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See the Key, Part 2. Chap. 1. Rule 8.

The study of the English language is making daily ad

vancment.

A judicious arrangment of studies facilitates improvment.

To shun allurments is not hard,

To minds resolv'd, forewarn'd, and well prepar'd,

RULE IX.

Able and ible when incorporated into words ending with silent e, almost always cut it off: as, blame, blamable; cure, curable; sense, sensible, &c. but if c or g soft comes before e in the original word, the e is then preserved in words compounded with able: as, change, changeable ; peace, peaceable, &c.

See the Key, Part 2. Chap. 1. Rule 9.

Every person and thing connected with self, is apt to appear good and desireable in our eyes.

Errors and misconduct are more excuseable in ignorant, than in well-instructed persons.

The divine laws are not reverseible by those of men.

Gratitude is a forceible and active principle in good and generous minds.

Our natural and involuntary defects of body, are not chargable upon us.

We are made to be servicable to others, as well as to ourselves.

RULE X.

When ing or ish is added to words ending with silent e, the e is almost universally omitted: as, place, placing; lodge, lodging; slave, slavish; prude, prudish.

See the Key, Part 2. Chap. 1. Rule 10.

An obliging and humble disposition, is totally unconnected with a servile and cringeing humour.

By solaceing the sorrows of others, the heart is improved, at the same time that our duty is performed.

Labour and expense are lost upon a droneish spirit.

The inadvertences of youth may be excused, but knaveish tricks should meet with severe reproof,

RULE XI.

Compounded words are generally spelled in the same manner, as the simple words of which they are formed: as glasshouse, skylight, thereby, hereafter. Many words ending with double 1, are exceptions to this rule: as, already, welfare, wilful, fulfil : and also the words, wherever, Christmas, lammas, &c.

See the Key, Part 2. Chap. 1. Rule 11.

The pasover was a celebrated feast among the Jews. A virtuous woman looketh well to the ways of her houshold. These people salute one another, by touching the top of their forheads.

That whichis sometimes expedient, is not allways so.

We may be hurtfull to others, by our example, as well as by personal injuries.

In candid minds, truth finds an entrance, and a wellcome too.

Our passtimes should be innocent; and they should not occur too frequently.

CHAPTER II.

CONTAINING INSTANCES OF FALSE ORTHOGRAPHY, PROMISCU. OUSLY DISPOSED.

See the Key, Part 2. Chap. 2. Rule 1.

As the learners must be supposed to be tolerably versed in the spelling of words in very familiar use, the Compiler has generally selected, for the following exercises, such words as are less obviously erroneous, and in the use of which young persons are more likely to commit mistakes. Though the instances which he gives of these deviations are not very numerous, yet, it is presumed, they are exhibited with sufficient variety, to show the necesity of care and attention in combining letters and syllables; and to excite the ingenious student to investigate the principles and rules of our Orthography, as well as to distinguish the exceptions and variations which every where attend them.

In rectifying these exercises, the Compiler has been govern ed by doctor Johnson's Dictionary, as the standard of propri

ety. This work is, indisputably, the best authority for the Orthography of the English language; though the author, in some instances, has made decisions, which are not generally approved, and for which it is not easy to account.

SECTION I.

See the Key, part 2. Chap. 2. Section 1.

NEGLECT no oppurtunity of doing good.
No man can stedily build upon accidents.

How shall we keep, what sleeping or awake,
A weaker may surprize, a stronger take?

Neither time nor misfortunes should eraze the rememberance of a friend.

Moderation should preside, both in the kitchin and the parlor. Shall we receive good at the Divine hand, and shall we not receive evil?

In many designs, we may succede and be miserable.

We should have sence and virtue enough to receed from our demands, when they appear to be unresonable.

All our comforts procede from the Father of Goodness. The ruin of a state is generally preceeded by a universal degenaracy of manners, and a contempt of religion.

His father omited nothing in his education, that might render him virtuous and usefull.

The daw in the fable was dressed in pilferred ornaments. A favor confered with delicacy, doubles the obligation. They tempted their Creator, and limitted the Holy One of Izrael.

The precepts of a good education have often recured in the time of need.

We are frequently benefitted by what we have dreaded. It is no great virtue to live loveingly with good natured and meek persons.

The Christian religion gives a more lovly character of God, than any religion ever did.

Without sinisterous views, they are dexterous managers of their own interest.

Any thing commited to the trust and care of another, is a deposit.

Here finnish'd he, and all that he had made,
Vieu'd and beheld! All was intirely good.

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It deserves our best skil to enquire into those rules, by which we may guide our judgement.

Food, clotheing, and habitations, are the rewards of industry.

If we lie no restraint upon our lusts, no controul upon our appetites and passions, they will hurry us into guilt and misery. An independant is one who, in religious affairs, holds that every congregation is a complete Church.

Receive his council, and securely move :
Entrust thy fortune to the Power above.

Following life in cretures we disect,

We lose it in the moment we detect.

The acknowledgement of our transgressions must precede the forgivness of them.

Judicious abridgements often aid the studys of youth.

Examine how thy humor is enclin'd,
And which the ruleing passion of thy mind.

He faulters at the question:

His fears, his words, his looks, declare him guilty.

Calicoe is a thin cloth made of cotton; sometimes stained with lively colors.

To promote iniquity in others, is nearly the same as being the acters of it ourselvs.

The glasier's business was unknown to the antients.

The antecedant, in grammer, is the noun or pronoun to which the relative refers.

SECTION 2.

See the Key, Part 2. Chap. 2. Section 2.

Be not affraid of the wicked: they are under the controul of Providence. Consciousness of guilt may justly afright us. Convey to others no inteligence which you would be ashamed to avow.

Many are weighed in the ballance, and found wanting. How many disapointments have, in their consequences, saved a man from ruin!

A well-poised mind makes a chearful countenance.

A certain housholder planted a vinyard, but the men imployed in it made ungratefull returns.

Let us show dilligence in every laudible undertaking. Cinamon is the fragrant bark of a low tree in the iland of Ceylon.

A ram will but with his head, though he be brought up tame, and never saw the action.

We percieve a piece of silver in a bason, when water is poured on it, though we could not discover it before. Virtue imbalms the memory of the good.

The king of Great Brittain is a limitted monarch; and the Brittish nation a free people.

The physician may dispence the medicin, but Providence alone can bless it.

In many persuits, we imbark with pleasure, and land sorrowfully.

Rocks, mountains, and caverns, are of indispensible use, both to the earth and to man.

The hive of a city, or kingdom, is in the best condition, when their is the least noize or buz in it.

The roughnesses found on our enterance into the paths of virtue and learning, grow smoother as we advance.

That which was once the most beautifull spot of Italy, coverred with pallaces, imbellished by princes, and cellebrated by poets, has now nothing to show but ruins.

Baterring rams were antiently used to beat down the walls of a city.

Jocky signifies a man who rides horses in a race; or who deals in horses.

The harmlesness of many animals, and the injoyment which they have of life, should plead for them against cruel useage.

We may be very buzy to no usefull purpose.

We cannot plead in abatment of our guilt, that we are ignorent of our duty.

Genuine charaty, how liberal soever it may be, will never impoverish ourselves. If we sew spareingly, we shall reap acordingly.

However disagreable, we must resolutly perform our duty. A fit of sickness is often a kind chastisment and disciplin, to moderate our affection for the things of this life.

It is a happyness to young persons, when they are preserved from the snares of the world, as in a garden inclosed.

Health and peace, the most valueable posessions, are obtained at small expence.

Incence signifies perfumes exhailed by fire, and made use of in religious ceremonies,

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