perfumes exhaled by fire, and made use of in religious ceremonies.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 171.  “In most of his orations, there is too much art; even carried the length of ostentation.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 246.  “To illustrate the great truth, so often lost sight of in our times.”—­Common School Journal, I, 88.  “The principal figures, made use of to affect the heart, are Exclamation, Confession, Deprecation, Commination, and Imprecation.”—­Formey’s Belles-Lettres, p. 133.  “Disgusted at the odious artifices made use of by the Judge.”—­Junius, p. 13.  “The whole reasons of our being allotted a condition, out of which so much wickedness and misery would in fact arise.”—­Butler’s Analogy p. 109.  “Some characteristieal circumstance being generally invented or laid hold of.”—­Kames, El. of Crit., ii, 246.

   “And by is likewise us’d with Names that shew
    The Means made use of, or the Method how.”—­Ward’s Gram., p. 105.

UNDER NOTE VII.—­CONSTRUCTIONS AMBIGUOUS.

“Many adverbs admit of degrees of comparison as well as adjectives.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 133.  “But the author, who, by the number and reputation of his works, formed our language more than any one, into its present state, is Dryden.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 180.  “In some States, Courts of Admiralty have no juries, nor Courts of Chancery at all.”—­Webster’s Essays, p, 146.  “I feel myself grateful to my friend.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 276.  “This requires a writer to have, himself, a very clear apprehension of the object he means to present to us.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 94.  “Sense has its own harmony, as well as sound.”—­lb., p. 127.  “The apostrophe denotes the omission of an i which was formerly inserted, and made an addition of a syllable to the word.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 67.  “There are few, whom I can refer to, with more advantage than Mr. Addison.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 139.  “DEATH, in theology, [is a] perpetual separation from God, and eternal torments.”—­Webster’s Dict. “That could inform the traveler as well as the old man himself!”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 345.

UNDER NOTE VIII.—­YE AND YOU IN SCRIPTURE.

“Ye daughters of Rabbah, gird ye with sackcloth.”—­ALGER’S BIBLE:  Jer., xlix, 3.  “Wash ye, make you clean.”—­Brown’s Concordance, w.  Wash.  “Strip ye, and make ye bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.”—­ALGER’S BIBLE:  Isaiah, xxxii, 11.  “You are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Job, xix, 3.  “You are not ashamed that ye make yourselves strange to me.”—­ALGER’S BIBLE:  ib. “If you knew the gift of God.”—­Brown’s Concordance, w.  Knew.  “Depart from me, ye workers of iniquity, I know ye not.”—­Penington’s Works, ii, 122.