“To be, or not to be;—­that is the question.”—­Shak. et al. cor. “If it be asked, why a pause should any more be necessary to emphasis than to an accent,—­or why an emphasis alone will not sufficiently distinguish the members of sentences from each other, without pauses, as accent does words,—­the answer is obvious:  that we are preacquainted with the sound of words, and cannot mistake them when distinctly pronounced, however rapidly; but we are not preacquainted with the meaning of sentences, which must be pointed out to us by the reader or speaker.”—­Sheridan cor.

   “Cry, ‘By your priesthood, tell me what you are.’”—­Pope cor.

MIXED EXAMPLES CORRECTED.

“Who else can he be?”—­Barrett cor. “Where else can he go?”—­Id. “In familiar language, here, there, and where, are used for hither, thither, and whither.”—­N.  Butler cor. “Take, for instance, this sentence:  ‘Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.’”—­Hart cor. “Take, for instance, the sentence before quoted:  ’Indolence undermines the foundation of virtue.’”—­Id. “Under the same head, are considered such sentences as these:  ’He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.’—­’Gad, a troop shall overcome him.’”—­Id.

“Tenses are certain modifications of the verb, which point out the distinctions of time.”—­Bullions cor. “Calm was the day, and the scene, delightful.”—­Id. See Murray’s Exercises, p. 5.  “The capital letters used by the Romans to denote numbers, were C, I, L, V, X; which are therefore called Numeral Letters.  I denotes one; V, five; X, ten; L, fifty; and C, a hundred.”—­Bullions cor. “‘I shall have written;’ viz., at or before some future time or event.”—­Id. “In Latin words, the liquids are l and r only; in Greek words, l, r, m, and n.”—­Id. “Each legion was divided into ten cohorts; each cohort, into three maniples; and each maniple, into two centuries.”—­Id. “Of the Roman literature previous to A. U. 514, scarcely a vestige remains.”—­Id.

   “And that which He delights in, must be happy. 
    But when? or where?  This world was made for Caesar.”—­CATO.

    “Look next on greatness.  Say where greatness lies. 
    Where, but among the heroes and the wise?”—­Pope.

SECTION VII—­THE ECPHONEME.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.—­OF INTERJECTIONS, &c.