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the Otoes, the Missouries, the Quapaws."--Id." The great Mexican family comprises the Aztecs, the Toltecs, and the Tarascoes."--Id." The Mulattoes are born of negro and white parents; the Zamboes, of Indians and Negroes."--Id. "To have a place among the Alexanders, the Cæsars, the Louises, or the Charleses,--the scourges and butchers of their fellow-creatures."--Burgh cor." Which was the notion of the Platonic philosophers and the Jewish rabbies."--Id. "That they should relate to the whole body of virtuosoes."--Cobbeti cor." What thanks have ye? for sinners also love those that love them."--Bible cor." There are five ranks of nobility; dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons."--Balbi cor." Acts which were so well known to the two Charleses."--Payne cor. "Courts-martial are held in all parts, for the trial of the blacks."--Observer cor. "It becomes a common noun, and may have the plural number; as, the two Davids, the two Scipios, the two Pompeys."--Staniford cor. "The food of the rattlesnake is birds, squirrels, hares, rats, and reptiles."--Balbi cor. "And let fowls multiply in the earth."--Bible cor. "Then we reached the hillside, where eight buffaloes were grazing."--Martineau cor. "CORSET, n. a bodice for a woman."--Worcester cor. "As, the Bees, the Cees, the Double-ues."--Peirce cor. "Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity."--Pope cor. "You have disguised yourselves like tipstaffs."--Gil Bias cor. "But who, that has any taste, can endure the incessant quick returns of the alsoes, and the likewises, and the moreovers, and the howevers, and the notwithstandings?"--Campbell cor.

   "Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise,
    Let ays seem noes, and noes seem ays."--Gay cor.

LESSON II.--CASES.

"For whose name's sake, I have been made willing."--Penn cor. "Be governed by your conscience, and never ask any body's leave to be honest."--Collier cor. "To overlook nobody's merit or misbehaviour."--Id. "And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of Ajax's ship."--Coleridge cor. "Nothing is lazier, than to keep one's eye upon words without heeding their meaning."--Museum cor. "Sir William Jones's division of the day."--Id. "I need only refer here to Voss's excellent account of it."--Id. "The beginning of Stesichorus's palinode has been preserved."--Id. "Though we have Tibullus's elegies, there is not a word in them about Glyc~era."--Id. "That Horace was at Thaliarchus's country-house."--Id. "That Sisyphus's foot-tub should have been still in existence."--Id. "How everything went on in Horace's closet, and Mecenas's antechamber."--Id. "Who, for elegant brevity's sake, put a participle for a verb."--W. Walker cor. "The country's liberty being oppressed, we have no more to hope."--Id. "A brief but true account of this people's principles."--Barclay cor. "As, The Church's peace, or, The peace of the Church; Virgil's Æneid, or, The Æneid of Virgil."--Brit. Gram. cor. "As, Virgil's Æneid, for, The Æneid of Virgil; The Church's peace, for, The peace of the Church."--Buchanan cor. "Which, with Hubner's Compend, and Well's Geographia Classica, will be sufficient."--Burgh cor. "Witness Homer's speaking horses, scolding goddesses, and Jupiter enchanted with Venus's girdle."--Id. "Dr. Watts's Logic may with success be read to them and commented on."--Id. "Potter's Greek, and Kennet's Roman Antiquities, Strauchius's and Helvicus's Chronology."--Id. "SING. Alice's friends, Felix's property; PLUR. The Alices' friends, the Felixes' property."--Peirce cor. "Such as Bacchus's company--at Bacchus's festivals."--Ainsworih cor. "Burns's inimitable Tam o' Shanter turns entirely upon such a circumstance."--Scott cor. "Nominative, men; Genitive, [or Possessive,] men's; Objective, men."--Cutler cor. "Men's happiness or misery is mostly of their own making."--Locke cor. "That your son's clothes be never made strait, especially about the breast."--Id. "Children's minds are narrow and 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