At summer eve, when heaven's aerial bow
Spans with bright arch the glitterring hills below.--
Thus mourned the hapless man; a thunderring sound
Rolled round the shudderring walls and shook the ground.

RULE VI. Words ending in double _l_, in taking _ness, less, ly_, or
_ful_, after them, generally omit one _l_; as, _fulness, skilless, fully
skilful_.

But words ending in any double letter but _l_, and taking _ness, less,
ly_, or _ful_, after them, preserve the letter double; as,
_harmlessness, carelessness, carelessly, stiffly, successful_.

_False Orthography_.--A chillness generally precedes a fever.--He is
wed to dullness.

The silent stranger stood amazed to see
Contempt of wealth and willful poverty.

Restlesness of mind impairs our peace.--The road to the blisful
regions, is as open to the peasant as to the king.--The arrows of
calumny fall harmlesly at the feet of virtue.

RULE VII. _Ness, less, ly_, or _ful_, added to words ending in silent
_e_, does not cut it off; as, _paleness, guileless, closely, peaceful_;
except in a few words; as, _duly, truly, awful_.

_False Orthography_.--Sedatness is becoming.

All these with ceasless praise his works behold.
Stars rush: and final ruin fiercly drives
Her ploughshare o'er creation!
------Nature made a pause,
An aweful pause! prophetic of her end!

RULE VIII. When words ending in silent _e_, assume the termination,
_ment_, the _e_ should not be cut off; as, _abatement, chastisement_.

_Ment_, like other terminations, changes _y_ into _i_ when the _y_ is
preceded by a consonant; as, _accompany, accompaniment; merry,
merriment_.

_False Orthography_.--A judicious arrangment of studies facilitates
improvment.--Encouragment is greatest when we least need it.

To shun allurments is not hard,
To minds resolv'd, forwarn'd, and well prepared.

RULE IX. When words ending in silent _e_, assume the termination, _able_
or _ible_, the _e_ should generally be cut off; as, _blame, blamable;
cure, curable; sense, sensible_. But if _c_ or _g_ soft comes before _e_
in the original word, the _e_ is preserved in words compounded with
_able_; as, _peace, peaceable; change, changeable_.

_False Orthography_.--Knowledge is desireable.--Misconduct is
inexcuseable.--Our natural defects are not chargable upon us.--We
are made to be servicable to others