GRATITUDE.

11.

12.

He that hath nature in him, must be grateful;
"Tis the Creator's primary great law

That links the chain of beings to each other.

INGRATITUDE.

If there be a crime

Of deeper dye than all the guilty train
Of human vices, 'tis ingratitude.

WORDS.

MADDEN

BROOKE

13. Words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling like a dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

14.

INFLUENCE.

A pebble in the streamlet scant,

Has turned the course of many a river;

A dew-drop on the tender plant,

Has warped the giant oak forever.

FIDELITY.

BYRON.

15. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles;
His love sincere, his thoughts immaculate;
His tears pure messengers sent from his heart:
His heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth.

16.

17.

For praise too dearly loved, or warmly sought,
Enfeebles all internal strength of thought;
And the weak soul within itself unblest,
Leans for all pleasure on another s breast.

GOLDSMITH.

18,

19.

HAPPINESS.

Beware what earth calls happiness; beware
All joys, but joys that never can expire;
Who builds on less than an immortal base,
Fond as he seems, condemns his joys to death.

OPPORTUNITY.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life

Is bound in shallows, and in miseries.

YOUNG.

SHAKSPEARE

OCCASION.

20.

21.

Miss not the occasion; by the forelock take
That subtle Power, the never-halting Time,
Lest a mere moment's putting-off should make
Mischance almost as heavy as a crime.

GUILT.

What a state is guilt,

WORDSWORTH.

When every thing alarms it! Like a sentinel,
Who sleeps upon his watch, it wakes in dread,
E'en at a breath of wind.

HAVARD.

22.

THE PASSIONS.

O, how the passions, insolent and strong,
Bear our weak minds their rapid course along;
Make us the madness of their will obey,
Then die, and leave us to our griefs a prey.

DUTY.

23.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty,-
These were one in nature's plan;

Humble toil and heavenward duty,-
These will form the perfect man.

ORABBE

MRS. HALE

EQUALITY.

24.

Consider man, weigh well thy frame,
The king, the beggar are the same;
Dust formed us all. Each breathes his day,
Then sinks into his native clay.

COMPLAINT.

GAX.

25 To tell thy mis'ries will no comfort breed;
Men help thee most who think thou hast no need;
But if the world once thy misfortunes know,
Thou soon shalt lose a friend and find a foe.

RANDOLPH

FALSEHOOD.

26.

Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips;
Shame on the policy that first began

To tamper with the heart to hide its thoughts!
And doubly shame on that inglorious tongue,
That sold its honesty and told a lie.

COURTESY.

27. Would you both please and be instructed too,
Watch well the rage of shining, to subdue;
Hear every man upon his favorite theme,
And ever be more knowing than you seem;
The lowest genius will afford some light,
Or give a hint that had escaped your sight.

HAVARD.

STILLINGFLEET

LESSON CLXX.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. AR' BI TRA RY, despotic; tyrannical. 2 BRAV' ING, setting at defiance. 3. RE SIGN' ED, gave up. 4. PASS' IVE, unresisting. 5. VOL UN TEERS', offers voluntarily. 6. VAS' SAL AGE, political servitude; slavery. 7. SEP UL CHERS', tombs. 8. DIS PENS'ED, assigned; bestowed.

1. CTES' I PHON, (Tes' i phon,) the Athenian who brought forward the proposition in relation to the crown of gold, which the Athenians decreed to Demosthenes for his public services.

2. MAR' A THON, (see note, p. 351.)

3. PLATE A, a town in Boeotia, in Ancient Greece, celebrated for

the battle in which the Persians, under Mardonius, were defeated by the Greeks, B. C. 479.

4. SAL' A MIS, a celebrated island of Greece, off the coast of Attica, near which the Persians were completely defeated in a seafight, 480 B. C.

5. AR TE MI SI UM, a promontory on the north-west side of Euboea. Off this coast the Greeks obtained their first victory over the fleet of Xerxes, king of Persia.

6. Es' CHI NES, a distinguished Athenian orator, who accased Ctesiphon, and brought him to trial, for his proposition respecting the crown of gold decreed to Demosthenes. He was born 397 B. C.

ATHENIAN PATRIOTISM.

DEMOSTHENES.

1 The Athenians never were known to live contented in a slavish, though secure obedience to unjust and arbitrary power. No: Our whole history is a series of gallant contests for preeminence: the whole period of our national existence has been spent in braving dangers, for the sake of glory and renown.

2. And so highly do you esteem such conduct, as characteristic of the Athenian spirit, that those of your ancestors who were most eminent for it, are ever the most favorite objects of your praise. And with reason: for, who can reflect without astonishment, on the magnanimity of those men who resigned their lands, gave up their city, and embarked in their ships, rather than live at the bidding of a stranger?

3. The Athenians of that day looked out for no speaker, no general, to procure them a state of easy slavery. They had the spirit to reject even life, unless they were allowed to enjoy that life in freedom. For it was a principle fixed deeply in every breast, that man was not born to his parents only, but to his country.

4. And mark the distinction. He who regards himself as born only to his parents, waits in passive submission for the hour of his natural dissolution. He who considers that he is the child of his country, also, volunteers to meet death rather than behold that country reduced to vassalage; and thinks those insults and disgraces which he must endure, in a state enslaved, much more terrible than death.

5. Should I attempt to assert that it was I who inspired you with sentiments worthy of your ancestors, I should meet the just resentment of every hearer. No: it is my point to show that such sentiments are properly your own; that they were the sentiments of your country long before my day. I claim but my share of merit in having acted on such principles in every part of my administration.

6. He, then, who condemns every part of my administration, he who directs you to treat me with severity, as one who has involved the State in terrors and dangers,-while he labors to deprive me of present honor, robs you of the applause of all posterity. For, if you now pronounce, that, as my public conduct has not been right, 'Ctesiphon must stand condemned, it must be thought that you yourselves have acted wrong, not that you owe your present state to the caprice of fortune.

7. But it can not be! No: my countrymen, it can not be that you have acted wrong in encountering danger bravely for the liberty and safety of all Greece. No! I affirm it by the spirits of our sires, who rushed upon destruction at Marathon!--by those who stood arrayed at Platæa!--by those who fought the sea-fight at Salamis! by the men of 'Artemisium-by the others, so many and so brave, who now rest in our public sepulchers!—all of whom their country judged worthy of the same honor; all, I say, "Eschines; not those only who prevailed, not those only who were victorious. And with reason. What was the part of gallant men, they all performed. Their success was such as the Supreme Ruler of the world dispensed to each.

QUESTIONS.-1. How are the Athenians described in the first fou paragraphs? 2. What is said of him who is born only to his pa rents? 3. Of him who considers himself as the child of his coun try? 4. What merit does Demosthenes claim in the 5th paragraph! 5. What does the orator say of the man who condemns every part of his administration? 6. What is said of the position of Ctesiphon? 7. What does he affirm in the 7th paragraph? 8. By what does he make the affirmation?