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 and by it the pupil may also be exercised in relation to the principles of Punctuation, Utterance, Analysis, or whatever else of Grammar, the examples contain.

LESSON I.&mdash;FIGURES OF ORTHOGRAPHY.
MIMESIS AND ARCHAISM.

"I ax'd you what you had to sell. I am fitting out a wessel for Wenice, loading her with warious keinds of prowisions, and wittualling her for a long woyage; and I want several undred weight of weal, wenison, &c., with plenty of inyons and winegar, for the preserwation of ealth."&mdash;Columbian Orator, p. 292.

"God bless you, and lie still quiet (says I) a bit longer, for my shister's afraid of ghosts, and would die on the spot with the fright, was she to see you come to life all on a sudden this way without the least preparation."&mdash;Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, p. 143.

"None [else are] so desperately evill, as they that may bee good and will not: or have beene good and are not."&mdash;Rev. John Rogers, 1620. "A Carpenter finds his work as hee left it, but a Minister shall find his sett back. You need preach continually."&mdash;Id. "Here whilom ligg'd th' Esopus of his age,   But call'd by Fame, in soul ypricked deep."&mdash;Thomson.

"It was a fountain of Nepenthe rare,   Whence, as Dan Homer sings, huge pleasaunce grew."&mdash;Id.

LESSON II.&mdash;FIGURES OF ETYMOLOGY.
APHÆRESIS, PROSTHESIS, SYNCOPE, APOCOPE, PARAGOGE, DIÆRESIS, SYNÆRESIS, AND TMESIS. "Bend &rsquo;gainst the steepy hill thy breast,   Burst down like torrent from its crest."&mdash;Scott.

"&rsquo;Tis mine to teach th&rsquo; inactive hand to reap   Kind nature's bounties, o'er the globe diffus'd."&mdash;Dyer.

"Alas! alas! how impotently true   Th' aërial pencil forms the scene anew."&mdash;Cawthorne.

"Here a deformed monster joy'd to won,   Which on fell rancour ever was ybent."&mdash;Lloyd.

"Withouten trump was proclamation made."&mdash;Thomson.

"The gentle knight, who saw their rueful case,   Let fall adown his silver beard some tears.    'Certes,' quoth he, 'it is not e'en in grace,    T&rsquo; undo the past and eke your broken years."&mdash;Id.

"Vain tamp'ring has but foster'd his disease;   &rsquo;Tis desp'rate, and he sleeps the sleep of death."&mdash;Cowper.

"'I have a pain upon my forehead here'&mdash;   'Why that's with watching; &rsquo;twill away again.'"&mdash;Shakspeare.

"I'll to the woods, among the happier brutes;   Come, let's away; hark! the shrill horn resounds."&mdash;Smith. "What prayer and supplication soever be made."&mdash;Bible. "By the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you ward."&mdash;Ib.

FIGURE I.&mdash;ELLIPSIS.
"And now he faintly kens the bounding fawn,   And [--] villager [--] abroad at early toil."&mdash;Beattie.

"The cottage curs at [--] early pilgrim bark."&mdash;Id.

"'Tis granted, and no plainer truth appears,   Our most important [--] are our earliest years."&mdash;Cowper.

"To earn her aid, with fix'd and anxious eye,   He looks on nature's [--] and on fortune's course."&mdash;Akenside.

"For longer in that paradise to dwell,   The law [--] I gave to nature him forbids."&mdash;Milton.