“The country’s liberty being oppressed, we have no more to hope.”—­Id. “A brief but true account of this people’s principles.”—­Barclay cor. “As, The Church’s peace, or, The peace of the Church; Virgil’s AEneid, or, The AEneid of Virgil.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor. “As, Virgil’s AEneid, for, The AEneid of Virgil; The Church’s peace, for, The peace of the Church.”—­Buchanan cor. “Which, with Hubner’s Compend, and Well’s Geographia Classica, will be sufficient.”—­Burgh cor. “Witness Homer’s speaking horses, scolding goddesses, and Jupiter enchanted with Venus’s girdle.”—­Id. “Dr. Watts’s Logic may with success be read to them and commented on.”—­Id. “Potter’s Greek, and Kennet’s Roman Antiquities, Strauchius’s and Helvicus’s Chronology.”—­Id. “SING. Alice’s friends, Felix’s property; PLUR.  The Alices’ friends, the Felixes’ property.”—­Peirce cor. “Such as Bacchus’s company—­at Bacchus’s festivals.”—­Ainsworih cor. “Burns’s inimitable Tam o’ Shanter turns entirely upon such a circumstance.”—­Scott cor. “Nominative, men; Genitive, [or Possessive,] men’s; Objective, men.”—­Cutler cor. “Men’s happiness or misery is mostly of their own making.”—­Locke cor. “That your son’s clothes be never made strait, especially about the breast.”—­Id. “Children’s minds are narrow and weak.”—­Id. “I would not have little children much tormented about punctilios, or niceties of breeding.”—­Id. “To fill his head with suitable ideas.”—­Id. “The Burgusdisciuses and the Scheiblers did not swarm in those days, as they do now.”—­Id. “To see the various ways of dressing—­a calf’s head!”—­Shenstone cor.

   “He puts it on, and for decorum’s sake
    Can wear it e’en as gracefully as she.”—­Cowper cor.

LESSON III.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Simon the wizard was of this religion too”—­Bunyan cor. “MAMMODIES, n.  Coarse, plain, India muslins.”—­Webster cor. “Go on from single persons to families, that of the Pompeys for instance.”—­Collier cor. “By which the ancients were not able to account for phenomena.”—­Bailey cor. “After this I married a woman who had lived at Crete, but a Jewess by birth.”—­Josephus cor. “The very heathens are inexcusable for not worshiping him.”—­Todd cor. “Such poems as Camoens’s Lusiad, Voltaire’s Henrinde, &c.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “My learned correspondent writes a word in defence of large scarfs.”—­Sped. cor. “The forerunners of an apoplexy are dullness, vertigoes, tremblings.”—­Arbuthnot cor.” Vertigo, [in Latin,] changes