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 cor "The sense does not admit of any other pause, than one after the second syllable 'sit;' this therefore must be the only pause made in the reading."--Id. "Not that I believe North America to have been first peopled so lately as in the twelfth century, the period of Madoc's migration."--Webster cor. "Money and commodities will always flow to that country in which they are most wanted, and in which they will command the most profit."--Id. "That it contains no visible marks of certain articles which are of the utmost importance to a just delivery."--Sheridan cor. "And Virtue, from her beauty, we call a fair and favourite maid."--Mack cor. "The definite article may relate to nouns of either number."--''Inf. S. Gram. cor.''

LESSON XV.--OF MANY ERRORS.

(1.) "Compound words are[, by L. Murray and others, improperly] included among the derivatives."--L. Murray corrected. (2.) "The Apostrophe, placed above the line, thus ', is used to abbreviate or shorten words. But its chief use is, to denote the possessive case of nouns."--Id. (3.) "The Hyphen, made thus -, connects the parts of compound words. It is also used when a word is divided."--Id. (4.) "The Acute Accent, made thus ´, denotes the syllable on which stress is laid, and sometimes also, that the vowel is short: as, Fáncy.' The Grave Accent, made thus `, usually denotes, (when applied to English words,) that the stress is laid where a vowel ends the syllable: as, Fàvour.'"--Id. (5.) "The stress is laid on long vowels or syllables, and on short ones, indiscriminately. In order to distinguish the long or open vowels from the close or short ones, some writers of dictionaries have placed the grave accent on the former, and the acute on the latter."--Id. (6.) "The Diæresis, thus made ¨, is placed over one of two contiguous vowels, to show that they are not a diphthong."--Id. (7.) "The Section, made thus §, is sometimes used to mark the subdivisions of a discourse or chapter."--Id. (8.) "The Paragraph, made thus ¶, sometimes denotes the beginning of a new subject, or of a passage not connected with the text preceding. This character is now seldom used [for such a purpose], except in the Old and New Testaments." Or better:--"except in the Bible."--Id. (9.) "The Quotation Points, written thus " ", mark the beginning and the end of what is quoted or transcribed from some speaker or author, in his own words. In type, they are inverted commas at the beginning, apostrophes at the conclusion."--Id. (10.) "The Brace was formerly used in poetry at the end of a triplet, or where three lines rhymed together in heroic verse; it also serves to connect several terms with one, when the one is common to all, and thus to prevent a repetition of the common term."--Id. (11.) "Several asterisks put together, generally denote the omission of some letters belonging to a word, or of some bold or indelicate expression; but sometimes they imply a defect in the manuscript from which the text is copied."--Id. (12.) "The Ellipsis, made thus, or thus ****, is used where some letters of a word, or some words of a verse, are omitted."--Id. (13.) "The Obelisk, which is made thus [Obelisk]; and the Parallels, which are made thus ||; and sometimes the letters of the alphabet; and also the Arabic figures; are used as references to notes in the margin, or at the bottom, of the page."--Id. (14.) "The note of interrogation should not be employed, where it is only said that a question has been asked, and where the words are not used as a question; as, 'The Cyprians asked me why I wept.'"--Id. et al. cor. (15.) "The note of interrogation is improper after mere expressions of admiration, or of any other emotion, though they may bear the form of questions."--Iid. (16.) "The parenthesis incloses something which is thrown into the body of a sentence, in an under tone; and which affects neither the sense, nor the construction, of the main text."--Lowth cor. (17.) "Simple members connected by a relative not used restrictively, or by a conjunction that implies comparison, are for the most part divided by the comma."--Id. (18.) "Simple members, or sentences, connected as terms of comparison, are for the most part separated by the comma."--L. Murray et al. cor. (19.) "Simple sentences connected by a comparative particle, are for the most part divided by the comma."--Russell cor. (20.) "Simple sentences or clauses connected to form a comparison, should generally be parted by the comma."--Merchant cor. (21.) "The simple members of sentences that express contrast or comparison, should generally be divided by the comma."--Jaudon cor. (22.) "The simple members of a comparative sentence, when they are long, are separated by a comma."--Cooper cor. (23.) "Simple sentences connected to form a comparison, or phrases placed in opposition, or contrast, are usually separated by the comma."--Hiley and Bullions cor. (24.) "On whichever word we lay the emphasis,--whether on the first, the second, the third, or the fourth,--every change of it strikes out a different sense."--L. Murray cor. (25.) "To say to those who do not understand sea phrases, 'We tacked to the larboard, and stood off to sea,' would give them little or no information."--Murray and Hiley cor. (26.) "Of those dissyllables which are sometimes nouns and sometimes verbs, it may be observed, that the verb is commonly accented on the latter syllable, and the noun on the former."--L. Murray cor. (27.) "And this gives to our language an advantage over most others, in the poetical or rhetorical style."--''Id. et al. cor. (28.) "And this gives to the English language an advantage over most others, in the poetical and the rhetorical style."--Lowth cor. (29.) "The second and the third scholar may read the same sentence; or as many may repeat the text, as are necessary to teach it perfectly to the whole class."--Osborn cor.''

(30.) "Bliss is the same, in subject, or in king,         In who obtain defence, or who defend." --Pope's Essay on Man, IV, 58.

LESSON XVI.--OF MANY ERRORS.

"The Japanese, the Tonquinese, and the Coreans, speak languages differing from one an other, and from that of the inhabitants of China; while all use the same written characters, and, by