_,
p. 191.

"'_Metre_ is not confined to verse: there is a tune in all good prose; and
Shakspeare's was a sweet one.'--_Epea Pter_, II, 61. Mr. H. Tooke's idea
was probably just, agreeing with Aristotle's, but not accurately
expressed."--_Churchill's New Gram._, p. 385.

"Mr. J. H. Tooke was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, in which latter
college he took the degree of A. M; being intended for the established
church of England, he entered into holy orders when young, and obtained the
living of Brentford, near London, which he held ten or twelve
years."--_Div. of Purley_, 1st Amer. Edition, Vol. i, p. 60.

"I, nor your plan, nor book condemn,
But why your name, and why A. M!"--_Lloyd_.

MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR.

"If thou _turn_ away thy foot from the sabbath, &c. _Isaiah_. lviii.
7."--_Butler's Gram._, p. 67. "'He that hath eeris of herynge, _here he_.
_Wiclif_. Matt xi."--_Butler's Gram._, p. 76. "See General Rules for
Spelling, iii., v., and vii."--_Butler's Gram._, p. 81. "'False witnesses
_did_ rise up.' _Ps_. xxxv. ii."--_Butlers Gram._, p. 105.

"An _explicative_ sentence is used for explaining. An _interrogative_
sentence for enquiring. An _imperative_ sentence for commanding."--_S.
Barrett's Prin. of Language_, p. 87. "In October, corn is gathered in the
field by men, who go from hill to hill with baskets, into which they put
the ears; Susan labors with her needle for a livelihood; notwithstanding
his poverty, he is a man of integrity."--_Goldsbury's Parsing, Manual of E.
Gram._, p. 62.

"A word of one syllable, is called a monosyllable. A word of two syllables;
a dissyllable. A word of three syllables; a trissyllable. A word of four or
more syllables; a polysyllable."--_Frazee's Improved Gram._, 1st Ed., p.
15. "A word of one syllable, is called a monosyllable. A word of two
syllables, a dissyllable. A word of three syllables, a trissyllable. A word
of four or more syllables, a polysyllable."--_Frazee's Improved Gram._,
Ster. Ed., p. 17.

"If I say, '_if it did not rain_, I would take a walk;' I convey the idea
that it _does rain_, at the time of speaking, _If it rained_, or _did it
rain_, in the present time, implies, it does not rain; _If it did not
rain_, or _did it not rain_, in present time, implies that _it does rain_;
thus in this peculiarity, an _affirmative_ sentence always implies a
_negation_, and a _negative sentence_ an _affirmation_."--_Frazee's Gram._,
1st Ed., p. 61; Ster. Ed