8. The Word that is written on the Bottom of the Page, at the right hand, is called the Catch-word, and is repeated again at the beginning of the next Page, to show that the Pages are printed in true order, and follow one another aright. 9. The great or fmall Letters and Figures that ftand under many of the Pages, are Marks of the Printer, chiefly for the Ufe of the Bookbinder to number the Sheets, as, A, B, C, note the 1ft, 2d, and 3d Sheet, &c. 10. Where a Line begins fhorter than the reft, with a great Letter, it is called a new Paragraph. 11. As Chapters are Parts of a Book, fo Sections are fometimes made Parts of a Chapter, and Paragraphs are Parts of a Section. 12. The Words or Sentences written juft before the beginning of a Chapter, or Section, are called the Contents of it, or fometimes the Argument. СНАР. I. CHAP. XIX. Obfervations in reading the Bible. "T HE Bible is divided into the Old Teftament and the New, and each of these divided again into feveral Books, as the Book of Genefis, the Book of Exodus, &c. The Books into Chapters, (viz.) I. II. III. &c. and the Chapters into Verses, 1, 2, 3, &c. 2. There is generally a Period at the end of every Verfe, tho the Sense fometimes is not compleat; and oftentimes a Colon in the middle of a Verfe, inftead of a Semicolon or Comma; efpecially in the Old Teftament. 3. This Mark or 5 is ufually put at the beginning of every Paragraph, as we took notice before. 4. In the Bible thofe Words only are printed in a different or Italic Letter, which are not found in the original Hebrew or Greek; but the Tranflators have added them to compleat the Senfe, or to explain it and there H 3 therefore proper Names are not diftinguish'd by a different Print, but by a great Letter at the beginning. 5. In the Old Teftament where [LORD] is written all in Capitals, the Word in the Hebrew is Jehovah: Where it is written in fmall Letters, [Lord] it is fome other Word in the Hebrew, as Adón, or Adonai, &c. 6. In Bibles with marginal Notes, let these three things be observed. (1.) The little Letters a, b, c, d, placed between the Words, refer to other Texts of Scripture in the Margin that have a like Sense; and these are called References. (2) An Obelisk, or Dagger †, is t, ufed to fhew what are the Words, or literal Expreffions of the Hebrew or Greek, which the Tranflators have a little alter'd to render them proper English. (3.) A Double Stroke, or Parallel ||, is ufed to fhew how the Words may be differently translated. Laftly, It is an useful thing alfo to remark, that the very fame Names are fpelled different Ways in the Old Tefta Teftament and in the New; because the Words in the Old Teftament are much according to the Hebrew, from whence they are tranflated, and the New are spell'd according to the Greek. See the Seventh Table. T CHAP. XX. Of Reading Verse. HERE are two Ways of writing on any Subject, and these are Profe and Verfe; or in other Words, Plain Language and Poetry. Profe is the common Manner of Writing, where there is no neceffary Confinement to a certain Number of Syllables, or placing the Words in any peculiar Form. English Verse generally includes both Metre and Rhyme. When every Line is confin'd to a certain Number of Syllables, and the Words fo placed, that the Accents may naturally fall on fuch peculiar Syllables Syllables as make a fort of Harmony to the Ear; this is called the Metre. When two or more Verfes, near to each other, end with the fame, or a like Sound, the Verfe is faid to have Rhyme. Take these Examples. F've tafted all the Pleafures bere, This beaten Track of Life I've trod Sir R. Blackmore. Or thus: Patience a little longer bold, Sometimes a Double Rhyme is ufed, and the two laft Syllables chime to gether; |