Chapter VI: For Writing

EXERCISES IN ORTHOGRAPHY.

[Fist] [The following examples of false orthography are inserted here, and not explained in the general Key, that they may he corrected by the pupil _in writing_. Some of the examples here quoted are less inaccurate than others, but all of them, except a few shown in contrast, are, in some respect or other, erroneous. It is supposed, that every student who can answer the questions contained in the preceding chapter, will readily discern wherein the errors lie, and be able to make the necessary corrections.]

EXERCISE I.--CAPITALS.

"Alexander the great killed his friend Clitus."--_Harrison's Gram._, p. 68. "The words in italics are parsed in the same manner."--_Maltby's Gram._, p. 69. "It may be read by those who do not understand latin."--_Barclay's Works_, Vol. iii, p. 262. "A roman _s_ being added to a word in italics or small capitals."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 215. "This is not simply a gallicism, but a corruption of the French _on_; itself a corruption."-- _Ib._, p. 228. "The Gallicism, '_it is me_,' is perpetually striking the ear in London."--_Ib._, p. 316. "'Almost nothing,' is a common Scotticism, equally improper: it should be, 'scarcely any thing.'"--_Ib._, p. 333. "To use _learn_ for _teach_, is a common Scotticism, that ought to be carefully avoided."--See _ib._, p. 261. "A few observations on the subjunctive mood as it appears in our English bible."--_Wilcox's Gram._, p. 40. "The translators of the bible, have confounded two tenses, which in the original are uniformly kept distinct."--_Ib._, p. 40. "More like heaven on earth, than the holy land would have been."--_Anti-Slavery Mag._, Vol. i, p. 72. "There is now extant a poetical composition, called the golden verses of Pythagoras."-- _Lempriere's Dict._ "Exercise of the Mind upon Theorems of Science, like generous and manly Exercise of the Body, tends to call forth and strengthen Nature's original Vigour."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 295. "O that I could prevail on Christians to melt down, under the warm influence of brotherly love, all the distinctions of methodists, independents, baptists, anabaptists, arians, trinitarians, unitarians, in the glorious name of christians."--KNOX: _Churchill's Gram._, p. 173. "Pythagoras long ago remarked, 'that ability and necessity dwell near each other.'"--_Student's Manual_, p. 285.

"The Latin Writers Decency neglect,
But modern Readers challenge more Respect."
--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 172.

EXERCISE II.--SYLLABLES.

1. Correct _Bolles_, in the division of the following words: "Del-ia, Jul-ia, Lyd-ia, heigh-ten, pat-ron, ad-roit, worth-y, fath-er, fath-er-ly, mar-chi-o-ness, i-dent-ic-al, out-ra-ge-ous, ob-nox-i-ous, pro-di-gi-ous, tre-mend-ous, ob-liv-i-on, pe-cul-i-ar."--_Revised Spelling-Book_: New London, 1831.

2. Correct _Sears_, in the division of the following words: "A-quil-a, hear-ty, drea-ry, wor-my, hai-ry, thor-ny, phil-os-o-phy, dis-cov-e-ry, re-cov-e-ry, ad-diti-on, am-biti-on, au-spici-ous, fac-titi-ous, fla-giti-ous, fru-iti-on, sol-stiti-al, ab-o-liti-on."--_Standard Spelling-Book_: "New Haven," 1826.

3. Correct _Bradley_, in the division of the following words: "Jes-ter, rai-ny, forg-e-ry, fin-e-ry, spic-e-ry, brib-e-ry, groc-e-ry, chi-can-e-ry, fer-riage, line-age, cri-ed, tri-ed, sù-ed, slic-ed, forc-ed, pledg-ed, sav-ed, dup-ed, strip-ed, touch-ed, trounc-ed."--_Improved Spelling-Book_: Windsor, 1815.

4. Correct _Burhans_, in the division of the following words: "Boar-der, brigh-ten, cei-ling, frigh-ten, glea-ner, lea-kage, suc-ker, mos-sy, fros-ty, twop-ence, pu-pill-ar-y, crit-i-call-y, gen-er-all-y, lit-er-all-y, log-i-call-y, trag-i-call-y, ar-ti-fici-al, po-liti-call-y, sloth-full-y, spite-full-y, re-all-y, sui-ta-ble, ta-mea-ble, flumm-er-y, nesc-i-ence, shep-her-dess, trav-ell-er, re-pea-ter, re-pressi-on, suc-cessi-on, un-lear-ned."--_Critical Pronouncing Spelling-Book_:[128] Philadelphia, 1823.

5. Correct _Marshall_, in the division of the following words: "Trench-er, trunch-eon, dros-sy, glos-sy, glas-sy, gras-sy, dres-ses, pres-ses, cal-ling, chan-ging, en-chan-ging, con-ver-sing, mois-ture, join-ture, qua-drant, qua-drate, trans-gres-sor, dis-es-teem."--_New Spelling-Book_: New York, 1836.

6. Correct _Emerson_, in the division of the following words: "Dus-ty mis-ty, mar-shy, mil-ky, wes-tern, stor-my, nee-dy, spee-dy, drea-ry, fros-ty, pas-sing, roc-ky, bran-chy, bland-ish, pru-dish, eve-ning, a-noth-er."--_National Spelling-Book_: Boston, 1828.

"Two Vowels meeting, each with its full Sound,
Always to make Two Syllables are bound."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 64.

EXERCISE III.--FIGURE OF WORDS.

"I was surprised by the return of my long lost brother."--_Parker's Exercises in English Composition_, p. 5. "Such singular and unheard of clemency cannot be passed over by me in silence."--_Ib._, p. 10. "I perceive my whole system excited by the potent stimulus of sun-shine."--_Ib._, p. 11. "To preserve the unity of a sentence, it is sometimes necessary to employ the case absolute, instead of the verb and conjunction."--_Ib._, p. 17. "Severity and hard hearted opinions accord with the temper of the times."--_Ib._, p. 18. "That poor man was put into the mad house."--_Ib._, p. 22. "This fellow must be put into the poor house."--_Ib._ p. 22. "I have seen the breast works and other defences of earth, that were thrown up."--_Ib._, p. 24. "Cloven footed animals are enabled to walk more easily on uneven ground."--_Ib._, p. 25. "Self conceit blasts the prospects of many a youth."--_Ib._, p. 26. "Not a moment should elapse without bringing some thing to pass."--_Ib._, p. 36. "A school master decoyed the children of the principal citizens into the Roman camp."--_Ib._, p. 39. "The pupil may now write a description of the following objects. A school room. A steam boat. A writing desk. A dwelling house. A meeting house. A paper mill. A grist mill. A wind mill."--_Ib._, p. 45. "Every metaphor should be founded on a resemblance which is clear and striking; not far fetched, nor difficult to be discovered."--_Ib._, p. 49. "I was reclining in an arbour overhung with honey suckle and jessamine of the most exquisite fragrance."--_Ib._, p. 51. "The author of the following extract is speaking of the slave trade."--_Ib._, p. 60. "The all wise and benevolent Author of nature has so framed the soul of man, that he cannot but approve of virtue."--_Ib._, p. 74. "There is something of self denial in the very idea of it."--_Ib._, p. 75. "Age therefore requires a well spent youth to render it happy."--_Ib._, p. 76. "Pearl-ash requires much labour in its extraction from ashes."--_Ib._, p. 91. "_Club_, or _crump, footed_, Loripes; _Rough_, or _leather, footed_, Plumipes."--_Ainsworth's Dict._

"The honey-bags steal from the humble bees,
And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs."
--SHAK.: _Joh.'s Dict., w. Glowworm._

"The honeybags steal from the bumblebees,
And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs."
--SHAK.: _Joh.'s Dict., w. Humblebee._

"The honey bags steal from the humble-bees,
And, for night tapers crop their waxen thighs."
--_Dodd's Beauties of Shak._, p. 51.

EXERCISE IV.--SPELLING.

"His antichamber, and room of audience, are little square chambers wainscoted."--ADDISON: _Johnson's Dict., w. Antechamber_. "Nobody will deem the quicksighted amongst them to have very enlarged views of ethicks."--LOCKE: _Ib., w. Quicksighted_. "At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity."--L'ESTRANGE: _Ib., m. Blunderhead_. "On the topmast, the yards, and boltsprit would I flame distinctly."--SHAK.: _Ib., w. Bowsprit_. "This is the tune of our catch plaid by the picture of nobody."--ID.: _Ib., w. Nobody_. "Thy fall hath left a kind of blot to mark the fulfraught man."--ID.: _Ib., w. Fulfraught_. "Till blinded by some Jack o'Lanthorn sprite."--_Snelling's Gift_, p. 62. "The beauties you would have me eulogise."--_Ib._, p. 14. "They rail at me--I gaily laugh at them."--_Ib._, p. 13. "Which the king and his sister had intrusted to him withall."--_Josephus_, Vol. v, p. 143. "The terms of these emotions are by no means synonimous."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 336. "Lillied, _adj._ Embellished with lilies."--_Chalmers's Dict._ "They seize the compendious blessing without exertion and without reflexion."--_Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 428. "The first cry that rouses them from their torpour, is the cry that demands their blood."--_Ib._, p. 433. "It meets the wants of elementary schools and deserves to be patronised."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 5. "Whose attempts were paralysed by the hallowed sound."--_Music of Nature_, p. 270. "It would be an amusing investigation to analyse their language."--_Ib._, p. 200. "It is my father's will that I should take on me the hostess-ship of the day."--SHAK.: _in Johnson's Dict._ "To retain the full apprehension of them undiminisht."--_Phil. Museum._, Vol. i, p. 458. "The ayes and noes were taken in the House of Commons."--_Anti-Slavery Mag._, Vol. i, p. 11. "Derivative words are formed by adding letters or syllables to primatives."--_Davenport's Gram._, p. 7. "The minister never was thus harrassed himself."--_Nelson, on Infidelity_, p. 6. "The most vehement politician thinks himself unbiassed in his judgment."--_Ib._, p. 17. "Mistress-ship, _n._ Female rule or dominion."--_Webster's Dict._

"Thus forced to kneel, thus groveling to embrace,
The scourge and ruin of my realm and race."
--POPE: _Ash's Gram._, p. 83.

EXERCISE V.--MIXED ERRORS.

"The quince tree is of a low stature; the branches are diffused and crooked."--MILLER: _Johnson's Dict._ "The greater slow worm, called also the blindworm, is commonly thought to be blind, because of the littleness of his eyes."--GREW: _ib._ "Oh Hocus! where art thou? It used to go in another guess manner in thy time."--ARBUTHNOT: _ib._ "One would not make a hotheaded crackbrained coxcomb forward for a scheme of moderation."--ID.: _ib._ "As for you, colonel huff-cap, we shall try before a civil magistrate who's the greatest plotter."--DRYDEN: _ib., w. Huff._ "In like manner, Actions co-alesce with their Agents, and Passions with their Patients."--_Harris's Hermes_, p. 263. "These Sentiments are not unusual even with the Philosopher now a days."--_Ib._, p. 350. "As if the Marble were to fashion the Chizzle, and not the Chizzle the Marble."--_Ib._, p. 353. "I would not be understood, in what I have said, to undervalue Experiment."--_Ib._, p. 352. "How therefore is it that they approach nearly to Non-Entity's?"--_Ib._, p. 431. "Gluttonise, modernise, epitomise, barbarise, tyranise."--_Churchill's Gram._, pp. 31 and 42. "Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!"--SHAK.: _ib._, p. 241. "Nor do I think the error above-mentioned would have been so long indulged," &c.--_Ash's Gram._, p. 4. "The editor of the two editions above mentioned was pleased to give this little manuel to the public," &c.--_Ib._, p. 7. "A Note of Admiration denotes a modelation of the voice suited to the expression."--_Ib._, p. 16. "It always has some respect to the power of the agent; and is therefore properly stiled the potential mode."--_Ib._, p. 29. "Both these are supposed to be synonomous expressions."--_Ib._, p. 105. "An expence beyond what my circumstances admit."--DODDRIDGE: _ib._, p. 138. "There are four of them: the _Full-Point_, or _Period_; the _Colon_; the _Semi-Colon_; the _Comma_."--_Cobbett's E. Gram._, N. Y., 1818, p. 77. "There are many men, who have been at Latin-Schools for years, and who, at last, cannot write six sentences in English correctly."--_Ib._, p. 39. "But, figures of rhetorick are edge tools, and two edge tools too."--_Ib._, p. 182. "The horse-chesnut grows into a goodly standard."--MORTIMER: _Johnson's Dict._ "Whereever _if_ is to be used."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 175.

"Peel'd, patch'd, and pyebald, linsey-woolsey brothers."
--POPE: _Joh. Dict., w., Mummer_.

"Peel'd, patch'd, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers."
--_ID.: ib., w. Piebald_.

EXERCISE VI.--MIXED ERRORS.

"Pied, _adj._ [from _pie._] Variegated; partycoloured."--_Johnson's Dict._ "Pie, [_pica_, Lat.] A magpie; a party-coloured bird."--_Ib._ "Gluy, _adj._ [from _glue._] Viscous; tenacious; glutinous."--_Ib._ "Gluey, _a._ Viscous, glutinous. Glueyness. _n._ The quality of being gluey."--_Webster's Dict._ "Old Euclio, seeing a crow-scrat[129] upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for an ill sign."--BURTON: _Johnson's Dict._ "Wars are begun by hairbrained[130] dissolute captains."--ID.: _ib._ "A carot is a well known garden root."--_Red Book_, p. 60. "Natural philosophy, metaphysicks, ethicks, history, theology, and politicks, were familiar to him."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 209. "The words in Italicks and capitals, are emphatick."--_Ib._, p. 210. "It is still more exceptionable; Candles, Cherrys, Figs, and other sorts of Plumbs, being sold by Weight, and being Plurals."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 135. "If the End of Grammar be not to save that Trouble, and Expence of Time, I know not what it is good for."--_Ib._, p. 161. "_Caulce_, Sheep Penns, or the like, has no Singular, according to Charisius."--_Ib._, p. 194. "These busibodies are like to such as reade bookes with intent onely to spie out the faults thereof"--_Perkins's Works_, p. 741. "I think it every man's indispensible duty, to do all the service he can to his country."--_Locke, on Ed._, p. 4. "Either fretting it self into a troublesome Excess, or flaging into a downright want of Appetite."--_Ib._, p. 23. "And nobody would have a child cramed at breakfast."--_Ib._, p. 23. "Judgeship and judgment, lodgable and alledgeable, alledgement and abridgment, lodgment and infringement, enlargement and acknowledgment."--_Webster's Dict._, 8vo. "Huckster, _n. s._ One who sells goods by retail, or in small quantities; a pedler."--_Johnson's Dict._

"He seeks bye-streets, and saves th' expensive coach."
--GAY: _ib., w. Mortgage._

"He seeks by-streets, and saves th' expensive coach."
--GAY: _ib., w. By-street._

EXERCISE VII.--MIXED ERRORS.

"Boys like a warm fire in a wintry day."--_Webster's El. Spelling-Book_, p. 62. "The lilly is a very pretty flower."--_Ib._, p. 62. "The potatoe is a native plant of America."--_Ib._, p. 60. "An anglicism is a peculiar mode of speech among the English."--_Ib._, p. 136. "Black berries and raspberries grow on briars."--_Ib._, p. 150. "You can broil a beef steak over the coals of fire."--_Ib._, p. 38. "Beef'-steak, _n._ A steak or slice of beef for broiling."--_Webster's Dict._ "Beef'steak, _s._ a slice of beef for broiling."--_Treasury of Knowledge._ "As he must suffer in case of the fall of merchandize, he is entitled to the corresponding gain if merchandize rises."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, p. 258. "He is the worshipper of an hour, but the worldling for life."--_Maturin's Sermons_, p. 424. "Slyly hinting something to the disadvantage of great and honest men."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 329. "'Tis by this therefore that I Define the Verb; namely, that it is a Part of Speech, by which something is apply'd to another, as to its Subject."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 255. "It may sometimes throw a passing cloud over the bright hour of gaiety."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 178. "To criticize, is to discover errors; and to crystalize implies to freeze or congele."--_Red Book_, p. 68. "The affectation of using the preterite instead of the participle, is peculiarly aukward; as, he has came."--_Priestley's Grammar_, p. 125. "They are moraly responsible for their individual conduct."--_Cardell's El. Gram._, p. 21. "An engine of sixty horse power, is deemed of equal force with a team of sixty horses."--_Red Book_, p. 113. "This, at fourpence per ounce, is two shillings and fourpence a week, or six pounds, one shining and four pence a year."--_Ib._, p. 122. "The tru meening of _parliament_ iz a meeting of barons or peers."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 276. "Several authorities seem at leest to favor this opinion."--_Ib._, p. 277. "That iz, az I hav explained the tru primitiv meening of the word."--_Ib._, p. 276. "The lords are peers of the relm; that iz, the ancient prescriptiv judges or barons."--_Ib._, p. 274.

"Falshood is folly, and 'tis just to own
The fault committed; this was mine alone."
--_Pope, Odys._, B. xxii, l. 168.

EXERCISE VIII--MIXED ERRORS.

"A second verb so nearly synonimous with the first, is at best superfluous."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 332. "Indicate it, by some mark opposite [to] the word misspelt."--_Abbott's Teacher_, p. 74. "And succesfully controling the tendencies of mind."--_Ib._, p. 24. "It [the Monastick Life] looks very like what we call Childrens-Play."--[LESLIE'S] _Right of Tythes_, p. 236. "It seems rather lik Playing of Booty, to Please those Fools and Knaves."--_Ib._, Pref., p. vi. "And first I Name Milton, only for his Name, lest the Party should say, that I had not Cousider'd his Performance against Tythes."--_Ib._, p. iv. "His Fancy was too Predominant for his Judgment. His Talent lay so much in Satyr that he hated Reasoning."--_Ib._, p. iv. "He has thrown away some of his Railery against Tythes, and the Church then underfoot."--_Ib._, p. v. "They Vey'd with one another in these things."--_Ib._, p. 220. "Epamanondas was far the most accomplished of the Thebans."--_Cooper's New Gram._, p. 27. "_Whoever_ and _Whichever_, are thus declined. Sing. and Plur. _nom._ whoever, _poss._ whoseever, _obj._ whomever. Sing. and Plu. _nom._ whichever, _poss._ whoseever, _obj._ whichever."--_Ib._, p. 38. "WHEREEVER, _adv._ [_where_ and _ever_.] At whatever place."--_Webster's Dict._ "They at length took possession of all the country south of the Welch mountains."--_Dobson's Comp. Gram._, p. 7. "Those Britains, who refused to submit to the foreign yoke, retired into Wales."--_Ib._, p. 6. "Religion is the most chearful thing in the world."--_Ib._, p. 43. "_Two_ means the number two compleatly, whereas _second_ means only the last of two, and so of all the rest."--_Ib._, p. 44. "Now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose sirname is Peter."--_Ib._, p. 96. (See _Acts_, x, 5.) "In French words, we use _enter_ instead of _inter_; as, entertain, enterlace, enterprize."--_Ib._, p. 101. "Amphiology, i. e. a speech of uncertain or doubtful meaning."--_Ib._, p. 103. "Surprize; as, hah! hey day! what! strange!"--_Ib._, p. 109. "Names of the letters: ai bee see dee ee ef jee aitch eye jay kay el em en o pee cue ar ess tee you voe double u eks wi zed."--_Rev. W. Allen's Gram._, p. 3.

"I, O, and U, at th' End of Words require,
The silent (e), the same do's (va) desire."
--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 15.

EXERCISE IX.--MIXED ERRORS.

"_And_ is written for _eacend_, adding, ekeing."--_Dr. Murray's Hist. of Europ. Lang._, Vol. i, p. 222. "The Hindus have changed _ai_ into _e_, sounded like _e_ in _where_."--_Ib._, Vol. ii, p. 121. "And therefor I would rather see the cruelest usurper than the mildest despot."-- _Philological Museum_, Vol. i, p. 430. "Sufficiently distinct to prevent our marveling."--_Ib._, i, 477. "Possessed of this preheminence he disregarded the clamours of the people."--_Smollett's England_, Vol. iii, p. 222. "He himself, having communicated, administered the sacrament to some of the bye-standers."--_Ib._, p. 222. "The high fed astrology which it nurtured, is reduced to a skeleton on the leaf of an almanac."--_Cardell's Gram._, p. 6. "Fulton was an eminent engineer: he invented steam boats."--_Ib._, p. 30. "Then, in comes the benign latitude of the doctrine of goodwill."--SOUTH: _in Johnson's Dict._ "Being very lucky in a pair of long lanthorn-jaws, he wrung his face into a hideous grimace."--SPECTATOR: _ib._ "Who had lived almost four-and-twenty years under so politick a king as his father."--BACON: _ib., w. Lowness_. "The children will answer; John's, or William's, or whose ever it may be."--_Infant School Gram._, p. 32. "It is found tolerably easy to apply them, by practising a little guess work."--_Cardell's Gram._, p. 91. "For between which two links could speech makers draw the division line?"--_Ib._, p. 50. "The wonderful activity of the rope dancer who stands on his head."--_Ib._, p. 56. "The brilliancy which the sun displays on its own disk, is sun shine."--_Ib._, p. 63. "A word of three syllables is termed a trisyllable."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 23; _Coar's_, 17; _Jaudon's_, 13; _Comly's_, 8; _Cooper's, New Gr._, 8; _Kirkham's_, 20; _Picket's_, 10; _Alger's_, 12; _Blair's_, 1; _Guy's_, 2; _Bolles's Spelling-Book_, 161. See _Johnson's Dict._ "A word of three syllables is termed a trissyllable."--_British Gram._, p. 33; _Comprehensive Gram._, 23; _Bicknell's_, 17; _Allen's_, 31; _John Peirce's_, 149; _Lennie's_, 5; _Maltby's_, 8; _Ingersoll's_, 7; _Bradley's_, 66; _Davenport's_, 7; _Bucke's_, 16; _Bolles's Spelling-Book_, 91. See _Littleton's Lat. Dict._ (1.) "_Will_, in the first Persons, promises or threatens: But in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells."--_British Gram._, p. 132. (2.) "_Will_, in the first Persons, promises or threatens; but in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 41. (3.) "_Will_, in the first person, promises, engages, or threatens. In the second and third persons, it merely foretels."--_Jaudon's Gram._, p. 59. (4.) "_Will_, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretells."--_Lowth's Gram._, p. 41. (5.) "_Will_, in the first person singular and plural, intimates resolution and promising; in the second and third person, only foretels."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 88; _Ingersoll's_, 136; _Fisk's_, 78; _A. Flint's_, 42; _Bullions's_, 32; _Hamlin's_, 41; _Cooper's Murray_, 50. [Fist] _Murray's Second Edition_ has it "_foretells_." (6.) "_Will_, in the first person singular and plural, expresses resolution and promising. In the second and third persons it only foretells."--_Comly's Gram._, p. 38; _E. Devis's_, 51; _Lennie's_, 22. (7.) "_Will_, in the first person, promises. In the second and third persons, it simply foretels."--_Maltby's Gram._, p. 24. (8.) "_Will_, in the first person implies resolution and promising; in the second and third, it foretells."--_Cooper's New Gram._, p. 51. (9.) "_Will_, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretels: _shall_, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretels; in the second and third persons, promises, commands, or threatens."--_Adam's Lat. and Eng. Gram._, p. 83. (10.) "In the first person shall _foretels_, and will _promises_ or _threatens_; but in the second and third persons _will_ foretels, and _shall_ promises or threatens."--_Blair's Gram._, p. 65.

"If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spight,
There are who judge still worse than he can write."--_Pope_.

EXERCISE X.--MIXED ERRORS.

"I am liable to be charged that I latinize too much."--DRYDEN: in _Johnson's Dict._ "To mould him platonically to his own idea."--WOTTON: _ib._ "I will marry a wife as beautiful as the houries, and as wise as Zobeide."--_Murray's E. Reader_, p. 148. "I will marry a wife, beautiful as the Houries."--_Wilcox's Gram._, p. 65. "The words in italics are all in the imperative mood."--_Maltby's Gram._, p. 71. "Words Italicised, are emphatick, in various degrees."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 173. "Wherever two gg's come together, they are both hard."--_Buchanan's Gram._, p. 5. "But these are rather silent (_o_)'s than obscure (_u_)'s."--_Brightland's Gram._, p. 19. "That can be Guest at by us, only from the Consequences."--_Right of Tythes_, p. viii. "He says he was glad that he had Baptized so few; And asks them, Were ye Baptised in the Name of Paul?"--_Ib._, p. ix. "Therefor he Charg'd the Clergy with the Name of Hirelings."--_Ib._, p. viii. "On the fourth day before the first second day in each month."--_The Friend_, Vol. vii, p. 230. "We are not bound to adhere for ever to the terms, or to the meaning of terms, which were established by our ancestors."--_Murray's Gram._, p. 140. "O! learn from him to station quick eyed Prudence at the helm."--_Frosts El. of Gram._, p. 104. "It pourtrays the serene landscape of a retired village."--_Music of Nature_, p. 421. "By stating the fact, in a circumlocutary manner."--_Booth's Introd. to Dict._, p. 33. "Time as an abstract being is a non-entity."--_Ib._, p. 29. "From the difficulty of analysing the multiplied combinations of words."--_Ib._, p. 19. "Drop those letters that are superfluous, as: handful, foretel."--_Cooper's Plain & Pract. Gram._, p. 10. "_Shall_, in the first person, simply foretells."--_Ib._, p. 51. "And the latter must evidently be so too, or, at least, cotemporary, with the act."--_Ib._, p. 60. "The man has been traveling for five years."--_Ib._, p. 77. "I shall not take up time in combatting their scruples."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 320. "In several of the chorusses of Euripides and Sophocles, we have the same kind of lyric poetry as in Pindar."--_Ib._, p. 398. "Until the Statesman and Divine shall unite their efforts in _forming_ the human mind, rather than in loping its excressences, after it has been neglected."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 26. "Where conviction could be followed only by a bigotted persistence in error."--_Ib._, p. 78. "All the barons were entitled to a seet in the national council, in right of their baronys."--_Ib._, p. 260. "Some knowledge of arithmetic is necessary for every lady."--_Ib._, p. 29. "Upon this, [the system of chivalry,] were founded those romances of night-errantry."--_Blair's Rhet._, p. 374. "The subject is, the atchievements of Charlemagne and his Peers, or Paladins."--_Ib._, p. 374. "Aye, aye; this slice to be sure outweighs the other."--_Blair's Reader_, p. 31. "In the common phrase, _good-bye, bye_ signifies _passing, going_. The phrase signifies, a good going, a prosperous passage, and is equivalent to _farewell_."--_Webster's Dict._ "Good-by, _adv_.--a contraction of _good be with you_--a familiar way of bidding farewell."--See _Chalmers's Dict._ "Off he sprung, and did not so much as stop to say good bye to you."--_Blair's Reader_, p. 16. "It no longer recals the notion of the action."--_Barnard's Gram._, p. 69.

"Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;
To err, is human; to forgive, divine."--_Pope, Ess. on Crit._

EXERCISE XI.--MIXED ERRORS.

"The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c."--_Blair's Reader_, p. 118. "With her left hand, she guides the thread round the spindle, or rather round a spole which goes on the spindle."--_Ib._, p. 134. "Much suff'ring heroes next their honours claim."--POPE: _Johnson's Dict., w. Much_. "Vein healing verven, and head purging dill."--SPENSER: _ib., w. Head_. "An, in old English, signifies _if_; as, '_an_ it please your honor.'"--_Webster's Dict._ "What, then, was the moral worth of these renouned leaders?"--_M'Ilvaine's Lect._, p. 460. "Behold how every form of human misery is met by the self denying diligence of the benevolent."--_Ib._, p. 411. "Reptiles, bats, and doleful creatures--jackalls, hyenas, and lions--inhabit the holes, and caverns, and marshes of the desolate city."--_Ib._, p. 270. "ADAYS, _adv_. On or in days; as, in the phrase, now _adays_."--_Webster's Dict._ "REFEREE, one to whom a thing is referred; TRANSFERREE, the person to whom a transfer is made."--_Ib._ "The Hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims."--_Ib._ "GERARD, Tom, or Tung, was the institutor and first grand master of the knights hospitalers: he died in 1120."--_Biog. Dict._ "I had a purpose now to lead our many to the holy land."--SHAK.: _in Johnson's Dict._ "He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants."--_Psalms_, cv, 25. "In Dryden's ode of Alexander's Feast, the line, '_Faln, faln, faln, faln_,' represents a gradual sinking of the mind."--_Kames, El. of Crit._, Vol. ii, p. 71. "The first of these lines is marvelously nonsensical."--_Jamieson's Rhet._, p. 117. "We have the nicely chiseled forms of an Apollo and a Venus, but it is the same cold marble still."--_Christian Spect._, Vol. viii, p. 201. "Death waves his mighty wand and paralyses all."--_Bucke's Gram._, p. 35. "Fear God. Honor the patriot. Respect virtue."--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 216. "Pontius Pilate being Governour of Judea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee."--_Ib._, p. 189. See _Luke_, iii, 1. "AUCTIONEER, _n. s_. The person that manages an auction."--_Johnson's Dict._ "The earth put forth her primroses and days-eyes, to behold him."--HOWEL: _ib._ "_Musselman_, not being a compound of _man_, is _musselmans_ in the plural."--_Lennie's Gram._, p. 9. "The absurdity of fatigueing them with a needless heap of grammar rules."--_Burgh's Dignity_, Vol. i, p. 147. "John was forced to sit with his arms a kimbo, to keep them asunder."--ARBUTHNOT: _Joh. Dict._ "To set the arms a kimbo, is to set the hands on the hips, with the elbows projecting outward."--_Webster's Dict._ "We almost uniformly confine the inflexion to the last or the latter noun."--_Maunder's Gram._, p. 2. "This is all souls day, fellows! Is it not?"--SHAK.: _in Joh. Dict._ "The english physicians make use of troy-weight."--_Johnson's Dict._ "There is a certain number of ranks allowed to dukes, marquisses, and earls."--PEACHAM: _ib., w. Marquis_.

"How could you chide the young good natur'd prince,
And drive him from you with so stern an air."
--ADDISON: _ib., w. Good_, 25.

EXERCISE XII.--MIXED ERRORS.

"In reading, every appearance of sing-song should be avoided."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 75. "If you are thoroughly acquainted with the inflexions of the verb."--_Ib._, p. 53. "The preterite of _read_ is pronounced _red_."--_Ib._, p. 48. "Humility opens a high way to dignity."--_Ib._, p. 15. "What is intricate must be unraveled."--_Ib._, p. 275. "Roger Bacon invented gun powder, A. D. 1280."--_Ib._, p. 277. "On which ever word we lay the emphasis."--_Murray's Gram._, 8vo, p. 243; 12mo, p. 195. "Each of the leaders was apprized of the Roman invasion."--_Nixon's Parser_, p. 123. "If I say, 'I _gallopped_ from Islington to Holloway;' the verb is intransitive: if, 'I _gallopped_ my _horse_ from Islington to Holloway;' it is transitive."--_Churchill's Gram._, p. 238. "The reasonableness of setting a part one day in seven."--_The Friend_, Vol. iv, p. 240. "The promoters of paper money making reprobated this act."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 196. "There are five compound personal pronouns, which are derived from the five simple personal pronouns by adding to some of their cases the syllable _self_; as, my-self, thy-self, him-self, her-self, it-self."--_Perley's Gram._, p. 16. "Possessives, my-own, thy-own, his-own, her-own, its-own, our-own, your-own, their-own."--_Ib., Declensions_. "Thy man servant and thy maid servant may rest, as well as thou."--_Sanborn's Gram._, p. 160. "How many right angles has an acute angled triangle?"--_Ib._, p. 220. "In the days of Jorum, king of Israel, flourished the prophet Elisha."--_Ib._, p. 148. "In the days of Jorum, king of Israel, Elisha, the prophet flourished."--_Ib._, p. 133. "Lodgable, _a_. Capable of affording a temporary abode."--_Webster's Octavo Dict._--"Win me into the easy hearted man."--_Johnson's Quarto Dict._ "And then to end life, is the same as to dye."--_Milnes's Greek Gram._, p. 176. "Those usurping hectors who pretend to honour without religion, think the charge of a lie a blot not to be washed out but by blood."--SOUTH: _Joh. Dict._ "His gallies attending him, he pursues the unfortunate."--_Nixon's Parser_, p. 91. "This cannot fail to make us shyer of yielding our assent."--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 117. "When he comes to the Italicised word, he should give it such a definition as its connection with the sentence may require."--_Claggett's Expositor_, p. vii. "Learn to distil from your lips all the honies of persuasion."--_Adams's Rhetoric_, Vol. i, p. 31. "To instill ideas of disgust and abhorrence against the Americans."--_Ib._, ii, 300. "Where prejudice has not acquired an uncontroled ascendency."--_Ib._, i, 31. "The uncontrolable propensity of his mind was undoubtedly to oratory."--_Ib._, i, 100. "The Brutus is a practical commentary upon the dialogues and the orator."--_Ib._, i, 120. "The oratorical partitions are a short elementary compendium."--_Ib._, i, 130. "You shall find hundreds of persons able to produce a crowd of good ideas upon any subject, for one that can marshall them to the best advantage."--_Ib._, i, 169. "In this lecture, you have the outline of all that the whole course will comprize."--_Ib._, i, 182. "He would have been stopped by a hint from the bench, that he was traveling out of the record."--_Ib._, i, 289. "To tell them that which should befal them in the last days."--_Ib._, ii, 308. "Where all is present, there is nothing past to recal."--_Ib._, ii, 358. "Whose due it is to drink the brimfull cup of God's eternal vengeance."--_Law and Grace_, p. 36.

"There, from the dead, centurions see him rise,
See, but struck down with horrible surprize!"--_Savage_.

"With seed of woes my heart brimful is charged."--SIDNEY: _Joh. Dict._

"Our legions are brimful, our cause is ripe."--SHAKSPEARE: _ib._