EXERCISE X.—­MIXED ERRORS.

“I am liable to be charged that I latinize too much.”—­DRYDEN:  in Johnson’s Dict. “To mould him platonically to his own idea.”—­WOTTON:  ib. “I will marry a wife as beautiful as the houries, and as wise as Zobeide.”—­Murray’s E. Reader, p. 148.  “I will marry a wife, beautiful as the Houries.”—­Wilcox’s Gram., p. 65.  “The words in italics are all in the imperative mood.”—­Maltby’s Gram., p. 71.  “Words Italicised, are emphatick, in various degrees.”—­Kirkham’s Elocution, p. 173.  “Wherever two gg’s come together, they are both hard.”—­Buchanan’s Gram., p. 5.  “But these are rather silent (o)’s than obscure (u)’s.”—­Brightland’s Gram., p. 19.  “That can be Guest at by us, only from the Consequences.”—­Right of Tythes, p. viii.  “He says he was glad that he had Baptized so few; And asks them, Were ye Baptised in the Name of Paul?”—­Ib., p. ix.  “Therefor he Charg’d the Clergy with the Name of Hirelings.”—­Ib., p. viii.  “On the fourth day before the first second day in each month.”—­The Friend, Vol. vii, p. 230.  “We are not bound to adhere for ever to the terms, or to the meaning of terms, which were established by our ancestors.”—­Murray’s Gram., p. 140.  “O! learn from him to station quick eyed Prudence at the helm.”—­Frosts El. of Gram., p. 104.  “It pourtrays the serene landscape of a retired village.”—­Music of Nature, p. 421.  “By stating the fact, in a circumlocutary manner.”—­Booth’s Introd. to Dict., p. 33.  “Time as an abstract being is a non-entity.”—­Ib., p. 29.  “From the difficulty of analysing the multiplied combinations of words.”—­Ib., p. 19.  “Drop those letters that are superfluous, as:  handful, foretel.”—­Cooper’s Plain & Pract.  Gram., p. 10. “Shall, in the first person, simply foretells.”—­Ib., p. 51.  “And the latter must evidently be so too, or, at least, cotemporary, with the act.”—­Ib., p. 60.  “The man has been traveling for five years.”—­Ib., p. 77.  “I shall not take up time in combatting their scruples.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 320.  “In several of the chorusses of Euripides and Sophocles, we have the same kind of lyric poetry as in Pindar.”—­Ib., p. 398.  “Until the Statesman and Divine shall unite their efforts in forming the human mind, rather than in loping its excressences, after it has been neglected.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 26.  “Where conviction could be followed only by a bigotted persistence in error.”—­Ib., p. 78.  “All the barons were entitled to a seet in the national council, in right of their baronys.”—­Ib., p. 260.  “Some knowledge of arithmetic is necessary for every lady.”—­Ib., p. 29.  “Upon this, [the system of chivalry,] were founded those romances of night-errantry.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 374.  “The subject is, the