"He will observe the moral law, in his conduct."—Webster corrected. "A cliff is a steep bank, or a precipitous rock."—Walker cor. "A needy man's budget is full of schemes."—Maxim cor. "Few large publications, in this country, will pay a printer."—N. Webster cor. "I shall, with cheerfulness, resign my other papers to oblivion."—Id. "The proposition was suspended till the next session of the legislature."—Id. "Tenants for life will make the most of lands for themselves."—Id. "While every thing is left to lazy negroes, a state will never be well cultivated."—Id. "The heirs of the original proprietors still hold the soil."—Id. "Say my annual profit on money loaned shall be six per cent."—Id. "No man would submit to the drudgery of business, if he could make money as fast by lying still."—Id. "A man may as well feed himself with a bodkin, as with a knife of the present fashion."—Id. "The clothes will be ill washed, the food will be badly cooked; you will be ashamed of your wife, if she is not ashamed of herself."—Id. "He will submit to the laws of the state while he is a member of it."—Id. "But will our sage writers on law forever think by tradition?"—Id. "Some still retain a sovereign power in their territories."—Id. "They sell images, prayers, the sound of bells, remission of sins, &c."—Perkins cor. "And the law had sacrifices offered every day, for the sins of all the people."—Id. "Then it may please the Lord, they shall find it to be a restorative."—Id. "Perdition is repentance put off till a future day."—Maxim cor. "The angels of God, who will good and cannot will evil, have nevertheless perfect liberty of will."—Perkins cor. "Secondly, this doctrine cuts off the excuse of all sin."—Id. "Knell, the sound of a bell rung at a funeral."—Dict. cor.

"If gold with dross or grain with chaff you find, Select—and leave the chaff and dross behind."—G. Brown.

RULE II.—OTHER FINALS.

"The mob hath many heads, but no brains."—Maxim cor. "Clam; to clog with any glutinous or viscous matter."—See Webster's Dict. "Whur; to pronounce the letter r with too much force." "Flip; a mixed liquor, consisting of beer and spirit sweetened." "Glyn; a hollow between two mountains, a glen."—See Walker's Dict. "Lam, or belam; to beat soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon."—See Red Book. "Bun; a small cake, a simnel, a kind of sweet bread."—See Webster's Dict. "Brunet, or Brunette; a woman with a brown complexion."—See ib., and Scott's Dict. "Wadset; an ancient tenure or lease of land in the Highlands of Scotland."—Webster cor. "To dod sheep, is to cut the wool away about their tails."—Id. "In aliquem arietare. Cic. To run full butt at one."—W. Walker cor. "Neither your policy nor your temper would permit you to kill me."—Phil. Mu. cor. "And admit none but his own offspring to fulfill them."—Id. "The sum of all this dispute is, that some make them Participles."—R. Johnson cor. "As the whistling winds, the buzz and hum of insects, the hiss of serpents, the crash of falling timber."—Murray's Gram., p. 331. "Van; to winnow, or a fan for winnowing."—See Scott. "Creatures that buzz, are very commonly such as will sting."—G. Brown. "Beg, buy, or borrow; but beware how yon find."—Id. "It is better to have a house to let, than a house to get." "Let not your tongue cut your throat."—Precept cor. "A little wit will save a fortunate man."—Adage cor. "There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip."—Id. "Mothers' darlings make but milksop heroes."—Id. "One eye-witness is worth ten hearsays."—Id.

"The judge shall job, the bishop bite the town, And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown." POPE: in Johnson's Dict., w. Job.

RULE III.—DOUBLING.

"Friz, to curl; frizzed, curled; frizzing, curling."—Webster cor. "The commercial interests served to foster the principles of Whiggism."—Payne cor. "Their extreme indolence shunned every species of labour."—Robertson cor. "In poverty and strippedness, they attend their little meetings."—The Friend cor. "In guiding and controlling the power you have thus obtained."—Abbott cor. "I began, Thou begannest or beganst, He began, &c."—A. Murray cor. "Why does began change its ending; as, I began, Thou begannest or beganst?"—Id. "Truth and conscience cannot be controlled by any methods of coercion."—Hints cor. "Dr. Webster nodded, when he wrote knit, knitter, and knitting-needle, without doubling the t."—G. Brown. "A wag should have wit enough to know when other wags are quizzing him." "Bonny; handsome, beautiful, merry."—Walker cor. "Coquettish; practising coquetry; after the manner of a jilt."—See Worcester. "Pottage; a species of food made of meat and vegetables boiled to softness in water."—See Johnson's Dict. "Pottager; (from pottage;) a porringer, a small vessel for children's food." "Compromit, compromitted, compromitting; manumit, manumitted, manumitting."—Webster cor. "Inferrible; that may be inferred or deduced from premises."—Walker. "Acids are either solid, liquid, or gasseous."—Gregory cor. "The spark will pass through the interrupted space between the two wires, and explode the gasses."—Id. "Do we sound gasses and gasseous like cases and caseous? No: they are more like glasses and osseous."—G. Brown. "I shall not need here to mention Swimming, when he is of an age able to learn."—Locke cor. "Why do lexicographers spell thinnish and mannish with two Ens, and dimmish and rammish with one Em, each?"—G. Brown. "Gas forms the plural regularly, gasses."—Peirce cor. "Singular, gas; Plural, gasses."—Clark cor. "These are contractions from shedded, bursted."—Hiley cor. "The Present Tense denotes what is occurring at the present time."—Day cor. "The verb ending in eth is of the solemn or antiquated style; as, He loveth, He walketh, He runneth."—Davis cor.

"Thro' Freedom's sons no more remonstrance rings, Degrading nobles and controlling kings."—Johnson.

RULE IV—NO DOUBLING.

"A bigoted and tyrannical clergy will be feared."—See Johnson, Walker, &c. "Jacob worshiped his Creator, leaning on the top of his staff."—Murray's Key, 8vo, p. 165. "For it is all marvellously destitute of interest."—See Johnson, Walker, and Worcester. "As, box, boxes; church, churches; lash, lashes; kiss, kisses; rebus, rebuses."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 40. "Gossiping and lying go hand in hand."—See Webster's Dict., and Worcester's, w. Gossiping. "The substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular industry, gossiped by the present precious Secretary at [of] war, in Payne the bookseller's shop."—Tooke's Diversions, Vol. i, p. 187. "Worship makes worshiped, worshiper, worshiping; gossip, gossiped, gossiper, gossiping; fillip, filliped, filliper, filliping."—Web. Dict. "I became as fidgety as a fly in a milk-jug."—See ib. "That enormous error seems to be riveted in popular opinion." "Whose mind is not biased by personal attachments to a sovereign."—See ib. "Laws against usury originated in a bigoted prejudice against the Jews."—Webster cor. "The most critical period of life is usually between thirteen and seventeen."—Id. "Generalissimo, the chief commander of an army or military force."—Every Dict. "Tranquilize, to quiet, to make calm and peaceful."—Webster's Dict. "Pommelled, beaten, bruised; having pommels, as a sword-hilt."—Webster et al. cor. "From what a height does a jeweller look down upon his shoemaker!"—Red Book cor. "You will have a verbal account from my friend and fellow traveller."—Id. "I observe that you have written the word counselled with one l only."—Ib. "They were offended at such as combated these notions."—Robertson cor. "From libel, come libelled, libeller, libelling, libellous; from grovel, grovelled, groveller, grovelling; from gravel, gravelled, and gravelling."—Webster cor. "Woolliness, the state of being woolly."—Worcester's Dict. "Yet he has spelled chapelling, bordeller, medalist, metaline, metalist, metalize, clavellated, etc, with ll, contrary to his rule."—Webster cor. "Again, he has spelled cancellation and snivelly with single l, and cupellation, pannellation wittolly, with ll."—Id. "Oily, fatty, greasy, containing oil, glib."—Walker cor. "Medalist, one curious in medals; Metalist, one skilled in metals."—Walker's Rhym. Dict. "He is benefited."—Webster. "They travelled for pleasure."—Clark cor.

"Without you, what were man? A grovelling herd, In darkness, wretchedness, and want enchain'd."—Beattle cor.

RULE V.—FINAL CK.

"He hopes, therefore, to be pardoned by the critic."—Kirkham corrected. "The leading object of every public speaker should be, to persuade."—Id. "May not four feet be as poetic as five; or fifteen feet as poetic as fifty?"—Id. "Avoid all theatrical trick and mimicry, and especially all scholastic stiffness."—Id. "No one thinks of becoming skilled in dancing, or in music, or in mathematics, or in logic, without long and close application to the subject."—Id. "Caspar's sense of feeling, and susceptibility of metallic and magnetic excitement, were also very extraordinary."—Id. "Authorship has become a mania, or, perhaps I should say, an epidemic."—Id. "What can prevent this republic from soon raising a literary standard?"—Id. "Courteous reader, you may think me garrulous upon topics quite foreign to the subject before me."—Id. "Of the Tonic, Subtonic, and Atonic elements."—Id. "The subtonic elements are inferior to the tonics, in all the emphatic and elegant purposes of speech."—Id. "The nine atonics and the three abrupt subtonics cause an interruption to the continuity of the syllabic impulse." [526]—Id. "On scientific principles, conjunctions and prepositions are [not] one [and the same] part of speech."—Id. "That some inferior animals should be able to mimick human articulation, will not seem wonderful."—L. Murray cor.

"When young, you led a life monastic, And wore a vest ecclesiastic; Now, in your age, you grow fantastic."—Denham's Poems, p. 235.

RULE VI.—RETAINING.

"Fearlessness; exemption from fear, intrepidity."—Johnson cor. "Dreadlessness; fearlessness, intrepidity, undauntedness."—Id. "Regardlessly, without heed; Regardlessness, heedlessness."—Id. "Blamelessly, innocently; Blamelessness, innocence."—Id. "That is better than to be flattered into pride and carelessness."—Id. "Good fortunes began to breed a proud recklessness in them."—Id. "See whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time."—Id. "It maybe, the palate of the soul is indisposed by listlessness or sorrow."—Id. "Pitilessly, without mercy; Pitilessness, unmercifulness."—Id. "What say you to such as these? abominable, accordable, agreeable, etc."— Tooke cor. "Artlessly; naturally, sincerely, without craft."—Johnson cor. "A chillness, or shivering of the body, generally precedes a fever."—See Webster. "Smallness; littleness, minuteness, weakness."—Walker's Dict., et al. "Galless, adj. Free from gall or bitterness."—Webster cor. "Tallness; height of stature, upright length with comparative slenderness."—Webster's Dict. "Willful; stubborn, contumacious, perverse, inflexible."—See ib. "He guided them by the skillfulness of his hands."—See ib. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."—FRIENDS' BIBLE: Ps. xxiv, 1. "What is now, is but an amassment of imaginary conceptions."—Glanville cor. "Embarrassment; perplexity, entanglement."—Walker. "The second is slothfulness, whereby they are performed slackly and carelessly."— Perkins cor. "Installment; induction into office, part of a large sum of money, to be paid at a particular time."—See Webster's Dict. "Inthrallment; servitude, slavery, bondage."—Ib.

"I, who at some times spend, at others spare, Divided between carelessness and care."—Pope cor.

RULE VII.—RETAINING.

"Shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretells."—Lowth's Gram., p. 41; Comly's, 38; Cooper's, 51; Lennie's, 26. "There are a few compound irregular verbs, as befall, bespeak, &c."—Ash cor. "That we might frequently recall it to our memory."—Calvin cor. "The angels exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us."—Id. "Inthrall; to enslave, to shackle, to reduce to servitude."—Johnson. "He makes resolutions, and fulfills them by new ones."—See Webster. "To enroll my humble name upon the list of authors on Elocution."—See Webster. "Forestall; to anticipate, to take up beforehand."—Johnson. "Miscall; to call wrong, to name improperly."—Webster. "Bethrall; to enslave, to reduce to bondage."—Id. "Befall; to happen to, to come to pass."—Walkers Dict. "Unroll; to open what is rolled or convolved."—Webster's Dict. "Counterroll; to keep copies of accounts to prevent frauds."—See ib. "As Sisyphus uprolls a rock, which constantly overpowers him at the summit."—G. Brown. "Unwell; not well, indisposed, not in good health."—Webster. "Undersell; to defeat by selling for less, to sell cheaper than an other."—Johnson. "Inwall; to enclose or fortify with a wall."—Id. "Twibill; an instrument with two bills, or with a point and a blade; a pickaxe, a mattock, a halberd, a battleaxe."—Dict. cor. "What you miscall their folly, is their care."—Dryden cor. "My heart will sigh when I miscall it so."—Shak. cor. "But if the arrangement recalls one set of ideas more readily than an other."—Murray's Gram., Vol. i, p. 334.

"'Tis done; and since 'tis done, 'tis past recall And since 'tis past recall, must be forgotten."—Dryden cor.

RULE VIII.—FINAL LL.

"The righteous is taken away from the evil to come."—Isaiah, lvii, 1. "Patrol; to go the rounds in a camp or garrison, to march about and observe what passes."—See Joh. Dic. "Marshal; the chief officer of arms, one who regulates rank and order."—See ib. "Weevil; a destructive grub that gets among corn."—See ib. "It much excels all other studies and arts."—W. Walker cor. "It is essential to all magnitudes, to be in one place."—Perkins cor. "By nature I was thy vassal, but Christ hath redeemed me."—Id. "Some being in want, pray for temporal blessings."—Id. "And this the Lord doth, either in temporal or in spiritual benefits."—Id. "He makes an idol of them, by setting his heart on them." "This trial by desertion serveth for two purposes."—Id. "Moreover, this destruction is both perpetual and terrible."—Id. "Giving to several men several gifts, according to his good pleasure." "Until; to some time, place, or degree, mentioned."—See Dict. "Annul; to make void, to nullify, to abrogate, to abolish."—See Dict. "Nitric acid combined with argil, forms the nitrate of argil."—Gregory cor.

"Let modest Foster, if he will, excel Ten metropolitans in preaching well."—Pope cor.

RULE IX.—FINAL E.

"Adjectives ending in able signify capacity; as, comfortable, tenable, improvable."—Priestly cor. "Their mildness and hospitality are ascribable to a general administration of religious ordinances."— Webster cor. "Retrench as much as possible without obscuring the sense."—J. Brown cor. "Changeable, subject to change; Unchangeable, immutable."—Walker cor. "Tamable, susceptive of taming; Untamable, not to be tamed."—Id. "Reconcilable, Unreconcilable, Reconcilableness; Irreconcilable, Irreconcilably, Irreconcilableness."—Johnson cor. "We have thought it most advisable to pay him some little attention."— Merchant cor. "Provable, that may be proved; Reprovable, blamable, worthy of reprehension."—Walker cor. "Movable and Immovable, Movably and Immovably, Movables and Removal, Movableness and Improvableness, Unremovable and Unimprovable, Unremovably and Removable, Provable and Approvable, Irreprovable and Reprovable, Unreprovable and Improvable, Unimprovableness and Improvably."—Johnson cor. "And with this cruelty you are chargeable in some measure yourself."—Collier cor. "Mothers would certainly resent it, as judging it proceeded from a low opinion of the genius of their sex."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Tithable, subject to the payment of tithes; Salable, vendible, fit for sale; Losable, possible to be lost; Sizable, of reasonable bulk or size."—See Webster's Dict. "When he began this custom, he was puting and very tender."—Locke cor.

"The plate, coin, revenues, and movables, Whereof our uncle Gaunt did stand possess'd."—Shak. cor.

RULE X.—FINAL E.

"Diversely; in different ways, differently, variously."—See Walker's Dict. "The event thereof contains a wholesome instruction."—Bacon cor. "Whence Scaliger falsely concluded that Articles were useless."—Brightland cor. "The child that we have just seen is wholesomely fed."—Murray cor. "Indeed, falsehood and legerdemain sink the character of a prince."—Collier cor. "In earnest, at this rate of management, thou usest thyself very coarsely."—Id. "To give them an arrangement and a diversity, as agreeable as the nature of the subject would admit."—Murray cor. "Alger's Grammar is only a trifling enlargement of Murray's little Abridgement."—G. Brown. "You ask whether you are to retain or to omit the mute e in the words, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, lodgement, adjudgement, and prejudgement."—Red Book cor. "Fertileness, fruitfulness; fertilely, fruitfully, abundantly."—Johnson cor. "Chastely, purely, without contamination; Chasteness, chastity, purity."—Id. "Rhymester, n. One who makes rhymes; a versifier; a mean poet."—Walker, Chalmers, Maunder, Worcester. "It is therefore a heroical achievement to disposess [sic—KTH] this imaginary monarch."—Berkley cor. "Whereby is not meant the present time, as he imagines, but the time past."—R. Johnson cor. "So far is this word from affecting the noun, in regard to its definiteness, that its own character of definiteness or indefiniteness, depends upon the name to which it is prefixed."—Webster cor.

"Satire, by wholesome lessons, would reclaim, And heal their vices to secure their fame "—Brightland cor.

RULE XI.—FINAL Y.

"Solon's the veriest fool in all the play."—Dryden cor. "Our author prides himself upon his great sliness and shrewdness."—Merchant cor. "This tense, then, implies also the signification of debeo."—R. Johnson cor. "That may be applied to a subject, with respect to something accidental."—Id. "This latter author accompanies his note with a distinction."—Id. "This rule is defective, and none of the annotators have sufficiently supplied its deficiencies."—Id. "Though the fancied supplement of Sanctius, Scioppius, Vossius, and Mariangelus, may take place."—Ib. "Yet, as to the commutableness of these two tenses, which is denied likewise, they [the foregoing examples] are all one [; i.e., exactly equivalent]"—Id. "Both these tenses may represent a futurity, implied by the dependence of the clause."—Id. "Cry, cries, crying, cried, crier, decrial; Shy, shier, shiest, shily, shiness; Fly, flies, flying, flier, high-flier; Sly, slier, sliest, slily, sliness; Spy, spies, spying, spied, espial; Dry, drier, driest, drily, driness."—Cobb, Webster, and Chalmers cor. "I would sooner listen to the thrumming of a dandizette at her piano."—Kirkham cor. "Send her away; for she crieth after us."—Matt., v, 23. "IVIED, a. overgrown with ivy."—Cobb's Dict., and Maunders.

"Some drily plain, without invention's aid, Write dull receipts how poems may be made."—Pope cor.

RULE XII.—FINAL Y.

"The gayety of youth should be tempered by the precepts of age."—Murray cor. "In the storm of 1703, two thousand stacks of chimneys were blown down in and about London."—Red Book cor. "And the vexation was not abated by the hackneyed plea of haste."—Id. "The fourth sin of our days is lukewarmness."—Perkins cor. "God hates the workers of iniquity, and destroys them that speak lies."—Id. "For, when he lays his hand upon us, we may not fret."—Id. "Care not for it; but if thou mayst be free, choose it rather."—Id. "Alexander Severus saith, 'He that buyeth, must sell; I will not suffer buyers and sellers of offices.'"—Id. "With these measures, fell in all moneyed men."—See Johnson's Dict. "But rattling nonsense in full volleys breaks."—Murray's Reader, q. Pope. "Valleys are the intervals betwixt mountains."—Woodward cor. "The Hebrews had fifty-two journeys or marches."—Wood cor. "It was not possible to manage or steer the galleys thus fastened together."—Goldsmith cor. "Turkeys were not known to naturalists till after the discovery of America."—Gregory cor. "I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys."—SHAK.: in Johnson's Dict. "Men worked at embroidery, especially in abbeys."—Constable cor. "By which all purchasers or mortgagees may be secured of all moneys they lay out."—Temple cor. "He would fly to the mines or the galleys, for his recreation."—South cor. "Here pulleys make the pond'rous oak ascend."—Gay cor.

———"You need my help, and you say, Shylock, we would have moneys."—Shak. cor.

RULE XIII.—IZE AND ISE.

"Will any able writer authorize other men to revise his works?"—G. B. "It can be made as strong and expressive as this Latinized English."—Murray cor. "Governed by the success or failure of an enterprise."—Id. "Who have patronized the cause of justice against powerful oppressors."—Id., et al. "Yet custom authorizes this use of it."—Priestley cor. "They surprise myself, ****; and I even think the writers themselves will be surprised."—Id. "Let the interest rise to any sum which can be obtained."—Webster cor. "To determine what interest shall arise on the use of money."—Id. "To direct the popular councils and check any rising opposition,"—Id. "Five were appointed to the immediate exercise of the office."—Id. "No man ever offers himself as a candidate by advertising."—Id. "They are honest and economical, but indolent, and destitute of enterprise."—Id. "I would, however, advise you to be cautious."—Id. "We are accountable for what we patronize in others."—Murray cor. "After he was baptized, and was solemnly admitted into the office."—Perkins cor. "He will find all, or most, of them, comprised in the exercises."—Brit. Gram. cor. "A quick and ready habit of methodizing and regulating their thoughts."—Id. "To tyrannize over the time and patience of his readers."—Kirkham cor. "Writers of dull books, however, if patronized at all, are rewarded beyond their deserts."—Id. "A little reflection will show the reader the reason for emphasizing the words marked."—Id. "The English Chronicle contains an account of a surprising cure."—Red Book cor. "Dogmatize, to assert positively; Dogmatizer, an assertor, a magisterial teacher."—Chalmers cor. "And their inflections might now have been easily analyzed."—Murray cor. "Authorize, disauthorize, and unauthorized; Temporize, contemporize, and extemporize."—Walker cor. "Legalize, equalize, methodize, sluggardize, womanize, humanize, patronize, cantonize, gluttonize, epitomize, anatomize, phlebotomize, sanctuarize, characterize, synonymize, recognize, detonize, colonize."—Id. cor.

"This beauty sweetness always must comprise, Which from the subject, well express'd, will rise."—Brightland cor.

RULE XIV.—COMPOUNDS.

"The glory of the Lord shall be thy rear-ward."—SCOTT, ALGER: Isa., lviii, 8. "A mere van-courier to announce the coming of his master."—Tooke cor. "The party-coloured shutter appeared to come close up before him."—Kirkham cor. "When the day broke upon this handful of forlorn but dauntless spirits."—Id. "If, upon a plumtree, peaches and apricots are engrafted, nobody will say they are the natural growth of the plumtree.'—Berkley cor. "The channel between Newfoundland and Labrador is called the Straits of Belleisle."—Worcester cor. "There being nothing that more exposes to the headache:"—or, (perhaps more accurately,) "headake."—Locke cor. "And, by a sleep, to say we end the heartache:"—or, "heartake."—Shak. cor. "He that sleeps, feels not the toothache:"—or, "toothake."—Id. "That the shoe must fit him, because it fitted his father and grandfather."—Phil. Museum cor. "A single word misspelled [or misspelt] in a letter is sufficient to show that you have received a defective education."—C. Bucke cor. "Which misstatement the committee attributed to a failure of memory."—Professors cor. "Then he went through the Banqueting-House to the scaffold."—Smollet cor. "For the purpose of maintaining a clergyman and a schoolmaster."—Webster cor. "They however knew that the lands were claimed by Pennsylvania."—Id. "But if you ask a reason, they immediately bid farewell to argument."—Barnes cor. "Whom resist, steadfast in the faith."—Alger's Bible. "And they continued steadfastly in the apostles' doctrine."—Id. "Beware lest ye also fall from your own steadfastness."—Ib. "Galiot, or Galliot, a Dutch vessel carrying a main-mast and a mizzen-mast."—Webster cor. "Infinitive, to overflow; Preterit, overflowed; Participle, overflowed."—Cobbett cor. "After they have misspent so much precious time."—Brit. Gram. cor. "Some say, 'two handsful;" some, 'two handfuls; and others, 'two handful.' The second expression is right."—G. Brown. "Lapful, as much as the lap can contain."—Webster cor. "Dareful, full of defiance."—Walker cor. "The road to the blissful regions is as open to the peasant as to the king."—Mur. cor. "Misspell is misspelled [or misspelt] in every dictionary which I have seen."—Barnes cor. "Downfall; ruin, calamity, fall from rank or state."—Johnson cor. "The whole legislature likewise acts as a court."—Webster cor. "It were better a millstone were hanged about his neck."—Perkins cor. "Plumtree, a tree that produces plums; Hogplumtree, a tree."—Webster cor. "Trissyllables ending in re or le, accent the first syllable."—Murray cor.

"It happened on a summer's holyday, That to the greenwood shade he took his way."—Dryden.

RULE XV.—USAGE.

"Nor are the moods of the Greek tongue more uniform."—Murray cor. "If we analyze a conjunctive preterit, the rule will not appear to hold."—Priestley cor. "No landholder would have been at that expense."—Id. "I went to see the child whilst they were putting on its clothes."—Id. "This style is ostentatious, and does not suit grave writing."—Id. "The king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, sat each on his throne."—1 Kings, xxii, 10; 2 Chron., xviii, 9. "Lysias, speaking of his friends, promised to his father never to abandon them."—Murray cor. "Some, to avoid this error, run into its opposite."—Churchill cor. "Hope, the balm of life soothes us under every misfortune."—Jaudon's Gram., p. 182. "Any judgement or decree might be heard and reversed by the legislature."—N. Webster cor. "A pathetic harangue will screen from punishment any knave."—Id. "For the same reason the women would be improper judges."—Id. "Every person is indulged in worshiping as he pleases."—Id. "Most or all teachers are excluded from genteel company."—Id. "The Christian religion, in its purity, is the best institution on earth."—Id. "Neither clergymen nor human laws have the least authority over the conscience."—Id. "A guild is a society, fraternity, or corporation."—Barnes cor. "Phillis was not able to untie the knot, and so she cut it."—Id. "An acre of land is the quantity of one hundred and sixty perches."—Id. "Ochre is a fossil earth combined with the oxyd of some metal."—Id. "Genii, when denoting aërial spirits; geniuses, when signifying persons of genius."—Murray cor.; also Frost; also Nutting. "Acrisius, king of Argos, had a beautiful daughter, whose name was Danäe."—Classic Tales cor. "Phäeton was the son of Apollo and Clymene."—Id.—"But, after all, I may not have reached the intended goal."—Buchanan cor. "'Pittacus was offered a large sum.' Better: 'To Pittacus was offered a large sum.'"—Kirkham cor. "King Micipsa charged his sons to respect the senate and people of Rome."—Id. "For example: 'Galileo greatly improved the telescope.'"—Id. "Cathmor's warriors sleep in death."—Macpherson's Ossian. "For parsing will enable you to detect and correct errors in composition."—Kirkham cor.

"O'er barren mountains, o'er the flow'ry plain, Extends thy uncontrolled and boundless reign."—Dryden cor.

PROMISCUOUS CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

LESSON I.—MIXED EXAMPLES.

"A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic."—Pope (or Johnson) cor. "Produce a single passage, superior to the speech of Logan, a Mingo chief, to Lord Dunmore, governor of this state."—Jefferson's Notes, p. 94. "We have none synonymous to supply its place."—Jamieson cor. "There is a probability that the effect will be accelerated."—Id. "Nay, a regard to sound has controlled the public choice."—Id. "Though learnt [better, learned] from the uninterrupted use of guttural sounds."—Id. "It is by carefully filing off all roughness and all inequalities, that languages, like metals, must be polished."—Id. "That I have not misspent my time in the service of the community."—Buchanan cor. "The leaves of maize are also called blades."—Webster cor. "Who boast that they know what is past, and can foretell what is to come."—Robertson cor. "Its tasteless dullness is interrupted by nothing but its perplexities."—Abbott, right. "Sentences constructed with the Johnsonian fullness and swell."—Jamieson, right. "The privilege of escaping from his prefatory dullness and prolixity."—Kirkham, right. "But, in poetry, this characteristic of dullness attains its full growth."—Id. corrected. "The leading characteristic consists in an increase of the force and fullness."—Id cor. "The character of this opening fullness and feebler vanish."—Id. cor. "Who, in the fullness of unequalled power, would not believe himself the favourite of Heaven?"—Id. right. "They mar one an other, and distract him."—Philol. Mus. cor. "Let a deaf worshiper of antiquity and an English prosodist settle this."—Rush cor. "This Philippic gave rise to my satirical reply in self-defence."—Merchant cor. "We here saw no innuendoes, no new sophistry, no falsehoods."—Id. "A witty and humorous vein has often produced enemies."—Murray cor. "Cry hollo! to thy tongue, I pray thee:[527] it curvets unseasonably."—Shak. cor. "I said, in my sliest manner, 'Your health, sir.'"—Blackwood cor. "And attorneys also travel the circuit in pursuit of business."—Barnes cor. "Some whole counties in Virginia would hardly sell for the value of the debts due from the inhabitants."—Webster cor. "They were called the Court of Assistants, and exercised all powers, legislative and judicial."—Id. "Arithmetic is excellent for the gauging of liquors."—Harris's Hermes, p. 295. "Most of the inflections may be analyzed in a way somewhat similar."—Murray cor.

"To epithets allots emphatic state, While principals, ungrac'd, like lackeys wait." —T. O. Churchill's Gram., p. 326.

LESSON II.—MIXED EXAMPLES.

"Hence less is a privative suffix, denoting destitution; as in fatherless, faithless, penniless."—Webster cor. "Bay; red, or reddish, inclining to a chestnut colour."—Id. "To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimicks."—Id. "Counterroll, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; Counterrollment, a counter account."—Id. "Millennium, [from mille and annus,] the thousand years during which Satan shall be bound."—See Johnson's Dict. "Millennial, [like septennial, decennial, &c.,] pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years."—See Worcester's Dict. "Thralldom; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude."—Webster's Dict. "Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers; Sweetbrier, a fragrant shrub."—See Ainsworth's Dict., Scott's, Gobb's, and others. "Will, in the second and third persons, barely foretells."—Brit. Gram. cor. "And therefore there is no word false, but what is distinguished by Italics."—Id. "What should be repeated, is left to their discretion."—Id. "Because they are abstracted or separated from material substances."—Id. "All motion is in time, and therefore, wherever it exists, implies time as its concomitant."— Harris's Hermes, p. 95. "And illiterate grown persons are guilty of blamable spelling."—Brit. Gram. cor. "They will always be ignorant, and of rough, uncivil manners."—Webster cor. "This fact will hardly be believed in the northern states."—Id. "The province, however, was harassed with disputes."—Id. "So little concern has the legislature for the interest of learning."—Id. "The gentlemen will not admit that a schoolmaster can be a gentleman."—Id. "Such absurd quid-pro-quoes cannot be too strenuously avoided."—Churchill cor. "When we say of a man, 'He looks slily;' we signify, that he takes a sly glance or peep at something."—Id. "Peep; to look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely, or slily"—Webster cor. "Hence the confession has become a hackneyed proverb."—Wayland cor. "Not to mention the more ornamental parts of gilding, varnish, &c."—Tooke cor. "After this system of self-interest had been riveted."—Dr. Brown cor. "Prejudice might have prevented the cordial approbation of a bigoted Jew."—Dr. Scott cor.

"All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen, The brier-rose fell in streamers green."—Sir W. Scott cor.

LESSON III.—MIXED EXAMPLES.

"The infinitive mood has, commonly, the sign to before it."—Harrison cor. "Thus, it is advisable to write singeing, from the verb to singe, by way of distinction from singing, the participle of the verb to sing."—Id. "Many verbs form both the preterit tense and the preterit participle irregularly."—Id. "Much must be left to every one's taste and judgement."—Id. "Verses of different lengths, intermixed, form a Pindaric poem."—Priestley cor. "He'll surprise you."—Frost cor. "Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?"— Knowles. "So gayly curl the waves before each dashing prow."—Byron cor. "When is a diphthong called a proper diphthong?"—Inf. S. Gram. cor. "How many Esses would the word then end with? Three; for it would be goodness's."—Id. "Qu. What is a triphthong? Ans. A triphthong is a coalition of three vowels in one syllable."—Bacon cor. "The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken separately."—Murray. "The cubic foot of matter which occupies the centre of the globe."—Cardell cor. "The wine imbibes oxygen, or the acidifying principle, from the air."—Id. "Charcoal, sulphur, and nitre, make gunpowder."—Id. "It would be readily understood, that the thing so labelled was a bottle of Madeira wine."—Id. "They went their ways, one to his farm, an other to his merchandise."—Matt., xxii, 5. "A diphthong is the union of two vowels, both in one syllable."—Russell cor. "The professors of the Mohammedan religion are called Mussulmans."—Maltby cor. "This shows that let is not a mere sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb."—Id. "Those preterits and participles which are first mentioned in the list, seem to be the most eligible."—Murray's Gram., p. 107; Fisk's, 81; Ingersoll's, 103. "Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by er and est, and dissyllables, by more and most."—Murray's Gram., p. 47. "This termination, added to a noun or an adjective, changes it into a verb: as, modern, to modernize; a symbol, to symbolize."— Churchill cor. "An Abridgement of Murray's Grammar, with additions from Webster, Ash, Tooke, and others."—Maltby's Gram., p. 2. "For the sake of occupying the room more advantageously, the subject of Orthography is merely glanced at."—Nutting cor. "So contended the accusers of Galileo."—O. B. Peirce cor. Murray says, "They were travelling post when he met them."—Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 69. "They fulfill the only purposes for which they were designed."—Peirce cor.—See Webster's Dict. "On the fulfillment of the event."—Peirce, right. "Fullness consists in expressing every idea."—Id. "Consistently with fullness and perspicuity."—Peirce cor. "The word veriest is a regular adjective; as, 'He is the veriest fool on earth.'"—Wright cor. "The sound will recall the idea of the object."—Hiley cor. "Formed for great enterprises."—Hiley's Gram., p. 113. "The most important rules and definitions are printed in large type, Italicized."—Hart cor. "HAMLETED, a., accustomed to a hamlet, countrified."—Webster, and Worcester. "Singular, spoonful, cupful, coachful, handful; plural, spoonfuls, cupfuls, coachfuls, handfuls."—Worcester's Universal and Critical Dictionary.

"Between superlatives and following names, Of, by grammatic right, a station claims."—Brightland cor.