Hon. T. Erskine, on the Bible...
Defence of C. Phillips, Esq.

Adams, on American Independence
Chatham, on the American War.......
Brougham, on Slavery

Erskine, on Abuse of Public Patronage
Grattan, on the National Grievances..
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POETRY.

Remarks on Poetry..

Rules for Reading Verse

EXERCISES ON FORCE.

SUBDUED FORCE.

RAISED FORCE.

Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers

EXERCISES ON ΤΟΝΕ.

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The Battle of Hohenlinden

The Destruction of Sennacherib's Army

The Night before the Battle of Waterloo

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GRAMMAR CHANT.

Orthography.

Or-tho-graphy cor-rectly guides my mind To proper

letters for each word to

find;

All Polysyllables di-vi-ded

are, As near as can be to the sound they bear.

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But if the sound you do not rightly know,
Stop at the Vowel, -ere you farther go
When follow'd by a Consonant alone:
Take an example, thus, Phe-no-me-non.

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But if two Consonants together be,
And this in compound words we often see,
Stop at the first; as thus, I ap-prehend:

Howe'er you've err'd, you cannot fail to mend.

Etymology.

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Now, ETYMOLOGY doth clearly show

The Etymon, whence words derived do flow;

The roots most fruitful, from which words abound,

Are variations of the Verb and Noun,

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Nine sorts of words, I purpose here to teach,
Because in them we comprehend our speech:
These understood, and rightly used, we're taught
The mutual bliss of interchange of thought.

ARTICLES. (Articulus, a small joint, or pari.)

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The ARTICLES are these, -A, -An, and The,-
Before all Nouns to fix their sense must be:

The Definite* is The, and well defines

The Man, The Horse, The Fields, The Fruits, The Kinds.

• De, means out-Finis, the end.

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But A, or An, Indefinite* appear:

We say A Man, A Horse, An Hour, An Ear,

And if through all examples I had run,

'Tis undefined, for A means any one.

* In, means not-De Finis.

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From these examples of an Hour, an Ear,
An with mute h,-or Vowels must appear;
But when no articles with nouns we find,
All are compris'd, for man means all mankind.
NOUN OR SUBSTANTIVE. (*Nomen, a name.)

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A Noun, means name, of things, as house, man, ball,
We Common some, and others Proper call :
The GENDER, for distinction mark with care,
Are Male, or Female, though some Neuter are.

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Some Proper names, as Angel, Sun, or Time,
By common figure we like males decline;

But Moon, Church, Ships, and Virtues, as they were
Of Women's race, the female gender bear-

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One, is the number Singular,* for Nouns;
The Plural † number, all beyond abounds:
The Case of Nouns, implies the way they fall,
Some teach but one, but I find three in all.
* Singu.us, one by one. †' Pius, more.

Casum, to fa