“Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come.”—­Thomson’s Seasons, p. 29.  As, “He is the Cicero of his age;”—­“He is reading the Lives of the Twelve Caesars;”—­or, if no particular book is meant,—­“the lives of the twelve Caesars;” (as it is in Fisk’s Grammar, p. 57;) for the sentence, as it stands in Murray, is ambiguous.  “In the History of Henry the Fourth, by Father Daniel, we are surprised at not finding him the great man.”—­Smollett’s Voltaire, Vol. v, p. 82.  “Do not those same poor peasants use the lever, and the wedge, and many other instruments?”—­Harris and Mur. cor. “Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of liquors; geometry, for the measuring of estates; astronomy, for the making of almanacs; and grammar, perhaps, for the drawing of bonds and conveyances.”—­See Murray’s Gram., p. 288.  “The [History of the] Wars of Flanders, written in Latin by Famianus Strada, is a book of some note.”—­Blair cor. “William is a noun. Why? Was is a verb. Why? A is an article. Why? Very is an adverb. Why?” &c.—­Merchant cor. “In the beginning was the Word, and that Word was with God, and God was that Word.”—­See Gospel of John, i, 1.  “The Greeks are numerous in Thessaly, Macedonia, Romelia, and Albania.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 360.  “He [the Grand Seignior] is styled by the Turks, Sultan, Mighty, or Padishah, Lord.”—­Balbi cor. “I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death.  O Death!  I will be thy plague; O Grave!  I will be thy destruction.”—­Bible cor. “Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have, give I [unto] thee.”—­See Acts, iii, 6.  “Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts! look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine.”—­See Psalm lxxx, 14.  “In the Attic commonwealth, it was the privilege of every citizen to rail in public.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 316.  “They assert, that in the phrases, ’GIVE me that,’—­’This is John’s,’ and, ’Such were some of you,’—­the words in Italics are pronouns; but that, in the following phrases, they are not pronouns:  ’This book is instructive;’—­’Some boys are ingenious;’—­’My health is declining;’—­’Our hearts are deceitful.’”—­Murray partly corrected.[523] “And the coast bends again to the northwest, as far as Farout Head.”—­Geog. cor. “Dr. Webster, and other makers of spelling-books, very improperly write Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, without capitals.”—­G.  Brown.  “The commander in chief of the Turkish navy is styled the Capitan Pacha.”—­Balbi