Charon, the Ferryman. Q. What were the chief Winds among the Ancients? A. Zephyrus, or Favonius, the West Wind; Boreas, or Aquilo, the North Wind; Auster, or Notus, the South Wind; Eurus, the East Wind; Corus, Caurus, or Iāpyx, the North-West; Africus, the South-West. Q. Who is the chief God of India? A. Brahma. Q. Who was the founder of Fire-worship in Persia? Q. Who taught Religion and Morals in China? Q. Who was the God of our Saxon ancestors? Q. What is the number of days in each month? A. Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; Q. Which is the longest day? A. The twenty-first of June. A. The twenty-first of December. Q. Which are the Quarter-days? A. Lady-day, the twenty-fifth of March; Midsummer-day, the twenty-fourth of June; Michaelmas-day, the twenty-ninth of September; and Christmas-day, the twenty-fifth of December. E Q. When are the Equinoxes? A. On the twenty-first of March and on the twenty first of September. Q. What is the length of our year? Q. What is done with these six hours? A. They are added together every fourth year, and one day more is given to February, making it to consist, for that time, of 29 days, and the year of 366; this is called Leap-year. Q. Is not this too much, since the remainder is not six hours, but only 5h. 49m. 57sec.? A. Yes, and the odd minutes and seconds, since the institution of Julius Cæsar, having constantly accumulated, the Calendar outran the true time by eleven whole days. Q. Has this been corrected? A. Yes, eleven days were taken from the year in 1752; the Calendar was set right; and thenceforward began the New Style. 'Q. What method is to be followed to obviate this error in future ? A. Three Leap-years, in the course of four centuries, are to be reduced to common years, and thus the 10m. 3sec. borrowed in every fourth year, will be imperceptibly repaid. STOPS, &c. Q. What is the use of the Comma and Semicolon? A. To shew where the reader is to pause without dropping the voice. Q. What is the use of a Colon? A. To mark the end, not of a whole period, but of a principal part of it. Q. What is a Parenthesis? A. Marked thus (), or between commas; a sentence included within another. Q. What is an Apostrophe ? A. The contraction of a word marked by a comma above it, as tho for though, Saint Paul's for Saint Paul his Church. Q. What is the Caret? A. The mark of something left out, or of a syllable contracted, as, in Latin, Musá, Gradús. Q. What is a Hyphen? A. A mark which joins syllables together, as virtue, or words, as ever-living. Q. What is a Quotation? A. A passage borrowed or cited from another writer, and marked thus, “ Q. What are the Asterisk, the Obelisk, and the Parallel? A. The Asterisk,*; the Obelisk,t; the Parallel,||; refer to some note in the margin. TERMS OF GRAMMAR. Q. What is 'Etymology? A. The derivation of a word from its original. A. The formation of words in one common mode, as, from "rubeo" is formed "rubesco;" from "palleo, pallesco;" "horreo, horresco.” A. The change of words by addition or alteration of any kind. Q. What is Epenthesis? A. The insertion of a letter in the middle of a word, as "rettulit, repperit." Q. What is Paragoge ? A. The addition of one letter or more at the end of a word, as, "dicier" for "dici." A. The taking away a letter from the beginning of 4 Grupos, verus; and λóyos, sermo. μετά, trans; and πλάσσω, formo. *im, insuper; év, in; and rienus, pono. Tapa, ad; and ayw, duco. ⚫amò, ab; and dipéw, tollo. |