ib., w.  Daytime. “The moral is the first business of the poet, as being the ground-work of his instruction.”—­DRYDEN:  ib., w.  Moral. “Madam’s own hand the mouse-trap baited.”—­PRIOR:  ib., w.  Mouse-trap. “By the sinking of the air-shaft the air hath liberty to circulate.”—­RAY:  ib., w.  Airshaft. “The multiform and amazing operations of the air-pump and the loadstone.”—­WATTS:  ib., w.  Multiform. “Many of the fire-arms are named from animals.”—­Ib., w.  Musket. “You might have trussed him and all his apparel into an eel-skin.”—­SHAK.:  ib., w.  Truss. “They may serve as land-marks to shew what lies in the direct way of truth.”—­LOCKE:  ib., w.  Landmark. “A pack-horse is driven constantly in a narrow lane and dirty road.”—­Id. ib., w.  Lane. “A mill-horse, still bound to go in one circle.”—­SIDNEY:  ib., w.  Mill-horse. “Of singing birds they have linnets, goldfinches, ruddocks, Canary-birds, black-birds, thrushes, and divers others.”—­CAREW:  ib., w.  Goldfinch. “Of singing birds, they have linnets, gold-finches, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers others.”—­ID.:  ib., w.  Blackbird. “Of singing birds, they have linnets, gold-finches, ruddocks, canary birds, blackbirds, thrushes, and divers other.”—­ID.:  ib., w.  Canary bird. “Cartrage, or Cartridge, a case of paper or parchment filled with gun-powder.”—­Johnson’s Dict., 4to.

“Deep night, dark night, the silent of the night,
The time of night when Troy was set on fire,
The tune when screech-owls cry, and ban-dogs howl.” 

                  SHAKSPEARE:  ib., w.  Silent.

“The time when screech-owls cry, and bandogs howl.” 
IDEM.:  ib., w.  Bandog.

PROMISCUOUS ERRORS IN THE FIGURE OF WORDS.

LESSON I.—­MIXED.

“They that live in glass-houses, should not throw stones.”—­Old Adage. “If a man profess Christianity in any manner or form soever.”—­Watts, p. 5.  “For Cassius is a weary of the world.”—­SHAKSPEARE:  in Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 67.  “By the coming together of more, the chains were fastened on.”—­Walker’s Particles, p. 223.  “Unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.”—­Jer., i, 3.  “And the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad.”—­Numbers, xxxiv, 8.  “And the goings out of it shall be at Hazar-enan.”—­Ib., ver. 9.  “For the taking place of effects, in a certain particular series.”—­Dr. West, on Agency, p. 39.  “The letting go of which was the occasion of all that corruption.”—­Dr. J. Owen. “A falling off at the end always hurts greatly.”—­Blair’s Lect., p. 126.  “A falling off at the end is always injurious.”—­Jamieson’s Rhetoric, p. 127.  “As all holdings forth were courteously supposed to be trains of reasoning.”—­Dr. Murray’s Hist. of Europ.  Lang., Vol.