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 countable for what we patronize in others."--Murray cor. "After he was baptized, and was solemnly admitted into the office."--Perkins cor. "He will find all, or most, of them, comprised in the exercises."--Brit. Gram. cor. "A quick and ready habit of methodizing and regulating their thoughts."--Id. "To tyrannize over the time and patience of his readers."--Kirkham cor. "Writers of dull books, however, if patronized at all, are rewarded beyond their deserts."--Id. "A little reflection will show the reader the reason for emphasizing the words marked."--Id. "The English Chronicle contains an account of a surprising cure."--Red Book cor. "Dogmatize, to assert positively; Dogmatizer, an assertor, a magisterial teacher."--Chalmers cor. "And their inflections might now have been easily analyzed."--Murray cor. "Authorize, disauthorize, and unauthorized; Temporize, contemporize, and extemporize."--Walker cor. "Legalize, equalize, methodize, sluggardize, womanize, humanize, patronize, cantonize, gluttonize, epitomize, anatomize, phlebotomize, sanctuarize, characterize, synonymize, recognize, detonize, colonize."--''Id. cor.'' "This beauty sweetness always must comprise,   Which from the subject, well express'd, will rise."--Brightland cor.

RULE XIV.--COMPOUNDS.

"The glory of the Lord shall be thy rear-ward."--SCOTT, ALGER: Isa., lviii, 8. "A mere van-courier to announce the coming of his master."--Tooke cor. "The party-coloured shutter appeared to come close up before him."--Kirkham cor. "When the day broke upon this handful of forlorn but dauntless spirits."--Id. "If, upon a plumtree, peaches and apricots are engrafted, nobody will say they are the natural growth of the plumtree.'--Berkley cor. "The channel between Newfoundland and Labrador is called the Straits of Belleisle."--Worcester cor. "There being nothing that more exposes to the headache:"--or, (perhaps more accurately,) "headake."--Locke cor. "And, by a sleep, to say we end the heartache:"--or, "heartake."--Shak. cor. "He that sleeps, feels not the toothache:"--or, "toothake."--Id. "That the shoe must fit him, because it fitted his father and grandfather."--Phil. Museum cor. "A single word misspelled [or misspelt] in a letter is sufficient to show that you have received a defective education."--C. Bucke cor. "Which misstatement the committee attributed to a failure of memory."--Professors cor. "Then he went through the Banqueting-House to the scaffold."--Smollet cor. "For the purpose of maintaining a clergyman and a schoolmaster."--Webster cor. "They however knew that the lands were claimed by Pennsylvania."--Id. "But if you ask a reason, they immediately bid farewell to argument."--Barnes cor. "Whom resist, steadfast in the faith."--Alger's Bible. "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine."--Id. "Beware lest ye also fall from your own steadfastness."--Ib. "Galiot, or Galliot, a Dutch vessel carrying a main-mast and a mizzen-mast."--Webster cor. "Infinitive, to overflow; Preterit, overflowed; Participle, overflowed."--Cobbett cor. "After they have misspent so much precious time."--''Brit. Gram. cor. "Some say, 'two handsful;" some, 'two handfuls; and others, 'two handful.' The second expression is right."--G. Brown. "Lapful, as much as the lap can contain."--Webster cor. "Dareful, full of defiance."--Walker cor. "The road to the blissful regions is as open to the peasant as to the king."--Mur. cor. "Misspell is misspelled [or misspelt] in every dictionary which I have seen."--Barnes cor. "Downfall; ruin, calamity, fall from rank or state."--Johnson cor. "The whole legislature likewise acts as a court."--Webster cor. "It were better a millstone were hanged about his neck."--Perkins cor. "Plumtree, a tree that produces plums; Hogplumtree, a tree."--Webster cor. "Trissyllables ending in re or le, accent the first syllable."--Murray cor.  "It happened on a summer's holyday'', That to the greenwood shade he took his way."--Dryden.

RULE XV.--USAGE.

"Nor are the moods of the Greek tongue more uniform."--Murray cor. "If we analyze a conjunctive preterit, the rule will not appear to hold."--Priestley cor. "No landholder would have been at that expense."--Id. "I went to see the child whilst they were putting on its clothes."--Id. "This style is ostentatious, and does not suit grave writing."--Id. "The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne."--1 Kings, xxii, 10; 2 Chron., xviii, 9. "Lysias, speaking of his friends, promised to his father never to abandon them."--Murray cor. "Some, to avoid this error, run into its opposite."--Churchill cor. "Hope, the balm of life soothes us under every misfortune."--Jaudon's Gram., p. 182. "Any judgement or decree might be heard and reversed by the legislature."--N. Webster cor. "A pathetic harangue will screen from punishment any knave."--Id. "For the same reason the women would be improper judges."--Id. "Every person is indulged in worshiping as he pleases."--Id. "Most or all teachers are excluded from genteel company."--Id. "The Christian religion, in its purity, is the best institution on earth."--Id. "Neither clergymen nor human laws have the least authority over the conscience."--Id. "A guild is a society, fraternity, or corporation."--Barnes cor. "Phillis was not able to untie the knot, and so she cut it."--Id. "An acre of land is the quantity of one hundred and sixty perches."--Id. "Ochre is a fossil earth combined with the oxyd of some metal."--Id. "Genii, when denoting aërial spirits; geniuses, when signifying persons of genius."--Murray cor.; also Frost; also Nutting. "Acrisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful daughter, whose name was Danäe."--Classic Tales cor. "Phäeton was the son of Apollo and Clymene."--Id.--"But, after all, I may not have reached the intended goal."--Buchanan cor. "Pittacus was offered a large sum.' Better: To Pittacus was offered a large sum.'"--Kirkham cor. "King Micipsa charged his sons to respect the senate and people of Rome."--Id. "For example: 'Galileo