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CHAPTER IV.--OF SPELLING.

CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

RULE I.--FINAL F, L, OR S.

"He will observe the moral law, in his conduct."--Webster corrected. "A cliff is a steep bank, or a precipitous rock."--Walker cor. "A needy man's budget is full of schemes."--Maxim cor. "Few large publications, in this country, will pay a printer."--N. Webster cor. "I shall, with cheerfulness, resign my other papers to oblivion."--Id. "The proposition was suspended till the next session of the legislature."--Id. "Tenants for life will make the most of lands for themselves."--Id. "While every thing is left to lazy negroes, a state will never be well cultivated."--Id. "The heirs of the original proprietors still hold the soil."--Id. "Say my annual profit on money loaned shall be six per cent."--Id. "No man would submit to the drudgery of business, if he could make money as fast by lying still."--Id. "A man may as well feed himself with a bodkin, as with a knife of the present fashion."--Id. "The clothes will be ill washed, the food will be badly cooked; you will be ashamed of your wife, if she is not ashamed of herself."--Id. "He will submit to the laws of the state while he is a member of it."--Id. "But will our sage writers on law forever think by tradition?"--Id. "Some still retain a sovereign power in their territories."--Id. "They sell images, prayers, the sound of bells, remission of sins, &c."--Perkins cor. "And the law had sacrifices offered every day, for the sins of all the people."--Id. "Then it may please the Lord, they shall find it to be a restorative."--Id. "Perdition is repentance put off till a future day."--Maxim cor. "The angels of God, who will good and cannot will evil, have nevertheless perfect liberty of will."--Perkins cor. "Secondly, this doctrine cuts off the excuse of all sin."--Id. "Knell, the sound of a bell rung at a funeral."--Dict. cor.

"If gold with dross or grain with chaff you find,   Select--and leave the chaff and dross behind."--G. Brown.

RULE II.--OTHER FINALS.

"The mob hath many heads, but no brains."--Maxim cor. "Clam; to clog with any glutinous or viscous matter."--See Webster's Dict. "Whur; to pronounce the letter r with too much force." "Flip; a mixed liquor, consisting of beer and spirit sweetened." "Glyn; a hollow between two mountains, a glen."--See Walker's Dict. "Lam, or belam; to beat soundly with a cudgel or bludgeon."--See Red Book. "Bun; a small cake, a simnel, a kind of sweet bread."--See Webster's Dict. "Brunet, or Brunette; a woman with a brown complexion."--See ib., and Scott's Dict. "Wadset; an ancient tenure or lease of land in the Highlands of Scotland."--Webster cor. "To dod sheep, is to cut the wool away about their tails."--Id. "In aliquem arietare. Cic. To run full butt at one."--W. Walker cor. "Neither your policy nor your temper would permit you to kill me."--''Phil. Mu. cor. "And admit none but his own offspring to fulfill them."--Id. "The sum of all this dispute is, that some make them Participles."--R. Johnson cor. "As the whistling winds, the buzz and hum of insects, the hiss of serpents, the crash of falling timber."--Murray's Gram.'', p. 331. "Van; to winnow, or a fan for winnowing."--See Scott. "Creatures that buzz, are very commonly such as will sting."--G. Brown. "Beg, buy, or borrow; but beware how yon find."--Id. "It is better to have a house to let, than a house to get." "Let not your tongue cut your throat."--Precept cor. "A little wit will save a fortunate man."--Adage cor. "There is many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip."--Id. "Mothers' darlings make but milksop heroes."--Id. "One eye-witness is worth ten hearsays."--Id.

"The judge shall job, the bishop bite the town,   And mighty dukes pack cards for half a crown." POPE: in Johnson's Dict., w. Job.

RULE III.--DOUBLING.

"Friz, to curl; frizzed, curled; frizzing, curling."--Webster cor. "The commercial interests served to foster the principles of Whiggism."--Payne cor. "Their extreme indolence shunned every species of labour."--Robertson cor. "In poverty and strippedness, they attend their little meetings."--The Friend cor. "In guiding and controlling the power you have thus obtained."--Abbott cor. "I began, Thou begannest or beganst, He began, &c."--A. Murray cor. "Why does began change its ending; as, I began, Thou begannest or beganst?"--Id. "Truth and conscience cannot be controlled by any methods of coercion."--Hints cor. "Dr. Webster nodded, when he wrote knit, knitter, and knitting-needle, without doubling the t."--G. Brown. "A wag should have wit enough to know when other wags are quizzing him." "Bonny; handsome, beautiful, merry."--Walker cor. "Coquettish; practising coquetry; after the manner of a jilt."--See Worcester. "Pottage; a species of food made of meat and vegetables boiled to softness in water."--See Johnson's Dict. "Pottager; (from pottage;) a porringer, a small vessel for children's food." "Compromit, compromitted, compromitting; manumit, manumitted, manumitting."--Webster cor. "Inferrible; that may be inferred or deduced from premises."--Walker. "Acids are either solid, liquid, or gasseous."--Gregory cor. "The spark will pass through the interrupted space between the two wires, and explode the gasses."--Id. "Do we sound gasses and gasseous like cases and caseous? No: they are more like glasses and osseous."--G. Brown. "I shall not need here to mention Swimming, when he is of an age able to learn."--Locke cor. "Why do lexicographers spell thinnish and mannish with two Ens, and dimmish and rammish