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 ''Iid. cor. "A SIMILE is a simple and express comparison; and is generally introduced by LIKE, AS, or so."--G. B., Inst.'', p. 233; Kirkham cor.; also Adam and Gould. "ANTITHESIS is a placing of things in opposition, to heighten their effect by contrast."--Inst., p. 234; Adam and Gould corrected. "VISION, or IMAGERY, is a figure in which what is present only to the mind, is represented as actually before one's eyes, and present to the senses."--G. B.; Adam cor. "EMPHASIS is a particular stress of voice laid on some word in a sentence."--Gould's Adam's Gram., p. 241. "EPANORTHOSIS, or CORRECTION, is the recalling or correcting by the speaker, of what he last said."--Ibid. "PARALIPSIS, or OMISSION, is the pretending to omit or pass by, what one at the same time declares."--Ibid. "INCREMENTUM, or CLIMAX in sense, is the rising of one member above an other to the highest."--Ibid. "METONYMY is a change of names: as when the cause is mentioned for the effect, or the effect for the cause; the container for the thing contained, or the sign for the thing signified."--Kirkham cor. "The Agreement of words is their similarity in person, number, gender, case, mood, tense, or form."--Brown's Inst., p. 104. "The Government of words is that power which one word has over an other, to cause it to assume some particular modification."--Ib. "Fusion is the converting of some solid substance into a fluid by heat."--G. B. "A proper diphthong is a diphthong in which both the vowels are sounded together; as, oi in voice, ou in house."--Fisher cor. "An improper diphthong is a diphthong in which the sound of but one of the two vowels is heard; as, eo in people."--Id.

UNDER NOTE VII.--THE ADVERB NO FOR NOT.

"An adverb is added to a verb to show how, or when, or where, or whether or not, one is, does, or suffers."--Buchanan cor. "We must be immortal, whether we will or not."--Maturin cor. "He cares not whether the world was made for Cæsar or not."--A. Q. Rev. cor. "I do not know whether they are out or not."--Byron cor. "Whether it can be proved or not, is not the thing."--''Bp. Butler cor. "Whether he makes use of the means commanded by God, or not."--Id. "Whether it pleases the world or not, the care is taken."--L'Estrange cor. "How comes this to be never heard of, nor in the least questioned, whether the Law was undoubtedly of Moses's writing or not?"--Tomline cor. "Whether he be a sinner or not, I do not know''." Or, as the text is more literally translated by Campbell: "Whether he be a sinner, I know not."--Bible cor. "Can I make men live, whether they will or not?"--''Shak. cor.'' "Can hearts not free, be tried whether they serve    Willing or not, who will but what they must?"--Milton cor.

UNDER NOTE VIII.--OF DOUBLE NEGATIVES.

"We need not, nor do we, confine the purposes of God." Or: "We need not, and do not, confine," &c.--Bentley cor. "I cannot by any means allow him that."--Id. "We must try whether or not we can increase the attention by the help of the senses."--Brightland cor. "There is nothing more admirable or more useful."--Tooke cor. "And what in time to come he can never be said to have done, he can never be supposed to do."--R. Johnson cor. "No skill could obviate, no remedy dispel, the terrible infection."--Goldsmith cor. "Prudery cannot be an indication either of sense or of taste."--Spurzheim cor. "But neither that scripture, nor any other, speaks of imperfect faith."--Barclay cor. "But neither this scripture, nor any other, proves that faith was or is always accompanied with doubting."--Id. "The light of Christ is not, and cannot be, darkness."--Id. "Doth not the Scripture, which cannot lie, give some of the saints this testimony?"--Id. "Which do not continue, and are not binding."--Id. "It not being perceived directly, any more than the air."--Campbell cor. "Let us be no Stoics, and no stocks, I pray."--''Shak. cor. "Where there is no marked or peculiar character in the style."--Dr. Blair cor. "There can be no rules laid down, nor any manner recommended."--Sheridan cor.'' "Bates. 'He hath not told his thought to the king?'    K. Henry. 'No; and it is not meet he should.'" Or thus: "'No; nor is it meet he should.'"--''Shak. cor.''

UNDER NOTE IX.--EVER AND NEVER.

"The prayer of Christ is more than sufficient both to strengthen us, be we everso weak; and to overthrow all adversary power, be it everso strong."--Hooker cor. "He is like to have no share in it, or to be never the better for it." Or: "He is not likely to have any share in it, or to be ever the better for it."--Bunyan cor. "In some parts of Chili it seldom or never rains."--Willetts cor. "If Pompey shall but everso little seem to like it."--W. Walker cor. "Though everso great a posse of dogs and hunters pursue him."--Id. "Though you be everso excellent."--Id. "If you do amiss everso little."--Id. "If we cast our eyes everso little down."--Id. "A wise man scorneth nothing, be it everso small or homely."--M. F. Tupper cor. "Because they have seldom if ever an opportunity of learning them at all."--Clarkson cor. "We seldom or never see those forsaken who trust in God."--Atterbury cor. "Where, playing with him at bo-peep,   He solved all problems, e'erso deep."--S. Butler cor.

UNDER NOTE X.--OF THE FORM OF ADVERBS.

"One can scarcely think that Pope was capable of epic or tragic poetry; but, within a certain limited region, he has been outdone by no poet."--Dr. Blair cor. "I who now read, have nearly