best known works, however, [John Almon’s] are, ’Anecdotes of the Life of the Earl of Chatham,’ 2 vols. 4to, 3 vols. 8vo; and ’Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes of several of the Most Eminent Persons of the Present Age; never before printed,’ 3 vols. 8vo, 1797.”—­Biog.  Dict. cor. “O gentle Sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee?”—­SHAK.:  Kames, El. of Crit., Vol. ii, p. 175.  “And peace, O Virtue! peace is all thy own.”—­Pope et al. cor.

LESSON III.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Fenelon united the characters of a nobleman and a Christian pastor.  His book entitled, ’An Explication of the Maxims of the Saints, concerning the Interior Life,’ gave considerable offence to the guardians of orthodoxy.”—­Murray cor. “When Natural Religion, who before was only a spectator, is introduced as speaking by the Centurion’s voice.”—­Murray’s Gram., Vol. i, p. 347.  “You cannot deny, that the great Mover and Author of nature constantly explaineth himself to the eyes of men, by the sensible intervention of arbitrary signs, which have no similitude to, or connexion with, the things signified.”—­Berkley cor. “The name of this letter is Double-u, its form, that of a double V.”—­Dr. Wilson cor. “Murray, in his Spelling-Book, wrote Charlestown with a hyphen and two capitals.”—­G.  Brown. “He also wrote European without a capital.”—­Id. “They profess themselves to be Pharisees, who are to be heard and not imitated.”—­Calvin cor. “Dr. Webster wrote both Newhaven and New York with single capitals.”—­G.  Brown. “Gay Head, the west point of Martha’s Vineyard.”—­Williams cor. “Write Crab Orchard, Egg Harbour, Long Island, Perth Amboy, West Hampton, Little Compton, New Paltz, Crown Point, Fell’s Point, Sandy Hook, Port Penn, Port Royal, Porto Bello, and Porto Rico.’”—­G.  Brown. “Write the names of the months:  January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.”—­Id. “Write the following names and words properly:  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Saturn;—­Christ, Christian, Christmas, Christendom, Michaelmas, Indian, Bacchanals;—­East Hampton, Omega, Johannes, Aonian, Levitical, Deuteronomy, European.”—­Id.

   “Eight letters in some syllables we find,
    And no more syllables in words are join’d.”—­Brightland cor.

CHAPTER II.—­OF SYLLABLES.

CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SYLLABICATION.

LESSON I.—­CONSONANTS.

1.  Correction of Murray, in words of two syllables:  civ-il, col-our, cop-y, dam-ask, doz-en, ev-er, feath-er, gath-er, heav-en, heav-y, hon-ey, lem-on, lin-en, mead-ow, mon-ey, nev-er, ol-ive, or-ange, oth-er, pheas-ant, pleas-ant, pun-ish, rath-er, read-y, riv-er, rob-in, schol-ar, shov-el, stom-ach, tim-id, whith-er.