BBmBBi HHral PE 1144 Hi I 1 una Bra ommnn ■ ■■"■"■■ m wSBBm HH EH ■HHSH n CM' En EH h Hi *° a* ** v ipii, i* .^ * ; . 4,v ^ .y^v J? "±. V ***** cX •: J>\ *<>** *?i ** v % ' • V* •* 0^ _e°JL a *. **b. '" ^\- v '*- ^ <■> e5^ ^ ^ .V > .«P-V « V ** i* \ > 2ttfc ^ '"" ^ THE COMPANION TO SPELLING B00KS ; IN WHICH THE ORTHOGRAPHY AND MEANING OF MANY THOUSAND WORDS, MOST LIABLE TO BE MISSPELLED AND MISUSED, ARE IMPRESSED UPON THE MEMORY BY A REGULAR SERIES OF WRITTEN EXERCISES. BY WILLIAM B. FOWLE, AUTHOR OF THE COMMON SCHOOL SPELLER, COMMON SCHOOL GRAMMAR, COMMON SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY, BIBLE READER, PRIMARY READER, FAMILIAR DIALOGUES, LINEAR DRAWING, AND OTHER SCHOOL BOOKS IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH. BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY WM. B. FOWLE AND N. CAPEN, 184 Washington Street. 1843. ^V--"'. 1 A*.** •»•**»-• •• Entered according to Act of Congress ; in the year 1843, BY WM. B. FOWLE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. s STEREOTYPED BY GEORGE A. CURTIS, NEW ENGLAND TYPE AND STEREOTYPE FOUNDRY, BOSTON. PREFACE. This Companion to Spelling Books completes the design of the author in preparing his Common School Speller ; for, much as depends upon constant practice in a good spelling book, it will not be denied that a pupil can not be considered safe, until he has become accustomed to write and use words, as well as to spell them orally. In the following lessons, the object has been to select such words as, from some peculiarity, are most liable to be misspelled or misused, and to fix the attention of the pupil especially upon them, by requiring them to be corrected. The words are care- fully classed from beginning to end, so that the laws of English orthography are systematically illustrated by examples. In the sentences which have been prepared for this purpose, it is believed that the pupil will learn the correct meaning and use of words better than by the use of a dictionary, and, at the same time, acquire much useful knowledge and some salutary advice. Moreover, as the grammatical construction of the sentences and the punctuation are correct, and nothing but the orthography of the marked words is to be altered, the prac- tice upon these lessons will prove one of the best introductions to the writing of English composition that can be found. This Companion may be used in various ways, some of which will be briefly explained. 1. The pupil may be required to take the book and write the lessons correctly on paper, by the aid of a dictionary, at all times when he is not otherwise engaged; and, with such a standing task, it is believed that much of the idleness, ennui and mischief, so common in our schools, may be prevented, without any interruption to the other exercises. 2. The teacher may write the sentences upon a black-board, and require each pupil to correct them upon his slate, without using a dictionary, each passing his slate to the next pupil for examination, and continuing to examine and pass until his own slate comes round to him again. 3. The teacher may dictate the sentences to the class, with- out regard to the errors, and require them to be written with or without a dictionary, as he may determine. 4. The teacher may dictate only the words in Italic type, and, after seeing that they are correctly spelled, he may require the pupil, by the aid of a dictionary, to write original sentences, in which they shall be correctly used. These are the principal ways in which the author has used similar lessons for about twenty years with excellent effect, but he has no doubt that every intelligent teacher will readily invent other methods, or modify these to suit the circumstances of his school. It is proper to state that the arrangement of these lessons corresponds with the classification of words in the Common School Speller of the author, but though this coincidence may be a convenience to those who use the Speller, and may render a dictionary less necessary to them, still it does not in the least unfit the book for use in any school where any other spelling book is used, or where spelling is taught in any other way ; for the characteristic of each class, or a rule, is given at the head of each lesson. ¥m. B. Fowle. October 17, 1843. INDEX TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CLASSES ACCORDING TO WHICH THE LESSONS OF THIS BOOK ARE ARRANGED, Classes. CHARACTERISTICS, Lessons. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. A long, as i?i Fate, A short, as in Fat, E long, as in Me, E short, as in Met, I long, as in Pine, I short, as in Pin, O long, as in No, O short, as in Not, U short, as in Tub Y long, like I in Pine, Y short, like I in Pin, . 1, 26, 27, 107, 213. 2, 3, 28, 29, 108, 148. . . . . 4, 30, 109. . 5, 6, 31, 110, 148. 14, 32, 33, 34, 111, 213. 8, 9, 35, 36, 112, 148. . . 10, 37, 38, 113. . 11, 39, 40, 114, 148. . 12, 41, 42, 115, 213. .... 13, 43, 44. 45. 120, 121, 122. 46, 47, 48, 123 to 128, 149 to 152, 169, 170. A as in Far and Fast, 15, 49. A asm All, 16,50. AI as long A in Fate, .... 17, 52, 53, 159. AU like A in All, 16, 55, 160. AW like A in All, . 16,56. AY and EY like long A in Fate, .... 17, 57. EE like long E in Me, 4, 58, 59, 161. EA like long E in Me, 18, 60, 162. EW like long U in Cure, 12. IE and EI like long E in Me, . 19, 61, 62, 163, 164. IE like long I in Pine, 14. O as in Nor, 63. OO as in Cool, 20, 64, 65. OO as U in Bull. OAax%OmNo, 21,66. OW as long O in No, 22, 67. OE as long O in No, 22. OU as long O in No, 22, 68. 1* Classes. CHARACTERISTICS. Lessons. 31. OU as in Bound, 23,69,165. 32. OW as in Now, 24. 33. 01 05 m Oil, .25,70,166. 34. OY as in Boy, 71. 35. U as in Bull, 73, 74, 75. -36. A as O short in Not, 51. 37. A and AI as in Care and Air, 54. 38. O as 00 in Cool, 72. 39. IGH ax I long in Pine, 76. 40. like V short in Tub, ... 77 to 79, 153, 154. 41. OU liheU short in Tub, 80, 155 to 158. 42. I like U short in Tub, 81. 43. E final, not lengthening preceding vowels, 82 to 85, 136 to 139. 44. E silent before final ' N, as in Sadden, . . 86, 87. 45. E silent before L and after L and R, 88, 89, 140 to 144, 167, 168. 46. ED and ING added to verbs ending in E, 90, 91, 145 to 147. 47. Double Consonants retained in Compounds, 92, 93, 94. 48. Single Consonants doubled when a syllable is added., 95, 96, 97, 98. 49. Words containing Double Consonants, 99, 223 to 233. 50. WH at the beginning of words, .... 100, 101. 51. A final as Ah, 102. 52. Words ending in ENT and ENCE, . . 171 to 174. 53. UE and EU as long U in Cure, 103. 54. Ill as long I, short I, long U, arid OO, . . . 104. 55. EA as E in Met, A in Care, in Fate, and in Far, . v \ 105, 106, 166. 56. I, at the end* of unaccented syllables, as in Pin, 116, 117, 118, 149 to 152. 57. SM like ZM at the end of words, 119. 58. A like U short in But, ... 129 to 132, 211, 212. 59. ER like UR in Curl, 133, 134. 60. IZE and ISE at the end of words, .... 135. 62. S followed by C, as in Scene, .... 175 to 179. 63. TJOIS, SION, and CIAN, pronounced Skvv, 180 to 192. 64. ION as Yun and Un, 193, 194. 65. TIOUS, CIOUS, and CEOUS, like Shus, 195 to 197. 66. TI and CI like Sh, 198, 199. 67. I A as Ya, IE as Ye, IO as Yo, .... 200,201. 68. GE and GI as J, 202. 69. TI, CI, and SCI as She, ....... 203. 70. S as Sh and T^u, 204. 74. QtJ as if preceded by C , 205. 75. C and G soft before E and 1 206 to 210. . Classes. CHARACTERISTICS. Lessons. 76. CK hard, like K, 214 to 217. 77. PH like F, . . . 218 to 222. 79. N nasal, like Ng, 234. 80. EI as A long, E short, and I short, . . . . . 235. 81. AI as E short and I short ; ATJ G5 A m Far ; I A as I in Pin ; UasW; AGE anrf EGE «5 Idge, 236, 237. 82. Words containing Silent Letters, . . . 238 to 244. 83. French Sounds of QU, OU, CH, and I, . 245 to 248. 85. Irregular Words, 249 to 263. 86. Words alike in Pronunciation, . . . 264 to 315. 87. Words misused for each other ; Vulgarisms, 316 to 326. Appendix, page 120. Errors occasioned by improper use of the apostrophe, 327 to 339. Miscellaneous Lessons having the errors marked, 340 to 355. Miscellaneous Lessons in which the errors are not marked 356 to 397. THE COMPANION TO SPELLING BOOKS, LESSON I. Class 1.- Words containing long A. A fair fuse is not always a blessing. A qnick paice is not always a sure one. The rase is not always to the swift. These scenes must faid away. Man was maid for usefulness. How my head aiks ! He spaik and it was done. He wandered up hill and down dail. Faim injures weak minds. Put the flowers into a vace. Friends chace care away. Never halt any one. Women scait in Holland. The dead occupy but little spase. LESSON II. Class 2. — Words containing short A. The crabb is said to walk backward. It is better sometimes to lac than to abound. A qnak may sometimes cure. Tackt means skill. A good ladd never lies. Can you ad four and six together ? Put the apples in a bagg. You must not Jlagg before you are tired. He climbed over rocks and craggs. Eat heartily, but do not cramm. The Bible is compared to a lampe. The cann is full of ale. The vann of an army goes in front, the rear comes last. 10 LESSON III. Class 2, continued. Nothing happens by chanse. He was attacked by a gangue of robbers. Go to the ar^it, thou sluggard. The swallows build nests in the banc. Clapp your hands, but do not slapp your com- panions. A cassk is a wooden vessel. He was at the last gassp. A young girl is called a las. Bi^as is a mixed metal. Useless fear should be kast aside. I have a batt, but want a ball. He loves to chatt with his friends. The rati did not fall into the trapp. LESSON IV. Classes 3 and 19. — Words containing long E, or EE. Shee is more ready to censure than to praise. A mear look was sufficient to rebuke him. To eak otit is to lengthen. What is the theem or subject of our next composition 1 A lawyer's pay is called his/ea. A s/ieap is valued most for its fleese. Beaf is the flesh of cows and oxen. An eal is a slender fish. That knife has a kean edge. Speach distinguishes men from beasts. Creap softly, and do not cough or sneez. She iveaps because her teath ache. LESSON V. Class 4. — Words with short E. The spider's webb is artfully spread. The sea ebs when it retires. No seckt should persecute. The runners of my sledd are ironed. To loedd is to marry. Birds and reptiles lay egs. A small cask is called a kegg. It is shameful not to spel loel. The ellum is a graceful tree. The helum of a ship is what she is steered by. What elce is it good for ? Penns are taken from geese, and not from henns. There is a bird on the fense. Tence, in grammar, means time. 11 LESSON VI. Class 4, continued. Can you play at pegg top? A jesst often offends. What one getts by a belt is unlawfully gotten. 1 have a sett of ches men. Her treses waved in the wind. The deepest rocks contain the rarest gem/ms. He is an ill-bredd boy. A stnellt is a small fish. The yellk of an eg is yellow. Human kenn means human knowledge. There is a beautiful jett at the water- works. That dres does not become your seeks. You must learn to hernm before you stitch. LESSON VII. Class 5. — Words with long I. A gybe is a sort of jest. Ryse is a nourishing food. Give me a slise of bread. To byde is to remain. False reports are ryfe or prevalent. Beware of the toyles or tricks of pleasure. Myne cannot be thyne also. Kyte is the name of a bird, and a plaything. A lively child is said to be blythe. In some countries a tythe or tenth part belongs to the church. His sise is small. To twyne is to twist. Vise grows up in a trise. A dyke is only a ditch. A dyme is a tenth part of a dollar. LESSON VIII. Class 6. — Words with shoi*t I. The ox knoweth his master's cribb. The ribbs are attached to the spine. Pic up the wic of that lamp. A. young goat is called a kidd. The skwid is a sort of fish. You must moor the skif under the clif. That quit will make a stif pen. The brigg brought home a cargo of Jiggs. A sudden chit produced fever. It is time to skimm the millk. The flying fish has large finns for wings. Ginn is made from berries. Fill the glass up to the brimm with water. 12 LESSON IX. Class 6. continued. Zink is a kind of metal, and so is tinn. Many animals are killed for their skinns. The clothes should be rimed. Do not sludge your hair. The mine is a sort of animal. A rude girl is called a minks. Wood-cutters make many chipps. Do not ripp your gown. A scripp is a small bag. The bridle is fastened to the bitt. Rises are tokens of friendship. Never twitt one with his poverty. A wythe is a band of twigs. LESSON X. Class 7. — Words with long 0. Do not choak him. Many a joak ends in earnest. I knew by the smoak that a cottage was near. He gave me some, but I want moer. You must not use forse to convince him. The flesh. of swine is called porke. One pill is a doce. Stockings are called hoze. Quoath is an old word, meaning said. Sloath rusts the mind. Role the log away. An ape is a drole animal. None can resist the stroak of death. LESSON XI. Class 8. — Words with short O. Clean all the corn from the cobb. That man prefers to work by the jobb. There is an od sheep in the Jlok. Dof is a quaint word, meaning take of. Jogg your friend if he falls asleep. She went to the shopp and bought a dot It is cruel to cropp an animal's ears. A cops is a col- lection of low trees to be cut for fuel. A bos is a sort of knob. Every man should pay his scott. The ods means the excess or difference. Some persons editfroggs and doggs. To conn a lesson is to study it. 13 LESSON XII. Classes 9 and 21. — Words with long U and EW. The wife of a dooke is a duchess. Play me a toon upon that fooA Herod slue the innocent children. The cat will mue. The rfoo fell upon the grass. They brue beer, and distil spirit. To fewm is to vapor or smoke. Uze everybody well. To fuze a metal means to melt it. The cock croo thrice. Prevention is far better than kure. I had no klew, or guide, through the for- est. The skrew is a powerful machine. LESSON XIII. Class 10. — Words with short U '. The young of a fox or bear is called a cubb. A grubb changes to a winged insect. Pride is often nipped in the budd. The cufs of my coat are ragged. Place the rugg before the fire. He sells druggs and medicines. The doctor felt of his pidce. He had to pay a mulkt or fine. A bunn is a sort of cake. The hair of some animals is called furr. Kurds are made into cheese. How gracefully that hair kurls ! It is wicked to cuss or swear. To be "all in the sudds" is to be in trouble or confusion. LESSON XIV. Classes 11 and 23. — Words with long Y and IE. Children dye, as well as the aged. Ofye! To hye away is to hasten away. The skie is full of vapor. Sick persons should not eat pye or cake. Pigs are confined in a stye. I cannot speak while he is standing bye. Italic tipe leans, but Roman is upright. A lire is a stringed instrument. She is too shie. Tye the dog and he will lye down. Do not crie as you cried yes- terday. Do not prie into your neighbor's affairs. To vye with, means to trie to excel. *2 14 LESSON XV. Class 13. — Words with A as in Far. He broke a barr of iron. She sent for a jarr of olives. A farse is an amusing kind of play. The lartch is a beautiful tree. I saw a deer in the pare. Marie is a rich kind of soil. To sing passages of scripture is to chaunt. Most conver- sation is full of chafe. To quaf is used in poetry for to drink. The parth of piety is the pathe of peace. It is impolite to garp before company. A mast or yard is also called a sparr. Rise with the tare, and with the larck to bed. LESSON XVI. Classes 14, 16 and 17. — Words toith A, AU, or AW, as A in All. Sawce is a vulgar word for vegetables. A hauk is a bird of prey. A clawse is part of a sen- tence. To yorn is to gape. The paun is the humblest piece at chess. A floor of wind over- turned the boat. The lore of the Lord is perfect. A dworf is a diminutive person. One kind of excrescence is called a wort. Do not worp that comb. Warrs are often legal robberies. We rarely see our own fawlts. LESSON XYII. Classes 15 and 18. — Words with AI, AY, or EY, as long A. He payed me all he owed me. She put up her hair in a brayed. Do not fate to bring- a chane. tSley at home. Prisoners are confined in a jale. Cley is made into bricks. Never strey from the path of virtue. Who are thay? The sprey seems like fine rain. Tioane is an old word for two. The crows hovered over the slayn. He layd his hat on the table. How long has it layn there ? Sing in a more lively strane. The brayn is the organ of the mind. 15 LESSON XYIII. Class 20. — Words with EA like long E. A pee is as good as a been. A lawyer's argu- ment is called a plee. Reech me a cup of tee. Many say learn when they mean teech. Indians are fond of beeds. A bundle of stalks is called a sheef of grain. The flesh of a calf is called veel. Cheep things are often deer. Peet is vegetable earth. We ferment bread with yeest. Fasten the gutter to the eeves of the house. Pleaze to take a seet. Do not teeze an ill-tempered person. LESSON XIX. Class 22. — Words with IE like long E. A neice is the daughter of one's brother or sister. The cheif virtue is love. A theif pays dearly for what he steals. The greif of children is very breif. A leige is a sovereign. The Americans laid seige to Boston. The feilds arc green. Can you weild that heavy sheild? Never yeild to temptation. A feend is an evil spirit. Savage nations are feirce. Bad children greive their parents and peirce their hearts. The preist forbade him to theive. LESSON XX. Class 25. — Words ivith 00 as in Cool. A fide can not bear reproof. Let us sit in the kool shade of that tree. The rufe of a house is sometimes thatched. The dove kooes and the goos gabbles. The koot is called a silly bird. A lupe is the fold or doubling of a string. A bad workman always complains of his tides. The water will ooz through that cork. We met a trupe of horse. A nooce is a sort of slip-knot. The moos is an animal of the deer kind. 16 LESSON XXI. Class 27. — Words with OA like long O. A lode of oke wood. The young of the horse is called a fole. The best sope is made of soda and oil. His cote is badly torn. A gole is a boundary in a race. The shole is hardly covered by the sea. The frogs are said to croke. Horses love to eat otes. We lothe what we dislike. Croup is a disease of the throte. A canoe is a slight sort of bote. He sang till he grew horse. He paid for bord and lodging. A grone is an expression of pain. LESSON XXII. Classes 28 3 29 and 30.— Words toith OW, OE, or OU like long O. Cold winds blowe from the north. A fo is the same thing as an enemy. Power the water on the ground. Cocks crowe and cows lowe. A gord resembles a squash. Man was made to morn. A farmer should not let his ho rust. Life has been called a golden bole. Some bottles are cast in a mold. Once a year birds molt or shed their feathers. God is the sorce of all life. The wind has bloan down the fruit. The kourt will determine what the law means. LESSON XXIII. Class 31. — Words with OU as in Bound. How can dependant man be prowd? The Jlounse of her dress is too full. An ounse of pre- vention is worth a poivnd of cure. The clowd came from the sowth. A stought man may soon become weak. To owst an officer is to displace him. A spouze may mean either a husband or a wife. To cry, in the scriptures, means to showt, and not to weep. The gowt is sometimes an hereditary disease. The hawks pounse upon the chickens. The lion krouches before he springs. LESSON XXIV. Class 32. — Words ivith OW as in Now. To browze is to eat leaves and tender twigs. The toun for manners and the country for morals. She says her gownd is torn. A voive is a religious promise. A coul is the hood or cap of a monk's gown. The oid is a nocturnal or night bird. Nowe is always the best time to reform. Dogs groulj but they do not scoid. The croione does not preserve a king from care. The fore part of a vessel is called the prou. A skow is a large flat boat. The croud could not find room to sit. LESSON XXV. Class 33. — Words with 01 as in Oil. To seethe the meat is the same as to boyl it. The rope is in a koil. They fenced with foyls. Men toile and moyl for wealth that they must soon leave. The spoyls of war are no better than plunder. To royl is to stir up the sediment. To broile is to roast over coals, and not before them. The voise may be improved by careful use. We have the choise between good and evil. Joyn hands, but make no noize. Koif means a head- dress. To foiste in is to introduce wrongfully. LESSON XXVI. Class 1 . — Words with A long. Put a table on the bottle to show what it con- tains. Prepare some nutmeg with the greater. Do not wet a waifer too much. Never waiver in your purpose. Do not imitate the dog in the mainger. Camebric is a thin sort of cloth. Some freemen lead slaveish lives. Pastery is not wholesome food. Sirname means additional name. The landskip is obscure. A mesmale is a companion at meals. Water will filterate through some kinds of stone. An ungrateful person is called an ingreat. ■■in hi i ii i mi mn iMWHWfiBwwrirnTiiTfnriiTTWifr liitrtwrgnfaMOB 2* 18 LESSON XXVII. Class 1, continued. Public speakers should avoid grimase. Honest poverty is no disgrase. To blocade a town is to prevent access to it. The missionary often fore- sakes his home and country. To mis stake is to take amiss. To impail is to run a stake through the body. I did not intend to missname her sister. Some stains can not be eraced. To dylate is to spread or widen. Men inslave themselves to bad habits. A balloon would amaize a savage. A caskade is a sort of water-fall. LESSON XXYIII. Class 2. — Words with short A. A hut is sometimes called a cabbin. Bad hab- bits are hardly ever mended. The sabath is a day of rest. The acsess means the entrance or approach. A jackit is a part of male attire. Praise Him with the sackbutt and harp. Cabbage is used as a sallad. A debt contracted by gaming is not vallid. Allum is used to fix the colors of cloth. They cansel a bond by erasing the signa- tures. On the pannels were beautiful paintings. A canser is a dreadful sore. A lanset is a sur- geon's instrument. A trancit is a passing over. LESSON XXIX. Class 2, continued. It is easier to resist than to vangquish evil habits. A banditt is a robber. A garland for the head is called a chaplit. John the Babtist preached repentance. The tarriff is a rate of duties paid to government. Mattins are morning prayers. Sattin is more glossy than velvet. The Lattin school is in the other parrish. The cane called rattan comes from India. Jappan is a sort of varnish. Behold the ocean's wide expance ! A misshap is an unpleasant accident. The conva- lescent must beware of a relaps. 19 LESSON XXX. Class 3. — Words with long E. Example is better than presept. His wife's mother lay sick of a feaver. A presinct means an enclosure or limit. The thin substance above the atmosphere is called either. To vetoe a law is to refuse assent to it. Particles concreet when they harden into one mass. A lion is of the cat genius or kind. We acceed or agree to the arrangement. The snpream court is the highest. His last days were sereen. The sincear need not be offensive. His reformation was compleat. Re- pentance must preceed reform. LESSON XXXI. Class 4. — Words with short E. Wedlok is another word for marriage. A tel- tale always offends. The Seliic tribes inhabited ancient Britain. Salt gives a rellis/i to food. A tennet is an article of belief. Lend me your pensil. The tendrills enable the vine to climb. A sceptic is one who doubts. I have sent him on an arrand. A sherif is an officer of the courts. Let him who merrits the crown wear it. Rezin is dissolved with spirit, and gum with water. Virgil's eppic poem is called the iEneid. LESSON XXXII. Class 4, continued. He was egected or turned out. We exspect much where much has been given. An ereckt position is the most healthful one. No man can exsel in every thing. The wind dispells or drives away the clouds. Earthquakes poretend volcanic eruptions. Have you read Paul's defense before Agrippa? His humility is all pretense. It is "wrong to incence an angry person. The power of example is immence. We can not dispence with the Sabbath. You should not keep them in suspence. Avoid all useless expences. 20 LESSON XXXIII. Class 5.— Words with lo?ig I. Who does not love the sweet bryer? The cryer says that a child is lost. Cyder is the expressed juice of apples. The tyger is more ferocious than the lion. A clymax is a figure of speech. A syren was an imaginary being. A grinstone is turned by a winch. A trypod is a three-legged stool. The crysis is the most impor- tant moment. Our passtimes should not interfere with business. The feeline race is the race of cats. A vampyre is an imaginary monster. A hired person is a hierling. LESSON XXXIY. Class 5, continued. They askribe that writing to me. To trans- scribe is to copy. Youth are easily entised. Never deside hastily. To betyde is to happen. To calsine is to burn to a powder. The kanine race is the race of dogs. The hero lay soopine or on his back. To dezire is something more than to wish. The too presice are troubled often. An excize is a sort of tax. Religion comprizes or includes morality. To devize is to leave by will. To ignight is to burn or kindle. LESSON XXXY. Class 6. — Words with short I. Wichcraft is no longer a crime. Nervous per- sons are apt to fidjet. The midrif is the same as the diaphragm. Some, to purify water, filter it. His ilness made him thoughtful. The first book is called the primmer. A gimblet is a small auger. Ginsang is an aromatic root. Linnen is made of flax. Small pinchers are called pliers. That sirrup makes a pleasant drink. Sinders often flame again. The spirrit should control the body. 21 LESSON XXXVL Class 6, continued. To depickt is to paint or describe. To abrige is to reduce or shorten. The dew distills in silence. Wait iintill he comes. That action evinses or shows great courage. The moon causes an eclips of the sun, and the earth an eklipse of the moon. Dismis all thoughts of revenge. Who can untuist the thread of life? The vessels came into port to refitt or be repaired. Emprint that truth upon your memory. Omitt all civilities that lead to vice or insincerity. LESSON XXXVIL Class 7. — Words with long O. That was a woeful tale. His father was a grosser, and not a haberdasher. He was the doner or giver of that present. The bolester is beneath the pillow. A hollster is a horseman's case for pistols. A flower ist cultivates flowers. A creeole does not mean a mulatto or negro. Brimmstone is impure sulphur. A primerose is an early flower. A tadpoll is an imperfect frog. An artificial nozegay lacks perfume. The heart and lungs are contained in the thoracs or chest. LESSON XXXVIII. Class 7, continued. An idle youth forbodes a useless old age. To patrole the camp is to go the rounds. Every one should controul his temper. To cajoll is to deceive. Never withold what you can well spare. The destruction of Jerusalem was fortold. A man's parol is his word of honor. Religion consoals the mourner. Oncore is a French word, meaning -again. Hear befor you condemn. He is &jococe or mirthful man, and his brother is very moross or sour. This world should not ingross all our thoughts. To depoze is to remove from office. 22 LESSON- XXXIX. Class 8. — Words with short O. A cob-toebb is a wonderful work. Gobblins are scarce where knowledge abounds. Kjokund tale is a merry one. A icoim&-?robbin is a circle of names. Her bonet is a moddest one. Men look too much at the proffit of their actions. Acids remove the pollisk of glass. A pontif is a bishop. A com/£ generally has a train or tail. In verse two long syllables form a sponde. Silence is better than nonsence. The onsett, or first attack, was terrible. A connic form is that of a cone. LESSON XL. Class 8, continued. He came to a nonpluss or stand-still. Frunt- lets were worn on the forehead. Is it propper to spell florrid thus? Rozin once meant the same as resin. Inkog is a contraction of incognito, and means unknown. The treasurer abskonded or ran away. To extoll is to praise highly. To rezolve is easier than to perform. Responces are answers. The silly virgins foregot to take a supply of oil. To die, in marine language, is to go alofft. LESSON XLI. Class 9. — Words with U long. Hard wood is the best for fewel. Dewels lead to cruel murders. He wore a dukeal coronet. A blueish color is a faint blue. Sewet is a sort of hard fat. Lusent means shining, and lusid means clear. A song by two persons is a duett. Prefer deuty to pleasure. The prellude should precede the play. A tnoddule is a measure in architecture. Pussiules are little blisters contain- ing pus. Tribbunes were officers of ancient Rome. A stattute is a law. 23 LESSON XLIL Class 9, continued. No man should traduse or slander another. He aduees no proof, or brings none forward. They did not alv.de to that subject. A perruke is a sort of wig. Lightning Humes the sky. They rezumed the controversy, or took it up again. To ajure is to solemnly call upon. That sentiment is obskurely expressed. We may enure ourselves to hardships. To transfuze is to pour from one vessel into another. To missuse our talents is sinful. An akute mind comprehends abstruce subjects, LESSON XLHL Class 10. — Words with short U. He lives in the subuhs or outskirts of the city. A bucler is a shield. Ducklins are young ducks. Lay the cudjei by that budjet or bundle. Some persons are moved only by impidce. The flesh around the ulser was turjid or swollen. Those didset notes are soft and sweet. They ate a hrm- dud dumplins. The cruper is a leather strap, A citizen is called a bnrges also. The nitrslin is quite helpless. What remains over is the stir- pluss. LESSON XLIV, Class 10, continued. Muzlin is a thin cotton cloth. The bultler takes care of the bottles. A snttler sells provisions in a camp. A dutchess is the wife of an earl or that of a duke. Some dutchics are smaller than Rhode Island. The prejudiced often missjndge. lie addressed the king and met with a rebvf. The Maelstrom engulplis small vessels. He devulges every secret confided to him. To rebntt is to offset or beat back. | aevt 24 LESSON XLY. Class 11. — Words tvith Y long. A tiro is a young scholar. Several revolutions of the moon form a cicle. The Hydrah was a fabulous monster with many heads. The god Himen presided over marriages. The cipress for funerals, and the laurel for triumphs. That was stilish furniture. A by-law is one not in the con- stitution. To bid one good-by is the same as to wish him a pleasant journey. Your vandike does not cover your shoulders. He deskried danger at a distance. The fox slily approached the hen- roost. LESSON XLYI. Class 12. — Words with Y short. The linx is an animal of the cat genus or kind. A synic was a snarling philosopher. A mistic ring the fairies drew around. A chrystal is a mineral in a regular form. Silvan gods were once supposed to live in the forests. Sintax is a division of grammar. A convention of clergymen is called a sinnod. The verses of a lirick poem are often irregular. Gipsum is plaster of Paris The larinx is the upper part of the windpipe. A Sibil was a wild sort of prophetess. An idill is a pastoral poem. LESSON XLYII. Class 12, continued. The Jlecy clouds are beautiful. Icey boddies, as large as mountains, floated along. Studdy the lillies of the field. Her dress looked dingey, neither very clean nor very dirty. The covetous are not always stingey. The landscape has a duskey appearance after sunset. The galaxy is called the milkey way also. Fish are not all skaly. The coppy was duly made. The gipsey wandered through the mirey path. Tanzy is a fragrant herb. Rosey cheeks are too rarely seen. The hippopotamus is a clumzy animal. 25 LESSON XLYIII. Class 12, continued. 11 'T is true it is a p^, and pitty 't is Sailors often have the scurvey. Two scores are equal to four ty. An abby is a religious building, A jocky deals in horses. The ass is called a donky. The fer% is an American bird. A vally separates two hills. What soldiers call a parly Indians call a talk. The kidny is a secre- tory organ. A chimny is not used in warm countries. Be not hastey to revenge a wrong. Onely at first meant one-like or singly.. LESSON XLIX. Class IS. — Words with A as in Far. Be gentle, and avoid harshnes. The innocent are generally a?*tliss. The harvist is great. I will pay the markit price. The artic circle sur- rounds the north pole. The patridge is an edible bird. The side or edge is called the marjin. Say father and mother, not pappa and mama. A segar is a doubtful comfort. Many fear men and yet reguard not God. Desires inlarge as they are gratified. Alass ! why did you not aUarm him 2 Garnit is a valuable mineral. LESSON L. Class 1 4. — Wo?*ds with A as in All. J //so, cdhnost and allways are called adverbs in grammar. Do not faulter when duty says, go on. Alspice is also called pimento. Bolsam exudes from certain trees. The word paralysis is con- tracted into palzy. That was a poltry action. The birds ivarbel joyfully. Green wallnuts are often pickled. When the well is dry we learn the worth of warier. The qvodrant was invented by Godfrey. The jackall followed the lion. Do not misseal his name. I for-warn you not to go athwort, or across, the stream. 26 LESSON LI. Class 36. — Words with A as short O. A squod is a small company of soldiers. A squodron is part of an army or of a fleet. That swolloio wos pursued by a hawk. The woltz requires the dancer to revolve continually. He put a quantity of food in the wollet. A quodrvped has four feet, and a monkey four hands. The building stones are still at the quorry. Cir- cumstances quolify actions. The quadrature of a circle is the squaring of it. Alequant is an unequal part of a number. The wosp is less useful than the bee. What a graceful swan ! LESSON LTL Class 15. — Words with AI as long A. The halestones fell in heaps. The haUff deliv- ered the prisoner to the jailer. The sailer meets- with dayly perils. The merrnade regards not rayment. The plantiff makes a coniplaynt, and the defendant answers to it. A catiffis a villain. Gayters are short spatterdashes. Chillhlains are the effect of frost. How many owe their gentility to their taller s. The sick are naturally daynty. Raizin is the French word for a grape. The traylor was false to his government though true to his country. LESSON LIIL Class 15, continued. The guilty is afraid of his own shadow. He died and left many debts impayed. Retale is the opposite of wholesale. The vicious often declame the most loudly against- vice. Manetane your integrity at all hazards. The most secure should refrane from temptation. We can aim at perfec- tion, though we may never attane to it. Sorrows awate the happiest of mortals. It does not remove evils to complane of them. To exclame is to cry out. Treat no one with disdane. 27 LESSON LIV. Class 37. — Words with A or AI as in Care and Air. Be carefull if you would succeed. Seek to promote the luettfare of others. The prudent provide for a time of scarceity. The Jews put to death any child who struck his parrent. A stare- case must not be called a pair of stares. Corsare is a genteel word for pirate. The miser must bid farewel to his treasures. Ground glass is translu- cent, but not transparreni. He trod unawairs upon the snake. While the rent is small, repare it. Never dispair of doing what others have done. LESSON LY. Class 16. — Words ivith AU like A in All. Avoid every thing that is gawdy. Awbarn hair is a shade of brown. How many cups and sawcers make a set ? The conquerors wore twigs of laivrel. His conduct was fallty if not criminal. He seeks the plauditts or aplauses of the multi- tude. A sentaur was said to be" half man and half horse. The orator had no auditers. It is laudible to be careful. The aironaut must exaust his balloon. Say to temptation, avaivnt! begone ! A caucuss is a political meeting. Pawpers are supported by the public. LESSON LVI. Class 17. — Words ivith AW like A in All. Aukward men are more common than awkward women. It is absurd to say a thing is aweful silly. The lion is of a torny color. Too much finery is apt to look tawdrey. A strawbery is a compound fruit. A tommahawk is a sort of hatchet. A Turkish basshaio is also called a pacha. Beautiful feathers will not make a pea- cock of a jacdaxo. You will find it in the drawr. Maukish prudery is worse than honest rudeness. Many things are wrong that are not unlawfull. 28 LESSON LYIL Class 18. — Words with AY or EY like lonp- A. A larnan is not a clergyman. He called for paimeni. A ivayword child must be restrained. Gaiety is not inconsistent with sobriety. The mayer is the highest officer of the city. The eyrie or nest of an eagle is roughly constructed. I can not pourtray his character. Surveigh this wondrous world. Certain officers pervey or pro- vide for armies-. Idle words lead to fatal afrays. Assaye the gold to see if it is pure. LESSON LYIIL Class 19. — Words with EE like long E. The young should be more heedfirfl. Only one thing is eminently needfidl. An infant is more feble than the young of other animals. The ancient Peruvians used long thorns for needels. Children pinched at home are gready abroad. Good hreding is as important as good talents. Fredom must have its limits. Feelin is touch, and seein is vision. The stilyard is an instru- ment for weighing. Meakness is a Christian grace, and was never esteamed by the heathen. The steepel is above the belfry. There was a meating of the pierage or nobility. The sick are apt to be peavish. LESSON LIX. Class 19, continued. Lifisead oil is made from the seed of flax. The indolent must not expect to succede. Our expenses must not excede our income. To kareen a vessel is to make it lean upon one side. Morene is a sort of cloth. The broth must be served up in a turene. To venear is to cover with a thin coat of richer wood. We beseaeh the young to be discrete. A setee is a long seat with a back to it. In the carreer of virtue all men may be comperes or equals. Many sacrifice health and happiness to appear genteele. 29 LESSON LX. Class 20. — Words with EA like long E. Treecle is another name for molasses. Some careless speekers use the word learning for leech- ing. A weazel is a long-bodied animal smaller than a cat. The teazle is a prickly plant, used to raise a nap on cloth. That deeler has a meager supply of goods. The heeling art has various theories. Be not squeemish or over-nice in small matters. Bissextile or leepyear is every fourth year. It was a drearey road for a wearey travel- ler. His old beever hat looked greazy. Bohee is usually called black tea. He was impeeched or accused of treason. Do not misleed the simple. LESSON LXL Class 22. — Words with IE and EI like long E. Eather must not be used for each or both. Neather must not be pronounced nyther. The cieling of the room is over head. Washington was a good as well as a great cheiftain. It is peirchig cold. A cannon is called a feild-peice. Men of liesure should do much good. The siez- ure of his property was greivous. A theivish pro- pensity must be watched. Grant releif before it is asked. Deciei generally works its own ruin. Every beleif can not be equally true. LESSON LXIL Class 22, continued. Self-conciet is an offensive sort of pride. Men can not decieve their Maker. It is better to give than to recieve. To guess does not mean to beleive. We concieve more than we acheive or perform. The mind percieves through the senses. Men should releive each other. The casheer did not retreive his loss. We must not aggreive or vex others. To repreive a criminal is to put off his execution. They paid so much apeice. To beseige a city is to surround it with troops. 3* 30 LESSON LXIII. Class 24. — Words with O as in Nor. Never play with hornetts nor ill-tempered per- sons. The corslet was the piece of armor that covered the breast. The orbitt of a planet is its path round the sun. Some animals spend the winter in a state of torper or insensibility. He subborned or secretly hired men to say what was not true. To endorce a note is to write one's name on the back of it. Where there is no con- science there can be no remorce. The troops will eskort the governor home. The clerk must reckord the number of votes. The shortness of life exorts us to be active. LESSON LXIV. Class 25. — Words with 00 as in Cool. It is foollish to dispute about matters of taste. His compliments were very cooly received. Give him only a spoonfull. The letters A. M. stand for for?ioon. Let us have a goosberry pie. A certain beat of the drum is called the tatoo. The babboon has little or no tail. The silk-worm winds himself up in a cokoon. No gentleman should be a bnfooyi. The baloon rises because it is lighter than the atmosphere. A plattoon is a rank of soldiers. A piccaroon is a robber. That house is both roomey and gloomey. LESSON LXY. Class 25, continued. That lake has a xuoodey shore. The American has a goodley heritage. Kerseys are a sort of woolen goods. There is no likelehood of its clear- ing up. He earned a livlihood by tending the wooley race. All the disciples foresook their Master. He misstook, but he was not mistaken. I wish you would onhook my belt. Some savage nations use little or no cookerry. Luxury soon gets footin where there is wealth. They all pertook of the feast. 31 LESSON LXVI. Class 27. — Words with OA as long O. Old ropes untwisted and picked make okum. Most countries have suffered from the inrodes of barbarous tribes. A border is not necessarily a lodger. A sidebord, is a large piece of parlor fur- niture. Otemeal is much used for food in Scot- land. His face was bloted by intemperate habits, and his appearance lothesome. A turncote is one who changes his party. You cannot unlode the boat till it is affloat. To bemone a loss does not repair it. Never incroach upon another's rights. LESSON LXVII. Class 28. — Words with O W as long O. What shaddows we are, and what shadders we pursue. The belows proves that air has solidity. It is difficult for a poor widdow to support a large family of children. A minow is a very small fish. Fathers often disone children, but mothers rarely do so. The finder of lost goods must remember that he is not the oner of them. Felow must not be pronounced feller. Falow land is ploughed but not sowed. To, in the word To- morow, is a corruption of The. Enter ye in at the strait or ?iarow gate. LESSON LXVIIT. Class 30. — Words with OU as long O. Moldy bread is unwholesome. The colter of a plough is the cutter. We should sympathize with the morners. Some nations wear white for morning. Forescore means four times twenty. The concorse of people was immense. Forteen is a contraction of four and ten. Forefold means four for one. Trees fall, and molder, and disap- pear. The sholderblade is called by surgeons the scapula. A poidtise is also called a cataplasm. Domestic fowls are usually called polltry. The poor have many resourses left. 32 LESSON LXIX. Class 31. — Words with OU as in Bound. Boston is in the countey of Suffolk. He suffers from his goutty limb. Every man must guard his householed. Scoundril is a term of reproach. Young ladies must not laugh alloud in the streets. He who quarrels with colliers befowls himself. To misscount is to count wrong. We see life above, beneath and arround us. To carouze is to drink immoderately. To renounse a person is to disown him; to denounse one is to accuse or threaten him. He anounced my name. LESSON LXX. Class 32. — Words with 01 as in Oil. A rude girl is called a hoyden, A dressing table is called a toylet. Many paths of duty are toilsom. The coinidge of money is a right only of the government. Oy?itment, in scripture, often means a liquid perfume. A jointyer is a wife's portion of her husband's property. Do not be noizy. A noysome pestilence is a hurtful one. Places for religious retirement are called cloysters. A certain piece of beef is called the surloin. When you purchase goods, always require an invoise of them. To perloi?i is to steal. It is the custom to annoint kings. LESSON LXXI. Class 34. — Words with OY as in Boy. The royall prerogative means the king's right. The first voiage of Columbus was made in 1492. The oister has a heart as well as we. A viseroy acts instead of the king. An envoi is a person sent by government. Silver is too soft without some aloy or baser metal. Our pleasures must never anoy our neighbors. The gospel was sent not to distroy but to save. Fidelity to govern- ment is loialty. Most animals are more joy full than man. He was always fully imployed. 33 LESSON LXXII. Class 38. — O as 00 in Cool. We never moove without assistance. Many loose all by grasping too much. That pillar is not moveable. Asserting a thing is not proveing it. Be up and dooing. Plant no thorn in any boozum. He made much adoo about nothing. All laws must have the approveal of the governor. What new moovment must be made ? You must never aprove what is wrong. He dissproved it, by showing that it was false. Every disposition is improveable. LESSON LXXIII. Class 35. — Words with U as in Bull. Moses was left among the bullrushes. A quar- relsome brawler is called a bidley. Sometimes the pullpit stands for religion itself, as the bar does for law. The rubie is a reddish gem. We keep oil or vinegar in a creioet. The priests of the ancient Britons were called Dreiuids. Grewti is light food for invalids. A tmeism is an asser- tion that nobody denies. The bncher kills animals for food. An official notice is sometimes called a buletin. Proodery is not true modesty. Many pronounce Febuary wrong. The croosades were religious wars to recover Jerusalem. LESSON LXXIV. Class 35, continued. I value sight too much to peruze a badly printed book. An imprudense is not always a crime. The color was serulean or sky-blue. True liberty is opposed to missmde. Rome is great even in mines. A pidly is by seamen called a block. A bushil is equal to four pecks. The spelling-book teaches the roodiments of pronunci- ation. The cross or crusifix is an emblem of our religion. To roominate is to think upon. Never allow yourself to tell an untrooth. 34 LESSON LXXV. Class 35, continued. Gracefull manners recommend good morals. A pious man should lead a usefull life. An awefull thing is not the same as a frightful thing. A vicious life leads to a shamefull death. His situation was dredful. But one thing is really neadful. His early death was a mornful event. The cultivated land yields plentyful returns. The mercyful man is rnercifull to his beast. It is pittiful to reproach a man for the sinfull con- duct of his ancestors. Ingratitude is forgitfidness of favors received. A dutyful child will be blessed. LESSON LXXVI. Class 39. — Words with IGH as long I. Sie not at the loss of what it is improper for you to have. The eyes of owls cannot bear the lite of day. Draw the cord tite. The lightening causes the thunder. Forsight means seeing ahead. The twy light is between sunset and dark, the aurora or dawn between nite and sunrise. Try to speak and act arright. The nightengale is not known in New England. Never afright children. An uprite man is an honest one. The skilight admits light through the roof. Slite errors bliie fair prospects. LESSON LXXYII. Class 40. — Words with O like short U. Spiinge is not a vegetable, as some suppose. The cumbat was dreadful. Mariners steer by the cumpass. A man is judged of by his co?nerads or companions. To pummel is to beat and bruise severely. Munday is a corruption of moon-day. What is the tonage of that ship? An unneat man is called a slnven, an unneat woman a slattern. His approach was covvert or concealed. An honest man duth not spend the monney that is entrusted to him. 35 LESSON LXXVIII. Class 40, continued. The havuc of war is dreadful. I love to hear the birds carrol their sweet songs. He wandered in the darksom forest. Wellcome, sweet day of rest ! Attorns make up worlds. A fathum is six feet, or two yards. Upon the blosom depends the fruit. A murderer is a fellon. The mellon is a rich fruit. A minute contains sixty secconds. What are lemmons a dozen? A whim is some- times called a magot. A bundle of sticks for fuel is called a faggot. LESSON LXXIX. Class 40, continued. The better part of vallor is discretion. One part of music is called the tennor. The jurers returned a verdict of guilty. A vizor is a sort of mask. Saver and Jlaver refer to smell as well as taste. Jesus never resented an afront. Some disputants mistake clammer for argument. A majer is inferior to a colonel. A boastful bully is called a heeler. The scidpter carved an image of stone. The splender of wealth makes the poor discontented. Some persons propose to pay the docter only while they are well. LESSON LXXX. Class 41. — Words loith OU as short U. Between the full moon and the quarters, the moon appears gibbus or humped. Bulbits plants have roots below the bulb. Viscus means glutin- ous or sticky. The king wore a gorgeous or splendid robe. Hard labor makes the hands cal- lus. The liar gives himself dubble trubble. Two successive rhymes form a cuplet. A suthern wind is usually warm. A turnament is a combat of armed knights. War is the skurge of our race. Human life is compared to a journy. To sojurn is to stay for a time only. Curtesy shows kindness. 36 LESSON LXXXI. Class 42. — Words with I like short U. The Indians made canoes of burch bark. A durge is a lamentation over the dead. To smerk is to look affectedly sweet. The traveller died of thurst. The little birds were cherping on the trees. A cirkle is an emblem of eternity. How much does the furkin contain? The sqitirel belongs to the same order as the rat. Too much amuse- ment becomes irksum. The furmament over head is the zenith, that opposite the feet is the nader. In Scotland, a church is called a kurk. LESSON LXXXII. Class 43. — Words in which E final does not lengthen the preceding voivel. The clouds inennace or threaten rain. A good child is a sollace in affliction. A terace is a bank of earth. The crevises or cracks of the rock were filled. A challice is a sort of drinking cup. The boddice is part of a lady's dress. The solstis is the farthest point to which the sun goes north or south. Practise makes perfect. The door is con- cealed by latice work. A surplis is a sort of priest's robe. Pnmmice stone is a cinder from volcanoes. tSalvedge is an allowance to those who find a wreck. The hail did much dammage. LESSON LXXXIII. Class 43, continued. Fortune has a bandidge over her eyes. Steam makes the pasage short. Pickled cabage is called sour krout. The selvedge is the finished edge of cloth. The pressage or warning was not lost. Cribage is a game at cards. Spinnage is the plant spinach. The voiage was short. The plumeage of some birds is beautiful. An effigy is the immage of a man. The soldiers forrage when they go in search of food. He was raised to the pierage or rank of a nobleman. 37 LESSON LXXXIV. Class 43, continued. He rumaged every closet. He never went to colledge. Not a vestidge or mark of Eden re- mains. Tortoises, frogs, serpents and lizards, are reptils. Cultivation will make steril land fertil Vaccin means belonging to a cow. That custom is very pristi?z or ancient. That wood fits into the mortice or hole cut for it. The elective frcm- chize is the right to vote. One Latin version of the Bible is called the Vulgait. Never promiee what you can not perform. A missii is some- thing sent or thrown. LESSON LXXXV. Class 43, continued. The pallate is the seat of taste, and the eye is the organ of sight. A serate leaf is notched like a saw. A ferrule is a teacher's instrument of punishment. Grannite is a mixed or compound rock. A letter sent is called a misive. The ollive is a valuable fruit. A pasive verb is in fact a phrase. A bishop is also called a prellate. The pope's ambassadors are called leggats. Congress consists of the Sennate and House of Representa- tives. A pyraie is a sea-robber. LESSON LXXXVL Class 44. — Words ending in N preceded by a silent vowel. Thoughts of death saden the mind. The tiger mad-ens at the taste of blood. A bullet has been figuratively called a ledden death. Adam was placed in the guar den of Eaden. Go when you are biden. A paten is a sort of woodden shoe. Though he wore mitens, his fingers were frost- biten. The vessel was drivven ashore. To dizen is to dress gaudily. The ewer is placed in the bason. Rasins are dried grapes. Many say 1 recon or I guess, when they already know. 3B LESSON LXXXVH. Class 44, continued. Treson is infidelity to government. To Mason is to praise highly. It is unlawful to wear con- cealed wepons. The gardner opened the gate. The prisner without hope will go mad, Venson is the flesh of deer. A dennizen is a freeman. The garison consisted of a thousand soldiers. Favors are too soon forgoten. Yeast is a sort of leven. Crimzon is a deep red color. The flesh of sheep is called muton. He was made to swal- low molton or melted lead, LESSON LXXXVIII. Class 45. — Words ending in EL or LE ; the E being silent. You will ravvel that tasel and spoil it. The edge of a chissel is bevled. A moreel is a mouth- ful or hit of food. He bought a parsel of needels. A siuivvel is a cannon that may be turned round. Tripple must not be confounded with trebble. To scrible is to write carelessly. It is improper to goble when you eat. Life is compared to a buble. He dislocated or put out of joint his ancle. The stars sparkel in the sky. Pickets are said to be unwholesome. Babbel is noisy pratle. He splits wood with a beatle and wedges. LESSON LXXXIX. Class 45 , continued. To drizzel is almost to rain. A saber is a sort of sword. Somber or gloomy views of life are wrong. A muscle is a bundle of fibers. That, hymn is in short meter or measure. How much did the land cost an akre? The weak-minded alone see specktres. A bishop's cap is called a miter. Niter or salt-pe/er is an ingredient of gun- powder. Virtue gives luster to talents. Glass suddenly cooled becomes brittel. A confused mind is said to be adled. 3$ LESSON XO. Class 46. — Rule. When the termination ING is to be added to icords ending in E, the E must he •omitted, except in a feiv words ending in IE, OE, or EE, all of which are in Lesson 91. He was hriheing the officer to let him escape. The fire was r ageing when I left. The vessel's bilgeing or leaking caused her loss. Budgeing means going. Batheing is indispensable to health. The ancient Britons wore little or no clotheing. He is always poreing over his lessons. The heat is fuseing or melting the glass. Jesus set an example of humility by laveing or washing his disciples' feet. The frost is riveing or splitting the rock. The liquor is oozeing from the cask. LESSON XCI. Class 46, continued. The patient was dieing when the doctor came in. Lieing is forbidden in the Scriptures. He was tieing the knot. She was hying or hastening away. The art of dying cloth is very ancient. Is he shooing the horse? The farmer is hoirtg his corn and potatoes. The boys were all toing the crack to form a straight line. Seing does not always lead to believing. He is agreing to do what he knows to be wrong. He came near singing his hair with the candle. LESSON XCIL Class 47. — Rule. Words of one syllable ending in any doubled consonant, retain both letters when a syllable is added; and this ride also applies to icords of more than one syllable, if the accent be on the last. The ebing tide will leave the breakers bare. We left them quafing water from the fountain. Most animals protect and feed their helpless of spring. Speling is an important branch of edu- cation. That was a tale of thriling interest. Sktd- ling a boat is performed with one oar at the stern. The statue was of masive or solid silver. Love is the fullftling of the law. Her treses or ringlets floated in the breeze. Forfeiting is tel- ling beforehand. Posessing money is not posses- ing happiness. LESSON XCIII. Class 47, continued, to show the irregularities of words formed from monosyllables ending in LL. She was handsome, and, what is better, good allso. Allmosl every person has some redeeming quality. It is alltogetker wrong to tease ill-tem- pered persons. He is skillful and expeditious wit hall. The debt was paid by installments or portions. The steeple above the bellfru was "blown down. Those we love are allways well- come. A willftdl child must be subdued. He came not to destroy but to fullfill the law. The fulfillment of that prophecy is at hand. My word shall distill like the dew, saith the Lord. LESSON XCIV. Class 47. — Exceptions continued. Every book should instill virtuous principles. Fever is often preceded by unusual chilhiess. We must hold fast our integrity untill death. Sal- ammoniac will cure the chillblains. The dullness of a pupil's mind is rarely improved by beating his body. In the fullness of time He appeared on earth. Too rich food becomes fidlsome and injurious. We should take an interest in the wellfare of all men. The crazy man had a hand- full of straws. Moses was saved in a little ark or box of bullrushes. A spoonfidl is a very indefinite quantity. 41 LESSON XCV. Class 48.— Rule. Words of one syllable, ending in a single consonant \ with a single vowel before it, generally double the consonant when another syllable is added ; and this rule also applies to words of more than one syllable if the accent be on the last. The trees are buding and the rain is droping. The taning of leather is hastened by the chem- ists. He is always planing and never perform- ing. That instrument emits &jaring sound. He is leiing his house, She is pening an answer to his letter. The laborer is spliting wood. Gun- ing is a dangerous amusement. They forded or waded across the stream without vjeting their garments. You are steping too fast. Never omit doting an i and crossing a t. They went a shop- ing. The eagle is flap in g his wings. lesson' xcvi. Class 48, continued. Time is always impeling us onward. Annul- ing a law is puling au end to it. The example of parents has a controling influence over chil- dren. In the begining God, and not chance, created the earth. Submiting to Providence is a duty about which there should be no demur ing or hesitation. The body is fited for earth, and the spirit for heaven. He quited his rude com- panions. He bloted his book. Flint is generally ■imbeded in chalk. Peculiar trials are alloted to each individual. Riping is a more correct word than unriping. LESSON xcvn. Class 48, continued. — A few words not accented on the last syllable double the fined consonant. They were appareled in fine linen. The bond was canceled by erasing the signatures. He cav- iled or found fault unnecessarily. The teacher cudgeled his pupil to help his memory. Her hair was disheveled or in disorder. A driveler is almost 4T 42 an idiot. The duelist is a murderer. The field was enameled with flowers. Check all groveling or mean propensities. I have marshaled my clan, or set them in order for battle. Marvelous or wonderful are thy works, O Lord ! The travelers quarreled as they went. The vials were all la- beled. True worshipers must worship in spirit as well as in truth. LESSON XCVIII. Class 48, continued. — The past tense of some regular verbs is sometimes contracted by putting T for ED, but as this gives the verb an irregu- lar form , it must be avoided. The crowd tost up their hats as they past by the hero. Newton watched the apple as, it dropt. The robbers stripi the traveller. He spelt the words wrong. The dog smelt of every garment to find his master's. The officer then slept for- ward And snapt his pistol. She tript lightly over the grass. We stopt too long. He confest his crime. The patriarch blest Jacob instead of Esau. The jockey slipt from the saddle. The garment was ript to pieces. The cloud-cap/ towers shall all dissolve, and leave no wreck behind. LESSON XCIX. Class 49. — This class is mainly a continuation of class 48, and further illustrates the Rule given at lesson 95. The rabit has long ears. A shoemaker is sometimes called a cobler. Bobin is a narrow kind of tape. - A pedler is an itinerant or travel- ling trader. The worm of some insects is called a magot. The wooly tribe have furnished a sub- ject for many fables. Woolen goods are dearer than cotton. Dr. Johnson wrote a book called the Tatler. A matress is more healthful than a feather bed. A pinace is a sort of boat. The vines are supported by a trelis. Do not mispell easy words. 43 LESSON C. Class 50. — Words beginning with WH, which are too often pronounced badly, as if the H were silent* Wet the wetstone before you sharpen the knife. The wig party are not called so because they wear wigs. I wist not how to play the popular game of icist. Wile you live, practise no dis- honest wiles. He is not a wit the better off for his wit. The sot ivines when his wine is spent. Who can tell icether the weather will be fair? Wither must it be carried that it may not wither ? Wen will the surgeons remove that wen ? Were were they placed ? Witch of the witches was called Hecate 1 LESSON CI. Class 50, continued. The wale is not classed among fishes, because the female nurses her young. A iviie flag is a sign of peaceful intentions. Who never heard of Dr. Franklin's wistle? To untile is to cut a stick with a pocket knife. It is impolite to wisper in company. The Maelstrom is a dangerous wirl- pool. A wirlwind is caused by the meeting of opposite currents of air. The sickly are apt to be loimsical. Weat is a valuable grain. Witch of them did it? Wiskey is distilled from barley. He had a wipptng for his disobedience. LESSON CII. Class 51. — Words ending in A. An insect in the worm state is called a larvar. Sena is a valuable medicine. Micah is a trans- parent mineral sometimes used for glass. A sopha is a sort of couch. A dogmah is a doctrine obstinately defended. The dalia is a beautiful flower. The rettina is the network in the eye on which the image is painted. Scrop/uda is a dis ease. The hiena is not easily tamed. The word 44 umbrilla means a little shade. The molusca are soft animals such as inhabit shells. A parabola is a geometrical figure. LESSON cm. Class 53. — Words with UE and EU like long U. Glew is made of the skin of certain animals. An aigue is a shivering fit or a cold. We do not valine water till the well is dry. In law a man's children are called his isne. A barbekue is an animal, usually a pig, roasted whole. The rezi- due, or remains may be thrown aside. The neiuter gender is not known in French. How many persons spell Teusday wrong ! Plurisy is a disease of the membrane that covers the lungs. The pictures were sold to amatures. The fourth book of the Bible is called Duteron- omy. LESSON CIV. Class 54. — Words with UI variously sounded. A man in whom there is no gile or deceit. Judas came in the gise or manner of a friend. He acted under the gidance of avarice. Miss- guided man, he was found gilty. A guittar is a stringed instrument. That timber is proper for Hiding. The juce of the pear is called perry. A since is a passage for water. A nonsute puts an end to a lawsoot. Unripe frute is a nusance. The frigate has returned from a long cruse. A new soldier is called a recroot. The bruized reed he did not break. LESSON CY. Class 55. — Words with EA variously sounded. The ded take no plesure in what once tempted them. The length and bredth of the relm are unknown. The sempstress wants more thred. A def person is usually dumb. Be stedfast in virtue. A pesant was mowing in the meddoiv. It is no longer delicate for a person to say, I swet. 45 The thought of heven is plesant or dredful, as men are good or bad. Welth can not purchase helth. Do not thretten him with that weppon. LESSON CVI. Class 55, continued. We have herd that story many times. The coffin was carried on a herse. Parents yean for their absent children. Attend erly to lerning. That history required great reserch. He began the work in ernest. Some savages know how to bake erthen ware. Profane sivareing is forbidden. It is our duty to bare and forebear. We had a beef stake for brekfast. The young should harken to good advice. Her joy was ernest and hartfelt. Keep the 6rec# warm on the harth. He left us an example of true grateness. LESSON CVII. Class 1. — Words containing long A. We pray for what is good and impricate only evil. To derrogate is to take away from. A person sent is called a dellegate. To grannidate is to separate into grains. The water is satturated with salt, when it will dissolve no more. We must not seperate morality from religion. The potatoe was first found in America. Lemmonade is punch without its poison. A serrenade is out- door music at night. A line of balusters (not banisters) forms a ballustrade. Never dessecrate what is sacred. An officer peccidates when he robs the public. LESSON CVIXI. Class 2. — Words containing short A. A vaccuum is a place empty even of air. Around her neck was hung an ammulet or charm against diseases. A cazuist is one who settles conscientious questions. Pale-noon is an anna- gram of Napoleon's name. The albatros is a very large sea-bird. Alkalie is usually called lie 46 by soap-makers. Tea is kept in cannisters. Large trees are figuratively called jigantic. The enammel is the outer coating of teeth. Allabaster is a white, soft kind of limestone. They first empannel or select a list of jurors, and then pro- ceed to trial. LESSON CIX. Class 3. — Words with long E. You must not use obsoleet or rejected words. Alegro means gay or lively. He was a seseder from his sect. There was no cohereence in the several parts. A vicegerent acts instead of a superior. The fathers must antesede or go before the sons. He will inierceed for us. That officer was superceded, or displaced. Many years must inter-men or come between. The work is still incompleat. The Coloseum or Coliseum is an ancient building of Rome. Incoherance means want of union. LESSON CX. Class 4. — Words with short E. Certain spiritual beings are called chemibim. A deccagon is a geometrical figure with ten sides. An exorsist pretends to drive out evil spirits. Recompence to no one evil for evil. How long has he occupied the prentices or buildings ? Uten- cil was once applied only to cooking apparatus. The Eclecktic Review is one selected from others. He loves polemmic or controversial writings. An allembic is sometimes called a still. Who could bear the intenceness of the cold? Circles within circles are said to be consentric. LESSON CXI. Class 5. — Words with long I. Nytrogen gas will destroy life. A bishop's see or district is called his diosess. Anthrasite coal is harder than bituminous. Reccondite learning requires deep research. A dependant flatterer is 47 called a parracite. The dropping lime-water hard- ened into stallactites resembling icicles. Paradice is the supposed abode of the blessed. A hyatus is a gap or break in a sentence. The horison is where sky and land appear to meet. To coinside is to come together or agree. The committee must faithfully supervize or oversee the schools. LESSON CXII. Class 6. — Words with short I. The minnvet is a sort of dance. Whoso would be greatest among you, let him be your minnister or servant. Minnaret is the spire of a Turkish mosque. The pikerel is a voracious fish. Fish and insects are more prolific than the higher animals. He intended to manumitt or free all his slaves. The Romans called an omen seen on the left hand sinnister or unlucky. He was bigotted but not cruel. Ricketty children should bathe often. We could not resist the wichery of her song. A cittadel is the fortress commanding a city. LESSON CXIII. Class 7. — Words with long O. He was distinguished for his drolery. The gift of tongues, or languages, took place on the day of Pentecoast. A man-hater is called a missan- thrope. Astrologers made plans of the heavenly bodies called horroscopes. Helebore was an herb much used in witchcraft. Morover, brethren, be ye steadfast. He was hopefaly studious. Do you prefer beef allamode to bacon ? Such minute animals are only to be seen with a mycroscope. Remote objects are brought nearer by the telles- cope. The antilope belongs to the goat kind. Octobre means the eighth month, for the year once began in March. 48 LESSON CXIY. Class 8. — Words containing short O. The Bunker Hill monument in shape is an obbelisk. An occulist attends to diseases of the eye. A corronet is a sort of crown. Every violent death is inquired into by the corroner. Some bottanists have been good morrallists. An acrosstic is a short poem in which the first letters of every line form a name or other word. Bad men generally wish to abollish all laws. A laconnic expression is a very brief one. The lonnic is a Grecian order of architecture. It is i?npropper to laugh at the unfortunate. Narcottics are drugs that produce sleep. Exottics are plants brought from other climates. LESSON CXV. Class 9. — Words with long U. The ncwclens of a comet is the denser part from which the tail proceeds. A life of piety must be a life of usefullness. Litterature is not all equally valuable. The Septewagint is a Greek translation of the Old Testament. Habit or habittude has been called a second nature. The boldness is only equalled by the tnrpetude or baseness of the action. Avoid all ungraceful atitudes. The vestebule or entrance was never closed. He crept through an appertvre in the wall. An office of profit that requires no labor is a synecnre. LESSON CXVL Class 56. — Words tolth short I at the end of unac- cented syllables. A radeus is a line drawn from the centre to the circumference of a circle. Three is an alliquot or even part of twelve. She preferred a callico dress. The cappitol is the chief building of the capital. The bazelisk is a fabulous reptile. Azemuth and equenox are terms in astronomy. 49 The cup of vicious pleasure has a bitter seddiment. A centinel is a soldier on guard. A short poem ending in a witty point is an eppigram. Having no hair he wore a perriwig. LESSON cxvn. Class 56, continued. A simmile is a sort of comparison, ^irritis is the name of the dog-star. He made a codecil or addition to his will. An oblegor is the person brought under an obligation by contract. Lasi- fer is one name of the planet Yenns. His loss was remedyless. A tiled roof is imbrecated. To devorce is to unmarry. The common sensoream or brain is a conjeries or collection of organs. They sawed down the pallisades or fence of stakes. An annimalcule is a very minute animal. LESSON CXVIII. Class 56, continued. To spoleaie is to plunder. Better give up trifles than to littigate or contend at law. We may mittigate evils by mutual kindness. True religion sublemates the mind. The huricane is over. Homiside is the killing of any human being. Suecide is self-murder. Fratrecide is the killing of one's brother. An eppisode is a story incidentally introduced. Oil is an antedole or remedy for some poisons. Christianity forbids us to retalliate. Habit facilUtates the performance of our duty. LESSON CXIX. Class 57. — Words ending in ISM. It is a trueism to say that man is mortal. A sollecism is an improper use of words. An angle- cism is an English form of expression. A witi- cism is seldom worthy of critticism. There was a misticism or want of clearness in his remarks. There is a moral as well as a physical herroism. 50 A fit is sometimes called a paroxism. A sylogism is a term in logic. Pollytheism is the belief in many gods. Empyricism means quackery. Man is called a mycrocosm, or little world. LESSON CXX. Glass 11. — Words coiiiainhig Y long. Hidrogen gas is one constituent of water. A family or line of kings is called a dinasty. The apostles made many proselites or converts. Tro- ghdites are persons who live in caves. Medicine to relieve pain is called an annodyne. To annal- ize a sentence is sometimes called parsing it. Barites is a heavy kind of earth. The science that treats of moving fluids is called hydrawlics. The longest side of a right angled triangle is the hipotenuse. We measure the moisture of the atmosphere with hidrometers. He was too cap- tious or hipercriiicah LESSON CXXL Class 11, continued. — Rule. When either EST, ES, ETH, or ED, is to be added to a word ending in Y, the Y is changed into I : as. Cry, Criest, 6fc. Thou art unwise if thou cryest before thou try est. David defyed the giant. Peter denyed his Master. He supply eth all our wants. The treaty was rattified or officially confirmed. A kind act g ratify s the doer of it. Heat rarefy s or thins the air. FY, at the end of words, generally signify s to make. Piety dignifyeth every em- ployment. Fire vitrefyed the sand, or made glass of it. Wood has been petrify ed or turned to stone. Sometimes an artery ossify s or turns to bone. Kindness mollify eth or softeneth anger. He was stupifyed by the blow. 51 LESSON CXXII. Class 11, continued. He prys into everything. He amplefys or enlarges. The tree ramifyed or branched out. His face was greatly scarefyed or scarred. Men have deifyed their benefactors, or called them gods. The event verrifyed the prediction, or testyfied to its truth. Heat vivifys or gives life to the sleeping seed. An honest mind forty- Jieth a feeble body. The prudent man ocupyeth every moment. Vice villifys or makes its victims vile. The motion of the sea clarify s it. He rectify 'eth every error instead of denying that he has made it. LESSON CXXIII. Class 12. — Words with Y short like I in Pin. A cilinder is a circular body flat at the two ends. The simetry of a figure is the just propor- tion of its parts. Hearing depends mainly upon the timpanum or drum of the ear. A sincope is a fainting fit. Sinthesis collects parts into a whole, and anallysis separates a whole into its parts. A hippocrite is worse than an open villain. The Stigean flood was the fabulous river Styx. The piramids of Egypt have outlived the names of their builders. No man may tyranize over the conscience of another. Some minerals do not cristalize. Sistolee is the shortening of a long syllable. LESSON CXXIY. Class 12, continued. A labbyrinth is a mazy path. The coppyist made many errors. A pollygloi Bible is properly a Bible in several languages. The pollypus is an animal of the order Mollusca. Oxegen is the living principle of air. A presbitter is an officer in the church. The sardonix is a sort of precious stone. In his paroxisms or fits of rage, he did 52 not spare his friends. The amethist is a gem of a purple color. jSinonimes are words of similar meaning. Piryles are crystals of the sulphate of iron. Dispepsy is a disease of the digestive organs. LESSON CXXY. Class 12, continued. He promised secrcsy. The order of bishops is called the prellacy. Lethergy means drowsiness. Some churches use a litturgy or form of public worship. Let us greatfully acknowledge our blessings. Appathy is want of feeling. Let us only fight in the pannoply or armor of the Gospel. The littany is a set form of prayer. Fancy is sometimes called fantacy. Never let your feealty or fidelity to the Lord of all, be doubted. We reason from anallogy when we conclude that, as this world is peopled, other worlds may be also. Avoid monotiony or reading in one continued tone. LESSON CXXVI. Class 12, continued. — Rule. Nouns ending in Y having a consonant before it, form the plural by changing Y into I and then adding ES; as, Fly, Flies. The malady s of the mind are worse than those of the body. Parody s are burlesque imitations of serious compositions. Some remmedys are worse than the disease itself. Eligies are funeral songs. Crimes punishable by death are called fellonys. Harmony s and melhdies were inter- mixed. Lottery s are seldom better than larceny s or roberies. Astronomy is explained by orerys. From the numerous theory s of education one might suspect that there were no facts. Heresys are departures from an established faith. 53 LESSON CXXYII. Class 12, continued. — Rule. Nouns ending in Y with a vowel before it, form the plural by ad- ding S without changing the Y ; as, Key, Keys. Henry VIIL abolished abbies and convents. The viceroies were attended by countless lackies. The jockies could not manage the donkies. The larder displays turkies and geese. Criminals in France are confined in a sort of public vessels called gallies. The vallies are overflowed. The public monies are no where safe from peculation. It is the custom to fire several vollies over the grave of a soldier. The kidnies are among the lower viscera. Chimnies are seldom seen in hot climates. A king of England died of excess in eating la/mpries. LESSON CXXVIII. Class 12, continued. — Rule. When ER, EST or LY, is added to toords ending in Y short, the Y is changed into I : as, Lofty, Loftier, Lof- tiest, Loftily. A greedyer boy cannot be found. That was the lucky est number. The best child is, the love- lyest. He was no happyer for all his wealth. Laborers are often merryer than their employers. The Bible is the holy est of books. The ass is not the lazyest of animals. How clumzily he handles his tools. She is too daintyly fed to be healthy. The rosyest cheek may be -the first to fade. It is easyer to praise virtue than to prac- tise It, The mightyest men have often become the most feeble. She may be uglyer than her sister, but she is far more amiable. LESSON CXXIX. Class 58. — Words with A not unlike short U. He received a gold meddal for his scholarship. The leaves of a flower are called pettals. The 5* 54 winning horse was adorned with ribbands. He paid the ballance of the account. He did pen- nance for his offences. A man who displays his learning is called a peddant. Young persons should never be pert or flippant. The Viccar ot Bray changed with the changes of government. The sedar wood is durable and aromatic. Gram- mar was made after language was matured. The heathen gods fed on ambrosia and drank meter. LESSON CXXX. Class 58, continued. The crop of a bird holds the corn till the giz- ard is ready to grind it. A lizzard is called a reptile. A male witch is called a ivizzard. An atlass is a collection of maps. He had no biass for his profession., and, of course, was not distin- guished. Where the carcas is the crows are gathered together. The anchor was raised by a wheel called the windlas. We have no right to tresspas upon the property of others. Man belongs to the bippedal or two-footed race. He is a linneal or direct descendant of William the Conqueror. A litteral translation is seldom an elegant one. LESSON CXXXL Class 5S, continued. There are hinderances in every path. Toller- ance is not yet fully understood in religious matters. There is no discreppance or disagreement between the accounts. An anular eclipse leaves only a ring of light. The earth is not flat, but globbular. Those who saw Jesus after his death, had occtdar proof of his resurrection. Some portions of plants are celular or full of minute cells. Seccular pur- suits are those apart from religion. A veneal offence is not a serious one. The pellican was once supposed to feed her young from her own breast. An arlizan is a mechanic. 55 LESSON CXXXII. Class 58, continued. The jury gave a verdict of acquital. The ca- rowsal led to much contention. A people may be oppressed beyond endureance. The price of ad- mitance is inconsiderable. The sending of money is called a rernitance. One who denies that the king is the head of the church is called a recuse- ant. An invention is more than a contriveance. The observeance of days of fasting and thanks- giving is voluntary. Gratitude is the remember- mice of favors received. Abstain from even the abearance of evil. LESSON CXXXIII. Class 59. — Words with ER like UR, short. To er is human. The cups and sawcers are not matched. A merser is a dealer in silks. Commerse was the child of necessity and enter- prise. Moses traverced the Red Sea but not the Jordan. The opinions are very divers or differ- ent. The euberty or richness of tropical soils is well known. He did not write his order, but gave it vei^baly. He suffers from vertego or dizzi- ness. A perpendicular is not necessarily vertickal. Verditter is a greenish paint. An iniiger is a whole number and not a fraction. LESSON CXXXIV. Class 59, continued. We cannot coerse or compel men to think as we do. To immerce is to plunge under water, to amerse is to fine. We have no right to asperce or slander even our enemies. An hiperboly is too strong an expression. A man's native language is his vernaccular tongue. The timid are easily disconserted. Oaks were occasionally inter sperced •or scattered between. All nations do not interr the dead. The lines deverge or separate from a common point. The reverce of a coin or medal is not that side on which the head is stamped. 56 LESSON CXXXV. Class 60. — Words ending in IZE or ISE. Flattery does not agrandize or make men great. Salt will crystalise in the sun. To paralize is to deprive of feeling and motion. Time equallizes conditions. To tantalise is to mock with false expectations. Religion tranquilizes or calms the passions. Shakespeare drammatized the tales of other writers. We must not criticize unfairly. In England the asizes are sessions of the court. Never refuse to recognize an humble but virtuous friend. The term merchandize includes all goods and wares. LESSON CXXXV1. Class 43. — Words in which the final E does not lengthen the preceding vowel, these words being exceptions to the general rule. A state of vasalage is but little better than slavery. Musilage is the slimy or viscous sub- stance derived from plants. Viscinage means neighborhood. Jesus was of the linneage or family of David. We sent him a tripplicate or third copy of the letter. Choccolate is cocoa mixed with oil or butter. The poet lawreate is the king's poet. The uliemate or smallest possi- ble particles of all matter are supposed to be round. Invetterate habits are obstinate ones. The penultemate is the last syllable but one. LESSON CXXXVII. Class 43, continued. The inter stises, or holes between, were all filled. An armistis is a cessation of warfare. Lickerice is a valuable root. The purest clay is called allumine. Masculin women are seldom amiable. That remark was very aposit or fit. A cucurbitt is a chemical vessel shaped like a gourd. The idle merit chastisment. Bisextile is the same as leap-year. Most vices are very expencive. Igno- 57 ranee is subvercive of liberty. Fresh air is conclu- sive to health. Avoid coersive measures till others haye been tried. LESSON CXXXYIIL Class 43 , continued. A dentrefice is a tooth-powder. An orrifice is an opening. Dicipline the mind betimes. A sicairice is a scar. Potash and soda are alcaline substances. Jelatine is that part of bones which may be burned. His excuse was paliative but not sufficient. Some philosophers reason by the interogative method only. Too much medecine produces disease. The Peruvian bark is ante- febrile or opposed to fever. His opinions were very versatil or variable. His addresses were always hortativ or full of entreaty. LESSON CXXXIX. Class 43, continued. The water issued from a jisure or cleft of the rock. He had no lesiere for idleness. The siez- ure of his property was unjust. The rasure or erasing of the name was the work of a moment. A joynture is a wife's estate. The book of hu- man wisdom is a small volyuine. A suiture is a seam where certain bones unite. No man's ten- yure or hold on life is certain. The feeiures of the son resemble those of the sire. Such retalia- tory mesures will lead to war. LESSON CXL. Class. 45. — Words ending in LE or RE. Arrable land is such as may be ploughed. The parrables of Jesus have never been equalled. A salifiable disease is one that may be cured. His position is not tsnnable or can not be maintained, because the facts are not probbable. A franjible thing may be broken. Wheat and rye are eddi- ble fruits. The rizible propensity is the propen- sity to laugh. Metals are melted in a crusible or 58 earthen pot. Gums are solluble in water and resins in spirit. The pinacles of the temple glis- tened in the sun. The lower chambers of the heart are called ventrecles, LESSON CXLI. Class 45, continued. A blister on the skin is called a vessicle. A stalactite resembles an isicle. The ancient thea- ters had no roofs. A joint of the back-bone or spine is called a verteber. The masacre of the crew was dreadful. Women went first to the sepulcre of our Lord. Nothing can enoble those who have no self-respect. He was ennobled to live and help his friends. It is easier to confess than to disemble. Chains for the hands and fet- ters for the feet are called mannacles. LESSON CXLIL Class 45. — Rule. When ABLE or IBLE is ad- ded to words already ending in E, the E is omitted, unless CE, GE or EE comes before ABLE, when the E is retained to prevent a false pronunciation of the word. Ice is not saleable in winter. His conduct was blameable. The hyena is said not to be tameable. Wishes are neither rateable nor titheable property. He was a sizeable boy, but not very servicable. Most persons are senseible to ridicule. How force- ible are right words ! She was a noteable house- wife, and a very agreable woman. Some metals are more fuseible than others. The shelves are all moveable. The address was admireable and its sentiments were peacable. LESSON CXLIIL Class 45. — The same Rule continued. Gold is not compareable to iron for utility. Few medicines are palateable. Platina is valueable for its infuseible quality. I saw nothing noticeable in his conduct. Profanity is always censureable 59 and never excuseable. It is not reputeable to be so changable. That is so disputeable a question that it is not adviseable to agitate it. The laws of God are not reverseible by man, however disa- greable. Many words not easily defineable are well understood. His disgrace was not charga- ble or imputeable to any one else. LESSON CXLIV, Class 45. — The same Ride continued. It was observeable that he never laughed. His crimes were tracable to his education. It is de- sireable that all men should be instructed. The horse was unmana gable. No human being can be adoreable. Few commodities are not damaga- ble. All the virtues are resolveable into love. Few minds are so good as not to be improveable. She was inconsoleable after his death. Money was easily procureable. LESSON CXLV. Class 46. — When ING is added to words ending in E the E is omitted; as, Abide, Abiding. Children should avoid defaceing their books. Retraceing a vicious course is more difficult than avoiding it. They were recedeing from their own opinions, and accedeing to ours. The mem- bers were conveneing when we arrived. Adhere- ing to error is a better proof of consistency than of wisdom. The world is kept in shape by the cohereing of its particles. He is CGmpleteing his work. Subscribeing is writing under, superscribe- ing is writing upon. Prescribeing is directing, and proscribeing is dooming to death. ^ LESSON CXLVI. Class 46. — The same Rule continued. Repineing at losses does not repair them. He is reaiseing his works. Conniveing at crime is the same as committing it. Forebodeing evil often prepares the way for it. The rust is cor- rodeing the metal. Endorseing is loriteing one's m name on the back of an obligation. We can not improve our own characters by tradueeing those of other persons. We can not hope to succeed without practiseing. He spent his life in refute- in g errors and promoteing the cause of truth. LESSON CXLVII. Class 46. — The same Rule continued. He forgave him without alludeing to his offence. Avoid estrangeing the affection of any one. The magpie is famed for secreteing things it can never want to use. The moon is edipseing the sun. He is always presageing misfortunes. He as- sumed a menaceing or threatening attitude. By solaceing the miseries of others our own hearts are made better. By issueing more bills than it can redeem with specie, the bank is debaseing the currency. LESSON CXLYIIL Classes 2, 4, 6 and 8. — Short voivels accented. An epittome is an abridgment. Arithmetic is an important study. A venlrilloquist speaks from his throat. A thermomiter measures the heat of the atmosphere, and a barorrwneter its weight. Tropical plants are more arromatic than ours. A peddobaptist is one who baptizes children. The antipenult is the last syllable but two. Ostiohgy treats of the bones. Metier ic stones are those which fall from the sky. The astrolloger told fortunes by the stars. LESSON CXLIX. Classes 12 and 56. — I and Y short, as I in Pin. Ideocy is one grade of insanity. Never reply with acremony or bitterness. The metal ante- mony is used in medicine. Eppilepsy is some- times called the falling-sickness. Who has not felt the inannity or emptiness of human pride? He was distinguished for his urbanniiy or courteous manners. Hillarity or cheerfulness 61 promotes health. She was remarkable for the amenety or agreeableness of her disposition, as much as he was for the asperrity or harshness of his. LESSON CL. Classes 12 and 56, continued. Coldness produced rigiddity or stiffness. Chil- dren should avoid all appearance of avidety or greediness. Mobillity means capability of being moved. The ductillity of iron enables it to be drawn out into threads of remarkable tennuity or fineness. The apparent size of bodies depends upon their propinquety or nearness. The sermon was only remarkable for its prolyxity or tedious length. There may be innocent amusement without frivolllty. Some eyes look upon this beautiful world as upon vacuitty or emptiness. LESSON CLI. Classes 12 and 56, continued. Punctuallity is almost a virtue. Liherallity should not degenerate into prodegalety. Consan- guinity means kindred. Bear pain with patience, and misfortunes with equanimety . The governor acted with great imbesility or weakness. The indocillity of the child often arises from the mis- management of the teacher. "Contiguitty of shade" means shade that is unbroken. Volubil- ety seldom accompanies profound thought. Salt is remarkable for its sohibillity ', or capability of being dissolved. LESSON CLII. Classes 12 and 56. — A as in FAT, before RY, CY and LY. The birds in the aveary are all well, but the bees in the apeary are all benumbed. Pulmon- ery diseases affect the lungs. Febnary is the shortest month. Lapedary lines are lines cut in stone. A mersenary army is one that is hired. If he looked on, he was accesary to the crime. The 62 dispensery distributes medicine gratis. A devia- tion from the common rule is an anomily. The twenty-ninth of February is an inter callary day. Good laws are subsidiery to good morals. LESSON CLIII. Class 40. — Words with O short, as U in Tub. Every language has its idiums or peculiarities. To comliness of person add neatness of attire. The cumbatants were not easily separated. A summerset is a complete overturn. The musk- mellon is improperly called mushmelon. The dimond is the hardest of gems. His brother was a batchelor. Sweet marjoram is a savery herb. The dandylion is a medicinal plant. Asbestus is a fibrous mineral. A lawyer is also called an atturney. Aluvion is land washed up by water. LESSON CLIY. Class 40, continued. Allimony is an allowance to a wife. Ill-judged parsemony leads to prodigality. The drumedary is smaller than the camel. The Arabs carry on a preddatory warfare. The monks sleep in their dormetories. A reppertory is a sort of. literary magazine. A dispensatorry or pharmacopoeia is a book that describes medicines. A refectory is an eating room. Human life is trancitory. He delivered the valledictory or farewell address. LESSON CLV. Class 41. — Words with OU like short U in Tub. The aged are garulous or talkative. Com- plainers are querrulous. Such conduct is villain- ous. A. bird's leg is tendinus or sinewy. That sunset was gorjus. The humor in front of the eye is aquious or watery, and that in the back part is vitrious or glassy. Lignious acid comes from wood. The head of Medusa was hiddeus. That burden was ononis or heavy. Some miner- als feel unktuous or oily. The hypocrite, like the serpent, prefers a sinnuous course. 63 LESSON CLVL Class 41, continued. The liquid was both acetus or soar, and salinus or saltish. Diseases of the skin are called cnta- nious. A terraquious globe is one composed of land and water. Some substances when mingled produce fire, and this is called spontanious com- bustion. Calcarious rocks are composed of lime. His taste is so fastideous that he is never suited. Gregareous animals live in flocks or herds. He was too manly to be obsequeous. The roof was slated and imperveous to the rain. A word is a?iomilous } when it departs from all rules. LESSON CLYII. Class 41, continued. An anonimous letter is one not signed by the writer. Sinonymous words are words having the same meaning. An unvaried tone is said to be monottonous. Animals that lay eggs are oviper- ous, those that do not, are viviperous. Camiverovs animals feed on flesh, the herbiverous feed on grass, and the graniverous on grain. His arrival was fortuitous or accidental. Decidduous plants fall or decay every year. Contiguus houses touch each other. Things composed of one sub- stance only are homogenms. LESSON CLVIII. Class 41, continued. Highly seasoned food is deletereus or hurtful. The poppy is a soporiforous plant, producing sleep. His conduct was pusilanimous or cow- ardly, but hers was highly meretorious. Parsi- moneous or stingy persons are seldom respected. Mixed substances form a hetterogenius compound. The flash and the report were simidtanious. His services were always gratuetous or unpaid for. Her wrinkles and her youthful dress are incong- gruous or unsuited to each other. The reading of young persons should not be so miscelaneous. 64 LESSON CLTX. Class 15. — Words with AI as long A. The Nayades were fabulous water-nymphs. The darymaid has purchased some vessels of porcelane. The proper maintainance of his fam- ily is the duty of every man. Bills of attaindre are not allowed by the constitution. We could not assertain the price. To whom do those privi- leges appurtahi or belong ? Complazant man- ners are more engaging than personal charms. The apraiser fixed a price upon every article. Such traiterous conduct will not go unpunished. A portrayture is a picture or description. LESSON CLX. Class 16. — Words with AU as A in Fall. His arguments were plaivsihle but not sound. Naictical books relate to navigation. The paw-city of words means the small number of them. Chil- dren should avoid sauceiness and impertinence. A good or bad sign is called an awgnry. Law- dajium is a liquid preparation of opium. An eppaidet is a shoulder ornament. An aeronaut is one who navigates the air. A cawliflower is a sort of cabbage. Hydraiclics treats of fluids in motion. A mawsoleum means a splendid tomb. LESSON CLXI. Class 19.— Words with EE like long E. Filligree is a sort of delicate net- work in gold or silver. It is better to honor one's peddigree than to boast of it. When the moon is nearest to the earth she is in perrigee ; and when farthest off, in appogee. Always act discretely. The person who receives a bequest is a leggatee. A dictionary of places is called a gazeleer. That occurrence was unforseen. Chanticlear is not classed with singing birds To fricasee chickens they must be cut into small pieces. 65 LESSON CLXII. Class 20. — Words with EA like long E. . Men strive too egerly for riches. An action that can not be done is not feesible. The presi- dent can be removed by impeechment. Arearage is what remains due. Cotchineal is an insect of a beautiful red color. All objects disapear at a certain distance. A misd&menor repeated often becomes a serious offence. They were eazily reconciled. Some persons mistake wearyness for disease. Cultivate a teechable disposition. Inde- feesible rights are those never to be taken away. Never overeach the simple. LESSON CLXIIT. Class 22. — Words with IE or EI like long E. The Pleeades are a cluster of stars in the con- stellation Taurus. He did his task leasurely. The theivishly inclined should be removed from temptation. The frontispeice should face the title- page. Mischeivous children must be restrained. The deciever seduced or inviegled them. A re- ciever of stolen goods is as bad as the theif. One who dispossesses another is, in law, a dissiezor. Well educated youths are never concieted. The decietful are sometimes deceaved. Notes recieva- ble are notes due to us. LESSON CLXIV. Class 22, continued. He had no concievable object. The Indians did not record their own acheivments. The aggreiv- ance was redressed. Sculptures in basso-releivo or bass-releif are raised, but not to their full pro- portions. The loss of wealth is retreivable^ that of character is not. That cavaleer became a brigadeer general. That grenadear was a good cannoneir also. The treasurer is a good financeer. The cordeleirs wore cords for girdles. What sane person can disbeleive in the existence of God? 6* 66 LESSON CLXV. Class 31. — Words loith OU as in Bound. The cownsellers advise the governor. A coun- terpin is also called a coverlet. The laws of God are parramount or superior to those of man. Silence is sometimes tantemount or equal to con- fession. The science of acowsticks relates to sound. Who were present at the espowsals or betrothment of the princess? There was a great car ow sal at the wedding. There are motmtabanks in every profession. The general coiontermanded or changed his orders. There is a bounteful sup- ply for man and beast. LESSON CLXVI. Classes 33 and 35. — 01 as in Oil, and EA as E in Met. The informer is to have a moyeiy or half of the fine. One scale should counterpois or balance the other. The motion of the moon is cycloydal. A rejoynder is a reply to an answer. He was sent to recconnoiter the enemy's camp. Steddyness in youth leads to confidence. A ready ness to com- mit to memory is no proof of scholarship. Clenli- ness is essential to health. He ernestly requested them to come erlier. The rehersal precedes the performance. Repeated endevors rarely fail to succeed. We should express displesure at what is wrong. LESSON CLXVII. Class 45. — Words ending in Able and Ible. Sin is not expeable without repentance. His anger was implakable or could not be appeased. An impalperble powder is not gritty to the touch. An impreggnable fortress cannot be taken. The ways of Providence are i?iscrutible, or not to be detected. An inexerable judge can not be moved to mercy. Religion should be inseperable from morality. An insuperrable objection can not be overcome. Lidiibittable signs can not be doubted. 67 LESSON CLXVIIL Class 45 , continued. Laws are indispensible in every community. The evidence was incontestable and the prisoner was convicted. The Christian should be inde- fattigable, or never tired. Death is more elligible than disgrace. Any coHgible fault may be cor- rected. None are inf alible but those who never can mistake. Profanity is not compatable with reverence. The fort was no where accessable. One metal is not conversable into another. The ostensable object was not the real one. Indellihle ink can not be erased. LESSON CLXIX. Class 12. — Words toith Y as short I in Pin. A word of two syllables is called a disyllabic Some churches are regulated by a presbittery. That beautiful cemrnetery makes death appear less dreadful. That sinopsis contains the heads of the lecture. Hypocricy is more difficult than honesty. Metonnymy is a figure of rhetoric. The monument is symetrical or well proportioned. Poligamy is the having of more than one wife. The book of Revelation is sometimes called the Apocalipse. Many things once misterious are now understood. The polianthos is a sort of primrose. LESSON CLXX. Class 12, continued. A paironimic is a name derived from the name of one's father. A word of only one syllable is a nionnosillable. Etimology treats of the deriva- tion of words. The refrangibiUity of a ray of light is its capability of being bent. A hipothesis is a theory or plan not yet tried. Such conduct was tyranical. A common funnel has a cyllin- drical form. The disentary prevails in the fruit season. The paralitic or palsied man stood up. 68 LESSON CLXXI. Class 52. — Words ending in Ence and Ent. All can not attain to wealth or opulance. Medi- cine could not check the virulance of the poison. Always aim at eccellence. Treat superiors with defference. What is the diference between them? That is a suculent or juicy plant. Escidant vege- tables are edible or eatable ones. If an artery is cut, bind a lygameni above it ; if a vein, below it. The fdlaments or threads are fine as silk. The suppliment was added to complete the work. The river is refluant or flows back. LESSON CLXXII. Class 52, continued. The angle of insidence is equal to the angle of reflection. The exegences of indegence are nume- rous. The oreient is the east and the Occident is the west. Difident persons must not be ridiculed. The teeth of animals differ according to their alliment or food. The devergence of two lines is their separation from the same point. The cohe- rance of particles is greater in hard bodies than in soft ones. He held wine in great abhor ence. LESSON CLXXIII. Class 52, continued. That is the quintescence of the sublime. The cattle were all recumbant or lying down. That town lies adjasent or near to the river. The sub- jasent strata are the layers underneath. Translu- sent bodies transmit light, but are not transparent. The rich and poor are mutually dependant. The endorsment on the note was forged. The disburs- ment or expenditure of the money was entrusted to the treasurer. A vicegerant acts instead of another. Twice two are equivolent or equal to four. 69 LESSON CLXXIY. Class 52, continued. Circvmfl.uant waters flow around. We must never be indiferent to the welfare of others. A coinsidence is a falling or happening together. Black is not every where the habilliment or dress of mourners. There was an incohearance or want of connection in his discourse. The ante- sedent is something going before. The circum- ambiant air is the air that surrounds us. Sugar is one ingreedient of cake. The deponant is the person who deposes or says. LESSON CLXXV. Class 62. — Wo?^ds \uith SC in the same syllable. The scithe of time is a figurative expression. The septre of Judah has departed. Sience has rapidly advanced during the present century. The word scissers means cutters; scisure and sission mean a cutting. Consious guilt needs no accuser. The seenery of America is more grand than that of Europe. A Turkish sword is called a sirnetar. When a flint is struck it sintillates or sparkles. The conciousness of guilt is oppressive. Your bounty transends or exceeds my desert. LESSON CLXXVL Class 62, continued. Let us desend into the mines, for the descnt is not difficult. Avoid every thing immoral or obcene. To recind a law is to repeal it. The rescission of the law was followed by the abscision of all sinecures or useless offices. The angels are represented as of transendant beauty. Conde- send to men of low estate. What condescentlon was exhibited by our divine Master. The idiot, being unconsious of any crime, was not punished. 70 LESSON CLXXVII. Class 62. — Words tenth SC in different syllables. The cresseni or new moon is a Turkish emblem. The water became visid or ropy, The serpent is said to fasshiate small animals. The vissera fill the body. To sussitate is to excite or rouse np. Oil and water are not missible without soap. Hermits lead an assetic or secluded life. A wart is an excressence of the skin. Ruminating ani- mals are all herbessent, feeding on grass. The elephant does not eat or drink through his pro- bossis or trunk. LESSON CLXXVIIL Class 62, continued. The putressence of wood and fish often pro- duces phosphoric light. Some gloomy minds think that evil has the upper hand or ascendancy in this world. Some hearts are not susseptible to generous emotions. His temper was irassible or easily angered. The vissidity of that gum almost equals that of glue. The tiger eviseraies an ani- mal by placing the fore feet on his breast, and tearing out the bowels with one stroke of the hinder feet. We can not resnssilate the dead. His acqidessence in the divine will is exemplary. LESSON CLXXIX. Class 62, continued. In adolessence, or the season of youth, there is great susseptibility to pleasure. Alkalie promotes the coalessence or union of oil and water. Her convalessence is rapid as her illness was sudden. Effervessence is caused by the escape of gas through the liquid. Effloressence is a flowery appearance on the surface of some exposed min- erals. He delights in the reminiscenses of his childhood. An irridescent mineral gives forth colors like the iris or rainbow. Coral is often arboressent^ growing like a tree. An ossilation of the pendulum is a vibration of it. 71 LESSON CLXXX. Class 63. — Words containing Tion, Sion or Cian. One third is a fracsionel part of a unit. The cord was snapped by too great tention or stretch- ing. The magitians pretended to perform mira- cles. It was Gpsional, or left to his choice, whether he should go or stay. A pention is an annual allowance. In ancient Rome the nobility were called pairisions. They made a iibasion to Bac- chus by pouring wine upon the ground. Warbur- ton wrote a book called the Divine Legaslon or Mition of Moses. There are many vertmns or poetical translations of the Psalms. LESSON CLXXXL Class 63, continued. The inflasion of a balloon is the filling of it with gas. Some animals catch scents by a dila- sion or spreading of the nostrils. An optisian studies the laws of vision or sight. Abraham made an oblatian or offering of his son Isaac. The migration of birds is still a mystery. The ascenlion took place at noon-day. The vibrasions of a short pendulum are quicker than those of a long one. The fever caused an entire prostra- sion of strength. The variasion of nouns by cases is called declention. LESSON CLXXXIL Class 63, continued. Death leads to the frnstrasion of many a plan. He excelled in the cllasion of passages from the poets. What are the dimentions of the hall ? The dissent'mn of the brothers led to the disperiion of the family. A logitian is one who reasons by rule. The infracsion or breaking of a law must never be overlooked. Rays of light are bent by refrac- sion. What we are entitled to after another's death we hold in revertion. No animal equals man in the pervertion of his powers. LESSON CLXXXHL Class 63 7 continued. An earthquake is generally followed by the ejection of matter from some volcano. Familial dialogues require frequent inflecsions of the voice. The secretion of fluids is the separating of them. Conditions are formed by the cohesion of parti- cles. They were filled to replesion. or completely filled, hivertion is the turning upside down. Christianity leads to the subvertion of idolatry. His ruin led to the secessia?i or withdrawal of his pretended friends. Never shake a patient's con- fidence in his physician, LESSON CLXXXXV. Class 63, continued. He died in the fruition or enjoyment of every thing but health. Barbarous nations, that can not write, hand down events by tradition from mouth to mouth. The remit ion of sin is the par- don of it. The arrival of the Europeans led to the expultion or driving away of the natives. Attraction is the opposite of repultion. The northern nations made incursions into the Roman empire. Any act of the human will is called a volition. LESSON CLXXXY. Class 63, continued. The easy ignition of coal depends upon the greater or less proportion of carbon it contains. The shore is worn away by the attrision of the waves. Some kinds of food afford more nutrician than others. Intercesion is the coming between, but retrocesion is the going back. Who does not wish for the manumition or freedom of the slave 1 His conduct was open to onimadvertion or cen- sure. Paganini was a great musitian. The con- scriptian, or enrolling of soldiers, caused great distress in France. 73 LESSON CLXXXVI. Class 63, continued. Pditiiions are not remarkable for fairness. Rocks are lessened by ahrazion or rubbing, and by erozion or eating away. Some religions re- quire frequent abluswns or washings. The -dilu- swn of ^alcohol makes rum. Some things admit of no solusion or explanatioM. The small-pox is attended with an emptian or breaking out of the skin. That officer was dismissed for defalcasion in his onice, 4 'His blood be upon us -and our children" was an imprecasion. LESSON CLXXXVII. Class 63, continued. The Infusian of any herb is familiarly, but improperly, called tea. Civil war causes a dread- ful efusion of blood. That bad news led to the suffuzion of his cheeks with tears. They had some ookision or secret understanding. A geame- tritian should be a good arithmatkian also. Sin is an alteration or wandering from duty. Inspira- sion is the drawing in, and expirasion is the sending out of the breath. Respirasion means breathing in general, whether in or out. Matuwt- tian is the ripening of any thing, LESSON CLXXXVIIL Class 63, continued. Migrasion is the going from place to place. Emigratian is the going out of a country. I?mnigratwn is the going into a country. Trans- migration is the going from one body or state to another. The Jews used trituration or bruising, instead of grinding, to produce flour. Conversa- sion, in the scriptures, means conduct. The dillatasion of a balloon is the expantion of it. .The fermentasion of beer is vulgarly called work- ing. The attractian between separate bodies is called gravitasion. Amputatian is the cutting off a limb. Temperance led to a rennovasion or re- newal of his constitution. n LESSON CLXXXIX, Class 63, continued. Innovations or novelties are not always improve- ments. Gold produces a condensation or thicken- ing of the air, and heat causes a rarifaction or thinning of it. A substance turned into stone is called a petrifaction. The crossing of two lines is called their intersectian. A 'malledicii&n is a curse. His vallediction or parting word was, " My peace I give unto youv ? That contusion or blow on the head made him insane. The ilusions or deceptions of the senses are frequent. The belief in witchcraft was a strange delusion* LESSON CXC. Class 63, continued. Knowledge not derived from without one r s seTf is called intuision, and is said to be innate. Boiling or ebulitian is caused by the rising of heated air or gas through the liquid. The breaking or demo- lision of a mirror is an admonision to causion, but no premonition of death or disohdion. Ap&sitian is a grammatical term for nouns similarly situa- ted. His deposition or statement wss not contra- dicted. An exposition or explanation of the Bible involves great responsibility. Ability to change place is called locomosion. LESSON CXCL Class 63, continued. Peace is essential to the eddificasion or building up of nations and individuals. The nulification of a law is the rendering it of no force. Science has led to the elucidation or clearing up of many mysteries. I}ilopidosion is strictly the falling apart of stones. The returning to nothing is called anihillation. Vivificasion or making alive belongs to God ; but the revivification of suspen- ded life, is sometimes effected by man, and is also called resuscitation. Every abbreviasion, or shortening of a word, should be marked by a dot, thus : Geo. for George ; Hon. for Honorable. 75 LESSON CXCI1. Class 63. continued. Every man may do something for the alevialian or lightening of the burdens of life. Some persons believe in the retro gradasion or going backwards of our race, but few have any aprehention on that account He suffered incarseration or imprison- ment. The reitteration or repetition of the same idea is tiresome. Alteration is the beginning of several words of a sentence with the same letter. He was never guilty of ter giver sasian or tnrning his back. The cicatrizasion is the scarring over of a wound. Some persons always use circiimlo- cusion^ or a round-about way of speaking. LESSON CXCIII. Class 64. — Words containing ION as Yun. A clarrion is a sort of trumpet. The husband used to ride on the saddle, and his wife on a pilion behind him. Gold in uncoined masses is called bnllyon. The knobs or arms on which cannons rest are called trunions. The fiizion or melting of platina is very difficult. He under- stands optics or the laws of vizion. A batallion of troops contains several companies. Modilions are ornaments in architecture. The postillions neglected the horses. The best vermillion is made of cochineaL The king retired to his tent or pavillion. LESSON CXCIY. Class 64. — Words with ION as Un. There may be too much precizion about trifles. The elizian of a letter is the cutting of it off, as, 'tis for it is. The cars were crushed by the coli^ion or striking together. On his accesion or arriving at the throne, he proposed the sttpression of duelling. He was beloved by his parishoners. The aggresion or attack was made by the other party. The speaking to his servant while telling me a story was a digresion. 76 LESSON CXCV. Class 65. — Words containing Tiqxjs, Cious Ceous, like Shus. He has a captious or quarrelsome temper. The signs are all fallatious or deceptive. Whales are classed with cetacious animals and not with fishes. Loqwacsous or talkative persons should keep a good stock of Ideas. He owes success to an ad- ventitious or accidental occurrence. The wind was auspitious or favorable. The turkey belongs to the gallinacious or poultry tribe. Argillacious earth is earth containing clay. Precotions boys do not always make remarkable men. LESSON CXCVL Class 65 r contimteaX His conduct was ftagieimts m extremely wicked. The poor do not always get nutritious or nourish- ing food. Ciliceous means made of hair. He is not a veratious or truth-telling man. Rapatious birds constitute the first order. The winged wand of Mercury was called the Caducious. Crusta- cioiis animals, like the lobster, have shells with joints; testations animals, like the snail, have a shell of one piece. That is of a crociotts or saffron color. He was ^facitious or witty companion. His story is spetimes, but I do not believe it to be true. LESSON CXCYIL. Class 65, continued^ Henry VIII. was atroceous or cruel, and his daughter Elizabeth was capritious or whimsical, and very tenatioits of her prerogative or royal right. The tiger is more feroccous than the lion. Some plants have filacious or thread-like appen- dages. That milk has a cretacious or chalky appearance. He was too pertinaceous or stiff in his opinions. Kindness is the most efficacious revenge for injuries received. That was an in- auspitions or unlucky omen. Offitions attentions are apt to be insincere. 77 LESSON CXCVIII. Class 66. — Woi^ds containing TI and CI, as SH. The ambassador showed his credentials and was accredited. The manners of the age are too artificial. Order is very esse?icial to success. The nuptials, or marriage ceremony, differ in every nation. Initials are the first letters of a word. The solstitial points are on the tropics, twenty- three degrees and a half north and south of the equinoxial line or equator. His knowledge was very superficial Parents are apt to be indulgent and partial. The governor affixed his ojfitial seal to the commission, LESSON CXCIX, Class 66, continued. It is easier to be patient under pain than under ridicule. The quosient in division is the answer or result. An efficient agent will be needed to do that difficult work. God is the only omnHient or all-knowing spirit. That scholar is quite a pro- fitient in arithmetic. Never let your impatience make you fretful. His property was msuffiiient to pay his debts. Some men are brave but defitient in prudence. Omnisience, omnipotence and omni- presence are attributes or qualities of God alone. LESSON CC. Class 67, — Words in which I has Che force o/Y. The vallianC are not always the good. Filyal affection is that of a child for its parents. Triveal offences are slight ones. A brazier is one who works in brass. A grasier is a feeder of cattle. An axywm is a self-evident truth. We should all endeavor to melyorate or better our condition. The yellow fever is a billions disease of great malignity. Plants nocCious or hurtful to man are wholesome food to some animals. He was very punctileous in his engagements. He was too super silious or haughty to be popular. 7* 78 LESSON COL Olass 67, continued. The drunkard is often besiyal or brutal. A ponyard is a sort of dagger. The game of biliards captivates and then ruins many. The grand visyer is the sultan's prime minister. Oil has an emolient or softening effect upon leather. A fawning sycophant is often called a spanyel. Early vice often leads to an ignominyus end. He stood upon punctilyos or over-nice points of conduct. The cilliary hairs are those forming the eyelashes. The priest consulted his brevyary or book of duties. The populace of ancient Rome were called plebeyans. LESSON COIL Class 68. — Words in which GE and GI have only the force of J. He was confined in a dunjeon and denied the aid of a surjon. A stingy, miserly fellow is called a curmudjon. An egregeous dunce is a distin- guished blockhead. The burning of a church is a sacriUgioiis act. Lainchon is a slight repast between regular meals. A trunchon is a sort of staff. An escutcfion, or coat-of-arms, is a badge of nobility. Adversity is often advantageous. Litigeous persons love to contend at law. Reli- geon connects the two worlds. A gudjeon is a small fish. LESSON CCIIL Class 69. — Words in which TT, CI and SCI have the force of She. In the rashyo, or proportion, of two to one. To sasiate is to satisfy. The pope's messengers are called nuntios. The acasia is a beautiful shrub. Spice viciates the taste. Man is a sensient or thinking animal. Death is an insasheate archer. The time spent in preparatory exercises is called a noviciate. To propiciate is to make favorable. n LESSON CCIV. Class 70. — Words ivith S like SH or ZH. We c'an not be share of living one moment, human life is so trancieni. Eating too much shugar will produce nawsea. The shoemach tree bears a red berry. An ozier basket is made of twigs. The rosiate or rosy dawn was once per- sonified and called Aurora. Useury now means unlawful interest. The coeshura is a rhetorical pause in a line of poetry. The fabulous gods of Greece were said to drink nectar and eat ambro- zia. Peninshula means almost an island. He was a zealous enlhuziast. LESSON CCY. Class 74. — Words containing QU as if preceded by a An acqueduct is an artificial passage for water. An acqueline nose is shaped like an eagle's beak. Perseverance is always recquisite or necessary to ensure success. Ubicwity is the power of being every where at the same moment. The seasons are caused by the oblicquity of the ecliptic, it not being on the same plane or level as the equator. His banishment was followed by the secquestra- tion or seizure of his goods. Law and ecquity should be sisters, and not cousins. Tee licqvefies in the sun. The bankrupt liquidated or settled all his debts. LESSON CCYI. Class 75. — Words loith C soft before E and I. The Daguerreotype prosess is a very fassile method of obtaining likenesses. Never laserate or wound the feelings of another. His mind was imbesile or feeble. Mendisity or begging often leads to mendasiiy or falsehood. The opassity of the earth means its want of transparency. Illisit or unlawful pleasures leave a sting behind. By maserating a carcass, or soaking it in water, the flesh falls from the bones. 80 LESSON CCVIL Class 75. continued. Gazing at the sun has produced sesity or blind- ness. He was accused of duplissiiy or double- dealing. The lubrisity or slipperiness of the eel renders it difficult to be caught. Munisipal laws are those made by a city or town. No one ever doubted his verasity or truthfulness. He was not distinguished by any precossity or early maturity of talent. A bishop is called also a diosesan. Velosity added to weight, constitutes momentum. The pig is not so i?idossible, or unteachable, as some suppose. The rinoseros is also called the unicorn. LESSON CCVIII. Class 75, continued. His oration was very felisitous or happy, and was remarkable for its perspicasity or clearness. More words are unnesessary. Excentrisity is called oddity. The authentisity of the Gospel history is settled. Nations must cultivate a resi- prosity, and do as they would be done unto. Books printed in 12mo, or dnodesimo, have twelve leaves to a sheet of paper. Air has all the elastis- ity of caoutchouc or India-rubber, but it has not the same tenasity or adhesiveness. LESSON CCIX. Class 75, continued. — G soft before E and I. The ledger collects all the charges against one customer upon one page. A diget is a twelfth part of the diameter of trie sun or moon. Those who condemned Charles the First were called regisides, or king-killers. Redgi?nen, means regu- lation of diet. Such small print is hardly ledgi- ble. Every animal provides for its projeny or offspring. The potato is an indijenous or native plant. Beligerent nations are those at war. Ice- bergs refrijerate or cool the atmosphere. 81 LESSON CCX. Class 75, continued. Soap stone has an oleajinous or oily feeling. Fishes are divided into the cartilajinous or gristly, and the bony. Some juices are more mucilajinous or slimy than others. Handsome writing is too often shamefully illedgible. The aborid genes are the primitive inhabitants of a country. His discourse was tautolojical or full of repetitions. Ledgerdemain is the same as sleight-of-hand. Phillological studies relate to the structure and origin of language. His codgitaiio?is or thoughts seldom found vent in words. LESSON CCXI. Class 58. — Words with A in the last syllable, like short U. Birds are cerial animals. Ironnical language says one thing but means another. Reviews sel- dom give a good sinoptical or general account of a book. Hexaggonal means six-sided and octag- gonal eight-sided. A diaggonal line is drawn from corner to corner. Diluvea?i or dihiveal land was washed up by the flood. The Roman agrarean law divided the lands equally among the people. Levierthan is a name given to any animal of monstrous size. The centripetal force leads the earth to seek the sun, and the centriffugal force, to fly off from him. LESSON COXII. Class 58, continued. The house was sold with all the appertinances or things belonging to it. Mountains are protu- berrances. An itinnerant preacher is one who travels continually. He lived so long in France that he forgot his vernaccular or native tongue. A blister is a vesiccular swelling. Oxidental or western is the opposite of oryental or eastern. A cattegorical answer is a direct one. An equilat- teral triangle is equal sided. Metropollltan means belonging to the capital city. 82 LESSON CCXIII. Classes 1, 5 and 9. — Words in which E final lengthens the 'preceding vowel. An cerolite is a meteoric stone. His bad charac- ter invalidates or weakens his testimony. Science elusidates or clears np many dark matters. Physi- cians innoculate for the small-pox. Society exhil- erates most persons. The teacher must reittwate his lessons, or they will soon be oblitterated. The revolution abolished the law of primogeneture which gave all a man's property to his eldest child. An arreopajite was a judge in the high court of Athens. His dress was a carricature, and his discourse all rhodomontade or rant. LESSON CCXTV. Class 76. — Words in which CH is sounded like K. The conk shell was the trumpet of the Nereids. Many skemes have no basis. The lylack is a flowery shrub. The pascal lamb was slain at the Passover. Before God made the world, matter is supposed to have been in chaoss or confusion. I saw a skedule or list of his debts. His history is based on the arkives or public records. The schiiTous is a sort of tumor or swelling. An eppoch is a period of time. A cronic disease is one that continues long. The first five books of the Old Testament are called the Pentatuke. LESSON CCXV. Class 76. — CH as K, continued. A worshipper of Bacchus was a baccanal. Beets contain much saccarine or sugary matter. Calceddony was a precious stone of the ancients. The sacrament of the Lord's supper is called the Eucarist. Alchymy is to chymist?y, what astro- logy is to astronomy. Froissart wrote a valua- ble Book of Cronicles. Two events happening at once form a sincronism. Tears were kept in a little vessel called a lacrymal. Most insects pass from the worm into the crysalis state. England was once a heptarky, or had seven kings. 83 LESSON CCXVI. Class 76.— CH as K, continued. Technical words are those peculiar to the arts and sciences. He was placed in a new sepulcre. A chymera is a creature of the imagination. A hemistich is half a line of poetry. Mineral waters containing iron are called calibeate. The canielion is a reptile of the lizard genus. The first point in chyrography or penmanship, should be dis- tinctness. Concology treats of shells. Any instru- ment that measures time is a cronometer. An anacronism is the placing of an event at a wrong date. Sinecdoche is a figure of speech. LESSON CCXVIL Class 76.— CH as K, continued. A cattechnmen is a heathen beginning to learn the elements of Christianity. Icthyology is the science that treats of fishes. A hypocondriac is a person who imagines himself sick. A baccanalian song is a drinking song. Astronomy has settled the cronology or dates of many events. Metemp- sycosis is the transmigration or passage of souls from one body into another. A cromatic telescope does not discolor objects by refracting the rays of light. The machinations or contrivances of the wicked recoil upon themselves. LESSON CCXYIII. Class 77. — Words containing PH sounded lihe F. Sylfs were fabulous inhabitants of the air, as gnomes were of the earth. The hiphen connects words or parts of words. A sphereoid is not a perfect sphear. ThefenLv was a fabulous sort of eagle. The eldest son of the king of the French is called the daufin. The dolfin lives with fishes but is classed with animals. The plant samfire makes a good pickle. A maxim is some- times called an aforism. Serajim is the Hebrew plural of seraph. A cennotaph is a monument to the memory of one not buried near it. 84 LESSON CCXIX. Class 77, continued. A sycofa?it is an officious talebearer. The busi- ness of an apothecary is called farmacy. Decep- tive reasoning is called sofistry. A raetafor is a figure of speech. Symfvny is harmony of sounds. Porfyry is a mixed or compound mineral. A certain wasting away of the body is called aitro- phy. Zoqfites resemble both vegetables and ani- mals. Asf altos is a bituminous substance easily inflamed. A limfatic temperament is neither nervous nor sanguine. Anafora is a figure of rhetoric. Rock crystal is diafonous or transparent. LESSON CCXX. Class 77, continued. The apocraphy is usually placed between the Old Testament and the New. The accounts of the giants in Patagonia are apocriphal or doubt- ful. Blood-letting was once called flebotomy. When the earth is farthest from the sun it is said to be in apheleon ; when nearest, in periheleon. Freenology is a new science of mind. That story ended with a dreadful catastrofy. Any strange occurrence is a fenomenon. A flegmatic person is not easily excited. The efemmera is said to live only one day. LESSON CCXXL Class 77, continued. Epijfany is a festival of the church. A perif- rasis or circumlocution is a round-about way of saying anything, but antifrasis is the use of words in a wrong sense. Amfibbious animals can live in air or water. That fihsofer was distin- guished for his filanthropy or love of mankind. Filology is the science or Jilosophy of languages. The Egyptians laid their mummies in a sort of stone coffin called a sarcofagus. The Pharisees wore jilacteries, or strips of cloth, with texts of scripture on them. 85 LESSON CCXXIT. Class 77, continued. That fraseology is im grammatical. The maker of a dictionary is called a lexicografer. The nightingale is called Filomela. Amfitheatres were circular, the performance being in the centre. Fosforescence is light emitted by decaying sub- stances. The youth Narcissus was metamorfosed or changed into a flower. Hydrofobia means dread of water. Stereo grajlc drawing represents solids on a flat surface. Diaforetics produce perspiration. Hieroglifics are figures or forms used for words. Fysiology describes the action of the animal organs. LESSON CCXXIII. Class 49.— - Words containing double consonants. Jibberish is unintelligible language. Every man is pecable or liable to sin. Indians wear mocasons for shoes. Tafeta and tifany are thin kinds of silk. It is better to be dijident than to be bold. Some great men agrandize or exalt whole nations. Parralax is an astronomical term. Par- allel lines run in the same direction. The Lord Chanceler is the highest judge in England. How marvelous are thy works ! Moons are also called satelites. LESSON CCXXIY. Class 49, continued. How tranquily a Christian dies ! His mind vacilates like a pendulum. He did not attempt to paliate or excuse his offences. The pelicle or thin skin of the blister is broken. His villainy admits of no excuse. She is a very ingenious miliner. The vessel was lost on a coraline reef or ridge of rocks. To colocate is to place together. There are four sylables'm. the word aerial. Min- erals crystalize by wonderful processes. That tree is remarkable for its symetry. Canibals are seldom found where animal food is abundant. l 86 LESSON CCXXV. Class 49, continued. Such fiipancy will not pass for wit. The fort had a garison of fifty men. A paricide is a mur- derer of his parent. A barister is a counsellor at law. It is necessary to irigate or water such dry land. A coridor is a sort of gallery. Scurillous language must never be used. The Boston mas- acre took place April 5. 1770. Sasa.fr as is the name of a medicinal tree. Clasical writers are those whose works are a standard or model. The jesamine or jasmine is a slender plant. Some- times the arteries osify or become bone. LESSON CCXXVI. Class 49, continued. Some old books require a glosary or dictionary of their antiquated words. A Moslem or Musul- man is a Mahometan. A siroco is a hot wind. To desicate or exsicate is to dry up as plants do. The difusion of useful knowledge is a duty. A Christian must never be an agressor. An elipsis or elipse is a sort of oval. The cedila softens the c under which it is placed. Prunelo is a sort of cloth. A dilema is a double difficulty. LESSON CCXXVII. Class 49, continued. Why take ye thought for raiment or apparrel? A corosive acid eats into other substances. The asessors determine the value of property to be taxed. The opposum carries its young in a pouch or pocket. The pahneto is a sort of palm tree. Maleable metals may be hammered out. Lame- lated minerals lie in leaves or thin layers. The caterpilar is the larva or worm of a butterfly. An alegory is a continued metaphor. An armi- lary sphere is a globe composed of hoops repre- senting the circles of the earth and heavens. St LESSON CCXXYIIL Class 49, continued. The niedulary substance is the marrow of bones. She is lifiealy descended. A miscelany is a medley. The casowary resembles the ostrich. Wealth is not necesary to happiness. A note of hand is a promisory note. We should accomo- date our friends. The glory of the Creator is inefable or unuterable. Capilary attraction is shown by the rising of water in slender tubes. No man is infalible or not liable to error. LESSON CCXXIX. Class 49, continued. Strive to be inteligent. Her notes are melijlu- ent, flowing like honey. The orbit of comets is eliptical or extremely oval. Apathy or indiffer- ence is not tranquility. The coloquial style is the style used in conversation. The appearance was ilusory or deceptive. An imaculaie book is one without a typographical error in it. His expenses were comensurate with his means, or equal to them. We may comiserate or pity when we can- not aid. His conduct was tyranical. A bienial festival happens once in two years; a centenial once in a century. LESSON CCXXX. Class 49, contmned. Perenial plants do not die anualy. The Mil- ennium is the reign of Christ on earth. Man can- not anihilate or destroy matter. An anuity is a certain anual allowance. To aproximate is to approach or come near to. His remarks were irellevant or inapplicable to the subject. His opinion corobborates or strengthens mine. The emperor was accesible to his subjects. That matter was accesory or aditional. He pleaded hunger and the necesity of the case. He was an asiduous or dilligent teacher. 88 LESSON CCXXXL Class 49, continued. The stomach assimilates the food, or makes it like the body. Hearsay evidence is never admis- ihle. Who is sheltered from the vicisitudes of life ? Flagelation or whipping is less common than formerly. To circumvalate is to fortify around. An alegorical personage is not a real one. He was troubled with an inflamation of the eyes. An interegnum is the period between two reigns. The colosewm of Rome was once an amphitheatre. A lazareto is a sort of hospital. LESSON CCXXXTI. Class 49, continued. Intermitent fevers rage only at intervals. Pet- ifogger is a term of reproach for a lawyer. His composition is not inteligible. His attack was unwarantable. He is an incorigible offender. An indisoluble bond cannot be broken. It is better to be 'pusilanimous or cowardly than quarrelsome. A paraleliogram is familiarly called a long-square. Af ability of manners rarely fails to please. That chapter was supplimentary, or additional. LESSON CCXXXIIL Class 49, continued. A subteranean cavern is one under ground. The decrees of God are irreversable by man. His loss was irretreivable, or not to be repaired. Many plans, theoretical}/ fair, are practicaly bad. We must not engage in {legitimate or unlawful pur- suits. Some diseases are thought to be {remedia- ble or incurable. An inter ogatory is a question. He died of osification of the heart. An {revocable sentence cannot be changed. The argument for the existence of a God is irefragable, or not to be refuted. 89 LESSON CCXXXIY. Class 79. — Words in which G has the sound o/NG. An anggle is the opening between two lines that meet. Angleing is often a cruel diversion. The sangguine are too ardent. A lingguist is one skilled in langguages. An inggot of gold is any un wrought mass of it. A fishmunger is a seller of fish. To trungcate is to cut off. A red- I anggle is a long-square. Beef is the French word boeuf Anglecized. Delingquency is a fail- ure in the performance of obligations. To elong- gate is to lengthen out. LESSON CCXXXV. Class 80. — Words containing El variously sounded. Freedom of thought was once a hainous offence. Those out of office always invay against, or rail at, those who are in. A heffer is a young cow, a steer is a young bullock. Mullin is a common medicinal plant. Rogues generally pay the for jit of their crimes. The sheaves or bundles of grain made obeysance to Joseph's sheaf. The island of Madeira is a part of Africa. It is our duty to befrend distressed forreners. A counterfitter is a maker of false money. Few animals but man ever die of a surjit, or excessive eating. LESSON CCXXXVI. Class 81. — Words containing irregular sounds. He hung his wescoat agenst the icenscot or wall. The villin cheated me in that bar gin. The chaplin read the funeral service. Mountins were raised by pressure from below. The plantin grows in the West Indies. The queen went to parliment in the state carridge. The ceremony of marridge is variously performed. A rninniture is a likeness of small size. A hot climate pro- duces langgwor of body. He had great swavity or gentleness of manners. Asswetude means use or custom, and deswetude means disuse. The waters were asswaged or abated. 8* 90 LESSON CCXXXVII. Class 81, continued. A hanch of mutton is the leg of a sheep. A landress is a washerwoman. Jandiceis a com- plaint of the liver. The dantless or fearless knight threw down his gantlet, or glove, when he gave a challenge. Swasion or perswasion is more effectual than force. Pickled cahage is called sour- krout. The dammage was great. He was the greatest personidge in the vilage. The joints are protected by cartilidge or gristle. Robbing a church is sacrelidge. The right of snfrage or voting is a great pr^iviledge. I saw by his vizage that he had taken umbridge or offence at what I said. LESSON CCXXXVIIL Class 82. — Words in which B or G is silent. Death is a det we must all pay in the loom. The ancient Peruvians made coams of long thorns. The thum has one joint less than the fingers. Under Paris are caiacoams or sepulchres. A reddout is a slight fortification. We must suc- coine or yield to fate. That knat is benummed with cold. He alternately knawed the bone and nashed his teeth. The shade on a dial is cast by the knomon. The nosticks were early heretics in the Christian church. The property of a bank- rupt is managed by an asinee. Nomes were imaginary beings said to live under ground. LESSON CCXXXIX. Class 82. — Words in which G is silent. The grief of a parent over a wicked child, is indeed poinant. He could assine no cause for that ill-usage. When we consine our dearest friends to the grave, we must not arrain the wisdom and goodness of Providence. Mischief malignely or maliciously done, should meet with condine or merited punishment. We must not impune or oppune another's motives. That was a bloody campain. 01 LESSON CCXL. Class 82.— Words in which H is silent An our glass measures time by the running of sand. A keeper of sheep is called a sheepherd. Never associate with disonest persons. Children in disgrace disonour their parents. An impostume is an abscess or ulcer. Disabille is an undress. Myrr is a medicinal gum. In poetry more depends upon rythm or measure than upon ryrne. A ghost has a gastly look, but a gostly man is only a priest. A gurkin is a pickled cucumber. Reubarb is used for food as well as medicine. A rapsody is a wild composition. LESSON CCXLL Class 82. — Words having H or K silent. Retoric is the art of oratory. He is troubled with hemorage, or bleeding, at the nose. The reumatism is a disease of the muscles. He stood agast or horror-struck at the sight. He was affected with catarr or cold in the head. The order of nighthood is no longer confined to mili- tary men. The neepan was dislocated. Knoll- edge should be accompanied with virtue. For- knolledge is necessary to a prophet. The nap- sack is a bag for a soldier's back. Navish tricks should never be encouraged. LESSON CCXLII. Class 82. — Words having L, N, or W silent. There is barm in Gilead. The sammon has deserted the rivers of Massachusetts. We ivoud help those poor Jokes if we coud. We shoud not condem a man unheard. We must not content any for whom Christ died. The falling leaves of autum excite sollem thoughts of death. We must not do rong that good may come of it. Remorse makes some men retched. We must icressle against tcmtation. There are no rizbands to his shirt. His father was a shipright. Hole- some bread is better than rich cake. 92 LESSON CCXLIIL Class 82. — Words in which P is silent. No man is exemt from the common lot. An impromtu is an off-hand remark. The book of Salms is called the Salter. The saltery was a musi- cal instrument. A seudo prophet is a false one. Resist the temter and he will flee. The orders were peremtory or positive. JSumtuary laws regulate the manner and expenses of living. The festival was sumtuous or costly. Consumtion is often the penalty of fashion. Familiarity often breeds contemt. Never pay money without taking a receit. Be promt in performing duties. LESSON CCXLIV. Class 82. — Words having U or UE silent. When we garanty a contract we give a garantee. The gherdon or prize of warriors is often stained with blood. A rongish disposition may easily become criminal. He consulted his coleague or associate. The governor prorovged or adjourned the legislature. The Niger disemhoges or empties into the Gulf of Guinea. A mosk is a Mahom- medan place of worship, and a sinagogne is a Jewish place. The Eclogs of Virgil are pastoral poems. The Decalog is the ten commandments. The prollog comes before the play and the eppilog after it. LESSON CCXLY. Class 83. — Words containing French sounds. Lickor has cankered many a conkeror. There is much ettikette at courts. He taught a parokett to speak several words. Coketry is an offensive kind of vanity. A harlekin is a merry-andrew. Oblike lines are leaning in regard to other lines. The earth is an opake or not transparent body. In the game of pickette only the higher cards are used. The cokette resembles the butterfly. A kadrille is a dance by four couples. The ex- checker is the state treasury. 93 LESSON CCXLVI. Class 83, continued. Human life is a maskerade in which few show their true faces. A palankeen is a travelling chair used in the East. He was dealing out soop to a groop of famishing children. The croop is a dangerous disease of the throat. A keep-sake is called a sooveneer. The word sirtoot means over-all. A cartooch is a box for cartridges. The contoor or outline is correctly drawn. His rnoos- tashes give him an uncooih appearance. A soldier dressed for battle or parade is armed and accoo- terd. The tambooreen is a sort of drum. LESSON CCXLVIL Class 83, continued. We travelled with a horse and shays. The seneshal arranged the guests. The aeronaut descended from his balloon by means of a sort of umbrella called a parashute. A sharade is a sort of riddle. They gained the cause by their tricks or shicanery. Galoshes are shoes worn over boots or other shoes. Pistasho nuts came from the East. A shampain is a flat open country. A good soldier is a mere masheen. The mar- shioness outlived the marquis her husband. LESSON CCXLVIXI. Class 83, continued. A prof eel is the outline of one's side-face. Ver- digrease is a green rust seen on copper. Her pelice was trimmed with fur. A valice is a sort of travelling wallet. Much depends on the caprece of a monarch. Fateague is not disease. Honest minds dislike all intreague or Jiness. A cazeek is an Indian chieftain. The torrent rushed down the raveen or deep hollow. The moskeeto is a troublesome insect. The infected vessel was detained in quaranteen or non-intercourse. Ultra- mar een is a very beautiful blue. 94 LESSON CCXLIX. Class 85. — Anomalous or Irregular Words. Thow he slay me, yet will I not complain. He has a furloiD or leave of absence. He is a thur- row disciplinarian. He who wishes to plant must first plou. Bunyan's Pilgrim fell into the slow or mire of despond. The drowt was destructive to the corn. He was a dowty or valiant chieftain. The meat of some birds is tuff. The skin that a snake casts off is called his stuff. " Enuffis a little more than one has." You ort not to kawf towards any one. The pig puts his feet into the troff. Forethorts must not come afterwards. It is unlawful to hoc or hamstring a beast. LESSON CCL. Class 85, continued. A lake in Scotland is called a lock. King Lear had three dorters. Young ladies should not laff aloud in the streets. The game of chequers is also called drafts. She was a pritty creature. The baskit is not filled. The briskit is a part of the breast of veal. Ingland means the Land of the Angles. The heighth is greater than the breadth. The kalidoscope is an optical instrument. Some memories, like sivs, let all that is valuable escape. It is no credit to excel in mischif. She has lost her hangkerchif. LESSON CCLI. Class 85, continued. Orgiz mean disorderly revels. A frend in need is a frend indeed. The grand seenyer is the Turkish sultan. They ett holibut. God is called the Antient of Days. The anjels are messengers of the Most High. A Scotch highlander is called a Gale. The Gallic is the original language of Britain. Britches have been superseded by trousers. The meezles is a dangerous disease. The procession formed a splendid padgeant. 95 LESSON CCLII. Class 85, continued. A serjant is not a commissioned officer. Ven- jance is mine only, saith the Lord. One sort of type is called burjoice. A literary theft is called a plajarism. I wish to sudgest one alteration. A ledger collects the scattered charges of the journal upon one page. He alledges or declares that she is guilty. Several colledges form a uni- versity. How many neglect their priviledges. All should bow to the magesty of the laws. A predjudlce is a judgment formed without examina- tion. To exadgeraie is to tell more than the truth. LESSON CCLIII. Class 85, continued. I shall go mawgre or notwithstanding his objections. Salt water has a nawshus taste. To gage a cask is to measure its contents or capacity. Gamboodge is a yellow vegetable juice. His spirits are naturally boy ant or cheerful. Cain imbrood or stained his hands in his brother's blood. Indians make canoos of birch bark. The persuit was hot, but not successful. A recroot is a new soldier. The baker in his cirkit sells many biskits and loaves. Do not interrupt one who is buisy. Busyness before pleasure ! How buisily some insects work ! LESSON CCLIV. Class 85. — Irregulars, continued. Lettis is eaten as a salad. Some pidgeons are taught to carry letters. The Puritan fathers had no cushins in their pews. Rallery and ridi- cule seldom promote friendship. The Scotch plad is a national dress. A grawt a day amounts to six pounds in a year. Coco is the fruit of a kind of palm tree. Unylons are wholesome and medicinal. A porpuss belongs to the order mam- malia. The tortise^s shell is formed by the peculiar growth of his bones. Aloze is a bitter plant. 96 LESSON CCLY. Class 85.- — Irregular '$, continued. A yoman's bow was made of the yew tree. The vessel was in great jeppardy or peril. The leppard cannot change his spots. The camel- leopard is now called the giraffe. Many persons use the word peeple instead of persons. Feff, enfeff, and feffee are law terms. No one can knnjer up spirits. England once claimed suv- reignty over France. The berrial of the dead should be a solemn service. Gum gwackum is said to be medicinal. A guinny is one shilling more than a pound. A banijo is a sort of bath. LESSON CCLVI. Class 85.— Irregulars^ continued. The Turkish wimin are shut up in the seralio. Who has not felt the moral granjeur of Wash- ington? Some persons call a lewtenant a leften- ant. We reached the beutiful perlieus or borders of the city. There is something bewcheus in our lake scenery. The mizletoe was held sacred by the ancient Britons. We should be curcheus to all men. The art of reasoning is called rasheosina- tion. We measured the stiperfishes or surface of the field. He looks with spetial favor upon the dutiful. Much is left to our discresion. LESSON CCLYII. Class 85. — Irregulars, continued. Transision is the passing from one state to another. We should always act in a rashonal manner. The better the man, the better the con- sience. The mussles of the body move the bones. W~e should acquiess in the divine appointments. Drops of quicksilver coaless or run together. Beer ejfervesses or ferments. Salt will deliquesse or become liquid in damp places. The surface of the sea phosjyhoresses in hot climates. The balloon is flacksid when not inflated. Sickcity means dryness. 97 LESSON CCLYIII. Class 85. — Irregulars , continued. Yery little suffizes to supply our real wants. Woosted hose is made of woollen yarn. Red ocre is a sort of earth. The icknewmon is a quadruped. Mickelmas is a festival in honor of the angel Michael. There is a sism or division in that church. The feasant has beautiful plumage. A nefew is a brother's or sister's child. The saphire is a precious gem. The young must guard against the suttlety or refined cunning of infidels. A vittler is one who provides vittles for travellers. Addsititious means supplementary. LESSON CCLIX. Class 85.— Irregulars, continued. Ajavline is a short spear. An omlette is a sort of fried cake made of eggs. The chief ruler of Holland was once called the Statholder. Flegm arises from the diseased humors. The diafragm is a partition between the chest and abdomen. Fawcons were once trained to catch small birds. A dipthong is the union of two vowels, and a tripthong of three, in one syllable. The astmah is the same as the pthisic. An istmus is all that prevents a peninsula from being an island. Crist- mass is the festival of our Saviour's birth. LESSON CCLX. Class 85. — Irregulars , continued. The chesnut is enclosed in a sort of chest. A morgage is a pledge of land for money borrowed. Isleands are mountains in the sea. A vicount is next in rank to an earl. Assymptotes are certain right lines in geometry. The science that treats of air is called pnumatics. Nemonics is the art of improving the memory. The romb is some- times called the diamond form. It is to be hoped that wariors will soon lay aside the sord. A mild anser turns away anger. The tungue is an unruly member. A legue is three miles. 98 LESSON CCLXL Class So.— Irregulars, continued. The hoswain calls the attention of the crew to orders. A cubboard is a sort of closet. Wensday was the god Woden's day in ancient Britain. The ferhead is the front, and the occiput the back of the head. Good housewifry was one qualifica- tion of Solomon's virtuous woman. Elemosinary or charitable institutions owe their origin to Christianity. A sennight is a week, and a fort- night is twice as long. A farmacopoeia or dis- pensatory is a book describing medicines. Asa- fettida is a medicine to quiet the nerves. The elision of i in 'tis, is called an apheresis. LESSON CCLXIL Class 85.— Irregulars, continued. Shagreen is a French word meaning sorrow. Depo is French for a place of deposit. In aver- dupois weight, sixteen ounces make a pound. A maneiivre is a stratagem, An aidecainp is an officer's assistant. Nonpareil is a kind of type. An amainre is properly a lover. Some females color their cheeks with rooge. The exhibition came off with great eclah. We have no canalle or populace. Most persons move in one rooteen of duties. She gave me a booquet or bunch of flowers. LESSON CCLXIII. Class 85. — Irregidars, continued. Sooshong is also called black tea. The par- tare is the flower garden. The shamois goat is a fearless climber. An avalanch is a mountain- slide. We saw a giraffe at the mennagerie. A Icioerass is a sort of breastplate. There is a vinyette on the title page. The stars have been called night's flambds or torches. A rondo is a tune that continues on by repetition. A cotillion is the same as a quadrille. Belleiters means polite literature. A baggatelle is a trifle. Connisseur means a knowing one. 99 LESSON CCLXIY. Class 86. — Words misused, there being two or more words pronounced alike , but spelled differently. He drank too much ail and then wondered what aled him. He cut his foot with an adds. We recognized his voice e'er we saw him. We will follow wherere our duty leads. The shoe- maker sews with an all and an end. She gave arm^s to a heggar. We walked up the broad isle of the church. Many an alter has been stained with human blood. Raising a vessel's anker is called weighing it. Noah was saved in the arc. The assent is very steep and sandy. It was bored through with an augur. LESSON CCLXV. Class 86, continued. If he gives you ought you must return it. His conduct was stark nought and inexcusable. He bad them never to forsake his commandments. Some dry goods are packed in bails. Ask a fair price and never bait a cent. A successful poet is said to wear the baize or garlands. A snow bawl increases by rolling. He is young but his head is very balled. The bare is a clumsy beast. One part of music is called the base. The bay of Tunis owes allegiance to the Turkish sultan. The busy be extracts good from evil. LESSON CCLXVI. Class 86, continued. That is a mountain beach tree. Much sugar is now made from beats. It is fashionable for ladies to shoot with beaux and arrows. Has he bin sick again ? The corpse was borne on a small beer. A fine lady is sometimes called a bell. All nations have not bended their dead as we do. A sleeping place on board a vessel is called a birth. A turn or twist in a rope is called a bite. The clear atmosphere is of a blew color. He boared it with a gimlet. The corpse was born to the grave. 100 LESSON CCLXYII. Class 86, continued. Death is a borne or bound that all must pass. Rabbits borough in the ground. The bow bent to the ground with fruit. Do not brake a promise. He placed the breach of the gun against his shoulder. Give us each day our daily bred. The story was bruted or reported about. That ridiculous man was the but of the company. Never by a thing merely because it is cheap. Strong men do not need a cain. The call is a thin membrane, like a skin, covering the intestines. They cork the seams of a vessel with oakum. LESSON CCLXVIII. Class 86, continued. A calender month is a month as measured in the almanac. A law of the established church is called a cannon. The British barbarously burned the capital at Washington. The hero wore a cask of steel upon his head. France seeded or granted Louisiana to the United States. The sealing at the top of the room was injured. It is wrong to cell a damaged article for a good one. The lower room of a house is called the seller. The priest scattered incense with a censor. Musk has a very powerful cent. LESSON CCLXIX. Class 86, continued. A certain class of prophets are called sears. Some wounds are sered with a hot iron. The session of Florida was made by Spain. Some men chap wood with wonderful despatch. An anthem was sung by the whole quire. No man should inflame the collar or anger of another. Certain cords in that tune are very sweet. The Sink-ports were five associated seaports in Eng- land. Mount Cion was in Jerusalem. The capitol city occupies a beautiful sight. That claws of the sentence may be omitted. loi LESSON CCLXX. Class 86, continued. It is difficult to clime the hill of science. The natives of some countries wear no close. The current swept the vessel out of her corse. The ship has her full compliment of men. That core of troops excels in discipline. Some men always endeavor to cousin or cheat their neighbors. We anchored in a small creak. A sort of worsted is called cruel. The swan seemed proud of her signets. The mother of some animals is called the damn. The Deigns once left Denmark and con- quered England. That forest is full of dear. LESSON CCLXXI. Class 86, continued. The due seen on plants is congealed to form frost. The ancients could die many rich colors. A man must be a chemist to be a good dier. Unbaked bread is called doe. That old horse is of a done color. If thou dust evil thou knowest the penalty. In Troy weight, eight drams make one ounce. The pitcher or your was broken. They built a fain or temple to the god. His attempt to storm the city was a faint to deceive the enemy. The fair of savages is often very coarse. The fawns were rural deities. LESSON CCLXXII. Class 86, continued. He disobeyed his farther and was lost. The juggler performed a famous feet with his hands. The felloiv of a wheel is its rim. I gave him a Philip on his nose. The wicked cannot flea from remorse. The smoke passes off into the flexo of the chimney. Ground wheat is called flower. Fore times ten are forty. Let us go fourth into the fields. His fort or excellence is good nature. Some fouls are not good for food. A French frank is 18| cents. I do not under- stand that frays. 9* 102 LESSON CCLXXIII. Class 86, continued. The freeze is an ornament in architecture. The frier bade them trust in Providence. They held a fate or festival in honor of the president. His lameness gives him an awkward gate. France was once called Gall or Gallia. The buttons were doubly guilt. Avoid the glaire of the lights. The skirt was made fuller by insert- ing a gore. A great should be kept free from ashes. Can you lend me a nutmeg-greater? Grease was once a part of Turkey. The grieves defended his legs, and the cuisses his thighs. LESSON CCLXXIV. Class 86, continued. He was startled by a loud groivn. Any one might have guest that. He was a hail old man, for he was temperate. In his affliction he plucked the hare from his head. They tried to hall him away to prison. His hart was hardened against pity. Dried grass is called hey. The art of man cannot heel every disease. It is our duty to here a man before we condemn him. I herd much that I did not understand. The heios of life are very changeable. High thee, or hasten to thy quiet home. LESSON CCLXXV. Class 86, continued. The price of sin is hire than we can pay. The congregation then sang a him. It is foolish to horde up more wealth than one can use. The hole troop was slain, and buried in one whole. The war hoop is a dreadful sound. She was afflicted with a horse cold, and could not sing. How much depends upon a single our! They stopped at a wretched in. He was indited for murder. A wharf on a river is called a key. Limestone and bricks are burned in a kill. That knag is too small for his rider. 103 LESSON CCLXXYI. Class 86, continued: The knave of a wheel is called the hub also. Dough should be well needed before it is baked. He new the consequences of such conduct. A night-errant wandered about in pursuit of ad- ventures. A machine has been invented to nit stockings, Alexander untied the Gordian not by cutting it. We do not no what we shall be here- after. Who nose what an hour may bring forth? He lax many of the necessaries of life. They lade the body in the grave. It is a long lain that has no turning. LESSON CCLXXVII. Class 86, continued. Galena is a compound of led and sulphur. The lea side of an island is not that on which the wind blows. I had as leaf go as stay. Some eat raw leaks and onions. They went without lieve. A leaver increases a man's power. Familiarity too often lessons respect. A new levee of troops is ordered by government. The liar was an ancient musical instrument. The traitor was barbarously torn limn from limn. They shall say, " Loiv here ! and hio there ! " LESSON CCLXXVIII. Class 86, continued. The cattle load and the horses neighed. I asked for the lone of a small sum. A lake in Scotland is called a lock. The lower or learning of the ancients was familiar to him. He hath maid us, and not we ourselves. The coat of male was sometimes very heavy. The mane chance of the wise man is not money. The crop of maze was more abundant than that of wheat. The lord of the manner oppressed his tenants. The ma)itle-\)iece is of marble. Pertness is no marque of good breeding. A marshal air becomes a general. 104 LESSON CCLXXIX. Class 86, continued. We prefer water to meed. He scorned to do a mien action. Eve was called the help-meat of Adam. That hymn is in short meter ox measure. A man should not mule like a child. The dog barks and the cat muse. Mite or power is too often mistaken for right. A miner cannot vote. The glory of man will soon resemble the moan grass. Who does not see the moat in his neigh- bor's eye? How often men sell their souls for naught ! The horse nays, the ass brays. Nun is so blind as one who will not see. LESSON CCLXXX. Class 86, continued. Oar of iron abounds in Sweden. It was per- fumed with otter of roses. It takes more than won swallow to make a summer. Who painted Death on the pail horse? The hail broke every pain of glass in the house. Always pair the apple before you cook it. The king's house is called a pallas. We found the poor man stretched upon his palette. His nearest friends bore the paid and the bier. You must make a paws at a period. What a peace of work is man ! She bore some peak, or ill-will, against us. LESSON CCLXXXI. Class 86, continued. The bells rang a merry peel at the wedding. The arches of the bridge rested on wooden peers. Salt-peter is found in the earth. The place is a flat fish resembling the flounder. It is plane that vice brings its own punishment. The plates of that ruffle are very fine. He is a judge of the court of common please. Plumb pudding is said to be an English dish. The pole tax is a tax on heads. We want more practise and less theory. We should prey often to the Giver of every good gift. 105 LESSON CCLXXXIL Class 86, continued. The date of the letter must be prier to that of the answer. He was contented to sell at a small prophet. That fortune-teller was a worthless queen. The quincy is a dangerous disease of the throat. The rain of righteousness is not yet established over the nations. A sunbeam is composed of countless raise of light. Rap up small things in large papers. " Wrapped into future times the bard began." It is a poor book that is red but once. The slender read bent before the storm and was saved. The vessel was left a hopeless reck. LESSON CCLXXXIII. Class 86, continued. The field was wreaking with human gore. The robber tried to rest my purse from me. The rhyme on the cold ground resembled snow. The rice and fall of nations resembles those of indi- viduals. The rigor repaired the ropes that had been injured. It is not write for a good penman to right his name illegibly. Men wring the bells on merry occasions. The railrodes make neigh- bors of strangers. On each side of the road was a roe of elms. LESSON CCLXXXIY. Class 86, continued. It is rood to spit upon any floor. It is of little use to learn books by wrote. That rout leads from Boston to New York. Some persons think ruff manners a proof of genius. He rung from her a confession of her love. JSye-necked persons may often be cured. Take in the sales before the storm begins. There is too much satyr in his poems. In some countries, ladies scate as men do. With one oar you may skull but not row a boat. 106 LESSON CCLXXXV. Class 86, continued. The seen was more beautiful after the shower. Whence does the see get its supply of salt 1 The painted carpet shows no seems. He seas her faults, hut she does not. When two. have the same name, the elder is called seignior, and the younger junior. She cannot soia well with too large a needle. The collar was made of shear or thin muslin. A geometrical sign contains thirty degrees. What we call a slay, the Laplanders would call a sledge. Slight of hand is the same as legerdemain. LESSON CCLXXXYL Class 86, continued. Her hair was as black as the slow. The lark is said to sore higher than other birds. What would you give for sum of his patience 7 The son is the source of light to this system. No humane person will stair at the deformed. A slice of beef is called a stake, one of veal a cutlet. The fixed stars are not stationery, though our eyes cannot detect their motion. Same chil- dren think it is not a crime to- steel from their parents. Try to acquire an easy stile of writing. Do not put the soul of your shoe on the stove. LESSON CCLXXXVIL Class 86, continued. Straight or narrow is the gate that leadeth unto life. The most suttle are not apt to be the most honest. It is the duty of the strong to sucker or assist the weak. The president and his sweet, or attendants, occupy a sweet or succession of rooms at the hotel. The crescent or new moon is the sacred cymbal of the Turks. Every man who is protected must pay a tacks, A short tail is the sooner told. The mob were ready to tare him to pieces. The air often teams with insects, or is full of them. 107 LESSON CCLXXXVIII. Class 86, continued. Some ships have three tears of guns. His verses are generally less tierce than strong. " I pray the" has been contracted into prithee. Their is no place like home. Be faithful threw good report and evil report. The parting with friends costs many a throw of agony. The city of Tire was taken by Alexander. There is no thrown so high that it cannot be throne down. Fine honey is made from wild timie. The tied ebbs or sinks, and flows or rises twioe in about twenty-four hours. LESSON CCLXXXIX. Class 86, continued. Such a tinny little fish is not worth the cooking. Some are two liberal with the money of others. Most canal-boats are toed by horses: They toll or entice fish t© their destruction. Some oriental ladies always wear vales. Vanes carry blood to the heart, and arteries away from it. The vial is a stringed instrument. The blacksmith uses a vice or screw. Many, if ivade in the balance of justice, would be found wanting. The stripes of the rod raised great wails on his skin. LESSON ccxa Class 86, continued. The wheels or pimples contained a watery humor. After the moon is full she begins to wain or decrease. The ivasie should never be com- pressed. Always give full wait and measure. He sells china, glass and crockery wear. When persons cannot agree they had better wave the subject. If men would way words they would grow scarce. A weakly newspaper is published once a weak. " I 'd like" means " I wood like," or " I had like." The question was taken by yds and nays. The you tree made the best bows for archers. 108 LESSON CCXCL Class 88, continued, The heir is solid though invisible. We maybe the air of titles, but not of virtues. They lost their awl when their mother died. The troops were under alms all night. I'lenoi live on that desolate aisle, Persecution never altars belief. The merchant bought an anchor of gin. A part of a circle is called an ark. He gave his ascent as soon as he was convinced. The auger or priest pretended to foretel events. We aught not to injure those who injure us. Naught moves men like interest, LESSON CCXCIL Class 86, continued. He became bale or surety for the appearance of the accused. Men are caught with bate as fishes are. Bays is a coarse woollen cloth. Those who ball most loudly are not always the most hurt. The country is bear of trees. Men seldom prosper long by bass means. The bey of Naples forms a beautiful crescent. To bee or not to bee, that is the question. They were cast upon a sandy beech. A patient teacher will seldom beet his pupils. A fop or gallant is also called a boio. LESSON CCXCIIL Class 86, continued. Farmers store their grain in a been. The dead are sometimes carried on a beer. The feminine of a beau is a bell. The whoxile-biuy is com- monly called the lmckle-bu?y. His berth was foretold by angels. The bight of most snakes is harmless. The wind blue towards the land. Dr. Franklin was borne in Boston. Ineon orated towns without inhabitants are called rotten bur- rows. Sycophants make too many boughs. A tiger lay concealed in the break. 109 LESSON CCXCIV. Class 86, continued. The besiegers entered through a breech m tire walls. He was bread a lawyer. Some bruits seem to think, hut none appear to worship. None are safe butt the innocent. Good-buy should not fee spelled good-by. Cane was punished for the murder of Abel. The conjurer may mwl up spirits, but the spirits may not come. Oalk is the bark of a sort of oak tree. Cloth is calendared m a hot press. The canons of a -ship are gen- erally called guns. Washington is the capital of the United States. LESSON CCXCY, Class 86, continued Wine, now kept in casques^ was once kept in leather bottles or bags. Each plant has its own cede. Be careful to ceil your letters neatly. In ceiling letters do not cover the writing. The prisoners were confined in damp sells. The cellar is expected to send the goods home. A regulator of manners in Rome was called a cen- ser. I scent him away rich, but he returned without a sent. Hot and dry weather seei*s the foliage. Some nations sere a corpse, or cover it with wax to prevent decay. LESSON CCXCVL Class 86, continued The cession of a court in England is called the assizes. It is impolite to make a noise with one's chops in eating. A choir of paper contains twenty- four sheets. There is no choler to his coat. We are bound to life by many chords or ties. A sion of one tree was engrafted on the stock of another. Citizens are sometimes familiarly called sits. When a witness is wanted, he is sited or sum- moned to appear. Reading fine print always injures the site. The impression of birds' clause has been found on rocks in Massachusetts. io no LESSON CCXCVII. Class 86, continued. Man is not confined to any climb, as some plants are. Sackcloth is a sort of course cloth worn as a token of humility. Achilles fastened the coarse of Hector to his car. Complements are very sel- dom sincere. He ate the apple, corps, skin and all. Cozens are children of brothers or sisters. The creeking of a door made the criminal 1 start. It is crewel to insult the unfortunate. The paper was sealed with the king's cygnet* LESSON CCXCVIII. Class 86, continued. Things we do not want are deer at any price. An honest, man will pay what is justly dew. It is appointed tmto all men once to dye. The buck was slain as he was looking for the dough. Nothing is dun until it is well dun. A morning drachm is an evening curse. I would fane learn if I could. We fain much that we do not feel. A feint heart never wins a fare lady. The doe was killed and the fauns taken. The father we advance the less we seem to know. LESSON CCXCIX. Class 86, continued. Monkeys are four-handed, and have no feat. He was a merry felloe, hut not a good one. Fillip is a Christian name, and Phillips a surname. The flee is a lively little insect, classed with ver- min. The nocturnal birds and insects flue around us all night. The flours were made for man's delight as well as for his use. Henry the Forth was assassinated by Francis Ravafllac. The forte commanded the entrance of the harbor. It is better to be franc than to be insincere. He was constantly engaged in such phrase or brawls. Ill LESSON CCC. Class 86, continued. Dead flesh friezes more easily than the living. The Jupiter of the heathen 3 was himself subject to fete. Strait or narrow is the gait that leadeth unto life. The gaul bladder secretes or prepares the bile. Gilt generally makes men fearful. The glare of an egg feeds the yolk. The battle field was wet with goar. The grate should endeavor to be the good also. The grater the offence, the more noble the forgiveness. Do not soil your dress with greece. He greaves as though there were no hope. He was groan up when he went abroad. LESSON CCCL Class 86, continued. A host is a landlord, and a guessed is a visitor. Hale is frozen at a great height. The hair bur- rows not as the rabbit does. The haul was not large enough for the company. He shot the heart, and the hind fled. The heal of Achilles was his only vulnerable part. We allow no idle- ness hear. A keeper of goats is called a goat- heard. To hue timber is to cut it into shape. The hie and low find the same level at last. LESSON CCCIL Class 86, continued. Some kings higher soldiers at a few cents a day. The Calmucks are an uncivilized hoard. Trund- ling whoop is a healthful exercise. The hoarse is a noble animal. There is no pleasure inn sus- pense. The general indicts letters, and the aids- de-camp write them. A nag or knot in wood adds to its beauty. Never deal twice with a nave. Man kneads but little here below. Many spend their time in seeking something knew. The knight is just as long as the day at the equinoxes. 112 LESSON CCCIII. Glass 86, continued. The eggs of lice are called knits. Many men are knot so bad as they seem. A very lacks dis- cipline leads to confusion. It is not^fair to laid another with our own burdens. It has not lane long in that place. We have lead her often to that placev The fall of the lief admonishes us of our own frailty. Stop a leek in the roof while the weather is fair,. I had as leave go as stay. It is useless to learn lessens that must be forgotten. The queen's levy was fashionably attended. A Her is hardly believed when he tells the truth. He limbs or paints better than he writes. LESSON CCCIV. Class 86, continued. The la are in little danger of falling. Do not place too heavy a hived on a young animal. A loan person is one that lives by himself. That door is secured with a patent loch. Man was made but little lore than the angels. In Scripture a woman is sometimes called a YiBAid-made. The mail is generally stronger than the /email The main is an ornament to a horse. We were lost in a maize or labyrinth. His manor was more offensive than his matter. A mantel is worn over the shoulders. LESSON CCCV. Class 86, continued.. A fi.el&-ma?~tial is a high military officer. The mead of virtue is not always money. Her mean was benignant and genteel. As men meet, it will be measured to them in return. It is not mete to cast pearls before swine. The consumption of gas is indicated by a metre. The mewl is larger than the ass. A thoughtful person will love to mews. A might or mote may put out an eye that awes the world. Minors often live for months under ground. The lower animals mourn, but they never laugh nor weep. 113 LESSON CCCVL Class 86, continued. The besiegers filled the mote or ditch and ascended the wall So far from being good, it is stark nought. He asked assistance, but they gave him nun. A short ore is called a paddle. It was all ore before the doctor arrived. The otiar has valuable fur. He has one the prize, but another has lost it. A small pale with a handle is a piggin. Pane is not always an eviL She bought a pare of mittens. The pallet is the roof of the mouth. The pause of most animals are armed with nails or claws. LESSON CCCVIL Class 86, continued. The Gospel recommends love and piece. The pique of some mountains is always covered with snow. The peal of a lemon contains a peculiar acid. Piers or nobles are made by the king. The name Petre means a rock. Have a set plaice for every thing. Boards are smoothed with a plain. Bring me a plait and a tumbler. That platform is not plum or level. The Ma.y-poll has seldom been set up in New England. Practise is better than precept. The eagle prays by day, and the owl by night LESSON CCCVIII. Class 86, continued. He was the last of the profits. Quean Eliza- beth was a vain woman. John Adams died at Qu'msy. A good horse will mind the rain. Reign is vapor condensed by cold. The Romans raised the walls of Jerusalem to the ground. No man could raze the dead unless God were with him. Some one zvraps at the door. The jewel was rapt in cotton. The rising generation reed too much and think too little. " But little he'll wreck or care, if they'll let him sleep on." It is base to reek vengeance on a helpless foe. To** 114 LESSON CCCIX. Class 86, continued. The innocent may securely icrest on God. There may be good poetry without rime. The rigger of winter increases towards the poles. It may not be write to expect a wheel-right to rite correctly about wrights and ceremonies; but a skilful rite may be able to wright about the write method of making wheels. Filial ingratitude rings the heart of parents. John Gilpin road farther than he intended. The row-buck is a sort of deer. Four square rudes make an acre. LESSON CCCX. Class 86, continued. Holy men rote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. The route of the enemy was complete. Queen Elizabeth is always painted with a rough about her neck. The bells were wrung to alarm the town. Some persons prefer %ory to wheat. He only sells at whole-sail. The fabled satire was half man and half goat. The skate or ray is a large flat fish. The scull is composed of many bones. The fishermen spread their scenes across the river. LESSON CCCXI. Class 86, continued. All men cannot sea with the same spectacles. Every man should try to be better than he seams. The sees must one day give up their dead. The Turkish Sultan is called the grand Senior. As a man setveth so shall he reap. The sheer town is the county town. A good shepherd will feed his sheep as well as sheer them. All si?tes are said to fail in dry weather. Cain did wrong to sleigh his brother. It is base to sleight a good man because he is poor. The tortoise in the fable was sloe and sure. ii. LESSON CCCXII. Class 86, continued. Every man knoweth bis own soar or trouble. The sole will survive the wreck of the body. What is the entire some that is due? A dutiful sun is the joy of his parents. It is incorrect to say a pair of stares for a whole starecase. John Rogers was burnt at the steak for his religious opinions. Quills and paper are called stationary. The best edge tools are made of steal. The style had several steps on both sides of the wall. A right line is only a strait one. LESSON CCCXIII. Class 86, continued. The succors should not be left around the tree. The symbol was an ancient musical instrument. Fasten the carpet down with tax, and not with brads. Monkeys differ from apes in the greater length of their tales. The horses or oxen, and not the vehicle, are the teem. Joy as well as sorrow starts the tiers. A terse contains about forty gallons. Give even your enemies there due. The heated traveller through aside his cloak. Those who live in a house of glass must not throe stones at those who pass. We should never tyre in doing good. Thyme and tide wait for no man. LESSON CCCXIY. Class 86, continued. We are tide to earth by too many bands. Few persons regard the difference between too and intoo. The ostrich has three tows, but most birds have four. The tole is less for useful vehicles than for those of pleasure only. The vails are more fruitful than the hills. The vain or weathercock points northward. It is vein to cry for spilled milk. The medicine was kept in a good viol. Vise too often tries to look like virtue. The stream is so deep we cannot ford it or weighed across. The fore wheals turn faster than the hinder ones. 116 LESSON CCCXV. Class 86, continued. It is better to amend a fault than to bewale it. Charles's wane or wagon is a cluster of stars in the Great Bear. Nobody has a right to waist while any body wants. Death seldom weights for an invitation. Constant dropping of water will ware away stone. He said to the winds and to the waives, Peace, be still ! A ^e^A-passenger is one taken up on the route. Choose yea this day whom yea will serve. Yew should allow to others the rights yew claim for yourself. LESSON CCCXYI. Class 87. — Vulgarisms : being words misused for others to which they bear some resemblance in spelling or 'pronunciation, or words only badly pronounced. Except this present as a mark of my esteem. That book has passed through many additions. The laws of our nature air not to be disregarded with impunity. The aunt is a small animal. When a man dies, his estate is apprized or valued. Never loiter when you are doing an arrant. The good man is best known by his life and axe. A bacon is a signal of danger. LESSON CCCXVII. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. Some prefer meat biled, and others briled. Sift the meal and remove the brand. The hermit was distinguished by his long bared. The bust- ing of boilers must be prevented by severe pen- alties. Some people prefer salary to lettuce for salad. We must not force our council upon others. The currier or messenger hastened on. Eminent danger requires prompt action. I expect it was he who did it. If he is caught, they will flee him alive. His house is not fur off. 117 LESSON CCCXVIII. Class 85. — Vulgarisms, continued. Those animals form a new genius or kind. A candid or ingenious temper seldom gives offence. It is jest an hour since it happened. " The latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloseP I would not go least they should mistake my motives. A line of veal is equal to a sirline of beef. Lickerish is good for a cold. The sea- birds alighted on the mash. All the best scholars received meddles. The heaviest mettle is gold, the hardest to melt is platina. He rode four mild while I walked one. The rocks were covered with morse. LESSON CCCXIX. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. He is obtained from animals of the whale kind. "And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had used for his pillar, and set it up for a pilloiv, and poured oil upon the top of it." That is not the pint in dispute. The precedent should not set a bad president or example to the people. Wisdom is the principle thing. The principals of the Gospel are easily learned. Horsereddish has a pungent taste. I have not been there sense I met you there. The week of the candle is too long. LESSON CCCXX. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. The currant of rivers, like that of life, runs not back. I can never forget the liniments of his face. " Thus sayth the Lord, I am God, and there is no God beside me." They ait bread and drank water. The Solter is the book of Psalms. The general and his suit reviewed the troops. More fell by disease than by the sward. The kernul ordered his regiment to advance. Do you prefer the sunflower to the merigoold? Who can doubt the benificence of the Creator? 118 LESSON CCCXXI. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. The frost has touched the foilage of the trees. Some think the zero is not a Jigger. Whose arethmatic is the best? Bachelders are only- unmarried men. That was a tremenduous battle. Many polite persons are very desateful. He promises not to offend agayn. He paid no reguard to his orders. He loves to work in his guarden. He hired a horse and shay. The hol- iboat is not so rich as the salmon. Ado! my friend, ado ! Had she sent me a boquet of flowers, it would have ben acceptable. I had as lives go as not. LESSON CCCXXII. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. He sets a dretful example to his children. The artic circle surrounds the north pole. He is not afeard of shadows. The cups and sarcers were all broken. A sassage is not the most whole- some food. He would not speak becoz he was a foreigner. The fence was bedobbed with paint. An awkard boy may be a good one nevertheless. The stillyerds are not so true as the scales. The air is too percing for weak lungs. A man of lezzure should be a benefactor to his race. That was a grievious hardship. LESSON CCCXXIII. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. Add five and substract four. Abstain from ardent sperrit. The temperance reform makes rapid proegress. Yender comes the king of day, rejoicing in the east. He ran acrost the field. They go beyend the line. They planted turnups and reddishes. That cag or small cask was full of aigs. No man should baig if he can find work. The wings of a bird correspond to the fore laigs of a quadruped. We kep silence while they step. He crep round the barn. 119 LESSON CCCXXIV. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. Few parunts eddicate their own children. The ba?misters of the staircase are not firm enough. Gum Arabac is a valuable gum. Cain became a vagabone or wanderer. Sparrowgrass is a whole- some plant. She brought an alablaster box of ointment. Good cassimeres are serviceable cloths. It is our duty to be obleeging and kind. They stripped him necked and tied him to a tree. Gether up the fragments, that nothing be lost. We would ruther die than do it. LESSON CCCXXV. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. Otmeal is often used for gruel in this country. The arrers shot by the wicked often recoil. He is but the shadder of a man. Many are the sor- ters of the toidder and orphan. A wilier tree hung over the lake and dipped its leaves in the bitters. We caught a yaller-bird, but we did not imprison him. The bellus is bust, and the wind escapes. The saxton opens the church and rings the bell. That was the fust injyne at the fire. Few persons return a borrowed umbrilla. His idees are always confused. It was sold at public vandoo. LESSON CCCXXVI. Class 87. — Vulgarisms, continued. What will you bate that it is not so 2 We often git more than we deserve, and yit we complain. Rense the clothes before you wring them out. The silver bowl is covered with dents. He has done his stent and gone to play. It is wrong to resk all upon any adventure. A good nuss is as important as a good physician. They stopped his hoss and demanded his pus. A parent should not speak hashly to his children. They rushed fercely upon him, and perced him to the heart. 120 APPENDIX. The improper use of the apostrophe has led to numerous errors of orthography, which, though less common than formerly, are still to be seen in some of the most beautifully printed volumes. The following Rules, it is believed, will be a suf- ficient guide to the pupil. Rule 1. Never omit letters when the omission neither alters the number of syllables nor the pro- nunciation of the word ; as, lov'd for loved ; heav'n for heaven ; the? for though, &c. Rule 2. Never omit letters or syllables in poetry, which are not omitted in pronunciation by correct readers ; as, evry for every ; separate for separ- ate ; favoring for favoring ; th' obscure for the obscure; V th' expectation for in the expectation, &c. Rule 3. Do not use the apostrophe, in prose, except to mark the possessive case, unless it be in familiar dialogues, where we find examples like the following, none of which may be used in serious or set composition, viz. : I've, you've, ive've, they've, for / have, &c. We're, you're, they're, for we are. &c. He's, she's, it's, what's, that's, how's, there's, all's, for he is, &c. I'll, he'll, she'll, we'll, you'll, they'll, for / will, &c. I'd, he'd, she'd, we'd, you'd, they'd, for I had, or / woidd, &c. 'Tis, is't, was't, on't, 'twill, 'twould, for it is, &c. Don't, won't, can't, wasn't, isn't, for do not, &c. Let's, for let us ; let'em for let them, ; I'm for I am, &c. T'other for the other ; s'pose for suppose; ma'am for madam, &c, &c, &c. The next thirteen lessons, with the exception of the first and last, are taken from a handsome London edition of Pope's Homer, printed in 1801, and will fully illustrate the above rules, while they will, it is hoped, induce teachers to turn their attention to a fruitful source of many of the mutilations to which our language has been long unnecessarily subjected. 121 LESSON CCCXXVIL Improper Elisions. He spoke, and, fondly gazing on her charms, Restor'd the pleasing burden to her arms ; Soft on her bursting heart the babe she latfd, Husk'd to repose, and with a smile surveyed. The troubled pleasure soon chastised by fear, She mingVd with the smile a tender tear. The soften d chief, with kind compassion, viewed, And drtfd the falling drops, and thus pursued. LESSON CCCXXVIII. Improper Elisions, continued. And now the chiefs approach the nightly guard, A wakeful squadron, each in arms prepafd ; TW unioeary'd watch their listening leaders keep, And couching close, repel invading sleep. So faithful dogs their fleecy charge maintain, With toil protected from the prowling train, When the gaunt lioness, with hunger bold, Springs from the mountains toward the guarded fold: Thro- breaking woods her rustling course they hear, Loud, and more loud, the clamors strike their ear, Of hounds and men ; they start, they gaze around, Watch ev'ry side, and turn to ev'ry sound. LESSON CCCXXIX. Improper Elisions, continued. A glittring spear wav'd awful in her hand. My generous brother is of gentle kind. Neptune by prayW repentant rarely won, Afflicts the chief f avenge his giant son. Then seized his ponderous lance, and strode along. WanoVi^ing from clime to clime, observant, stray 'd TK unhappy general of the Grecian bands. But, sure, Hill now no coursers struck my sight. 122 LESSON CCCXXX. Improper Elisions, continued. This said, each parted to his sev'ral cares. Let all combine f achieve his tmsh'd return. Since all who in tti Olympian bouPr reside. Her dreaded arm a beamy javTin bore, Ponderous and vast. With these, sublime, -she sails T" atrial space, and mounts the winged gales. * Of yonder fleet a bold discovery make. Better the chief on liion's hostile plain Had JalVn. LESSON CCCXXXI. Improper Elisions, continued. He mind Troy and raz'd her heaven built wall. And reward her choice With wealthy doitfr, and bridal gifts of price, Thro" 1 too much deference to our sovereign sway. The golden eitfr a maid obsequious brings. Thee, first of all ttt heavenly host, we praise. Delivering early -to the voice of fame The promise of a great, immortal name. * It would be a help to good reading, if, v;hen the silent syl- lable is to be pronounced, as in this case, it were always marked with the diaeresis. (* •) A few more examples are given, in the hope that those who, by their examples, establish laws in litera- ture, will think the hint worthy of their adoption. But the light- winged and many -voiced wind. — /. Baillis. Accoutred as I was, I plunged in. — Shaksp. Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabbed, And as he plucked the cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it ! — Id. 123 LESSON CCCXXXIL Improper- Elisions, continued. With reverence we allow Thy just rebukes ; yet learn to spare them now. Ev'n to the temple stalk' d the adulterous spouse. And odorous fumes from loaded altars rolVd. A muroVrous crew, Half breathless 'scaping to the land, he flew. O'er his falVn trunk his ample shield displayed. Thou conqueror of the fair, Thou woman warrior with the curling hair. LESSON CCCXXXIII. Improper Elisions, continued. The muroVrer fell, and blood atoned for blood. Honey new pressed and sacred flower of wheat, And wholesome garlic crown' d the sav'ry treat. Intemperate rage a wordy war began. But ah f what flattering hopes I entertain. A bull was slain To the blue monarch of the wafry main. O'er heapy shields, and o'er the prostrate throng, Collecting spoils, and slaughtering all along. LESSON CCCXXXIY. Improper Elisions y continued. A towering structure to the palace joined. He, like a whirlwind, toss'd the scattering throng. With shame repuls } d, with grief and fury driven, The frantic Asius thus accuses heaven. The generous impulse ev'ry Greek obeys. As when high Jove his sharp artilVry forms. What aid appear'd £' avert tK approaching war ? Ploughed half his side, and bar'd it to the bone. An untam'd heifer pleas' d the blue-ey'd maid. It shakes, the pond'rous stones, disjointed, yield. --- ss sssamsasssBe 124 r LESSON CCCXXXV. Improper Elisions, continued. Canst thou hear A we\\-tim' > d counsel with a willing ear? Fir'd with the thirst which emulation breeds, And smit with love of honorable deeds. A wood of glitfring spears Shoots up, and all the rising host appears. The laboring Grecian train The fiercest shock of charging hosts sustain. Driven by the goddess of the painted bow. A shady light was shot from glimmering shields. Stained the pure iv'rp with a lively red. LESSON CCCXXXYL Improper Elisions, continued. Not two strong men thl enormous weight could raise, Such men as live in these degenerate days. Forward he springs and clasps the favorite boy. The generous soul abhors tk 1 ungrateful act. The fleecy snow obeys the whispering gales. Thus cautious V iK obscure he hop'd to fly. Unnumbered birds glide throe ^ a erial way. Indulgent to his prayer, the goddess spoke. Whom Pallas with unpardening fury fired. LESSON CCCXXXVII. Improper Elisions, continued. Prepared ere yet descends the evening hour. And when the fayering shades of night arise. Far hence, replyed the prince, let fear be di^n. Nor uncompelVd the dangerous truth betray. And tMrous passed, and awfully withdrew. Full in the openings of the spacious main. There ez?V?/ age with slumberous chains she bound. Poured from the neighbering strand, deformed to view. With smoking beasts, an offering to the Lord. 125 LESSON CCCXXXVIII. Improper Elisions, continued. The goddess beckoning waves her deathless hands. For nought unprospWous shall thy ways attend. Were evWy wish indulged by fori ring skies. Against that numerous and determin' d band. To see the preference due to sacred age. Sep'rate from all, I safely landed here. Reph/d the Thund'rer to the martial maid. Nor winter's boreal blast, nor thund Wous shoiv'r, Nor solar ray could pierce the shady bow : r. Her flatCring words in melting murmurs dy'd. LESSON CCCXXXIX. Improper Elisions, continued. Condemned in bus'ness or in arts to drudge. I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech. While one end is up, t'other sticks to the ground. Or else with blood and desolation They'll tear it out o' tK heart o' ih? nation. For, by this time, the routed bear, Attack' d by tfC enemy i' tK rear. Seeing the coast was free and clear O' t/i > conquered and the conqueror. In the following exercises the errors are quite miscellaneous, but they have all been provided for in the preceding lessons. LESSON CCCXL. The desires of man increace with his acquisi- cio?is ; every step which he advances brings somthing within his view, which he did not see before, and ivich, as soon as he sees it, he begins to want. Where necesity ends, curioscity begins ; and, no sooner are we svplied with everything that nature can demand, than we sitt down to contrive artifitial apetites. b— Ba^^Ba rFangg i awiiw«.7i'-««« Bi^BBa gn j U'.. l . T umihuiw— ^»a 11* 126 LESSON CCCXLI. When a Roman general, siting at super, with a plate of turnups before him, was sollicited by large pressents to betray his trust, he asked the ■mesengers wether he that could sup on turnups was a man likely to sell his country. Uppon him who has redused his senses to obediance, tem- tation has lost its power; he is able to attend imparsially to virtu, and execute her comands without Jiessitation, LESSON CCCXLII. The wize and active conker dificidtys By daring to attewit them ; sloth and folly Shiver and srink at sight of toil and hasard, And make th? imposibUity they fear. If sollid hapiness we prise, Within our brest the gewel lies ; And they are fools who ronie : The world has nothing to bestow ; From our ownselos our joys must flow And that deer spott our home. LESSON CCCXLIII. Those who are in the pour of evel habbits must conker them as they can ; and conker ed they must be, or neither wisdom nor hapiness can be atained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely emotion, preserv there fredom ; they may efectually resolve to escape the tirant, whom they will very vanely resolve to conker. 12? LESSON CCCXLIY. The practice of self-denyal, or the forbearence of lawfull plesure, has been considdered by almost every nation, from the remotest ages, as the hlest exaltation of human virtue ; and all have agreed to pay respect and venneration to those who abstained from the delites of life, even iven they did not sensure those who enjoy them. To set the mind above the apetites is the end of absti- 7iense, which one of the Fathers observes to bee not a vertue, but the groundworke of veriue. LESSON CCCXLV. O Thou, whose povfr o'er moving worlds pre- zldes, Whose voise created, and whose wisdom gides. On darkeling men in pure refidjence shine, And chear the clowded mind with lite devine. 'Tis thine allone to calm the pyous brest With silent confi dense and holy rest : From Thee, great God, we spring ; to The we tend ; Path, motive, gide, oridgi?ial, and end, LESSON COCXLVI. It very seldom hapens that a man's biasness is his plesure. What is done from necesity is so often to be done against the presant inclination, and so often fills the mind with anxiety, that an habittual dislike steels upon us, and we shrink involuntarily from the rememberance of our task. This is the reason why allmost etfry one wishes to quit his imployment ; he does not like another state, but is disgusted with his own. 128 LESSON CCCXLVII. Of riches, as of ev'ry thing else, the hope is more than the injoyment ; wile we considder them as the means to be used at some future time for the atainment of felisity, we press on our persuit ardently and vigerously, and that arder secures us from wearyness of ourselves; but, no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions, than we find them, insuffitient to fill up the vacuity s of life. LESSON CCCXLVIII. 'Tis the last rose of swner left bloomin alone, All its lovly compannions are faded and gone ; No flour of its kindrid, no rosebud is nye. To refflect back its blushes and return sie for sie. I'll not leeve thee, thou loan one, to pyne on the stemm, Sinse the lovly are shaping, go sleap thou with them. Thus kindly I shatter thy leafs o'er the bead, Where thy mates of the garden lye senceless and ded. LESSON CCCXLIX. Sobriety, or temper ence, is nothing but the forbareance of pleasure ; and if pleasure was not followed by paine, who would forbare it 1 We see, every our, those in whom the desire of present indulgense overpoiirs ail senee of past, and all forsight of future misery. In a remision of the goute the drunkerd returns to his wine, and the gluion to his feast; and if neether discease nor poverty were felt or dreaded, every one would sink down in idle seiishuallity, without any care of others or of himself. To eat, and drink, and lye down to sleep, would be the whole buisiness of mankind. 129 LESSON CCCL. Many have no hapier moments than those they pass in sollitv.de, abbandoned to there own immag- innation, which sometimes puts septers in thier hands, or miters on thier heads, shifts the seen of pleasure with endless varriety, bids all the forms of beuty sparcle before them, and glntts them with every change of vissi&nnary lugsury. LESSON OCCLI. The thred of our life would be dark, heatfn nowSy If it were not with freindship and love inter- twined ; And I care not how soon I may sink to repose, When these blesings shall sease to be deer to my mind. But they who have lov'd the fondest, the purest, Two often have wept oar the dreem they believ'd, And the hart, that has slumbered in freindship secureest, Is happy indeed, if 't was never deeietfd. LESSON CCCLIL As Providense has made the human soal an activ being, allways impasient for novelty, and struglingiox somthing yet unenjoid, with unwea- ried progression, the world seems to have been emminently addapted to this disposition of the mind ; it is formed to raze expectations by con- stant visissitudes, and obviate satyety by peiyei- tual change. 130 LESSON CCCLIII. Oh ! think not my spirrits are allways as light, And as free from a pang, as they seem to you now; Nor expect that the hart-beeming smyle of too- night Will return with too-morow to briten my brow : — No, life is a waste of weary some ours, Which seldum the rose of enjoyment addorns ; And the heart that is soonest awaike to the flours ; Is allways the first to be toutcttd by the thorns. LESSON CCCLIY. Etfry old man complanes of the growing depravety of the world, of the pettulense and inso- lense of the riseing genneration. He recounts the desensy and regidarrity of former times, and selebrates the dissipline and sobriety of the age in which his yooth was passed ; a hapy age, which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in uppon the world, and thrown down all the bounderies of sivillity and revverence. LESSON CCCLY. Still on thy banks, so gayly green, May numerous heards and floks be scene. And lases chanting o'er the pale, And sheperds pipeing in the dail, And antient faith, that knows no gile, And industry imbrown'd with toy/, And hearts resolved, and hands prepared, The blesings they -/w/oy to gwc?. 131 The errors in the remaining lessons are not marked by a difference of type. The teacher is requested to notice all cases in which an improper use is made of the apostrophe, LESSON CCCLVL But soft, my friend, arest the present moments ; For be assur'd they all are arrent tel-tales ; And though their flite be silent, and their path Traseless, as the winged conrriers of the aire, They post to heav'n, and there record thy folly ; Because, tho' station'd on the important watch. Thou, like a sleeping, faithless sentinal, Didst let them pass tmnotic'd, unimprov'd. LESSON CCCLTIL Then stay the pressent instant, dear Horatio; Emprint the marcs of wisdom on its wings. 'Tis of more worth than kingdoms 1 far more presious Than all the crimzon tressnres of life's fountain. O ! let it not ellude thy grasp, but like The good old patriarck upon reckord, Hold the flete angel fast, untill he bless thee. LESSON CCCLVJIL The prospeckt of pennury in age is so glumy and terifying, that every man who loocks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it must be avoided gennerally by the sience of spareing. For, though in every age there are sum, who, by bold adventures, or by faverable axidents, rise sudenly to riches, yet it is dangerous to indulge hopes of sutch rare events ; and the bulck of mankind must owe their influense to small and graddual profnts, below which their expences must be resolutely redused, 132 LESSON CCCLIX. Attend my lessens, thotless youths, Ere long you '11 think them waity truths; Prudent it were to think so now, Ere age has silver' d o'er your brow : For he, who at his early years Has sown in vise, shall reep in teers. If folly has possess'd his pryme, Diseaze shall gether strenth in time ; Poizen shall rage in every vain, Nor pennitense delute the stain ; And wen each hour shall urge his fate, Thought, like the docter, comes to late. LESSON CCCLX. He that would pass the latter part of life with honor and desensy, must, wen he is young, con- sider that he shall one day be old : and remmem- ber, wen he is old, that he has onse ben young. In youth, he must lay up knoledge for his suport, wen his powers of acting shall forsake him ; and in age, forbear to annimadvert with riggor on falls which experience only can correct. LESSON CCCLXI. Wen, young, life's journy I began, The glittering prospeckt charm'd my eyes, I saw along the extended plain Joy after joy succesive rize : And Fame her golden trumpet blue ; And Power display'd her gorgeus charms, And Welth engag'd my wand'ring view, And Plesure woo'd me to her arms : But soon I found t'was all a dreme, And learn' d the fond persuit to shun, Were few can reach thier purpos'd aim, And thousands dayly are undone. 133 p» LESSON CCCLXII. When a king asked Euclid, the mathematision, wether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendeous manner, he was anser'd, that there was no royal way to geommetry. Other things may be seis'd by might, or purchas'd by monney ; but knolege is to be gain'd only by studdy, and studdy to be prossecuted only in retirement. LESSON CCCLXIII. Happy the man who sees a God emploid In all the good or ill that checkers life, — Resolving all events, with thier effects, And manyfold results, into the will And arbitration wise of the Supreem. Did not his eye rule all things, and intend The least of our conserns, (sinse from the least The gratest oft origginate,) — could chanse Find plase in his dominion, or dispose One lauless particle to thawrt his plan, — Then God might be surpriz'd, and unforseen Contingense mite alarm him, and disturb The smoothe and equal course of his afairs. LESSON CCCLXIV. Riches, authorrity, and praise, loose all their inrluense, wen they are considered as riches, wich to-morrow shall be bestowed upon annother; authorrity which shall this night expire for ewer ; and prase wich, howevver merritted, or how- ewer sinsere, shall, after a few moments, be herd no more. 12 134 BOBC LESSON CCCLXV. Recieve, deer freind, the truths I teach. So shalt thou live heyond the reech Of adverse fortunes pour ; Not allways tempt the distant deep. Nor allways timmorously creep Along the treach'rous shore. He that holds fast the goalden meen, And lives contentedly between The littel and the great, Feels not the wants that pintch the poor, Nor plages that hant the rich man's dore, Imbitt'ring all his state. LESSON CCCLXVI. Every man is prom ted by the love of himself, to immagine that he posesses sum qualitys, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees alotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever aparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has sum invisible distinktions, sum latent reserve of exellenee, which he throws into the ballance, and by which he gennerally fancys that it is turn'd in his favor. LESSON CCCLXYII. The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solem sound. If herd arright, It is the neli of my departed hours : Were are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the sygnal that demands dispach. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up allarm'd, and o're life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? a fathumless abys ! A dread eternity ! how shurely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pentioner on the bountys of an hour? 135 LESSON CCCLXYIII. There is not, peraps, to a mind well instructed, a more painfull occurrance, than the deth of one whome we have injured without reperation. Our crime seems now irretreivable; it is indelebly recorded, and the stamp of fate is fixed upon it. We concider, with the most aflictive angwish, the paine which we have given, and now cannot aleviate ; and the losses which we have caused, and now cannot repare. LESSON CCCLXIX. Ah ! who can tell how hard it is to clime The steepe were Fame's proud tempel shines afar ! Ah ! who can tell how many a soul sublime Has felt the* influense of malignent star, And wag'd with fortune an eternal war ! Check'd by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, And Poverty's unconkerabel barr, In life's low vaile remote, has pin'd allone, Then droppt into the grave, unpittied and un- known. LESSON CCCLXX. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a ratle, tickl'd with a straw. Some livlier plaything gives his youth delite, A little lowder, but as empty quite. Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beeds and pray'r-books are the toys of age; Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is ore. 130 LESSON CCCLXXL Foreever with the Lord ! Amen, so let it be. Life from the dead Is in that word, J Tis immortallity. Here in the boddy pent, Absent from Thee we rome, And nightly pitch our moveing tents, A days march neerer home. LESSON CCCLXXII. Toutch us gently, Time ! Let us glide adoun thy streem, Gently as we sumtimes glide Thro' a quiet dreem. We 've not proud nor soreing wings, Our ambitian, our content Lie in simpel things. Humble voiagers are we, Oer lifes dim, unbounded sea, Seaking only some calm climb ; — Toutch us gently, gentle Time. LESSON CCCLXXIII. Her suff 'ring ended with the day, Yet liv'd she at its close, And breath' d the long, long nite away, In stattue-like repose. But wen the son, in all his state, Ilium' d the eastern skys, She pass'd through glory's morning gait, And walk'd in Paradice. m LESSON CCCLXXIY. Now, in thy youth, beseach of Him, Who giveth, npbrading not, That his lite in thy heart become not dimm, And his love be unforegot ; — And thy God, in the darkest of days, will be Greanness and beuty and strenth to thee. LESSON CCCLXXY. It was good, it was keind in the wise One above, To fling destiny's vale o'er the face of our years, That we dred not the blow that shall strike at our love, And expect not the beem that shall dry up our teers. Did we know that the voises, now gentle and bland, Will forgo the fond word and the wispering tone, — Did we know that the eeger and warm-presing hand Will be joyfuly foreward in " casting the stone," O ! did we but know of the shaddows so nigh, The world would indeed be a pris'n of gloom, All light would be quench' d in youth's elloquent eye, And the pray'r-lisping infant would ask for the toom. LESSON CCOLXXVI. O, weap not for him ! 'tis unkindness to weap, The weary week frame has but fall'n asleap ; No more of fateague or endareance it knows, O weap not, O brake not the gentle repose. Weep not that so soon he is gone to be bless'd ; He gave to his God the first hours and the best ; Can the laborer cease from his labor too soon ? He rought all the morning and wrested at noon. 12* " 138 LESSON CCCLXXVII. There is a sea, by whose dim shoar, We fondly pause awile, to gaze On recks of pleasure now no more, The trases sad of bye-gone days. That sea is Memory's — its waves Roll dark and chill above the spot, Were, resting in there silent graves, Lye those who were — but now are not. LESSON CCCLXXVIII. Let the King of the Grave be ask't to tell The plant he loveth best, And it will not be the cipress tree, Tho' 't is ever the churchyard guest ; He will not mark the hemlock dark, Nor stay were the nite-shade spreds ; He will not say 't is the somber yew, Tho' it spring ore skeleton heads. But where the green, rich storks are seen, Where ripe frutes gush and shine, This, this, cries he, is the tree for me, — The Yine, the beautifull Vine ! LESSON CCCLXXIX. O Thou, Eternal One ! whose presance bright All space doth ocupy, all motion gide, — - Unchang'd thro' time's all-devastating flight, Thou only God ! their is no God beside. Being above all beings ! mighty ONE ! Whom none can comprehend and nun explore ; . Who fill'st existance with thyself alone, Embraceing all. — supporting, — ruleing o'er ; — Being whom we call God — and know no more. 139 LESSON CCCLXXX. Two hundred years ! two hundred years ! How much of human pow'r and pride, What glorious hopes, what gloomy feers, Have sunk beneth there noiseless tide ! 'Tis ail a dreem when one awakes, This vizion of the seens of old ; 'Tis like the moon when morning brakes; 'Tis like a tail round watch-fires told. Then what are we ! then what are we ! Yes, when too hundred years have roli'd O'er our green graves, our names shall be A morning dreem, a tale that 's told. LESSON CCCLXXXL If Hope be a star that would leed us astray, And "deceiveth the heart," as the aged ones preech, Yet 'twas mercy that gave it tobeakon our way, Tho' its halo ilumes where we never may reach. Tho' freindship but flitt like a metior gleem, Tho' it bursts like a morn-light buble of dew, Tho' it passes away like a lief on the streem, Yet 'tis bliss while we fancy the vizion is true. LESSON CCCLXXXII. Come, listen to his voice who dyed to save Lost man, and raze him from his moral grave ; From darkness show'd a path of light to heaven ; Cry'd "rise and walk! thy sins are all forgiv'n." Blessed are the pure in heart. Would' st thou be blest ? He'll dense thy spotted sole. Would' st thou find rest? Around thy toils and cares he '11 breath a calm, And to thy wounded spirrit lay a barm ; From fear draw love, and teech the where to seek Lost strength and granjeur, with the bow'd and meak. 140 LESSON CCCLXXXIIT. Rouze to some work of high and holy love, And thou an angel's hapiness shalit know — Shalt bless the earth wile in the world above. The good begun by thee shall onward flow In many a branching streem, and wider grow; The seed that in these few and Seating hours, Thy hands unspareing and un weary' d sow, Shall deck thy grave with amaranthin flow'rs, And yeild thee fruit divine in heaven's immortal bow'rs. LESSON CCCLXXXIY. ■ J Tis ever thus — 'tis ever thus, that when the poor heart clings With all its finest tendrills, with all its flexil rings, The goodly thing it cleeveth to, so fondly and so fast, Is struck to earth by lightening, or shatter'd by the blast. 'Tis ever thus — 't is ever thus, with cretures hevenly fair, Too finely fram'd to bide the brunt more earthly natures bare ; A little wile they dwell with us, blessed minnis- ters of love, Then spred the wings we have not seen, and seek there home above. LESSON CCCLXXXY. 'Tis midnight, — from the dark blew sky, The stars, which now look down on earth, Have scene ten thousand cent'ries fly, And give to countless changes berth. And when the piramids shall fall, And, mould' ring, mix their dust with air, The dwellers on this alter'd ball May still behold them glorious there. 141 LESSON CCCLXXXVI. So live, that, when thy sumons comes to join Th' innumerable carravan, that moves To the pail relms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourg'd to his dunjeon; but, sustain'd and sooth 'd By an unfalltering trust, approch thy grave, Like one who raps the drap'ry of his couch About him, and lyes down to plesant dreams. LESSON CCCLXXXVIL There is an unseen pow'r around, Existing in the silent air ; Where treadeth man, where space is found, Unherd, unknown, that power is their. The power that watches, gides, defends, Till man becomes a lifeless sod, Till earth is naught — naught earthly freinds, — That omnipresant power — is God. LESSON CCCLXXXYIIL Let fate do her worst, their are rellics of joy, Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot distroy, And witch come, in the night time of sorrow and care, To bring back the feetures that joy us'd to ware. Long, long be my heart with such mem'ries fill'd ! Like the vase in which roses have oft ben dis- till'd, You may brake, you may ruin the vase, if you will, But the sent of the roses will hang round it still. 142 LESSON CCCLXXXIX. Three hosts combine to offer sacrafice ; Three tongues prefer strange orrisons on high ; Three gawdy standards float the pail blue skys, The shouts are France, Spain, Albion, Victory ! The foe, the victim, and the fond ally, That fights for all, but ever fights in vane, Are met — as if at home they could not dye — To feed the crow on Talavera's plane, And fertilise the feild. that each pretends to gain. LESSON CCCXC. Last noon beheld them full of lusty life,. Last eave, m beuty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal sound of strife, — The mourn, the marshaling in alms — the day, Battle's magnificently stern array. The thunder clowds close o'er it, which, when rent, The erth is cover' d thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heap'd and pent, Rider and hoarse — freind, foe — in one red berial blent. LESSON CCOXCL But midst the croud, the humm, the shock of men, To hear, to sea, to feel and to posess, And rome along, the world's tir'd denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minnions of splendour, shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consiousness endud, If we were not, would seam to smile the less, Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought and su'd; — This is to be alone ; — this, this is sollitude ! 143 LESSON CCOXCII. And this is night : — most glorious night, Thou wert not maid for slumber ! let me be A sharer in thy feirce and fair delight,— A portion of the tempest and of thee. How the lit lake shines, a phosforic see. And the big reign comes danceing to thee earth ! And now again 'tis black; — and now the glea Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain merth, As if they did rejoyce o'er a young earthquake's berth, LESSON CCCXCIIL O seraph Hope ! that here below Can nothing deer to the last forgo ! When we see the forms, we feign would save, Ware step by step adoun to the grave, Still hope a lambent gleem will shed Over the last, the dyeing bed ; — And ev'n as now, when the soal's away, It fluters and linggers over the clay. O hope ! thy rainge was never expounded ! 5 Tis not bye the grave that thou art bounded $ LESSON CCCXCIV, How foolish mankeind are to look for perfection In any poor changling under the son ! By nature, or habbit, or want of reflexion, To vices or folly we headlessly run. The man who is moddest and keind in his nature, And open and chearful in ev'ry degree, Who feals for the avos of his own felow-creture, Tho' subject to faleings, is deer unto me, 144 LESSON CCCXCY. Sun of the sleaples ! melancholly star I Whose teerful beam glows tremulously far, That show's! the darkness thou canst not dispell, How like art thou to joy remember' d well 1 So gleems the past, the light of other days. Which shines, but warmes not, with its pow'r- less rays, A night-beam sorrow watcheth too behold, Distinct but distant— clear— but, oh how cold I LESSON CCCXCVL Lauded be thy name fore ever. Thou of life the gueard and giver f Thou canst gard thy cretures sleaping, Heel the heart long broke with weaping r And all the fury subject keep Of boiling clowd and chafed deep. I have seen and well I no it, Thou hast dun, and thou wilt do iU God of stilness and of motion, Of the rainbow and the ocean. Of the mountin, rock and rivver y Blessed be thy name fore ever. LESSON CCCXCVIL I have seen Thy wonderous mite y Thro' the shaddows of the night ; Thou who slumb'rest not, nor sleapest. Blessed are they Thou kindly keepest I Thine the flameing sphear of light, Thine the darkness of the night, Thine are all the gemms of ev'n ; God of angels ! God of Heav'n ! God of life, that fade shall never ! Glory to thy name fore ever ! W84 <£* "o H o- p*, .* ^ ♦^ '^fe- V< *il& - ^ ^fc W W: W ^ A V * .* ♦**% '»W^^^°\ *-fflR-* >^< iVi* .v^ ..* ,& V .."•• '* bv* .4* Vi , •* ". ^o **0' /\* v ■ ^O 1 « _ LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 003 155 962 5 m