tter express the idea; as, "We _stopped_ at Elmira about twenty
minutes."

136. "At this time, I _grew_ my own corn:" say, I _raised_. Farmers have
made this innovation against good taste; but for what reason, it is not
apparent; there seems to be no sufficient occasion for so awkward a
substitute for _raised_.

137. "Having incautiously _laid down_ on the damp grass, he caught a
severe cold:" say, _lain down_.

138. "We suffered no other inconvenience _but_ that arising from the
rain:" say, _than_ that, &c. _But_, to be properly used in this sentence,
would require the omission of _other_.

139. "Brutus and Aruns killed _one another_:" say, _each other_, which is
more proper. But many similar instances which occur in the New Testament,
as, "_Beloved, love one another_," and others no less beautiful and
cherished, have rendered this form of expression common, and almost
unexceptionable.

140. In a recently issued work on Arithmetic, the following is given: "If
for 72 cents I can buy 9 lbs. of raisins, _how much_ can I purchase for
$14 49?" say, "_what quantity_ can I," &c. Who would think of saying,
"_how much raisins?_"

141. WORDS TO BE CAREFULLY DISTINGUISHED.--Be very careful to distinguish
between _indite_ and _indict_ (the former meaning _to write_, and the
latter _to accuse_); _key_ and _quay_; _principle_ and _principal_;
_marshal_ and _martial_; _counsel_ and _council_; _counsellor_ and
_councillor_; _fort_ and _forte_; _draft_ and _draught_; _place_ and
_plaice_ (the latter being the name of a _fish_); _stake_ and _steak_;
_satire_ and _satyr_; _stationery_ and _stationary_; _ton_ and _tun_;
_levy_ and _levee_; _foment_ and _ferment_; _fomentation_ and
_fermentation_; _petition_ and _partition_; _Francis_ and _Frances_;
_dose_ and _doze_; _diverse_ and _divers_; _device_ and _devise_; _wary_
and _weary_; _salary_ and _celery_; _radish_ and _reddish_; _treble_ and
_triple_; _broach_ and _brooch_; _ingenious_ and _ingenuous_; _prophesy_
and _prophecy_ (some clergymen sounding the final syllable of the latter
word _long_, like the former); _fondling_ and _foundling_; _lightning_ and
_lightening_; _genus_ and _genius_; _desert_ and _dessert_; _currier_ and
_courier_; _pillow_ and _pillar_; _executer_ and _executor_ (the former
being the regular noun from the verb "to _execute_," and the latter a
strictly _legal_ term); _ridicule_ and _reticule_; _lineament_ and
_liniment_; _track_ and _tract_, _lickerish_ a