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hurch are generally put in the feminine gender."--_Murray's Gram._, i, p. 37. "Go to your natural religion; lay before her Mahomet, and his disciples."--_Blair's Rhetoric_, p. 157: see also _Murray's Gram._, i, 347. "O death! where is thy sting? O grave! where is thy victory?"--_1 Cor._, xv, 55; _Murray's Gram._, p. 348; _English Reader_, 31; _Merchant's Gram._, 212. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."--SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: _Matt._, vi, 24. "Ye cannot serve God and mammon."--IIDEM: _Luke_, xvi, 13. "This house was built as if suspicion herself had dictated the plan."--See _Key_. "Poetry distinguishes herself from prose, by yielding to a musical law."--See _Key_. "My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her divine instructions: 'My name is religion. I am the offspring of truth and love, and the parent of benevolence, hope, and joy. That monster, from whose power I have freed you, is called superstition: she is the child of discontent, and her followers are fear and sorrow.'"--See _Key_. "Neither hope nor fear could enter the retreats; and habit had so absolute a power, that even conscience, if religion had employed her in their favour, would not have been able to force an entrance."--See _Key_. "In colleges and halls in ancient days, There dwelt a sage called discipline."--_Wayland's M. Sci._, p. 368. UNDER RULE XI.--OF DERIVATIVES. "In English, I would have gallicisms avoided."--FELTON: _Johnson's Dict._ [FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word _gallicisms_ here begins with a small letter. But, according to Rule 11th, "Words derived from proper names, and having direct reference to particular persons, places, sects, or nations, should begin with capitals." Therefore, "Gallicisms" should begin with a capital G.] "Sallust was born in Italy, 85 years before the christian era."--_Murray's Seq._, p. 357. "Dr. Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and useful christians, and christian ministers."--_Ib._, 319. "They corrupt their style with untutored anglicisms."--MILTON: _in Johnson's Dict._ "Albert of Stade, author of a chronicle from the creation to 1286, a benedictine of the 13th century."--_Universal Biog. Dict._ "Graffio, a jesuit of Capua in the 16th century, author of two volumes on moral subjects."--_Ib._ "They frenchify and italianize words whenever they can."--See _Key_. "He who sells a christian, sells the grace of God."--_Anti-Slavery Mag._, p. 77. "The first persecution ag
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