your.—­were faithless.—­After I had visited.—­nor shall I, consent.—­Yesterday I intended to walk out, but was.—­make or are thirteen,—­leave three.—­If he go,—­make the eighth time that he will have visited.—­is nobler.—­was possessed, or that ever can be.—­one great edifice,—­smaller ones.—­honesty is.—­it to be.—­will follow me,—­I shall dwell.—­is gone astray.—­he could, not have done.—­feeling a propensity.

PUNCTUATION.

COMMA.

Corrections of the Exercises in Punctuation.

RULE 1.  Idleness is the great fomenter of all corruptions in the human heart.  The friend of order has made half his way to virtue.  All finery is a sign of littleness.

RULE 2.  The indulgence of a harsh disposition, is the introduction to future misery.  To be totally indifferent to praise or censure, is a real defect in character.  The intermixture of evil in human society, serves to exercise the suffering graces and virtues of the good.

RULE 3.  Charity, like the sun, brightens all its objects.  Gentleness is, in truth, the great avenue to mutual enjoyment.  You, too, have your failings.  Humility and knowledge, with poor apparel, excel pride and ignorance, under costly attire.  The best men often experience disappointments.  Advice should be seasonably administered.  No assumed behavior can always hide the real character.

RULE 4.  Lord, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.  Continue, my dear child, to make virtue thy chief study.  Canst thou expect, thou betrayer of innocence, to escape the hand of vengeance?  Death, the king of terrors, chose a prime minister.  Hope, the balm of life, sooths us under every misfortune.  Confucius, the great Chinese philosopher, was eminently good, as well as wise.  The patriarch Joseph is an illustrious example of true piety.

RULE 5.  Peace of mind being secured, we may smile at misfortune.  To enjoy present pleasure, he sacrificed his future ease and reputation.  His talents, formed for great enterprises, could not fail of rendering him conspicuous.  The path of piety and virtue, pursued with a firm and constant spirit, will assuredly lead to happiness.  All mankind compose one family, assembled under the eye of one common Father.

KEY TO THE EXERCISES.

RULE 6.  We have no reason to complain of the lot of man, nor of the mutability of the world.  Sensuality contaminates the body, depresses the understanding, deadens the moral feelings of the heart, and degrades man from his rank in creation.