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p. 46. "An aker of land is the quantity of one hundred and sixty perches."--_Ib._, p. 93. "Oker is a fossil earth combined with the oxid of some metal."--_Ib._, p. 96. "Genii, when denoting ærial spirits: Geniuses, when signifying persons of genius."--_Mur.'s Gram._, i, p. 42. "Genii, when denoting æriel spirits; Geniuses, when signifying persons of genius."--_Frost's Gram._, p. 9. "Genius, Plu. geniuses, men of wit; but genii, ærial beings."--_Nutting's Gram._, p. 18. "Aerisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful daughter, whose name was Danæ."--Classic Tales, p. 109. "Phæton was the son of Apollo and Clymene."--_Ib._, p. 152. "But, after all, I may not have reached the intended Gaol."--_Buchanan's Syntax_, Pref., p. xxvii. "'Pitticus was offered a large sum.' Better: 'A large sum was offered to Pitticus.'"--_Kirkham's Gram._, p. 187. "King Missipsi charged his sons to respect the senate and people of Rome."--See _ib._, p. 161. "For example: Gallileo invented the telescope."--_Ib._, pp. 54 and 67. "Cathmor's warriours sleep in death."--_Ib._, p. 54. "For parsing will enable you to detect and correct errours in composition."--_Ib._, p. 50.
"O'er barren mountains, o'er the flow'ry plain, Extends thy uncontroul'd and boundless reign."--Dryden.
PROMISCUOUS ERRORS IN SPELLING.
LESSON I.--MIXED.
"A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critick."--POPE: _Johnson's Dict., w. Former_. "Produce a single passage superiour to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, delivered to Lord Dunmore, when governour of Virginia."--_Kirkham's Elocution_, p. 247. "We have none synonimous to supply its place."--_Jamieson's Rhetoric_, p. 48. "There is a probability that the effect will be accellerated."--_Ib._, p. 48. "Nay, a regard to sound hath controuled the public choice."--_Ib._, p. 46. "Though learnt from the uninterrupted use of gutterel sounds."--_Ib._, p. 5. "It is by carefully filing off all