Scotland is called North Britain, and therefore a Scotsman is a North Briton. He is a seller of old clothes, and he lives in a cellar. His choler was so vehement that he seized him by the collar in the presence of the by-standers. A member of the council suggested that they should take the opinion of counsel. The dyer said that this was dire news to him, for that he could no longer live by dyeing. By referring to the register, I find that he too was fined on two occasions. His guest guessed it without difficulty. The hire of servants is higher in this country. He made a hole, and put the whole of his money in it. His time was wholly spent in holy contemplation. It is a legal lien that I have on his estate, not an African lion. He asserted that no lord of the manor ever acted in this manner before. This horse, though made of metal, cannot be said to be a horse of mettle. A miner whom we met near the works, told us that the proprietor of the mines was a minor. The mist was so thick that I almost missed my way. I saw a naughty boy beating a poor ass with a rough knotty stick. The cobbler having soled the shoes, sold them to à pedlar for a trifle. He told the sexton, and the sexton tolled the bell. As I am not to be stationary here, I will not encumber myself with a large supply of stationery. The principal portion of the meeting approved of. the principle. If an ode could have paid the debt which he owed, the poor poet would have been happy. The ship rode at anchor, and the boats from the shore rowed round her. The sailor said that his ship was an excellent sailer. The president would not acquiesce in the arrangement, lest it might be made a precedent on some future occasion. EXERCISES ON WORDS. to [To vary the exercise the teacher should occasionally spell and pronounce one of the words himself, and then require the pupils give its meaning; and also, the spelling, meaning, and exact pronunciation of any other word likely to be confounded with it.] Able, abel; aloud, allowed; altar, alter; auger, augur; bald, bawled; Barbary, barberry; board, bored; bold, bowled; braid, brayed; brood, brewed; bridal, bridle; Britain, Briton. Calendar, calender; carat, caret; castor, caster; cellar, seller; censer, censor; choler, collar; counsel, council; counsellor, councillor; culler, colour. Depositary, depository; deviser, devisor; dire, dyer; find, fined; flour, flower; fur, fir; gored, gourd; guest, guessed. Hire, higher; hole, whole; holy, wholly; lair, layer; lessen, lesson; liar, lyre; lion, lien; load, lowed; lore, lower. Manner, manor; mare, mayor; medlar, meddler; metal, mettle; miner, minor; mist, missed; more, mower; naughty, knotty. Ode, owed; otter, ottar; pact, packed; Peter, petre; pilot, Pilate; plaintiff, plaintive; president, precedent; principal, principle; profit, prophet. Rabbit, rabbet; rapt, wrapped; roar, rower; rode, rowed; sailer, sailor; soared, sword; sold, soled; sower, sewer; staid, stayed; stationary, stationery; sucker, succour; symbol, cymbal. Tact, tacked; tide, tied; told, tolled; tract, tracked; Venus, venous; vial, viol; wade, weighed; ware, where; weel, wheel; weigh, whey; wet, whet; wicket, wicked; wig, whig. CLASS THIRD. WORDS FREQUENTLY CONFOUNDED BY INCORRECT SPEAKERS, THOUGH DIFFERING IN PRONUNCIATION, SPELLING, AND MEANING. [More words of this class will be found at pages 119 and 120 under the head of" Vulgar Pronunciations."] Accept, to take, to receive. Access, approach, admittance. Accede, to comply with. Adherence, attachment to. Addition something added. Affect, to act upon, to aim at. Effect, to bring to pass, to accomplish. Alley, a walk or passage. Allusion, reference to. Illusion, false show, mockery. Apposite, fit, appropriate. Assistance, help, relief. Attendance, the act of waiting Ballad, a simple song. Ballot, a little ball. Baron, a lord. Barren, sterile, not prolific. Cease, to stop, to leave off. Seize, to lay hold of. Currant, a small berry. Decease, death. Decree, to ordain; an edict. Defer, to put off, to postpone. Deference, respect, submission. Difference, disagreement. Dissent, difference of opinion. Divers, several. Elicit, to draw out of. Elude, to escape from. Emerge, to rise out of. Emigrant, one who migrates Eminent, distinguished. Errand, a message. Eruption, a breaking out. Fibres, threads, filaments. Fisher, one who fishes. Gamble, to practise gaming. Gristly, consisting of gristle. Impostor, one who imposes upon the public, a cheat. Imposture, imposition, fraud. Ingenious, having ingenuity. Least, smallest. Lineament, a feature. Liniment, an ointment. Lose, to suffer loss, not to win. Loose, untied, slack. Missal, the mass book. Missile, a weapon thrown by the hand. Monetary, relating to money. Oracle, one famed for wisdom. Ordinance, a decree. Pastor, a shepherd, a clergyman in charge of a flock. Pasture, grazing ground; grass. Patience, the being patient. Presence, the being present. Preposition, a part of speech. Prophecy, a prediction. Radish, an esculent root. Racer, a race-horse. Razor, for shaving with. Ruse, a trick, a stratagem. Rues, does rue. Rot, to decay, to putrefy. Wrought, worked. SENTENCES FOR DICTATION. All your presents I accept, except the last. At this access to his fortune, his joy was in excess. Though your terms exceed my expectations, I will accede to them. His adherence to these extreme views, cost him many of his adherents. New editions, with additions, are in preparation. Till he effected his purpose, he affected to be ignorant of the whole matter. Assistants were assigned to me, but they rendered me no assistance. I had to dance attendance upon him, as if I had been one of his paid attendants. Baron Humboldt describes the whole region as a barren waste. The decree applied to persons of every degree. With all due deference to you, I think there is a great difference. EXERCISES ON WORDS. [The difference between the pronunciation, spelling, and meaning of each pair to be given by the pupils.] Abolition, ebullition; acts, axe; accidence, accidents; alley, ally; breath, breadth; captor, capture; censer, censure; chance, chants; citron, citrine; coat, quote; coffin, coughing; confidant, confident; corporal, corporeal; critic, critique; celery, salary; cease, seize. |