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 about his neck."--Perkins's Works, p. 731. "Plum-tree, a tree that produces plums; Hog-plumbtree, a tree."--Webster's Dict. "Trisyllables ending in re or le, accent the first syllable."--Murray's Gram., p. 238.

"It happen'd on a summer's holiday,   That to the greenwood shade he took his way." --Churchill's Gr., p. 135.

UNDER RULE XV.--OF USAGE.

"Nor are the modes of the Greek tongue more uniform."--Murray's Gram., p. 112.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word "modes" is here written for moods, which is more common among the learned, and usually preferred by Murray himself. But, according to Rule 15th, "Any word for the spelling of which we have no rule but usage, is written wrong if not spelled according to the usage which is most common among the learned." Therefore, the latter form should be preferred; thus, moods, and not modes.]

"If we analize a conjunctive preterite, the rule will not appear to hold."--Priestley's Gram., p. 118. "No landholder would have been at that expence."--Ib., p. 116. "I went to see the child whilst they were putting on its cloaths."--Ib., p. 125. "This stile is ostentatious, and doth not suit grave writing."--Ib., p. 82. "The king of Israel, and Jehosophat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne."--''Mur. Gram., p. 165, twice''; Merchant's, 89; Churchill's, 300. "The king of Israel, and Jehosaphat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne."--Lowth's Gram., p. 90; Harrison's, 99; Churchill's, 138; Wright's, 148. "Lisias, speaking of his friends, promised to his father, never to abandon them."--Murray's Gram., Vol. ii, pp. 121 and 253. "Some, to avoid this errour, run into it's opposite."--Churchill's Gram., p. 199. "Hope, the balm of life, sooths us under every misfortune."--Merchants Key, p. 204. "Any judgement or decree might be heerd and reversed by the legislature."--Webster's Essays, p. 340. "A pathetic harang wil skreen from punishment any knave."--Ib., p. 341. "For the same reezon, the wimen would be improper judges."--Ibid. "Every person iz indulged in worshiping az he pleezes."--Ib., p. 345. "Most or all teechers are excluded from genteel company."--Ib., p. 362. "The Kristian religion, in its purity, iz the best institution on erth."--Ib., p. 364. "Neether clergymen nor human laws hav the leest authority over the conscience."--Ib., p. 363. "A gild is a society, fraternity, or corporation."--Red Book, p. 83. "Phillis was not able to unty the knot, and so she cut it."--Ib., p. 46. "An aker of land is the quantity of one hundred and sixty perches."--Ib., p. 93. "Oker is a fossil earth combined with the oxid of some metal."--Ib., p. 96. "Genii, when denoting ærial spirits: Geniuses, when signifying persons of genius."--Mur.'s Gram., i, p. 42. "Genii, when denoting æriel spirits; Geniuses, when signifying persons of genius."--Frost's Gram., p. 9. "Genius, Plu. geniuses, men of wit; but genii, ærial beings."--Nutting's Gram., p. 18. "Aerisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful daughter, whose name was Danæ."--Classic Tales, p. 109. "Phæton was the son of Apollo and Clymene."--Ib., p. 152. "But, after all, I may not have reached the intended Gaol."--Buchanan's Syntax, Pref., p. xxvii. "'Pitticus was offered a large sum.' Better: 'A large sum was offered to Pitticus.'"--Kirkham's Gram., p. 187. "King Missipsi charged his sons to respect the senate and people of Rome."--See ib., p. 161. "For example: Gallileo invented the telescope."--Ib., pp. 54 and 67. "Cathmor's warriours sleep in death."--Ib., p. 54. "For parsing will enable you to detect and correct errours in composition."--Ib., p. 50.

"O'er barren mountains, o'er the flow'ry plain,   Extends thy uncontroul'd and boundless reign."--Dryden.

PROMISCUOUS ERRORS IN SPELLING.

LESSON I.--MIXED.

"A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critick."--POPE: Johnson's Dict., w. Former. "Produce a single passage superiour to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, delivered to Lord Dunmore, when governour of Virginia."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 247. "We have none synonimous to supply its place."--Jamieson's Rhetoric, p. 48. "There is a probability that the effect will be accellerated."--Ib., p. 48. "Nay, a regard to sound hath controuled the public choice."--Ib., p. 46. "Though learnt from the uninterrupted use of gutterel sounds."--Ib., p. 5. "It is by carefully filing off all roughness and inequaleties, that languages, like metals, must be polished."--Ib., p. 48. "That I have not mispent my time in the service of the community."--Buchanan's Syntax, Pref., p. xxviii. "The leaves of maiz are also called blades."--''Webster's El. Spelling-Book'', p. 43. "Who boast that they know what is past, and can foretel what is to come."--Robertson's Amer., Vol. i, p. 360. "Its tasteless dullness is interrupted by nothing but its perplexities."-- Abbott's Teacher, p. 18. "Sentences constructed with the Johnsonian fullness and swell."--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 130. "The privilege of escaping from his prefatory dullness and prolixity."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. iv. "But in poetry this characteristick of dulness attains its full growth."--Ib., p. 72. "The leading characteristick consists in an increase of the force and fullness."--Ib., p. 71. "The character of this opening fulness and feebler vanish."--Ib., p. 31. "Who, in the fullness of unequalled power, would not believe himself the favourite of heaven?"--Ib., p. 181. "They marr one another, and distract him."--Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 433. "Let a deaf worshipper of antiquity and an English prosodist settle this."--Rush, on the Voice, p. 140. "This phillipic gave rise to my satirical reply in self-defence."-- ''Merchant's Criticisms