“’Metre is not confined to verse:  there is a tune in all good prose; and Shakspeare’s was a sweet one.’—­Epea Pter, II, 61.  Mr. H. Tooke’s idea was probably just, agreeing with Aristotle’s, but not accurately expressed.”—­Churchill’s New Gram., p. 385.

“Mr. J. H. Tooke was educated at Eton and at Cambridge, in which latter college he took the degree of A. M; being intended for the established church of England, he entered into holy orders when young, and obtained the living of Brentford, near London, which he held ten or twelve years.”—­Div. of Purley, 1st Amer.  Edition, Vol. i, p. 60.

   “I, nor your plan, nor book condemn,
    But why your name, and why A. M!”—­Lloyd.

MIXED EXAMPLES OF ERROR.

“If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, &c. Isaiah. lviii. 7.”—­Butler’s Gram., p. 67. “’He that hath eeris of herynge, here he. Wiclif.  Matt xi.”—­Butler’s Gram., p. 76.  “See General Rules for Spelling, iii., v., and vii.”—­Butler’s Gram., p. 81. “’False witnesses did rise up.’ Ps. xxxv. ii.”—­Butlers Gram., p. 105.

“An explicative sentence is used for explaining.  An interrogative sentence for enquiring.  An imperative sentence for commanding.”—­S.  Barrett’s Prin. of Language, p. 87.  “In October, corn is gathered in the field by men, who go from hill to hill with baskets, into which they put the ears; Susan labors with her needle for a livelihood; notwithstanding his poverty, he is a man of integrity.”—­Goldsbury’s Parsing, Manual of E. Gram., p. 62.

“A word of one syllable, is called a monosyllable.  A word of two syllables; a dissyllable.  A word of three syllables; a trissyllable.  A word of four or more syllables; a polysyllable.”—­Frazee’s Improved Gram., 1st Ed., p. 15.  “A word of one syllable, is called a monosyllable.  A word of two syllables, a dissyllable.  A word of three syllables, a trissyllable.  A word of four or more syllables, a polysyllable.”—­Frazee’s Improved Gram., Ster.  Ed., p. 17.

“If I say, ‘if it did not rain, I would take a walk;’ I convey the idea that it does rain, at the time of speaking, If it rained, or did it rain, in the present time, implies, it does not rain; If it did not rain, or did it not rain, in present time, implies that it does rain; thus in this peculiarity, an affirmative sentence always implies a negation, and a negative sentence an affirmation.”—­Frazee’s Gram., 1st Ed., p. 61; Ster.  Ed., 62. “If I were loved, and, were I loved, imply, I am not loved; if I were not loved, and, were I not loved, imply, I am loved; a negative sentence implies an affirmation; and an affirmative sentence implies a negation, in these forms of the subjunctive.”—­Ib., Old Ed., p. 73; Ster.  Ed., 72.