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 erve God and mammon."--IIDEM: Luke, xvi, 13. "This house was built as if suspicion herself had dictated the plan."--See Key. "Poetry distinguishes herself from prose, by yielding to a musical law."--See Key. "My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her divine instructions: 'My name is religion. I am the offspring of truth and love, and the parent of benevolence, hope, and joy. That monster, from whose power I have freed you, is called superstition: she is the child of discontent, and her followers are fear and sorrow.'"--See Key. "Neither hope nor fear could enter the retreats; and habit had so absolute a power, that even conscience, if religion had employed her in their favour, would not have been able to force an entrance."--See Key.

"In colleges and halls in ancient days,   There dwelt a sage called discipline."--Wayland's M. Sci., p. 368.

UNDER RULE XI.--OF DERIVATIVES.

"In English, I would have gallicisms avoided."--FELTON: Johnson's Dict.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word gallicisms here begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 11th, "Words derived from proper names, and having direct reference to particular persons, places, sects, or nations, should begin with capitals." Therefore, "Gallicisms" should begin with a capital G.]

"Sallust was born in Italy, 85 years before the christian era."--Murray's Seq., p. 357. "Dr. Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and useful christians, and christian ministers."--Ib., 319. "They corrupt their style with untutored anglicisms."--MILTON: in Johnson's Dict. "Albert of Stade, author of a chronicle from the creation to 1286, a benedictine of the 13th century."--''Universal Biog. Dict.'' "Graffio, a jesuit of Capua in the 16th century, author of two volumes on moral subjects."--Ib. "They frenchify and italianize words whenever they can."--See Key. "He who sells a christian, sells the grace of God."--Anti-Slavery Mag., p. 77. "The first persecution against the christians, under Nero, began A. D. 64."--Gregory's Dict. "P. Rapin, the jesuit, uniformly decides in favour of the Roman writers."--Cobbett's E. Gram., ¶ 171. "The Roman poet and epicurean philosopher Lucretius has said," &c.--Cohen's Florida, p. 107. Spell "calvinistic, atticism, gothicism, epicurism, jesuitism, sabianism, socinianism, anglican, anglicism, anglicize, vandalism, gallicism, romanize."--''Webster's El. Spelling-Book'', 130-133. "The large ternate bat."--''Webster's Dict. w''. ROSSET; Bolles's Dict., w. ROSET.

"Church-ladders are not always mounted best   By learned clerks, and latinists profess'd."--Cowper.

UNDER RULE XII.--OF I AND O.

"Fall back, fall back; i have not room:--o! methinks i see a couple whom i should know."--Lucian, varied.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word I, which occurs three times, and the word O, which occurs once, are here printed in letters of the lower case.[108] But, according to Rule 12th, "The words I and O should always be capitals." Therefore, each should be changed to a capital, as often as it occurs.]

"Nay, i live as i did, i think as i did, i love you as i did; but all these are to no purpose: the world will not live, think, or love, as i do."--Swift, varied. "Whither, o! whither shall i fly? o wretched prince! o cruel reverse of fortune! o father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy generosity?"--Sallust, varied. "When i was a child, i spake as a child, i understood as a child, i thought as a child; but when i became a man, i put away childish things."--1 Cor., xiii, 11, varied. "And i heard, but i understood not: then said i, o my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?"--Dan., xii, 8, varied. "Here am i; i think i am very good, and i am quite sure i am very happy, yet i never wrote a treatise in my life."--Few Days in Athens, varied. "Singular, Vocative, o master; Plural, Vocative, o masters."--Bicknell's Gram., p. 30.

"I, i am he; o father! rise, behold   Thy son, with twenty winters now grown old!"--See Pope's Odyssey.

UNDER RULE XIII.--OF POETRY.

"Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,   lie in three words--health, peace, and competence;    but health consists with temperance alone,    and peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own." Pope's Essay on Man, a fine London Edition.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the last three lines of this example begin with small letters. But, according to Rule 18th, "Every line in poetry, except what is regarded as making but one verse with the preceding line, should begin with a capital." Therefore, the words, "Lie," "But," and "And," at the commencement of these lines, should severally begin with the capitals L, B, and A.]

"Observe the language well in all you write,   and swerve not from it in your loftiest flight.    The smoothest verse and the exactest sense    displease us, if ill English give offence: