THE KEY.—PART I.—ORTHOGRAPHY.
CHAPTER I.—OF LETTERS. CORRECTIONS RESPECTING CAPITALS.
UNDER RULE I.—OF BOOKS.
"Many a reader of the Bible knows not who wrote the Acts of the Apostles"—G. B. "The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the Chronicles."—ALGER'S BIBLE: Neh., xii, 23. "Are they not written in the book of the Acts of Solomon?"—FRIENDS' BIBLE: I Kings, xi, 41. "Are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?"—ALGER CORRECTED: I Kings, xxii, 39. "Are they not written in the book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah."—See ALGER: ib., ver. 45. "Which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the Psalms."—ALGER, ET AL.: Luke, xxiv, 44. "The narrative of which maybe seen in Josephus's History of the Jewish War"—Dr. Scott cor. [Obs.—The word in Josephus is "War," not "Wars."—G. Brown.] "This History of the Jewish War was Josephus's first work, and published about A. D. 75."—Whiston cor. "'I have read,' says Photius, 'the Chronology of Justus of Tiberias.'"—Id. "A Philosophical Grammar, written by James Harris, Esquire."—Murray cor. "The reader is referred to Stroud's Sketch of the Slave Laws"—A. S. Mag. cor. "But God has so made the Bible that it interprets itself."—Idem. "In 1562, with the help of Hopkins, he completed the Psalter."—Gardiner cor. "Gardiner says this of Sternhold; of whom the Universal Biographical Dictionary and the American Encyclopedia affirm, that he died in 1549."—G. B. "The title of a book, to wit: 'English Grammar in Familiar Lectures,'" &c.—Kirkham cor. "We had not, at that time, seen Mr. Kirkham's 'Grammar in Familiar Lectures.'"—Id. "When you parse, you may spread the Compendium before you."—Id. right.[516] "Whenever you parse, you may spread the Compendium before you."—Id. cor. "Adelung was the author of a Grammatical and Critical Dictionary of the German Language, and other works." Biog. Dict. cor. "Alley, William, author of 'The Poor Man's Library,' and a translation of the Pentateuch, died in 1570."—Id.
UNDER RULE II.—OF FIRST WORDS.
"Depart instantly;"—"Improve your time;"—"Forgive us our sins."—Murray corrected. EXAMPLES:—"Gold is corrupting;"—"The sea is green;"—"A lion is bold."—Mur. et al. cor. Again: "It may rain;"—"He may go or stay;"—"He would walk;;"—"They should learn."—Iidem. Again: "Oh! I have alienated my friend;"—"Alas! I fear for life."—Iidem. See Alger's Gram., p. 50. Again: "He went from London to York;"—"She is above disguise;" "They are supported by industry."—Iidem. "On the foregoing examples, I have a word to say. They are better than a fair specimen of their kind. Our grammars abound with worse illustrations. Their models of English are generally spurious quotations. Few of their proof-texts have any just parentage. Goose-eyes are abundant, but names scarce. Who fathers the foundlings? Nobody. Then let their merit be nobody's, and their defects his who could write no better."—Author. "Goose-eyes!" says a bright boy; "pray, what are they? Does this Mr. Author make new words when he pleases? Dead-eyes are in a ship. They are blocks, with holes in them. But what are goose-eyes in grammar?" ANSWER: "Goose-eyes are quotation points. Some of the Germans gave them this name, making a jest of their form. The French call them guillemets, from the name of their inventor."—Author. "It is a personal pronoun, of the third person singular."—Comly cor. "Ourselves is a personal pronoun, of the first person plural."—Id. "Thee is a personal pronoun, of the second person singular."—Id. "Contentment is a common noun, of the third person singular."—Id. "Were is a neuter verb, of the indicative mood, imperfect tense."—Id.
UNDER RULE III.—OF DEITY.
"O thou Dispenser of life! thy mercies are boundless."—Allen cor. "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?"—ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Gen., xviii, 25. "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."—SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Gen., i, 2. "It is the gift of Him, who is the great Author of good, and the Father of mercies."—Murray cor. "This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt."—FRIENDS' BIBLE: Neh., ix, 18. "For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our King."—Psal.. lxxxix, 18. "By making him the responsible steward of Heaven's bounties."—A. S. Mag. cor. "Which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day."—ALGER: 2 Tim., iv, 8. "The cries of them … entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth."—ALGER, FRIENDS: James, v, 4. "In Horeb, the Deity revealed himself to Moses, as the Eternal 'I AM,' the Self-existent One; and, after the first discouraging interview of his messengers with Pharaoh, he renewed his promise to them, by the awful name, JEHOVAH—a name till then unknown, and one which the Jews always held it a fearful profanation to pronounce."—G. Brown. "And God spake unto Moses, and said unto him, I am the LORD: and I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty; but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them."—SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS: Exod., vi, 2. "Thus saith the LORD[517] the King of Israel, and his Redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the First, and I am the Last; and besides me there is no God."—See Isa., xliv, 6.
"His impious race their blasphemy renew'd,
And nature's King, through nature's optics view'd."—Dryden cor.