53;
_Hiley_, p. 113.

[FORMULE--Not proper, because this exclamatory sentence is pointed with a
period at the end. But, according to Rule 3d for the Ecphoneme, "Words
uttered with vehemence in the form of a question, but without reference to
an answer, should be followed by the note of exclamation." Therefore, this
period should be changed to the latter sign.]

"O virtue! how amiable art thou."--_Flint's Murray_, p. 51. "At that hour,
O how vain was all sublunary happiness."--_Day's Gram._, p. 74. "Alas! how
few and transitory are the joys which this world affords to man."--_Ib._,
p. 12. "Oh! how vain and transitory are all things here below."--_Ib._, p.
110.

"And oh! what change of state, what change of rank,
In that assembly everywhere was seen."--_Day's Gram._, p. 12.

"And O! what change of state! what change of rank!
In that assembly every where was seen!"--_Pollok_, B. ix, l. 781.

MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR.

"O shame! where is thy blush."--_S. Barren's Principles of Language_, p.
86. "O _shame_, where is thy blush; _John_, give me my hat."--_Ib._, p. 98.
"What! is Moscow in flames."--_Ib._, p. 86. "Ah! what happiness awaits the
virtuous."--_Ib._, 86.

"Ah, welladay,--do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his
point,--the poor soul will die."--STERNE: _Enfield's Speaker_, p. 306. "A
well o'day! do what we _can_ for him, said Trim, maintaining his point: the
poor soul will _die_"--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 340.

"Will John _return_ to-morrow."--_S. Barrett's Gram._, Tenth Ed., p. 55.
"_Will not_ John _return_ to-morrow."--_Ib._, 55. "John! _return_
to-morrow; Soldiers! _stand_ firm."--_Ib._, 55. "If _mea_ which means _my_
is an adjective in _Latin_, why may not _my_ be so called _in_ English, and
if _my_ is an adjective, why not _Barrett's_"--_Ib._, p. 50.

"Oh? Absalom, my son."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 375. "Oh! STAR-EYED
SCIENCE!! whither hast thou fled?"--_Ib._, p. 366. "Why do you tolerate
your own inconsistency, by calling it the present tense!"--_Ib._, p. 360.
"Thus the declarative mode may be used in asking a question; as, _what_ man
_is_ frail."--_Ib._, p. 358. "What connexion has motive wish, or
supposition, with the term subjunctive!"--_Ib._, p. 348. "A grand reason,
truly! for calling it a golden key."--_Ib._, p. 347. "What '_suffering_'!
the man who can say this, must be '_enduring._'"--_Ib._, p. 345. "What is
Brown's Rule! in relation to this matter?"--_Ib._, p. 33