The syllable containing _er_ is not accented.
Only accented syllables double a final single consonant on adding a
syllable.) What rule applies in the formation of _carried? having?
endeavored? buried? taking? although? getting?_ What is peculiar in
_toward? half? water? stomach? wholly? again? body? succeeded? of?_
To remember whether _relief, belief,_ etc., have the digraph _ie_ or
_ei,_ notice that _e_ just precedes _f_ in the alphabet and in the word,
while the _i_ is nearer the _l_; besides, the words contain the word
_lie_. In _receive, receipt,_ the _e_ is placed nearest the _c_, which
it is nearest in the alphabet. Or, think of _lice: i_ follows _l_ and
_e_ follows _a,_ as in the words _believe_ and _receive_.
Observe the two _l_'s in _wholly,---_ one in _whole_; we do not have
_wholely,_ as we might expect. Also observe that in _again_ and _against
ai_ has the sound of _e_ short, as _a_ has that sound in _any_ and _many_.
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6. I believe it is impossible truly to express what the ecstasies of
the soul are when it is so saved, as I may say, out of the grave.
"For sudden joys, like sudden griefs, confound at first.
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