p. 10.  “Courteous reader, you may think me garrulous upon topicks quite foreign to the subject before me.”—­Ib., p. 11.  “Of the Tonick, Subtonick, and Atoniek elements.”—­Ib., p. 15.  “The subtonick elements are inferiour to the tonicks in all the emphatick and elegant purposes of speech.”—­Ib., p. 32.  “The nine atonicks, and the three abrupt subtonicks cause an interruption to the continuity of the syllabick impulse.”—­Ib., p. 37.  “On scientifick principles, conjunctions and prepositions are but one part of speech.”—­Kirkham’s Gram., p. 120.  “That some inferior animals should be able to mimic human articulation, will not seem wonderful.”—­Murray’s Gram., 8vo, Vol. i, p. 2.

   “When young, you led a life monastick,
    And wore a vest ecelesiastick;
    Now, in your age, you grow fantastick.”—­Johnson’s Dict.

UNDER RULE VI.—­OF RETAINING.

“Fearlesness, exemption from fear, intrepidity.”—­Johnson’s Dict.

[FORMULE.—­Not proper, because the word “fearlesness” is here allowed to drop one s of fearless.  But, according to Rule 6th, “Words ending with any double letter, preserve it double before any additional termination not beginning with the same letter.”  Therefore, the other s should be inserted; thus, fearlessness.]

“Dreadlesness; fearlesness, intrepidity, undauntedness.”—­Johnson’s Dict. “Regardlesly, without heed; Regardlesness, heedlessness, inattention.”—­Ib. “Blamelesly, innocently; Blamlesness, innocence.”—­Ib. “That is better than to be flattered into pride and carelesness.”—­TAYLOR:  Joh.  Dict. “Good fortunes began to breed a proud recklesness in them.”—­SIDNEY:  ib. “See whether he lazily and listlesly dreams away his time.”—­LOCKE:  ib. “It may be, the palate of the soul is indisposed by listlesness or sorrow.”—­TAYLOR:  ib. “Pitilesly, without mercy; Pitilesness, unmercifulness.”—­Johnson.  “What say you to such as these? abominable, accordable, agreable, &c.”—­Tooke’s Diversions, Vol. ii, p. 432.  “Artlesly; naturally, sincerely, without craft.”—­Johnson.  “A chilness, or shivering of the body, generally precedes a fever.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 167.  “Smalness; littleness, minuteness, weakness.”—­Rhyming Dict. “Gall-less, a. free from gall or bitterness.”—­Webster’s Dict. “Talness; height of stature, upright length with comparative slenderness.”—­See Johnson et al.  “Wilful; stubborn, contumacious, perverse, inflexible.”—­Id. “He guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.”—­Psal. lxxviii, 72.  “The earth is the Lord’s and the fulness thereof.”—­Murray’s Key, p. 172.  “What is now, is but an amasment of imaginary conceptions.”—­GLANVILLE:  Joh.  Dict. “Embarrasment; perplexity, entanglement.”—­See Littleton’s Dict. “The second is slothfulness, whereby they are performed slackly and carelesly.”—­Perkins’s Theology, p. 729.  “Instalment; induction into office; part of a large sum of money, to be paid at a particular time.”—­See Johnson’s Dict. “Inthralment; servitude, slavery.”—­Ib.