ckeys_ wait."
--_T. O. Churchill's Gram._, p. 326.
LESSON II.--MIXED EXAMPLES.
"Hence _less_ is a privative _suffix_, denoting destitution; as in
_fatherless, faithless, penniless_."--_Webster cor._ "_Bay_; red, or
reddish, inclining to a _chestnut colour_."--_Id._ "To _mimick_, to imitate
or ape for sport; a _mimic_, one who imitates or mimicks."--_Id._
"Counterroll, a counterpart or copy of the rolls; _Counterrollment_, a
counter account."--_Id._ "_Millennium_, [from _mille_ and _annus_,] the
thousand years during which Satan shall be bound."--See _Johnson's Dict._
"_Millennial_, [like _septennial, decennial_, &c.,] pertaining to the
_millennium_, or to a thousand years."--See _Worcester's Dict._
"_Thralldom_; slavery, bondage, a state of servitude."--_Webster's Dict._
"Brier, a prickly bush; Briery, rough, prickly, full of briers;
_Sweetbrier_, a fragrant shrub."--See _Ainsworth's Dict., Scott's, Gobb's_,
and others. "_Will_, in the second and third persons, barely
_foretells_."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "And _therefore_ there is no word false,
but what is distinguished by Italics."--_Id._ "What should be _repeated_,
is left to their discretion."--_Id._ "Because they are abstracted or
_separated_ from material substances."--_Id._ "All motion is in time, and
_therefore, wherever_ it exists, implies time as its _concomitant_."--
_Harris's Hermes_, p. 95. "And illiterate grown persons are guilty of
_blamable_ spelling."--_Brit. Gram. cor._ "They _will_ always be ignorant,
and of _rough_, uncivil manners."--_Webster cor._ "This fact _will_ hardly
be _believed_ in the northern states."--_Id._ "The province, however, _was
harassed_ with disputes."--_Id._ "So little concern _has_ the legislature
for the interest of _learning_."--_Id._ "The gentlemen _will_ not admit
that a _schoolmaster_ can be a gentleman."--_Id._ "Such absurd
_quid-pro-quoes_ cannot be too strenuously avoided."--_Churchill cor._
"When we say of a man, 'He looks _slily_;' we signify, that he takes a sly
glance or peep at something."--_Id._ "_Peep_; to look through a crevice; to
look narrowly, closely, or _slily_"--_Webster cor._ "Hence the confession
has become a _hackneyed_ proverb."--_Wayland cor._ "Not to mention the more
ornamental parts of _gilding_, varnish, &c."--_Tooke cor._ "After this
system of self-interest had been _riveted_."--_Dr. Brown cor._ "Prejudice
might have prevented the cordial approbation of a _bigoted_ Jew."--_Dr.
Scott cor._
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