“It is strange how a writer, so accurate as Dean Swift, should have stumbled on so improper an application of this particle.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 112.  “Ye know how that a good while ago God made choice among us,” &c.—­Acts, xv, 7.  “Let us take care how we sin; i.e. that we do not sin.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 135.  “We see by these instances, how prepositions may be necessary to connect those words, which in their signification are not naturally connected.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 118.  “Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”—­2 Cor., xiii, 5.  “That thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.”—­Exod., ix, 29.

UNDER NOTE VI.—­WHEN, WHILE, OR WHERE.

“Ellipsis is when one or more words are wanting, to complete the sense.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 235; Gould’s, p. 229; B.  F. Fisk’s Greek Gram.. 184.  “Pleonasm is when a word more is added than is absolutely necessary to express the sense.”—­Same works.  “Hyst~eron prot~eron is when that is put in the former part of the sentence, which, according to the sense, should be in the latter.”—­Adam, p. 237; Gould, 230.  “Hysteron proteron, n. A rhetorical figure when that is said last which was done first.”—­Webster’s Dict. “A Barbarism is when a foreign or strange word is made use of.”—­Adam’s Gram., p. 242; Gould’s, 234.  “A Solecism is when the rules of Syntax are transgressed.”—­Iidem, ib. “An Idiotism is when the manner of expression peculiar to one language is used in another.”—­Iid., ib. “Tautology is when we either uselessly repeat the same words, or repeat the same sense in different words.”—­Adam, p. 243; Gould, 238.  “Bombast is when high sounding words are used without meaning, or upon a trifling occasion.”—­Iid., ib. “Amphibology is when, by the ambiguity of the construction, the meaning may be taken in two different senses.”—­Iid., ib. “Irony is when one means the contrary of what is said.”—­Adam, p. 247; Gould, 237.  “The Periphrasis, or Circumlocution, is when several words are employed to express what might be expressed in fewer.”—­Iid., ib. “Hyperbole is when a thing is magnified above the truth,”—­Adam, p. 249; Gould, 240.  “Personification is when we ascribe life, sentiments, or actions, to inanimate beings, or to abstract qualities.”—­Iid., ib. “Apostrophe, or Address, is when the speaker breaks off from the series of his discourse, and addresses himself to some person present or absent, living or dead, or to inanimate nature, as if endowed with sense and reason.”—­Iid., ib. “A Simile or Comparison is when the resemblance between two objects, whether real or imaginary, is expressed in form.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 223.  “Simile, or Comparison,