ful 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?"-Id. "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 L-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 Caesars :"-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 an i gold have I none; but such as I have, give I [unto] thee." -Seo Acts, iii, 6. "Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts! look down from heaven, and be holl, 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.* "And the coast bends again to the northwest, as far as Farout Head."—Geog. 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. cor. "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. 46 Mandeville, Sir John, au Englishman famous for his travels, born about. NOTE-By this amendment, we remove a multitude of errors, but the passage is still very faulty. What Murray here calls “phrases," are properly sentences; and, in his second clause, he deserts the terms of the first to bring in "my," our," and also "dec.," which seem to be out of place there.-G. BROWN. 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."-ld. "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.""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. Id. 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."―ld. "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, ever, feath-er, gath-er, heav-en, heav-y, hon-ey, lem-on, lin-en, mead-ow, mon-ey, nev-er, ol-ive, orange, oth-er, pheas-ant, pleas-ant, pun-ish, rath-er, read-y, riv-er, rob-in, schol-ar, shov-el, stomach, 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-eral, 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-idence, 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-chanic, 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-randum, 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-era-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-factor-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-ysyl-la-ble, eon-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, matron, 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, nice-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-donyx, 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, soci-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-pati-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, substan-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,* 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, 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, puncheon, 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. "It "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. is a mean act to deface the figures on a milestone."-Id. "A grange is a farm, with its farmhouse."-ld. "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 goodnatured and equitable construction of cases."-Ash cor. "And purify your hearts, ye doubleminded."-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 psalm * An other is a phrase of two words, which ought to be written separately. The transferring of the n to the latter word, is a gross vulgarism. Separate the words, and it will be avoided. + Mys-ter-y, according to Scott and Cobb; mys-te-ry, according to Walker and Worcester. "So we ody," &c.-Gardiner cor. "This slow-shifting scenery in the theatre of harmony."-Id. 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. Id. "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.”— "One should not think too favourably of one's self.”—Murray's Gram., i, 154. "Know yo 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."-Sce 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 ‘A male child, a female child; male descendants, female descendants."—Goldsbury et al. cor. "Male servants, female servants; male relations, female relations."-Felton cor. cor. cor. 66 66 "Reserved and cautious, with no partial aim, My muse e'er sought to blast an other's fame."-Lloyd cor. RULE III-THE SENSE. "He is "To the "Our discriminations of this matter have been but four-footed instincts."-Rush cor. in the right, (says Clytus,) not to bear free-born men at his table."-Goldsmith cor. 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 "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 selfopinionated;"-"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. "Schoolmas"We never "Potash and "This building serves yet for a schoolhouse and a meeting-house."-G. Brown. ters and schoolmistresses, if honest friends, are to be encouraged.”—Discip. cor. assumed to ourselves a faith-making or a worship-making_power.”—Barclay cor. 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'clook; 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, OF 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 66 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. Boll. "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, SHAKSPEARE: in Johnson's Dict., w. Screechowi. 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." |