this.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 140.  “This phillipic gave rise to my satirical reply in self-defence.”—­ Merchant’s Criticisms.  “We here saw no inuendoes, no new sophistry, no falsehoods.”—­Ib. “A witty and humourous vein has often produced enemies.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 173.  “Cry holla! to thy tongue, I pr’ythee:  it curvetts unseasonably.”—­Shak. “I said, in my slyest manner, ’Your health, sir.’”—­Blackwood’s Mag., Vol. xl, p. 679.  “And attornies also travel the circuit in pursute of business.”—­Red Book, p. 83.  “Some whole counties in Virginia would hardly sel for the valu of the dets du from the inhabitants.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 301.  “They were called the court of assistants, and exercized all powers legislativ and judicial.”—­Ib., p. 340.  “Arithmetic is excellent for the guaging of liquors.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, p. 288.  “Most of the inflections may be analysed in a way somewhat similar.”—­Ib., p. 112.

   “To epithets allots emphatic state,
    Whilst principals, ungrac’d, like lacquies wait.”
        —­C.  Churchill’s Ros., p. 8.

LESSON II.—­MIXED.

“Hence it [less] is a privative word, denoting destitution; as, fatherless, faithless, pennyless.”—­Webster’s Dict., w.  Less. “Bay; red, or reddish, inclining to a chesnut color.”—­Same. “To mimick, to imitate or ape for sport; a mimic, one who imitates or mimics.”—­Ib. “Counterroil, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; Counterrolment, a counter account.”—­Ib. “Millenium, the thousand years during which Satan shall be bound.”—­Ib. “Millenial, pertaining to the millenium, or to a thousand years.”—­Ib. “Thraldom; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude.”—­See Johnson’s Dict. “Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers; Sweetbriar, a fragrant shrub.”—­See Johnson, Walker, Chalmers, Webster, and others. “Will, in the second and third Persons, barely foretels.”—­British Gram., p. 132.  “And therefor there is no Word false, but what is distinguished by Italics.”—­Ib., Pref., p. v.  “What should be repeted is left to their Discretion.”—­Ib., p. iv.  “Because they are abstracted or seperated from material Substances.”—­Ib., p. ix.  “All Motion is in Time, and therefor, where-ever it exists, implies Time as its Concommitant.”—­Ib., p. 140.  “And illiterate grown persons are guilty of blameable spelling.”—­Ib., Pref., p. xiv.  “They wil always be ignorant, and of ruf uncivil manners.”—­Webster’s Essays, p. 346.  “This fact wil hardly be beleeved in the northern states.”—­Ib., p. 367.  “The province however waz harrassed with disputes.”—­Ib., p. 352.  “So little concern haz the legislature for the interest of lerning.”—­Ib., p. 349.  “The gentlemen wil not admit that