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 "We here saw no inuendoes, no new sophistry, no falsehoods."--Ib. "A witty and humourous vein has often produced enemies."--Murray's Key, p. 173. "Cry holla! to thy tongue, I pr'ythee: it curvetts unseasonably."--Shak. "I said, in my slyest manner, 'Your health, sir.'"--Blackwood's Mag., Vol. xl, p. 679. "And attornies also travel the circuit in pursute of business."--Red Book, p. 83. "Some whole counties in Virginia would hardly sel for the valu of the dets du from the inhabitants."--Webster's Essays, p. 301. "They were called the court of assistants, and exercized all powers legislativ and judicial."--Ib., p. 340. "Arithmetic is excellent for the guaging of liquors."--Murray's Gram., 8vo, p. 288. "Most of the inflections may be analysed in a way somewhat similar."--Ib., p. 112.

"To epithets allots emphatic state,   Whilst principals, ungrac'd, like lacquies wait." --C. Churchill's Ros., p. 8.

LESSON II.--MIXED.

"Hence it [less] is a privative word, denoting destitution; as, fatherless, faithless, pennyless."--Webster's Dict., w. Less. "Bay; red, or reddish, inclining to a chesnut color."--Same. "To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimics."--Ib. "Counterroil, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; Counterrolment, a counter account."--Ib. "Millenium, the thousand years during which Satan shall be bound."--Ib. "Millenial, pertaining to the millenium, or to a thousand years."--Ib. "Thraldom; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude."--See Johnson's Dict. "Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers; Sweetbriar, a fragrant shrub."--See Johnson, Walker, Chalmers, Webster, and others. "Will, in the second and third Persons, barely foretels."--British Gram., p. 132. "And therefor there is no Word false, but what is distinguished by Italics."--Ib., Pref., p. v. "What should be repeted is left to their Discretion."--Ib., p. iv. "Because they are abstracted or seperated from material Substances."--Ib., p. ix. "All Motion is in Time, and therefor, where-ever it exists, implies Time as its Concommitant."--Ib., p. 140. "And illiterate grown persons are guilty of blameable spelling."--Ib., Pref., p. xiv. "They wil always be ignorant, and of ruf uncivil manners."--Webster's Essays, p. 346. "This fact wil hardly be beleeved in the northern states."--Ib., p. 367. "The province however waz harrassed with disputes."--Ib., p. 352. "So little concern haz the legislature for the interest of lerning."--Ib., p. 349. "The gentlemen wil not admit that a skoolmaster can be a gentleman."--Ib., p. 362. "Such absurd qui-pro-quoes cannot be too strenuously avoided."--Churchill's Gram., p. 205. "When we say, 'a man looks slyly;' we signify, that he assumes a sly look."--Ib., p. 339. "Peep; to look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely, or slyly."--Webster's Dict. "Hence the confession has become a hacknied proverb."--Wayland's Moral Science, p. 110. "Not to mention the more ornamental parts of guilding, varnish, &c."--Tooke's Diversions, Vol. i, p. 20. "After this system of self-interest had been rivetted."--Brown's Estimate, Vol. ii, p. 136. "Prejudice might have prevented the cordial approbation of a bigotted Jew."--SCOTT: on Luke, x.

"All twinkling with the dew-drop sheen,   The briar-rose fell in streamers green."--Lady of the Lake, p. 16.

LESSON III.--MIXED.

"The infinitive mode has commonly the sign to before it."--Harrison's Gram., p. 25. "Thus, it is adviseable to write singeing, from the verb to singe, by way of distinction from singing, the participle of the verb to sing."--Ib., p. 27. "Many verbs form both the preterite tense and the preterite participle irregularly."--Ib., p. 28. "Much must be left to every one's taste and judgment."--Ib., p. 67. "Verses of different lengths intermixed form a Pindarick poem."--Priestley's Gram., p. 44. "He'll surprize you."--''Frost's El. of Gram.'', p. 88. "Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?"--KNOWLES: ib., p. 102. "So gaily curl the waves before each dashing prow."--BYRON: ib., p. 104. "When is a dipthong called a proper dipthong?"--Infant School Gram., p. 11. "How many ss would goodness then end with? Three."--Ib., p. 33. "Q. What is a tripthong? A. A tripthong is the union of three vowels, pronounced in like manner."--Bacon's Gram., p. 7. "The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken seperately."--Ib., p. 47. "The cubic foot of matter which occupies the center of the globe."--Cardell's Gram., 18mo, p. 47. "The wine imbibes oxigen, or the acidifying principle, from the air."--Ib., p. 62. "Charcoal, sulphur, and niter, make gun powder."--Ib., p. 90. "It would be readily understood, that the thing so labeled, was a bottle of Madeira wine."--Ib., p. 99. "They went their ways, one to his farm, an other to his merchandize."--Ib., p. 130. "A dipthong is the union of two vowels, sounded by a single impulse of the voice."--Russell's Gram., p. 7. "The professors of the Mahommedan religion are called Mussulmans."--Maltby's Gram., p. 73. "This shews that let is not a sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb."--Ib., p. 51. "Those preterites and participles, which are first mentioned in the list, seem to be the most eligible."--Ib., p. 47. "Monosyllables, for the most part, are compared by er and est; and dyssyllables by more and most."--Ib., p. 19. "This termination, added to a noun, or adjective, changes it into a verb: as modern, to modernise; a symbol, to symbolize."--Churchill's Gram., p. 24. "An Abridgment of Murray's Grammar, with additions from Webster, Ash, Tooke, and others."--Maltby's title-page. "For the sake of occupying the room more advantagously, the subject of Orthography is merely glanced at."--Nutting's Gram., p. 5. "So contended the accusers of Gallileo."