the Batavian and Frisian races with the subtler, ore delicate, and more graceful national elements, in which the genius of the Frank, the Roman, and the Roman- 135 ized Celt were so intimately blended. As long as the father of the country lived such a union was possible. His power of managing men was so unquestionable that there was always a hope, even in the darkest hour; for men felt implicit reliance as well on his intellectual 140 resources as on his integrity. This power of dealing with his fellow-men he manifested in the various ways in which it has been usually exhibited by statesmen. He possessed a ready eloquence-sometimes impassioned, oftener argumentative, always rational. His influ-145 ence over his audience was unexampled in the annals of that country or age; yet he never condescended to flatter the people. He never followed the nation, but always led her in the path of duty and of honor; and was much more prone to rebuke the vices than to pan- 150 der to the passions of his hearers. He never failed to administer ample chastisement to parsimony, to jealousy, to insubordination, to intolerance, to infidelity, wherever it was due; nor feared to confront the states or the people in their most angry hours, and to tell 155 them the truth to their faces. This commanding position he alone could stand upon; for his countrymen knew the generosity which had sacrificed his all for ANALYSIS.--135, 136. Who are ineant by the Frank, the Roman and the Romanized Celt? 139. Dispose of there and even. 139. Point out the figure in this line. 149. What figure in the line? 150, 151. What is the meaning of pander! 151-163. Analyze these lines. 155. Point out the figure in the line. 158. Parse all. them; the self-denial which had eluded rather than sought political advancement, whether from king or 160 people; and the untiring devotion which had consecrated a whole life to toil and danger in the cause of their emancipation. While, therefore, he was eer ready to rebuke, and always too honest to flatter, he at the same time possessed the eloquence which could:65 convince or persuade. He knew how to reach both the mind and the heart of his hearers. His orations, whether extemporaneous or prepared; his written messages to the States-General, to the provincial authorities, to the municipal bodies; his private correspond- 170 ence with men of all ranks, from emperors and kings down to secretaries, and even children,-all show an easy flow of language, a fullness of thought, a power of expression rare in that age, a fund of historical allusion, a considerable power of imagination, a warmth of senti- 175 ment, a breadth of view, a directness of purpose; a range of qualities, in short, which would in themselves have stamped him as one of the master-minds of his century had there been no other monument to his memory than the remains of his spoken or written eloquence. ANALYSIS.-159. Give the case of self-denial. 166. Name the object of knew. 172. Dispose of down to. Parse all. Name the objects of show. 180 11 WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, 1780-1842. WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING, the popular and able theologian and essayist, was the son of William Channing, a distinguished lawyer of Newport, Rhode Island, where the son was born on the 7th of April, 1780. Channing was educated at Harvard, where he graduated with high honors in 1798. He was then, for eighteen months, private tutor in a family in Richmond, Virginia, and subsequently, in 1803, he became pastor of the Federal Street Church in Boston. In 1822 he visited Europe, where he made the acquaintance of Wordsworth and Coleridge, both of whom became his ardent admirers and fast friends. It was Coleridge who said of Channing, "He has the love of wisdom and the wisdom of love." On his return from Europe ne continued his pastoral duties unaided until 1824, when he received a colleague, and from that time forward he gave more attention to literature. Channing was a speaker and writer who endeared himself to his countrymen not only through his literary work, but also by his humility and excellence as a Christian gentleman; and it is said that he numbered people of all sects among his friends. His favorite topics were those which had more or less bearing on Christian philanthropy and reform. His articles on Milton, Napoleon, and Fénelon, which appeared from 1826 to 1829, won for him wide celebrity, as did also his valuable lectures, among the best of them being Self-Culture, first delivered in 1839, and the series on the Elevation of the Laboring Classes, delivered in 1840. Channing's works have been translated into both German and French, and extensive editions have been published in England, France, and Germany. The most complete edition of his works was that published in Boston in 1848, six years after his death. Channing died on the 2d of October, 1842, while on a mountain-excursion, and was buried at Mount Auburn, where a monument, designed by his friend Washington Allston, was erected to his memory. CRITICISM BY GEORGE S. HILLARD. DR. CHANNING'S style is admirably suited for the exposition of moral and spiritual truth. It is rich, flowing, and perspicuous; even its diffuseness, which is its obvious literary defect, is no disadvantage in this aspect. There is a persuasive charm over all his writings, flowing from his earnestness of purpose, his deep love of humanity, his glowing hopes, and his fervid religious faith. He has a poet's love of beauty and a prophet's love of truth. He lays the richest of gifts upon the purest of altars. The heart expands under his influence, as it does when we see a beautiful countenance beaming with the finest expression of benevolence and syınpathy. He was a man of slight frame and delicate organiration. His manner in the pulpit was simple and impressive, and the tones of his voice were full of sweetness and penetrating power. He was not one of those speakers who produce a great effect upon those who hear them for the first time, but those who were accustomed to his teachings recognized in him all the elements of the highest eloquence. THE SENSE OF BEAUTY. BEAUTY is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds in the numberless flowers of the spring. It waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass. It haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And & not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the cloud, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. (The universe is its temple; and those men who are alive to it cannot lift their eyes without feeling themselves encompassed 10 with it on every side. Now, this beauty is so precious, the enjoyments it gives are so refined and pure, so congenial with our tenderest and most noble feelings, and so akin to worship, that it is painful to think of the multitude of men as living in the midst of it, and living 15 almost as blind to it as if, instead of this fair earth and glorious sky, they were tenants of a dungeon. An infinite joy is lost to the world by the want of culture of this spiritual endowment. Suppose that I were to visit a cottage, and see its walls lined with the 20 choicest pictures of Raphael, and every spare nook filled with statues of the most exquisite workmanship, and that I were to learn that neither man, woman, nor child Ever cast an eye at these miracles of art, how should I feel their privation! how should I want to open their 25 ANALYSIS.-1. Point out the figure in the line. 1-8. Notice the judicious arrangement of short and long sentences. Is the style periodic or loose? 9. Point out the figure in the line. What is the meaning of alive to it! 11-14. What is the correlative of so in line 11? When are these two words used correlatively? 16, 17. of this.... sky. Of what is this phrase a modifier? 21. Who as Raphael? 25, 26 open their eyes. Is eyes used figuratively or literally? |