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 suffering the man who can say this, must be enduring!"--Id. "What is Brown's Rule in relation to this matter?"--Id. "Alas! how short is life!"--P. E. Day cor. "Thomas, study your book."--Id. "Who can tell us who they are?"--Sanborn cor. "Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic, and sorely vexed."--See Matt., xvii, 15. "O ye wild groves! O where is now your bloom?"--Felton cor.

"O who of man the story will unfold?"--Farnum cor..

"Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow.   Go to--I will not hear of it--to-morrow!"--COTTON.

"How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore   That painted coat which Joseph never wore!"

SECTION VIII.--THE CURVES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.--OF PARENTHESES.

"Another [, better written as a phrase, An other,] is composed of the indefinite article an, (which etymologically means one,) and other; and denotes one other."--Hallock cor.

"Each mood has its peculiar Tense, Tenses, or Times."--Bucke cor.

"In some very ancient languages, (as the Hebrew,) which have been employed chiefly for expressing plain sentiments in the plainest manner, without aiming at any elaborate length or harmony of periods, this pronoun [the relative] occurs not so often."--L. Murray cor.

"Before I shall say those things, O Conscript Fathers! about the public affairs, which are to be spoken at this time; I shall lay before you, in few words, the motives of the journey and the return."--Brightland cor.

"Of well-chose words some take not care enough,   And think they should be, like the subject, rough."--Id.

"Then, having showed his wounds, he'd sit him down."--Bullions cor.

UNDER RULE II.--OF INCLUDED POINTS.

"Then Jael smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: (for he was fast asleep, and weary:) so he died."--SCOTT'S BIBLE: Judges, iv, 21.

"Every thing in the Iliad has manners, (as Aristotle expresses it,) that is, every thing is acted or spoken."--Pope cor.

"Those nouns that end in f, or fe. (except some few which I shall mention presently,) form plurals by changing those letters into ves: as, thief, thieves: wife, wives."--Bucke cor.

"As requires as; (expressing equality of degree;) thus, 'Mine is as good as yours.' As [requires] so; (expressing equality or proportion;) thus, 'As the stars, so shall thy seed be.' So [requires] as; (with a negative expressing inequality;) as, 'He is not so wise as his brother.' So [requires] that; (expressing a consequence:) as, 'I am so weak that I cannot walk.'" [558]--Bullions cor.

"A captious question, sir, (and yours is one,)   Deserves an answer similar, or none."--Cowper cor.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

"Whatever words the verb TO BE serves to unite, referring to the same thing, must be of the same case; (§61;) as, 'Alexander is a student.'"--Bullions cor. "When the objective is a relative or [an] interrogative, it comes before the verb that governs it: (§40, Rule 9:) Murray's 6th rule is unnecessary."--Id. "It is generally improper, except in poetry, to omit the antecedent to a relative; and always, to omit a relative, when of the nominative case."--Id. "In every sentence, there must be a verb and a nominative or subject, expressed or understood."--Id. "Nouns and pronouns, and especially words denoting time, are often governed by prepositions understood; or are used to restrict verbs or adjectives, without a governing word: (§50, Rem. 6 and Rule:) as, 'He gave [to] me a full account of the affair.'"--Id. "When should is used in stead of ought, to express present duty, (§20, 4,) it may be followed by the present; as, 'You should study that you may become learned.'"--Id. "The indicative present is frequently used after the words when, till, before, as soon as, after, to express the relative time of a future action: (§24, I, 4;) as, 'When he comes, he will be welcome.'"--Id. "The relative is parsed, [according to Bullions,] by stating its gender, number, case, and antecedent; (the gender and number being always the same as those of the antecedent;) thus, 'The boy who'--Who is a relative pronoun, masculine, singular, the nominative; and refers to boy' as its antecedent."--Id.

"'Now, now, I seize, I clasp thy charms;    And now you burst, ah cruel! from my arms.'--Pope.