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adv. On or in days; as, in the phrase, now adays."--Webster's Dict. "REFEREE, one to whom a thing is referred; TRANSFERREE, the person to whom a transfer is made."--Ib. "The Hospitallers were an order of knights who built a hospital at Jerusalem for pilgrims."--Ib. "GERARD, Tom, or Tung, was the institutor and first grand master of the knights hospitalers: he died in 1120."--Biog. Dict. "I had a purpose now to lead our many to the holy land."--SHAK.: in Johnson's Dict. "He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants."--Psalms, cv, 25. "In Dryden's ode of Alexander's Feast, the line, 'Faln, faln, faln, faln,' represents a gradual sinking of the mind."--Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 71. "The first of these lines is marvelously nonsensical."--Jamieson's Rhet., p. 117. "We have the nicely chiseled forms of an Apollo and a Venus, but it is the same cold marble still."--Christian Spect., Vol. viii, p. 201. "Death waves his mighty wand and paralyses all."--Bucke's Gram., p. 35. "Fear God. Honor the patriot. Respect virtue."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 216. "Pontius Pilate being Governour of Judea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee."--Ib., p. 189. See Luke, iii, 1. "AUCTIONEER, n. s. The person that manages an auction."--Johnson's Dict. "The earth put forth her primroses and days-eyes, to behold him."--HOWEL: ib. "Musselman, not being a compound of man, is musselmans in the plural."--Lennie's Gram., p. 9. "The absurdity of fatigueing them with a needless heap of grammar rules."--Burgh's Dignity, Vol. i, p. 147. "John was forced to sit with his arms a kimbo, to keep them asunder."--ARBUTHNOT: Joh. Dict. "To set the arms a kimbo, is to set the hands on the hips, with the elbows projecting outward."--Webster's Dict. "We almost uniformly confine the inflexion to the last or the latter noun."--Maunder's Gram., p. 2. "This is all souls day, fellows! Is it not?"--SHAK.: in Joh. Dict. "The english physicians make use of troy-weight."--Johnson's Dict. "There is a certain number of ranks allowed to dukes, marquisses, and earls."--PEACHAM: ib., w. Marquis.

  "How could you chide the young good natur'd prince,
   And drive him from you with so stern an air."
            --ADDISON: ib., w. Good, 25.


EXERCISE XII.--MIXED ERRORS.

"In reading, every appearance of sing-song should be avoided."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 75. "If you are thoroughly acquainted with the inflexions of the verb."--Ib., p. 53. "The preterite of read is pronounced red."--Ib., p. 48. "Humility opens a high way to dignity."--Ib., p. 15. "What is intricate must be unraveled."--Ib., p. 275. "Roger Bacon invented gun powder, A. D. 1280."--Ib., p. 277. "On which ever word we lay the emphasis."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 243; 12mo, p. 195. "Each of the leaders was apprized of the Roman invasion."--Nixon's Parser, p. 123. "If I say, 'I gallopped from Islington to Holloway;' the verb is intransitive: if, 'I gallopped my horse from Islington to Holloway;' it is transitive."--Churchill's Gram., p. 238. "The reasonableness of setting a part one day in seven."--The Friend, Vol. iv, p. 240. "The promoters of paper money making reprobated this act."--Webster's Essays, p. 196. "There are five compound personal pronouns, which are derived from the five simple personal pronouns by adding to some of their cases the syllable self; as, my-self, thy-self, him-self, her-self, it-self."--Perley's Gram., p. 16. "Possessives, my-own, thy-own, his-own, her-own, its-own, our-own, your-own, their-own."--Ib., Declensions. "Thy man servant and thy maid servant may rest, as well as thou."--Sanborn's Gram., p. 160. "How many right angles has an acute angled triangle?"--Ib., p. 220. "In the days of Jorum, king of Israel, flourished the prophet Elisha."--Ib., p. 148. "In the days of Jorum, king of Israel, Elisha, the prophet flourished."--Ib., p. 133. "Lodgable, a. Capable of affording a temporary abode."--Webster's Octavo Dict.--"Win me into the easy hearted man."--Johnson's Quarto Dict. "And then to end life, is the same as to dye."--Milnes's Greek Gram., p. 176. "Those usurping hectors who pretend to honour without religion, think the charge of a lie a blot not to be washed out but by blood."--SOUTH: Joh. Dict. "His gallies attending him, he pursues the unfortunate."--Nixon's Parser, p. 91. "This cannot fail to make us shyer of yielding our assent."--Campbell's Rhet., p. 117. "When he comes to the Italicised word, he should give it such a definition as its connection with the sentence may require."--Claggett's Expositor, p. vii. "Learn to distil from your lips all the honies of persuasion."--Adams's Rhetoric, Vol. i, p. 31. "To instill ideas of disgust and abhorrence against the Americans."--Ib., ii, 300. "Where prejudice has not acquired an uncontroled ascendency."--Ib., i, 31. "The uncontrolable propensity of his mind was undoubtedly to oratory."--Ib., i, 100. "The Brutus is a practical commentary upon the dialogues and the orator."--Ib., i, 120. "The oratorical partitions are a short elementary compendium."--Ib., i, 130. "You shall find hundreds of persons able to produce a crowd of good ideas upon any subject, for one that can marshall them to the best advantage."--Ib., i, 169. "In this lecture, you have the outline of all that the whole course will comprize."--Ib., i, 182. "He would have been stopped by a hint from the bench, that he was traveling out of the record."--Ib., i, 289. "To tell them that which should befal them in the last days."--Ib., ii, 308. "Where all is present, there is nothing past to recal."--Ib., ii, 358. "Whose due it is to drink the brimfull cup of God's eternal vengeance."--Law and Grace, p. 36.

  "There, from the dead, centurions see him rise,
   See, but struck down with horrible surprize!"--Savage.
   "With seed of woes my heart brimful is charged."--SIDNEY: Joh. Dict.
   "Our legions are brimful, our cause is ripe."--SHAKSPEARE: ib.