p. 329.  “The measurable constructive-powers of a few associable constituents.”—­Ib., p. 343.  “Before each accented syllable or emphatic monosyllabic-word.”—­Ib., p. 364.  “One should not think too favourably of oneself.”—­See Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 154.  “Know ye not your ownselves, how that Jesus Christ is in you.”—­Barclay’s Works, Vol. i, p. 355.  “I judge not my ownself, for I know nothing of my ownself.”—­ Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 84.  “Though they were in such a rage, I desired them to tarry awhile.”—­Josephus, Vol. v, p. 179. “A instead of an is now used before words beginning with a long.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 31.  “John will have earned his wages the next new-year’s day.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 82.  “A new-year’s-gift is a present made on the first day of the year.”—­See Johnson, Walker, Webster, et al. “When he sat on the throne, distributing new-year’s-gifts.”—­STILLINGFLEET, in Johnson’s Dict. “St. Paul admonishes Timothy to refuse old-wives’- fables.”—­Author.  “The world, take it altogether, is but one.”—­ Collier’s Antoninus, B. vii, Sec. 9.  “In writings of this stamp we must accept of sound instead of sense.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 298.  “A male-child, A female-child, Male-descendants, Female-descendants.”—­ Goldsbury’s C. S. Gram., p. 13; Rev. T. Smith’s Gram., p. 15.  “Male-servants, Female-servants.  Male-relations, Female-relations.”—­ Felton’s Gram., p. 15.

   “Reserved and cautious, with no partial aim,
    My muse e’er sought to blast another’s fame.”—­Lloyd, p. 162.

UNDER RULE III.—­THE SENSE.

“Our discriminations of this matter have been but four footed instincts.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 291.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the term four footed is made two words, as if the instincts were four and footed.  But, according to Rule 3d, “Words otherwise liable to be misunderstood, must be joined together, or written separately, as the sense and construction may happen to require.”  Therefore, four-footed, as it here means quadruped, or having four feet, should be one word.]

“He is in the right, (says Clytus,) not to bear free born men at his table.”—­Goldsmith’s Greece, Vol. ii, p. 128.  “To the short seeing eye of man, the progress may appear little.”—­The Friend, Vol. ix, p. 377.  “Knowledge and virtue are, emphatically, the stepping stone to individual distinction.”—­Town’s Analysis, p. 5.  “A tin peddler will sell tin vessels as he travels.”—­Webster’s New Spelling-Book, p. 44.  “The beams of a wood-house are held up by the posts and joists.”—­Ib., p. 39.  “What you mean by future tense adjective, I can easily understand.”—­Tooke’s Diversions, Vol. ii, p. 450.  “The town has been for several days very well behaved.”—­Spectator,