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English Grammar in Familiar Lectures by Samuel Kirkham
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_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 as well as to ourselves.
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