2. CEDE, cession, accede, access, accession, accessory, antecedent, concede, concession, exceed, excess, inaccessible, incessant, intercede, intercession, precede, predecessor, proceed, process, recede, recess, secede, secession, succeed, success, successive, successor, unprecedented, unsuccessful.

3. CLAIM, claimant, clamour, acclamation, declaim, declamation, disclaim, exclaim, exclamation, irreclaimable, proclaim, proclamation, reclaim.

4. ERR, errant, erratic, erroneous, error, aberration, unerring. 5. FIRM, firmness, firmament, affirm, affirmative, affirmation, confirm, confirmation, infirm, infirmary, infirmity.

6. HEIR, heiress, heritable, heritage, hereditary, inherit, inheritance, disinherit.

7. JOIN, joint, junction, adjoin, adjunct, conjoin, conjunction, disjoin, disjunctive, enjoin, injunction, rejoin, rejoinder, subjoin, subjunctive.

8. JUST, justice, justiciary, justify, justification, adjust, adjustment, injustice, unjust, unjustifiable.

9. MEDIATE, mediation, mediator, mediocrity, mediterranean, immediate, intermediate.

10. MIGRATE, migration, migratory, emigrant, emigrate, emigration, transmigration.

11. MISSION, missionary, missive, admit, admittance, admissible, admission, commit, commission, dismiss, dismissal, inadmissible, intermit, intermission, manumission, omit, omission, permit, permission, promise, promissory, remit, remittance, remiss, remission, submit, submission, surmise, transmit, transmission.

12. Move, moveable, movement, motion, commotion, emotion, immoveable, promote, promotion, remove, removal, remote.

13. NOTE, notable, notary, notation, notice, notify, notorious, annotation, denote.

14. PART, partake, partial, participate, participle, particle, particular, partisan, partner, partition, party, apartment, depart, impart, impartial.

15. PURE, purify, purification, puritan, purity, impure, impurity.

16. SERVE, servant, service, servile, servitude, deserve, subservient.

SECTION VI.

WORDS TO BE USED WITH OTHER WORDS.

Rudiments, p. 33.

1. APPLE, large, ripe, sweet, sour, grow, fall.

2. BREAD, daily, new, stale, bake, eat, give.

3. CHANGE, agreeable, fortunate, sudden, wonderful, subject, produce.

4. DEATH, awful, natural, peaceful, violent, punish, suffer. 5. ELEPHANT, docile, sagacious, tame, wild, strong, live. 6. FACE, beautiful, expressive, fair, behold, deform, reflect. 7. HABIT, bad, good, inveterate, regular, acquire, overcome. 8. LAW, impartial, severe, ceremonial, moral, execute, interpret. 9. MANNER, formal, graceful, pleasing, usual, invite, repel. 10. NIGHT, dark, gloomy, long, short, overtake, succeed. 11. PIETY, exemplary, filial, sincere, practise, profess, prove. 12. RIVER, broad, deep, placid, rapid, descend, overflow. 13. SONG, melodious, merry, plaintive, celebrate, enliven, praise. 14. WAY, broad, long, narrow, short, choose, pursue. 15. WORD, angry, idle, classical, vulgar, avoid, employ.

16. ZEAL, ardent, furious, laudable, animate, regulate, restrain.

SECTION VII.

SYNONYMOUS WORDS.

Rudiments, p. 34.

1. ADORN, deck, decorate, dress, embellish, ornament.

2. ADVERSARY, antagonist, enemy, foe, opponent.

3. BILLOW, wave, surge, breaker, swell.

4. CLASS, degree, kind, order, rank, sort, species.

5. COMFORT, consolation, solace, alleviation, support.

6. COMMAND, charge, direction, injunction, mandate, order, precept.

7. DECEIVE, beguile, cheat, circumvent, delude, impose on, overreach.

8. GALLANT, brave, courteous, daring, gay, showy, splendid. 9. KING, monarch, sovereign, potentate, prince, ruler, governor. 10. Mock, deride, gibe, jeer, ridicule, scoff, taunt, elude, dis. appoint.

11. NAME, appellation, designation, fame, reputation, renown. 12. PEASANT, boor, clown, hind, rustic, swain.

13. SEA, ocean, deep, main, abyss.

14. STROKE, blow, hit, knock, thump, rap, lash.

15. WORK, labour, toil, employment, fabric, operation, performance.

16. YOKE, bond, bondage, burden, servitude, slavery.

SECTION VIII.

VARIETY OF EXPRESSION.

Rudiments, p. 35.

1. By living piously and virtuously our happiness will be wholly promoted.

2. Modest behaviour is chiefly ornamental to the young.

3. Continual disappointment awaits eagerness and presumption. 4. Joy is always heightened by sympathizing friendship. 5. The human mind takes pleasure in being praised.

6. It is an utter disgrace to practise deception on innocence. 7. A family where due reverence is paid to the great universal Father, where honour and obedience are rendered to parental authority, and where brothers and sisters dwell together affectionately and harmoniously, is surely a spectacle full of delight and interest.

8. The grateful acknowledgments of those upon whom he has conferred obligations, are ample repayment to the man whose distribution of his fortune has been generous and prudent.

9. Men too often exercise their ingenuity in creating misery for themselves by a fanciful aggravation of the evils which they endure. They draw a comparison between themselves and those only whom they imagine to enjoy greater happiness, and complain that the load of sorrowing humanity has wholly fallen upon them alone. Would they look on the world with an eye of greater impartiality, they would see suffering all around them, and find that the mixed draught in their cup is only that which Providence has prepared for all.

SECTION IX.

VARIETY OF EXPRESSION (continued).

Rudiments, p. 36.

1. The covetous man has no companion.

2. It is difficult to regard with affection those whom we do not respect.

3. Not many have boldness to reprove their associates.

4. Anger increases by indulgence.

5. The principal fountain of amusement is change.

6. Learning is to be acquired only by application.

7. Hearken to the kind advice of your father and mother; store up their injunctions; reverence their maturer discernment; and improve, with thankfulness and pleasure, the benefits arising from their company.

8. Arise, let us proceed into the fields; let us observe how the flowers grow; let us hearken to the singing of the birds, and play upon the fresh grass. The winter is past and gone; the buds break out upon the trees, and the verdant leaves shoot forth. The young of every species of living creatures are frisking about; they find themselves joyous; they delight to be alive; they are grateful to Him who gave them life. They can feel gratitude to Him in their hearts, but we can express it in words. The birds can sing, and the lambkins can bleat; but we have the power of speech to show forth his glory: we can talk of all his beneficence. Therefore will we praise Him for ourselves, and we will praise Him for those who have not the gift of language.

9. Sir Isaac Newton had a very meek and uniform temper. This eminent man was, by some incident, summoned from his library into the next room. A little dog, named Diamond, the continual but inattentive companion of his master at his studies, chanced to be left among the papers, and overturned a lighted candle, which burnt the nearly completed labours of some years. Sir Isaac soon came back, and had the vexation to see his irretrievable loss. But with his habitual self-command he only cried out, "Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little understandest the damage thou hast done."

SECTION X.

WORDS SUGGESTED TO FORM SENTENCES.

Rudiments, p. 37.

1. The dog is an animal of various sizes, colours, and kinds. It is distinguished by its instinctive sagacity, its strong attachment to man, its docile disposition, and its capacity of being trained to very dexterous and wonderful achievements."

2. The ostrich is the largest of birds. It inhabits the sandy deserts of Asia and Africa. The ostrich is valued chiefly on account of its feathers, which are in great request among all nations, for ornamental purposes.

3. The whale is the largest animal described by naturalists. It resides principally in the northern seas; and it is of great importance to the Greenlanders, who obtain from it clothing, food, and materials for their habitations. Ships are also sent to the whale-fishery by various other nations, who value this animal on account of the oil made from its blubber, and the well-known substance called whalebone.

4. Gold is a metal of a yellow colour. It is the most ductile and malleable of all known bodies. On account of its peculiar property of not being tarnished by the air, it is much employed in gilding; and, on account of its beautiful lustre, it is manufactured into a great variety of ornaments. It also constitutes a part of the coin of every civilized country.

5. Copper is the most sonorous of all metals, and, except iron, the most elastic. It is found in various forms; sometimes in masses of pure metal, but more frequently in combination with other substances, particularly sulphur. Copper was probably the first metal which was discovered; and there are copper mines in every quarter of the world. The uses of this metal are numerous and important.

6. Man consists of a body, which was originally made of the dust of the earth, and is subject to disease and death; and of a soul, which is immortal, and, when separated from the body, will pass into a state of everlasting happiness or misery. Man is a rational being; that is to say, he is endued with reason, and can reflect on what he perceives and does. He is a responsible or accountable

* These short essays are given merely to furnish materials for the suggestions and questions of the Teacher.