weak."--_Id._ "I would not have little children much
tormented about _punctilios_, or niceties of breeding."--_Id._ "To fill his
head with suitable ideas."--_Id._ "The _Burgusdisciuses_ and the Scheiblers
did not swarm in those days, as they do now."--_Id._ "To see the various
ways of dressing--a _calf's_ head!"--_Shenstone cor._

"He puts it on, and for _decorum's_ sake
Can wear it e'en as gracefully as she."--_Cowper cor._

LESSON III.--MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Simon the _wizard_ was of this religion too"--_Bunyan cor._ "MAMMODIES, n.
Coarse, plain, India muslins."--_Webster cor._ "Go on from single persons
to families, that of the _Pompeys_ for instance."--_Collier cor._ "By which
the ancients were not able to account for _phenomena_."--_Bailey cor._
"After this I married a _woman_ who had lived at Crete, but a _Jewess_ by
birth."--_Josephus cor._ "The very _heathens_ are inexcusable for not
_worshiping_ him."--_Todd cor._ "Such poems as _Camoens's_ Lusiad,
Voltaire's Henrinde, &c."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "My learned correspondent
writes a word in defence of large _scarfs_."--_Sped. cor._ "The forerunners
of an apoplexy are _dullness, vertigoes_, tremblings."--_Arbuthnot cor._"
_Vertigo_, [in Latin,] changes the _o_ into _~in=es_, making the plural
_vertig~in=es_:" [not so, in English.]--_Churchill cor._ "_Noctambulo_, [in
Latin,] changes the _o_ into _=on=es_, making the plural
_noctambul=on=es_:" [not so in English.]--_Id._ "What shall we say of
_noctambuloes?_ It is the regular English plural."--_G. Brown_. "In the
curious fretwork of rocks and _grottoes_."--_Blair cor._ "_Wharf_ makes the
plural _wharfs_, according to the best usage."--_G. Brown_. "A few _cents'_
worth of _macaroni_ supplies all their wants."--_Balbi cor._ "C sounds
hard, like _k_, at the end of a word or _syllable_."--_Blair cor._ "By
which the _virtuosoes_ try The magnitude of every lie."--_Butler cor._
"_Quartoes, octavoes_, shape the lessening pyre."--_Pope cor._ "Perching
within square royal _roofs_"--_Sidney cor._ "_Similes_ should, even in
poetry, be used with moderation."--_Dr. Blair cor._ "_Similes_ should never
be taken from low or mean objects."--_Id._ "It were certainly better to
say, '_The House of Lords_,' than, '_The Lords' House_.'"--_Murray cor._
"Read your answers. _Units_' figure? 'Five.' _Tens_'? 'Six.' _Hundreds_'?
'Seven.'"--_Abbott cor._ "Alexander conquered _Darius's_ army."--_Kirkham
cor._ "Three _days_' time was requisite