“In English, I would have Gallicisms avoided.”—­Felton.  “Sallust was born in Italy, 85 years before the Christian era.”—­Murray cor.; “Dr. Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and useful Christians, and Christian ministers.”—­Id. “They corrupt their style with untutored Anglicisms”—­Milton.  “Albert of Stade, author of a chronicle from the creation to 1286, a Benedictine of the 13th century.”—­Biog.  Dict. cor. “Graffio, a Jesuit of Capua in the 16th century, author of two volumes on moral subjects.”—­Id. “They Frenchify and Italianize words whenever they can.”—­Bucke’s Gram., p. 86.  “He who sells a Christian, sells the grace of God.”—­Mag. cor. “The first persecution against the Christians, under Nero, began A. D. 64.”—­Gregory cor. “P.  Rapin, the Jesuit, uniformly decides in favour of the Roman writers.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 248.  “The Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher Lucretius has said,” &c.—­Cohen cor. Spell "Calvinistic, Atticism, Gothicism, Epicurism, Jesuitism, Sabianism, Socinianism, Anglican, Anglicism, Anglicize, Vandalism, Gallicism, and Romanize.”—­Webster cor. “The large Ternate bat.”—­Id. and Bolles cor.

   “Church-ladders are not always mounted best
    By learned clerks, and Latinists profess’d”—­Cowper cor.

UNDER RULE XII.—­OF I AND O.

“Fall back, fall back; I have not room:—­O! methinks I see a couple whom I should know.”—­Lucian.  “Nay, I live as I did, I think as I did, I love you as I did; but all these are to no purpose; the world will not live, think, or love, as I do.”—­Swift to Pope.  “Whither, O! whither shall I fly? O wretched prince! O cruel reverse of fortune! O father Micipsa! is this the consequence of thy generosity?”—­Tr. of Sallust. “When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”—­1 Cor., xiii, 11.  “And I heard, but I understood not; then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?”—­Dan., xii, 8.  “Here am I; I think I am very good, and I am quite sure I am very happy, yet I never wrote a treatise in my life.”—­Few Days in Athens, p. 127.  “Singular, Vocative, O master! Plural, Vocative, O masters!”—­Bicknell cor.

   “I, I am he; O father! rise, behold
    Thy son, with twenty winters now grown old!”
        —­Pope’s Odyssey, B. 24, l. 375.

UNDER RULE XIII.—­OF POETRY.