The most essential virtues of a Christian, are love to God, and benevolence to man.

We should be cheerful without levity.

A calendar signifies a register of the year; and a calender, a press in which clothiers smooth their cloth.

Integrity and hope are the sure palliatives of sorrow.

Chamomile is an odoriferous plant, and possesses considerable medicinal virtues.

The gaiety of youth should be tempered by the precepts of

age.

Certainty, even on distressful occasions, is sometimes more eligible than suspense.

Still green with bays each ancient altar stands,
Above the reach of sacrilegious hands.

The most acceptable sacrifice, is that of a contrite and humble heart.

We are accountable for whatever we patronise in others.

It marks a savage disposition to torture animals, to make them smart and agonize for our diversion.

The edge of cloth, where it is closed by complicating the threads, is called the selvage.

Souchong tea and Turkey coffee were his favourite beverage; chocolate he seldom drank.

The guilty mind cannot avoid many melancholy apprehen

sions.

If we injure others, we must expect retaliation.

Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.
Peace and honour are the sheaves of virtue's harvest.

The black earth, every where obvious on the surface of the ground, we call mould.

The Roman pontiff claims to be the supreme head of the church on earth.

High-seasoned food vitiates the palate, and occasions a disrelish for plain fare.

The conscious receiver is as bad as the thief.

Alexander the conqueror of the world, was in fact, a robber and a murderer.

The Divine Being is not only the Creator, but the Ruler and Preserver of the world.

Honest endeavours, if persevered in, will finally be successful.

He who dies for religion, is a martyr; he who suffers for it, is a confessor.

In the paroxysm of passion we sometimes give occasion for a life of repentance.

The mist which envelops many studies, is dissipated when we

approach them.

The voice is sometimes obstructed by a hoarseness, or by viscuous phlegm.

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

The fruit and sweetmeats set on table after the meat, are called the dessert.

We traversed the flowery fields, till the falling dews admonished us to return.

SECTION IV.

See the Exercises, p. 40.

THERE is frequently a worm at the root of our most flourishing condition.

The stalk of ivy is tough, and not fragile.

The roof is vaulted, and distils fresh water from every part of it.

Our imperfections are discernible by others, when we think they are concealed.

They think they shall be heard for their much speaking.
True criticism is not a captious, but a liberal art.

Integrity is our best defence against the evils of life.

No circumstance can license evil, or dispense with the rules of virtue.

We may be ciphers in the world's estimation, whilst we are advancing our own and others' value.

The path of virtue is the path of peace.

A diphthong is the coalition of two vowels to form one

sound.

However forcible our temptations; they may be resisted.
I acknowledge my transgression; and my sin is ever before

me.

The college of cardinals are the electors of the pope.
He had no colourable excuse to palliate his conduct.

Thy humorous vein, thy pleasing folly,

Lie all neglected, all forgot.

If we are so conceited as obstinately to reject all advice, we must expect a dereliction of friends.

Chronology is the science of computing and adjusting the periods of time.

In groves we live, and lie on mossy beds

By crystal streams, that murmur through the meads.

It is a secret cowardice which induces us to compliment the vices of our superiors, to applaud the libertine, and laugh with the profane.

The lark each morning waked me with her sprightly lay. There are no fewer than thirty-two species of the lily.

We owe it to our visiters as well as to ourselves to entertain them with useful and sensible conversation.

Sponsors are those who become sureties for the children's education in the Christian faith.

The warrior's fame is often purchased by the blood of thousands.

Hope exhilarates the mind, and is the grand elixir, under all the evils of life.

The incense of gratitude, whilst it expresses our duty, and honours our benefactor, perfumes and regales ourselves.

PART III.

SYNTAX.

CHAPTER I.

CONTAINING CORRECTIONS OF THE FALSE SYNTAX, ARRANGED UNDER THE RULES.

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RULE I.

See Vol 1. p. 143. Vol. 2. p. 43.

DISAPPOINTMENTS sink the heart of man; but the renewal of hope gives consolation.

The smiles that encourage severity of judgment, hide malice and insincerity.

He dares not act contrary to his instructions.

Fifty pounds of wheat contain forty pounds of flour.

The mechanism of clocks and watches, was totally unknown a few centuries ago.

The number of inhabitants in Great Britain and Ireland, does not exceed sixteen millions.

Nothing but vain and foolish pursuits delights some per

sons.

A variety of pleasing objects charms the eye.

So much both of ability and merit is seldom found.

In the conduct of Parmenio, a mixture of wisdom and folly was very conspicuous.

He is an author of more credit than Plutarch, or any other that writes lives too hastily.

The inquisitive and curious are generally talkative.

Great pains have been taken to reconcile the parties.

I am sorry to say it, but there were more equivocators than

one.

The sincere are always esteemed.

Have the goods been sold to advantage? and didst thou embrace the proper season?

There are many occasions in life, in which silence and simplicity are true wisdom.