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 ice, as men pleasers."--Bickersteth, on Prayer, p. 64. "A good natured and equitable construction of cases."--Ash's Gram., p. 138. "And purify your hearts, ye double minded."--Gurney's Portable Evidences, p. 115. "It is a mean spirited action to steal; i. e. to steal is a mean spirited action."--Grammar of Alex. Murray, the schoolmaster, p. 124. "There is, indeed, one form of orthography which is a kin to the subjunctive mood of the Latin tongue."--Booth's Introd. to Dict., p. 71. "To bring him into nearer connexion with real and everyday life."--Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 459. "The common place, stale declamation of its revilers would be silenced."--Ib., i, 494. "She formed a very singular and unheard of project."--Goldsmith's Rome, p. 160. "He had many vigilant, though feeble talented, and mean spirited enemies."--ROBERTS VAUX: The Friend, Vol. vii, p. 74. "These old fashioned people would level our psalmody," &c.--Music of Nature, p. 292. "This slow shifting scenery in the theatre of harmony."--Ib., p. 398. "So we are assured from Scripture it self."--Harris's Hermes, p. 300. "The mind, being disheartened, then betakes its self to trifling."--R. Johnson's Pref. to Gram. Com. "Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them."--Beacon, p. 115: SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS: John, xx, 23. "Tarry we our selves how we will."--Walker's English Particles, p. 161. "Manage your credit so, that you need neither swear your self, nor want a voucher."--Collier's Antoninus, p. 33. "Whereas song never conveys any of the above named sentiments."--Rush, on the Voice, p. 424. "I go on horse back."--Guy's Gram., p. 54. "This requires purity, in opposition to barbarous, obsolete, or new coined words."--Adam's Gram., p. 242; Gould's, 234. "May the Plough share shine."--White's Eng. Verb, p. 161. "Which way ever we consider it."--Locke, on Ed., p. 83.

"Where e'er the silent (e) a Place obtains,   The Voice foregoing, Length and softness gains." --Brightland's Gr., p. 15.

UNDER RULE II.--OF SIMPLES.

"It qualifies any of the four parts of speech abovenamed."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 83.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because abovenamed is here unnecessarily made a compound. But, according to Rule 2d, "When the simple words would only form a regular phrase, of the same meaning, the compounding of any of them ought to be avoided." Therefore, above and named should here have been written as two words.]

"After awhile they put us out among the rude multitude."--Fox's Journal. Vol. i, p. 169. "It would be ashame, if your mind should falter and give in."--Collier's Meditations of Antoninus, p. 94. "They stared awhile in silence one upon another."--Rasselas, p. 73. "After passion has for awhile exercised its tyrannical sway."--Murray's Gram., ii, 135 and 267. "Though set within the same general-frame of intonation."--''Rush, on the Voice'', p. 339. "Which do not carry any of the natural vocal-signs of expression."--Ib., p. 329. "The measurable constructive-powers of a few associable constituents."--Ib., p. 343. "Before each accented syllable or emphatic monosyllabic-word."--Ib., p. 364. "One should not think too favourably of oneself."--See Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 154. "Know ye not your ownselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you."--Barclay's Works, Vol. i, p. 355. "I judge not my ownself, for I know nothing of my ownself."-- Wayland's Moral Science, p. 84. "Though they were in such a rage, I desired them to tarry awhile."--Josephus, Vol. v, p. 179. "A instead of an is now used before words beginning with a long."--Murray's Gram., p. 31. "John will have earned his wages the next new-year's day."--Murray's Gram., p. 82. "A new-year's-gift is a present made on the first day of the year."--See Johnson, Walker, Webster, et al. "When he sat on the throne, distributing new-year's-gifts."--STILLINGFLEET, in Johnson's Dict. "St. Paul admonishes Timothy to refuse old-wives'- fables."--Author. "The world, take it altogether, is but one."-- Collier's Antoninus, B. vii, Sec. 9. "In writings of this stamp we must accept of sound instead of sense."--Murray's Gram., p. 298. "A male-child, A female-child, Male-descendants, Female-descendants."-- Goldsbury's C. S. Gram., p. 13; Rev. T. Smith's Gram., p. 15. "Male-servants, Female-servants. Male-relations, Female-relations."-- Felton's Gram., p. 15.

"Reserved and cautious, with no partial aim,   My muse e'er sought to blast another's fame."--Lloyd, p. 162.

UNDER RULE III.--THE SENSE.

"Our discriminations of this matter have been but four footed instincts."--Rush, on the Voice, p. 291.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the term four footed is made two words, as if the instincts were four and footed. But, according to Rule 3d, "Words otherwise liable to be misunderstood, must be joined together, or written separately, as the sense and construction may happen to require." Therefore, four-footed, as it here means quadruped, or ''having four feet'', should be one word.]

"He is in the right, (says Clytus,) not to bear free born men at his table."--Goldsmith's Greece, Vol. ii, p. 128. "To the short seeing eye of man, the progress may appear little."--The Friend, Vol. ix, p. 377. "Knowledge and virtue are, emphatically, the stepping stone to individual distinction."--Town's Analysis, p. 5. "A tin peddler will sell tin vessels as he travels."--Webster's New Spelling-Book, p. 44. "The beams of a wood-house are held up by the posts and joists."--Ib., p. 39. "What you mean by future tense adjective, I can easily understand."--Tooke's Diversions, Vol. ii, p. 450. "The town has been for several days very well behaved."--Spectator, No. 532. "A rounce is the handle of a printing press."--Webster's' Dict.; also ''El. Spelling-Book'', p.