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 Better: "For Cassius is weary of the world."--''Shak. cor. "By the coming-together of more, the chains were fastened on."--W. Walker cor. "Unto the carrying-away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month."--Bible cor. "And the goings-forth of the border shall be to Zedad."--Id. "And the goings-out of it shall be at Hazar Enan."--See Walker's Key "For the taking-place of effects, in a certain particular series."--West cor.'' "The letting-go of which was the occasion of all that corruption."--Owen cor. "A falling-off at the end, is always injurious."--Jamieson cor. "As all holdings-forth were courteously supposed to be trains of reasoning."--Dr. Murray cor. "Whose goings-forth have been from of old, from everlasting."--Bible cor. "Sometimes the adjective becomes a substantive."--Bradley cor. "It is very plain, that I consider man as visited anew."--Barclay cor. "Nor do I anywhere say, as he falsely insinuates."--Id. "Everywhere, anywhere, elsewhere, somewhere, nowhere"--L. Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 115. "The world hurries off apace, and time is like a rapid river."--Collier cor. "But to new-model the paradoxes of ancient skepticism."--Dr. Brown cor. "The southeast winds from the ocean invariably produce rain."--Webster cor. "Northwest winds from the highlands produce cold clear weather."--Id. "The greatest part of such tables would be of little use to Englishmen."--Priestley cor. "The ground-floor of the east wing of Mulberry-street meeting-house was filled."--The Friend cor. "Prince Rupert's Drop. This singular production is made at the glasshouses."--Barnes cor.

"The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife   Gives all the strength and colour of our life."--Pope.

LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"In the twenty-seventh year of Asa king of Judah, did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah."--Bible cor. "In the thirty-first year of Asa king of Judah, began Omri to reign over Israel."--Id. "He cannot so deceive himself as to fancy that he is able to do a rule-of-three sum." Better--"a sum in the rule of three."--''Qr. Rev. cor. "The best cod are those known under the name of Isle-of-Shoals dun-fish."--Balbi cor.'' "The soldiers, with downcast eyes, seemed to beg for mercy."--''Goldsmith cor. "His head was covered with a coarse, wornout piece of cloth."--Id. "Though they had lately received a reinforcement of a thousand heavy-armed Spartans."--Id. "But he laid them by unopened; and, with a smile, said, 'Business to-morrow.'"--Id. "Chester Monthly Meeting is held at Moorestown, on the Thirdday following the second Secondday"--The Friend cor. "Eggharbour Monthly Meeting is held on the first Secondday."--Id. "Little-Eggharbour Monthly Meeting is held at Tuckerton on the second Fifthday in each month."--Id. "At three o'clock, on Firstday morning, the 24th of Eleventhmonth'', 1834," &c.--Id. "In less than one fourth part of the time usually devoted."--Kirkham cor. "The pupil will not have occasion to use it one tenth part so much."--Id. "The painter dips his paintbrush in paint, to paint the carriage."--Id. "In an ancient English version of the New Testament."--Id. "The little boy was bareheaded."--Red Book cor. "The man, being a little short-sighted, did not immediately know him."--Id. "Picture-frames are gilt with gold."--Id. "The parkkeeper killed one of the deer."--Id. "The fox was killed near the brickkiln."--Id. "Here comes Esther, with her milkpail"--Id. "The cabinet-maker would not tell us."--Id. "A fine thorn-hedge extended along the edge of the hill."--Id. "If their private interests should be everso little affected."--Id. "Unios are fresh-water shells, vulgarly called fresh-water clams."--Id.

"Did not each poet mourn his luckless doom,   Jostled by pedants out of elbow-room."--Lloyd cor.

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The captive hovers a while upon the sad remains."--Johnson cor. "Constantia saw that the hand-writing agreed with the contents of the letter."--Id. "They have put me in a silk night-gown, and a gaudy foolscap"--Id. "Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numb-skulled ninny-hammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?"--Id. "A noble, (that is, six shillings and eight pence,) is [paid], and usually hath been paid."--Id. "The king of birds, thick-feathered, and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east and west."--Id. "To-morrow. This--supposing morrow to mean morning, as it did originally--is an idiom of the same kind as to-night, to-day."--Johnson cor. "To-day goes away, and to-morrow comes."--Id. "Young children, who are tried in Gocarts, to keep their steps from sliding."--Id. "Which, followed well, would demonstrate them but goers-backward"--Id. "Heaven's golden-winged herald late he saw, to a poor Galilean virgin sent."--Id. "My pent-house eyebrows and my shaggy beard offend your sight."--Id. "The hungry lion would fain have been dealing with good horseflesh."--Id. "A broad-brimmed hat ensconsed each careful head."--Snelling cor. "With harsh vibrations of his three-stringed lute."--Id. "They magnify a hundred-fold an author's merit."--Id. "I'll nail them fast to some oft-opened door."--Id. "Glossed over only with saintlike show, still thou art bound to vice."--Johnson's Dict., w. Saintlike. "Take of aqua-fortis two ounces, of quicksilver two drachms."--''Id. cor. "This rainbow never appears but when it rains in the sunshine."--Id. cor.''

"Not but there are, who merit other palms;   Hopkins and Sternhold glad the heart with psalms."--Pope.