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ii, p 142 ”His head was covered with a coarse worn out piece of cloth”--_Ib_, p 124 ”Though they had lately received a reinforcement of a thousand heavy armed Spartans”--_Ib_, p 38 ”But he laid them by unopened; and, with a smile, said, 'Business tois held at Moore's town, the third day following the second second day”--_The Friend_, Vol vii, p 124 ”Eggharbouris held the first second day”--_Ib_, p 124 ”Little Egg Harbour Monthly Meeting is held at Tuckerton on the second fifth day in each month”--_Ib_, p 231 ”At three o'clock, on first daythe 24th of eleventh month, 1834,” &c--_Ib_, p 64 ”In less than one-fourth part of the time usually devoted”--_Kirkham's Gram_, p 4 ”The pupil will not have occasion to use it one-tenth part as much”--_Ib_, p 11

”The painter dips his paint brush in paint, to paint the carriage”--_Ib_, p 28 ”In an ancient English version of the New-Testament”--_Ib_, p 74 ”The little boy was bare headed”--_Red Book_, p 36 ”The hted, did not iilt with gold”--_Ib_, p

44 ”The park keeper killed one of the deer”--_Ib_, p 44 ”The fox was killed near the brick kiln”--_Ib_, p 46 ”Here comes Esther, with her milk pail”--_Ib_, p 50 ”The cabinet e extended along the edge of the hill”--_Ib_, p

65 ”If their private interests should be ever so little affected”--_Ib_, p 73 ”Unios are fresh water shells, vulgarly called fresh water clams”--_Ib_, p 102

”Did not each poet mourn his luckless doom, Jostled by pedants out of elbow room”--_Lloyd_, p 163

LESSON III--MIXED

”The captive hovers a-while upon the sad remains”--PRIOR: _in Johnson's Dict, w Hover_ ”Constantia saw that the hand writing agreed with the contents of the letter”--ADDISON: _ib, w Hand_ ”They have put audy fool's cap”--ID: _ib, w Nightgown_ ”Have you no more manners than to rail at Hocus, that has saved that clod-pated, numskull'd ninnyhammer of yours from ruin, and all his family?”--ARBUTHNOT: _ib, w Ninnyhahtpence, is, and usually hath been paid”--BACON: _ib, w noble_ ”The king of birds thick feather'd and with full-sus, fastened his talons east and west”--HOWELL: _ib, w Full-sum _ht, to day_”--_Johnson's Dict_, 4to ”To-day goes away and to- children, who are try'd in Go carts, to keep their steps fro”--PRIOR: _ib, w Go-cart_

”Which, folloell, would deoers backward”--SHAK: _ ib, w Goer_ ”Heaven's golden winged herald late he saw, to a poor Galilean virgin sent”--CRASHAW: _ib, w Golden_ ”My penthouse eye-brows and ht”--DRYDEN: _ib, w Penthouse_ ”The hungry lion would fain have been dealing with good horse-flesh”-- L'ESTRANGE: _ib, w Nag_ ”A broad bri's Gift_, p 63 ”With harsh vibrations of his three stringed lute”--_Ib_, p 42 ”They nify a hundred fold an author's merit”--_Ib_, p 14 ”I'll nail them fast to some oft opened door”--_Ib_, p 10 ”Glossed over only with a saint-like show, still thou art bound to vice”--DRYDEN: in _Johnson's Dict, w Gloss_ ”Take of aqua-fortis two ounces, of quick-silver two drache_ ”This rainbow never appears but when it rains in the sun-shi+ne”--NEWTON: _ib, w Rainbow_

”Not but there are, who lad the heart with Psalms”

_British Poets_, Lond, 1800, Vol vi, p 405

CHAPTER IV--OF SPELLING

_Spelling_ is the art of expressing words by their proper letters This i-book or dictionary, and by observation in reading, than by the study of written rules; because what is proper or iraphy of our language is attended with much uncertainty and perplexity: many words are variously spelled by the best scholars, and y of siraphy of such words as are spelled with uniforraceful

The following rules may prevent some embarrassment, and thus be of service to those ish to be accurate

_RULES FOR SPELLING_

RULE I--FINAL F, L, OR S

Monosyllables ending in _f, l_, or _s_, preceded by a single vowel, double the final consonant; as _staff, loss--off, hiss, puss_

EXCEPTIONS--The words _clef, if_, and _of_, are written with single _f_; and _as, gas, has, was, yes, his, is, this, us, pus_, and _thus_, with single _s_ So _bul_, for the flounder; _nul_, for _no_, in law; _sol_, for _sou_ or _sun_; and _sal_, for _salt_, in chele _l_

OBS--Because _sal, salis_, in Latin, doubles not the _l_, the chemists write _salify, salifiable, salification, saliferous, saline, salinous, saliniforle _l_, contrary to Rule 3d But in _gas_ they ought to double the _s_; for this is a word of their own inventing Neither have they any plea for allowing it to forle; for so they ular cannot noritten _gass_, the plural should nevertheless be _gasses_, and the adjective should be _gasseous_, according to Rule 3d

RULE II--OTHER FINALS

Words ending in any other consonant than _f, l_, or _s_, do not double the final letter; as, _, sum, sun, cup, cur, cut, fix, whiz_

EXCEPTIONS--We double the consonant in _abb, ebb, add, odd, egg, jagg, ragg, inn, err, burr, purr, butt, buzz, fuzz, yarr_, and some proper names

But we have also _ab_ (_fro, in, bur_, and _but_, are other words that conform to the rule

RULE III--DOUBLING

Monosyllables, and words accented on the last syllable, when they end with a single consonant preceded by a single vowel, or by a vowel after _qu_, double their final consonant before an additional syllable that begins with a vowel: as, _rob, robbed, robber; fop, foppish, foppery; squat, squatter, squatting; thin, thinner, thinnest; swi, committed, committer, com, acquitteth_

EXCEPTIONS--1 X final, being equivalent to _ks_, is never doubled: thus, fro_, and _mixer_ 2 When the derivative retains not the accent of the root, the final consonant is not always doubled: as, _prefer', pref'erence, pref'erable; refer', ref'erence, ref'erable_, or _refer'rible; infer', in'ference, in'ferable_, or _infer'rible; transfer'_, a _trans'fer, trans'ferable_, or _transfer'rible_ 3 But letters doubled in Latin, are usually doubled in English, without regard to accent, or to any other principle: as, Britain, _Britan'nic, Britannia_; appeal, _appel'lant_; argil, _argil'laus, argilla'ceous_; cavil, _cav'illous, cavilla'tion_; excel', _ex'cellent, ex'cellence_; inflame', _inflam'mable, inflamma'tion_ See Observations 13 and 14, p 199