but goers-backward”—­Id. “Heaven’s golden-winged herald late he saw, to a poor Galilean virgin sent.”—­Id. “My pent-house eyebrows and my shaggy beard offend your sight.”—­Id. “The hungry lion would fain have been dealing with good horseflesh.”—­Id. “A broad-brimmed hat ensconsed each careful head.”—­Snelling cor. “With harsh vibrations of his three-stringed lute.”—­Id. “They magnify a hundred-fold an author’s merit.”—­Id. “I’ll nail them fast to some oft-opened door.”—­Id. “Glossed over only with saintlike show, still thou art bound to vice.”—­Johnson’s Dict., w.  Saintlike.  “Take of aqua-fortis two ounces, of quicksilver two drachms.”—­Id. cor. “This rainbow never appears but when it rains in the sunshine.”—­Id. cor.

   “Not but there are, who merit other palms;
    Hopkins and Sternhold glad the heart with psalms.”—­Pope.

CHAPTER IV.—­OF SPELLING.

CORRECTIONS OF FALSE SPELLING.

RULE I.—­FINAL F, L, OR S.

“He will observe the moral law, in his conduct.”—­Webster corrected.  “A cliff is a steep bank, or a precipitous rock.”—­Walker cor. “A needy man’s budget is full of schemes.”—­Maxim cor. “Few large publications, in this country, will pay a printer.”—­N.  Webster cor. “I shall, with cheerfulness, resign my other papers to oblivion.”—­Id. “The proposition was suspended till the next session of the legislature.”—­Id. “Tenants for life will make the most of lands for themselves.”—­Id. “While every thing is left to lazy negroes, a state will never be well cultivated.”—­Id. “The heirs of the original proprietors still hold the soil.”—­Id. “Say my annual profit on money loaned shall be six per cent.”—­Id. “No man would submit to the drudgery of business, if he could make money as fast by lying still.”—­Id. “A man may as well feed himself with a bodkin, as with a knife of the present fashion.”—­Id. “The clothes will be ill washed, the food will be badly cooked; you will be ashamed of your wife, if she is not ashamed of herself.”—­Id. “He will submit to the laws of the state while he is a member of it.”—­Id. “But will our sage writers on law forever think by tradition?”—­Id. “Some still retain a sovereign power in their territories.”—­Id. “They sell images, prayers, the sound of bells, remission of sins, &c.”—­Perkins cor. “And the law had sacrifices offered every day, for the sins of all the people.”—­Id. “Then it may please the Lord, they shall