Gram., p. 216.  “Pontius Pilate being Governour of Judea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee.”—­Ib., p. 189.  See Luke, iii, 1.  “AUCTIONEER, n. s.  The person that manages an auction.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “The earth put forth her primroses and days-eyes, to behold him.”—­HOWEL:  ib. “Musselman, not being a compound of man, is musselmans in the plural.”—­Lennie’s Gram., p. 9.  “The absurdity of fatigueing them with a needless heap of grammar rules.”—­Burgh’s Dignity, Vol. i, p. 147.  “John was forced to sit with his arms a kimbo, to keep them asunder.”—­ARBUTHNOT:  Joh.  Dict. “To set the arms a kimbo, is to set the hands on the hips, with the elbows projecting outward.”—­Webster’s Dict. “We almost uniformly confine the inflexion to the last or the latter noun.”—­Maunder’s Gram., p. 2.  “This is all souls day, fellows!  Is it not?”—­SHAK.:  in Joh.  Dict. “The english physicians make use of troy-weight.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “There is a certain number of ranks allowed to dukes, marquisses, and earls.”—­PEACHAM:  ib., w.  Marquis.

“How could you chide the young good natur’d prince,
And drive him from you with so stern an air.” 
—­ADDISON:  ib., w.  Good, 25.

EXERCISE XII.—­MIXED ERRORS.

“In reading, every appearance of sing-song should be avoided.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 75.  “If you are thoroughly acquainted with the inflexions of the verb.”—­Ib., p. 53.  “The preterite of read is pronounced red.”—­Ib., p. 48.  “Humility opens a high way to dignity.”—­Ib., p. 15.  “What is intricate must be unraveled.”—­Ib., p. 275.  “Roger Bacon invented gun powder, A. D. 1280.”—­Ib., p. 277.  “On which ever word we lay the emphasis.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 243; 12mo, p. 195.  “Each of the leaders was apprized of the Roman invasion.”—­Nixon’s Parser, p. 123.  “If I say, ‘I gallopped from Islington to Holloway;’ the verb is intransitive:  if, ‘I gallopped my horse from Islington to Holloway;’ it is transitive.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 238.  “The reasonableness of setting a part one day in seven.”—­The Friend, Vol. iv, p. 240.  “The promoters of paper money making reprobated this act.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 196.  “There are five compound personal pronouns, which are derived from the five simple personal pronouns by adding to some of their cases the syllable self; as, my-self, thy-self, him-self, her-self, it-self.”—­Perley’s Gram., p. 16.  “Possessives, my-own, thy-own, his-own, her-own, its-own, our-own, your-own, their-own.”—­Ib., Declensions.  “Thy man servant and thy maid servant may rest, as well as thou.”—­Sanborn’s Gram., p. 160.  “How many right angles has an acute angled triangle?”—­Ib., p. 220.  “In the days of Jorum, king of Israel,