[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the term “Asserter” which is here put for Verb, is both ignorantly misspelled, and whimsically misapplied.  But, according to Critical Note 14th, “Any use of words that implies ignorance of their meaning, or of their proper orthography, is particularly unscholarlike; and, in proportion to the author’s pretensions to learning, disgraceful.”  The errors here committed might have been avoided thus:  “What is a verb?  It is a word which signifies to be, to act, or to be acted upon.”  Or thus:  “What is an assertor?  Ans.  ’One who affirms positively; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator.’—­Webster’s Dict.”]

“Virgil wrote the AEnead.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 56.  “Which, to a supercilious or inconsiderate Japaner, would seem very idle and impertinent.”—­Locke, on Ed., p. 225.  “Will not a look of disdain cast upon you, throw you into a foment?”—­Life of Th.  Say, p. 146.  “It may be of use to the scholar, to remark in this place, that though only the conjunction if is affixed to the verb, any other conjunction proper for the subjunctive mood, may, with equal propriety, be occasionally annexed.”—­L.  Murray’s Gram., p. 93.  “When proper names have an article annexed to them, they are used as common names.”—­Ib., p. 36; Ingersoll’s, 25; et al. “When a proper noun has an article annexed to it, it is used as a common noun.”—­Merchant’s Gram., p. 25.  “Seeming to disenthral the death-field of its terrors.”—­Ib., p. 109.  “For the same reason, we might, without any disparagement to the language, dispense with the terminations of our verbs in the singular.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 50.  “It diminishes all possibility of being misunderstood.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 175.  “Approximation to excellence is all that we can expect.”—­Ib., p. 42.  “I have often joined in singing with musicianists at Norwich.”—­Music of Nature, p. 274.  “When not standing in regular prosic order.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 281.  “Disregardless of the dogmas and edicts of the philosophical umpire.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 75.  “Others begin to talk before their mouths are open, affixing the mouth-closing M to most of their words—­as M-yes for Yes.”—­Music of Nature, p. 28.  “That noted close of his, esse videatur, exposed him to censure among his cotemporaries.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 127.  “OWN.  Formerly, a man’s own was what he worked for, own being a past participle of a verb signifying to work.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 71.  “As [requires] so:  expressing a comparison of quality:  as, ’As the one dieth, so dieth the other.’”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 212; R.  C. Smith’s, 177; and many others.  “To obey our parents is a solemn duty.”—­Parker and Fox’s Gram., Part I, p. 67.  “Most all the political papers of the kingdom have touched