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 delphia, 1823.

5. Correct Marshall, in the division of the following words: "Trench-er, trunch-eon, dros-sy, glos-sy, glas-sy, gras-sy, dres-ses, pres-ses, cal-ling, chan-ging, en-chan-ging, con-ver-sing, mois-ture, join-ture, qua-drant, qua-drate, trans-gres-sor, dis-es-teem."--New Spelling-Book: New York, 1836.

6. Correct Emerson, in the division of the following words: "Dus-ty mis-ty, mar-shy, mil-ky, wes-tern, stor-my, nee-dy, spee-dy, drea-ry, fros-ty, pas-sing, roc-ky, bran-chy, bland-ish, pru-dish, eve-ning, a-noth-er."--National Spelling-Book: Boston, 1828.

"Two Vowels meeting, each with its full Sound,   Always to make Two Syllables are bound."--Brightland's Gram., p. 64.

EXERCISE III.--FIGURE OF WORDS.

"I was surprised by the return of my long lost brother."--Parker's Exercises in English Composition, p. 5. "Such singular and unheard of clemency cannot be passed over by me in silence."--Ib., p. 10. "I perceive my whole system excited by the potent stimulus of sun-shine."--Ib., p. 11. "To preserve the unity of a sentence, it is sometimes necessary to employ the case absolute, instead of the verb and conjunction."--Ib., p. 17. "Severity and hard hearted opinions accord with the temper of the times."--Ib., p. 18. "That poor man was put into the mad house."--Ib., p. 22. "This fellow must be put into the poor house."--Ib. p. 22. "I have seen the breast works and other defences of earth, that were thrown up."--Ib., p. 24. "Cloven footed animals are enabled to walk more easily on uneven ground."--Ib., p. 25. "Self conceit blasts the prospects of many a youth."--Ib., p. 26. "Not a moment should elapse without bringing some thing to pass."--Ib., p. 36. "A school master decoyed the children of the principal citizens into the Roman camp."--Ib., p. 39. "The pupil may now write a description of the following objects. A school room. A steam boat. A writing desk. A dwelling house. A meeting house. A paper mill. A grist mill. A wind mill."--Ib., p. 45. "Every metaphor should be founded on a resemblance which is clear and striking; not far fetched, nor difficult to be discovered."--Ib., p. 49. "I was reclining in an arbour overhung with honey suckle and jessamine of the most exquisite fragrance."--Ib., p. 51. "The author of the following extract is speaking of the slave trade."--Ib., p. 60. "The all wise and benevolent Author of nature has so framed the soul of man, that he cannot but approve of virtue."--Ib., p. 74. "There is something of self denial in the very idea of it."--Ib., p. 75. "Age therefore requires a well spent youth to render it happy."--Ib., p. 76. "Pearl-ash requires much labour in its extraction from ashes."--Ib., p. 91. "Club, or crump, footed, Loripes; Rough, or leather, footed, Plumipes."--Ainsworth's Dict.

"The honey-bags steal from the humble bees,   And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs." --SHAK.: Joh.'s Dict., w. Glowworm.

"The honeybags steal from the bumblebees,   And for night tapers crop their waxen thighs." --SHAK.: Joh.'s Dict., w. Humblebee.

"The honey bags steal from the humble-bees,   And, for night tapers crop their waxen thighs." --Dodd's Beauties of Shak., p. 51.

EXERCISE IV.--SPELLING.

"His antichamber, and room of audience, are little square chambers wainscoted."--ADDISON: Johnson's Dict., w. Antechamber. "Nobody will deem the quicksighted amongst them to have very enlarged views of ethicks."--LOCKE: Ib., w. Quicksighted. "At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity."--L'ESTRANGE: Ib., m. Blunderhead. "On the topmast, the yards, and boltsprit would I flame distinctly."--SHAK.: Ib., w. Bowsprit. "This is the tune of our catch plaid by the picture of nobody."--ID.: ''Ib., w. Nobody''. "Thy fall hath left a kind of blot to mark the fulfraught man."--ID.: Ib., w. Fulfraught. "Till blinded by some Jack o'Lanthorn sprite."--Snelling's Gift, p. 62. "The beauties you would have me eulogise."--Ib., p. 14. "They rail at me--I gaily laugh at them."--Ib., p. 13. "Which the king and his sister had intrusted to him withall."--Josephus, Vol. v, p. 143. "The terms of these emotions are by no means synonimous."--Rush, on the Voice, p. 336. "Lillied, adj. Embellished with lilies."--Chalmers's Dict. "They seize the compendious blessing without exertion and without reflexion."--Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 428. "The first cry that rouses them from their torpour, is the cry that demands their blood."--Ib., p. 433. "It meets the wants of elementary schools and deserves to be patronised."--Kirkham's Gram., p. 5. "Whose attempts were paralysed by the hallowed sound."--Music of Nature, p. 270. "It would be an amusing investigation to analyse their language."--Ib., p. 200. "It is my father's will that I should take on me the hostess-ship of the day."--SHAK.: in Johnson's Dict. "To retain the full apprehension of them undiminisht."--''Phil. Museum.'', Vol. i, p. 458. "The ayes and noes were taken in the House of Commons."--''Anti-Slavery Mag.'', Vol. i, p. 11. "Derivative words are formed by adding letters or syllables to primatives."--Davenport's Gram., p. 7. "The minister never was thus harrassed himself."--Nelson, on Infidelity, p. 6. "The most vehement politician thinks himself unbiassed in his judgment."--Ib., p. 17. "Mistress-ship, n. Female rule or dominion."--Webster's Dict.

"Thus forced to kneel, thus groveling to embrace,   The scourge and ruin of my realm and race." --POPE: Ash's Gram., p. 83.