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 Josiah, king."--See ALGER: 2 Kings, xiii, 34. "Those who seem so merry and well pleased, call her Good Fortune; but the others, who weep and wring their hands, Bad Fortune."--Collier cor.

UNDER RULE VIII.--OF COMPOUNDS.

"When Joab returned, and smote Edom in the Valley of Salt"--FRIENDS' BIBLE: Ps. lx, title. "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars Hill, and said," &c.--Scott cor. "And at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the Mount of Olives."--Bible cor. "Abgillus, son of the king of the Frisii, surnamed Prester John, was in the Holy Land with Charlemagne."--''U. Biog. Dict. cor. "Cape Palmas, in Africa, divides the Grain Coast from the Ivory Coast."--Dict. of Geog. cor. "The North Esk, flowing from Loch Lee, falls into the sea three miles north of Montrose."--Id. "At Queen's Ferry, the channel of the Forth is contracted by promontories on both coasts."--Id. "The Chestnut Ridge is about twenty-five miles west of the Alleghanies, and Laurel Ridge, ten miles further west."--Balbi cor. "Washington City, the metropolis of the United States of America."--Williams, U. Caz.'', p. 380. "Washington City, in the District of Columbia, population (in 1830) 18,826."--Williams cor. "The loftiest peak of the White Mountains, in New Hampshire, is called Mount Washington."--G. Brown. "Mount's Bay, in the west of England, lies between the Land's End and Lizard Point."--Id. "Salamis, an island of the Egean Sea, off the southern coast of the ancient Attica."--''Dict. of Geog''. "Rhodes, an island of the Egean Sea, the largest and most easterly of the Cyclades."--''Id. cor. "But he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea."--SCOTT: Ps''. cxxxvi, 15. "But they provoked him at the sea, even at the Red Sea."--ALGER, FRIENDS: Ps. cvi, 7.

UNDER RULE IX.--OF APPOSITION.

"At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Matt., xiv, 1. "Who has been more detested than Judas the traitor?"--G. Brown. "St. Luke the evangelist was a physician of Antioch, and one of the converts of St. Paul."--Id. "Luther, the reformer, began his bold career by preaching against papal indulgences."--Id. "The poet Lydgate was a disciple and admirer of Chaucer: he died in 1440."--Id. "The grammarian Varro, 'the most learned of the Romans,'[522] wrote three books when he was eighty years old."--Id. "John Despauter, the great grammarian of Flanders, whose works are still valued, died in 1520."--Id. "Nero, the emperor and tyrant of Rome, slew himself to avoid a worse death."--Id. "Cicero the orator, 'the Father of his Country,' was assassinated at the age of 64."--Id. "Euripides, the Greek tragedian, was born in the island of Salamis, B. C. 476."--Id. "I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?"--ALGER, ET AL.: Ps. xlii, 9. "Staten Island, an island of New York, nine miles below New York city."--Williams cor. "When the son of Atreus, king of men, and the noble Achilles first separated."--Coleridge cor. "Hermes, his patron-god, those gifts bestow'd,   Whose shrine with weanling lambs he wont to load."--Pope cor.

UNDER RULE X.--OF PERSONIFICATIONS.

"But Wisdom is justified of all her children."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: Luke, vii, 35. "Fortune and the Church are generally put in the feminine gender: that is, when personified." "Go to your Natural Religion; lay before her Mahomet and his disciples."--''Bp. Sherlock''. "O Death! where is thy sting? O Grave! where is thy victory."--Pope: 1 Cor., xv, 55; Merchant's Gram., p. 172. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."--Matt., vi, 24. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon"--See Luke, xvi, 13. "This house was built as if Suspicion herself had dictated the plan."--Rasselas. "Poetry distinguishes herself from Prose, by yielding to a musical law."--Music of Nature, p. 501. "My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her divine instructions: 'My name is Religion. I am the offspring of Truth and Love, and the parent of Benevolence, Hope, and Joy. That monster, from whose power I have freed you, is called Superstition: she is called the child of Discontent, and her followers are Fear and Sorrow.'"--E. Carter. "Neither Hope nor Fear could enter the retreats; and Habit had so absolute a power, that even Conscience, if Religion had employed her in their favour, would not have been able to force an entrance."--Dr. Johnson. "In colleges and halls in ancient days,   There dwelt a sage called Discipline."--Cowper.

UNDER RULE XI.--OF DERIVATIVES.

"In English, I would have Gallicisms avoided."--Felton. "Sallust was born in Italy, 85 years before the Christian era."--Murray cor.; "Dr. Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and useful Christians, and Christian ministers."--Id. "They corrupt their style with untutored Anglicisms"--Milton. "Albert of Stade, author of a chronicle from the creation to 1286, a Benedictine of the 13th century."--''Biog. Dict. cor. "Graffio, a Jesuit of Capua in the 16th century, author of two volumes on moral subjects."--Id. "They Frenchify and Italianize words whenever they can."--Bucke's Gram.'', p. 86. "He who sells a Christian, sells the grace of God."--''Mag. cor. "The first persecution against the Christians, under Nero, began A. D. 64."--Gregory cor. "P. Rapin, the Jesuit, uniformly decides in favour of the Roman writers."--Blair's Rhet.'', p. 248. "The Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher Lucretius has said,"