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._