with a capital.  With some apparent inconsistency, we commonly write the word Gentiles with a capital, but pagans, heathens, and negroes, without:  thus custom has marked these names with degradation.  The names of the days of the week, and those of the months, however expressed, appear to me to partake of the nature of proper names, and to require capitals:  as, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; or, as the Friends denominate them, Firstday, Secondday, Thirdday, Fourthday, Fifthday, Sixthday, Seventhday.  So, if they will not use January, February, &c., they should write as proper names their Firstmonth, Secondmonth, &c.  The Hebrew names for the months, were also proper nouns:  to wit, Abib, Zif, Sivan, Thamuz, Ab, Elul, Tisri, Marchesvan, Chisleu, Tebeth, Shebat, Adar; the year, with the ancient Jews, beginning, as ours once did, in March.

OBS. 8.—­On Rule 5th, concerning Titles of Honour, it may be observed, that names of office or rank, however high, do not require capitals merely as such; for, when we use them alone in their ordinary sense, or simply place them in apposition with proper names, without intending any particular honour, we begin them with a small letter:  as, “the emperor Augustus;”—­“our mighty sovereign, Abbas Carascan;”—­“David the king;”—­“Tidal king of nations;”—­“Bonner, bishop of London;”—­“The sons of Eliphaz, the first-born you of Esau; duke Teman, duke Omar, duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek.”—­Gen., xxxvi, 15.  So, sometimes, in addresses in which even the greatest respect is intended to be shown:  as, “O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food.”—­Gen., xliii, 20.  “O my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears.”—­Gen., xliv, 18.  The Bible, which makes small account of worldly honours, seldom uses capitals under this rule; but, in some editions, we find “Nehemiah the Tirshatha,” and “Herod the Tetrarch,” each with a needless capital.  Murray, in whose illustrations the word king occurs early one hundred times, seldom honours his Majesty with a capital; and, what is more, in all this mawkish mentioning of royalty, nothing is said of it that is worth knowing.  Examples:  “The king and the queen had put on their robes.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 154.  “The king, with his life-guard, has just passed through the village.”—­Ib., 150.  “The king of Great Britain’s dominions.”—­Ib., 45.  “On a sudden appeared the king.”—­Ib., 146.  “Long live the King!”—­Ib., 146.  “On which side soever the king cast his eyes.”—­Ib., 156.  “It is the king of Great Britain’s.”—­Ib., 176.  “He desired to be their king.”—­Ib., 181.  “They desired him to be their king.”—­Ib., 181.  “He caused himself to be proclaimed king.”—­Ib., 182.  These examples, and thousands more as simple and worthless, are among the pretended quotations by which this excellent man, thought “to promote the cause of virtue, as well as of learning!”