"The Arabic characters for the writing of numbers, were introduced into
Europe by Pope Sylvester II, in the eleventh century."—Constable's
Miscellany.
"Emotions raised by inanimate objects, trees, rivers, buildings, pictures, arrive at perfection almost instantaneously; and they have a long endurance, a second view producing nearly the same pleasure with the first."—Kames's Elements, i, 108.
"There is great variety in the same plant, by the different appearances of its stem, branches, leaves, blossoms, fruit, size, and colour; and yet, when we trace that variety through different plants, especially of the same kind, there is discovered a surprising uniformity."—Ib., i, 273.
"Attitude, action, air, pause, start, sigh, groan,
He borrow'd, and made use of as his own."—Churchill.
"I dread thee, fate, relentless and severe,
With all a poet's, husband's, father's fear!"—Burns.
IMPROPRIETIES FOR CORRECTION.
ERRORS OF NOUNS.
LESSON I.—NUMBERS.
"All the ablest of the Jewish Rabbis acknowledge it."—Wilson's Heb.
Gram., p. 7.
[FORMULE.—Not proper, because the word Rabbi is here made plural by the addition of s only. But, according to Observation 12th on the Numbers, nouns in i ought rather to form the plural in ies. The capital R, too, is not necessary. Therefore, Rabbis should be rabbies, with ies and a small r.]