RULE V.—­FINAL CK.

“He hopes, therefore, to be pardoned by the critic.”—­Kirkham corrected.  “The leading object of every public speaker should be, to persuade.”—­Id. “May not four feet be as poetic as five; or fifteen feet as poetic as fifty?”—­Id. “Avoid all theatrical trick and mimicry, and especially all scholastic stiffness.”—­Id. “No one thinks of becoming skilled in dancing, or in music, or in mathematics, or in logic, without long and close application to the subject.”—­Id. “Caspar’s sense of feeling, and susceptibility of metallic and magnetic excitement, were also very extraordinary.”—­Id. “Authorship has become a mania, or, perhaps I should say, an epidemic.”—­Id. “What can prevent this republic from soon raising a literary standard?”—­Id. “Courteous reader, you may think me garrulous upon topics quite foreign to the subject before me.”—­Id. “Of the Tonic, Subtonic, and Atonic elements.”—­Id. “The subtonic elements are inferior to the tonics, in all the emphatic and elegant purposes of speech.”—­Id. “The nine atonics and the three abrupt subtonics cause an interruption to the continuity of the syllabic impulse.” [526]—­Id. “On scientific principles, conjunctions and prepositions are [not] one [and the same] part of speech.”—­Id. “That some inferior animals should be able to mimick human articulation, will not seem wonderful.”—­L.  Murray cor.

   “When young, you led a life monastic,
    And wore a vest ecclesiastic;
    Now, in your age, you grow fantastic.”—­Denham’s Poems, p. 235.

RULE VI.—­RETAINING.

“Fearlessness; exemption from fear, intrepidity.”—­Johnson cor. “Dreadlessness; fearlessness, intrepidity, undauntedness.”—­Id. “Regardlessly, without heed; Regardlessness, heedlessness.”—­Id. “Blamelessly, innocently; Blamelessness, innocence.”—­Id. “That is better than to be flattered into pride and carelessness.”—­Id. “Good fortunes began to breed a proud recklessness in them.”—­Id. “See whether he lazily and listlessly dreams away his time.”—­Id. “It maybe, the palate of the soul is indisposed by listlessness or sorrow.”—­Id. “Pitilessly, without mercy; Pitilessness, unmercifulness.”—­Id. “What say you to such as these? abominable, accordable, agreeable, etc.”—­ Tooke cor. “Artlessly; naturally, sincerely, without craft.”—­Johnson cor. “A chillness, or shivering of the body, generally precedes a fever.”—­See