the o into _~in=es_, making the plural vertig~in=es:”  [not so, in English.]—­Churchill cor. “Noctambulo, [in Latin,] changes the o into _=on=es_, making the plural noctambul=on=es:”  [not so in English.]—­Id. “What shall we say of noctambuloes? It is the regular English plural.”—­G.  Brown.  “In the curious fretwork of rocks and grottoes.”—­Blair cor. “Wharf makes the plural wharfs, according to the best usage.”—­G.  Brown.  “A few cents’ worth of macaroni supplies all their wants.”—­Balbi cor. “C sounds hard, like k, at the end of a word or syllable.”—­Blair cor. “By which the virtuosoes try The magnitude of every lie.”—­Butler cor. “Quartoes, octavoes, shape the lessening pyre.”—­Pope cor. “Perching within square royal roofs”—­Sidney cor. “Similes should, even in poetry, be used with moderation.”—­Dr. Blair cor. “Similes should never be taken from low or mean objects.”—­Id. “It were certainly better to say, ‘The House of Lords,’ than, ‘The Lords’ House.’”—­Murray cor. “Read your answers. Units’ figure?  ‘Five.’ Tens’?  ‘Six.’ Hundreds’?  ‘Seven.’”—­Abbott cor. “Alexander conquered Darius’s army.”—­Kirkham cor. “Three days’ time was requisite, to prepare matters.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “So we say, that Cicero’s style and Sallust’s were not one; nor Caesar’s and Livy’s; nor Homer’s and Hesiod’s; nor Herodotus’s and Thucydides’s; nor Euripides’s and Aristophanes’s; nor Erasmus’s and Budaeus’s.”—­Puttenham cor. “LEX (i.e., legs, a law,) is no other than our ancestors’ past participle loeg, laid down”—­Tooke cor. “Achaia’s sons at Ilium slain for the Atridoe’s sake.”—­Cowper cor. “The corpses of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly.”—­Addison cor.

   “Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear;
    And spotted corpses load the frequent bier.”—­Dryden cor.

CHAPTER IV.—­ADJECTIVES.

CORRECTIONS IN THE FORMS OF COMPARISON, &c.

LESSON I.—­DEGREES.

“I have the real excuse of the most honest sort of bankrupts.”—­Cowley corrected.  “The most honourable part of talk, is, to give the occasion.”—­Bacon cor. “To give him one of the most modest of his own proverbs.”—­Barclay cor. “Our language is now, certainly, more proper and more natural, than it was formerly.”—­Burnet cor. “Which will be of the greatest and most frequent use to him in the world.”—­Locke cor. “The same is notified in the most considerable places in the diocese.”—­Whitgift