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"Here is an unnecessary change from the second person singular to the second person plural. The text would have been better, thus:--

SECTION IX.--ALL POINTS.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

"The principal stops are the following: the Comma [,], the Semicolon [;], the Colon [:], the Period, or Full Stop [.], the Note of Interrogation [?], the Note of Exclamation [!], the Parenthesis [], and the Dash [--]."--Bullions cor. "The modern punctuation in Latin is the same as in English. The chief marks employed are the Comma [,], the Semicolon [;], the Colon [:], the Period [.], the Note of Interrogation [?], the Note of Exclamation (!), the Parenthesis [], and the Dash [--]."--Id.

"Plato reproving a young man for playing at some childish game, 'You chide me,' says the youth, 'for a trifling fault.' 'Custom,' replied the philosopher, 'is no trifle.' 'And,' adds Montaigne, 'he was in the right; for our vices begin in infancy.'"--Home cor.

"A merchant at sea asked the skipper what death his father died. 'My father,' says the skipper, 'my grandfather, and my great-grandfather, were all drowned.' 'Well,' replies the merchant, 'and are not you afraid of being drowned too?'"--Id.

"The use of inverted commas derives from France, where one Guillemet was the author of them; [and,] as an acknowledgement for the improvement, his countrymen call them after his name, GUILLEMETS."--''Hist. cor.''

"This, however, is seldom if ever done, unless the word following the possessive begins with s; thus, we do not say, 'the prince feather;' but, 'the prince's feather.'"--Bullions cor. "And this phrase must mean, the feather of the prince;' but 'prince's-feather,' written as one word, [and with both apostrophe and hyphen,] is the name of a plant, a species of amaranth."--G. Brown. "Boëthius soon had the satisfaction of obtaining the highest honours his country could bestow."--Ingersoll cor.; also L. Murray.

"When an example, a quotation, or a speech, is introduced, it is separated from the rest of the sentence either by a comma or by a colon; as, 'The Scriptures give us an amiable representation of the Deity, in these words: God is love.'"--Hiley cor. "Either the colon or the comma may be used, [according to the nature of the case,] when an example, a quotation, or a speech, is introduced; as, 'Always remember this ancient maxim: Know thyself.'--'The Scriptures give us an amiable representation of the Deity, in these words: God is love.'"--Bullions cor.

"The first word of a quotation introduced after a colon, or of any sentence quoted in a direct form, must begin with a capital: as, 'Always remember this ancient maxim: Know thyself.'--'Our great lawgiver says, Take up thy cross daily, and follow me.'"--Bullions and Lennie cor.; also L. Murray; also Weld. See Luke, ix, 23.

"Tell me, in whose house do you live?"--N. Butler cor. "He that acts wisely, deserves praise."--Id. "He who steals my purse, steals trash."--Id. "The antecedent is sometimes omitted; as, 'Who steals my purse, steals trash.'--[Shak.] That is, 'He who,' or, 'The person who.'"--Id. "Thus, 'Whoever steals my purse, steals trash;'--'Whoever does no good, does harm.'"--Id. "Thus, 'Whoever sins, will suffer.' This means, that any one, without exception, who sins, will suffer."--Id.

"Letters form syllables; syllables, words; words, sentences; and sentences, combined and connected, form discourse."--Cooper cor. "A letter which forms a perfect sound when uttered by itself, is called a vowel; as, a, e, i."--Id. "A proper noun is the name of an individual, [or of a particular people or place]; as, John, Boston, Hudson, America."--Id.

"Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing; more, a cunning thing; but very few, a generous thing."--Davis cor. "In the place of an ellipsis of the verb, a comma must be inserted."--Id. "A common noun unlimited by an article, is sometimes understood in its broadest acceptation: thus, Fishes swim,' is understood to mean all fishes; Man is mortal,' all men."--Id.

"Thus, those sounds formed principally by the throat, are called gutturals; those formed principally by the palate, palatals; those formed by the teeth, dentals; those by the lips, labials; and those by the nose, nasals."--Davis cor.

"Some adjectives are compared irregularly: as, Good, letter, best; Bad, worse, worst; Little, less, least."--Felton cor.

"Under the fourth head of grammar, therefore, four topics will be considered; viz., PUNCTUATION, ORTHOEPY [sic--KTH], FIGURES, and VERSIFICATION."--Hart cor.

"Direct her onward to that peaceful shore,   Where peril, pain, and death, are felt no more!"--Falconer cor.

GOOD ENGLISH RIGHTLY POINTED.

LESSON I.--UNDER VARIOUS RULES.

"Discoveries of such a character are sometimes made in grammar also; and such, too, are often their origin and their end."--Bullions cor.