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[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word "critick" is here spelled with a final k. But, according to Rule 5th, "Monosyllables and English verbs end not with c, but take ck for double c; as, rack, wreck, rock, attack: but, in general, words derived from the learned languages need not the k, and common use discards it." Therefore, this k should be omitted; thus, critic.]

"The leading object of every publick speaker should be to persuade."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 153. "May not four feet be as poetick as five; or fifteen feet, as poetick as fifty?"--Ib., p. 146. "Avoid all theatrical trick and mimickry, and especially all scholastick stiffness."--Ib., p. 154. "No one thinks of becoming skilled in dancing, or in musick, or in mathematicks, or logick, without long and close application to the subject."--Ib., p. 152. "Caspar's sense of feeling, and susceptibility of metallick and magnetick excitement were also very extraordinary."--Ib., p. 238. "Authorship has become a mania, or, perhaps I should say, an epidemick."--Ib., p. 6. "What can prevent this republick from soon raising a literary standard?"--Ib., p. 10. "Courteous reader, you may think me garrulous upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me."--Ib., p. 11. "Of the Tonick, Subtonick, and Atoniek elements."--Ib., p. 15. "The subtonick elements are inferiour to the tonicks in all the emphatick and elegant purposes of speech."--Ib., p. 32. "The nine atonicks, and the three abrupt subtonicks cause an interruption to the continuity of the syllabick impulse."--Ib., p. 37. "On scientifick principles, conjunctions and prepositions are but one part of speech."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 120. "That some inferior animals should be able to mimic human articulation, will not seem wonderful."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 2.

"When young, you led a life monastick,   And wore a vest ecelesiastick;    Now, in your age, you grow fantastick."--Johnson's Dict.

UNDER RULE VI.--OF RETAINING.

"Fearlesness, exemption from fear, intrepidity."--Johnson's Dict.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word "fearlesness" is here allowed to drop one s of fearless. But, according to Rule 6th, "Words ending with any double letter, preserve it double before any additional termination not beginning with the same letter." Therefore, the other s should be inserted; thus, fearlessness.]

"Dreadlesness; fearlesness, intrepidity, undauntedness."--Johnson's Dict. "Regardlesly, without heed; Regardlesness, heedlessness, inattention."--Ib. "Blamelesly, innocently; Blamlesness, innocence."--Ib. "That is better than to be flattered into pride and carelesness."--TAYLOR: ''Joh. Dict. "Good fortunes began to breed a proud recklesness in them."--SIDNEY: ib. "See whether he lazily and listlesly dreams away his time."--LOCKE: ib. "It may be, the palate of the soul is indisposed by listlesness or sorrow."--TAYLOR: ib. "Pitilesly, without mercy; Pitilesness, unmercifulness."--Johnson''. "What say you to such as these? abominable, accordable, agreable, &c."--Tooke's Diversions, Vol. ii, p. 432. "Artlesly; naturally, sincerely, without craft."--Johnson. "A chilness, or shivering of the body, generally precedes a fever."--Murray's Key, p. 167. "Smalness; littleness, minuteness, weakness."--''Rhyming Dict. "Gall-less, a. free from gall or bitterness."--Webster's Dict.'' "Talness; height of stature, upright length with comparative slenderness."--See Johnson et al. "Wilful; stubborn, contumacious, perverse, inflexible."--Id. "He guided them by the skilfulness of his hands."--Psal. lxxviii, 72. "The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof."--Murray's Key, p. 172. "What is now, is but an amasment of imaginary conceptions."--GLANVILLE: ''Joh. Dict. "Embarrasment; perplexity, entanglement."--See Littleton's Dict. "The second is slothfulness, whereby they are performed slackly and carelesly."--Perkins's Theology'', p. 729. "Instalment; induction into office; part of a large sum of money, to be paid at a particular time."--See Johnson's Dict. "Inthralment; servitude, slavery."--Ib.

"I, who at some times spend, at others spare,   Divided between carelesness and care."--Pope.

UNDER RULE VII.--OF RETAINING.

"Shall, on the contrary, in the first person, simply foretels."--Murray's Gram., p. 88; Ingersoll's, 136; Fisk's, 78; Jaudon's, 59; A. Flint's, 42; Wright's, 90; Bullions's, 32.

[FORMULE.--Not proper, because the word "foretels" does not here retain the double l of tell. But, according to Rule 7th, "Words ending with any double letter, preserve it double in all derivatives formed from them by means of prefixes." Therefore, the other l should be inserted; thus, foretells.]

"There are a few compound irregular verbs, as befal, bespeak, &c."--Ash's Gram., p. 46. "That we might frequently recal it to our memory."--Calvin's Institutes, p. 112. "The angels exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befal us."--Ib., p. 107. "Inthral; to enslave, to shackle, to reduce to servitude."--Walker's Dict. "He makes resolutions, and fulfils them by new ones."--Red Book, p. 138. "To enrol my humble name upon the list of authors on Elocution."--Kirkham's Elocution, p. 12. "Forestal; to anticipate, to take up beforehand."--''Walker's Rhym. Dict.'' "Miscal; to call wrong, to name improperly."--Johnson. "Bethral; to enslave, to reduce to bondage."--See id. "Befal; to happen to, to come to pass."--''Rhym. Dict. "Unrol; to open what is rolled or convolved."--Johnson''. "Counterrol; to keep copies of accounts to prevent frauds."--See id. "As Sisyphus uprols a rock, which constantly overpowers him at the summit."--Author. "Unwel; not well, indisposed, not in good health."--See Red Book, p. 336. "Undersel; to defeat by selling for less, to sell cheaper than an other."--See id., p. 332. "Inwal; to enclose or fortify with a wall."--See id., p. 295. "Twibil; an instrument