post when he met them.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 69.  “They fulfill the only purposes for which they were designed.”—­Peirce cor.—­See Webster’s Dict. “On the fulfillment of the event.”—­Peirce, right. “Fullness consists in expressing every idea.”—­Id. “Consistently with fullness and perspicuity.”—­Peirce cor. “The word veriest is a regular adjective; as, ‘He is the veriest fool on earth.’”—­Wright cor. “The sound will recall the idea of the object.”—­Hiley cor. “Formed for great enterprises.”—­Hiley’s Gram., p. 113.  “The most important rules and definitions are printed in large type, Italicized.”—­Hart cor. “HAMLETED, a., accustomed to a hamlet, countrified.”—­Webster, and Worcester.  “Singular, spoonful, cupful, coachful, handful; plural, spoonfuls, cupfuls, coachfuls, handfuls.”—­Worcester’s Universal and Critical Dictionary.

   “Between superlatives and following names,
    Of, by grammatic right, a station claims.”—­Brightland cor.

THE KEY.—­PART II.—­ETYMOLOGY.

CHAPTER I.—­PARTS OF SPEECH.

The first chapter of Etymology, as it exhibits only the distribution of words into the ten Parts of Speech, contains no false grammar for correction.  And it may be here observed, that as mistakes concerning the forms, classes, or modifications of words, are chiefly to be found in sentences, rather than in any separate exhibition of the terms; the quotations of this kind, with which I have illustrated the principles of etymology, are many of them such as might perhaps with more propriety be denominated false syntax.  But, having examples enough at hand to show the ignorance and carelessness of authors in every part of grammar, I have thought it most advisable, so to distribute them as to leave no part destitute of this most impressive kind of illustration.  The examples exhibited as false etymology, are as distinct from those which are called false syntax, as the nature of the case will admit.

CHAPTER II.—­ARTICLES.

CORRECTIONS RESPECTING A, AN, AND THE.

LESSON I.—­ARTICLES ADAPTED.

“Honour is a useful distinction in life.”—­Milnes cor. “No writer, therefore, ought to foment a humour of innovation.”—­Jamieson cor. “Conjunctions [generally] require a situation between the things of which they form a union.”—­Id. “Nothing is more easy than to mistake a u for an a.”—­Tooke cor. “From making so ill a use of our innocent expressions.”—­Penn cor. “To grant thee a heavenly and incorruptible crown of glory.”—­Sewel