Part 219 (1/2)

”But _Wisdom_ is justified of all her children”--FRIENDS' BIBLE: _Luke_, vii, 35 ”Fortune and the _Church_ are generally put in the feender: that is, when personified” ”Go to your _Natural Religion_; lay before her Mahomet and his disciples”--_Bp Sherlock_ ”O _Death!_ where is thy sting? O _Grave!_ where is thy victory”--_Pope_: _1 Cor_, xv, 55; _Merchant's Gram_, p 172 ”Ye cannot serve God and Mammon”--_Matt_, vi, 24 ”Ye cannot serve God and _Mammon_”--See _Luke_, xvi, 13 ”This house was built as if _Suspicion_ herself had dictated the plan”--_Rasselas_

”Poetry distinguishes herself fro to a musical law”--_Music of Nature_, p 501 ”My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her divine instructions: 'My na of _Truth_ and _Love_, and the parent of _Benevolence, Hope_, and _Joy_ That monster, from whose power I have freed you, is called _Superstition_: she is called the child of _Discontent_, and her followers are _Fear_ and _Sorrow_'”--_E Carter_ ”Neither _Hope_ nor _Fear_ could enter the retreats; and _Habit_ had so absolute a power, that even _Conscience_, if _Religion_ had employed her in their favour, would not have been able to force an entrance”--_Dr Johnson_

”In colleges and halls in ancient days, There dwelt a sage called _Discipline_”--_Cowper_

UNDER RULE XI--OF DERIVATIVES

”In English, I would have _Gallicisms_ avoided”--_Felton_ ”Sallust was born in Italy, 85 years before the _Christian_ era”--_Murray cor_; ”Dr

Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and useful _Christians_, and _Christian_ ministers”--_Id_ ”They corrupt their style with untutored _Anglicisms_”--_Milton_ ”Albert of Stade, author of a chronicle from the creation to 1286, a _Benedictine_ of the 13th century”--_Biog Dict cor_ ”Graffio, a _Jesuit_ of Capua in the 16th century, author of two volumes on moral subjects”--_Id_ ”They _Frenchify_ and _Italianize_ words whenever they can”--_Bucke's Grarace of God”--_Mag cor_ ”The first persecution against the _Christians_, under Nero, began A D

64”--_Gregory cor_ ”P Rapin, the _Jesuit_, uniformly decides in favour of the Roman writers”--_Blair's Rhet_, p 248 ”The Roman poet and _Epicurean_ philosopher Lucretius has said,” &c--_Cohen cor_ Spell _”Calvinistic, Atticism, Gothicislicislicize, Vandalise _Ternate_ bat”--_Id and Bolles cor_

”Church-ladders are not always mounted best By learned clerks, and _Latinists_ profess'd”--_Cowper cor_

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_ ”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 to Pope_

”Whither, _O!_ whither shall _I_ fly? _O_ wretched prince! _O_ cruel reverse of fortune! _O_ father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy generosity?”--_Tr of Sallust_ ”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 ”And _I_ heard, but _I_ understood not; then said _I, O_ s?”--_Dan_, xii, 8 ”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 cor_

”I, _I_ am he; _O_ father! rise, behold Thy son, with twenty winters non old!”

--_Pope's Odyssey_, B 24, l 375

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_

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

The smoothest verse and the exactest sense _Displease_ us, if ill English 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”--_Dryden_

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 cor_ ”_Neither_ imports _not either_; that is, not one nor the other: as, '_Neither_ of my friends was there'”--_Id_ ”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”--_Id_ ”We more readily say, 'A million of men,' than, '_A_ thousand of men'”--_Id_ ”So in the instances, '_Two_ and two are four;'--'_The_ fifth and sixth volumes will complete the set of books'”--_Id_ ”The adjective may frequently either precede or follow the verb: as, '_The_ man is _happy_;' or, '_Happy_ is the htful_ was the interview'”--_Id_ ”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_ Westreat, who has the habits of greatness”--_Id_ ”I say not unto thee, _Until_ seven times; but, _Until_ seventy times seven”--_Matt_, xviii, 22

”The Panther smil'd at this; and, '_When_,' said she, 'Were those first councils disallow'd by me?'”--_Dryd cor_

UNDER RULE XV--OF CHIEF WORDS

”The supreme council of the nation is called the _Divan_”--_Balbi cor_ ”The British _Parlia, Lords_, and _Commons_”--_Comly's Gram_, p 129; and _Jaudon's_, 127 ”A popular orator in the House of Co as many new terms as he pleases”--See _Campbell's Rhet_, p 169; _Murray's Graether, as one name; as, '_The House of Commons_'”--_Merchant cor_ ”Intrusted to persons in whom the _Parliament_ could confide”--_Murray cor_ ”For 'The _Lords' House_,' it were certainly better to say, '_The House of Lords_;' and, in stead of 'The _Commons'_ vote,' to say 'The _vote_ of the _Commons_'”--_Id and Priestley cor_ ”The _House_ of _Lords_ were so much influenced by these reasons”--_Iidereat classes; _Figures_ of _Words_, and _Figures_ of _Thought_ The forures_ of _Words_, are commonly called _Tropes_”--_Murray's Graination_, and _Figures_ of _Passion_, ht be a more useful distribution”--_Ib_ ”Hitherto we have considered sentences, under the heads of _Perspicuity, Unity_, and _Strength_”--See _Murray's Gram_, p 356

”The word is then depos'd; and, in this view, You rule the _Scripture_, not the _Scripture_ you”--_Dryd cor_