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 &c.--Cohen cor. Spell "Calvinistic, Atticism, Gothicism, Epicurism, Jesuitism, Sabianism, Socinianism, Anglican, Anglicism, Anglicize, Vandalism, Gallicism, and Romanize."--Webster cor. "The large Ternate bat."--''Id. and Bolles cor.''

"Church-ladders are not always mounted best   By learned clerks, and Latinists profess'd"--Cowper cor.

UNDER RULE XII.--OF I AND O.

"Fall back, fall back; I have not room:--O! methinks I see a couple whom I should know."--Lucian. "Nay, I live as I did, I think as I did, I love you as I did; but all these are to no purpose; the world will not live, think, or love, as I do."--Swift to Pope. "Whither, O! whither shall I fly? O wretched prince! O cruel reverse of fortune! O father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy generosity?"--''Tr. of Sallust. "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things."--1 Cor.'', xiii, 11. "And I heard, but I understood not; then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?"--Dan., xii, 8. "Here am I; I think I am very good, and I am quite sure I am very happy, yet I never wrote a treatise in my life."--Few Days in Athens, p. 127. "Singular, Vocative, O master! Plural, Vocative, O masters!"--Bicknell cor.

"I, I am he; O father! rise, behold   Thy son, with twenty winters now grown old!" --Pope's Odyssey, B. 24, l. 375.

UNDER RULE XIII.--OF POETRY.

"Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense,   Lie in three words--health, peace, and competence;    But health consists with temperance alone,    And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own."--Pope.

"Observe the language well in all you write,   And swerve not from it in your loftiest flight.    The smoothest verse and the exactest sense    Displease us, if ill English give offence:    A barbarous phrase no reader can approve;    Nor bombast, noise, or affectation love.    In short, without pure language, what you write    Can never yield us profit or delight.    Take time for thinking; never work in haste;    And value not yourself for writing fast."--Dryden.

UNDER RULE XIV.--OF EXAMPLES.

"The word rather is very properly used to express a small degree or excess of a quality; as, She is rather profuse in her expenses.'"--Murray cor. "Neither imports not either; that is, not one nor the other: as, Neither of my friends was there.'"--Id. "When we say, He is a tall man,'--This is a fair day,' we make some reference to the ordinary size of men, and to different weather."--Id. "We more readily say, 'A million of men,' than, A thousand of men.'"--Id. "So in the instances, Two and two are four;'--The fifth and sixth volumes will complete the set of books.'"--Id. "The adjective may frequently either precede or follow the verb: as, The man is happy;' or, Happy is the man;'--'The interview was delightful;' or, Delightful was the interview.'"--Id. "If we say, He writes a pen;'--They ran the river;'--The tower fell the Greeks;'--'Lambeth is Westminster Abbey;'--[we speak absurdly;] and, it is evident, there is a vacancy which must be filled up by some connecting word: as thus, 'He writes with a pen;'--They ran towards the river;'--'The tower fell upon the Greeks;'--'Lambeth is over against Westminster Abbey.'"--Id. "Let me repeat it;--He only is great, who has the habits of greatness."--Id. "I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until seventy times seven."--Matt., xviii, 22.

"The Panther smil'd at this; and, 'When,' said she,   'Were those first councils disallow'd by me?'"--''Dryd. cor.''

UNDER RULE XV.--OF CHIEF WORDS.

"The supreme council of the nation is called the Divan."--Balbi cor. "The British Parliament is composed of King, Lords, and Commons."--Comly's Gram., p. 129; and Jaudon's, 127. "A popular orator in the House of Commons has a sort of patent for coining as many new terms as he pleases."--See Campbell's Rhet., p. 169; Murray's Gram., 364. "They may all be taken together, as one name; as, The House of Commons."--Merchant cor. "Intrusted to persons in whom the Parliament could confide."--Murray cor. "For 'The Lords' House,' it were certainly better to say, The House of Lords;' and, in stead of 'The Commons vote,' to say. 'The vote of the Commons.'"--''Id. and Priestley cor.'' "The House of Lords were so much influenced by these reasons."--Iidem. "Rhetoricians commonly divide them into two great classes; Figures of Words, and Figures of Thought. The former, Figures of Words, are commonly called Tropes."--Murray's Gram., p. 337. "Perhaps, Figures of Imagination, and Figures of Passion, might be a more