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EXERCISE V.--MIXED ERRORS.

"The quince tree is of a low stature; the branches are diffused and crooked."--MILLER: Johnson's Dict. "The greater slow worm, called also the blindworm, is commonly thought to be blind, because of the littleness of his eyes."--GREW: ib. "Oh Hocus! where art thou? It used to go in another guess manner in thy time."--ARBUTHNOT: ib. "One would not make a hotheaded crackbrained coxcomb forward for a scheme of moderation."--ID.: ib. "As for you, colonel huff-cap, we shall try before a civil magistrate who's the greatest plotter."--DRYDEN: ib., w. Huff. "In like manner, Actions co-alesce with their Agents, and Passions with their Patients."--Harris's Hermes, p. 263. "These Sentiments are not unusual even with the Philosopher now a days."--Ib., p. 350. "As if the Marble were to fashion the Chizzle, and not the Chizzle the Marble."--Ib., p. 353. "I would not be understood, in what I have said, to undervalue Experiment."--Ib., p. 352. "How therefore is it that they approach nearly to Non-Entity's?"--Ib., p. 431. "Gluttonise, modernise, epitomise, barbarise, tyranise."--Churchill's Gram., pp. 31 and 42. "Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!"--SHAK.: ib., p. 241. "Nor do I think the error above-mentioned would have been so long indulged," &c.--Ash's Gram., p. 4. "The editor of the two editions above mentioned was pleased to give this little manuel to the public," &c.--Ib., p. 7. "A Note of Admiration denotes a modelation of the voice suited to the expression."--Ib., p. 16. "It always has some respect to the power of the agent; and is therefore properly stiled the potential mode."--Ib., p. 29. "Both these are supposed to be synonomous expressions."--Ib., p. 105. "An expence beyond what my circumstances admit."--DODDRIDGE: ib., p. 138. "There are four of them: the Full-Point, or Period; the Colon; the Semi-Colon; the Comma."--Cobbett's E. Gram., N. Y., 1818, p. 77. "There are many men, who have been at Latin-Schools for years, and who, at last, cannot write six sentences in English correctly."--Ib., p. 39. "But, figures of rhetorick are edge tools, and two edge tools too."--Ib., p. 182. "The horse-chesnut grows into a goodly standard."--MORTIMER: Johnson's Dict. "Whereever if is to be used."--O. B. Peirce's Gram., p. 175.

"Peel'd, patch'd, and pyebald, linsey-woolsey brothers." --POPE: ''Joh. Dict., w., Mummer''.

"Peel'd, patch'd, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers." --ID.: ib., w. Piebald.

EXERCISE VI.--MIXED ERRORS.

"Pied, adj. [from pie.] Variegated; partycoloured."--Johnson's Dict. "Pie, [pica, Lat.] A magpie; a party-coloured bird."--Ib. "Gluy, adj. [from glue.] Viscous; tenacious; glutinous."--Ib. "Gluey, a. Viscous, glutinous. Glueyness. n. The quality of being gluey."--Webster's Dict. "Old Euclio, seeing a crow-scrat[129] upon the muck-hill, returned in all haste, taking it for an ill sign."--BURTON: Johnson's Dict. "Wars are begun by hairbrained[130] dissolute captains."--ID.: ib. "A carot is a well known garden root."--Red Book, p. 60. "Natural philosophy, metaphysicks, ethicks, history, theology, and politicks, were familiar to him."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 209. "The words in Italicks and capitals, are emphatick."--Ib., p. 210. "It is still more exceptionable; Candles, Cherrys, Figs, and other sorts of Plumbs, being sold by Weight, and being Plurals."--''Johnson's Gram. Com.'', p. 135. "If the End of Grammar be not to save that Trouble, and Expence of Time, I know not what it is good for."--Ib., p. 161. "Caulce, Sheep Penns, or the like, has no Singular, according to Charisius."--Ib., p. 194. "These busibodies are like to such as reade bookes with intent onely to spie out the faults thereof"--Perkins's Works, p. 741. "I think it every man's indispensible duty, to do all the service he can to his country."--Locke, on Ed., p. 4. "Either fretting it self into a troublesome Excess, or flaging into a downright want of Appetite."--Ib., p. 23. "And nobody would have a child cramed at breakfast."--Ib., p. 23. "Judgeship and judgment, lodgable and alledgeable, alledgement and abridgment, lodgment and infringement, enlargement and acknowledgment."--Webster's Dict., 8vo. "Huckster, n. s. One who sells goods by retail, or in small quantities; a pedler."--Johnson's Dict.

"He seeks bye-streets, and saves th' expensive coach." --GAY: ib., w. Mortgage.

"He seeks by-streets, and saves th' expensive coach." --GAY: ib., w. By-street.

EXERCISE VII.--MIXED ERRORS.

"Boys like a warm fire in a wintry day."--''Webster's El. Spelling-Book'', p. 62. "The lilly is a very pretty flower."--Ib., p. 62. "The potatoe is a native plant of America."--Ib., p. 60. "An anglicism is a peculiar mode of speech among the English."--Ib., p. 136. "Black berries and raspberries grow on briars."--Ib., p. 150. "You can broil a beef steak over the coals of fire."--Ib., p. 38. "Beef'-steak, n. A steak or slice of beef for broiling."--Webster's Dict. "Beef'steak, s. a slice of beef for broiling."--Treasury of Knowledge. "As he must suffer in case of the fall of merchandize, he is entitled to the corresponding gain if merchandize rises."--Wayland's Moral Science, p. 258. "He is the worshipper of an hour, but the worldling for life."--Maturin's Sermons, p. 424. "Slyly hinting something to the disadvantage of great and honest men."--Webster's Essays, p. 329. "'Tis by this therefore that I Define the Verb; namely, that it is a Part of Speech, by which something is apply'd to another, as to its Subject."--''Johnson's Gram. Com.'',