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 p. 255. "It may sometimes throw a passing cloud over the bright hour of gaiety."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 178. "To criticize, is to discover errors; and to crystalize implies to freeze or congele."--Red Book, p. 68. "The affectation of using the preterite instead of the participle, is peculiarly aukward; as, he has came."--Priestley's Grammar, p. 125. "They are moraly responsible for their individual conduct."--''Cardell's El. Gram.'', p. 21. "An engine of sixty horse power, is deemed of equal force with a team of sixty horses."--Red Book, p. 113. "This, at fourpence per ounce, is two shillings and fourpence a week, or six pounds, one shining and four pence a year."--Ib., p. 122. "The tru meening of parliament iz a meeting of barons or peers."--Webster's Essays, p. 276. "Several authorities seem at leest to favor this opinion."--Ib., p. 277. "That iz, az I hav explained the tru primitiv meening of the word."--Ib., p. 276. "The lords are peers of the relm; that iz, the ancient prescriptiv judges or barons."--Ib., p. 274.

"Falshood is folly, and 'tis just to own   The fault committed; this was mine alone." --Pope, Odys., B. xxii, l. 168.

EXERCISE VIII--MIXED ERRORS.

"A second verb so nearly synonimous with the first, is at best superfluous."--Churchill's Gram., p. 332. "Indicate it, by some mark opposite [to] the word misspelt."--Abbott's Teacher, p. 74. "And succesfully controling the tendencies of mind."--Ib., p. 24. "It [the Monastick Life] looks very like what we call Childrens-Play."--[LESLIE'S] Right of Tythes, p. 236. "It seems rather lik Playing of Booty, to Please those Fools and Knaves."--Ib., Pref., p. vi. "And first I Name Milton, only for his Name, lest the Party should say, that I had not Cousider'd his Performance against Tythes."--Ib., p. iv. "His Fancy was too Predominant for his Judgment. His Talent lay so much in Satyr that he hated Reasoning."--Ib., p. iv. "He has thrown away some of his Railery against Tythes, and the Church then underfoot."--Ib., p. v. "They Vey'd with one another in these things."--Ib., p. 220. "Epamanondas was far the most accomplished of the Thebans."--Cooper's New Gram., p. 27. "Whoever and Whichever, are thus declined. Sing. and Plur. nom. whoever, poss. whoseever, obj. whomever. Sing. and Plu. nom. whichever, poss. whoseever, obj. whichever."--Ib., p. 38. "WHEREEVER, adv. [where and ever.] At whatever place."--Webster's Dict. "They at length took possession of all the country south of the Welch mountains."--''Dobson's Comp. Gram., p. 7. "Those Britains, who refused to submit to the foreign yoke, retired into Wales."--Ib., p. 6. "Religion is the most chearful thing in the world."--Ib.'', p. 43. "Two means the number two compleatly, whereas second means only the last of two, and so of all the rest."--Ib., p. 44. "Now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose sirname is Peter."--Ib., p. 96. (See Acts, x, 5.) "In French words, we use enter instead of inter; as, entertain, enterlace, enterprize."--Ib., p. 101. "Amphiology, i. e. a speech of uncertain or doubtful meaning."--Ib., p. 103. "Surprize; as, hah! hey day! what! strange!"--Ib., p. 109. "Names of the letters: ai bee see dee ee ef jee aitch eye jay kay el em en o pee cue ar ess tee you voe double u eks wi zed."--Rev. W. Allen's Gram., p. 3.

"I, O, and U, at th' End of Words require,   The silent (e), the same do's (va) desire." --Brightland's Gram., p. 15.

EXERCISE IX.--MIXED ERRORS.

"And is written for eacend, adding, ekeing."--''Dr. Murray's Hist. of Europ. Lang.'', Vol. i, p. 222. "The Hindus have changed ai into e, sounded like e in where."--Ib., Vol. ii, p. 121. "And therefor I would rather see the cruelest usurper than the mildest despot."-- Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 430. "Sufficiently distinct to prevent our marveling."--Ib., i, 477. "Possessed of this preheminence he disregarded the clamours of the people."--Smollett's England, Vol. iii, p. 222. "He himself, having communicated, administered the sacrament to some of the bye-standers."--Ib., p. 222. "The high fed astrology which it nurtured, is reduced to a skeleton on the leaf of an almanac."--Cardell's Gram., p. 6. "Fulton was an eminent engineer: he invented steam boats."--Ib., p. 30. "Then, in comes the benign latitude of the doctrine of goodwill."--SOUTH: in Johnson's Dict. "Being very lucky in a pair of long lanthorn-jaws, he wrung his face into a hideous grimace."--SPECTATOR: ib. "Who had lived almost four-and-twenty years under so politick a king as his father."--BACON: ib., w. Lowness. "The children will answer; John's, or William's, or whose ever it may be."--Infant School Gram., p. 32. "It is found tolerably easy to apply them, by practising a little guess work."--Cardell's Gram., p. 91. "For between which two links could speech makers draw the division line?"--Ib., p. 50. "The wonderful activity of the rope dancer who stands on his head."--Ib., p. 56. "The brilliancy which the sun displays on its own disk, is sun shine."--Ib., p. 63. "A word of three syllables is termed a trisyllable."--Murray's Gram., p. 23; Coar's, 17; Jaudon's, 13; Comly's, 8; Cooper's, New Gr., 8; Kirkham's, 20; Picket's, 10; Alger's, 12; Blair's, 1; Guy's, 2; Bolles's Spelling-Book, 161. See Johnson's Dict. "A word of three syllables is termed a trissyllable."--British Gram., p. 33; Comprehensive Gram., 23; Bicknell's, 17; Allen's, 31; ''John Peirce's, 149; Lennie's, 5; Maltby's, 8; Ingersoll's'', 7; Bradley's, 66; Davenport's, 7; Bucke's, 16; Bolles's Spelling-Book, 91. See Littleton's Lat. Dict. (1.) "Will, in the first Persons, promises or threatens: But in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells."--British Gram., p. 132. (2.) "Will, in the first Persons, promises or threatens; but in the second and third Persons, it barely foretells."--Buchanan's Gram., p. 41. (3.) "Will, in the first person, promises, engages, or threatens. In