“O Absalom, my son!”—­See 2 Sam., xix, 4.  “O star-eyed Science! whither hast thou fled?”—­Peirce cor. “Why do you tolerate your own inconsistency, by calling it the present tense?”—­Id. “Thus the declarative mood [i.e., the indicative mood] may be used in asking a question:  as, ‘What man is frail?’”—­Id. “What connection has motive, wish, or supposition, with the the term subjunctive?”—­Id. “A grand reason, truly, for calling it a golden key!”—­Id. “What ‘suffering’ the man who can say this, must be enduring!”—­Id. “What is Brown’s Rule in relation to this matter?”—­Id. “Alas! how short is life!”—­P.  E. Day cor. “Thomas, study your book.”—­Id. “Who can tell us who they are?”—­Sanborn cor. “Lord, have mercy on my son; for he is lunatic, and sorely vexed.”—­See Matt., xvii, 15.  “O ye wild groves!  O where is now your bloom?”—­Felton cor.

   “O who of man the story will unfold?”—­Farnum cor..

    “Methought I heard Horatio say, To-morrow. 
    Go to—­I will not hear of it—­to-morrow!”—­COTTON.

    “How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore
    That painted coat which Joseph never wore!”

SECTION VIII.—­THE CURVES.

CORRECTIONS UNDER RULE I.—­OF PARENTHESES.

“Another [, better written as a phrase, An other,] is composed of the indefinite article an, (which etymologically means one,) and other; and denotes one other.”—­Hallock cor.

“Each mood has its peculiar Tense, Tenses, or Times.”—­Bucke cor.

“In some very ancient languages, (as the Hebrew,) which have been employed chiefly for expressing plain sentiments in the plainest manner, without aiming at any elaborate length or harmony of periods, this pronoun [the relative] occurs not so often.”—­L.  Murray cor.

“Before I shall say those things, O Conscript Fathers! about the public affairs, which are to be spoken at this time; I shall lay before you, in few words, the motives of the journey and the return.”—­Brightland cor.

   “Of well-chose words some take not care enough,
    And think they should be, like the subject, rough.”—­Id.

    “Then, having showed his wounds, he’d sit him down.”—­Bullions cor.

UNDER RULE II.—­OF INCLUDED POINTS.

“Then Jael smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground:  (for he was fast asleep, and weary:) so he died.”—­SCOTT’S BIBLE:  Judges, iv, 21.

“Every thing in the Iliad has manners, (as Aristotle expresses it,) that is, every thing is acted or spoken.”—­Pope cor.

“Those nouns that end in f, or fe. (except some few which I shall mention presently,) form plurals by changing those letters into ves:  as, thief, thieves:  wife, wives.”—­Bucke cor.