UNDER RULE IX.—OF APPOSITION.
"At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus."—SCOTT, FRIENDS, ET AL.: Matt., xiv, 1. "Who has been more detested than Judas the traitor?"—G. Brown. "St. Luke the evangelist was a physician of Antioch, and one of the converts of St. Paul."—Id. "Luther, the reformer, began his bold career by preaching against papal indulgences."—Id. "The poet Lydgate was a disciple and admirer of Chaucer: he died in 1440."—Id. "The grammarian Varro, 'the most learned of the Romans,'[522] wrote three books when he was eighty years old."—Id. "John Despauter, the great grammarian of Flanders, whose works are still valued, died in 1520."—Id. "Nero, the emperor and tyrant of Rome, slew himself to avoid a worse death."—Id. "Cicero the orator, 'the Father of his Country,' was assassinated at the age of 64."—Id. "Euripides, the Greek tragedian, was born in the island of Salamis, B. C. 476."—Id. "I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me?"—ALGER, ET AL.: Ps. xlii, 9. "Staten Island, an island of New York, nine miles below New York city."—Williams cor. "When the son of Atreus, king of men, and the noble Achilles first separated."—Coleridge cor.
"Hermes, his patron-god, those gifts bestow'd,
Whose shrine with weanling lambs he wont to load."—Pope cor.
UNDER RULE X.—OF PERSONIFICATIONS.
"But Wisdom is justified of all her children."—FRIENDS' BIBLE: Luke, vii, 35. "Fortune and the Church are generally put in the feminine gender: that is, when personified." "Go to your Natural Religion; lay before her Mahomet and his disciples."—Bp. Sherlock. "O Death! where is thy sting? O Grave! where is thy victory."—Pope: 1 Cor., xv, 55; Merchant's Gram., p. 172. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon."—Matt., vi, 24. "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon"—See Luke, xvi, 13. "This house was built as if Suspicion herself had dictated the plan."—Rasselas. "Poetry distinguishes herself from Prose, by yielding to a musical law."—Music of Nature, p. 501. "My beauteous deliverer thus uttered her divine instructions: 'My name is Religion. I am the offspring of Truth and Love, and the parent of Benevolence, Hope, and Joy. That monster, from whose power I have freed you, is called Superstition: she is called the child of Discontent, and her followers are Fear and Sorrow.'"—E. Carter. "Neither Hope nor Fear could enter the retreats; and Habit had so absolute a power, that even Conscience, if Religion had employed her in their favour, would not have been able to force an entrance."—Dr. Johnson.
"In colleges and halls in ancient days,
There dwelt a sage called Discipline."—Cowper.
UNDER RULE XI.—OF DERIVATIVES.
"In English, I would have Gallicisms avoided."—Felton. "Sallust was born in Italy, 85 years before the Christian era."—Murray cor.; "Dr. Doddridge was not only a great man, but one of the most excellent and useful Christians, and Christian ministers."—Id. "They corrupt their style with untutored Anglicisms"—Milton. "Albert of Stade, author of a chronicle from the creation to 1286, a Benedictine of the 13th century."—Biog. Dict. cor. "Graffio, a Jesuit of Capua in the 16th century, author of two volumes on moral subjects."—Id. "They Frenchify and Italianize words whenever they can."—Bucke's Gram., p. 86. "He who sells a Christian, sells the grace of God."—Mag. cor. "The first persecution against the Christians, under Nero, began A. D. 64."—Gregory cor. "P. Rapin, the Jesuit, uniformly decides in favour of the Roman writers."—Blair's Rhet., p. 248. "The Roman poet and Epicurean philosopher Lucretius has said," &c.—Cohen cor. Spell "Calvinistic, Atticism, Gothicism, Epicurism, Jesuitism, Sabianism, Socinianism, Anglican, Anglicism, Anglicize, Vandalism, Gallicism, and Romanize."—Webster cor. "The large Ternate bat."—Id. and Bolles cor.
"Church-ladders are not always mounted best
By learned clerks, and Latinists profess'd"—Cowper cor.