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m>Pompies."--_Staniford's Gram._, p. 8. "The food of the rattlesnake is birds, squirrels, hare, rats, and reptiles."--_Balbi's Geog._, p. 177. "And let fowl multiply in the earth."--Genesis, i, 22. "Then we reached the hill-side where eight buffalo were grazing."--_Martineau's Amer._, i, 202. "_Corset, n._ a pair of bodice for a woman."--_Worcester's Dict._, 12mo. "As the _be's_; the _ce's_, the _doubleyu's_."--_O. B. Peirce's Gram._, p. 40. "Simplicity is the means between ostentation and rusticity."--_Pope's Pref. to Homer_. "You have disguised yourselves like tipstaves."--Gil Blas, i, 111. "But who, that hath any taste, can endure the incessant quick returns of the _also_'s, and the _likewise_'s, and the _moreover_'s, and the _however_'s, and the _notwithstanding_'s?"--_Campbell's Rhet._, p. 439.
"Sometimes, in mutual sly disguise, Let Aye's seem No's, and No's seem Aye's."--Gay, p. 431.
LESSON II.--CASES.
"For whose name sake, I have been made willing."--_Wm. Penn_.
[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the noun name, which is here meant for the possessive case singular, has not the true form of that case. But, according to a principle on page 258th, "The possessive case of nouns is formed, in the singular number, by adding to the nominative _s preceded by an apostrophe_; and, in the plural, when the nominative ends in s, by adding an apostrophe only." Therefore, name should be _name's_; thus, "For whose _name's_ sake, I have been made willing."]
"Be governed by your conscience, and never ask anybodies leave to be honest."--_Collier's Antoninus_, p. 105. "To overlook nobodies merit or misbehaviour."--_Ib._, p. 9. "And Hector at last fights his way to the stern of Ajax' ship."--_Coleridge's Introd._, p. 91. "Nothing is lazier, than to keep ones eye upon words without heeding their meaning."-- Philological Museum, i, 645. "Sir William Joneses division of the day."--_Ib., Contents_. "I need only refer here to Vosses e