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mith's Gram._, p. 15. "Male-servants, Female-servants. Male-relations, Female-relations."-- _Felton's Gram._, p. 15.
"Reserved and cautious, with no partial aim, My muse e'er sought to blast another's fame."--Lloyd, p. 162.
UNDER RULE III.--THE SENSE.
"Our discriminations of this matter have been but four footed instincts."--_Rush, on the Voice_, p. 291.
[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the term four footed is made two words, as if the instincts were four and footed. But, according to Rule 3d, "Words otherwise liable to be misunderstood, must be joined together, or written separately, as the sense and construction may happen to require." Therefore, _four-footed_, as it here means quadruped, or having four feet, should be one word.]
"He is in the right, (says Clytus,) not to bear free born men at his table."--_Goldsmith's Greece_, Vol. ii, p. 128. "To the short seeing eye of man, the progress may appear little."--The Friend, Vol. ix, p. 377. "Knowledge and virtue are, emphatically, the stepping stone to individual distinction."--_Town's Analysis_, p. 5. "A tin peddler will sell tin vessels as he travels."--_Webster's New Spelling-Book_, p. 44. "The beams of a wood-house are held up by the posts and joists."--_Ib._, p. 39. "What you mean by future tense adjective, I can easily understand."--_Tooke's Diversions_, Vol. ii, p. 450. "The town has been for several days very well behaved."--Spectator, No. 532. "A rounce is the handle of a printing press."--_Webster's' Dict._; also _El. Spelling-Book_, p. 118. "The phraseology we call thee and thouing is not in so common use with us, as the tutoyant among the French."--_Walker's Dict., w. Thy._ "Hunting, and other out door sports, are generally pursued."--_Balbi's Geog._, p. 227. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden."--SCOTT, ALGER, FRIENDS: _Matt._, xi, 28. "God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son to save it."--_Ba