[517] OBSERVATION.—­In the Bible, the word LORD, whenever it stands for the Hebrew name JEHOVAH, not only commences with a full capital, but has small or half capitals for the other letters; and I have thought proper to print both words in that manner here.  In correcting the last example, I follow Dr. Scott’s Bible, except in the word “God,” which he writes with a small g.  Several other copies have “first” and “last” with small initials, which I think not so correct; and some distinguish the word “hosts” with a capital, which seems to be needless.  The sentence here has eleven capitals:  in the Latin Vulgate, it has but six, and one of them is for the last word, “Deus,” God.—­G.  B.

[518] OBS.—­This construction I dislike.  Without hyphens, it is improper; and with them it is not to be commended.  See Syntax, Obs 24th on Rule IV.—­G.  B.

[519] On the page here referred to, the author of the Gazetteer has written “Charles city,” &c.  Analogy requires that the words be compounded, because they constitute three names which are applied to counties, and not to cities.

[520] OBS.—­The following words, as names of towns, come under Rule 6th, and are commonly found correctly compounded in the books of Scotch geography and statistics; “Strathaven, Stonehaven, Strathdon, Glenluce, Greenlaw, Coldstream, Lochwinnoch, Lochcarron, Loehmaber, Prestonpans, Prestonkirk, Peterhead, Queensferry, Newmills,” and many more like them.

[521] Section OBS.—­This name, in both the Vulgate and the Septuagint, is Pharao Nechao, with two capitals and no hyphen.  Walker gives the two words separately in his Key, and spells the latter Necho, and not Nechoh.  See the same orthography in Jer., xlvi, 2.  In our common Bibles, many such names are needlessly, if not improperly, compounded; sometimes with one capital, and sometimes with two.  The proper manner of writing Scripture names, is too little regarded even by good men and biblical critics.

[522] “[Marcus] Terentius Varro, vir Romanorum eruditissimus.”—­QUINTILIAN.  Lib. x, Cap. 1, p. 577.

[523] NOTE.—­By this amendment, we remove a multitude of errors, but the passage is still very faulty.  What Murray here calls “phrases,” are properly sentences; and, in his second clause, he deserts the terms of the first to bring in “my,” “our,” and also “_&c._,” which seem to be out of place there.—­G.  BROWN.

[524] An other is a phrase of two words, which ought to be written separately.  The transferring of the n to the latter word, is a gross vulgarism.  Separate the words, and it will be avoided.

[525] Mys-ter-y, according to Scott and Cobb; mys-te-ry, according to Walker and Worcester.

[526] Kirkham borrowed this doctrine of “Tonics, Subtonics, and Atonies,” from Rush:  and dressed it up in his own worse bombast.  See Obs. 13 and 14, on the Powers of the Letters.—­GB.