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 His person was deformed to the highest degree; flatnosed, and blobberlipped."--L'ESTRANGE: ib. "He that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a bloodshedder."--ECCLUS., xxxiv, 22: ib. "Bloodyminded, adj. from bloody and mind. Cruel; inclined to blood-shed."--See Johnson's Dict. "Bluntwitted lord, ignoble in demeanour."--SHAK.: ib. "A young fellow with a bobwig and a black silken bag tied to it."--SPECTATOR: ib. "I have seen enough to confute all the boldfaced atheists of this age."--BRAMHALL: ib. "Before milkwhite, now purple with love's wound."--SHAK: ib. "For what else is a redhot iron than fire? and what else is a burning coal than redhot wood?"--NEWTON: ib. "Pollevil is a large swelling, inflammation, or imposthume in the horse's poll, or nape of the neck just between the ears."--FARRIER: ib.

"Quick-witted, brazenfac'd, with fluent tongues,   Patient of labours, and dissembling wrongs."--DRYDEN: ib.

UNDER RULE VI.--NO HYPHEN.

"From his fond parent's eye a tear-drop fell."--Snelling's Gift for Scribblers, p. 43.

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the word tear-drop, which has never any other than a full accent on the first syllable, is here compounded with the hyphen. But, according to Rule 6th, "When a compound has but one accented syllable in pronunciation, and the parts are such as admit of a complete coalescence, no hyphen should be inserted between them." Therefore, teardrop should be made a close compound.]

"How great, poor jack-daw, would thy sufferings be!"--Ib., p. 29. "Placed like a scare-crow in a field of corn."--Ib., p. 39. "Soup for the alms-house at a cent a quart."--Ib., p. 23. "Up into the watch-tower get, and see all things despoiled of fallacies."--DONNE: Johnson's Dict., w. Lattice. "In the day-time she sitteth in a watchtower, and flieth most by night."--BACON: ib., w. Watchtower. "In the daytime Fame sitteth in a watch-tower, and flieth most by night."--ID.: ib., w. Daytime. "The moral is the first business of the poet, as being the ground-work of his instruction."--DRYDEN: ib., w. Moral. "Madam's own hand the mouse-trap baited."--PRIOR: ib., w. Mouse-trap. "By the sinking of the air-shaft the air hath liberty to circulate."--RAY: ib., w. Airshaft. "The multiform and amazing operations of the air-pump and the loadstone."--WATTS: ib., w. Multiform. "Many of the fire-arms are named from animals."--Ib., w. Musket. "You might have trussed him and all his apparel into an eel-skin."--SHAK.: ib., w. Truss. "They may serve as land-marks to shew what lies in the direct way of truth."--LOCKE: ib., w. Landmark. "A pack-horse is driven constantly in a narrow lane and dirty road."--Id. ib., w. Lane. "A mill-horse, still bound to go in one circle."--SIDNEY: ib., w. Mill-horse. "Of singing birds they have linnets, goldfinches, ruddocks, Canary-birds, black-birds, thrushes, and divers others."--CAREW: ib., w. Goldfinch. "Of singing birds, they have linnets, gold-finches, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers others."--ID.: ib., w. Blackbird. "Of singing birds, they have linnets, gold-finches, ruddocks, canary birds, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers other."--ID.: ib., w. Canary bird. "Cartrage, or Cartridge, a case of paper or parchment filled with gun-powder."--Johnson's Dict., 4to.

"Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,   The time of night when Troy was set on fire,    The tune when screech-owls cry, and ban-dogs howl." SHAKSPEARE: ib., w. Silent.

"The time when screech-owls cry, and bandogs howl." IDEM.: ib., w. Bandog.

PROMISCUOUS ERRORS IN THE FIGURE OF WORDS.

LESSON I.--MIXED.

"They that live in glass-houses, should not throw stones."--Old Adage. "If a man profess Christianity in any manner or form soever."--Watts, p. 5. "For Cassius is a weary of the world."--SHAKSPEARE: in Kirkham's Elocution, p. 67. "By the coming together of more, the chains were fastened on."--Walker's Particles, p. 223. "Unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month."--Jer., i, 3. "And the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad."--Numbers, xxxiv, 8. "And the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan."--Ib., ver. 9. "For the taking place of effects, in a certain particular series."--Dr. West, on Agency, p. 39. "The letting go of which was the occasion of all that corruption."--Dr. J. Owen. "A falling off at the end always hurts greatly."--Blair's Lect., p. 126. "A falling off at the end is always injurious."--Jamieson's Rhetoric, p. 127. "As all holdings forth were courteously supposed to be trains of reasoning."--''Dr. Murray's Hist. of Europ. Lang.'', Vol. i, p. 333. "Whose goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting."-- Micah, v, 2. "Some times the adjective becomes a substantive."-- Bradley's Gram., p. 104. "It is very plain, I consider man as visited a new."--Barclay's Works, Vol. iii, p. 331. "Nor do I any where say, as he falsely insinuates."--Ib., p. 331. "Every where, any where, some where, no where."--''Alex. Murray's Gram.'', p. 55. "The world hurries off a pace, and time is like a rapid river."--Collier's Antoninus, p. 58. "But to now model the paradoxes of ancient skepticism."--Brown's Estimate, Vol. i, p. 102. "The south east winds from the ocean invariably produce rain."--Webster's Essays, p. 369. "North west winds from the high lands produce cold clear weather."--Ib. "The greatest part of such tables would be of little use to English men."--Priestley's Gram., p. 155. "The ground floor of the east wing of Mulberry street