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He that swims in sin, must soon sink in sorrow.

Kings, as well as mean men, must die,-the conqueror cannot carry his kingdom or his crown to the catacombs.

Money makes many men mad.

Diligence derides difficulties, and defies detriments.

Passion, partiality, and prejudice, are popularly plenipotent.

Sin and sorrow are inseparable.

Time and tide tarry not for the tardy.

Value virtue more than fame or fortune.

Virtue finds favour with all, though few fully follow it.

Yield not, you young, to useless yearnings, nor yet ye in years. How high her highness holds her haughty head.

The witwal wings her weary way, where winter winds wither the waving woods.

A merchant's mismanagement makes much mischief to the mercantile machine.

Vice vainly veers in variegated velvet,-virtue veils her votaries in vulgar velveteen.

False friends are far more formidable than fiercest foes.

They thought that throughout the theological theme they were thwarted in their theory.

Several sailors saw the sottish soldier stagger senselessly to his solitary cell.

Great gains are got by gradual gatherings.

Many match-makers mistake the meaning of matrimony, mating much money with mirth or moodiness, and marrying all manner of minds.

As tippling, too often, in time turns to toping, temperance, we are told, is not to be trusted, but the tighter tie of tee-totalism takes away all tendency to intoxication.

Sunshine scatters life and loveliness around. The flowers feel its fertilizing fervour, and spread their sweet-scented petals to the beauty-bestowing pencil of their empyrean parent. All creation's kinds, from the crawling insect to the creature king,— man, monarch by the might of mind,-share in the sweet sensations which the sun inspires. Sorrow is assuaged, and smiles supplant the streaming tears of the sunken spirit, and renovate the rosy ruddiness of the cheerless cheek, and the bright brilliancy of the beamless eyes, while the heart heaves high with hope, and the whole soul is harmonized into happiness.

Rough rolls the river's rapid course through rugged rows of

rocks.

Bad company makes the good become bad, and the bad, at best,

it betters not.

Wickedness, as well as virtue, wins upon us by degrees.

Captain Cunningham cut and come again.

Let the soup be heated before I eat it.

Peter Piper's peacock picked a peck of pickling pepper from a paper packet. Did Peter Piper's peacock pick a peck of pickling pepper from a paper packet? If Peter Piper's peacock picked a peck of pickling pepper from a paper packet, where's the paper packet whence the pretty speckled peacock picked ?

Miscellaneous.

Many of the following passages require very minute distinctiveness of utterance. Attend to the italicised points.

Be wise betimes, and warily beware.

To be loved is less than to be beloved.

If you be comely, behave becomingly; if you be not, be becoming in behaviour, and you will become comely.

Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own

as thou art in desire?

thy known

Oh! the torment of fan ever-meddling memory.

a never

He was left in an inanimate state.

act and valour,

Every concession should be made in disputable or indifferent

cases.

"Yet half I see the panting (spirit sigh."

1spirit's eye.

"A warm tear gushed,-the wintry air
Congealed it as it flowed away;

All night it lay fan ice-drop there,
a nice

At morn it glittered in the ray."

The dispute about the jewel led to a fatal duel.

"A grammatist did you call that ignorant wiseling?" "No! an agrammatist I said." "What, anagrammatist ?-Why he could not spell the word, far less write an anagram." "You do not understand me,-I did not mean an anagrammatist, but simply an agrammatist.'

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A midshipman amid shipmen.

The all-potent eight have over reached the potentate.
Anatomy could not dissect an atomy so small.
You must abbreviate your abbreviature.

Choose a better companion than the abettor of a bettor.
Absurd it is to listen to such absurdities.

Although a Count he must be brought to account for this.
"The moon is not a crescent now,-she is gibbous."
she is still accrescent."

Look through the aisle and you will see the island.

"Well,

My friend is not a lawyer, (10-Y)—he is alloyer (10-1)in the mint. Already we have got all ready.

Always try all ways to succeed.

I see no analogy here, I should rather call it an alogy.

A part has been laid apart.

Apperception means simply a perception.

The would-be-wise apposer has at last got a poser himself.

I beg to apprize you of the capture of a prize.

This land greatly needs aration, and that would yield a ration

to the starving labourers.

I would not give a cent to see the ascent.

I do asseverate that this is the best hay ass ever ate.

He has gone away a way of his own.

Dr Rush calls every vowel a tonic, -and the voiceless articu

lations he calls atonic.

To what cause can I attribute a tribute so flattering?

Aucupation is a cruel occupation.

The doctrines of the Aularian are said to be all Arian.

Of what avail is a veil so thin?

I could get bail if the bailiff would permit me.

You should not be droll when the beadroll is read.

Sancho wears a plate on his breast for a breast-plate, he calls it a cuirass,—is not Sancho a queer ass?

The Muses may be nine in number,-but benign to my numbers they are not.

This bodice is large enough for two bodies.

I saw the maniac threateningly brandish a large bran-dish.

The armed brig aids by sea the brigades on shore.

"Persevere !" was the order given to the chicken-hearted

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Captain P.-He read it "Percy, veer!" and turned off from his dangerous post.

Kate if I knew who the caitiff was, I would horsewhip him. A caravan sir is the travelling troop,-their resting places or inns are caravansaries.

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"Give the cat stale bread." Silence child."

"The cat's tail, mamma?"

"How do you sell the white sheep?" cheap."

"White sheep?—why,

Each clansman bore a great sheaf as a harvest tribute to the gray chief.

"He is far from well. His wound is cicatrizing, but he, poor fellow, is always so himself."

rising !"

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'Always, how?" "Why, sick at

Will you assist us to plant a cistus?

I never saw coctile food given to a cock till now.

Whether he credit or no what I say, I shall let his creditor know.

A constant smirk upon the face, and a whiffling activity of the body, are strong indications of futility.

A sad angler

The same arrow

To obtain either

Goodness enters in the heart

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A sad dangler

The same marrow

To obtain neither

Goodness centres in the heart
His crime moved me

He will prate to anybody
The rope proved long
He could pain nobody
A languid dame
Luxurious soil
Chaste stars.

PART THIRD.

THE POWERS OF THE LETTERS.

In learning to write a language, it would be but natural to begin with a knowledge of its letters: in learning to speak one, it would be as natural, surely, that we should first acquire a knowledge of its sounds. But this is not the custom among us. Our Abecedarians begin by teaching us "our letters;" that is, not their powers the sounds for which they stand-though even this would be a weary and profitless labour-but their names; the words by which the letters, as written symbols, are spoken of; and which often bear but little or no relation to their actual sounds. The work of mastering the elements of reading is thus rendered difficult beyond conception; and instead of every advancing stage being a valuable synthetical lesson, involving the mental processes of reflection and association, it becomes a mere trick of habit and memory, a work of mindless drudgery. As some slight assistance to the youthful student, he is perhaps taught the powers of the letters, but here again all is confusion and complexity; for he has the same sounds to learn over and over again, in connexion with their various and irregular marks: he has to recognise, for instance, the five alphabetic vowel characters, as representative of not less than 30 sounds; so that he can gain no clear knowledge of the simplicity of the actual elements of speech. And-strangely enough—at no future period of his scholastic course does such knowledge form any part of his acquirements.

Yet this, we maintain, should be the first thing taught. The reason, perhaps, why it is not so,—or, at least, why it is altogether neglected, is, that teachers themselves are generally ignorant of this department of elementary knowledge. Their own education not only gave them none of this important knowledge, but, in a great measure, unfitted them for becoming observers, and acquiring it for themselves.

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