Gram., p. 20.  “Mens Happiness or Misery is most part of their own making.”—­Locke, on Education, p. 1.  “That your Sons Cloths be never made strait, especially about the Breast.”—­Ib., p. 15.  “Childrens Minds are narrow and weak.”—­Ib., p. 297.  “I would not have little Children much tormented about Punctilio’s, or Niceties of Breeding.”—­Ib., p. 90.  “To fill his Head with suitable Idea’s.”—­Ib., p. 113.  “The Burgusdiscius’s and the Scheiblers did not swarm in those Days, as they do now.”—­Ib., p. 163.  “To see the various ways of dressing—­a calve’s head!”—­Shenstone, Brit.  Poets, Vol. vii, p. 143.

   “He puts it on, and for decorum sake
    Can wear it e’en as gracefully as she.”—­Cowper’s Task.

LESSON III.—­MIXED.

“Simon the witch was of this religion too.”—­Bunyan’s P. P., p. 123.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the feminine name witch is here applied to a man.  But, according to the doctrine of genders, on page 254th, “Names of males are masculine; names of females, feminine;” &c.  Therefore, witch should be wizard; thus, “Simon the wizard,” &c.]

“Mammodis, n.  Coarse, plain India muslins.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Go on from single persons to families, that of the Pompeyes for instance.”—­Collier’s Antoninus, p. 142.  “By which the ancients were not able to account for phaenomenas.”—­Bailey’s Ovid, p. vi.  “After this I married a wife who had lived at Crete, but a Jew by birth.”—­Josephus’s Life, p. 194.  “The very heathen are inexcusable for not worshipping him.”—­Student’s Manual, p. 328.  “Such poems as Camoen’s Lusiad, Voltaire’s Henriade, &c.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 422.  “My learned correspondent writes a word in defence of large scarves.”—­SPECT.:  in Joh.  Dict. “The forerunners of an apoplexy are dulness, vertigos, tremblings.”—­ARBUTHNOT:  ib. “Vertigo changes the o into _~in=es_, making the plural vertig~in=es.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 59. “Noctambulo changes the o into _=on=es_, making the plural noctambul=on=es.”—­Ib., p. 59.  “What shall we say of noctambulos?”—­ARBUTHNOT:  in Joh.  Dict. “In the curious fretwork of rocks and grottos.”—­Blair’s Rhet., p. 220. “Wharf makes the plural wharves.”—­Smith’s Gram., p. 45; Merchant’s, 29; Picket’s, 21; Frost’s, 8.  “A few cent’s worth of maccaroni supplies all their wants.”—­Balbi’s Geog., p. 275.  “C sounds hard, like k, at the end of a word or syllables.”—­Blair’s Gram., p. 4.  “By which the virtuosi try The magnitude of every lie.”—­Hudibras.  “Quartos, octavos, shape the lessening pyre.”—­Pope’s Dunciad, B. i, l. 162.  “Perching within square royal rooves.”—­SIDNEY:  in Joh.  Dict. “Similies should, even