“To epithets allots emphatic state,
    While principals, ungrac’d, like lackeys wait.”
        —­T.  O. Churchill’s Gram., p. 326.

LESSON II.—­MIXED EXAMPLES.

“Hence less is a privative suffix, denoting destitution; as in fatherless, faithless, penniless.”—­Webster cor. “Bay; red, or reddish, inclining to a chestnut colour.”—­Id. “To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimicks.”—­Id. “Counterroll, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; Counterrollment, a counter account.”—­Id. “Millennium, [from mille and annus,] the thousand years during which Satan shall be bound.”—­See Johnson’s Dict. “Millennial, [like septennial, decennial, &c.,] pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years.”—­See Worcester’s Dict. “Thralldom; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers; Sweetbrier, a fragrant shrub.”—­See Ainsworth’s Dict., Scott’s, Gobb’s, and others. “Will, in the second and third persons, barely foretells.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor. “And therefore there is no word false, but what is distinguished by Italics.”—­Id. “What should be repeated, is left to their discretion.”—­Id. “Because they are abstracted or separated from material substances.”—­Id. “All motion is in time, and therefore, wherever it exists, implies time as its concomitant.”—­ Harris’s Hermes, p. 95.  “And illiterate grown persons are guilty of blamable spelling.”—­Brit.  Gram. cor. “They will always be ignorant, and of rough, uncivil manners.”—­Webster cor. “This fact will hardly be believed in the northern states.”—­Id. “The province, however, was harassed with disputes.”—­Id. “So little concern has the legislature for the interest of learning.”—­Id. “The gentlemen will not admit that a schoolmaster can be a gentleman.”—­Id. “Such absurd quid-pro-quoes cannot be too strenuously avoided.”—­Churchill cor. “When we say of a man, ‘He looks slily;’ we signify, that he takes a sly glance or peep at something.”—­Id. “Peep; to look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely, or slily”—­Webster cor. “Hence the confession has become a hackneyed proverb.”—­Wayland cor. “Not to mention the more ornamental parts of gilding, varnish, &c.”—­Tooke cor. “After this system of self-interest had been riveted.”—­Dr. Brown cor. “Prejudice might have prevented the cordial approbation of a bigoted Jew.”—­Dr. Scott cor.

   “All twinkling with the dewdrop sheen,
    The brier-rose fell in streamers green.”—­Sir W. Scott cor.