Part 218 (2/2)
_They_ are better than a fair speciramlish are generally spurious quotations _Few_ of their proof-texts have any just parentage
_Goose-eyes_ are abundant, but nas?
_nobody Then_ let their merit be nobody's, and their defects his who could write no better”--_Author_ ”_Goose-eyes_!” says a bright boy; ”pray, what are they? _Does_ this Mr Author make neords when he pleases?
_Dead-eyes_ are in a shi+p _They_ are blocks, with holes in therammar?” ANSWER: ”_Goose-eyes_ are quotation points _So a jest of their foruillemets_, from the name of their inventor”--_Author_ ”_It_ is a personal pronoun, of the third person singular”--_Comly cor_ ”_Ourselves_ is a personal pronoun, of the first person plural”--_Id_ ”_Thee_ is a personal pronoun, of the second person singular”--_Id_ ”_Contentular”--_Id_ ”_Were_ is a neuter verb, of the indicative mood, imperfect tense”--_Id_
UNDER RULE III--OF DEITY
”O thou _Dispenser_ of life! thy e_ of all the earth do right?”--ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL: _Gen_, xviii, 25 ”And the _Spirit of God_ moved upon the face of the waters”--SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL: _Gen_, i, 2 ”It is the gift of _Hiood, and the Father of ht thee up out of Egypt”--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Neh_, ix, 18 ”For the LORD is our defence; and the _Holy One_ of Israel is our _King_”--_Psal_ lxxxix, 18 ”Byhi cor_ ”Which the Lord, the righteous _Judge_, shall give me at that day”--ALGER: _2 Tim_, iv, 8 ”The cries of thementered into the ears of the Lord of _Sabaoth_”--ALGER, FRIENDS: _James_, v, 4 ”In horeb, the _Deity_ revealed himself to Moses, as the _Eternal_ 'I AM,' the _Self-existent One_; and, after the first discouraging interview of his ers with Pharaoh, he renewed his promise to them, by the awful name, JEHOVAH--a name till then unknown, and one which the Jeays held it a fearful profanation to pronounce”--_G Brown_ ”And _God_ spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abrahahty_; but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them”--SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS: _Exod_, vi, 2 ”Thus saith the LORD[517] the _King_ of Israel, and his _Redeemer_ the LORD of hosts; I am the _First_, and I am the _Last_; and besides me there is no _God_”--See _Isa_, xliv, 6
”His i_, through nature's optics view'd”--_Dryden cor_
UNDER RULE IV--OF PROPER NAMES
”Isla the month _Ramadan_”--_Balbi cor_ ”Near _Mecca_, in _Arabia_, is _Jebel Nor_, or the _Mountain of Light_, on the top of which the _Mussulht perfor to their belief, _Mohael _Gabriel_ the first chapter of the Koran”--_G Brown_ ”In the _Kaaba_ at _Mecca_ there is a celebrated block of volcanic basalt, which the _Mohaift of _Gabriel_ to _Abrahae of _Ree which fell down froe of the _Ephesians_, was probably nothing more than a meteoric stone”--_Id_ ”When the _Lycaonians_ at _Lystra_ took _Paul_ and _Barnabas_ to be Gods, they called the former _Mercury_, on account of his eloquence, and the latter _Jupiter_, for the greater dignity of his appearance”--_Id_ ”Of the writings of the apostolic fathers of the first century, but few have come down to us; yet we have in those of _Barnabas, Clenatius_, and _Polycarp_, very certain evidence of the authenticity of the New Testament, and the New Testament is a voucher for the Old”--_Id_ ”It is said by _Tatian_, that _Theagenes_ of _Rhegium_, in the time of _Cambyses, Stesimbrotus_ the _Thracian, Antimachus_ the _Colophonian, Herodotus_ of _Halicarnassus, Dionysius_ the _Olynthian, Ephorus_ of _cumae, Philochorus_ the _Athenian, Metaclides_ and _Chamaeleon_ the _Peripatetics_, and _Zenodotus, Aristophanes, Callimachus, Crates, Eratosthenes, Aristarchus_, and _Apollodorus_, the gra the poetry, the birth, and the age of _Hoht that now appears, the life of _Homer_ is as fabulous as that of _Hercules_; and some have even suspected, that, as the son of _Jupiter_ and _Alcmena_ has fathered the deeds of forty other _Herculeses_, so this unfathered son of _Critheis, Theenes, Maeonides, Homer_--the blind schoolmaster, and poet, of _Sos, Athens_, or whatever place--has, by the help of _Lycurgus, Solon, Pisistratus_, and other learned ancients, been made up of many poets or _Homers_, and set so far aloft and aloof on old _Parnassus_, as to become a God in the eyes of all _Greece_, a wonder in those of all _Christendouesses?
Your _Effs_, and _Tees_, and _Ars_, and _Esses_?”--_Swift corrected_
UNDER RULE V--OF titLES
”The king has conferred on him the title of _Duke_”--_Murray cor_ ”At the court of _Queen_ Elizabeth”--_Priestley's E Gram_, p 99; see _Bullions's_, p 24 ”The laws of nature are, truly, what _Lord_ Bacon styles his aphorisms, laws of laws”--_Murray cor_ ”Sixtus the Fourth was, if I reat collector of books”--_Id_ ”Who at that ti_ Charles the _Second_”--_Id_ ”In case of his _Majesty's_ dying without issue”--_Kirkha Charles the _First_ was beheaded in 1649”--_W Allen cor_ ”He can no more impart, or (to use _Lord_ Bacon's word) _transmit_ convictions”--_Kirkham cor_ ”I reside at _Lord_ Stormont's, my old patron and benefactor” Better: ”I reside _with Lord Stormont_, my old patron and benefactor”--_Murray cor_ ”We staid a month at _Lord Lyttelton's_, the ornament of his country” Much better: ”We stayed a month at _the seat of Lord Lyttelton, who is_ the ornaative is it? It is the _King_-of-Great- Britain's;” [518]--”That is the _Duke_-of-Bridgewater's canal;”--”The _Bishop_-of-Landaff's excellent book;”--”The Lord _Mayor_-of-London's authority”--_Id_ (See Murray's Note 4th on his Rule 10th) ”Why call ye s which I say?”--_Luke_, vi, 46 ”And of them he chose twelve, whom also he named _Apostles_”--ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL: _Luke_, vi, 13 ”And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, _Master_; and kissed him”--_Matt_, xxvi, 49 ”And he said, Nay, _Father_ Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they _would_ repent”--_Bible cor_
UNDER RULE VI--OF ONE CAPITAL
”_Fallriver_, a village in Massachusetts, population (in 1830) 3,431”--_Williams cor_ ”Dr Anderson died at _Westha Dict cor_ ”_Madriver_, the nan counties, Ohio”--_Williaton county, New York”--_Id_ ”_Saltcreek_, the name of four towns in different parts of Ohio”--_Id_ ”_Saltlick_, a town of Fayette county, Pennsylvania”--_Id_ ”_Yellowcreek_, a town of Columbiana county, Ohio”--_Id_ ”_Whiteclay_, a hundred of _Newcastle_ county, Delaware”-- _Id_ ”Newcastle, _a_ town and _half-shi+re_ of Newcastle county, Delaware”--_Id_ ”_Singsing_, a village of _Westchester_ county, New York, situated in the town of _Mountpleasant_”--_Id_ ”_Westchester_, a county of New York: _East Chester and West Chester are towns_ in Westchester county”--_Id_ ”_Westtown_, a village of Orange county, New York”--_Id_ ”_Whitewater_, a town of Hamilton county, Ohio”--_Worcester's Gaz_ ”_Whitewater_ River, a considerable strea southeasterly unites with the Miae of Haland, and a town in Ireland”--See _ib_ ”_Blackwater_, the naland, Ireland, and the United States”--See _ib_ ”_Redhook_, a town of Dutchess county, New York, on the Hudson”--_Williams cor_ ”Kinderhook, a town of Coluht_
”_Newfane_, a town of Niagara county, New York”--_Williams cor_ ”_Lakeport_, a town of Chicot county, Arkansas”--_Id_ ”_Moosehead_ Lake, the chief source of the Kennebeck, in Maine”--_Id_ (See _Worcester's Gaz_) ”Macdonough, a county of Illinois, population (in 1830) 2,959”--_Williah_, a county of Illinois, with a _court-house_ at Macomb”--_Williams cor_ ”_Halfmoon_, the name of tns in New York and Pennsylvania; also of two bays in the West Indies”--_S Williams's Univ Gaz_ ”_Leboeuf_, a town of Erie county, Pennsylvania, near a small lake of the same name”--See _ib_ ”_Charlescity, Jainia, not cities, nor towns”--See _Univ Gaz_, p 404[519] ”The superior qualities of the waters of the Frome, here called _Stroudwater_”--_Balbi cor_
UNDER RULE VII--OF TWO CAPITALS
”The Forth rises on the north side of _Ben Lo_, 8vo, _corrected_ ”The red granite of _Ben Nevis_ is said to be the finest in the world”--_Id_ ”_Ben More_, in Perthshi+re, is 3,915 feet above the level of the sea”--_Id_ ”The height of _Ben Cleagh_ is 2,420 feet”--_Id_ ”In Sutherland and Caithness, are Ben Oral”--_Glas Geog
right_ ”_Ben Vracky_ is 2,756 feet high; _Ben Ledi_, 3,009; and _Ben Voirloich_, 3,300”--_Glas Geog cor_ ”The river Dochart gives the nah which it runs”--_Id_ ”About ten miles from its source, it [the Tay] diffuses itself into _Loch Dochart_”--_Glasgow Geog_, Vol ii, p 314 LAKES:--”_Loch Ard_, Loch Achray, Loch Con, Loch Doine, Loch Katrine, Loch Lomond, Loch Voil”--_Scott corrected_ GLENS:--”_Glen Finlas_, Glen Fruin, Glen Luss, _Ross Dhu, Leven Glen_, Strath Endrick, Strath Gartney Strath Ire”--_Id_ MOUNTAINS:--”_Ben An, Ben Harrow, Ben Ledi_, Ben Lomond, _Ben Voirlich, Ben Venue_, or, (as some spell it,) _Ben Ivenew_”--_Id_[520] ”Fenelon died in 1715, deeply lamented by all the inhabitants of the _Low Countries_”--_Murray cor_ ”And _Pharaoh Necho_[521] s_, xiii, 34 ”Those who seem so merry and well pleased, call her _Good Fortune_; but the others, eep and wring their hands, _Bad Fortune_”--_Collier cor_
UNDER RULE VIII--OF COMPOUNDS
”When Joab returned, and smote Edom in the _Valley_ of _Salt_”--FRIENDS'
BIBLE: _Ps_ lx, title ”Then Paul stood in the ht he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the _Mount_ of Olives”--_Bible cor_ ”Abgillus, son of the king of the Frisii, surnane”--_U Biog Dict cor_ ”Cape Palmas, in Africa, divides the Grain _Coast_ fro cor_ ”The North Esk, flowing from Loch _Lee_, falls into the sea three miles north of Montrose”--_Id_ ”At Queen's _Ferry_, the channel of the Forth is contracted by proe_ is about twenty-five e_, ten ton _City_, the metropolis of the United States of Aton _City_, in the District of Columbia, population (in 1830) 18,826”--_Williams cor_ ”The loftiest peak of the _White Mountains_, in New Haton”--_G Brown_ ”Mount's _Bay_, in the west of England, lies between the _Land's End_ and _Lizard Point_”--_Id_ ”Salaean Sea, off the southern coast of the ancient Attica”--_Dict of Geog_ ”Rhodes, an island of the Egean _Sea_, the largest and most easterly of the Cyclades”--_Id cor_ ”But he overthrew Pharaoh and his host in the Red _Sea_”--SCOTT: _Ps_
cxxxvi, 15 ”But they provoked him at the sea, even at the Red _Sea_”--ALGER, FRIENDS: _Ps_ cvi, 7
UNDER RULE IX--OF APPOSITION
”At that time, Herod the _tetrarch_ heard of the fame of Jesus”--SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL: _Matt_, xiv, 1 ”Who has been more detested than Judas the _traitor?_”--_G Brown_ ”St Luke the _evangelist_ was a physician of Antioch, and one of the converts of St Paul”--_Id_ ”Luther, the _reforences”--_Id_ ”The _poet_ Lydgate was a disciple and adrammarian_ Varro, 'the most learned of the Rohty years old”--_Id_ ”John Despauter, the great _grammarian_ of Flanders, whose works are still valued, died in 1520”--_Id_ ”Nero, the _emperor_ and _tyrant_ of Rome, slew himself to avoid a worse death”--_Id_ ”Cicero the _orator_, 'the Father of his Country,' was assassinated at the age of 64”--_Id_ ”Euripides, the Greek _tragedian_, was born in the _island_ of Salamis, B C 476”--_Id_ ”I will say unto God otten me?”--ALGER, ET AL: _Ps_ xlii, 9 ”Staten Island, an island of New York, nine miles belo York _city_”--_Willia_ of _e cor_
”Herifts bestow'd, Whose shrine with _weanling_ lambs he wont to load”--_Pope cor_
UNDER RULE X--OF PERSONIFICATIONS