p. 56. “The brilliancy which the sun displays
on its own disk, is sun shine.”—Ib.,
p. 63. “A word of three syllables is termed
a trisyllable.”—Murray’s
Gram., p. 23; Coar’s, 17; Jaudon’s,
13; Comly’s, 8; Cooper’s, New
Gr., 8; Kirkham’s, 20; Picket’s,
10; Alger’s, 12; Blair’s,
1; Guy’s, 2; Bolles’s Spelling-Book,
161. See Johnson’s Dict. “A
word of three syllables is termed a trissyllable.”—British
Gram., p. 33; Comprehensive Gram., 23;
Bicknell’s, 17; Allen’s,
31; John Peirce’s, 149; Lennie’s,
5; Maltby’s, 8; Ingersoll’s,
7; Bradley’s, 66; Davenport’s,
7; Bucke’s, 16; Bolles’s Spelling-Book,
91. See Littleton’s Lat. Dict.
(1.) “Will, in the first Persons, promises
or threatens: But in the second and third Persons,
it barely foretells.”—British
Gram., p. 132. (2.) “Will, in the
first Persons, promises or threatens; but in the second
and third Persons, it barely foretells.”—Buchanan’s
Gram., p. 41. (3.) “Will, in the first
person, promises, engages, or threatens. In the
second and third persons, it merely foretels.”—Jaudon’s
Gram., p. 59. (4.) “Will, in the first
person singular and plural, promises or threatens;
in the second and third persons, only foretells.”—Lowth’s
Gram., p. 41. (5.) “Will, in the
first person singular and plural, intimates resolution
and promising; in the second and third person, only
foretels.”—Murray’s Gram.,
p. 88; Ingersoll’s, 136; Fisk’s,
78; A. Flint’s, 42; Bullions’s,
32; Hamlin’s, 41; Cooper’s Murray,
50. [Fist] Murray’s Second Edition has
it “foretells.” (6.) “Will,
in the first person singular and plural, expresses
resolution and promising. In the second and third
persons it only foretells.”—Comly’s
Gram., p. 38; E. Devis’s, 51;
Lennie’s, 22. (7.) “Will,
in the first person, promises. In the second and
third persons, it simply foretels.”—Maltby’s
Gram., p. 24. (8.) “Will, in the first
person implies resolution and promising; in the second
and third, it foretells.”—Cooper’s
New Gram., p. 51. (9.) “Will, in the
first person singular and plural, promises or threatens;
in the second and third persons, only foretels:
shall, on the contrary, in the first person,
simply foretels; in the second and third persons, promises,
commands, or threatens.”—Adam’s
Lat. and Eng. Gram., p. 83. (10.) “In
the first person shall foretels, and will promises
or threatens; but in the second and third persons
will foretels, and shall promises or
threatens.”—Blair’s Gram.,
p. 65.
“If Maevius scribble in Apollo’s
spight,
There are who judge still
worse than he can write.”—Pope.