Again: "Oh! I have alienated my friend; alas! I fear for life."-Ib., p. 128; et al. Again: "He went from London to York;" "she is above disguise;" "they are supported by industry."Ib., p. 28; et al. "On the foregoing examples, I have a word to say. they are better than a fair specimen of their kind. our grammars abound with worse illustrations. their models of English are generally spurious quotations. few of their proof-texts have any just parentage, goose-eyes are abundant, but names scarce. who fathers the foundlings? nobody. then let their merit be nobody's, and their defects his who could write no better."--Author. "goose-eyes!" says a bright boy; "pray, what are they? does this Mr. Author make new words when he pleases? dead-eyes are in a ship. they are blocks, with holes in them. but what are goose-eyes in grammar?" ANSWER: "goose-eyes are quotation points. some of the Germans gave them this name, making a jest of their form. the French call them guillemets, from the name of their inventor."-Author. "it is a personal pronoun, of the third person singular."-Comly's Gram., 12th Ed., p. 126. selves is a personal pronoun, of the first person plural."-Ib., 138. "thee is a personal pronoun, of the second person singular."-Ib., 126. ""contentment is a noun common, of the third person singular."-Ib., 128. were is a neuter verb, of the indicative mood, imperfect tense."-Ib., 129. UNDER RULE III.-OF DEITY. "O thou dispenser of life! thy mercies are boundless."-W. Allen's Gram., p. 449. our [FORMULE-Not proper, because the word dispenser begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 3d, "All names of the Deity, and sometimes their emphatic substitutes, should begin with capitals." Therefore, "Dispenser" should here begin with a capital D.] "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?"-SCOTT: Gen., xviii, 25. "And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."-Murray's Gram., p. 330. "It is the gift of him, who is the great author of good, and the Father of mercies."-Ib., 287. "This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt."-SCOTT, ALGER: Neh., ix, 18. "For the lord is our defence; and the holy one of Israel is our king."-See Psalm lxxxix, 18. "By making him the responsible steward of heaven's bounties."--Anti-Slavery Mag., i, 29. "Which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day."-SCOTT, FRIENDS: 2 Tim., iv, 8. "The cries of them * * * entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth."-SCOTT: James, v, 4. "In Horeb, the deity revealed himself to Moses, as the eternal I am, the self-existent one; and, after the first discouraging interview of his messengers with Pharaoh, he renewed his promise to them, by the awful name, jehovah-a name till then unknown, and one which the Jews always held it a fearful profanation to pronounce."Author. "And god spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the lord: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of god almighty; but by my name jehovah was I not known to them."-See* Exod., vi, 2. Thus saith the lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no god."— Soe Isa., xliv, 6. "His impious race their blasphemy renew'd, And nature's king through nature's optics view'd."—Dryden, p. 90. UNDER RULE IV.-OF PROPER NAMES. "Islamism prescribes fasting during the month ramazan.”—Balbi's Geog., p. 17. [FORMULE.-Not proper, because the word ramazan here begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 4th, "Proper names, of every description, should always begin with capitals." Therefore, "Ramazan" should begin with a capital R. The word is also misspelled: it should rather be Ramadan.] "Near mecca, in arabia, is jebel nor, or the mountain of light, on the top of which the mussulmans erected a mosque, that they might perform their devotions where, according to their belief, mohammed received from the angel gabriel the first chapter of the Koran."-Author. "In the kaaba at mecca, there is a celebrated block of volcanic basalt, which the mohammedans venerate as the gift of gabriel to abraham, but their ancestors once held it to be an image of remphan, or saturn; so 'the image which fell down from jupiter,' to share with diana the homage of the ephesians, was probably nothing more than a meteoric stone."-Id. "When the lycaonians, at lystra, took paul and barnabas to be gods, they called the former mercury, on account of his eloquence, and the latter jupiter, for the greater dignity of his appearance."-Id. "Of the writings of the apostolic fathers of the first century, but few have come down to us; yet we have in those of barnabas, clement of rome, hermas, ignatius, and polycarp, very certain evidence of the authenticity of the New Testament, and the New Testament is a voucher for the old."—Id. "It is said by tatian, that theagenes of rhegium, in the time of cambyses, stesimbrotus the thracian, antimachus the colophonian, herodotus of halicarnassus, dionysius the olynthian, ephorus of cumæ, philochorus the athenian, metaclides and chamæleon the peripatetics, and zenodotus, aristophanes, callimachus, crates, eratosthenes, aristarchus, and apollodorus, the grammarians, all wrote concerning the poetry, the birth, and the age of homer." See Coleridge's Introd., p. 57. "Yet, for aught that now appears, the life of homer is as fabulous as that of hercules; and some have even Where the word "See" accompanies the reference, the reader may generally understand that the citation, whether right or wrong in regard to grammar, is not in all respects exactly as it will be found in the place referred t Cases of this kind, however, will occur but seldom; and it is hoped the reasons for admitting a few, will be sufficiently obvious. Brevity is indispensable; and some rules are so generally known and observed, that one might search long for half a dozen examples of their undesigned violation. Wherever an error is made intentionally in the Exercises, the true reading and reference are to be expected in the Key. suspected, that, as the son of jupiter and alcmena, has fathered the deeds of forty other herculeses, so this unfathered son of critheis, themisto, or whatever dame-this melesigenes, mæonides, homer-the blind schoolmaster, and poet, of smyrna, chios, colophon, salamis, rhodes, argos, athens, or whatever place-has, by the help of lycurgus, solon, pisistratus, and other learned ancients, been made up of many poets or homers, and set so far aloft and aloof on old parnassus, as to be. come a god in the eyes of all greece, a wonder in those of all christendom."-Author. "Why so sagacious in your guesses? Your effs, and tees, and arrs, and esses ?"—Swift. UNDER RULE V.-OF TITLES. "The king has conferred on him the title of duke."-Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 193. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the word duke begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 5th, "Titles of office or honour, and epithets of distinction, applied to persons, begin usually with capitals." Therefore, "Duke" should here begin with a capital D.] "At the court of queen Elizabeth.”—Murray's Gram.; 8vo, p. 157; 12mo, p. 126; Fisk's, 115; et al. "The laws of nature are, truly, what lord Bacon styles his aphorisms, laws of laws."Murray's Key, p. 260. "Sixtus the fourth was, if I mistake not, a great collector of books."Io., p. 257. "Who at that time made up the court of king Charles the second."-Murray's Gram., p. 314. "In case of his majesty's dying without issue."-Kirkham's Gram., p. 181. "King Charles the first was beheaded in 1649."-W. Allen's Gram., p. 45. "He can no more impart or (to use lord Bacon's word,) transmit convictions."-Kirkham's Eloc., p. 220. “I reside at lord Stormont's, my old patron and benefactor."-Murray's Gram., p. 176. "We staid a month at lord Lyttleton's, the ornament of his country.”—Ib., p. 177. "Whose prerogative is it? It is the king of Great Britain's;" "That is the duke of Bridgewater's canal;" "The bishop of Landaff's excellent book;" "The Lord mayor of London's authority."-Ib., p. 176. "Why call ye me lord, lord, and do not the things which I say?"-See GRIESBACH: Luke, vi, 46. "And of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles."-SCOTT: Luke, vi, 13. "And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him."-Soo the Greek: Matt., xxvi, 49. "And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent."— Luke, xvi, 30. UNDER RULE VI.-OF ONE CAPITAL. "Fall River, a village in Massachusetts, population 3431."-See Univ. Gaz., p. 416. [FORMULE.-Not proper, because the name Fall River is here written in two parts, and with two capitals. But, according to Rule 6th, "Those compound proper names which by analogy incline to a union of their parts without a hyphen, should be so written, and have but one capital." Therefore, Fallriver, as the name of a town, should be one word, and retain but one capital.] "Dr. Anderson died at West Ham, in Essex, in 1808."-Biog. Dict. "Mad River, [the name of] two towns in Clark and Champaign counties, Ohio."--Williams's Universal Gazetteer. "White Creek, town of Washington county, N. York."-Ib. "Salt Creek, the name of four towns in different parts of Ohio."-Ib. "Salt Lick, a town of Fayette county, Pennsylvania."-Ib. “Yellow Creek, a town of Columbiana county, Ohio."-Ib. "White Clay, a hundred of New Castle county, Delaware."-Ib. "Newcastle, town and halfshire of Newcastle county, Delaware."—Ib. "SingSing, a village of West Chester county, New York, situated in the town of Mount Pleasant."—Ib. "West Chester, a county of New York; also a town in Westchester county."-Ib. "West Town, a village of Orange county, New York."-Ib. "White Water, a town of Hamilton county, Ohio."--Ib. "White Water River, a considerable stream that rises in Indiana, and flowing southeasterly, unites with the Miami, in Ohio."-Ib. "Black Water, a village of Hampshire, in England, and a town in Ireland."-Ib. "Black Water, the name of seven different rivers in England, Ireland, and the United States."-Ib. "Red Hook, a town of Dutchess county, New York, on the Hudson."-Ib. "Kinderhook, a town of Columbia county, New York, on the Hudson."-Ib. "New Fane, a town of Niagara county, New York."-Ib. "Lake Port, a town of Chicot county, Arkansas."-Ib. "Moose Head Lake, the chief source of the Kennebeck, in Maine."-Ib. "Macdonough, a county of Illinois, population (in 1830) 2,959."—Ib., p. 408. "Mc Donough, a county of Illinois, with a courthouse, at Macomb."-lb., p. 185. "Half-Moon, the name of two towns, in New York and Pennsylvania; also of two bays in the West Indies." -See Worcester's Gaz. "Le Boeuf, a town of Erie county, Pennsylvania, near a small lake of the same name."-Ib. "Charles City, James City, Elizabeth City, names of counties in Virginia, not cities, nor towns."-See Univ. Gaz. "The superior qualities of the waters of the Frome, here called Stroud water."-Balbi's Geog., p. 223. UNDER RULE VII.-Two CAPITALS. "The Forth rises on the north side of Benlomond, and runs easterly."-Glas. Geog. [FORMULE.-Not proper, because the name "Benlomond" is compounded under one capital, contrary to the general analogy of other similar terms. But, according to Rule 7th, "The compounding of a name under one capital should be avoided when the general analogy of other similar terms suggests a separation under two." Therefore, "Ben Lomond" should be written with two capitals and no hyphen.] "The red granite of Ben-nevis is said to be the finest in the world."--Пb., ii, 311. "Ben-more, in Perthshire, is 3,915 feet above the level of the sea."-Ib., 313. "The height of Bencleugh is 2,420 feet."-Ib. "In Sutherland and Caithness, are Ben Ormod, Ben Clibeg, Ben Grin, Ben Hope, and Ben Lugal."-Ib., 311. "Benvracky is 2,756 feet high; Ben-ledi, 3,009; and Benvoirlich, 3,300."—Ib., 313. "The river Dochart gives the name of Glendochart to the vale through which it runs."-Ib., 314. "About ten miles from its source, the Tay diffuses itself into Lochdochart."-Geog. altered. LAKES:-"Lochard, Loch-Achray, Loch-Con, Loch-Doine, LochKatrine, Loch-Lomond, Loch-Voil."-Scott's Lady of the Lake. GLENS:-Glenfinlas, Glen Fruin, Glen Luss, Ross-dhu, Leven-glen, Strath-Endrick, Strath-Gartney, Strath-Ire."-Ib. MOUNTAINS: -"Ben-an, Benharrow, Benledi, Ben-Lomond, Benvoirlich, Ben-venue, and sometimes Benvenue." -Ib. "Fenelon died in 1715, deeply lamented by all the inhabitants of the Low-countries."Murray's Sequel, p. 322. "And Pharaoh-nechoh made Eliakim, the son of Josiah, king."-SCOTT, FRIENDS: 2 Kings, xxiii, 34. "Those who seem so merry and well pleased, call her Good Fortune; but the others, who weep and wring their hands, Bad-fortune."-Collier's Tablet of Cebes. UNDER RULE VIII.-OF COMPOUNDS. "When Joab returned, and smote Edom in the valley of salt."-SCOTT: Ps. lx, title. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the words valley and salt begin with small letters. But, according to Rule 8th, "When any adjective or common noun is made a distinct part of a compound proper name, it ought to begin with a capital. Therefore, "Valley" should here begin with a capital V, and "Salt" with a capital S.] "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill and said," &c.-SCOTT: Acts, xvii, 22. "And at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives."—Luke, xxi, 37. "Abgillus, son of the king of the Frisii, surnamed Prester John, was in the Holy land with Charlemagne."-Univ. Biog. Dict. "Cape Palmas, in Africa, divides the Grain coast from the Ivory coast."-Dict. of Geog., p. 125. "The North Esk, flowing from Loch-lee, falls into the sea three miles north of Montrose."—Ib., p. 232. "At Queen's ferry, the channel of the Forth is contracted by promontories on both coasts."-Ib., p. 233. "The Chestnut ridge is about twenty-fivo miles west of the Alleghanies, and Laurel ridge, ten miles further west."-Ball's Geog., p. 65. "Washington City, the metropolis of the United States of America."-W.'s Univ. Gaz., p. 380. "Washington city, in the District of Columbia, population (in 1830) 18,826."-Ib., p. 408. "The loftiest peak of the white mountains, in new Hampshire, is called mount Washington."-Author. "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."—Ib. he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red sea."-BRUCE'S BIBLE: Ps. CXxxvi, 15. they provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea."-SCOTT: Ps. cvi, 7.* UNDER RULE IX.-OF APPOSITION. "But "But "At that time, Herod the Tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus."-ALGER: Matt., xiv, 1. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the word Tetrarch begins with a capital letter. But, according to Rule 8th, "When a common and a proper name are associated merely to explain each other, it is in general sufficient, if the proper name begin with a capital, and the appellative, with a small letter." Therefore, "tetrarch" should here begin with a small t.] แ "Who has been more detested than Judas the Traitor ?"—Author. "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,' 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. 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?"-SCOTT: Ps. xlii, 9. "Staten Island, an island of New York, nine miles below New York City."-Univ. Gaz. "When the son of Atreus, King of Men, and the noble Achilles first separated."-Coleridge's Introd., p. 83. "Hermes, his Patron-God, those gifts bestow'd, Whose shrine with weaning lambs he wont to load."-POPE: Odys., B. 19. UNDER RULE X.-OF PERSONIFICATIONS. "Cicero "But wisdom is justified of all her children."-SCOTT, ALGER: Luke, vii, 35. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the word wisdom begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 10th, "The name of an object personified, when it conveys an idea strictly individual, should begin with a capital." Therefore," Wisdom" should here begin with a capital W.] "Fortune and the church are generally put in the feminine gender."-Murray's Gram., i, p. 37. "Go to your natural religion; lay before her Mahomet, and his disciples."-Blair's Rhetoric, p. 157: see also Murray's Gram., i, 347. "O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?"-1 Cor., xv, 55; Murray's Gram., p. 348; English Reader, 31; Merchant's Gram, 212. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."-SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Mall., vi, 24. "Ye cannot "Et irritaverunt ascendentes in mare, Mare rubrum."-Latin Vulgate, folio, Psal. cv, 7. This, I think, should have been "Mare Rubrum," with two capitals.-G. Brown. serve God and mammon."-IIDEM: Luke, xvi, 13. "This house was built as if suspicion herself had dictated the plan."-See Key. "Poetry distinguishes herself from prose, by yielding to a musical law."-See Key. "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 the child of discontent, and her followers are fear and sorrow." "See Key. "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."-See Key. "In colleges and halls in ancient days, There dwelt a sage called discipline."— Wayland's M. Sci., p. 368. UNDER RULE XI.-OF DERIVATIVES. "In English, I would have gallicisms avoided."-FELTON: Johnson's Dict. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the word gallicisms here begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 11th, "Words derived from proper names, and having direct reference to particular persons, places, sects, or nations, should begin with capitals." Therefore, “Gallicisms" should begin with a capital G.] "Sallust was born in Italy, 85 years before the christian era."-Murray's Seq., p. 357. "Dr. Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and useful christians, and christian ministers."-Ib., 319. "They corrupt their style with untutored anglicisms."-MILTON: in Johnson's Dict. "Albert of Stade, author of a chronicle from the creation to 1286, a benedictine of the 13th century."-Universal Biog. Dict. "Graffio, a jesuit of Capua in the 16th century, author of two volumes on moral subjects."-Ib. "They frenchify and italianize words whenever they can."-See Key. "He who sells a christian, sells the grace of God."—Anti-Slavery Mag., p. 77. "The first persecution against the christians, under Nero, began A. D. 64."-Gregory's Dict. "P. Rapin, the jesuit, uniformly decides in favour of the Roman writers."--Cobbett's E. Gram., 171. "The Roman poet and epicurean philosopher Lucretius has said," &c.-Cohen's Florida, p. 107. Spell "calvinistic, atticism, gothicism, epicurism, jesuitism, sabianism, socinianism, anglican, anglicism, anglicize, vandalism, gallicism, romanize." -Webster's El. Spelling-Book, 130–133. "The large ternate bat.". Webster's Dict. w. ROSSET; Bolles's Dict., w. ROSET. "Church-ladders are not always mounted best - By learned clerks, and latinists profess'd.”— Cowper. UNDER RULE XII.-OF I AND O. "Fall back, fall back; i have not room:-ol methinks i see a couple whom i should know."Lucian, varied. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the word I, which occurs three times, and the word 0, which occurs once, are here printed in letters of the lower case. • But, according to Rule 12th, "The words I and O should always be capitals." Therefore, each should be changed to a capital, as often as it occurs.] "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, varied. "Whither, o! whither shall i fly? o wretched prince! o cruel reverse of fortune! o father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy generosity?"-Sallust, varied. "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, varied. "And i heard, but i understood not: then said i, o my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?"-Dan., xii, 8, varied. "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, varied. "Singular, Vocative, o master; Plural, Vocative, o masters."--Bicknell's Gram., p. 30. "I, i am he; o father! rise, behold Thy son, with twenty winters now grown old!"-See Pope's Odyssey. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the last three lines of this example begin with small letters. But, according to Rule 13th, "Every line in poetry, except what is regarded as making but one verse with the preceding line, should begin with a capital." Therefore, the words, "Lie," But," and "And," at the commencement of these lines, should severally begin with the capitals L, B, and A.] "Observe the language well in all you write, The printers, from the manner in which they place their types before them, call the small letters "lowercase letters," or "letters of the lower case.' a barbarous phrase no reader can approve; nor bombast, noise, or affectation love. In short, without pure language, what you write Take time for thinking, never work in haste; and value not yourself for writing fast." See Dryden's Art of Poetry :-British Poets, Vol. iii, p. 74. 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's Gram., p. 47. [FORMULE.-Not proper, because the word she begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 14th, "The first word of a full example, of a distinct speech, or of a direct quotation, should begin with a capital." Therefore, the word "She" should here begin with a capital S.] "We "Neither imports not either; that is, not one nor the other: as, 'neither of my friends was there.'"-Murray's Gram., p. 56. "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."-Ib., p. 47. more readily say, 'A million of men,' than a thousand of men.'"-Ib., p. 169. "So in the instances, two and two are four;''the fifth and sixth volumes will complete the set of books.'"Ib., p. 124. "The adjective may frequently either precede or follow it [the verb]: as, 'the man is happy; or, ‘happy is the man:' 'The interview was delightful;' or, delightful was the interview."-Ib., p. 168. "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 Westminsterabbey."-Ib., p. 118. "Let me repeat it;-he only is great, who has the habits of greatness." Murray's Key, 241. "I say not unto thee, until seven times; but, until seventy times seven.' See Matt., xviii, 22. "The Panther smil'd at this; and when, said she, Were those first councils disallow'd by me?"-Dryden, p. 95. UNDER RULE XV.-OF CHIEF WORDS. "The supreme council of the nation is called the divan."-Balbi's Geog., p. 360. [FORMULE-Not proper, because the word divan begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 15th, "Other words of particular importance, and such as denote the principal subjects treated of, may be distinguished by capitals." Therefore, "Divan" should here begin with a capital D.j "The British parliament is composed of kings, lords, and commons."-Murray's Key, p. 184. "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's School Gram., p. 25. "Intrusted to persons in whom the parliament could confide."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 202. "For The Lords' house,' it were certainly better to say, 'The house of lords;' and, in stead of 'The commons' vote,' to say, "The votes of the commons.'"-See ib., p. 177, 4th Amer. Ed.; also Priestley's Gram., p. 69. "The house of lords were so much influenced by these reasons."-Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 152; Priestley's Gram., 188. "Rhetoricians commonly divide them into two great classes; figures of words, and figures of thought. The former, figures of words, are commonly called tropes."-Blair's Rhet., p. 132. "Perhaps figures of imagination, and figures of passion, might be a more useful distribution."-Ib., p. 133. "Hitherto we have considered sentences, under the heads of perspicuity, unity, and strength.”—Ib., p. 120. "The word is then depos'd, and in this view, You rule the scripture, not the scripture you."-Dryden, p. 95. UNDER RULE XVI.-OF NEEDLESS CAPITALS. "Be of good cheer: It is I; be not afraid.”—ALGER: Matt., xiv, 27. [FORMULE.-Not proper, because the word It begins with a capital I, for which there appears to be neither rule nor reason. But, according to Rule 16th, "Capitals are improper wherever there is not some special rule or reason for their use." Therefore, it' should here begin with a small letter, as Dr. Scott has it.] "Can "The "Between passion and lying, there is not a Finger's breadth."-Murray's Key, p. 240. our Solicitude alter the course, or unravel the intricacy, of human events?"-Ib., p. 242. last edition was carefully compared with the Original M. S."-Ib., p. 239. "And the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews?"-ALGER: Matt., xxvii, 11. "Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame, that say, Aha, Aha!"-FRIENDS' BIBLE: Ps., lxx, 3. "Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame, that say unto me, Aha, aha!"-IB.: 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?"-SCOTT: Matt., xxii, 42, 43. all Things in the Universe, direct your Worship to the Greatest; And which is that? Being which Manages and Governs all the Rest."-Meditations of M. Aurelius Antoninus, p. 76. Among "T is that |