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 instances, is sometimes impressive and elegant; but an unemphatic repetition of the same idea, is one of the worst faults of bad writing.

  is agreement formed according to the figurative sense of a word, or the mental conception of the thing spoken of, and not according to the literal or common use of the term; it is therefore in general connected with some figure of rhetoric: as "The Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us, and we beheld his glory."&mdash;John, i, 14. "Then Philip went down to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them."&mdash;Acts, viii, 5. "The city of London have expressed their sentiments with freedom and firmness."&mdash;Junius, p. 159. "And I said [to backsliding Israel,] after she had done all these things, Turn thou unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it."&mdash;Jer., iii, 7. "And he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder."&mdash;Mark, iii, 17. "'While Evening draws her crimson curtains round.'&mdash;Thomson, p. 63." "'The Thunder raises his tremendous voice.'&mdash;Id., p. 113." OBSERVATIONS.

Enállagè is the use of one part of speech, or of one modification, for an other. This figure borders closely upon solecism; and, for the stability of the language, it should be sparingly indulged. There are, however, several forms of it which can appeal to good authority: as,  "You know that you are Brutus, that say this."&mdash;Shak. "They fall successive[ly], and successive[ly] rise."&mdash;Pope. "Than whom [who] a fiend more fell is nowhere found."&mdash;Thomson. "Sure some disaster has befell" [befallen].&mdash;Gay. "So furious was that onset's shock, Destruction's gates at once unlock" [unlocked].&mdash;Hogg. 