EXERCISE IV.—­SPELLING.

“His antichamber, and room of audience, are little square chambers wainscoted.”—­ADDISON:  Johnson’s Dict., w.  Antechamber.  “Nobody will deem the quicksighted amongst them to have very enlarged views of ethicks.”—­LOCKE:  Ib., w.  Quicksighted.  “At the rate of this thick-skulled blunderhead, every plow-jobber shall take upon him to read upon divinity.”—­L’ESTRANGE:  Ib., m.  Blunderhead.  “On the topmast, the yards, and boltsprit would I flame distinctly.”—­SHAK.:  Ib., w.  Bowsprit.  “This is the tune of our catch plaid by the picture of nobody.”—­ID.:  Ib., w.  Nobody.  “Thy fall hath left a kind of blot to mark the fulfraught man.”—­ID.:  Ib., w.  Fulfraught.  “Till blinded by some Jack o’Lanthorn sprite.”—­Snelling’s Gift, p. 62.  “The beauties you would have me eulogise.”—­Ib., p. 14.  “They rail at me—­I gaily laugh at them.”—­Ib., p. 13.  “Which the king and his sister had intrusted to him withall.”—­Josephus, Vol. v, p. 143.  “The terms of these emotions are by no means synonimous.”—­Rush, on the Voice, p. 336.  “Lillied, adj. Embellished with lilies.”—­Chalmers’s Dict. “They seize the compendious blessing without exertion and without reflexion.”—­Philological Museum, Vol. i, p. 428.  “The first cry that rouses them from their torpour, is the cry that demands their blood.”—­Ib., p. 433.  “It meets the wants of elementary schools and deserves to be patronised.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 5.  “Whose attempts were paralysed by the hallowed sound.”—­Music of Nature, p. 270.  “It would be an amusing investigation to analyse their language.”—­Ib., p. 200.  “It is my father’s will that I should take on me the hostess-ship of the day.”—­SHAK.:  in Johnson’s Dict. “To retain the full apprehension of them undiminisht.”—­Phil.  Museum., Vol. i, p. 458.  “The ayes and noes were taken in the House of Commons.”—­Anti-Slavery Mag., Vol. i, p. 11.  “Derivative words are formed by adding letters or syllables to primatives.”—­Davenport’s Gram., p. 7.  “The minister never was thus harrassed himself.”—­Nelson, on Infidelity, p. 6.  “The most vehement politician thinks himself unbiassed in his judgment.”—­Ib., p. 17.  “Mistress-ship, n. Female rule or dominion.”—­Webster’s Dict.

   “Thus forced to kneel, thus groveling to embrace,
    The scourge and ruin of my realm and race.” 
        —­POPE:  Ash’s Gram., p. 83.

EXERCISE V.—­MIXED ERRORS.