Part 25 (1/2)
”_Evilthinking_; a noun, compounded of the noun _evil_ and the iular number;” &c--_Churchill's Gram_, p 180
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the word _evilthinking_, which has more than one accented syllable, is here co to Rule 5th, ”When the parts of a coinal accent, so that the compound has more than one, or one that is movable, the hyphen should be inserted between them” Therefore, the hyphen should be used in this word; thus, _evil-thinking_]
”_Evilspeaking_; a noun, compounded of the noun _evil_ and the i_”--_Ib_ ”I am a tall, broadshouldered, iratitude! thou marblehearted fiend”--SHAK: _ib_ ”A popular licence is indeed the manyheaded tyranny”--SIDNEY: _ib_ ”He froed nations has surveyed”--POPE: _ib_ ”The horsecucureen cucumber, and the best for the table”--MORTIMER: _ib_ ”The bird of night did sit, even at noonday, upon the aoldelivery of souls, not for punisholdbound brow, is like the first”--SHAK: _ib_ ”His person was deforree; flatnosed, and blobberlipped”--L'ESTRANGE: _ib_ ”He that defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a bloodshedder”--ECCLUS, xxxiv, 22: _ib_ ”bloodyminded, _adj_ from _bloody_ and _mind_ Cruel; inclined to blood-shed”--See _Johnson's Dict_ ”Bluntwitted lord, ignoble in de and a black silken bag tied to it”--SPECTATOR: _ib_ ”I have seen enough to confute all the boldfaced atheists of this age”--BRAMHALL: _ib_ ”Before milkwhite, now purple with love's wound”--SHAK: _ib_ ”For what else is a redhot iron than fire? and what else is a burning coal than redhot wood?”--NEWTON: _ib_ ”Pollevil is a large swelling, inflammation, or imposthume in the horse's poll, or nape of the neck just between the ears”--FARRIER: _ib_
”Quick-witted, brazenfac'd, with fluent tongues, Patient of labours, and disses”--DRYDEN: _ib_
UNDER RULE VI--NO HYPHEN
”Fro's Gift for Scribblers_, p 43
[FORMULE--Not proper, because the word _tear-drop_, which has never any other than a full accent on the first syllable, is here co to Rule 6th, ”When a compound has but one accented syllable in pronunciation, and the parts are such as admit of a complete coalescence, no hyphen should be inserted between them” Therefore, _teardrop_ should be reat, poor jack-daould thy sufferings be!”--_Ib_, p 29 ”Placed like a scare-crow in a field of corn”--_Ib_, p 39 ”Soup for the alms-house at a cent a quart”--_Ib_, p 23 ”Up into the watch-tower get, and see all things despoiled of fallacies”--DONNE: _Johnson's Dict, w
Lattice_ ”In the day-tiht”--BACON: _ib, w Watchtower_ ”In the daytiht”--ID: _ib, w Dayti the ground-work of his instruction”--DRYDEN: _ib, w Moral_ ”Madam's own hand the mouse-trap baited”--PRIOR: _ib, w Mouse-trap_ ”By the sinking of the air-shaft the air hath liberty to circulate”--RAY: _ib, w Airshaft_ ”Theoperations of the air-pump and the loadstone”--WATTS: _ib, w
Multiform_ ”Many of the fire-arht have trussed him and all his apparel into an eel-skin”--SHAK: _ib, w Truss_ ”They may serve as land-marks to shehat lies in the direct way of truth”--LOCKE: _ib, w Landmark_ ”A pack-horse is driven constantly in a narrow lane and dirty road”--_Id
ib, w Lane_ ”A o in one circle”--SIDNEY: _ib, w Mill-horse_ ”Of singing birds they have linnets, goldfinches, ruddocks, Canary-birds, black-birds, thrushes, and divers others”--CAREW: _ib, w Goldfinch_ ”Of singing birds, they have linnets, gold-finches, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers others”--ID: _ib, w Blackbird_ ”Of singing birds, they have linnets, gold-finches, ruddocks, canary birds, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers other”--ID: _ib, w Canary bird_ ”Cartrage, or Cartridge, a case of paper or parchun-powder”--_Johnson's Dict_, 4to
”Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night, The tiht when Troy was set on fire, The tune when screech-owls cry, and ban-dogs howl”
SHAKSPEARE: _ib, w Silent_
”The tis howl”
IDEM: _ib, w Bandog_
PROMISCUOUS ERRORS IN THE FIGURE OF WORDS
LESSON I--MIXED
”They that live in glass-houses, should not throw stones”--_Old Adage_ ”If a man profess Christianity in any manner or form soever”--_Watts_, p
5 ”For Cassius is a weary of the world”--SHAKSPEARE: _in Kirkhaether of more, the chains were fastened on”--_Walker's Particles_, p 223 ”Unto the carrying away of Jerusales forth of the border shall be to Zedad”--_Nus out of it shall be at Hazar-enan”--_Ib_, ver 9 ”For the taking place of effects, in a certain particular series”--_Dr West, on Agency_, p 39
”The letting go of which was the occasion of all that corruption”--_Dr J
Owen_ ”A falling off at the end always hurts greatly”--_Blair's Lect_, p 126 ”A falling off at the end is always injurious”--_Jas forth were courteously supposed to be trains of reasoning”--_Dr Murray's Hist of Europ Lang_, Vol i, p
333 ”Whose goings forth have been fro”-- _Micah_, v, 2 ”Some times the adjective becomes a substantive”-- _Bradley's Gram_, p 104 ”It is very plain, I consider man as visited a new”--_Barclay's Works_, Vol iii, p 331 ”Nor do I any where say, as he falsely insinuates”--_Ib_, p 331 ”Every where, any where, some where, no where”--_Alex Murray's Gram_, p 55 ”The world hurries off a pace, and time is like a rapid river”--_Collier's Antoninus_, p 58 ”But to now model the paradoxes of ancient skepticism”--_Brown's Estimate_, Vol i, p
102 ”The south east winds from the ocean invariably produce rain”--_Webster's Essays_, p 369 ”North inds froreatest part of such tables would be of little use to English round floor of the east wing of Mulberry streethouse was filled”--_The Friend_, vii, 232 ”Prince Rupert's Drop This singular production is lass houses”--_Red Book_, p 131
”The lights and shades, whose well accorded strife Gives all the strength and colour of our life”
--_Murray's Gram_, p 54; _Fisk's_, 65
LESSON II--MIXED
”In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zis_, xvi, 15 ”In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah, began On over Israel”--_Ib_, xvi, 23 ”He cannot so deceive himself as to fancy that he is able to do a rule of three sun Quarterly Review_ ”The best cod are those known under the na_, p 26 ”The soldiers, with down cast eyes, see for mercy”--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol