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Thou must learn when yoúng, or be ignorant when in old àge.

Was this the calculation of one well versed in public affairs, or was it the dream of a smattering politician?

Had you rather that Cæsar were living, and die all sláves, or that Cæsar were dead, and live all frèemen?

Therefore, O ye judges, you are now to consider, whether it is more probable, that the deceased was murdered by the man who inherits his estate, or by him who inherits nothing but beggary by the same death. By the man who is raised from penury to plénty, or by him who is brought from happiness to misery. By him whom the lust of lucre has inflained with the most inveterate hatred against his own relations; or by him whose life was such, that he never knew what gain was, but from the product of his own labors. By him who, of all dealers in the trade of blood, was the most audacious; or by him who was so little accustomed to the forum and trials, that he dreads not only the benches of the court, but the very town. In short, ye judges, what I think most to the point is, you are to consider whether it is most likely that an enemy, or a son, would be guilty of this murder.

Exercise 3.-To Illustrate Rule 3, page 29.

True charity is not a meteor which occasionally glares, but a luminary which, in its orderly and regular course, dispenses a benignant influence.

But this is no time for a tribunal of justice, but for showing mèrcy; not for accusátion, but for philanthropy; not for tríal, but for pàrdon; not for sentence and execútion, but for compassion and kindness.

Howard visited all Europe, not to survey the sumptuous. ness of pálaces, or the stateliness of témples; not to make accurate measurement of the remains of ancient grandeur; not to form a schedule of the curiosities of modern árt; not to collect medals or collate mánuscripts; but to dive into the depth of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the gauge

and dimensions of misery, deprèssion, and contempt; to re member the forgotten, to attend the neglected, to visit the forsáken, and to compare and collate the distresses of all men, in all countries.

Exercise 4.-To Illustrate Rule 4, page 30.

Boys and girls; mén and women; óld and yoùng; párents and children; love and hatred; hópe and feàr; jóy and grièf; wealth and poverty.

What they know by reading, I know by action. They are pleased to slight my mean bírth; I despise their mean chàracters. Want of birth and fortune is the objection against mé; want of personal worth against them.

Mirth is short and tránsient; cheerfulness fixed and pèrmanent. Mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through the gloom of clouds, and glitters for a móment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of day-light in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serènity.

I esteem a habit of benígnity greatly preferable to munificence. The former is peculiar to great and distinguished persons; the latter belongs to flatterers of the people, who court the applause of the inconstant vùlgar.

Dryden knew more of man in his general nature; and Pope in his local manners. The notions of Dryden were formed by comprehensive speculation; those of Pope by minute attention. There is more dignity in the knowledge of Dryden, and more certainty in that of Pope.

Poetry was not the sole praise of either; for both excelled likewise in prose; but Pope did not borrow his prose from his predecessor. The style of Dryden is capricious and varied; that of Pope cautious and uniform. Dryden obeys the emotions of his own mind; Pope constrains his mind to his own rules of composition. Dryden is sometimes vehement and rapid; Pope is always smooth, uniform, and gentle. Dryden's page is a natural field rising into inequalities, and diversified by the varied exuberance of abundant vegetation; Pope's is a velvet lawn, shaven by the scythe, and levelled by the roller.

Exercise 5.-To Illustrate Rule 5, page 31. Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely be lieved among us, even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were éye-witnesses, and ministers of the wórd; it seemed good to mé also, having had perfect understanding of all things even from the very first, to write unto thee, in order, most excellent Theóphilus, that thou mightest know the certainty of those things wherein thou hast been instructed.

When the gay and smiling aspect of things has begun to leave the passages to a man's heart thus thoughtlessly unguarded; when kind caressing looks of every object without, that can flatter his senses, have conspired with the enemy within to betray him, and put him off his defénce; when music likewise hath lent her aid, and tried her power upon the pássions; when the voice of singing men, and the voice of singing women, with the sound of the viol and the lute, have broke in upon the soul, and in some tender notes, have touched the secret springs of rápture;—that moment, let us dissect and look into his heart; and see how vàin, how weak, how èmpty a thing it is.

So when the faithful pencil has designed
Some bright idea of the master's mind;
When a new world leaps out at his command,
And ready nature waits upon his hand;

When the ripe colors soften and unite,
And sweetly melt into just shade and light;
When mellowing years their full perfection give,
And the bold figure just begins to live,-
The treacherous colors the fair art betray,
And all the bright creation fades away!

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Methinks I see a fair and lovely child,
Sitting composed upon his mother's knée,

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And reading with a low and lisping voice
Some passage from the Sabbath; while the tears
Stand in his little eyes so softly blue,

Till, quite o'ercome with pity, his white arms
He twines around her néck, and hides his sighs,
Most infantine, within her gladdened bréast,
Like a sweet lamb, half sportive, half afráid,
Nestling one moment 'neath its bleating dàm.
And now the happy mother kisses oft
The tender-hearted child, lays down the book,
And asks him if he doth remember still
A stranger who once gave him, long agó,
A parting kiss, and blessed his laughing eyes.
His sobs speak fond remémbrance, and he weeps
To think so kind and good a man should dìe.

Death found strange beauty on that cherub brów,
And dashed it out. There was tint of rose
On cheek and lip; -he touched the veins with icé,
And the rose faded. Forth from those blue eyes
There spake a wishful tenderness, -a doubt
Whether to grieve or sleep, which innocence
Alone can wear. With ruthless háste, he bound
The silken fringes of their curtaining lids
Forever. There had been a murmuring sound,
With which the babe would claim its mother's éar,
Charming her even to tears. The spoiler set
His seal of silence. But there beamed a smile
So fixed and holy from that marble brów,
Death gazed and left it there;-he dared not steal
The signet-ring of Heaven.

O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day, That must be mortal to us both. O flowers, That never will in other climate grow,

My early visitation, and my last

At even, which I bred up with tender hand,
From the first opening bud, and gave ye names,
Who now shall rear you to the sun, or rank

Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Thee lastly, nuptial bower, by me adorned
With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee
How shall I part, and whither wander down
Into a lower world, to this obscure

And wild? how shall we breathe in other air
pure, accustomed to immortal fruits?

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Exercise 7.-To Illustrate Rule 7, page 32.

Though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knòwledge; and though I have all fàith, so that I could remove mòuntains, and have not chárity, I am nothing.

Charity is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly; seeketh not her òwn; is not easily provoked; thinketh no èvil; rejoiceth in the truth; beàreth all things; belièveth all things; hópeth all things; endureth all things.

Inspiring rites! which stimulate fear; rouse hope; kindle zeal; quicken dullness; increase discernment; exercise meinory; and inflame curiosity.

Exercise 8. To Illustrate Rule 8, page 33.

The high value of mental cultivation is another weighty motive for giving attendance to reading. What is it that mainly distinguishes a man from a brute? Knowledge. What makes the vast difference, then, between savage and civilized nations? Knowledge. What forms the principal difference between men, as they appear in the same society? Knowledge. What raised Franklin from the humble station of a printer's boy to the first honors of the country? Knowl

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