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small quantities; a pedler."--_Johnson's Dict._ "He seeks bye-streets, and saves th' expensive coach." --GAY: _ib., w. Mortgage._ "He seeks by-streets, and saves th' expensive coach." --GAY: _ib., w. By-street._ EXERCISE VII.--MIXED ERRORS. "Boys like a warm fire in a wintry day."--_Webster's El. Spelling-Book_, p. 62. "The lilly is a very pretty flower."--_Ib._, p. 62. "The potatoe is a native plant of America."--_Ib._, p. 60. "An anglicism is a peculiar mode of speech among the English."--_Ib._, p. 136. "Black berries and raspberries grow on briars."--_Ib._, p. 150. "You can broil a beef steak over the coals of fire."--_Ib._, p. 38. "Beef'-steak, _n._ A steak or slice of beef for broiling."--_Webster's Dict._ "Beef'steak, _s._ a slice of beef for broiling."--_Treasury of Knowledge._ "As he must suffer in case of the fall of merchandize, he is entitled to the corresponding gain if merchandize rises."--_Wayland's Moral Science_, p. 258. "He is the worshipper of an hour, but the worldling for life."--_Maturin's Sermons_, p. 424. "Slyly hinting something to the disadvantage of great and honest men."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 329. "'Tis by this therefore that I Define the Verb; namely, that it is a Part of Speech, by which something is apply'd to another, as to its Subject."--_Johnson's Gram. Com._, p. 255. "It may sometimes throw a passing cloud over the bright hour of gaiety."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 178. "To criticize, is to discover errors; and to crystalize implies to freeze or congele."--_Red Book_, p. 68. "The affectation of using the preterite instead of the participle, is peculiarly aukward; as, he has came."--_Priestley's Grammar_, p. 125. "They are moraly responsible for their individual conduct."--_Cardell's El. Gram._, p. 21. "An engine of sixty horse power, is deemed of equal force with a team of sixty horses."--_Red Book_, p. 113. "This, at fourpence per ounce, is two shillings and fourpence a week, or six pounds, one shining and four pence a year."--_Ib._, p. 122. "The tru meening of _parliament_ iz a meeting of barons or peers."--_Webster's Essays_, p. 276. "Several authorities seem at leest to favor this opinion."--_Ib._, p. 277. "That iz, az I hav explained the tru primitiv meening of the word."--_Ib._, p. 276. "The lords are peers of the relm; that iz, the ancient prescriptiv judges or barons."--_Ib._, p. 274. "Falshood is folly, and 'tis just to own The fault
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