Nettles grow in the vinyard of the slothfull.
Tuition is lost on idlers and numbsculs.

EXERCISE VII.-SPELLING.

1. He that scofs at the crooked, should beware of stooping. Pictures that resemble flowers, smel only of paint. Misdemeanours are the pioneers of gros vices.

2. To remitt a wrong, leaves the offender in debt. Superlative commendation is near akinn to detraction. Piety admitts not of excessive sorrow.

3. You are safe in forgeting benefits you have confered.
He has run well who has outstriped his own errors.
See that you have ballast proportionate to your riging.
4. The biasses of prejudice often preclude convincement.
Rather follow the wise than lead the foollish.

To reason with the angry, is like whisperring to the deaf.
A bigotted judge needs no time for deliberation.
The gods of this world have many worshippers.

5. Crosness has more subjects than admirers.
Fearlesness conquers where Blamelesness is armour-bearer.
6. Many things are chiefly valued for their rareity.
Vicious old age is hopeless and deploreable.
Irreconcileable animosity is always blameable.
7. Treachery lurks beneath a guilful tongue.
Disobedience and mischief deserve chastisment.
By self-examination, we discover the lodgments of sin.
The passions often mislead the judgment.

8. To be happy without holyness is impossible. And, all within, were walks and allies wide. Call imperfection what thou fancy'st such.

Without fire chimnies are useless.

9. The true philanthropist deserves a universal pasport. Ridicule is generally but the froth of il-nature.

All mispent time will one day be regretted.

EXERCISE VIII.-SPELLING.

Fiction may soften, without improveing the heart.
Affectation is a sprout that should be niped in the bud.
A covettous person is always in want.

Fashion is compareable to an ignis-fatuus.
Fair appearances somtimes cover foul purposes.
Garnish not your commendations with flatterry.
Never utter a falshood even for truth's sake.

Medicines should be administerred with caution.
We have here no continueing city, no abideing rest.
Many a trapp is laid to ensnare the feet of youth.
We are caught as sillyly as the bird in the net.
By defering repentance, we accumulate sorrows.
To preach to the droneish, is to waste your words.
We are often benefitted by what we have dreaded.
We may be succesful, and yet disappointed.
In rebusses, pictures are used to represent words.
He is in great danger who parlies with conscience.
Your men of forhead are magnificent in promises.
A true friend is a most valueable acquisition.
It is not a bad memory that forgets injuryes.
Weigh your subject wel, before you speak positivly.
Difficulties are often increased by mismanagment.
Diseases are more easyly prevented than cured.
Contrivers of mischief often entrapp themselves.
Corrupt speech indicates a distemperred mind.
Asseveration does not allways remove doubt.
Hypocrites are like wolves in sheeps' clotheing.
Ostentatious liberallity is its own paymaster.

EXERCISE IX.-SPELLING.

A downhil road may be travelled with ease.
Distempered fancy can swel a molehil to a mountain.
Let your own unbiassed judgment determine.
A knave can often undersel his honest neighbours.
Xenophanes prefered reputation to wealth.
True politeness is the ofspring of benevolence.
Levellers are generally the dupes of designning men.
Rewards are for those who have fullfiled their duty.
Who trusts a hungry boy in a cubburd of dainties?
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellers.
The liberal man ties his purse with a beau-not.
Double-deelers are seldom long in favour.
The characters of the crosrow have wrought wonders.
The plagiary is a jacdaw decked with stolen plumes.
All virtues are in agrement; all vices, at varyance.
Personnal liberty is every man's natural birthrite.
There, wrapt in clouds, the blueish hills ascend.
The birds frame to thy song, their chearfull cherupping
There figgs, skydyed, a purple hue disclose.
Lysander goes twice a day to the choccolat-house.
Years following years, steal sumthing every day.

The soul of the slothfull, does but drowse in his body.
What think you of a clergiman in a soldier's dres?
Justice is here holding the stilliards for a balance.
The huming-bird is somtimes no biger than a bumble-be.
The muskittoes will make you as spoted as a samon-trout.
Cruelty to animals is a malicious and lo-lived vice.
Absolute Necessity must sign their deth-warrant.
He who catches flies, emulates the nat-snaper.
The froggs had long lived unmolested in a horspond.
'These are villanous creatures,' says a blokheded boy.
The robbin-read-breast til of late had rest;

And children sacred held a martin's nest.

PART II.

ETYMOLOGY.

Etymology treats of the different parts of speech, with their classes and modifications,

CHAPTER I.-THE PARTS OF SPEECH.

The Parts of Speech, or sorts of words, in English, are ten; namely, the Article, the Noun, the Adjective, the Pronoun, the Verb, the Participle, the Adverb, the Conjunction, the Preposition, and the Interjection.

1. THE ARTICLE.

An Article is the word the, an, or a, which we put before nouns to limit their signification: as, The air, the stars; an island, a ship.

2. THE NOUN,

A Noun is the name of any person, place, or thing, that can be known or mentioned: as, George, York, man, apple, truth.

3. THE ADJECTIVE.

An Adjective is a word added to a noun or pronoun, and generally expresses quality: as, A wise man; a new book. You two are diligent.

4. THE PRONOUN.

A Pronoun is a word used in stead of a noun: as, The boy loves his book; he has long lessons, and he learns them well.

5. THE VERB.

A Verb is a word that signifies to be, to act, or to be acted upon as, I am, I rule, I am ruled; I love, thou lovest, he loves.

6. THE PARTICIPLE.

A Participle is a word derived from a verb, participating the properties of a verb, and of an adjective or a noun; and is generally formed by adding ing, d, or ed, to the verb: thus, from the verb rule, are formed three participles, two simple and one compound; as, 1. ruling,

2. ruled, 3. having ruled. one compound; as, 1. ruling,

7. THE ADVERB.

An Adverb is a word added to a verb, a participle, an adjective, or an other adverb; and generally expresses time, place, degree, or manner: as, They are now here, studying very diligently.

8. THE CONJUNCTION.

A Conjunction is a word used to connect words or sentences in construction, and to show the dependence of the terms so connected: as, "Thou and he are happy, because you are good."-L. Murray.

9. THE PREPOSITION.

A Preposition is a word used to express some relation of different things or thoughts to each other, and is generally placed before a noun or a pronoun: as, The paper lies before me on the desk.

10. THE INTERJECTION.

An Interjection is a word that is uttered merely to indicate some strong or sudden emotion of the mind: as, Oh! alas! ah! poh! pshaw! avaunt!

PARSING.

Parsing is the resolving or explaining of a sentence, or of some related word or words, according to the definitions and rules of grammar.

A sentence is an assemblage of words, making complete sense; as, "Reward sweetens labor." The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."