, _goldfinches_, ruddocks, _Canary birds,

blackbirds_, thrushes, and divers others."--_Carew_ or _Joh. cor._

"Cartridge, a case of paper or parchment filled with _gunpowder_; [or,

rather, containing the _entire charge_ of a gun]."--_Joh. cor._

"Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,

The time of night when Troy was set on fire,

The time when _screechowls_ cry, and _bandogs_ howl."

SHAKSPEARE: _in Johnson's Dict., w. Screechowl_.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS IN THE FIGURE OF WORDS.

LESSON I.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"They that live in _glass houses_, should not throw stones."--_Adage_. "If

a man profess Christianity in any manner or form _whatsoever_."--_Watts

cor._ "For Cassius is _aweary_ of the world." Better: "For Cassius is

_weary_ of the world."--_Shak. cor._ "By the _coming-together_ of more, the

chains were fastened on."--_W. Walker cor._ "Unto the _carrying-away_ of

Jerusalem captive in the fifth month."--_Bible cor._ "And the

_goings-forth_ of the border shall be to Zedad."--_Id._ "And the

_goings-out_ of it shall be at _Hazar Enan_."--See _Walker's Key_ "For the

_taking-place_ of effects, in a certain particular series."--_West cor._

"The _letting-go_ of which was the _occasion_ of all that

corruption."--_Owen cor._ "A _falling-off_ at the end, is always

injurious."--_Jamieson cor._ "As all _holdings-forth_ were courteously

supposed to be trains of reasoning."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "Whose

_goings-forth_ have been from of old, from everlasting."--_Bible cor._

"_Sometimes_ the adjective becomes a substantive."--_Bradley cor._ "It is

very plain, _that_ I consider man as visited _anew_."--_Barclay cor._ "Nor

do I _anywhere say_, as he falsely insinuates."--_Id._ "_Everywhere,

anywhere, elsewhere, somewhere, nowhere_"--_L. Murray's Gram._, Vol. i, p.

115. "The world hurries off apace, and time is like a rapid

river."--_Collier cor._ "But to _new-model_ the paradoxes of ancient

skepticism."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "The _southeast_ winds from the ocean

invariably produce rain."--_Webster cor._ "_Northwest_ winds from the

_highlands_ produce cold clear weather."--_Id._ "The greatest part of such

tables would be of little use to _Englishmen_."--_Priestley cor._ "The

_ground-floor_ of the east wing of _Mulberry-street_ meeting-house was

filled."--_The Friend cor._ "Prince Rupert's Drop. This singular production

is made at the _glasshouses_."--_Barnes cor._

"The lights and shades, whose _well-accorded_ strife

Gives all the strength and colour of our life."--_Pope_.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"In the _twenty-seventh_ year of Asa king of Judah, did Zimri reign seven

days in Tirzah."--_Bible cor._ "In the _thirty-first_ year of Asa king of

Judah, began Omri to reign over Israel."--_Id._ "He cannot so deceive

himself as to fancy that he is able to do a _rule-of-three_ sum."

Better--"_a sum in the rule of three_."--_Qr. Rev. cor._ "The best cod are

those known under the name of _Isle-of-Shoals dun-fish_."--_Balbi cor._

"The soldiers, with _downcast eyes_, seemed to beg for mercy."--_Goldsmith

cor._ "His head was covered with a coarse, _wornout_ piece of

cloth."--_Id._ "Though they had lately received a reinforcement of a

thousand _heavy-armed_ Spartans."--_Id._ "But he laid them by unopened;

and, with a smile, said, 'Business _to-morrow_.'"--_Id._ "Chester _Monthly

Meeting_ is held at _Moorestown, on_ the _Thirdday_ following the second

_Secondday_"--_The Friend cor._ "Eggharbour _Monthly Meeting_ is held _on_

the first _Secondday_."--_Id._ "_Little-Eggharbour_ Monthly Meeting is held

at Tuckerton on the second _Fifthday_ in each month."--_Id._ "At three

o'clock, on _Firstday_ morning, the 24th of _Eleventhmonth_, 1834,"

&c.--_Id._ "In less than _one fourth_ part of the time usually

devoted."--_Kirkham cor._ "The pupil will not have occasion to use it _one

tenth_ part _so_ much."--_Id._ "The painter dips his _paintbrush_ in paint,

to paint the carriage."--_Id._ "In an ancient English version of the _New

Testament_."--_Id._ "The little boy was _bareheaded_."--_Red Book cor._

"The man, being a little _short-sighted_, did not immediately know

him."--_Id._ "_Picture-frames_ are gilt with gold."--_Id._ "The

_parkkeeper_ killed one of the deer."--_Id._ "The fox was killed near the

_brickkiln_."--_Id._ "Here comes Esther, with her _milkpail_"--_Id._ "The

_cabinet-maker_ would not tell us."--_Id._ "A fine _thorn-hedge_ extended

along the edge of the hill."--_Id._ "If their private interests should be

_everso_ little affected."--_Id._ "Unios are _fresh-water_ shells, vulgarly

called _fresh-water_ clams."--_Id._

"Did not each poet mourn his luckless doom,

Jostled by pedants out of _elbow-room_."--_Lloyd cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The captive hovers _a while_ upon the sad remains."--_Johnson cor._

"Constantia saw that the _hand-writing_ agreed with the contents of the

letter."--_Id._ "They have put me in a silk _night-gown_, and a gaudy

_foolscap_"--_Id._ "Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that

has saved that clod-pated, _numb-skulled ninny-hammer_ of yours from ruin,

and all his family?"--_Id._ "A noble, (that is, six shillings and _eight

pence_,) is [paid], and usually hath been paid."--_Id._ "The king of birds,

_thick-feathered_, and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east and

west."--_Id._ "_To-morrow_. This--supposing _morrow_ to mean _morning_, as

it did originally--is an idiom of the same kind as _to-night,

to-day_."--_Johnson cor._ "To-day goes away, and to-morrow comes."--_Id._

"Young children, who are tried in _Gocarts_, to keep their steps from

sliding."--_Id._ "Which, followed well, would demonstrate them but

_goers-backward_"--_Id._ "Heaven's _golden-winged_ herald late he saw, to a

poor Galilean virgin sent."--_Id._ "My _pent-house eyebrows_ and my shaggy

beard offend your sight."--_Id._ "The hungry lion would fain have been

dealing with good _horseflesh_."--_Id._ "A _broad-brimmed_ hat ensconsed

each careful head."--_Snelling cor._ "With harsh vibrations of his

_three-stringed lute_."--_Id._ "They magnify a _hundred-fold_ an author's

merit."--_Id._ "I'll nail them fast to some _oft-opened_ door."--_Id._

"Glossed over only with _saintlike_ show, still thou art bound to

vice."--_Johnson's Dict., w. Saintlike_. "Take of aqua-fortis two ounces,

of _quicksilver_ two drachms."--_Id. cor._ "This rainbow never appears but

when it rains in the _sunshine_."--_Id. cor._

"Not but there are, who merit other palms;

Hopkins and _Sternhold_ glad the heart with _psalms_."--_Pope_.

CHAPTER IV.--OF SPELLING.

CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

RULE I.--FINAL F, L, OR S.

"He _will_ observe the moral law, in _his_ conduct."--_Webster corrected_.

"A _cliff_ is a steep bank, or a precipitous rock."--_Walker cor._ "A needy

man's budget is _full_ of schemes."--_Maxim cor._ "Few large publications,

in this country, _will_ pay a printer."--_N. Webster cor._ "I _shall_, with

cheerfulness, resign my other papers to oblivion."--_Id._ "The proposition

_was_ suspended _till_ the next session of the legislature."--_Id._

"Tenants for life _will_ make the most of lands for themselves."--_Id._

"While every thing _is_ left to lazy negroes, a state _will_ never be

_well_ cultivated."--_Id._ "The heirs of the original proprietors _still_

hold the soil."--_Id._ "Say my annual profit on money loaned _shall_ be

six per cent."--_Id._ "No man would submit to the drudgery of business, if

he could make money _as_ fast by lying _still_."--_Id._ "A man may _as

well_ feed himself with a bodkin, _as_ with a knife of the present

fashion."--_Id._ "The clothes _will_ be ill washed, the food _will_ be

badly cooked; you _will_ be ashamed of your wife, if she _is_ not ashamed

of herself."--_Id._ "He _will_ submit to the laws of the state while he

_is_ a member of it."--_Id._ "But _will_ our sage writers on law forever

think by tradition?"--_Id._ "Some _still_ retain a sovereign power in their

territories."--_Id._ "They _sell_ images, prayers, the sound of _bells_,

remission of sins, &c."--_Perkins cor._ "And the law had sacrifices offered

every day, for the sins of _all_ the people."--_Id._ "Then it may please

the Lord, they _shall_ find it to be a restorative."--_Id._ "Perdition is

repentance put _off till_ a future day."--_Maxim cor._ "The angels of God,

who _will_ good and cannot _will_ evil, have nevertheless perfect liberty

of _will_."--_Perkins cor._ "Secondly, this doctrine cuts off the excuse of

_all_ sin."--_Id._ "_Knell_, the sound of a bell rung at a

funeral."--_Dict. cor._

"If gold with _dross_ or grain with _chaff_ you find,

Select--and leave the _chaff_ and _dross_ behind."--_G. Brown_.

RULE II.--OTHER FINALS.

"The _mob_ hath many heads, but no brains."--_Maxim cor._ "_Clam_; to clog

with any glutinous or viscous matter."--See _Webster's Dict._ "_Whur_; to

pronounce the letter _r_ with too much force." "_Flip_; a mixed liquor,

consisting of beer and spirit sweetened." "_Glyn_; a hollow between two

mountains, a glen."--See _Walker's Dict._ "_Lam_, or _belam_; to beat

soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon."--See _Red Book_. "_Bun_; a small cake,

a simnel, a kind of sweet bread."--See _Webster's Dict._ "_Brunet_, or

_Brunette_; a woman with a brown complexion."--See _ib._, and _Scott's

Dict._ "_Wadset_; an ancient tenure or lease of land in the Highlands of

Scotland."--_Webster cor._ "To _dod_ sheep, is to cut the wool away about

their tails."--_Id._ "In aliquem arietare. _Cic._ To run full _butt_ at

one."--_W. Walker cor._ "Neither your policy nor your temper would _permit_

you to kill me."--_Phil. Mu. cor._ "And _admit_ none but his own offspring

to fulfill them."--_Id._ "The _sum_ of all this dispute is, that some make

them Participles."--_R. Johnson cor._ "As the _whistling_ winds, the _buzz_

and _hum_ of insects, the _hiss_ of serpents, the _crash_ of falling

timber."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 331. "_Van_; to winnow, or a fan for

winnowing."--See _Scott_. "Creatures that _buzz_, are very commonly such as

will sting."--_G. Brown_. "_Beg_, buy, or borrow; _but_ beware how yon

find."--_Id._ "It is better to have a house to _let_, than a house to

_get_." "Let not your tongue _cut_ your throat."--_Precept cor._ "A little

_wit_ will save a fortunate man."--_Adage cor._ "There is many a _slip_

'twixt the cup and the _lip_."--_Id._ "Mothers' darlings make but _milksop_

heroes."--_Id._ "One eye-witness is worth _ten_ hearsays."--_Id._

"The judge shall _job_, the bishop bite the town,

And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown."

POPE: _in Johnson's Dict., w. Job_.

RULE III.--DOUBLING.

"Friz, to curl; _frizzed_, curled; _frizzing_, curling."--_Webster cor._

"The commercial interests served to foster the principles of

_Whiggism_."--_Payne cor._ "Their extreme indolence _shunned_ every species

of labour."--_Robertson cor._ "In poverty and _strippedness_, they attend

their little meetings."--_The Friend cor._ "In guiding and _controlling_

the power you have thus obtained."--_Abbott cor._ "I began, Thou

_begannest_ or _beganst_, He began, &c."--_A. Murray cor._ "Why does

_began_ change its ending; as, I began, Thou _begannest_ or

_beganst_?"--_Id._ "Truth and conscience cannot be _controlled_ by any

methods of coercion."--_Hints cor._ "Dr. Webster _nodded_, when he wrote

_knit, knitter_, and _knitting-needle_, without doubling the _t_."--_G.

Brown_. "A wag should have wit enough to know when other wags are

_quizzing_ him." "_Bonny_; handsome, beautiful, merry."--_Walker cor._

"_Coquettish; practising_ coquetry; after the manner of a jilt."--See

_Worcester_. "_Pottage_; a species of food made of meat and vegetables

boiled to softness in water."--See _Johnson's Dict._ "_Pottager_; (from

_pottage_;) a porringer, a small vessel for children's food." "Compromit,

_compromitted, compromitting_; manumit, manumitted, manumitting."--_Webster

cor._ "_Inferrible_; that may be inferred or deduced from

premises."--_Walker_. "Acids are either solid, liquid, or

_gasseous_."--_Gregory cor._ "The spark will pass through the interrupted

space between the two wires, and explode the _gasses_."--_Id._ "Do we sound

gasses and _gasseous_ like _cases_ and _caseous_? No: they are more like

_glasses_ and _osseous_."--_G. Brown_. "I shall not need here to mention

_Swimming_, when he is of an age able to learn."--_Locke cor._ "Why do

lexicographers spell _thinnish_ and _mannish_ with two Ens, and _dimmish_

and _rammish_ with one Em, each?"--_G. Brown._ "_Gas_ forms the plural

regularly, _gasses_."--_Peirce cor._ "Singular, _gas_; Plural,

_gasses_."--_Clark cor._ "These are contractions from _shedded,

bursted_."--_Hiley cor._ "The Present Tense denotes what is _occurring_ at

the present time."--_Day cor._ "The verb ending in _eth_ is of the solemn

or antiquated style; as, He loveth, He walketh, He _runneth_."--_Davis

cor._

"Thro' Freedom's sons no more remonstrance rings,

Degrading nobles and controlling kings."--_Johnson_.

RULE IV--NO DOUBLING.

"A _bigoted_ and tyrannical clergy will be feared."--See _Johnson, Walker_,

&c. "Jacob _worshiped_ his Creator, leaning on the top of his

staff."--_Murray's Key_, 8vo, p. 165. "For it is all _marvellously_

destitute of interest."--See _Johnson, Walker_, and _Worcester_. "As, box,

boxes; church, churches; lash, lashes; kiss, kisses; rebus,

_rebuses_."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 40. "_Gossiping_ and lying go hand

in hand."--See _Webster's Dict., and Worcester's, w. Gossiping_. "The

substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular

industry, _gossiped_ by the present precious Secretary _at_ [of] war, in

Payne the bookseller's shop."--_Tooke's Diversions_, Vol. i, p. 187.

"_Worship_ makes _worshiped, worshiper, worshiping_; _gossip, gossiped,

gossiper, gossiping_; _fillip, filliped, filliper, filliping_."--_Web.

Dict._ "I became as _fidgety_ as a fly in a milk-jug."--See _ib._ "That

enormous error seems to be _riveted_ in popular opinion." "Whose mind is

not _biased_ by personal attachments to a sovereign."--See _ib._ "Laws

against usury originated in a _bigoted_ prejudice against the

Jews."--_Webster cor._ "The most _critical_ period of life is usually

between thirteen and seventeen."--_Id._ "_Generalissimo_, the chief

commander of an army or military force."--_Every Dict._ "_Tranquilize_, to

quiet, to make calm and peaceful."--_Webster's Dict._ "_Pommelled_, beaten,

bruised; having pommels, as a sword-hilt."--_Webster et al. cor._ "From

what a height does a _jeweller_ look down upon his shoemaker!"--_Red Book

cor._ "You will have a verbal account from my friend and fellow

_traveller_."--_Id._ "I observe that you have written the word _counselled_

with one _l_ only."--_Ib._ "They were offended at such as _combated_ these

notions."--_Robertson cor._ "From _libel_, come _libelled, libeller,

libelling, libellous_; from _grovel, grovelled, groveller, grovelling_;

from _gravel, gravelled_, and _gravelling_."--_Webster cor._ "_Woolliness_,

the state of being woolly."--_Worcester's Dict._ "Yet he has spelled

chapelling, bordeller, _medalist, metaline, metalist, metalize_,

clavellated, etc, with _ll_, contrary to his rule."--_Webster cor._ "Again,

he has spelled _cancellation_ and _snivelly_ with single _l_, and

cupellation, pannellation wittolly, with _ll_."--_Id._ "_Oily_, fatty,

greasy, containing oil, glib."--_Walker cor._ "_Medalist_, one curious in

medals; _Metalist_, one skilled in metals."--_Walker's Rhym. Dict._ "He is

_benefited_."--_Webster_. "They _travelled_ for pleasure."--_Clark cor._

"Without you, what were man? A _grovelling_ herd,

In darkness, wretchedness, and want enchain'd."--_Beattle cor._

RULE V.--FINAL CK.

"He hopes, therefore, to be pardoned by the _critic_."--_Kirkham

corrected_. "The leading object of every _public_ speaker should be, to

persuade."--_Id._ "May not four feet be as _poetic_ as five; or fifteen

feet as _poetic_ as fifty?"--_Id._ "Avoid all theatrical trick and

_mimicry_, and especially all _scholastic stiffness_."--_Id._ "No one

thinks of becoming skilled in dancing, or in _music_, or in _mathematics_,

or _in logic_, without long and close application to the subject."--_Id._

"Caspar's sense of feeling, and susceptibility of _metallic_ and _magnetic_

excitement, were also very extraordinary."--_Id._ "Authorship has become a

mania, or, perhaps I should say, an _epidemic_."--_Id._ "What can prevent

this _republic_ from soon raising a literary standard?"--_Id._ "Courteous

reader, you may think me garrulous upon _topics_ quite foreign to the

subject before me."--_Id._ "Of the _Tonic, Subtonic_, and _Atonic_

elements."--_Id._ "The _subtonic_ elements are inferior to the _tonics_, in

all the _emphatic_ and elegant purposes of speech."--_Id._ "The nine

_atonics_ and the three abrupt _subtonics_ cause an interruption to the

continuity of the _syllabic_ impulse." [526]--_Id._ "On _scientific_

principles, conjunctions and prepositions are [_not_] one [and the same]

part of speech."--_Id._ "That some inferior animals should be able to

_mimick_ human articulation, will not seem wonderful."--_L. Murray cor._

"When young, you led a life _monastic_,

And wore a vest _ecclesiastic_;

Now, in your age, you grow _fantastic_."--_Denham's Poems_, p. 235.

RULE VI.--RETAINING.

"_Fearlessness_; exemption from fear, intrepidity."--_Johnson cor._

"_Dreadlessness_; _fearlessness_, intrepidity, undauntedness."--_Id._

"_Regardlessly_, without heed; _Regardlessness_, heedlessness."--_Id._

"_Blamelessly_, innocently; _Blamelessness_, innocence."--_Id._ "That is

better than to be flattered into pride and _carelessness_."--_Id._ "Good

fortunes began to breed a proud _recklessness_ in them."--_Id._ "See

whether he lazily and _listlessly_ dreams away his time."--_Id._ "It maybe,

the palate of the soul is indisposed by _listlessness_ or sorrow."--_Id._

"_Pitilessly_, without mercy; _Pitilessness_, unmercifulness."--_Id._ "What

say you to such as these? abominable, accordable, _agreeable_, etc."--

_Tooke cor._ "_Artlessly_; naturally, sincerely, without craft."--_Johnson

cor._ "A _chillness_, or shivering of the body, generally precedes a

fever."--See _Webster_. "_Smallness_; littleness, minuteness,

weakness."--_Walker's Dict., et al._ "_Galless, adj_. Free from gall or

bitterness."--_Webster cor._ "_Tallness_; height of stature, upright length

with comparative slenderness."--_Webster's Dict._ "_Willful_; stubborn,

contumacious, perverse, inflexible."--See _ib._ "He guided them by the

_skillfulness_ of his hands."--See _ib._ "The earth is the Lord's, and the

_fullness_ thereof."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Ps_. xxiv, 1. "What is now, is but

an _amassment_ of imaginary conceptions."--_Glanville cor._

"_Embarrassment_; perplexity, entanglement."--_Walker_. "The second is

slothfulness, whereby they are performed slackly and _carelessly_."--

_Perkins cor._ "_Installment_; induction into office, part of a large sum

of money, to be paid at a particular time."--See _Webster's Dict._

"_Inthrallment_; servitude, slavery, bondage."--_Ib._

"I, who at some times spend, at others spare,

Divided between _carelessness_ and care."--_Pope cor._

RULE VII.--RETAINING.

"_Shall_, on the contrary, in the first person, simply

_foretells_."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 41; _Comly's_, 38; _Cooper's_, 51;

_Lennie's_, 26. "There are a few compound irregular verbs, as _befall,

bespeak_, &c."--_Ash cor._ "That we might frequently _recall_ it to our

memory."--_Calvin cor._ "The angels exercise a constant solicitude that no

evil _befall us_."--_Id._ "_Inthrall_; to enslave, to shackle, to reduce to

servitude."--_Johnson_. "He makes resolutions, and _fulfills_ them by new

ones."--See _Webster_. "To _enroll_ my humble name upon the list of authors

on Elocution."--See _Webster_. "_Forestall_; to anticipate, to take up

beforehand."--_Johnson_. "_Miscall_; to call wrong, to name

improperly."--_Webster_. "_Bethrall_; to enslave, to reduce to

bondage."--_Id._ "_Befall_; to happen to, to come to pass."--_Walkers

Dict._ "_Unroll_; to open what is rolled or convolved."--_Webster's Dict._

"_Counterroll_; to keep copies of accounts to prevent frauds."--See _ib._

"As Sisyphus _uprolls_ a rock, which constantly overpowers him at the

summit."--_G. Brown_. "_Unwell_; not well, indisposed, not in good

health."--_Webster_. "_Undersell_; to defeat by selling for less, to sell

cheaper than an other."--_Johnson_. "_Inwall_; to enclose or fortify with a

wall."--_Id._ "_Twibill_; an instrument with two bills, or with a point and

a blade; a pickaxe, a mattock, a halberd, a battleaxe."--_Dict. cor._ "What

you _miscall_ their folly, is their care."--_Dryden cor._ "My heart will

sigh when I _miscall_ it so."--_Shak. cor._ "But if the arrangement

_recalls_ one set of ideas more readily than an other."--_Murray's Gram._,

Vol. i, p. 334.

"'Tis done; and since 'tis done, 'tis past _recall_

And since 'tis past _recall_, must be forgotten."--_Dryden cor._

RULE VIII.--FINAL LL.

"The righteous is taken away from the _evil_ to come."--_Isaiah_, lvii, 1.

"_Patrol_; to go the rounds in a camp or garrison, to march about and

observe what passes."--See _Joh. Dic._ "_Marshal_; the chief officer of

arms, one who regulates rank and order."--See _ib._ "_Weevil_; a

destructive grub that gets among corn."--See _ib._ "It much _excels_ all

other studies and arts."--_W. Walker cor._ "It is _essential_ to all

magnitudes, to be in one place."--_Perkins cor._ "By nature I was thy

_vassal_, but Christ hath redeemed me."--_Id._ "Some being in want, pray

for _temporal_ blessings."--_Id._ "And this the Lord doth, either in

_temporal_ or _in spiritual_ benefits."--_Id._ "He makes an _idol_ of them,

by setting his heart on them." "This _trial_ by desertion serveth for two

purposes."--_Id._ "Moreover, this destruction is both _perpetual_ and

terrible."--_Id._ "Giving to _several_ men several gifts, according to his

good pleasure." "_Until_; to some time, place, or degree, mentioned."--See

_Dict._ "_Annul_; to make void, to nullify, to abrogate, to abolish."--See

_Dict._ "Nitric acid combined with _argil_, forms the nitrate of

_argil_."--_Gregory cor._

"Let modest Foster, if he will, _excel_

Ten metropolitans in preaching well."--_Pope cor._

RULE IX.--FINAL E.

"Adjectives ending in _able_ signify capacity; as, _comfortable, tenable,

improvable_."--_Priestly cor._ "Their mildness and hospitality are

_ascribable_ to a general administration of religious ordinances."--

_Webster cor._ "Retrench as much as possible without _obscuring_ the

sense."--_J. Brown cor._ "_Changeable_, subject to change; _Unchangeable_,

immutable."--_Walker cor._ "_Tamable_, susceptive of taming; _Untamable_,

not to be tamed."--_Id._ "_Reconcilable, Unreconcilable, Reconcilableness_;

Irreconcilable, Irreconcilably, Irreconcilableness."--_Johnson cor._ "We

have thought it most _advisable_ to pay him some little attention."--

_Merchant cor._ "_Provable_, that may be proved; Reprovable, _blamable_,

worthy of reprehension."--_Walker cor._ "_Movable_ and Immovable, _Movably_

and Immovably, _Movables_ and Removal, _Movableness_ and Improvableness,

_Unremovable_ and Unimprovable, _Unremovably_ and Removable, _Provable_ and

Approvable, _Irreprovable_ and Reprovable, _Unreprovable_ and Improvable,

_Unimprovableness_ and Improvably."--_Johnson cor._ "And with this cruelty

you are _chargeable_ in some measure yourself."--_Collier cor._ "Mothers

would certainly resent it, as _judging_ it proceeded from a low opinion of

the genius of their sex."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "_Tithable_, subject to the

payment of tithes; _Salable_, vendible, fit for sale; _Losable_, possible

to be lost; _Sizable_, of reasonable bulk or size."--See _Webster's Dict._

"When he began this custom, he was _puting_ and very tender."--_Locke cor._

"The plate, coin, revenues, and _movables_,

Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd."--_Shak. cor._

RULE X.--FINAL E.

"_Diversely_; in different ways, differently, variously."--See _Walker's

Dict._ "The event thereof contains a _wholesome_ instruction."--_Bacon

cor._ "Whence Scaliger _falsely_ concluded that Articles were

useless."--_Brightland cor._ "The child that we have just seen is

_wholesomely_ fed."--_Murray cor._ "Indeed, _falsehood_ and legerdemain

sink the character of a prince."--_Collier cor._ "In earnest, at this rate

of _management_, thou usest thyself very _coarsely_."--_Id._ "To give them

an _arrangement_ and a diversity, as agreeable as the nature of the subject

would admit."--_Murray cor._ "Alger's Grammar is only a trifling

_enlargement_ of Murray's little _Abridgement_."--_G. Brown_. "You ask

whether you are to retain or _to_ omit the mute _e_ in the _words,

judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, lodgement, adjudgement_, and

_prejudgement_."--_Red Book cor._ "Fertileness, fruitfulness; _fertilely_,

fruitfully, abundantly."--_Johnson cor._ "_Chastely_, purely, without

contamination; _Chasteness_, chastity, purity."--_Id._ "_Rhymester_, n. One

who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet."--_Walker, Chalmers, Maunder,

Worcester_. "It is therefore a heroical _achievement_ to disposess

[sic--KTH] this imaginary monarch."--_Berkley cor._ "Whereby is not meant

the present time, as he _imagines_, but the time past."--_R. Johnson cor._

"So far is this word from affecting the noun, in regard to its

_definiteness_, that its own character of _definiteness_ or

_indefiniteness_, depends upon the name to which it is prefixed."--_Webster

cor._

"Satire, by _wholesome_ lessons, would reclaim,

And heal their vices to secure their fame "--_Brightland cor._

RULE XI.--FINAL Y.

"Solon's the _veriest_ fool in all the play."--_Dryden cor._ "Our author

prides himself upon his great _sliness_ and shrewdness."--_Merchant cor._

"This tense, then, _implies_ also the signification of _debeo_."--_R.

Johnson cor._ "That may be _applied_ to a subject, with respect to

something accidental."--_Id._ "This latter author _accompanies_ his note

with a distinction."--_Id._ "This rule is defective, and none of the

annotators have sufficiently _supplied its deficiencies_."--_Id._ "Though

the _fancied_ supplement of Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, and Mariangelus,

may take place."--_Ib._ "Yet, as to the commutableness of these two tenses,

which is _denied_ likewise, they [the foregoing examples] are _all one_ [;

i.e., _exactly equivalent_]"--_Id._ "Both these tenses may represent a

futurity, _implied_ by the dependence of the clause."--_Id._ "Cry, cries,

crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, _shier, shiest, shily, shiness_; Fly,

flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, _slier, sliest, slily, sliness_;

Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, _drily,

driness_."--_Cobb, Webster, and Chalmers cor._ "I would sooner listen to

the thrumming of a _dandizette_ at her piano."--_Kirkham cor._ "Send her

away; for she _crieth_ after us."--_Matt._, v, 23. "IVIED, _a_. overgrown

with ivy."--_Cobb's Dict._, and _Maunders_.

"Some _drily_ plain, without invention's aid,

Write dull receipts how poems may be made."--_Pope cor._

RULE XII.--FINAL Y.

"The _gayety_ of youth should be tempered by the precepts of age."--_Murray

cor._ "In the storm of 1703, two thousand stacks of _chimneys_ were blown

down in and about London."--_Red Book cor._ "And the vexation was not

abated by the _hackneyed_ plea of haste."--_Id._ "The fourth sin of our

_days_ is lukewarmness."--_Perkins cor._ "God hates the workers of

iniquity, and _destroys_ them that speak lies."--_Id._ "For, when he _lays_

his hand upon us, we may not fret."--_Id._ "Care not for it; but if thou

_mayst_ be free, choose it rather."--_Id._ "Alexander Severus saith, 'He

that _buyeth_, must sell; I will not suffer buyers and sellers of

offices.'"--_Id._ "With these measures, fell in all _moneyed_ men."--See

_Johnson's Dict._ "But rattling nonsense in full _volleys_

breaks."--_Murray's Reader, q. Pope_. "_Valleys_ are the intervals betwixt

mountains."--_Woodward cor._ "The Hebrews had fifty-two _journeys_ or

marches."--_Wood cor._ "It was not possible to manage or steer the

_galleys_ thus fastened together."--_Goldsmith cor._ "_Turkeys_ were not

known to naturalists till after the discovery of America."--_Gregory cor._

"I would not have given it for a wilderness of _monkeys_."--SHAK.: _in

Johnson's Dict._ "Men worked at embroidery, especially in

_abbeys_."--_Constable cor._ "By which all purchasers or mortgagees may be

secured of all _moneys_ they lay out."--_Temple cor._ "He would fly to the

mines _or_ the _galleys_, for his recreation."--_South cor._ "Here

_pulleys_ make the pond'rous oak ascend."--_Gay cor._

------"You need my help, and you say,

Shylock, we would have _moneys_."--_Shak. cor._

RULE XIII.--IZE AND ISE.

"Will any able writer _authorize_ other men to _revise_ his works?"--_G.

B_. "It can be made as strong and expressive as this _Latinized_

English."--_Murray cor._ "Governed by the success or failure of an

_enterprise_."--_Id._ "Who have _patronized_ the cause of justice against

powerful oppressors."--_Id., et al_. "Yet custom _authorizes_ this use of

it."--_Priestley cor._ "They _surprise_ myself, ****; and I even think the

writers themselves will be _surprised_."--_Id._ "Let the interest _rise_ to

any sum which can be obtained."--_Webster cor._ "To _determine_ what

interest shall _arise_ on the use of money."--_Id._ "To direct the popular

councils and check _any rising_ opposition,"--_Id._ "Five were appointed to

the immediate _exercise_ of the office."--_Id._ "No man ever offers himself

as a candidate by _advertising_."--_Id._ "They are honest and economical,

but indolent, and destitute of _enterprise_."--_Id._ "I would, however,

_advise_ you to be cautious."--_Id._ "We are accountable for what we

_patronize_ in others."--_Murray cor._ "After he was _baptized_, and was

solemnly admitted into the office."--_Perkins cor._ "He will find all, or

most, of them, _comprised_ in the exercises."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "A quick

and ready habit of _methodizing_ and regulating their thoughts."--_Id._ "To

_tyrannize_ over the time and patience of his readers."--_Kirkham cor._

"Writers of dull books, however, if _patronized_ at all, are rewarded

beyond their deserts."--_Id._ "A little reflection will show the reader the

reason for _emphasizing_ the words marked."--_Id._ "The English Chronicle

contains an account of a _surprising_ cure."--_Red Book cor._ "_Dogmatize_,

to assert positively; Dogmatizer, an _assertor_, a magisterial

teacher."--_Chalmers cor._ "And their inflections might now have been

easily _analyzed_."--_Murray cor._ "Authorize, _disauthorize_, and

unauthorized; Temporize, _contemporize_, and extemporize."--_Walker cor._

"Legalize, _equalize, methodize_, sluggardize, _womanize_, humanize,

_patronize_, cantonize, _gluttonize, epitomize_, anatomize, _phlebotomize,

sanctuarize_, characterize, _synonymize, recognize_, detonize,

_colonize_."--_Id. cor._

"This beauty sweetness always must _comprise_,

Which from the subject, well express'd, will rise."--_Brightland cor._

RULE XIV.--COMPOUNDS.

"The glory of the Lord shall be thy _rear-ward_."--SCOTT, ALGER: _Isa._,

lviii, 8. "A mere _van-courier_ to announce the coming of his

master."--_Tooke cor._ "The _party-coloured_ shutter appeared to come close

up before him."--_Kirkham cor._ "When the day broke upon this _handful_ of

forlorn but dauntless spirits."--_Id._ "If, upon a _plumtree_, peaches and

apricots are engrafted, _nobody_ will say they are the natural growth of

the _plumtree_.'--_Berkley cor._ "The channel between Newfoundland and

Labrador is called the Straits of _Belleisle_."--_Worcester cor._ "There

being nothing that more exposes to _the headache_:"--or, (perhaps more

accurately,) "_headake_."--_Locke cor._ "And, by a sleep, to say we end the

_heartache_:"--or, "_heartake_."--_Shak. cor._ "He that sleeps, feels not

the _toothache_:"--or, "_toothake_."--_Id._ "That the shoe must fit him,

because it fitted his father and _grandfather_."--_Phil. Museum cor._ "A

single word _misspelled_ [or _misspelt_] in a letter is sufficient to show

that you have received a defective education."--_C. Bucke cor._ "Which

_misstatement_ the committee attributed to a failure of

memory."--_Professors cor._ "Then he went through the _Banqueting-House_ to

the scaffold."--_Smollet cor._ "For the purpose of maintaining a clergyman

and _a schoolmaster_."--_Webster cor._ "They however knew that the lands

were claimed by _Pennsylvania_."--_Id._ "But if you ask a reason, they

immediately bid _farewell_ to argument."--_Barnes cor._ "Whom resist,

_steadfast_ in the faith."--_Alger's Bible_. "And they continued

_steadfastly_ in the apostles' doctrine."--_Id._ "Beware lest ye also fall

from your own _steadfastness_."--_Ib._ "_Galiot_, or _Galliot_, a Dutch

vessel carrying a main-mast and a _mizzen-mast_."--_Webster cor._

"Infinitive, to overflow; Preterit, overflowed; Participle,

_overflowed_."--_Cobbett cor._ "After they have _misspent_ so much precious

time."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "Some say, 'two _handsful_;" some, 'two

_handfuls_; and others, 'two _handful_.' The second expression is

right."--_G. Brown_. "_Lapful_, as much as the lap can contain."--_Webster

cor._ "_Dareful_, full of defiance."--_Walker cor._ "The road to the

_blissful_ regions is as open to the peasant as to the king."--_Mur. cor._

"_Misspell_ is _misspelled_ [or _misspelt_] in every dictionary which I

have seen."--_Barnes cor._ "_Downfall_; ruin, calamity, fall from rank or

state."--_Johnson cor._ "The whole legislature _likewise_ acts _as_ a

court."--_Webster cor._ "It were better a _millstone_ were hanged about his

neck."--_Perkins cor._ "_Plumtree_, a tree that produces plums;

_Hogplumtree_, a tree."--_Webster cor._ "_Trissyllables_ ending in _re_ or

_le_, accent the first syllable."--_Murray cor._

"It happened on a summer's _holyday_,

That to the greenwood shade he took his way."--_Dryden_.

RULE XV.--USAGE.

"Nor are the _moods_ of the Greek tongue more uniform."--_Murray cor._ "If

we _analyze_ a conjunctive _preterit_, the rule will not appear to

hold."--_Priestley cor._ "No landholder would have been at that

_expense_."--_Id._ "I went to see the child whilst they were putting on its

_clothes_."--_Id._ "This _style_ is ostentatious, and _does_ not suit grave

writing."--_Id._ "The king of Israel and _Jehoshaphat_ the king of Judah,

sat each on his throne."--_1 Kings_, xxii, 10; _2 Chron._, xviii, 9.

"_Lysias_, speaking of his friends, promised to his father never to abandon

them."--_Murray cor._ "Some, to avoid this _error_, run into _its_

opposite."--_Churchill cor._ "Hope, the balm of life _soothes_ us under

every misfortune."--_Jaudon's Gram._, p. 182. "Any judgement or decree

might be _heard_ and reversed by the legislature."--_N. Webster cor._ "A

pathetic _harangue will screen_ from punishment any knave."--_Id._ "For the

same _reason_ the _women_ would be improper judges."--_Id._ "Every person

_is_ indulged in worshiping _as_ he _pleases_."--_Id._ "Most or all

_teachers_ are excluded from genteel company."--_Id._ "The _Christian_

religion, in its purity, _is_ the best institution on _earth_."--_Id._

"_Neither_ clergymen nor human laws _have_ the _least_ authority over the

conscience."--_Id._ "A _guild_ is a society, fraternity, or

corporation."--_Barnes cor._ "Phillis was not able to _untie_ the knot, and

so she cut it."--_Id._ "An _acre_ of land is the quantity of one hundred

and sixty perches."--_Id._ "_Ochre_ is a fossil earth combined with the

_oxyd_ of some metal."--_Id._ "_Genii_, when denoting _aërial_ spirits;

_geniuses_, when signifying persons of genius."--_Murray cor._; also

_Frost_; also _Nutting_. "Acrisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful

daughter, whose name was _Danäe_."--_Classic Tales cor._ "_Phäeton_ was the

son of Apollo and Clymene."--_Id._--"But, after all, I may not have reached

the intended _goal_."--_Buchanan cor._ "'_Pittacus_ was offered a large

sum.' Better: '_To Pittacus_ was offered a large sum.'"--_Kirkham cor._

"King _Micipsa_ charged his sons to respect the senate and people of

Rome."--_Id._ "For example: '_Galileo_ greatly improved the

telescope.'"--_Id._ "Cathmor's _warriors_ sleep in death."--_Macpherson's

Ossian_. "For parsing will enable you to detect and correct _errors_ in

composition."--_Kirkham cor._

"O'er barren mountains, o'er the flow'ry plain,

Extends thy _uncontrolled_ and boundless reign."--_Dryden cor._

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

LESSON I.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"A bad author deserves better usage than a bad _critic_."--_Pope (or

Johnson) cor._ "Produce a single passage, _superior_ to the speech of

Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, _governor_ of this

state."--_Jefferson's Notes_, p. 94. "We have none _synonymous_ to supply

its place."--_Jamieson cor._ "There is a probability that the effect will

be _accelerated_."--_Id._ "Nay, a regard to sound has _controlled_ the

public choice."--_Id._ "Though learnt [better, _learned_] from the

uninterrupted use of _guttural_ sounds."--_Id._ "It is by carefully filing

off all roughness and _all inequalities_, that languages, like metals, must

be polished."--_Id._ "That I have not _misspent_ my time in the service of

the community."--_Buchanan cor._ "The leaves of _maize_ are also called

blades."--_Webster cor._ "Who boast that they know what is past, and can

_foretell_ what is to come."--_Robertson cor._ "Its tasteless _dullness_ is

interrupted by nothing but its perplexities."--_Abbott, right_. "Sentences

constructed with the Johnsonian _fullness_ and swell."--_Jamieson, right_.

"The privilege of escaping from his prefatory _dullness_ and

prolixity."--_Kirkham, right_. "But, in poetry, this _characteristic_ of

_dullness_ attains its full growth."--_Id. corrected_. "The leading

_characteristic_ consists in an increase of the force and fullness."--_Id

cor._ "The character of this opening _fullness_ and feebler vanish."--_Id.

cor._ "Who, in the _fullness_ of _unequalled_ power, would not believe

himself the favourite of Heaven?"--_Id. right_. "They _mar_ one _an_ other,

and distract him."--_Philol. Mus. cor._ "Let a deaf _worshiper_ of

antiquity and an English prosodist settle this."--_Rush cor._ "This

_Philippic_ gave rise to my satirical reply in self-defence."--_Merchant

cor._ "We here saw no _innuendoes_, no new sophistry, no

falsehoods."--_Id._ "A witty and _humorous_ vein has often produced

enemies."--_Murray cor._ "Cry _hollo_! to thy tongue, I _pray thee_:[527]

it _curvets_ unseasonably."--_Shak. cor._ "I said, in my _sliest_ manner,

'Your health, sir.'"--_Blackwood cor._ "And _attorneys_ also travel the

circuit in _pursuit_ of business."--_Barnes cor._ "Some whole counties in

Virginia would hardly _sell_ for the _value_ of the _debts due_ from the

inhabitants."--_Webster cor._ "They were called the Court of Assistants,

and _exercised_ all powers, _legislative_ and judicial."--_Id._ "Arithmetic

is excellent for the _gauging_ of liquors."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 295.

"Most of the inflections may be _analyzed_ in a way somewhat

similar."--_Murray cor._

"To epithets allots emphatic state,

_While_ principals, ungrac'd, like _lackeys_ wait."

--_T. O. Churchill's Gram._, p. 326.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Hence _less_ is a privative _suffix_, denoting destitution; as in

_fatherless, faithless, penniless_."--_Webster cor._ "_Bay_; red, or

reddish, inclining to a _chestnut colour_."--_Id._ "To _mimick_, to imitate

or ape for sport; a _mimic_, one who imitates or mimicks."--_Id._

"Counterroll, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; _Counterrollment_, a

counter account."--_Id._ "_Millennium_, [from _mille_ and _annus_,] the

thousand years during which Satan shall be bound."--See _Johnson's Dict._

"_Millennial_, [like _septennial, decennial_, &c.,] pertaining to the

_millennium_, or to a thousand years."--See _Worcester's Dict._

"_Thralldom_; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude."--_Webster's Dict._

"Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers;

_Sweetbrier_, a fragrant shrub."--See _Ainsworth's Dict., Scott's, Gobb's_,

and others. "_Will_, in the second and third persons, barely

_foretells_."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "And _therefore_ there is no word false,

but what is distinguished by Italics."--_Id._ "What should be _repeated_,

is left to their discretion."--_Id._ "Because they are abstracted or

_separated_ from material substances."--_Id._ "All motion is in time, and

_therefore, wherever_ it exists, implies time as its _concomitant_."--

_Harris's Hermes_, p. 95. "And illiterate grown persons are guilty of

_blamable_ spelling."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "They _will_ always be ignorant,

and of _rough_, uncivil manners."--_Webster cor._ "This fact _will_ hardly

be _believed_ in the northern states."--_Id._ "The province, however, _was

harassed_ with disputes."--_Id._ "So little concern _has_ the legislature

for the interest of _learning_."--_Id._ "The gentlemen _will_ not admit

that a _schoolmaster_ can be a gentleman."--_Id._ "Such absurd

_quid-pro-quoes_ cannot be too strenuously avoided."--_Churchill cor._

"When we say of a man, 'He looks _slily_;' we signify, that he takes a sly

glance or peep at something."--_Id._ "_Peep_; to look through a crevice; to

look narrowly, closely, or _slily_"--_Webster cor._ "Hence the confession

has become a _hackneyed_ proverb."--_Wayland cor._ "Not to mention the more

ornamental parts of _gilding_, varnish, &c."--_Tooke cor._ "After this

system of self-interest had been _riveted_."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Prejudice

might have prevented the cordial approbation of a _bigoted_ Jew."--_Dr.

Scott cor._

"All twinkling with the _dewdrop_ sheen,

The _brier-rose_ fell in streamers green."--_Sir W. Scott cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The infinitive _mood_ has, commonly, the sign _to_ before it."--_Harrison

cor._ "Thus, it is _advisable_ to write _singeing_, from the verb to

_singe_, by way of distinction from _singing_, the participle of the verb

to _sing_."--_Id._ "Many verbs form both the _preterit_ tense and the

_preterit_ participle irregularly."--_Id._ "Much must be left to every

one's taste and _judgement_."--_Id._ "Verses of different lengths,

intermixed, form a _Pindaric_ poem."--_Priestley cor._ "He'll _surprise_

you."--_Frost cor._ "Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?"--

_Knowles_. "So _gayly_ curl the waves before each dashing prow."--_Byron

cor._ "When is a _diphthong_ called a proper _diphthong_?"--_Inf. S. Gram.

cor._ "How many _Esses_ would _the word_ then end with? Three; for it would

be _goodness's_."--_Id._ "_Qu_. What is a _triphthong_? _Ans_. A

_triphthong_ is a _coalition_ of three vowels _in one syllable_."--_Bacon

cor._ "The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken

_separately_."--_Murray_. "The cubic foot of matter which occupies the

_centre_ of the globe."--_Cardell cor._ "The wine imbibes _oxygen_, or the

acidifying principle, from the air."--_Id._ "Charcoal, sulphur, and

_nitre_, make _gunpowder_."--_Id._ "It would be readily understood, that

the thing so _labelled_ was a bottle of Madeira wine."--_Id._ "They went

their ways, one to his farm, an other to his _merchandise_."--_Matt._,

xxii, 5. "A _diphthong_ is the union of two vowels, _both in one

syllable_."--_Russell cor._ "The professors of the _Mohammedan_ religion

are called Mussulmans."--_Maltby cor._ "This _shows_ that _let_ is not a

_mere_ sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb."--_Id._ "Those

_preterits_ and participles which are first mentioned in the list, seem to

be the most eligible."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 107; _Fisk's_, 81;

_Ingersoll's_, 103. "Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by _er_

and _est_, and _dissyllables_, by _more_ and _most_."--_Murray's Gram._, p.

47. "This termination, added to a noun or _an_ adjective, changes it into a

verb: as, _modern_, to _modernize_; a _symbol_, to _symbolize_."--

_Churchill cor._ "An _Abridgement_ of Murray's Grammar, with additions from

Webster, Ash, Tooke, and others."--_Maltby's Gram._, p. 2. "For the sake of

occupying the room more _advantageously_, the subject of Orthography is

merely glanced at."--_Nutting cor._ "So contended the accusers of

_Galileo_."--_O. B. Peirce cor._ Murray says, "They were _travelling post_

when _he_ met them."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 69. "They _fulfill_ the

only purposes for which they were designed."--_Peirce cor._--See _Webster's

Dict._ "On the _fulfillment_ of the event."--_Peirce, right_. "_Fullness_

consists in expressing every idea."--_Id._ "Consistently with _fullness_

and perspicuity."--_Peirce cor._ "The word _veriest_ is a _regular

adjective_; as, 'He is the _veriest_ fool on earth.'"--_Wright cor._ "The

sound will _recall_ the idea of the object."--_Hiley cor._ "Formed for

great _enterprises_."--_Hiley's Gram._, p. 113. "The most important rules

and definitions are printed in large type, _Italicized_."--_Hart cor._

"HAMLETED, _a._, accustomed to a hamlet, countrified."--_Webster_, and

_Worcester_. "Singular, _spoonful, cupful, coachful, handful_; plural,

_spoonfuls, cupfuls, coachfuls, handfuls_."--_Worcester's Universal and

Critical Dictionary_.

"Between superlatives and following names,

_Of_, by _grammatic_ right, a station claims."--_Brightland cor._

THE KEY.--PART II.--ETYMOLOGY.

CHAPTER I.--PARTS OF SPEECH.

The first chapter of Etymology, as it exhibits only the distribution of

words into the ten Parts of Speech, contains no false grammar for

correction. And it may be here observed, that as mistakes concerning the

forms, classes, or modifications of words, are chiefly to be found in

_sentences_, rather than in any separate exhibition of the terms; the

quotations of this kind, with which I have illustrated the principles of

etymology, are many of them such as might perhaps with more propriety be

denominated _false syntax_. But, having examples enough at hand to show the

ignorance and carelessness of authors in every part of grammar, I have

thought it most advisable, so to distribute them as to leave no part

destitute of this most impressive kind of illustration. The examples

exhibited as _false etymology_, are as distinct from those which are called

_false syntax_, as the nature of the case will admit.

CHAPTER II.--ARTICLES.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING A, AN, AND THE.

LESSON I.--ARTICLES ADAPTED.

"Honour is _a_ useful distinction in life."--_Milnes cor._ "No writer,

therefore, ought to foment _a_ humour of innovation."--_Jamieson cor._

"Conjunctions [generally] require a situation between the things of which

they form _a_ union."--_Id._ "Nothing is more easy than to mistake _a u_

for an _a_."--_Tooke cor._ "From making so ill _a_ use of our innocent

expressions."--_Penn cor._ "To grant thee _a_ heavenly and incorruptible

crown of glory."--_Sewel cor._ "It in no wise follows, that such _a_ one

was able to predict."--_Id._ "With _a_ harmless patience, they have borne

most heavy oppressions."--_Id._ "My attendance was to make me _a_ happier

man."--_Spect. cor._ "On the wonderful nature of _a_ human mind."--_Id._ "I

have got _a_ hussy of a maid, who is most craftily given to this."--_Id._

"Argus is said to have had _a_ hundred eyes, some of which were always

awake."--_Stories cor._ "Centiped, having _a_ hundred feet; centennial,

consisting of a hundred years."--_Town cor._ "No good man, he thought,

could be _a_ heretic."--_Gilpin cor._ "As, a Christian, an infidel, _a_

heathen."--_Ash cor._ "Of two or more words, usually joined by _a_

hyphen."--_Blair cor._ "We may consider the whole space of _a_ hundred

years as time present."--_Ingersoll's Gram._, p. 138. "In guarding against

such _a_ use of meats and drinks."--_Ash cor._ "Worship is _a_ homage due

from man to his Creator."--_Monitor cor._ "Then _a_ eulogium on the

deceased was pronounced."--_Grimshaw cor._ "But for Adam there was not

found _a_ help meet for him."--_Bible cor._ "My days are consumed like

smoke, and my bones are burned as _a_ hearth."--_Id._ "A foreigner and a

hired servant shall not eat thereof."--_Id._ "The hill of God is as the

hill of Bashan; _a_ high hill, as the hill of Bashan."--_Id._ "But I do

declare it to have been _a_ holy offering, and such _a_ one too as was to

be once for all."--_Penn cor._ "A hope that does not make ashamed those

that have it."--_Barclay cor._ "Where there is not _a_ unity, we may

exercise true charity."--_Id._ "Tell me, if in any of these such _a_ union

can be found?"--_Dr. Brown cor._

"Such holy drops her tresses steeped,

Though 'twas _a_ hero's eye that weeped."--_Sir W. Scott cor._

LESSON II.--ARTICLES INSERTED.

"This veil of flesh parts the visible and _the_ invisible

world."--_Sherlock cor._ "The copulative and _the_ disjunctive conjunctions

operate differently on the verb."--_L. Murray cor._ "Every combination of a

preposition and _an_ article with the noun."--_Id._ "_Either_ signifies,

'the one or the other:' _neither_ imports, 'not either;' that is, 'not

_the_ one nor the other.'"--_Id._ "A noun of multitude may have a pronoun

or _a_ verb agreeing with it, either of the singular number or _of the_

plural."--_Bucke cor._ "_The principal_ copulative conjunctions are, _and,

as, both, because, for, if, that, then, since_."--_Id._ "The two real

genders are the masculine and _the_ feminine."--_Id._ "In which a mute and

_a_ liquid are represented by the same character, _th_."--_Gardiner cor._

"They said, John _the_ Baptist hath sent us unto thee."--_Bible cor._ "They

indeed remember the names of _an_ abundance of places."--_Spect. cor._

"Which created a great dispute between the young and _the_ old

men."--_Goldsmith cor._ "Then shall be read the Apostles' or _the_ Nicene

Creed."--_Com. Prayer cor._ "The rules concerning the perfect tenses and

_the_ supines of verbs are Lily's."--_K. Henry's Gr. cor._ "It was read by

the high and the low, the learned and _the_ illiterate."--_Dr. Johnson

cor._ "Most commonly, both the pronoun and _the_ verb are

understood."--_Buchanan cor._ "To signify the thick and _the_ slender

enunciation of tone."--_Knight cor._ "The difference between a palatial and

_a_ guttural aspirate is very small."--_Id._ "Leaving it to waver between

the figurative and _the_ literal sense."--_Jamieson cor._ "Whatever verb

will not admit of both an active and _a_ passive signification."--_Alex.

Murray cor._ "_The_ is often set before adverbs in the comparative or _the_

superlative degree."--_Id. and Kirkham cor._ "Lest any should fear the

effect of such a change, upon the present or _the_ succeeding age of

writers."--_Fowle cor._ "In all these measures, the accents are to be

placed on _the_ even syllables; and every line is, in general, _the_ more

melodious, as this rule is _the_ more strictly observed."--_L. Murray et

al. cor._ "How many numbers do nouns appear to have? Two: the singular and

_the_ plural."--_R. C. Smith cor._ "How many persons? Three; the first,

_the_ second, and _the_ third."--_Id._ "How many cases? Three; the

nominative, _the_ possessive, and _the_ objective."--_Id._

"Ah! what avails it me, the flocks to keep,

Who lost my heart while I preserv'd _the_ sheep:"--or, "_my_ sheep."

LESSON III.--ARTICLES OMITTED.

"The negroes are all _descendants_ of Africans."--_Morse cor._ "_Sybarite_

was applied as a term of reproach to a man of dissolute manners."--_Id._

"The original signification of _knave_ was _boy_."--_Webster cor._ "The

meaning of these will be explained, for greater clearness and

precision."--_Bucke cor._ "What sort of _noun_ is _man_? A noun

substantive, common."--_Buchanan cor._ "Is _what_ ever used as three kinds

of _pronoun_?"_--Kirkham's Question cor._ [Answer: "No; as a pronoun, it is

either relative or interrogative."--_G. Brown_.] "They delighted in _having

done it_, as well as in the doing of it."--_R. Johnson cor._ "_Both parts_

of this rule are exemplified in the following sentences."--_Murray cor._

"He has taught them to hope for _an other and better_ world."--_Knapp cor._

"It was itself only preparatory to a future, _better_, and perfect

revelation."--_Keith cor._ "_Es_ then makes _an other and distinct_

syllable."--_Brightland cor._ "The eternal clamours of a _selfish and

factious_ people."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "To those whose taste in elocution is

_but little_ cultivated."--_Kirkham cor._ "They considered they had but a

_sort of gourd_ to rejoice in."--_Bennet cor._ "Now there was _but one such

bough_, in a spacious and shady grove."--_Bacon cor._ "Now the absurdity of

this latter supposition will go a great way _towards making_ a man

easy."--_Collier cor._ "This is true of _mathematics, with which taste_ has

but little to do."--_Todd cor._ "To stand prompter to a _pausing yet ready_

comprehension."--_Rush cor._ "Such an obedience as the _yoked and tortured_

negro is compelled to yield to the whip of the overseer."--_Chalmers cor._

"For the gratification of a _momentary and unholy_ desire."--_Wayland cor._

"The body is slenderly put together; the mind, a rambling _sort of

thing_."--_Collier cor._ "The only nominative to the verb, is

_officer_."--_Murray cor._ "And though _in general_ it ought to be

admitted, &c."--_Blair cor._ "Philosophical writing admits of a polished,

_neat_, and elegant style."--_Id._ "But notwithstanding this defect,

Thomson is a strong _and beautiful_ describer."--_Id._ "So should he be

sure to be ransomed, _and many_ poor men's lives _should be_

saved."--_Shak. cor._

"Who felt the wrong, or feared it, _took alarm_,

Appealed to law, and Justice lent her arm."--_Pope cor._

LESSON IV.--ARTICLES CHANGED.

"To enable us to avoid too frequent _a_ repetition of the same

word."--_Bucke cor._ "The former is commonly acquired in _a_ third part of

the time."--_Burn cor._ "Sometimes _an_ adjective becomes a substantive;

and, _like other substantives, it may have an_ adjective _relating_ to it:

as, '_The chief good_.'"--_L. Murray cor._ "An articulate sound is _a_

sound of the human voice, formed by the organs of speech."--_Id. "A tense_

is _a_ distinction of time: there are six tenses."--_Maunder cor._ "In this

case, _an_ ellipsis of the last article would be improper."--_L. Hurray

cor._ "Contrast _always_ has the effect to make each of the contrasted

objects appear in _a_ stronger light."--_Id. et al_. "These remarks may

serve to _show_ the great importance of _a_ proper use of the

_articles_."--_Lowth et al. cor._ "'Archbishop Tillotson,' says _the_

author of _a_ history of England, 'died in this year.'"--_Dr. Blair cor._

"Pronouns are used in stead of substantives, to prevent too frequent _a_

repetition of them."--_A. Murray cor._ "THAT, as a relative, seems to be

introduced to _prevent_ too frequent _a_ repetition of WHO and

WHICH."--_Id._ "A pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun, to _prevent_

too frequent _a_ repetition of it."--_L. Murray cor._ "THAT is often used

as a relative, to prevent too frequent _a_ repetition of WHO and

WHICH."--_Id. et al. cor._ "His knees smote one against _the_

other."--_Logan cor._ "They stand now on one foot, then on _the_

other."--_W. Walker cor._ "The Lord watch between thee and me, when we are

absent one from _the_ other."--_Bible cor._ "Some have enumerated ten parts

of speech, making _the_ participle a distinct part."--_L. Murray cor._

"Nemesis rides upon _a_ hart because _the_ hart is a most lively

creature."--_Bacon cor._ "The transition of the voice from one vowel of the

diphthong to _the_ other."--_Dr. Wilson cor._ "So difficult it is, to

separate these two things one from _the_ other."--_Dr. Blair cor._

"Without _a_ material breach of any rule."--_Id._ "The great source of

_looseness_ of style, in opposition to precision, is _an_ injudicious use

of _what_ are termed _synonymous words_."--_Blair cor._; also _Murray_.

"Sometimes one article is improperly used for _the_ other."--_Sanborn cor._

"Satire of sense, alas! can Sporus feel?

Who breaks a butterfly upon _the_ wheel?"--_Pope cor._

LESSON V.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"He hath no delight in the strength of _a_ horse."--_Maturin cor._ "The

head of it would be _a_ universal monarch."--_Butler cor._ "Here they

confound the material and _the_ formal object of faith."--_Barclay cor._

"The Irish [Celtic] and _the Scottish_ Celtic are one language; the Welsh,

_the_ Cornish, and _the_ Armorican, are _an_ other."--_Dr. Murray cor._ "In

_a_ uniform and perspicuous manner."--_Id._ "SCRIPTURE, _n._ Appropriately,

and by way of distinction, the books of the Old and _the_ New Testament;

the Bible."--_Webster cor._ "In two separate volumes, entitled, 'The Old

and New Testaments.'"--_Wayland cor._ "The Scriptures of the Old and _the_

New Testament, contain a revelation from God."--_Id._ "Q has _always a_ u

after it; which, in words of French origin, is not sounded."--_Wilson cor._

"What should we say of such _a_ one? that he is regenerate? No."--_Hopkins

cor._ "Some grammarians subdivide _the_ vowels into simple and

compound."--_L. Murray cor._ "Emphasis has been _divided_ into the weaker

and _the_ stronger emphasis."--_Id._ "Emphasis has also been divided into

_the_ superior and the inferior emphasis."--_Id._ "Pronouns must agree with

their antecedents, or _the_ nouns which they represent, in gender, number,

and person."--_Merchant cor._ "The adverb _where_ is often used improperly,

for _a_ relative pronoun and _a_ preposition": as, "Words _where_ [in

which] the _h_ is not silent."--_Murray_, p. 31. "The termination _ish_

imports diminution, or _a_ lessening _of_ the quality."--_Merchant cor._

"In this train, all their verses proceed: one half of _a_ line always

answering to the other."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "To _a_ height of prosperity and

glory, unknown to any former age."--_L. Murray cor._ "_Hwilc_, who, which,

such as, such _a_ one, is declined as follows."--_Gwilt cor._ "When a vowel

precedes _the y, s_ only is required to form _the_ plural; as, _day,

days_."--_Bucke cor._ "He is asked what sort _of word_ each is; whether a

primitive, _a_ derivative, or _a_ compound."--_British Gram. cor._ "It is

obvious, that neither the second, _the_ third, nor _the_ fourth chapter of

Matthew, is the first; consequently, there are not '_four first_

chapters.'"--_Churchill cor._ "Some thought, which a writer wants _the_ art

to introduce in its proper place."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "Groves and meadows

are _the_ most pleasing in the spring."--_Id._ "The conflict between the

carnal and _the_ spiritual mind, is often long."--_Gurney cor._ "A

Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and _the_

Beautiful"--_Burke cor._

"Silence, my muse! make not these jewels cheap,

Exposing to the world too large _a_ heap."--_Waller cor._

CHAPTER III.--NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE MODIFICATIONS OF NOUNS.

LESSON I.--NUMBERS.

"All the ablest of the Jewish _rabbies_ acknowledge it."--_Wilson cor._

"Who has thoroughly imbibed the system of one or other of our Christian

_rabbies_."--_Campbell cor._ "The seeming _singularities_ of reason soon

wear off."--_Collier cor._ "The chiefs and _arikies_, or priests, have the

power of declaring a place or object taboo."--_Balbi cor._ "Among the

various tribes of this family, are the Pottawatomies, the _Sauks_ and

Foxes, or _Saukies_ and _Ottogamies_."--_Id._ "The Shawnees, Kickapoos,

Menom'onies, _Miamies_, and Delawares, are of the same region."--_Id._ "The

Mohegans and _Abenaquies_ belonged also to this family."--_Id._ "One tribe

of this family, the _Winnebagoes_, formerly resided near lake

Michigan."--_Id._ "The other tribes are the Ioways, the Otoes, the

_Missouries_, the Quapaws."--_Id._" The great Mexican family comprises the

Aztecs, the Toltecs, and the _Tarascoes_."--_Id._" The Mulattoes are born

of negro and white parents; the _Zamboes_, of Indians and Negroes."--_Id._

"To have a place among the Alexanders, the Cæsars, the _Louises_, or the

_Charleses_,--the scourges and butchers of their fellow-creatures."--Burgh

cor." Which was the notion of the Platonic philosophers and the Jewish

_rabbies_."--_Id._ "That they should relate to the whole body of

_virtuosoes_."--_Cobbeti cor._" What _thanks_ have ye? for sinners also

love those that love them."--_Bible cor._" There are five ranks of

nobility; dukes, _marquises_, earls, viscounts, and barons."--_Balbi cor._"

Acts which were so well known to the two _Charleses_."--_Payne cor._

"_Courts-martial_ are held in all parts, for the trial of the

blacks."--_Observer cor._ "It becomes a common noun, and may have _the_

plural number; as, the two _Davids_, the two _Scipios_, the two

_Pompeys_."--_Staniford cor._ "The food of the rattlesnake is birds,

squirrels, _hares_, rats, and reptiles."--_Balbi cor._ "And let _fowls_

multiply in the earth."--_Bible cor._ "Then we reached the _hillside_,

where eight _buffaloes_ were grazing."--_Martineau cor._ "CORSET, _n. a

bodice_ for a woman."--_Worcester cor._ "As, the _Bees_, the _Cees_, the

_Double-ues_."--_Peirce cor._ "Simplicity is the _mean_ between ostentation

and rusticity."--_Pope cor._ "You have disguised yourselves like

_tipstaffs_."--_Gil Bias cor._ "But who, that _has_ any taste, can endure

the incessant quick returns of the _alsoes_, and the _likewises_, and the

_moreovers_, and the _howevers_, and the _notwithstandings?_"--_Campbell

cor._

"Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise,

Let _ays_ seem _noes_, and _noes_ seem _ays_."--_Gay cor._

LESSON II.--CASES.

"For whose _name's_ sake, I have been made willing."--_Penn cor._ "Be

governed by your conscience, and never ask any _body's_ leave to be

honest."--_Collier cor._ "To overlook _nobody's_ merit or misbehaviour."--

_Id._ "And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of _Ajax's_

ship."--_Coleridge cor._ "Nothing is lazier, than to keep _one's_ eye upon

words without heeding their meaning."--_Museum cor._ "Sir William _Jones's_

division of the day."--_Id._ "I need only refer here to _Voss's_ excellent

account of it."--_Id._ "The beginning of _Stesichorus's_ palinode has been

preserved."--_Id._ "Though we have _Tibullus's_ elegies, there is not a

word in them about Glyc~era."--_Id._ "That Horace was at _Thaliarchus's_

country-house."--_Id._ "That _Sisyphus's_ foot-tub should have been still

in existence."--_Id._ "How everything went on in Horace's closet, and

_Mecenas's_ antechamber."--_Id._ "Who, for elegant _brevity's_ sake, put a

participle for a verb."--_W. Walker cor._ "The _country's_ liberty being

oppressed, we have no more to hope."--_Id._ "A brief but true account of

this _people's_ principles."--_Barclay cor._ "As, The _Church's peace_, or,

_The peace_ of the Church; Virgil's _Æneid_, or, _The Æneid_ of

Virgil."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "As, Virgil's Æneid, for, _The_ Æneid of

Virgil; _The Church's peace_, for, _The peace_ of the Church."--_Buchanan

cor._ "Which, with Hubner's Compend, and _Well's_ Geographia Classica, will

be sufficient."--_Burgh cor._ "Witness Homer's speaking horses, scolding

goddesses, and Jupiter _enchanted_ with _Venus's_ girdle."--_Id._ "_Dr.

Watts's_ Logic may with success be read to them and commented on."--_Id._

"Potter's Greek, and Kennet's Roman Antiquities, _Strauchius's_ and

_Helvicus's_ Chronology."--_Id._ "SING. _Alice's_ friends, _Felix's_

property; PLUR. The Alices' friends, the Felixes' property."--_Peirce cor._

"Such as _Bacchus's_ company--at _Bacchus's_ festivals."--_Ainsworih cor._

"_Burns's_ inimitable _Tam o' Shanter_ turns entirely upon such a

circumstance."--_Scott cor._ "Nominative, men; Genitive, [or Possessive,]

_men's_; Objective, men."--_Cutler cor._ "_Men's_ happiness or misery is

_mostly_ of their own making."--_Locke cor._ "That your _son's clothes_ be

never made strait, especially about the breast."--_Id._ "_Children's_ minds

are narrow and weak."--_Id._ "I would not have little children much

tormented about _punctilios_, or niceties of breeding."--_Id._ "To fill his

head with suitable ideas."--_Id._ "The _Burgusdisciuses_ and the Scheiblers

did not swarm in those days, as they do now."--_Id._ "To see the various

ways of dressing--a _calf's_ head!"--_Shenstone cor._

"He puts it on, and for _decorum's_ sake

Can wear it e'en as gracefully as she."--_Cowper cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Simon the _wizard_ was of this religion too"--_Bunyan cor._ "MAMMODIES, n.

Coarse, plain, India muslins."--_Webster cor._ "Go on from single persons

to families, that of the _Pompeys_ for instance."--_Collier cor._ "By which

the ancients were not able to account for _phenomena_."--_Bailey cor._

"After this I married a _woman_ who had lived at Crete, but a _Jewess_ by

birth."--_Josephus cor._ "The very _heathens_ are inexcusable for not

_worshiping_ him."--_Todd cor._ "Such poems as _Camoens's_ Lusiad,

Voltaire's Henrinde, &c."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "My learned correspondent

writes a word in defence of large _scarfs_."--_Sped. cor._ "The forerunners

of an apoplexy are _dullness, vertigoes_, tremblings."--_Arbuthnot cor._"

_Vertigo_, [in Latin,] changes the _o_ into _~in=es_, making the plural

_vertig~in=es_:" [not so, in English.]--_Churchill cor._ "_Noctambulo_, [in

Latin,] changes the _o_ into _=on=es_, making the plural

_noctambul=on=es_:" [not so in English.]--_Id._ "What shall we say of

_noctambuloes?_ It is the regular English plural."--_G. Brown_. "In the

curious fretwork of rocks and _grottoes_."--_Blair cor._ "_Wharf_ makes the

plural _wharfs_, according to the best usage."--_G. Brown_. "A few _cents'_

worth of _macaroni_ supplies all their wants."--_Balbi cor._ "C sounds

hard, like _k_, at the end of a word or _syllable_."--_Blair cor._ "By

which the _virtuosoes_ try The magnitude of every lie."--_Butler cor._

"_Quartoes, octavoes_, shape the lessening pyre."--_Pope cor._ "Perching

within square royal _roofs_"--_Sidney cor._ "_Similes_ should, even in

poetry, be used with moderation."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "_Similes_ should never

be taken from low or mean objects."--_Id._ "It were certainly better to

say, '_The House of Lords_,' than, '_The Lords' House_.'"--_Murray cor._

"Read your answers. _Units_' figure? 'Five.' _Tens_'? 'Six.' _Hundreds_'?

'Seven.'"--_Abbott cor._ "Alexander conquered _Darius's_ army."--_Kirkham

cor._ "Three _days_' time was requisite, to prepare matters."--_Dr. Brown

cor._ "So we say, that _Cicero's_ style and _Sallust's_ were not one; nor

_Cæsar's_ and _Livy's_; nor _Homer's_ and _Hesiod's_; nor _Herodotus's_ and

_Thucydides's_; nor _Euripides's_ and _Aristophanes's_; nor _Erasmus's_ and

_Budæus's_."--_Puttenham cor._ "LEX (i.e., _legs_, a _law_,) is no other

than our _ancestors'_ past participle _loeg, laid down_"--_Tooke cor._

"Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the _Atridoe's_ sake."--_Cowper cor._

"The _corpses_ of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly."--_Addison

cor._

"Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear;

And spotted _corpses_ load the frequent bier."--_Dryden cor._

CHAPTER IV.--ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.

LESSON I.--DEGREES.

"I have the real excuse of the _most honest_ sort of bankrupts."--_Cowley

corrected_. "The _most honourable_ part of talk, is, to give the

occasion."--_Bacon cor._ "To give him one of the _most modest_ of his own

proverbs."--_Barclay cor._ "Our language is now, certainly, _more proper_

and more natural, than it was formerly."--_Burnet cor._ "Which will be of

the _greatest_ and _most frequent_ use to him in the world."--_Locke cor._

"The same is notified in the _most considerable_ places in the

diocese."--_Whitgift cor._ "But it was the _most dreadful_ sight that ever

I saw."--_Bunyan cor._ "Four of the _oldest_, soberest, and discreetest of

the brethren, chosen for the occasion, shall regulate it."--_Locke cor._

"Nor can there be any clear understanding of any Roman author, especially

of _more ancient_ time, without this skill."--_W. Walker cor._ "Far the

_most learned_ of the Greeks."--_Id._ "The _more learned_ thou art, the

humbler be thou."--_Id._ "He is none of the best, or _most honest_."--_Id._

"The _most proper_ methods of communicating it to others."--_Burn cor._

"What heaven's great King hath _mightiest_ to send against us."--_Milton

cor._ "Benedict is not the _most unhopeful_ husband that I

know."--_Shakspeare cor._ "That he should immediately do all the meanest

and _most trifling_ things himself."--_Ray cor._ "I shall be named among

the _most renowned_ of women."--_Milton cor._ "Those have the _most

inventive_ heads for all purposes."--_Ascham cor._ "The _more wretched_ are

the contemners of all helps."--_B. Johnson cor._ "I will now deliver a few

of the _most proper_ and _most natural_ considerations that belong to this

piece."--_Wotton cor._ "The _most mortal_ poisons practised by the _West

Indians_, have some mixture of the blood, fat, or flesh of man."--_Bacon

cor._ "He so won upon him, that he rendered him one of the _most faithful_

and _most affectionate_ allies the Medes ever had."--_Rollin cor._ "'You

see before you,' says he to him, 'the most devoted servant, and the _most

faithful_ ally, you ever had.'"--_Id._ "I chose the _most flourishing_ tree

in all the park."--_Cowley cor._ "Which he placed, I think, some centuries

_earlier_ than _did_ Julius Africanus afterwards."--_Bolingbroke cor._ "The

Tiber, the _most noted_ river of Italy."--_Littleton cor._

"To _farthest_ shores th' ambrosial spirit flies."--_Pope_.

----"That what she wills to do or say,

Seems wisest, _worthiest_, discreetest, best."--_Milton cor._

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"During the _first three or four_ years of its existence."--_Taylor cor._

"To the first of these divisions, my _last ten_ lectures have been

devoted."--_Adams cor._ "There are, in the twenty-four states, not _fewer_

than sixty thousand common schools."--_J. O. Taylor cor._ "I know of

nothing which gives teachers _more_ trouble, _than_ this want of

firmness."--_Id._ "I know of nothing _else_ that throws such darkness over

the line which separates right from wrong."--_Id._ "None need this purity

and _this_ simplicity of language and thought, _more than does the

instructor of a common school_."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ periodical

that is so valuable to the teacher, as the Annals of Education."--_Id._

"Are not these schools of the highest importance? Should not every

individual feel _a deep_ interest in their character and condition?"--_Id._

"If instruction were made a _liberal_ profession, teachers would feel more

sympathy for _one an other_."--_Id._ "Nothing is _more interesting to_

children, _than_ novelty, _or_ change."--_Id._ "I know of no _other_ labour

which affords so much happiness as the teacher's."--_Id._ "Their school

exercises are the most pleasant and agreeable _duties_, that they engage

in."--_Id._ "I know of no exercise _more_ beneficial to the pupil _than_

that of drawing maps."--_Id._ "I know of nothing in which our district

schools are _more_ defective, _than_ they are in the art of teaching

grammar."--_Id._ "I know of _no other branch of knowledge_, so easily

acquired as history."--_Id._ "I know of _no other school exercise_ for

which pupils usually have such an abhorrence, as _for_ composition."--_Id._

"There is nothing _belonging to_ our fellow-men, which we should respect

_more sacredly than_ their good name."--_Id._ "_Surely_, never any _other

creature_ was so unbred as that odious man."--_Congreve cor._ "In the

dialogue between the mariner and the shade of the _deceased_."--_Phil.

Museum cor._ "These master-works would still be less excellent and

_finished_."--_Id._ "Every attempt to staylace the language of _polished_

conversation, renders our phraseology inelegant and clumsy."--_Id._ "Here

are a few of the _most unpleasant_ words that ever blotted

paper."--_Shakespeare cor._ "With the most easy _and obliging_

transitions."--_Broome cor._ "Fear is, of all affections, the _least apt_

to admit any conference with reason."--_Hooker cor._ "Most chymists think

glass a body _less destructible_ than gold itself."--_Boyle cor._ "To part

with _unhacked_ edges, and bear back our barge undinted."--_Shak. cor._

"Erasmus, who was an _unbigoted_ Roman Catholic, was transported with this

passage."--_Addison cor._ "There are no _fewer_ than five words, with any

of which the sentence might have terminated."--_Campbell cor._ "The _ones_

preach Christ of contention; but the _others_, of love." Or, "The _one

party_ preach," &c.--_Bible cor._ "Hence we find less discontent and

_fewer_ heart-burnings, than where the subjects are unequally

burdened."--_H. Home, Ld. Kames, cor._

"The serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field."

--_Milton, P. L._, B. ix, l. 86.

"Thee, Serpent, _subtlest_ beast of all the field,

I knew, but not with human voice indued."

--_Id., P. L._, B. ix, l. 560.

"How much more grievous would our lives appear.

To reach th' _eight-hundredth_, than the eightieth year!"

--_Denham cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Brutus engaged with Aruns; and so fierce was the attack, that they pierced

_each other_ at the same time."--_Lempriere cor._ "Her two brothers were,

one after _the other_, turned into stone."--_Kames cor._ "Nouns are often

used as adjectives; as, A _gold_ ring, a _silver_ cup."--_Lennie cor._

"Fire and water destroy _each other_"--_Wanostrocht cor._ "Two negatives,

in English, destroy _each other_, or are equivalent to an

affirmative."--_Lowth, Murray, et al. cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each

other_, and are generally equivalent to an affirmative."--_Kirkham and

Felton cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, and make an

affirmative."--_Flint cor._ "Two negatives destroy _each other_, being

equivalent to an affirmative."--_Frost cor._ "Two objects, resembling _each

other_, are presented to the imagination."--_Parker cor._ "Mankind, in

order to hold converse with _one an other_, found it necessary to give

names to objects."--_Kirkham cor._ "_Derivative_ words are _formed_ from

_their primitives_ in various ways."--_Cooper cor._ "There are many

_different_ ways of deriving words _one from an other_."--_Murray cor._

"When several verbs _have a joint construction_ in a sentence, the

auxiliary is usually _expressed_ with the first _only_."--_Frost cor._ "Two

or more verbs, having the same nominative case, and _coming in immediate

succession_, are also separated by _the comma_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "Two

or more adverbs, _coming in immediate succession_, must be separated by

_the comma_."--_Iidem_. "If, however, the _two_ members are very closely

connected, the comma is _unnecessary_."--_Iidem_. "Gratitude, when exerted

towards _others_, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind

of a _generous_ man."--_L. Murray cor._ "Several verbs in the infinitive

mood, _coming in succession_, and having a common dependence, are also

divided by commas."--_Comly cor._ "The several words of which it consists,

have so near a relation _one to an other_."--_Murray et al. cor._ "When two

or more verbs, or two or more adverbs,[528] _occur in immediate

succession_, and have a common dependence, they must be separated by _the

comma_."--_Comly cor._ "_One noun_ frequently _follows an other_, both

meaning the same thing."--_Sanborn cor._ "And these two tenses may thus

answer _each other_."--_R. Johnson cor._ "Or some other relation which two

objects bear to _each other_."--_Jamieson cor._ "That the heathens

tolerated _one an other_ is allowed."--_A. Fuller cor._ "And yet these two

persons love _each other_ tenderly."--_E. Reader cor._ "In the six

_hundred_ and first year."--_Bible cor._ "Nor is this arguing of his, _any

thing_ but a _reiterated_ clamour."--_Barclay cor._ "In _several_ of them

the inward life of Christianity is to be found."--_Ib._ "Though Alvarez,

_Despauter_, and _others, do not allow it_ to be plural."--_R. Johnson

cor._ "Even the most _dissipated_ and shameless blushed at the

sight."--_Lempriere cor._ "We feel a _higher_ satisfaction in surveying the

life of animals, _than_ [_in contemplating_] that of vegetables."--

_Jamieson cor._ "But this man is so _full-fraught_ with malice."--_Barclay

cor._ "That I suggest some things concerning the _most proper_

means."--_Dr. Blair cor._

"So, hand in hand, they passed, the loveliest pair

That ever _yet_ in love's embraces met."--_Milton cor._

"Aim at _supremacy_; without _such height_,

Will be for thee no sitting, or not long."--_Id. cor._

CHAPTER V.--PRONOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS AND USES OF PRONOUNS.

LESSON I.--RELATIVES.

"_While_ we attend to this pause, every appearance of _singsong_ must be

carefully avoided."--_Murray cor._ "For thou shalt go to all _to whom_ I

shall send thee."--_Bible cor._ "Ah! how happy would it have been for me,

had I spent in retirement these twenty-three years _during which_ I have

possessed my kingdom."--_Sanborn cor._ "In the same manner _in which_

relative pronouns and their antecedents are usually parsed."--_Id._ "Parse

or _explain_ all the other nouns _contained_ in the examples, _after the

very_ manner _of_ the word _which is parsed for you_."--_Id._ "The passive

verb will always _have_ the person and number that _belong_ to the verb

_be_, of which it is in part composed."--_Id._ "You have been taught that a

verb must always _agree in_ person and number _with_ it subject or

nominative."--_Id._ "A relative pronoun, also, must always _agree in_

person, _in_ number, and even _in_ gender, _with_ its antecedent."--_Id._

"The _answer_ always _agrees_ in case _with the pronoun_ which asks the

question."--_Id._ "_One_ sometimes represents an antecedent noun, in the

definite manner of a personal pronoun." [529]--_Id._ "The mind, being

carried forward to the time _at which the_ event _is to happen_, easily

conceives it to be present." "SAVE and SAVING are [_seldom to be_] parsed

in the manner _in which_ EXCEPT and EXCEPTING are [commonly

explained]."--_Id._ "Adverbs qualify _verbs_, or modify _their_ meaning,

_as_ adjectives _qualify_ nouns [and describe things.]"--_Id._ "The third

person singular of verbs, _terminates in s_ or _es, like_ the plural number

of nouns."--_Id._ "He saith further: that, 'The apostles did not baptize

anew such persons _as_ had been baptized with the baptism of

John.'"--_Barclay cor._ "For we _who_ live,"--or, "For we _that are

alive_, are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake."--_Bible cor._

"For they _who_ believe in God, must be careful to maintain good

works."--_Barclay cor._ "Nor yet of those _who_ teach things _that_ they

ought not, for filthy lucre's sake."--_Id._ "So as to hold such bound in

heaven _as_ they bind on earth, and such loosed in heaven _as_ they loose

on earth."--_Id._ "Now, if it be an evil, to do any thing out of strife;

then such things _as_ are seen so to be done, are they not to be avoided

and forsaken?"--_Id._ "All such _as_ do not satisfy themselves with the

superfices of religion."--_Id._ "And he is the same in substance, _that_ he

was upon earth,--_the same_ in spirit, soul, and body."--_Id._ "And those

that do not thus, are such, _as_ the Church of Rome can have no charity

_for_." Or: "And those that do not thus, are _persons toward_ whom the

Church of Rome can have no charity."--_Id._ "Before his book, he _places_ a

great list of _what_ he accounts the blasphemous assertions of the

Quakers."--_Id._ "And this is _what_ he should have proved."--_Id._ "Three

of _whom_ were at that time actual students of philosophy in the

university."--_Id._ "Therefore it is not lawful for any _whomsoever_ * * *

to force the consciences of others."--_Id._ "_Why were_ the former days

better than these?"--_Bible cor._ "In the same manner _in which_"--or,

better, "_Just as_--the term _my_ depends on the name _books_."--_Peirce

cor._ "_Just as_ the term HOUSE depends on the [preposition _to_,

understood after the _adjective_] NEAR."--_Id._ "James died on the day _on

which_ Henry returned."--_Id._

LESSON II.--DECLENSIONS.

"OTHER makes the plural OTHERS, when it is found without _its_

substantive."--_Priestley cor._ "But _his, hers, ours, yours_, and

_theirs_, have evidently the form of the possessive case."--_Lowth cor._

"To the Saxon possessive cases, _hire, ure, eower, hira_, (that is, _hers,

ours, yours, theirs_,) we have added the _s_, the characteristic of the

possessive case of nouns."--_Id._ "Upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord,

both _theirs_ and _ours_."--_Friends cor._ "In this place, _His_ is clearly

preferable either to _Her_ or _to Its_."--_Harris cor._ "That roguish leer

of _yours_ makes a pretty woman's heart _ache_."--_Addison cor._ "Lest by

any means this liberty of _yours_ become a stumbling-block."--_Bible cor._

"First person: Sing. I, _my or_ mine, me; Plur. we, _our or ours_,

us."--_Wilbur and Livingston cor._ "Second person: Sing, thou, _thy or_

thine, thee; Plur. ye or you, _your or yours_, you."--_Iid._ "Third person:

Sing, she, _her or hers_, her; Plur. they, _their or theirs_,

them."--_Iid._ "So shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not

_yours_."--ALGER, BRUCE, ET AL.; _Jer._, v, 19. "Second person, Singular:

Nom. _thou_, Poss. _thy_ or _thine_, Obj. _thee_."--_Frost cor._ "Second

person, Dual; Nom. Gyt, ye two; Gen. Incer, of _you_ two; Dat. Inc, incrum,

to _you_ two; Acc. Inc, _you_ two; Voc. Eala inc, O ye two; Abl. Inc,

incrum, from _you_ two."--_Gwilt cor._ "Second person, Plural: Nom. Ge, ye;

Gen. Eower, of _you_; Dat. Eow, to _you_; Acc. Eow, _you_; Voc Eala ge, O

ye; Abl. Eow, from _you_."--_Id._ "These words are, _mine, thine, his,

hers, ours, yours, theirs_, and _whose_."--_Cardell cor._ "This house is

_ours_, and that is _yours. Theirs_ is very commodious."--_Murray's Gram._,

p. 55. "And they shall eat up _thy_ harvest, and thy bread; they shall eat

up thy flocks and _thy_ herds."--_Bible cor._ "_Whoever_ and _Whichever_

are thus declined: Sing. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever;

Plur. Nom. whoever, Poss. _whosever_, Obj. whomever. Sing. Nom. whichever,

Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. whichever; Plur. Nom. whichever, Poss. (_wanting_,)

Obj. whichever."--_Cooper cor._ "The compound personal pronouns are thus

declined: Sing. Nom. myself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. myself; Plur. Nom.

ourselves, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. ourselves. Sing. Nom. thyself or

yourself, Poss. (_wanting_,) Obj. thyself, &c."--_Perley cor._ "Every one

of us, each for _himself_, laboured to recover him."--_Sidney cor._ "Unless

when ideas of their opposites manifestly suggest _themselves_."--_Wright

cor._ "It not only exists in time, but is _itself_ time." "A position which

the action _itself_ will palpably _confute_."--_Id._ "A difficulty

sometimes presents _itself_."--_Id._ "They are sometimes explanations in

_themselves_."--_Id._ "_Ours, Yours, Theirs, Hers, Its_."--_Barrett cor._

"_Theirs_, the wild _chase_ of false felicities;

His, the composed possession of the true."

--_Young, N. Th._, N. viii, l. 1100.

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.