“On the foregoing examples, I have a word to say. They are better than a fair specimen of their kind. Our grammars abound with worse illustrations. Their models of English are generally spurious quotations. Few of their proof-texts have any just parentage. Goose-eyes are abundant, but names scarce. Who fathers the foundlings? Nobody.  Then let their merit be nobody’s, and their defects his who could write no better.”—­Author. “Goose-eyes!” says a bright boy; “pray, what are they? Does this Mr. Author make new words when he pleases? Dead-eyes are in a ship. They are blocks, with holes in them. But what are goose-eyes in grammar?” ANSWER:  “Goose-eyes are quotation points. Some of the Germans gave them this name, making a jest of their form. The French call them guillemets, from the name of their inventor.”—­Author. “It is a personal pronoun, of the third person singular.”—­Comly cor. “Ourselves is a personal pronoun, of the first person plural.”—­Id. “Thee is a personal pronoun, of the second person singular.”—­Id. “Contentment is a common noun, of the third person singular.”—­Id. “Were is a neuter verb, of the indicative mood, imperfect tense.”—­Id.

UNDER RULE III.—­OF DEITY.

“O thou Dispenser of life! thy mercies are boundless.”—­Allen cor. “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?”—­ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Gen., xviii, 25.  “And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”—­SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Gen., i, 2.  “It is the gift of Him, who is the great Author of good, and the Father of mercies.”—­Murray cor. “This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt.”—­FRIENDS’ BIBLE:  Neh., ix, 18.  “For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our King.”—­Psal.. lxxxix, 18.  “By making him the responsible steward of Heaven’s bounties.”—­A.  S. Mag. cor. “Which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day.”—­ALGER:  2 Tim., iv, 8.  “The cries of them ... entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.”—­ALGER, FRIENDS:  James, v, 4.  “In Horeb, the Deity revealed himself to Moses, as the Eternal ‘I AM,’ the Self-existent One; and, after the first discouraging interview of his messengers with Pharaoh, he renewed his promise to them, by the awful name, JEHOVAH—­a name till then unknown, and one which the Jews always held it a fearful profanation to pronounce.”—­G.  Brown.  “And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD:  and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.”—­SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS:  Exod., vi, 2.  “Thus saith the LORD[517] the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the First, and I am the Last; and besides me there is no God.”—­See Isa., xliv, 6.