LESSONS IN ENGLISH. 



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Over produce* many combinations. 



llK>k :n;-r, 



run-otar, 



in-, i look, 

 i-r.-r r.'.ioli. 

 ni-1 , run. 



iloW-0Vr, 



rido-owr, 



ovfr-flow. 

 over- peranade. 

 owr-ride. 





You look-over your workmen and find faults that you cannot 

 over-look. A bad tradesman reaches-over his counter and over- 

 customers. Cisterns over-run, and drivers run-over 

 A river over-flows its bank*, and the water flows-over the Holds 

 rsuado an opponent over to your own party, and so over- 

 persuade an associate that ho relinquishes your company. II 

 you persuade a person over you cannot over-persuade him. In 

 attempting to over-ride a competitor, take care you do not ride 

 over him. The boy having run over his companion in the race, 

 easily over-ran him. 



Other particles are of less frequent use, but not less curious 

 are they. To frocfc-stitch differs from to atitoh-bacfc. By reckoning 

 his income a man learns how much he has coming in. The out- 

 goings of a family should be regulated by its .income. If I wil/i- 

 hold my opinions I may continue to hold n-itk you. He talks so 

 much of bearing with me that I can hardly /orbear to reprove 

 him. The poor roan has been taken off as if he were the off- 

 scouring of the streets. That young girl was taken off at the 

 early ago of seventeen, being overtaken by disease. One 

 general made an onslaught on the cavalry, while the other fell 

 on the infantry. 



" Immediately the mountains huge appear 



Emergent, and their broad, bore backs up-heave 

 Into the clouds." Milton. 



" Thou host made my curdled blood run back, my heart Iwave up, 

 my hair to rise ill bristles." Dryden. 



Alongside the cutter we coasted along the shore. The under- 

 takings of your father are under-paid. The understanding was 

 that you stand under the spout. The undertaker receives funereal 

 arrangements under his care. 



" An under-plot may bear such a near ralation to the principal design 

 as to contribute towards the completion of it, and be concluded by the 

 same catastrophe.*' Spectator. 



" In under praising thy deserts 



Here find the first deficience of our tongue." Dryden. 



" Under two conditions the poet engaged to compose the eulogy." 

 Anon. 



" For this assembling all the peers 



Whose counsels now must wider-prop the throne." Dray ton. 



He placed a line of props under the falling wall. An influx of 

 gold causes bank-notes to flow out of circulation. The inlets 

 are more numerous than the out-lets, consequently you will be 

 compelled to let out the water by artificial means. 



EXERCISES TOR PARSING. 



Our abodes out-last our bodies. Curtail your outlays if you wish 

 for ease of condition. He laughed out-right. Let thine eyes look 

 right on. Tou shall be driven out right forth. This way, right down 

 to Paradise, descend. An over-much use of salt, besides that it 

 occasions thirst and over-much drinking, has other ill effects. You 

 have yourself your kindness over-paid. He gained a large fortune 

 over the counter. Parents too often overpraise their children. Come 

 o'er the brook, Bessy, to me. With an over-running flood God will 

 make an utter end of the place. Were it not for the incessant labours 

 of this industrious animal, Egypt would be overrun with crocodiles. 

 Milk while it boils, and wine while it works, run over the vessels they 

 are in. I shall not run over all the particulars that would show what 

 pains are used to corrupt children. Should a man run over the whole 

 circle of earthly pleasures, he would be forced to complain that plea- 

 sure was not satisfaction. The zeal of bigotry runs out into all 

 manner of absurdities. The zeal of many outruns their discretion. 



COMPOSITION. 



As minds are differently formed and capacity varies with 

 every successive individual, I am desirous of making another 

 suggestion or two, which may possibly smooth the way to original 

 composition for some whom the instructions previously given 

 may have left in difficulty. I advise you, then, to accustom 

 yourself to report as correctly as you can, to a child, something 

 that has struck your attention, whether in what you have heard, 

 what you have seen, or what you have read. I say report the 

 substance by word of mouth. Endeavour to employ suitable 

 words, to pronounce them correctly, and to put them together 

 grammatically. At first you will commit errors ; but, in time, 

 perseverance will enable you to overcome all difficulties. Make 



your report to a child, say a younger brother or sister ; I men- 

 tion a child, because in speaking to a child yon will apeak readily 

 and naturally. There in another advantage : in order to gain a 

 child's attention yon must take a simple subject, and on simple 

 subjects you will not want words. Subject* such as I contem- 

 plate are constantly occurring wherever there are human beings. 

 You may take as your theme some accident that has happened 

 in the house where yon reside, in a neighbouring mine, on the 

 high road ; or you may describe a bird's nest ; the peculiar form, 

 colour, and habits of the swallow, the dog tribe, the cat tribe, the 

 daisy, the wild rose, the honey-bee, etc. 



Well, having described tho object to a child, take your pen and 

 write down as well as you can tho very things yon said, and 

 having carefully corrected them according to the best of your 

 ability, copy out the whole in your composition-book. 



Many children would bo far better as an auditory than one 

 child. And very desirable for your purpose is it that utility tc 

 others should be immediately in your view. For these reasons I 

 advise you to become a teacher in a Sunday-school, or if that if. 

 not possible or not convenient, then gather around yon a number 

 of children and form a class. By preparing to teach them yon 

 will give your mind useful discipline, and in communicating to 

 them what you know you will take effectual lessons in the diffi- 

 cult art of correctly expressing your thoughts. By teaching 

 others you will best teach yourself. To diligence there is 

 nothing impossible. Report to a child or two the following 

 anecdote : 



SOTJTHEY'S SCHOOLING. 



Here one year of my life was passed with little profit, and with a good 

 deal of suffering. There could not be a worse school in all respects, 

 Thomas Flower, the master, was a remarkable man, worthy of a better 

 station in life, but utterly unfit for that in which he was placed. His 

 whole delight was in mathematics and astronomy, and be had con- 

 structed an orrery upon so large a scale that it filled a room. What a 

 misery it must have been for such a man to teach a set of stupid boys, 

 year after year, the rudiments of arithmetic ! And a misery he seemed 

 to feel it. When he came to his desk, even there he was thinking of 

 the stars, and looked as if he were out of humour, not from ill-nature, 

 but because his calculations were interrupted. But, for the most part, 

 he left the school to the care of his son Charley, a person who waa 

 always called by that familiar diminutive, and whose consequence yon 

 may appreciate accordingly. Writing and arithmetic were all they 

 professed to teach ; but twice in the week a Frenchman came from 

 Bristol to instruct in Latin the small number of boys who learnt it, of 

 whom I was one. That sort of ornamental penmanship, which I now 

 fear has wholly gone out of use, was taught there. The father, as wen 

 as Charley, excelled in it. They could adorn the heading of a role in 

 arithmetic in a ciphering-book, or the bottom of a page, not merely 

 with common flourishing, but with an angel, a serpent, a fish, or a pen, 

 formed with an ease and freedom of hand which was to me a great 

 object of admiration ; but, unluckily, I was too young to acquire tho 

 art. I have seen, in the course of my life, two historical pieces pro- 

 duced in this manner; worthy of remembrance they are, aa notable 

 specimens of whimsical dexterity. One was David killing Goliath ; it 

 was in a broker's shop at Bristol, and I would have bought it if I could 

 have afforded, at that time, to expend some ten shillings upon it. 

 They taught the beautiful Italian, or lady's hand, used in the age of 

 our parents ; engrossing (which, I suppose, was devised to ensure dia 

 iinctness and legibility) ; and some varieties of German text, worthy, 

 'or their square, massy, antique forms, to have figured in aa anti- 

 quarian's title-page. 



EXERCISES IN COMPOSITION. 



Historical Theme The formation of the Hebrew Tabernacle. Pr- 

 onal Theme What have bean my thoughts during this day ? Pottioal 

 rhemt The stillness of the country. 



Form each of the following words into a simple sentence : 



Girl ; boy ; dove ; California ; amendment ; Adam ; England ; dia- 



urlamv. 



Describe a butterfly ; a robin ; a lark ; a salmon ; a mackerel ; 

 a sheep ; a rabbit. 



Supply suitable adjectives in the ensuing sentences : 



Wise men love 



men must die. The 



ruit of autumn is delicious. Small faults produce 

 low ia hypocrisy ! 



Complete the following propositions : 

 for having leen too exacting. 



the prevention of evil, 

 the scholar's negligence. 



to respect the aged 



for having soiled his book 



