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MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

"Who else can he be?"--Barrett cor. "Where else can he go?"--Id. "In familiar language, here, there, and where, are used for hither, thither, and whither."--N. Butler cor. "Take, for instance, this sentence: 'Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.'"--Hart cor. "Take, for instance, the sentence before quoted: 'Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.'"--Id. "Under the same head, are considered such sentences as these: He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.'--Gad, a troop shall overcome him.'"--Id.

"Tenses are certain modifications of the verb, which point out the distinctions of time."--Bullions cor. "Calm was the day, and the scene, delightful."--Id. See Murray's Exercises, p. 5. "The capital letters used by the Romans to denote numbers, were C, I, L, V, X; which are therefore called Numeral Letters. I denotes one; V, five; X, ten; L, fifty; and C, a hundred."--Bullions cor. "'I shall have written;' viz., at or before some future time or event."--Id. "In Latin words, the liquids are l and r only; in Greek words, l, r, m, and n."--Id. "Each legion was divided into ten cohorts; each cohort, into three maniples; and each maniple, into two centuries."--Id. "Of the Roman literature previous to A. U. 514, scarcely a vestige remains."--Id.

"And that which He delights in, must be happy.   But when? or where? This world was made for Cæsar."--CATO.

"Look next on greatness. Say where greatness lies.   Where, but among the heroes and the wise?"--Pope.

SECTION VII--THE ECPHONEME.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.--OF INTERJECTIONS, &c.

(1.) "O! that he were wise!"--Bullions cor. (2.) "O! that his heart were tender!"--See Murray's Ex. or Key, under Rule xix. (3 and 4.) "Oh! what a sight is here!"--Bullions, E. Gram., p. 71; (§37;) ''Pract. Les., p. 82; Analyt. and Pract. Gram.'', p. 111. (5-9.) "O Virtue! how amiable thou art!"--Farnum's Gram., p. 12; ''Bullions's Analyt. and Pract. Gram.'', p. 111. (10.) "Oh! that I had been more diligent!"--Hart cor.; and Hiley. (11.) "O! the humiliation to which vice reduces us!"--Farnum and ''Mur. cor. (12.) "O! that he were more prudent!"--Farnum cor. (13 and 14.) "Ah me!"--Davis cor.''

(15.) "Lately, alas! I knew a gentle boy," &c.--Dial cor.

(16 and 17.) "Wo is me, Alhama!"--Byron's Poems: Wells cor.

UNDER RULE II.--OF INVOCATIONS.

"Weep on the rocks of roaring winds, O maid of Inistore!"--Ossian. "Cease a little while, O wind! stream, be thou silent a while! let my voice be heard around. Let my wanderer hear me! Salgar! it is Colma who calls. Here is the tree, and the rock. Salgar, my love! I am here. Why delayest thou thy coming? Lo! the calm moon comes forth. The flood is bright in the vale."--Id., Vol. i, p. 369.

"Ah, stay not, stay not! guardless and alone:   Hector! my lov'd, my dearest, bravest son!"--Pope, II., xxii, 61.

UNDER RULE III.--OF EXCLAMATORY QUESTIONS.

"How much better is wisdom than gold!"--See Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 272. "O Virtue! how amiable art thou!"--See Murray's Grammar, 2d Edition, p. 95. "At that hour, O how vain was all sublunary happiness!"--Brown's Institutes, p. 117; see English Reader, p. 135. "Alas! how few and transitory are the joys which this world affords to man!"--P. E. Day cor. "Oh! how vain and transitory are all things here below!"--Id.

"And O! what change of state, what change of rank,   In that assembly everywhere was seen!"--Pollok cor.; also Day.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

"O Shame! where is thy blush?"--Shak.[557] "John, give me my hat."--Barrett cor. "What! is Moscow in flames?"--Id. "O! what happiness awaits the virtuous!"--Id.

"Ah, welladay! do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point,--the poor soul will die."--Sterne or Enfield cor.; also Kirkham.

"Will John return to-morrow?"--Barrett cor. "Will not John return to-morrow?"--Id. "John, return to-morrow."--Id. "Soldiers, stand firm."--Id. "If mea, which means my, is an adjective in Latin, why may not my be so called in English? and if my is an adjective, why not Barrett's?"--Id.

"O Absalom, my son!"--See 2 Sam., xix, 4. "O star-eyed Science! whither hast thou fled?"--Peirce cor. "Why do you tolerate your own inconsistency, by calling it the present tense?"--Id. "Thus the declarative mood [i.e., the indicative mood] may be used in asking a question: as, 'What man is frail?'"--Id. "What connection has motive, wish, or supposition, with the the term subjunctive?"--Id. "A grand reason, truly, for calling it a golden key!"--Id. "What