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 the second and third persons, it merely foretels."--Jaudon's Gram., p. 59. (4.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretells."--Lowth's Gram., p. 41. (5.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, intimates resolution and promising; in the second and third person, only foretels."--Murray's Gram., p. 88; Ingersoll's, 136; Fisk's, 78; A. Flint's, 42; Bullions's, 32; Hamlin's, 41; Cooper's Murray, 50. [Fist] Murray's Second Edition has it "foretells." (6.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, expresses resolution and promising. In the second and third persons it only foretells."--Comly's Gram., p. 38; E. Devis's, 51; Lennie's, 22. (7.) "Will, in the first person, promises. In the second and third persons, it simply foretels."--Maltby's Gram., p. 24. (8.) "Will, in the first person implies resolution and promising; in the second and third, it foretells."--Cooper's New Gram., p. 51. (9.) "Will, in the first person singular and plural, promises or threatens; in the second and third persons, only foretels: shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretels; in the second and third persons, promises, commands, or threatens."--Adam's Lat. and Eng. Gram., p. 83. (10.) "In the first person shall foretels, and will promises or threatens; but in the second and third persons will foretels, and shall promises or threatens."--Blair's Gram., p. 65.

"If Mævius scribble in Apollo's spight,   There are who judge still worse than he can write."--Pope.

EXERCISE X.--MIXED ERRORS.

"I am liable to be charged that I latinize too much."--DRYDEN: in Johnson's Dict. "To mould him platonically to his own idea."--WOTTON: ib. "I will marry a wife as beautiful as the houries, and as wise as Zobeide."--Murray's E. Reader, p. 148. "I will marry a wife, beautiful as the Houries."--Wilcox's Gram., p. 65. "The words in italics are all in the imperative mood."--Maltby's Gram., p. 71. "Words Italicised, are emphatick, in various degrees."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 173. "Wherever two gg's come together, they are both hard."--Buchanan's Gram., p. 5. "But these are rather silent (o)'s than obscure (u)'s."--Brightland's Gram., p. 19. "That can be Guest at by us, only from the Consequences."--Right of Tythes, p. viii. "He says he was glad that he had Baptized so few; And asks them, Were ye Baptised in the Name of Paul?"--Ib., p. ix. "Therefor he Charg'd the Clergy with the Name of Hirelings."--Ib., p. viii. "On the fourth day before the first second day in each month."--The Friend, Vol. vii, p. 230. "We are not bound to adhere for ever to the terms, or to the meaning of terms, which were established by our ancestors."--Murray's Gram., p. 140. "O! learn from him to station quick eyed Prudence at the helm."--''Frosts El. of Gram.'', p. 104. "It pourtrays the serene landscape of a retired village."--Music of Nature, p. 421. "By stating the fact, in a circumlocutary manner."--''Booth's Introd. to Dict.'', p. 33. "Time as an abstract being is a non-entity."--Ib., p. 29. "From the difficulty of analysing the multiplied combinations of words."--Ib., p. 19. "Drop those letters that are superfluous, as: handful, foretel."--''Cooper's Plain & Pract. Gram.'', p. 10. "Shall, in the first person, simply foretells."--Ib., p. 51. "And the latter must evidently be so too, or, at least, cotemporary, with the act."--Ib., p. 60. "The man has been traveling for five years."--Ib., p. 77. "I shall not take up time in combatting their scruples."--Blair's Rhet., p. 320. "In several of the chorusses of Euripides and Sophocles, we have the same kind of lyric poetry as in Pindar."--Ib., p. 398. "Until the Statesman and Divine shall unite their efforts in forming the human mind, rather than in loping its excressences, after it has been neglected."--Webster's Essays, p. 26. "Where conviction could be followed only by a bigotted persistence in error."--Ib., p. 78. "All the barons were entitled to a seet in the national council, in right of their baronys."--Ib., p. 260. "Some knowledge of arithmetic is necessary for every lady."--Ib., p. 29. "Upon this, [the system of chivalry,] were founded those romances of night-errantry."--Blair's Rhet., p. 374. "The subject is, the atchievements of Charlemagne and his Peers, or Paladins."--Ib., p. 374. "Aye, aye; this slice to be sure outweighs the other."--Blair's Reader, p. 31. "In the common phrase, good-bye, bye signifies passing, going. The phrase signifies, a good going, a prosperous passage, and is equivalent to farewell."--Webster's Dict. "Good-by, adv.--a contraction of good be with you--a familiar way of bidding farewell."--See Chalmers's Dict. "Off he sprung, and did not so much as stop to say good bye to you."--Blair's Reader, p. 16. "It no longer recals the notion of the action."--Barnard's Gram., p. 69.

"Good-nature and good-sense must ever join;   To err, is human; to forgive, divine."--''Pope, Ess. on Crit.''

EXERCISE XI.--MIXED ERRORS.

"The practices in the art of carpentry are called planeing, sawing, mortising, scribing, moulding, &c."--Blair's Reader, p. 118. "With her left hand, she guides the thread round the spindle, or rather round a spole which goes on the spindle."--Ib., p. 134. "Much suff'ring heroes next their honours claim."--POPE: Johnson's Dict., w. Much. "Vein healing verven, and head purging dill."--SPENSER: ib., w. Head. "An, in old English, signifies if; as, 'an it please your honor.'"--Webster's Dict. "What, then, was the moral worth of these renouned leaders?"--M'Ilvaine's Lect., p. 460. "Behold how every form of human misery is met by the self denying diligence of the benevolent."--Ib., p. 411. "Reptiles, bats, and doleful creatures--jackalls, hyenas, and lions--inhabit the holes, and caverns, and marshes of the desolate city."--Ib., p. 270. "ADAYS, ''