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 meeting house was filled."--The Friend, vii, 232. "Prince Rupert's Drop. This singular production is made at the glass houses."--Red Book, p. 131.

"The lights and shades, whose well accorded strife   Gives all the strength and colour of our life." --Murray's Gram., p. 54; Fisk's, 65.

LESSON II.--MIXED.

"In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah."--1 Kings, xvi, 15. "In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah, began Omri to reign over Israel."--Ib., xvi, 23. "He cannot so deceive himself as to fancy that he is able to do a rule of three sum."--Foreign Quarterly Review. "The best cod are those known under the name of Isle of Shoals dun fish."--Balbi's Geog., p. 26. "The soldiers, with down cast eyes, seemed to beg for mercy."--Goldsmith's Greece, Vol. ii, p. 142. "His head was covered with a coarse worn out piece of cloth."--Ib., p. 124. "Though they had lately received a reinforcement of a thousand heavy armed Spartans."--Ib., p. 38. "But he laid them by unopened; and, with a smile, said, 'Business to morrow.'"--Ib., p. 7. "Chester monthly meeting is held at Moore's town, the third day following the second second day."--The Friend, Vol. vii, p. 124. "Eggharbour monthly meeting is held the first second day."--Ib., p. 124. "Little Egg Harbour Monthly Meeting is held at Tuckerton on the second fifth day in each month."--Ib., p. 231. "At three o'clock, on first day morning the 24th of eleventh month, 1834," &c.--Ib., p. 64. "In less than one-fourth part of the time usually devoted."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 4. "The pupil will not have occasion to use it one-tenth part as much."--Ib., p. 11. "The painter dips his paint brush in paint, to paint the carriage."--Ib., p. 28. "In an ancient English version of the New-Testament."--Ib., p. 74. "The little boy was bare headed."--''Red Book'', p. 36. "The man, being a little short sighted, did not immediately know him."--Ib., p. 40. "Picture frames are gilt with gold."--Ib., p. 44. "The park keeper killed one of the deer."--Ib., p. 44. "The fox was killed near the brick kiln."--Ib., p. 46. "Here comes Esther, with her milk pail."--Ib., p. 50. "The cabinet maker would not tell us."--Ib., p. 60. "A fine thorn hedge extended along the edge of the hill."--Ib., p. 65. "If their private interests should be ever so little affected."--Ib., p. 73. "Unios are fresh water shells, vulgarly called fresh water clams."--Ib., p. 102.

"Did not each poet mourn his luckless doom,   Jostled by pedants out of elbow room."--Lloyd, p. 163.

LESSON III.--MIXED.

"The captive hovers a-while upon the sad remains."--PRIOR: in Johnson's Dict., w. Hover. "Constantia saw that the hand writing agreed with the contents of the letter."--ADDISON: ib., w. Hand. "They have put me in a silk night-gown, and a gaudy fool's cap."--ID.: ib., w. Nightgown. "Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?"--ARBUTHNOT: ib., w. Ninnyhammer. "A noble, that is, six, shillings and eightpence, is, and usually hath been paid."--BACON: ib., w. Noble. "The king of birds thick feather'd and with full-summed wings, fastened his talons east and west."--HOWELL: ib., w. Full-summed. "To morrow. This is an idiom of the same kind, supposing morrow to mean originally morning: as, to night, to day."--Johnson's Dict., 4to. "To-day goes away and to-morrow comes."--Id., ib., w. Go, No. 70. "Young children, who are try'd in Go carts, to keep their steps from sliding."--PRIOR: ib., w. Go-cart. "Which, followed well, would demonstrate them but goers backward."--SHAK.:  ib., w. Goer. "Heaven's golden winged herald late he saw, to a poor Galilean virgin sent."--CRASHAW: ib., w. Golden. "My penthouse eye-brows and my shaggy beard offend your sight."--DRYDEN: ib., w. Penthouse. "The hungry lion would fain have been dealing with good horse-flesh."-- L'ESTRANGE: ib., w. Nag. "A broad brimmed hat ensconced each careful head."--Snelling's Gift, p. 63. "With harsh vibrations of his three stringed lute."--Ib., p. 42. "They magnify a hundred fold an author's merit."--Ib., p. 14. "I'll nail them fast to some oft opened door."--Ib., p. 10. "Glossed over only with a saint-like show, still thou art bound to vice."--DRYDEN: in Johnson's Dict., w. Gloss. "Take of aqua-fortis two ounces, of quick-silver two drachms."--BACON: ib., w. Charge. "This rainbow never appears but when it rains in the sun-shine."--NEWTON: ib., w. Rainbow.

"Not but there are, who merit other palms;   Hopkins and Stern hold glad the heart with Psalms." British Poets, Lond., 1800, Vol. vi, p. 405.

CHAPTER IV.--OF SPELLING.

Spelling is the art of expressing words by their proper letters. This important art is to be acquired rather by means of the spelling-book or dictionary, and by observation in reading, than by the study of written rules; because what is proper or improper, depends chiefly upon usage.