“It happen’d on a summer’s holiday,
    That to the greenwood shade he took his way.”
        —­Churchill’s Gr., p. 135.

UNDER RULE XV.—­OF USAGE.

“Nor are the modes of the Greek tongue more uniform.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 112.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “modes” is here written for moods, which is more common among the learned, and usually preferred by Murray himself.  But, according to Rule 15th, “Any word for the spelling of which we have no rule but usage, is written wrong if not spelled according to the usage which is most common among the learned.”  Therefore, the latter form should be preferred; thus, moods, and not modes.]

“If we analize a conjunctive preterite, the rule will not appear to hold.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 118.  “No landholder would have been at that expence.”—­Ib., p. 116.  “I went to see the child whilst they were putting on its cloaths.”—­Ib., p. 125.  “This stile is ostentatious, and doth not suit grave writing.”—­Ib., p. 82.  “The king of Israel, and Jehosophat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne.”—­Mur.  Gram., p. 165, twice; Merchant’s, 89; Churchill’s, 300.  “The king of Israel, and Jehosaphat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne.”—­Lowth’s Gram., p. 90; Harrison’s, 99; Churchill’s, 138; Wright’s, 148.  “Lisias, speaking of his friends, promised to his father, never to abandon them.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. ii, pp. 121 and 253.  “Some, to avoid this errour, run into it’s opposite.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 199.  “Hope, the balm of life, sooths us under every misfortune.”—­Merchants Key, p. 204.  “Any judgement or decree might be heerd and reversed by the legislature.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 340.  “A pathetic harang wil skreen from punishment any knave.”—­Ib., p. 341.  “For the same reezon, the wimen would be improper judges.”—­Ibid. “Every person iz indulged in worshiping az he pleezes.”—­Ib., p. 345.  “Most or all teechers are excluded from genteel company.”—­Ib., p. 362.  “The Kristian religion, in its purity, iz the best institution on erth.”—­Ib., p. 364.  “Neether clergymen nor human laws hav the leest authority over the conscience.”—­Ib., p. 363.  “A gild is a society, fraternity, or corporation.”—­Red Book, p. 83.  “Phillis was not able to unty the knot, and so she cut it.”—­Ib., p. 46.  “An aker of land is the quantity of one hundred and sixty perches.”—­Ib., p. 93.  “Oker is a fossil earth combined with the oxid of some metal.”—­Ib., p. 96. “Genii, when denoting aerial spirits:  Geniuses, when signifying persons of genius.”—­Mur.’s Gram., i, p. 42. “Genii, when denoting aeriel spirits; Geniuses, when signifying persons of genius.”—­Frost’s Gram.,