number, and person.”—­Merchant cor. “The adverb where is often used improperly, for a relative pronoun and a preposition”:  as, “Words where [in which] the h is not silent.”—­Murray, p. 31.  “The termination ish imports diminution, or a lessening of the quality.”—­Merchant cor. “In this train, all their verses proceed:  one half of a line always answering to the other.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “To a height of prosperity and glory, unknown to any former age.”—­L.  Murray cor. “Hwilc, who, which, such as, such a one, is declined as follows.”—­Gwilt cor. “When a vowel precedes the y, s only is required to form the plural; as, day, days.”—­Bucke cor. “He is asked what sort of word each is; whether a primitive, a derivative, or a compound.”—­British Gram. cor. “It is obvious, that neither the second, the third, nor the fourth chapter of Matthew, is the first; consequently, there are not ’four first chapters.’”—­Churchill cor. “Some thought, which a writer wants the art to introduce in its proper place.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Groves and meadows are the most pleasing in the spring.”—­Id. “The conflict between the carnal and the spiritual mind, is often long.”—­Gurney cor. “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful”—­Burke cor.

   “Silence, my muse! make not these jewels cheap,
    Exposing to the world too large a heap.”—­Waller cor.

CHAPTER III.—­NOUNS.

CORRECTIONS IN THE MODIFICATIONS OF NOUNS.

LESSON I.—­NUMBERS.

“All the ablest of the Jewish rabbies acknowledge it.”—­Wilson cor. “Who has thoroughly imbibed the system of one or other of our Christian rabbies.”—­Campbell cor. “The seeming singularities of reason soon wear off.”—­Collier cor. “The chiefs and arikies, or priests, have the power of declaring a place or object taboo.”—­Balbi cor. “Among the various tribes of this family, are the Pottawatomies, the Sauks and Foxes, or Saukies and Ottogamies.”—­Id. “The Shawnees, Kickapoos, Menom’onies, Miamies, and Delawares, are of the same region.”—­Id. “The Mohegans and Abenaquies belonged also to this family.”—­Id. “One tribe of this family, the Winnebagoes, formerly resided near lake Michigan.”—­Id. “The other tribes are the Ioways, the Otoes, the Missouries, the Quapaws.”—­Id.” The great Mexican family comprises the Aztecs, the Toltecs, and the Tarascoes.”—­Id.” The Mulattoes are born of negro and white parents; the Zamboes, of Indians and Negroes.”—­Id. “To have a place among the Alexanders, the Caesars,