corresponding gain if merchandize rises.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 258.  “He is the worshipper of an hour, but the worldling for life.”—­Maturin’s Sermons, p. 424.  “Slyly hinting something to the disadvantage of great and honest men.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 329. “’Tis by this therefore that I Define the Verb; namely, that it is a Part of Speech, by which something is apply’d to another, as to its Subject.”—­Johnson’s Gram.  Com., p. 255.  “It may sometimes throw a passing cloud over the bright hour of gaiety.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 178.  “To criticize, is to discover errors; and to crystalize implies to freeze or congele.”—­Red Book, p. 68.  “The affectation of using the preterite instead of the participle, is peculiarly aukward; as, he has came.”—­Priestley’s Grammar, p. 125.  “They are moraly responsible for their individual conduct.”—­Cardell’s El.  Gram., p. 21.  “An engine of sixty horse power, is deemed of equal force with a team of sixty horses.”—­Red Book, p. 113.  “This, at fourpence per ounce, is two shillings and fourpence a week, or six pounds, one shining and four pence a year.”—­Ib., p. 122.  “The tru meening of parliament iz a meeting of barons or peers.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 276.  “Several authorities seem at leest to favor this opinion.”—­Ib., p. 277.  “That iz, az I hav explained the tru primitiv meening of the word.”—­Ib., p. 276.  “The lords are peers of the relm; that iz, the ancient prescriptiv judges or barons.”—­Ib., p. 274.

   “Falshood is folly, and ’tis just to own
    The fault committed; this was mine alone.”
        —­Pope, Odys., B. xxii, l. 168.

EXERCISE VIII—­MIXED ERRORS.

“A second verb so nearly synonimous with the first, is at best superfluous.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 332.  “Indicate it, by some mark opposite [to] the word misspelt.”—­Abbott’s Teacher, p. 74.  “And succesfully controling the tendencies of mind.”—­Ib., p. 24.  “It [the Monastick Life] looks very like what we call Childrens-Play.”—­[LESLIE’S] Right of Tythes, p. 236.  “It seems rather lik Playing of Booty, to Please those Fools and Knaves.”—­Ib., Pref., p. vi.  “And first I Name Milton, only for his Name, lest the Party should say, that I had not Cousider’d his Performance against Tythes.”—­Ib., p. iv.  “His Fancy was too Predominant for his Judgment.  His Talent lay so much in Satyr that he hated Reasoning.”—­Ib., p. iv.  “He has thrown away some of his Railery against Tythes, and the Church then underfoot.”—­Ib., p. v.  “They Vey’d with one another in these things.”—­Ib., p. 220.  “Epamanondas was far the most accomplished of the Thebans.”—­Cooper’s New Gram., p. 27. “Whoever and Whichever, are thus declined.  Sing. and Plur. nom. whoever, poss. whoseever, obj. whomever.  Sing. and Plu. nom. whichever, poss.