“The quince tree is of a low stature; the branches are diffused and crooked.”—­MILLER:  Johnson’s Dict. “The greater slow worm, called also the blindworm, is commonly thought to be blind, because of the littleness of his eyes.”—­GREW:  ib. “Oh Hocus! where art thou?  It used to go in another guess manner in thy time.”—­ARBUTHNOT:  ib. “One would not make a hotheaded crackbrained coxcomb forward for a scheme of moderation.”—­ID.:  ib. “As for you, colonel huff-cap, we shall try before a civil magistrate who’s the greatest plotter.”—­DRYDEN:  ib., w.  Huff. “In like manner, Actions co-alesce with their Agents, and Passions with their Patients.”—­Harris’s Hermes, p. 263.  “These Sentiments are not unusual even with the Philosopher now a days.”—­Ib., p. 350.  “As if the Marble were to fashion the Chizzle, and not the Chizzle the Marble.”—­Ib., p. 353.  “I would not be understood, in what I have said, to undervalue Experiment.”—­Ib., p. 352.  “How therefore is it that they approach nearly to Non-Entity’s?”—­Ib., p. 431.  “Gluttonise, modernise, epitomise, barbarise, tyranise.”—­Churchill’s Gram., pp. 31 and 42.  “Now fair befal thee and thy noble house!”—­SHAK.:  ib., p. 241.  “Nor do I think the error above-mentioned would have been so long indulged,” &c.—­Ash’s Gram., p. 4.  “The editor of the two editions above mentioned was pleased to give this little manuel to the public,” &c.—­Ib., p. 7.  “A Note of Admiration denotes a modelation of the voice suited to the expression.”—­Ib., p. 16.  “It always has some respect to the power of the agent; and is therefore properly stiled the potential mode.”—­Ib., p. 29.  “Both these are supposed to be synonomous expressions.”—­Ib., p. 105.  “An expence beyond what my circumstances admit.”—­DODDRIDGE:  ib., p. 138.  “There are four of them:  the Full-Point, or Period; the Colon; the Semi-Colon; the Comma.”—­Cobbett’s E. Gram., N. Y., 1818, p. 77.  “There are many men, who have been at Latin-Schools for years, and who, at last, cannot write six sentences in English correctly.”—­Ib., p. 39.  “But, figures of rhetorick are edge tools, and two edge tools too.”—­Ib., p. 182.  “The horse-chesnut grows into a goodly standard.”—­MORTIMER:  Johnson’s Dict. “Whereever if is to be used.”—­O.  B. Peirce’s Gram., p. 175.

   “Peel’d, patch’d, and pyebald, linsey-woolsey brothers.” 
        —­POPE:  Joh.  Dict., w., Mummer.

   “Peel’d, patch’d, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers.”
        —­ID.:  ib., w.  Piebald.

EXERCISE VI.—­MIXED ERRORS.