Part 21 (1/2)

Spelling-Book_, 130-133 ”The large ternate bat”--_Webster's Dict w_

ROSSET; _Bolles's Dict, w_ ROSET

”Church-ladders are not always mounted best By learned clerks, and latinists profess'd”--_Cowper_

UNDER RULE XII--OF I AND O

”Fall back, fall back; i have not room:--o!

methinks i see a couple whom i should know”--_Lucian, varied_

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the word _I_, which occurs three times, and the word _O_, which occurs once, are here printed in letters of the lower case[108] But, according to Rule 12th, ”The words _I_ and _O_ should always be capitals” Therefore, each should be changed to a capital, as often as it occurs]

”Nay, i live as i did, i think as i did, i love you as i did; but all these are to no purpose: the world will not live, think, or love, as i do”--_Swift, varied_ ”Whither, o! whither shall i fly? o wretched prince!

o cruel reverse of fortune! o father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy generosity?”--_Sallust, varied_ ”When i was a child, i spake as a child, i understood as a child, i thought as a child; but when i becas”--_1 Cor_, xiii, 11, _varied_ ”And i heard, but i understood not: then said i, o s?”--_Dan_, xii, 8, _varied_ ”Here aood, and i am quite sure i am very happy, yet i never wrote a treatise in ular, Vocative, _o master_; Plural, Vocative, _o masters_”--_Bicknell's Gram_, p 30

”I, i am he; o father! rise, behold Thy son, with twenty winters non old!”--See _Pope's Odyssey_

UNDER RULE XIII--OF POETRY

”Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, lie in three words--health, peace, and competence; but health consists with temperance alone, and peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own”

_Pope's Essay on Man, a fine London Edition_

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the last three lines of this exa to Rule 18th, ”Every line in poetry, except what is regarded as in with a capital” Therefore, the words, ”Lie,” ”But,” and ”And,” at the coin with the capitals L, B, and A]

”Observe the language well in all you write, and swerve not froht

The slish give offence: a barbarous phrase no reader can approve; nor bombast, noise, or affectation love

In short, without pure language, what you write can never yield us profit or delight

Take ti, never work in haste; and value not yourself for writing fast”

See _Dryden's Art of Poetry:--British Poets_, Vol iii, p 74

UNDER RULE XIV--OF EXAMPLES

”The word _rather_ is very properly used to express a sree or excess of a quality: as, 'she is _rather_ profuse in her expenses'”--_Murray's Gram_, p 47

[FORMULE--Not proper, because the word _she_ begins with a s to Rule 14th, ”The first word of a full example, of a distinct speech, or of a direct quotation, should begin with a capital”

Therefore, the word ”She” should here begin with a capital S]

”_Neither_ imports _not either_; that is, not one nor the other: as, 'neither of my friends was there'”--_Murray's Gram_, p 56 ”When we say, 'he is a tall man,' 'this is a fair day,' we make some reference to the ordinary size of men, and to different weather”--_Ib_, p 47 ”We more readily say, 'A million of men,' than 'a thousand of men'”--_Ib_, p 169

”So in the instances, 'two and two are four;' 'the fifth and sixth volumes will complete the set of books'”--_Ib_, p 124 ”The adjective may frequently either precede or follow it [the verb]: as, 'the man is _happy_;' or, '_happy_ is the htful_ was the interview'”--_Ib_, p 168 ”If we say, 'he writes a pen,' 'they ran the river, 'the tower fell the Greeks,' 'Lambeth is Westminster-abbey,' [we speak absurdly;] and, it is evident, there is a vacancy whichword: as thus, 'He writes _with_ a pen;' 'they ran _towards_ the river;' 'the tower fell _upon_ the Greeks;' 'Laainst_ Westminster-abbey'”--_Ib_, p 118 ”Let reatness”--_Murray's Key_, 241 ”I say not unto thee, until seven times; but, until seventy times seven”--See _Matt_, xviii, 22

”The Panther smil'd at this; and when, said she, Were those first councils disallow'd by me?”--_Dryden_, p 95

UNDER RULE XV--OF CHIEF WORDS