“Why so sagacious in your guesses? 
    Your Effs, and Tees, and Ars, and Esses?”—­Swift corrected.

UNDER RULE V.—­OF TITLES.

“The king has conferred on him the title of Duke.”—­Murray cor. “At the court of Queen Elizabeth.”—­Priestley’s E. Gram., p. 99; see Bullions’s, p. 24.  “The laws of nature are, truly, what Lord Bacon styles his aphorisms, laws of laws.”—­Murray cor. “Sixtus the Fourth was, if I mistake not, a great collector of books.”—­Id. “Who at that time made up the court of King Charles the Second”—­Id. “In case of his Majesty’s dying without issue.”—­Kirkham cor. “King Charles the First was beheaded in 1649.”—­W.  Allen cor. “He can no more impart, or (to use Lord Bacon’s word) transmit convictions.”—­Kirkham cor. “I reside at Lord Stormont’s, my old patron and benefactor.”  Better:  “I reside with Lord Stormont, my old patron and benefactor.”—­Murray cor. “We staid a month at Lord Lyttelton’s, the ornament of his country.”  Much better:  “We stayed a month at the seat of Lord Lyttelton, who is the ornament of his country.”—­Id. “Whose prerogative is it?  It is the King-of-Great-Britain’s;” [518]—­“That is the Duke-of-Bridgewater’s canal;”—­“The Bishop-of-Landaff’s excellent book;”—­“The Lord Mayor-of-London’s authority.”—­Id. (See Murray’s Note 4th on his Rule 10th.) “Why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?”—­Luke, vi, 46.  “And of them he chose twelve, whom also he named Apostles.”—­ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.:  Luke, vi, 13.  “And forthwith he came to Jesus, and said, Hail, Master; and kissed him.”—­Matt., xxvi, 49.  “And he said, Nay, Father Abraham:  but if one went unto them from the dead, they would repent.”—­Bible cor.

UNDER RULE VI.—­OF ONE CAPITAL.

“Fallriver, a village in Massachusetts, population (in 1830) 3,431.”—­Williams cor. “Dr. Anderson died at Westham, in Essex, in 1808.”—­Biog.  Dict. cor. “Madriver, the name of two towns in Clark and Champaign counties, Ohio.”—­Williams cor. “Whitecreek, a town of Washington county, New York.”—­Id. “Saltcreek, the name of four towns in different parts of Ohio.”—­Id. “Saltlick, a town of Fayette county, Pennsylvania.”—­Id. “Yellowcreek, a town of Columbiana county, Ohio.”—­Id. “Whiteclay, a hundred of Newcastle county, Delaware.”—­ Id. “Newcastle, a town and half-shire of Newcastle county, Delaware.”—­Id. “Singsing, a village of Westchester county, New York, situated in the town of Mountpleasant.”—­Id.