a skoolmaster can be a gentleman.”—­Ib., p. 362.  “Such absurd qui-pro-quoes cannot be too strenuously avoided.”—­Churchill’s Gram., p. 205.  “When we say, ’a man looks slyly;’ we signify, that he assumes a sly look.”—­Ib., p. 339. “Peep; to look through a crevice; to look narrowly, closely, or slyly.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Hence the confession has become a hacknied proverb.”—­Wayland’s Moral Science, p. 110.  “Not to mention the more ornamental parts of guilding, varnish, &c.”—­Tooke’s Diversions, Vol. i, p. 20.  “After this system of self-interest had been rivetted.”—­Brown’s Estimate, Vol. ii, p. 136.  “Prejudice might have prevented the cordial approbation of a bigotted Jew.”—­SCOTT:  on Luke, x.

   “All twinkling with the dew-drop sheen,
    The briar-rose fell in streamers green.”—­Lady of the Lake, p. 16.

LESSON III.—­MIXED.

“The infinitive mode has commonly the sign to before it.”—­Harrison’s Gram., p. 25.  “Thus, it is adviseable to write singeing, from the verb to singe, by way of distinction from singing, the participle of the verb to sing.”—­Ib., p. 27.  “Many verbs form both the preterite tense and the preterite participle irregularly.”—­Ib., p. 28.  “Much must be left to every one’s taste and judgment.”—­Ib., p. 67.  “Verses of different lengths intermixed form a Pindarick poem.”—­Priestley’s Gram., p. 44.  “He’ll surprize you.”—­Frost’s El. of Gram., p. 88.  “Unequalled archer! why was this concealed?”—­KNOWLES:  ib., p. 102.  “So gaily curl the waves before each dashing prow.”—­BYRON:  ib., p. 104.  “When is a dipthong called a proper dipthong?”—­Infant School Gram., p. 11.  “How many ss would goodness then end with?  Three.”—­Ib., p. 33. “Q. What is a tripthong? A. A tripthong is the union of three vowels, pronounced in like manner.”—­Bacon’s Gram., p. 7.  “The verb, noun, or pronoun, is referred to the preceding terms taken seperately.”—­Ib., p. 47.  “The cubic foot of matter which occupies the center of the globe.”—­Cardell’s Gram., 18mo, p. 47.  “The wine imbibes oxigen, or the acidifying principle, from the air.”—­Ib., p. 62.  “Charcoal, sulphur, and niter, make gun powder.”—­Ib., p. 90.  “It would be readily understood, that the thing so labeled, was a bottle of Madeira wine.”—­Ib., p. 99.  “They went their ways, one to his farm, an other to his merchandize.”—­Ib., p. 130.  “A dipthong is the union of two vowels, sounded by a single impulse of the voice.”—­Russell’s Gram., p. 7.  “The professors of the Mahommedan religion are called Mussulmans.”—­Maltby’s Gram., p. 73.  “This shews that let is not a sign of the imperative mood, but a real verb.”—­Ib., p. 51.  “Those preterites and participles,