a ship, they are blocks, with holes in them, but what are goose-eyes in grammar?” ANSWER:  “goose-eyes are quotation points, some of the Germans gave them this name, making a jest of their form, the French call them guillemets, from the name of their inventor.”—­Author. “it is a personal pronoun, of the third person singular.”—­Comly’s Gram., 12th Ed., p. 126. “ourselves is a personal pronoun, of the first person plural.”—­Ib., 138. “thee is a personal pronoun, of the second person singular.”—­Ib., 126. “contentment is a noun common, of the third person singular.”—­Ib., 128. “were is a neuter verb, of the indicative mood, imperfect tense.”—­Ib., 129.

UNDER RULE III.—­OF DEITY.

“O thou dispenser of life! thy mercies are boundless.”—­W.  Allen’s Gram., p. 449.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word dispenser begins with a small letter.  But, according to Rule 3d, “All names of the Deity, and sometimes their emphatic substitutes, should begin with capitals.”  Therefore, “Dispenser” should here begin with a capital D.]

“Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?”—­SCOTT:  Gen., xviii, 25.  “And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 330.  “It is the gift of him, who is the great author of good, and the Father of mercies.”—­Ib., 287.  “This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt.”—­SCOTT, ALGER:  Neh., ix, 18.  “For the lord is our defence; and the holy one of Israel is our king.”—­See Psalm lxxxix, 18.  “By making him the responsible steward of heaven’s bounties.”—­Anti-Slavery Mag., i, 29.  “Which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day.”—­SCOTT, FRIENDS:  2 Tim., iv, 8.  “The cries of them * * * entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.”—­SCOTT:  James, v, 4.  “In Horeb, the deity revealed himself to Moses, as the eternal I am, the self-existent one; and, after the first discouraging interview of his messengers with Pharaoh, he renewed his promise to them, by the awful name, jehovah—­a name till then unknown, and one which the Jews always held it a fearful profanation to pronounce.”—­Author.  “And god spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the lord:  and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of god almighty; but by my name jehovah was I not known to them.”—­See[106] Exod., vi, 2.  “Thus saith the lord the king of Israel, and his redeemer the lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and besides me there is no god.”—­See Isa., xliv, 6.

   “His impious race their blasphemy renew’d,
    And nature’s king through nature’s optics view’d.”—­Dryden, p. 90.

UNDER RULE IV.—­OF PROPER NAMES.

“Islamism prescribes fasting during the month ramazan.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 17.