“Down from his neck, with blazing gems array’d,
    Thy image, lovely Anna! hung portray’d;
    Th’ unconscious figure, smiling all serene,
    Suspended in a golden chain was seen.”—­Falconer.

UNDER RULE II.—­OF ALLIED SENTENCES.

“This life is a mere prelude to an other which has no limits. It is a little portion of duration.  As death leaves us, so the day of judgement will find us.”—­Merchant cor.

“He went from Boston to New York.—­He went (I say) from Boston; he went to New York.  In walking across the floor, he stumbled over a chair.”—­Goldsbury corrected.

“I saw him on the spot, going along the road, looking towards the house.  During the heat of the day, he sat on the ground, under the shade of a tree.”—­Goldsbury corrected.

“‘George came home; I saw him yesterday.’ Here the word him can extend only to the individual George.”—­Barrett corrected.

“Commas are often used now, where parentheses were [adopted] formerly.  I cannot, however, esteem this an improvement.”—­Bucke’s Classical Grammar, p. 20.

   “Thou, like a sleeping, faithless sentinel,
    Didst let them pass unnotic’d, unimprov’d. 
    And know, for that thou slumberst on the guard,
    Thou shalt be made to answer at the bar
    For every fugitive.”—­COTTON:  Hallock and Enfield cor.

UNDER RULE III.—­OF ABBREVIATIONS.

“The term pronoun (Lat. pronomen) strictly means a word used for, or in stead of, a noun.”—­Bullions corrected.

“The period is also used after abbreviations; as, A. D., P. S., G. W. Johnson.”—­N.  Butler cor.

“On this principle of classification, the later Greek grammarians divided words into eight classes, or parts of speech:  viz., the Article, Noun, Pronoun, Verb, Participle, Adverb, Preposition, and Conjunction.”—­ Bullions cor.

“’Metre [Melody] is not confined to verse:  there is a tune in all good prose; and Shakspeare’s was a sweet one.’—­Epea Pter., ii, 61. [First American Ed., ii, 50.] Mr. H. Tooke’s idea was probably just, agreeing with Aristotle’s; but [, if so, it is] not accurately expressed.”—­ Churchill cor.

“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.”—­Tooke’s Annotator cor.

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

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

“If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath,” &c.—­Isaiah, lviii, 13.  “He that hath eeris of hervnge, here he.”—­WICKLIFFE:  Matt., xi, 15.  “See General Rules for Spelling, iii, v, and vii.”—­N.  Butler cor. “False witnesses did rise up.”—­Ps., xxxv, 11.