LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.
"Simon the wizard was of this religion too"—Bunyan cor. "MAMMODIES, n. Coarse, plain, India muslins."—Webster cor. "Go on from single persons to families, that of the Pompeys for instance."—Collier cor. "By which the ancients were not able to account for phenomena."—Bailey cor. "After this I married a woman who had lived at Crete, but a Jewess by birth."—Josephus cor. "The very heathens are inexcusable for not worshiping him."—Todd cor. "Such poems as Camoens's Lusiad, Voltaire's Henrinde, &c."—Dr. Blair cor. "My learned correspondent writes a word in defence of large scarfs."—Sped. cor. "The forerunners of an apoplexy are dullness, vertigoes, tremblings."—Arbuthnot cor." Vertigo, [in Latin,] changes the o into ~in=es, making the plural vertig~in=es:" [not so, in English.]—Churchill cor. "Noctambulo, [in Latin,] changes the o into =on=es, making the plural noctambul=on=es:" [not so in English.]—Id. "What shall we say of noctambuloes? It is the regular English plural."—G. Brown. "In the curious fretwork of rocks and grottoes."—Blair cor. "Wharf makes the plural wharfs, according to the best usage."—G. Brown. "A few cents' worth of macaroni supplies all their wants."—Balbi cor. "C sounds hard, like k, at the end of a word or syllable."—Blair cor. "By which the virtuosoes try The magnitude of every lie."—Butler cor. "Quartoes, octavoes, shape the lessening pyre."—Pope cor. "Perching within square royal roofs"—Sidney cor. "Similes should, even in poetry, be used with moderation."—Dr. Blair cor. "Similes should never be taken from low or mean objects."—Id. "It were certainly better to say, 'The House of Lords,' than, 'The Lords' House.'"—Murray cor. "Read your answers. Units' figure? 'Five.' Tens'? 'Six.' Hundreds'? 'Seven.'"—Abbott cor. "Alexander conquered Darius's army."—Kirkham cor. "Three days' time was requisite, to prepare matters."—Dr. Brown cor. "So we say, that Cicero's style and Sallust's were not one; nor Cæsar's and Livy's; nor Homer's and Hesiod's; nor Herodotus's and Thucydides's; nor Euripides's and Aristophanes's; nor Erasmus's and Budæus's."—Puttenham cor. "LEX (i.e., legs, a law,) is no other than our ancestors' past participle loeg, laid down"—Tooke cor. "Achaia's sons at Ilium slain for the Atridoe's sake."—Cowper cor. "The corpses of her senate manure the fields of Thessaly."—Addison cor.
"Poisoning, without regard of fame or fear;
And spotted corpses load the frequent bier."—Dryden cor.