p. 9. “Genius, Plu. geniuses, men of wit; but genii, aerial beings.”—­Nutting’s Gram., p. 18.  “Aerisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful daughter, whose name was Danae.”—­Classic Tales, p. 109.  “Phaeton was the son of Apollo and Clymene.”—­Ib., p. 152.  “But, after all, I may not have reached the intended Gaol.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, Pref., p. xxvii.  “‘Pitticus was offered a large sum.’  Better:  ’A large sum was offered to Pitticus.’”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 187.  “King Missipsi charged his sons to respect the senate and people of Rome.”—­See ib., p. 161.  “For example:  Gallileo invented the telescope.”—­Ib., pp. 54 and 67.  “Cathmor’s warriours sleep in death.”—­Ib., p. 54.  “For parsing will enable you to detect and correct errours in composition.”—­Ib., p. 50.

   “O’er barren mountains, o’er the flow’ry plain,
    Extends thy uncontroul’d and boundless reign.”—­Dryden.

PROMISCUOUS ERRORS IN SPELLING.

LESSON I.—­MIXED.

“A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critick.”—­POPE:  Johnson’s Dict., w.  Former.  “Produce a single passage superiour to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, delivered to Lord Dunmore, when governour of Virginia.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 247.  “We have none synonimous to supply its place.”—­Jamieson’s Rhetoric, p. 48.  “There is a probability that the effect will be accellerated.”—­Ib., p. 48.  “Nay, a regard to sound hath controuled the public choice.”—­Ib., p. 46.  “Though learnt from the uninterrupted use of gutterel sounds.”—­Ib., p. 5.  “It is by carefully filing off all roughness and inequaleties, that languages, like metals, must be polished.”—­Ib., p. 48.  “That I have not mispent my time in the service of the community.”—­Buchanan’s Syntax, Pref., p. xxviii.  “The leaves of maiz are also called blades.”—­Webster’s El.  Spelling-Book, p. 43.  “Who boast that they know what is past, and can foretel what is to come.”—­Robertson’s Amer., Vol. i, p. 360.  “Its tasteless dullness is interrupted by nothing but its perplexities.”—­ Abbott’s Teacher, p. 18.  “Sentences constructed with the Johnsonian fullness and swell.”—­Jamieson’s Rhet., p. 130.  “The privilege of escaping from his prefatory dullness and prolixity.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. iv.  “But in poetry this characteristick of dulness attains its full growth.”—­Ib., p. 72.  “The leading characteristick consists in an increase of the force and fullness.”—­Ib., p. 71.  “The character of this opening fulness and feebler vanish.”—­Ib., p. 31.  “Who, in the fullness of unequalled power, would not believe himself the favourite of heaven?”—­Ib., p. 181.  “They marr one another, and distract him.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 433.  “Let a deaf worshipper of antiquity and an English prosodist settle