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 useful distribution."--Ib. "Hitherto we have considered sentences, under the heads of Perspicuity, Unity, and Strength."--See Murray's Gram., p. 356.

"The word is then depos'd; and, in this view,   You rule the Scripture, not the Scripture you."--''Dryd. cor.''

UNDER RULE XVI.--OF NEEDLESS CAPITALS.

"Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid."--FRIENDS' BIBLE, AND SCOTT'S: Matt., xiv, 27. "Between passion and lying, there is not a finger's breadth."--''Mur. cor. "Can our solicitude'' alter the course, or unravel the intricacy, of human events?" "The last edition was carefully compared with the original manuscript."--Id. "And the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the king of the Jews?"--SCOTT: Matt., xxvii, 11. "Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame, that say, Aha, aha!"--SCOTT ET AL.: Ps., lxx, 3. "Let them be desolate for a reward of their shame, that say unto me, Aha, aha!"--IIDEM: Ps., xl, 15. "What think ye of Christ? whose son is he? They say unto him, The son of David. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord?"--ALGER: Matt., xxii, 42, 43. "Among all things in the universe, direct your worship to the greatest. And which is that? It is that Being who manages and governs all the rest."--Collier's Antoninus cor. "As for modesty and good faith, truth and justice, they have left this wicked world and retired to heaven; and now what is it that can keep you here?"--Idem.

"If pulse of verse a nation's temper shows,   In keen iambics English metre flows."--Brightland cor.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS RESPECTING CAPITALS.

LESSON I.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come."--Thomson's Seasons, p. 29. As, "He is the Cicero of his age;"--"He is reading the Lives of the Twelve Cæsars;"--or, if no particular book is meant,--"the lives of the twelve Cæsars;" (as it is in Fisk's Grammar, p. 57;) for the sentence, as it stands in Murray, is ambiguous. "In the History of Henry the Fourth, by Father Daniel, we are surprised at not finding him the great man."--Smollett's Voltaire, Vol. v, p. 82. "Do not those same poor peasants use the lever, and the wedge, and many other instruments?"--''Harris and Mur. cor. "Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of liquors; geometry, for the measuring of estates; astronomy, for the making of almanacs; and grammar, perhaps, for the drawing of bonds and conveyances."--See Murray's Gram.'', p. 288. "The [History of the] Wars of Flanders, written in Latin by Famianus Strada, is a book of some note."--Blair cor. "William is a noun. Why? Was is a verb. Why? A is an article. Why? Very is an adverb. Why?" &c.--Merchant cor. "In the beginning was the Word, and that Word was with God, and God was that Word."--See Gospel of John, i, 1. "The Greeks are numerous in Thessaly, Macedonia, Romelia, and Albania."--Balbi's Geog., p. 360. "He [the Grand Seignior] is styled by the Turks, Sultan, Mighty, or Padishah, Lord."--Balbi cor. "I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death! I will be thy plague; O Grave! I will be thy destruction."--Bible cor. "Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have, give I [unto] thee."--See Acts, iii, 6. "Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts! look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine."--See Psalm lxxx, 14. "In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in public."--Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 316. "They assert, that in the phrases, 'GIVE me that,'--This is John's,' and, Such were some of you,'--the words in Italics are pronouns; but that, in the following phrases, they are not pronouns: This book is instructive;'--Some boys are ingenious;'--My health is declining;'--Our hearts are deceitful.'"--Murray partly corrected.[523] "And the coast bends again to the northwest, as far as Farout Head."--''Geog. cor. "Dr. Webster, and other makers of spelling-books, very improperly write Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, without capitals."--G. Brown''. "The commander in chief of the Turkish navy is styled the Capitan Pacha."--Balbi cor. "Shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?"--ALGER'S BIBLE: Heb., xii, 9. "He [Dr. Beattie] was more anxious to attain the character of a Christian hero."--Murray cor. "Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion."--W. Allen's Gram., p. 393. "The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."--ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Heb., xiii, 6. "Make haste to help me, O LORD my salvation."--IIDEM: Psalms, xxxviii, 22.

"The city which thou seest, no other deem    Than great and glorious Rome, queen of the earth." --Paradise Regained, B. iv.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"That range of hills, known under the general name of Mount Jura."--Account of Geneva. "He rebuked the Red Sea also, and it was dried up."--FRIENDS' BIBLE: Ps. cvi, 9. "Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives."--Bible cor. "Milton's book in reply to the Defence of the King, by Salmasius, gained him a thousand pounds from the Parliament, and killed his antagonist with vexation."--G. B. "Mandeville, Sir John, an Englishman famous for his travels, born about