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 suspected, that, as the son of jupiter and alcmena, has fathered the deeds of forty other herculeses, so this unfathered son of critheis, themisto, or whatever dame--this melesigenes, mæonides, homer--the blind schoolmaster, and poet, of smyrna, chios, colophon, salamis, rhodes, argos, athens, or whatever place--has, by the help of lycurgus, solon, pisistratus, and other learned ancients, been made up of many poets or homers, and set so far aloft and aloof on old parnassus, as to become a god in the eyes of all greece, a wonder in those of all Christendom."--Author.

"Why so sagacious in your guesses?   Your effs, and tees, and arrs, and esses?"--Swift.

UNDER RULE V.--OF TITLES.

"The king has conferred on him the title of duke."--Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 193.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word duke begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 5th, "Titles of office or honour, and epithets of distinction, applied to persons, begin usually with capitals." Therefore, "Duke" should here begin with a capital D.]

"At the court of queen Elizabeth."--Murray's Gram.; 8vo, p. 157; 12mo, p. 126; Fisk's, 115; et al. "The laws of nature are, truly, what lord Bacon styles his aphorisms, laws of laws."--Murray's Key, p. 260. "Sixtus the fourth was, if I mistake not, a great collector of books."--Ib., p. 257. "Who at that time made up the court of king Charles the second."--Murray's Gram., p. 314. "In case of his majesty's dying without issue."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 181. "King Charles the first was beheaded in 1649."--W. Allen's Gram., p. 45. "He can no more impart or (to use lord Bacon's word,) transmit convictions."--Kirkham's Eloc., p. 220. "I reside at lord Stormont's, my old patron and benefactor."--Murray's Gram., p. 176. "We staid a month at lord Lyttleton's, the ornament of his country."--Ib., p. 177. "Whose prerogative is it? It is the king of Great Britain's;" "That is the duke of Bridgewater's canal;" "The bishop of Llandaff's excellent book;" "The Lord mayor of London's authority."--Ib., p. 176. "Why call ye me lord, lord, and do not the things which I say?"--See GRIESBACH: Luke, vi, 46. "And of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles."--SCOTT: Luke, vi, 13. "And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, master; and kissed him."--See the Greek: Matt., xxvi, 49. "And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent."--Luke, xvi, 30.

UNDER RULE VI.--OF ONE CAPITAL.

"Fall River, a village in Massachusetts, population 3431."--See Univ. Gaz., p. 416.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the name Fall River is here written in two parts, and with two capitals. But, according to Rule 6th, "Those compound proper names which by analogy incline to a union of their parts without a hyphen, should be so written, and have but one capital." Therefore, Fallriver, as the name of a town, should be one word, and retain but one capital.]

"Dr. Anderson died at West Ham, in Essex, in 1808."--''Biog. Dict. "Mad River, [the name of] two towns in Clark and Champaign counties, Ohio."--Williams's Universal Gazetteer''. "White Creek, town of Washington county, N. York."--Ib. "Salt Creek, the name of four towns in different parts of Ohio."--Ib. "Salt Lick, a town of Fayette county, Pennsylvania."--Ib. "Yellow Creek, a town of Columbiana county, Ohio."--Ib. "White Clay, a hundred of New Castle county, Delaware."--Ib. "Newcastle, town and halfshire of Newcastle county, Delaware."--Ib. "Sing-Sing, a village of West Chester county, New York, situated in the town of Mount Pleasant."--Ib. "West Chester, a county of New York; also a town in Westchester county."--Ib. "West Town, a village of Orange county, New York."--Ib. "White Water, a town of Hamilton county, Ohio."--Ib. "White Water River, a considerable stream that rises in Indiana, and flowing southeasterly, unites with the Miami, in Ohio."--Ib. "Black Water, a village of Hampshire, in England, and a town in Ireland."--Ib. "Black Water, the name of seven different rivers in England, Ireland, and the United States."--Ib. "Red Hook, a town of Dutchess county, New York, on the Hudson."--Ib. "Kinderhook, a town of Columbia county, New York, on the Hudson."--Ib. "New Fane, a town of Niagara county, New York."--Ib. "Lake Port, a town of Chicot county, Arkansas."--Ib. "Moose Head Lake, the chief source of the Kennebeck, in Maine."--Ib. "Macdonough, a county of Illinois, population (in 1830) 2,959."--Ib., p. 408. "Mc Donough, a county of Illinois, with a courthouse, at Macomb."--Ib., p. 185. "Half-Moon, the name of two towns, in New York and Pennsylvania; also of two bays in the West Indies."--See Worcester's Gaz. "Le Boeuf, a town of Erie county, Pennsylvania, near a small lake of the same name."--Ib. "Charles City, James City, Elizabeth City, names of counties in Virginia, not cities, nor towns."--See Univ. Gaz. "The superior qualities of the waters of the Frome, here called Stroud water."--Balbi's Geog., p. 223.

UNDER RULE VII.--TWO CAPITALS.

"The Forth rises on the north side of Benlomond, and runs easterly."--''Glas. Geog''.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the name "Benlomond" is compounded under one capital, contrary to the general analogy of other similar terms. But, according to Rule 7th, "The compounding of a name under one capital should be avoided when the general analogy of other similar terms suggests a separation under two." Therefore, "Ben Lomond" should be written with two capitals and no hyphen.]

"The red granite of Ben-nevis is said to be the finest in the world."--Ib., ii, 311. "Ben-more, in Perthshire, is 3,915 feet above the level of the sea."--Ib., 313. "The height of Benclou