RULE IX. Able and ible, when incorporated into words ending with silent e, almost always cut it off: as, blame, blamable; cure, curable; sense, sensible, &c. but if c or g soft comes before e in the original word, the e is then preserved in words compounded with able: as, change, changeable, peace, peaceable, c. Every person and thing connected with self, is apt to appear good and desireable in our eyes. Errors and misconduct are more excuseable in ignorant, than in well-instructed persons. The divine laws are not reverseible by those of men. Gratitude is a forceible and active principle in good and generous minds. Our natural and involuntary defects of body, are not chargable upon us, We are made to be servicable to others, as well as to ourselves. RULE X. When ing or ish is added to words ending with silent e, the e is almost universally omitted: as, place, placing; lodge, lodging; slave, slavish; prude, prudish. An obligeing and humble disposition, is totally unconnected with a servile and cringeing humour. By solaceing the sorrows of others, the heart is improved, at the same time that our duty is performed. Labour and expense are lost upon a droneish spirit. The inadvertences of youth may be excused, but knaveish tricks should meet with severe reproof. RULE XI, Compounded words are generally spelled in the same manner, as the simple words of which they are formed: as, glasshouse, skylight, thereby, hereafter. Many words ending with double 1, are exceptions to this rule : as, already, welfare, wilful, fulfil: and also the words, wherever, Christmas, lammas, &c. The pasover was a celebrated feast among the Jews. A virtuous woman looketh well to the ways of her houshold. These people salute one another, by touching the top of their forheads. That which is sometimes expedient, is not allways so. We may be hurtfull to others, by our example, as well as by personal injuries. In candid minds, truth finds an entrance and a wellcome too. Our passtimes should be innocent; and they should not occur too frequently. CHAPTER II. CONTAINING INSTANCES OF FALSE ORTHOGRAPHY, PROMISCUOUSLY DISPOSED. As the learners must be supposed to be tolerably versed in the spelling of words in very familiar use, the Compiler has generally selected, for the following exercises, such words as are less obviously erroneous, and in the use of which young persons are more likely to commit mistakes. Though the instances which he gives of these deviations are not very numerous, yet, it is presumed, they are exhibited with sufficient variety, to show the necessity of care and attention in combining letters and syllables; and to excite the ingenious student to investigate the principles and rules of our Orthography, as well as to distinguish the exceptions and variations which every where attend them. In rectifying these exercises, the Compiler has been governed by doctor Johnson's Dictionary, as the standard of propriety. This work is, indisputably, the best authority for the Orthography of the English language; though the author, in some instances, has made decisions, which are not generally approved, and for which it is not easy to account. SECTION 1. NEGLECT no oppurtunity of doing good. How shall we keep, what sleeping or awake, A weaker may surprize, a stronger take? Neither time nor misfortunes should eraze the rememberance of a friend. Moderation should preside, both in the kitchin and the parlor. Shall we recieve good at the Divine hand, and shall we not recieve evil? In many designs, we may succede and be miserable. We should have sence and virtue enough to receed from our demands, when they appear to be unresonable. All our comforts procede from the Father of Goodness. The ruin of a state is generally preceeded by a universal degenaracy of manners, and a contempt of religion. His father omited nothing in his education, that might render him virtuous and usefull. The daw in the fable was dressed in pilferred ornaments. A favor confered with delicacy, doubles the obligation. They tempted their Creator, and limitted the Holy One of Izrael, The precepts of a good education have often recured in the time of need. We are frequently benefitted by what we have dreaded. It is no great virtue to live loveingly with good natured and meek persons. The Christian religion gives a more lovly character of God, than any religion ever did. Without sinisterous views, they are dextrous managers of their own interest. Any thing commited to the trust and care of another, is a deposit. Here finnish'd he, and all that he had made It deserves our best skil to enquire into those rules, by which we may guide our judgement. Food, clotheing, and habitations, are the rewards of industry. If we lie no restraint upon our lusts, no controul upon our apetites and passions, they will hurry us into guilt and misery. An independant is one who, in religious affairs, holds that every congregation is a compleat Church. Receive his council, and securly move: |