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 ody," &c. Gardiner cor. "This slow-shifting scenery in the theatre of harmony."--Id. "So we are assured from Scripture itself."--Harris cor. "The mind, being disheartened, then betakes itself to trifling."--R. Johnson cor. "Whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them."--Bible cor. "Tarry we ourselves how we will."--W. Walker cor. "Manage your credit so, that you need neither swear yourself, nor seek a voucher."--Collier cor. "Whereas song never conveys any of the abovenamed sentiments."--Dr. Rush cor. "I go on horseback."--Guy cor. "This requires purity, in opposition to barbarous, obsolete, or new-coined words."--Adam cor. "May the ploughshare shine."--White cor. "Whichever way we consider it."--Locke cor.

RULE II.--SIMPLES.

"It qualifies any of the four parts of speech above named."--Kirkham cor. "After a while they put us out among the rude multitude."--Fox cor. "It would be a shame, if your mind should falter and give in."--Collier cor. "They stared a while in silence one upon an other."--Johnson cor. "After passion has for a while exercised its tyrannical sway."--Murray cor. "Though set within the same general frame of intonation."--Rush cor. "Which do not carry any of the natural vocal signs of expression."--Id. "The measurable constructive powers of a few associable constituents."--Id. "Before each accented syllable or emphatic monosyllabic word."--Id. "One should not think too favourably of one's self."--Murray's Gram., i, 154. "Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you?"--2 Cor., xiii, 5. "I judge not my own self, for I know nothing of my own self."--See 1 Cor., iv, 3. "Though they were in such a rage, I desired them to tarry a while."--Josephus cor. "A, in stead of an, is now used before words beginning with u long."--Murray cor. "John will have earned his wages by next new year's day."--Id. "A new year's gift is a present made on the first day of the year."--Johnson et al. cor. "When he sat on the throne, distributing new year's gifts."--Id. "St. Paul admonishes Timothy to refuse old wives' fables."--See 1 Tim., iv, 7. "The world, take it all together, is but one."--Collier cor. "In writings of this stamp, we must accept of sound in stead of sense."--Murray cor. "A male child, a female child; male descendants, female descendants."--Goldsbury et al. cor. "Male servants, female servants; male relations, female relations."--Felton cor.

"Reserved and cautious, with no partial aim,   My muse e'er sought to blast an other's fame."--Lloyd cor.

RULE III.--THE SENSE.

"Our discriminations of this matter have been but four-footed instincts."--Rush cor. "He is in the right, (says Clytus,) not to bear free-born men at his table."--Goldsmith cor. "To the short-seeing eye of man, the progress may appear little."--The Friend cor. "Knowledge and virtue are, emphatically, the stepping-stones to individual distinction."--Town cor. "A tin-peddler will sell tin vessels as he travels."--Webster cor. "The beams of a wooden house are held up by the posts and joists."--Id. "What you mean by future-tense adjective, I can easily understand."--Tooke cor. "The town has been for several days very well-behaved."--Spectator cor. "A rounce is the handle of a printing-press."--Webster cor. "The phraseology [which] we call thee-and-thouing [or, better, thoutheeing,] is not in so common use with us, as the tutoyant among the French."--Walker cor. "Hunting and other outdoor sports, are generally pursued."--Balbi cor. "Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden."--Scott et al. cor. "God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son to save it."--See ALGER'S BIBLE, and FRIENDS': John, iii, 16. "Jehovah is a prayer-hearing God: Nineveh repented, and was spared."--Observer cor. "These are well-pleasing to God, in all ranks and relations."--Barclay cor. "Whosoever cometh anything near unto the tabernacle."--Bible cor. "The words coalesce, when they have a long-established association."--''Mur. cor. "Open to me the gates of righteousness: I will go into them."--MODERN BIBLE: Ps''. cxviii, 19. "He saw an angel of God coming in to him."--Acts, x, 3. "The consequences of any action are to be considered in a twofold light."--Wayland cor. "We commonly write twofold, threefold, fourfold, and so on up to tenfold, without a hyphen; and, after that, we use one."--G. Brown. "When the first mark is going off, he cries, Turn! the glassholder answers, Done!"--Bowditch cor. "It is a kind of familiar shaking-hands (or shaking of hands) with all the vices."--Maturin cor. "She is a good-natured woman;"--"James is self-opinionated;"--"He is broken-hearted."--Wright cor. "These three examples apply to the present-tense construction only."--Id. "So that it was like a game of hide-and-go-seek."--''Gram. cor.''

"That lowliness is young ambition's ladder,   Whereto the climber-upward turns his face."--Shak.

RULE IV.--ELLIPSES.

"This building serves yet for a schoolhouse and a meeting-house."--G. Brown. "Schoolmasters and schoolmistresses, if honest friends, are to be encouraged."--''Discip. cor. "We never assumed to ourselves a faith-making or a worship-making power."--Barclay cor. "Potash and pearlash are made from common ashes."--Webster cor. "Both the ten-syllable and the eight-syllable verses are iambics."--Blair cor. "I say to myself, thou say'st to thyself, he says to himself, &c."--Dr. Murray cor. "Or those who have esteemed themselves skillful, have tried for the mastery in two-horse or four-horse chariots."--Ware cor.'' "I remember him barefooted