22. Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

23. Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear, and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

24. When your superiors talk to anybody, hearken not, neither speak, nor laugh.

25. When you speak of God or his attributes, let it be seriously, in reverence. Honor and obey your natural parents, although they be poor.

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26. In your apparel, be modest, and endeavor to accommodate nature, rather than to procure admiration; keep to the fashion of your equals, such as are civil and orderly with respect to times and places.

27. Play not the peacock, looking everywhere about you to see if you be well decked, if your shoes fit well, if your stockings set neatly, and clothes handsomely.

28. Think before you speak; pronounce not imperfectly, nor bring out your words too hastily, but orderly and distinctly.

29. Undertake not what you can not perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

30. When you deliver a matter, do it without passion, and with discretion, however mean the person may be you do it to.

31. Be not tedious in discourse; make not many digressions, nor repeat often the same manner of dis

course.

32. Use no reproachful language against any one, neither curse, nor revile.

33. Let your countenance be pleasant, but in serious matters somewhat grave.

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34. Being to advise or reprehend any one, consider whether it ought to be in public or private, presently or at some other time, and in what terms to do it; and, in reproving, show no signs of choler, but do it with sweetness and mildness.

35. Mock not nor jest at anything of importance; break no jests that are sharp-biting; and if you deliver anything witty and pleasant, abstain from laughing thereat yourself.

36. Associate yourselves with men of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

37. Utter not base and frivolous things among grave and learned men; nor very difficult questions or subjects among the ignorant; nor things hard to be believed.

38. Speak not of doleful things in time of mirth, nor at the table; speak not of melancholy things, as death and wounds; and if others mention them, change, if you can, the discourse. Tell not your dreams but to your intimate friends.

39. Break not a jest where none takes pleasure in mirth; laugh not aloud, nor at all without occasion. Deride no man's misfortune, though there seems to be some

cause.

40. Go not thither where you know not whether you shall be welcome or not. Give not advice without being asked; and when desired, do it briefly.

41. Treat with men at fit times about business, and whisper not in the company of others.

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42. Be not hasty to believe flying reports to the disparagement of any.

43. Speak not injurious words, neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasica.

44. Detract not from others, neither be excessive in commending.

45. Be not apt to relate news, if you know not the truth thereof. In discoursing of things you have heard, name not your author always. A secret dis

cover not.

46. Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy.

47. When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

48. Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of tractable and commendable nature; and, in all causes of passion, admit reason to govern.

49. Gaze not on the marks or blemishes of others, and ask not how they came. What you speak in secret to your friend, deliver not before others.

George Washington.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. These maxims were compiled by Washington when thirteen years old. His biographer says of him: "His intercourse with men, private and public, in every walk and station, was marked with a consistency, a fitness to occasion, a dignity, decorum, condescension, and mildness and respect for the claims of others, and a delicate perception of the nicer shades of civility, which were not more the dictates of his natural good sense and incomparable judgment than the fruits of a long and unwearied discipline." These maxims are not arranged here in the order that Washington arranged them, but are classified under the following heads: (1.) Those which relate to behavior in company (1 to 17); (II.) those which relate to treatment of superiors in rank, fortune, or age (18 to 25); (II.) those which relate to personal appearance and bearing or demeanor (26 to 33); (IV.) those which relate to proper regard for the occasion, or the needs and desires of those present (34 to 41); (v.) those which relate to gossip, consideration to be shown toward others--those, in short, which are based on the Golden Rule (42 to 49). See "Manners at the Table" (CXXVII.).

II. Writ'-ings (rit'-), qual'-i-ty, en-děav'-or (-děv ́-), as-sō'-ci-āte (-shi-), ǎt'-tri-būte, eon'-sciençe (-shens), pre-çed'-en-cy.

III. Name-words are sometimes made out of describing-words. Thus, th added to true makes truth (e being dropped), the name of the quality; thus, too, length from long (o becoming e); health from hale; wealth from well or weal; width from wide; warmth from warm. Can you think of any others?

There are many words and

IV. Discourse, reprove, deride, flatterer. phrases in this piece used in old-fashioned (obsolete or obsolescent) significations; e. g., major side (14), deliver (16), greater quality (rank) (18), strait (narrow), dignity (position of influence) (19), etc.

V. Condense the above rules, if possible, so as to make five general ones.

IX. MORNING SOUNDS.

1. But who the melodies of morn can tell?

The wild brook babbling down the mountain's side;
The lowing herd; the sheepfold's simple bell;

The pipe of early shepherd, dim descried
In the lone valley; echoing far and wide,
The clamorous horn along the cliffs above;
The hollow murmur of the ocean tide;

The hum of bees; the linnet's lay of love;
And the full choir that wakes the universal grove.

2. The cottage curs at early pilgrim bark;

Crowned with her pail, the tripping milkmaid sings; The whistling plowman stalks afield; and hark! Down the rough slope the ponderous wagon rings; Through rustling corn the hare astonished springs; Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour; The partridge bursts away on whirring wings; Deep mourns the turtle in sequestered bower; And shrill lark carols clear from her aërial tower.

James Beattie.

FOR PREPARATION.-I. From "The Minstrel, or the Progress of Genius," Book I., xxxviii. and xxxix. Compare the tone of this piece with any that you know of Byron's that describe nature (CXIX.)-the restfulness of this with the unrestfulness of Byron's. (The soul that is at one with itself—not torn asunder by conflicting passions and principles-here looks out upon nature and finds itself reflected in what it sees.) Do you not think that the moods in which we look at nature generally determine the manner in which we describe it? Find other differences between this piece and corresponding ones from Longfellow, Bryant, and Whittier (see, also, X.).

II. Měl ́-o-dieş, lōw'-ing, ĕeh'-o-ing (ěk'-), ehoir (kwir), whis'-tling (hwis'ling), plow'-man, whîr'-ring.

III. "Babbling," "lowing." Many descriptive words are derived from action-words by adding ing (ing denotes action, not predicated, but belonging to, and in present time). Make a list of all such words in the lesson ending in ing, and opposite each write the action-word from which it is derived.

IV. Babbling, "dim descried," pipe, "lone valley," clamorous, "hollow murmur," ," "universal grove," ponderous, "drowsy hour," turtle (dove), sequestered, aërial.

city, or in the country? Describe accurately the

V. Would these morning sounds be heard in a —in all countries, or only in some particular ones? location of such a country (e. g., it must be near a mountain, in a country where are found shepherds with pipes, and huntsmen with horns; near the ocean; where milkmaids carry pails on their heads, etc.).