4. There remains but one other point of distinction possible; and this must be, and in fact is, the true cause of the impression made on us. It is the unpremeditated and evidently habitual arrangement of his words, grounded on the habit of forseeing, in each integral part, or, more plainly, in every sentence, the whole that he then intends to communicate. However irregular and desultory his talk, there is method in the fragments. 5. Listen, on the other hand, to an ignorant man,. though perhaps shrewd and able in his particular calling; whether he be describing or relating. We immediately perceive that his memory alone is called into action, and that the objects and events recur in the narration in the same order, and with the same accompaniments, however accidental or impertinent, as they had first occurred to the narrator.. 6. The necessity of taking breath, the efforts of recollection, and the abrupt rectification of its failures, produce all his pauses; and with exception of the "and then," the "and there," and the still less significant "and so," they constitute likewise all his connections. QUESTIONS.-1. How is the question with which this piece begins, answered? 2. What does the golden rule of Cæsar-Insolens verbum, tanquam scopulum, evitare, teach? Ans. To shun an unusual word, as you would a rock. 3. What point of difference between the educated and the uneducated man, is specified in the 4th paragraph? LESSON XCIV. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. SPEC U LA' TION, contemplation; study. 2. Ac' ME, the top or highest point. 3. VEN ER A' TION, the highest degree of respect and reverence. 4. AD O RATION, worship. 5. PERI OD I CAL, Occurring at certain times. 6. SPON TA' NE OUs, produced without labor. 7. FER TIL I TY, fruitfulness. 8. AP PRE CIA TED, valued; prized. 9. AR' TER IES, those blood-vessels that convey the blond from the heart. 10. VEINS, those blood-vessels that convey the blood to the heart. 11. Viv' I FY, to animate; enliven. 12. FACHI, I TA TING, making easy. 13. FRIV O LOUS, light; trifling. 14. IM PET U OUS, moving rapidly. 15. DIS CRETION, cautiousness, 16 AL LI AN CES, unions, tributaries. 1. PLIN' Y, surnamed the Elder, and also the Naturalist, a distinguished Roman writer, born at Verona, or, as some say, at Como, A. D. 23. He died of suffocation, A. D. 79, in consequence of having approached too near to Mount Vesuvius, in order to observe the phenomena of its eruption. RIVERS. BRANDE, 1. There are few subjects in physical geography which present so wide a field for speculation as rivers, whether we regard them in a historical, political, economical, or scientific point of view. 2. They are associated with the earliest efforts of mankind to emerge from a state of barbarism; but they are no less serviceable to nations which have reached the acmé of civilization. In the earliest ages they were regarded with veneration, and became the objects of a grateful adoration, surpassed only by that paid to the sun and the host of heaven. 3. Nor is this surprising; for, in countries where the labors of the husbandman and shepherd depended, for a successful issue, on the falling of periodical rains, or the melting of the collected snows in a far distant country, such rivers as the Nile, the Ganges, and the Indus, were the visible agents of nature in bestowing on the inhabitants of their banks all the blessings of a rich and spontaneous fertility; and hence their waters were held sacred, and they received, and to this day retain, the adoration of the countries through which they flow. 4. But it is by countries which have already made progress in civilization, to which, indeed, they largely contribute, that the advantages of rivers are best appreciated, in their adaptation to the purposes of navi gation, and in their application to the useful arts. 5. Like the veins and arteries of the human body, which convey life and strength to its remotest extremities, rivers vivify, maintain, and excite the efforts of human industry, whether we regard them near their source as the humble instruments of turning a mill, in their progress as facilitating the transport of agri cultural or manufacturing produce from one district to another, or as enriching the countries at their mouths with the varied products of distant lands. 6. This has been admirably expressed by 'Pliny: "The beginnings of a river," he says, "are insignificant, and its infancy is frivolous: it plays among the flowers of a meadow; it waters a garden, or turns a little mill. Gathering strength, in its youth it becomes wild and impetuous. .7. Impatient of the restraints which it still meets with in the hollows among the mountains, it is restless and fretful; quick in its turning, and unsteady in its course. Now it is a roaring cataract, tearing up and overturning whatever opposes its progress, and it shoots headlong down from a rock; then it becomes a sullen and gloomy pool, buried in the bottom of a glen. 8. " Recovering breadth by repose, it again dashes along, till, tired of uproar and mischief, it quits all that it has swept along, and leaves the opening of the valley strewed with the rejected waste. Now quitting its retirement, it comes abroad into the world, journeying with more prudence and discretion through cultivated fields, yielding to circumstances, and winding round what would trouble it to overwhelm or remove. 9. "It passes through the populous cities, and all the busy haunts of man, tendering its services on every side, and becomes the support and ornament of the country. Increased by numerous alliances, and advanced in its course, it becomes grave and stately in its motions, loves peace and quiet, and in majestic silence rolls on its mighty waters till it is laid to rest in the vast abyss." QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of rivers considered as subjects of study or speculation. 2. How were rivers regarded in the early ages? 3. What, especially, is said of the Nile, the Ganges, and the Indus? 4. In what countries are rivers best appreciated? 5. What effect do rivers have upon human industry? 6. What is said of the beginnings of a river? 7. What is said of its subsequent course! Where is the river Nile? 8. The Ganges? 9. The Indus} LESSON XCV. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. MA TER' NAL, motherly. 2. HEARSE, carriage to convey the dead. 3. NURS' ER Y, a room appropriated to the care of children. 4. A DIEU', farewell. 5. AR DENT LY, with warnith; affectionately. 6. DUPE, a person deceived. 7. SUB MIS'ION, resignation. 8. DE PLOR' ED, lamented. LINES ON RECEIVING HIS MOTHER'S PICTURE. COWPER. 1. My Móther, (pl.) when I learned that thou wast déad, 2. I heard the bell tolled on thy burial day; 3. Thy maidens, grieved themselves at my concern, QUESTIONS.-1. To whom does Cowper represent himself as speak ng? 2. What were his feelings when his mother died? 3. By what promise was he, for a time, deceived? 4. What did he, at last, learn? With what modulation should this piece be read? What rule for the rising inflection on mother? What, for the rising on such, and the falling on was. 2d stanza? LESSON XCVI. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. BOND' AGE, slavery. 2. Do MAIN', territorial possession. 3. LAND' SCAPE, the view or prospect of a district of country. 4. EN CHANT ER, one that charms or enchants. 5. PLUME'LESS, without feathers. 6. RAR' EST, scarcest. 7. BRILLIANT, bright; splendid. 8. RE NOWN' ED, famous. 9. FORE BOD' ING, feeling a seFret sense of something future. 10. BANK RUPT, unable to pay just debts; insolvent. 11. SOL' ACE, consolation. 12. WIZ' ARD, an enchanter; a sorcerer. 13. DIS TRACT ED, perplexed; harassed. 1. O LYM' PUS is one of the most celebrated mountains of ancient Greece. It is represented by the poets as being the habitation of the gods, where Jupiter sat shrouded in clouds and mist from the eyes of mortals. It rises to the hight of about 6500 feet. THE WORLD FOR SALE. 1. THE WORLD FOR SALE!-Hang out the sign; Call every traveler here to me; Who'll buy this brave estate of mine, And set me from earth's bondage free : 'Tis going!-yes, I mean to fling 2. It is a glorious thing to see,- For sale! It shall be mine no more. I would not have you purchase dear; RALPH HOYT. Who bids?-Who'll buy the splendid Tear? 8. Here's WEALTH in glittering heaps of gold,Who bids?-But let me tell you fair, A baser lot was never sold ; Who'll buy the heavy heaps of care? |