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UNDER EXCEPTION III.--OF AN ALTERNATIVE OF WORDS.

"Metre, or Measure, is the number of poetical feet which a verse contains."--Hiley cor. "The Cæsura, or division, is the pause which takes place in a verse, and which divides it into two parts."--Id. "It is six feet, or one fathom, deep."--Bullions cor. "A Brace is used in poetry, at the end of a triplet, or three lines which rhyme together."--Felton cor. "There are four principal kinds of English verse, or poetical feet."--Id. "The period, or full stop, denotes the end of a complete sentence."--Sanborn cor. "The scholar is to receive as many jetons, or counters, as there are words in the sentence."--St. Quentin cor. "That [thing], or the thing, which purifies, fortifies also the heart."--O. B. Peirce cor. "That thing, or the thing, which would induce a laxity in public or private morals, or indifference to guilt and wretchedness, should be regarded as the deadly Sirocco."--Id. "What is, elliptically, what thing, or that thing which."--Sanborn cor. "Demonstrate means show, or point out precisely."--Id. "The man, or that man, who endures to the end, shall be saved."--Hiley cor.

UNDER EXCEPTION IV.--OF A SECOND COMMA.

"That reason, passion, answer one great aim."--POPE: Bullions and Hiley cor. "Reason, virtue, answer one great aim."--L. Murray's Gram., p. 269; Cooper's Murray, 182; Comly, 145; Ingersoll, 282; Sanborn, 268; Kirkham, 212; et al. "Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above."--James, i, 17. "Every plant, and every tree, produces others after its kind."--Day cor. "James, and not John, was paid for his services."--Id. "The single dagger, or obelisk [Dagger], is the second."--Id. "It was I, not he, that did it."--St. Quentin cor. "Each aunt, each cousin, hath her speculation."--Byron. "'I shall see you when you come,' is equivalent to, 'I shall see you then, or at that time, when you come.'"--N. Butler cor.

"Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame;   August her deed, and sacred be her fame."--Pope cor.

UNDER RULE V.--OF WORDS IN PAIRS.

"My hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, centre in you."--Greenleaf or Sanborn cor. "This mood implies possibility or liberty, will or obligation."--Ingersoll cor. "Substance is divided into body and spirit, into extended and thinking."--Brightland cor. "These consonants, [d and t,] like p and b, f and v, k and hard g, and s and z, are letters of the same organ."--J. Walker cor. "Neither fig nor twist, pigtail nor Cavendish, has passed my lips since; nor ever shall again."--Cultivator cor. "The words whoever or whosoever, whichever or whichsoever, and whatever or whatsoever, are called Compound Relative Pronouns."--Day cor. "Adjectives signifying profit or disprofit, likeness or unlikeness, govern the dative."--Bullions cor.

UNDER RULE VI.--OF WORDS ABSOLUTE.

"Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me."--Psalm xxiii 4. "Depart, ye wicked."--J. W. Wright cor. "He saith unto his mother. Woman, behold thy son!"--John, xix, 26. "Thou, God, seest me."--Bullions cor. "John, write me a letter. Henry, go home."--O. B. Peirce cor., twice. "Now, G. Brown, let us reason together."--Id. "Mr. Smith, you say, on page 11th, 'The objective case denotes the object'"--Id. "Gentlemen, will you always speak as you mean?"--Id. "John, I sold my books to William, for his brothers."--Id. "Walter, and Seth, I will take my things, and leave yours."--Id. "Henry, Julia and Jane left their umbrella, and took yours."--Id. "John, harness the horses, and go to the mine for some coal."--Id. "William, run to the store, for a few pounds of tea."--Id. "The king being dead, the parliament was dissolved."--Chandler cor.

"Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,   And let me languish into life." --''Pope, Brit. Poets'', vi, 317.

"Forbear, great man, in arms renown'd, forbear." --Hiley's Gram., p. 127.

"Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!   Each prayer accepted, and each wish resign'd." --''Pope, Brit. Poets'', vi, 335.

UNDER RULE VII.--OF WORDS IN APPOSITION.

"We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice," &c.--''Constit. of U. S. "The Lord, the covenant God of his people, requires it."--A. S. Mag. cor. "He, as a patriot, deserves praise."--Hallock cor. "Thomson, the watchmaker and jeweller from London, was of the party."--Bullions cor. "Every body knows that the person here spoken of by the name of 'the Conqueror,' is William, duke of Normandy."--L. Mur. cor. "The words myself, thyself, himself, herself, itself, and their plurals, ourselves, yourselves, and themselves, are called Compound Personal Pronouns."--Day cor.''

"For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey,     This pleasing, anxious being e'er resign'd,    Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day       Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind?"--GRAY: ''Mur. Seq.''

UNDER THE EXCEPTIONS CONCERNING APPOSITION.

"Smith & Williams's store; Nicholas the emperor's army."--Day cor. "He was named William the Conqueror."--Id. "John the Baptist was beheaded."--Id. "Alexander the coppers-