LESSONS IN DRAW!' 



Saxon, U an Indo-Germanio 



i mu-Oi), T;U. ''/(:; una 



in median, 



Ih ; in the Banscr 



rUson, * '' mod-wife, a 

 how doea the meed dis- 



!i th.> midwifo ? Arc ; ! for meed or 



nut all professions receive a meed or reward? 



; ly, from oar pre- 



from having been 



notes, becomes u 



v of aviating o: 1 women at child- 



" Nor noocl ! claim tin- MuKf.-i 1 M 'Ivifry, 



To I'riiu: t j h-rht b<> worthies* poetry." Jty. JTofl. 



origin (mil! appears in millen- 



: ;vutions. .Millennium (Latin, anuus, o year) 

 prop' i a period of a thousand years. 



" \Vhcu at your second coming you appear, 

 (For I fon 



Tlio dliarpcuoil share shall vex the soil no more, 

 But Earth unbidden shall produce lier store." 



Drydcn, " Pal'.rmo/i and Arciia." 



.1/7--, of Saxon origin, found in the verb to miss, and in the 

 adverb ciiuVs, <1. 'noting something wrong, forms a prefix to many 

 word-. 1, i/usa;>i>ly, misbecome, 7>iisconccive, misjudge, 



represent. Mischief (Fronch v achever, to aca>. 

 is a bad or wicked deed ; tho second syllable is not the same as 

 our word chief, that is, head. \ :.ow call inis'-ehie- 



voin was formerly pronounced, according to the vulgar error, 

 jiua-chie'-vous. 



" And every one threw forth reproaches rifo, 

 Of 1: >< doedos, and sayd that hee 



Was the disturber of all civill Hio, 

 The enemy of peace, and author of all strife." 



l3pcn*ci; " 1'aerle Queens." 



ivo is used in tho derivative sense of yielding, weakly 

 yielding, and a3 yielding weakly, so improperly, tho notion of 

 impropriety lying in tho mis. 



" Great joy he promised to his thoughts, and new 

 Solace iu her return, so long delayed ; 

 Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill, 

 Misijave him." MLUon, " Paradise Lost." 



Mod, of Latin origin (modus, manner, limit), appears in 

 modify (Latin, facio, I maJce), to state with some restriction or 

 qualification ; to alter slightly ; also in modest, moderate, com- 

 modious, commodity, etc. 



Molli, of Latin origin (mollis, soft), appears in mollify, to 

 make soft , to appease, render gentle ; modifier, modification, 

 modifiable, etc. 



" While the vocal flute, 



Or numbered verso, by female voico endeared, 

 Crowns his delight and mollijies tho scene." Shenttone. 



Mono, mon, of Greek origin (/toj/oj, pronounced mon'-os, alone), 

 gives rise to monachos, a monk, one who lives alone ; monachism, 

 tho society of monks ; monas, a 7>u>jiad, a single object, a unit ; 

 monarch (Greek, apxr], pronounced ar'-ke, government), one who 

 rules alone; monogamy (Greek, yafj.os, pronounced garn'-os, mar- 

 riage) : monopolise (Greek, irwfau, pronounced po'-le-o, I sell), to 

 Tiavo the sole power of selling; monotheism (Greek, 6tos, pro- 

 nounced the'-os, God), tho belief in one God; monosyllable, a 

 word of ono syllable. 



" Conjunction, preposition, adverb join 

 To stamp new vigour on the nervous lino ; 

 In monotyllables his thunders roll, 

 Ho, she, it, and we, ye, they, fright the soul." 





KoseiaA." 



Mart, of Latin origin (mors, death, genitive mortis), forms tho 

 basis of mortal and immortal. .Mortgage is a dead gage or 

 pledge; that is to say, something so pledged, as what are called 

 deeds or writings, so that it cannot bo used for raising money. 



" 3Iorluv.m t-icl.'uiii, a dead pledge, mortgage, is when a man borrows 



of another a specific sum, 0.3. , 11 estate in foe 



on condition that if he, the mortgagor, shall repay the mortgagee the 



.:-ui of 1'iiOO on a certain day mentioned ia tho deed, then tho 



mortgager may ro-nu.r on the estate trusted ia pUif*," 

 .Mortmain (Latin, mortal mana, in a dead hand) U explained 



" All parrhssM made by corporate bodiei were said to be parchaM* 

 ia morti, . reacon, tboM pariah MM wore onuJljr mad by 



ecclasiasUcal bodies, UM nwinbors of which brtaf profsMil (ti orders). 

 WOT* reckoned <U*d ptnmu ia law ; kad, therefor*, holdm by them 

 might, with irwt propriety, b Mid to to bld ia mortiU ***. 



Multi, of Latin origin (moltnc, much), appears in 

 of many aorU; iu/h'form, of many ahapw; multiply (Latin, 

 plica, a fold), to tako many folds, etc. 



" Tha beanteoos Uke 

 Tho pines wldo-brsaebiny. falls of water dear, 



Tho mull /:! ,iu glow oa Flora's Up 



attrmctiou.'' Gloitr, 



Neo, of Greek origin (xo , pronounoed nc'-os, new), doubUen 

 the same as our new, which thus appears to be Indo-Oermanic. 

 Kco forms tho first syllable in neology, or new-science, new-doe* 

 trine terms that might be used as fittingly an the Greek word 

 neology. Neo is found aluo in neophyte (Greek, <pmot, pronoonoed 

 fu'-toa, bom), a new-born person, a recent convert. 



A'on, of Latin origic . not, stands before words of historical im- 

 portance, as, non-conformist, ntm-juror. 



" By that Act (tho Five Mile Act), pawed ia the Parliament held at 

 Oxford. October 9, 1635, and entitled, ' An Act for restraining Xo- 

 confof mitts (to tho Established Church) from inhabiting Corporations,' 

 the non-conforming ministers were prohibited, upon a penalty of forty 

 pounds for every offence, to come, unless only in pa**in? upon the 

 road, within five miles of any city, corporation, etc." Locke. 



A r on-juror is a term usually applied to thoao persons who refused 

 to tako tho oaths of allegiance to William III. at the Revolution. 



" The nonjun'tv; prelates were Bancroft, Turner, Lake, Ken, White, 

 Lloyd, Thomas, and Frainpton." Sm-Btt, " liutory qf England." 



Ob, of Latin origin (as a preposition, on account of), has the 

 general meaning of towards, and hence at, near, and varies with 

 the word with which it is connected, tho meaning of w 

 sometimes merely strengthens. In objecf (Latin, jacio, / ' 

 to tlirow before or against, it conveys the idea of obstruction, 

 an idea which it expresses more fully in obstruction (Latin, 

 strno, I build), which, according to its constituent*, signifies a 

 building or blocking up. In obliterate (Latin, litura, on eroture), 

 to blot out, it has an augmentivo fore*. Passing into the first 

 letter of its principal, ob becomes oc, as in occasion (Latin, cado, 

 I fall), a suitable fall, a fall before you so as to suit yonr purpose, 

 something seasonable and convenient, by which you may profit. 

 06 passes also into of, aa in offer (Latin, fero, I bear). This of 

 must not bo confounded with of or off signifying from, and found 

 in ojf-scouring and offspring. 



" Our prayer hath 



No power to pass ; and thou hast made na fall, 

 As rofus3 and ajT-scourinj to them all." DOMM. 



" Whcnco it follows that these were nations not descendlti;? from 

 us, but born with us ; not our off-tpnnj, but our brethren." : 



Octo, also octa, of Latin origin (octo, eight), appears in o 

 eight-a., yllable, of eight syllables ; oc<otench (Greek, 



rfvx^i, pronounced tn'-ke, a fold or volume), the first eight books 

 of tho Old Testament __ 



LESSONS IN DRAWING. XI. 

 No one, we presume, will question our statement when we lay, 

 that in giving these instructions in drawing, there are two great 

 and important considerations to fulfil, both of which are indis- 

 pensable and cannot be treated independently of each oil: 

 ono is to lay down data or rules for practical nse, tho ot: 

 direct the pupil in what way ho may ascertain for himself 

 principles upon which rules are founded, aa well as to | nido him 

 in his method of observation. The root of all knowledge of any 

 real value, is found in the capability of giving a satisfactory 

 answer to the simple questiona, trTiy rnd vher^fare. One man, 

 who takes for granted all facts as they are piren to him, may 

 gain a groat deal of information upon many subject" ; another, 

 ' who stops to inquire into the truth or foundation of those facts 

 that is, to satisfy himself thoroughly respecting* tne vky 



