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THE WHIGS OF S. CAROLINA.-EVIL SPEAKING.

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SECT. XVII. THE WHIGS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

NEVER was there exhibited in the history of the world, higher examples of noble daring, dreadful suffering, and heroic endurance, than by the Whigs of Carolina during the Revolution. The whole state, from the mountain to the sea, was overrun by an overwhelming force of the enemy: the 2 fruits of industry perished on the spot where they were produced, or were consumed by the foe: the "plains of Carolina" drank up the most precious blood of her citizens: black and smoking ruins marked the places which had been the habitations of her children! Driven from their homes into the gloomy and almost impenetrable swamps, even there 3 the spirit of liberty survived"; and South Carolina, sustained by the example of her Sumters and her Marions, proved by her conduct, that though her soil might be overrun, the spirit of her people was invincible.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define exhibited, daring, suffering, dreadful, (so painful as to inspire in those who saw it dread,) heroic, endurance, Whigs, state, (condition? or a given territory ?) overrun, force, (army?) industry, perished, spot, produced, consumed, (eaten?) foe, drank up, (absorbed,) black, ruins, driven, impenetrable, swamps, survived, sustained, invincible.

SECT. XVIII.-EVIL SPEAKING.

1 THOSE persons who speak evil of others, have sometimes reason to repent very bitterly of their conduct: especially 2 those persons who thus speak among strangers. The following is a striking case of this.

3 At an assembly, a gentleman entered into conversation with 4 a young nobleman near him. Being a stranger, he made several inquiries concerning the company, which were answer5 ed with great politeness. At length he said, "Who is that 6 fat sow at the other end of the room ?" That, sir," replied the young nobleman, "that fat sow is the Countess of D- -; and I have the honor to be one of her little pigs."

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DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define strangers, striking, assembly, (is of people understood after this word ?) politeness, Countess.

THE HERMIT AND THE VISION.

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SECT. XIX.-A HAPPY REPLY.

A VERY great lawyer was the son of very poor parents; in fact he was the son of a barber; but he had too much good 2 sense, to feel any false shame on that account. We have heard it related of him, that when, in an early period of his professional career, a brother lawyer, with whom he happened to have a quarrel, had the bad taste to twit him on his origin, his manly and severe answer was, 'Yes, sir, I am the son of a barber if you had been the son of a barber, you would have been a barber yourself."

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DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define professional, career, bad taste, twit, origin, manly, severe, son.

SECT. XX.-AN ODD WAY OF ACCOUNTING FOR LENGTH OF ROPE.

1 AN Irishman, who served on board a man-of-war in the capacity of waiter, was selected by one of the officers to haul in a tow-line of considerable length, which was towing over 2 the side. After drawing in forty or fifty fathoms, which had put his patience severely to the proof, as well as every muscle of his arms, he muttered to himself, "Sure it is as long as 3 to-day and to-morrow!—It is a good week's work for any 4 five in the ship"!-Bad luck to the arm or leg, it will 5 leave me at last!-What! 6 More of it yet! 7 Och, mur8 der! the sea is mighty deep to be sure'!"-After continuing in a similar strain, and conceiving there was little probability of the completion of his labor, he suddenly stopped short, and, addressing the officer, exclaimed, “Bad manners to me, sir, if I do not think somebody has cut off the end of it'!" DEFINITIONS, &c.-Man-of-war-a ship of war. Can you tell why a ship is so called? Define capacity, selected, haul, tow-line, considerable, fathoms, proof, muscle, muttered, strain, (what other meaning has this word?) conceiving, probability, completion.

SECT. XXI.-THE HERMIT AND THE VISION.

1 Ir is told of a religious recluse, who, in the early ages of Christianity betook himself to a cave in Upper Egypt, which had been a depository for mummies, that he prayed there,

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morning, noon and night: eating only of the dates which some neighboring trees afforded, and drinking the water of the Nile.

After this duty one day, he fell asleep, and the vision of an angel appeared to him in a dream, commanding him to arise, and cut down a neighboring palm-tree, and make a rope of its fibres; and after it was done, the angel would ap3 pear to him again. The hermit awoke and instantly applied himself to obey the vision.

4 He travelled about, from place to place, many days before he could procure an axe; and during this journey, he felt 5 happier than he had been for many years. His prayers were now short and few; but what they wanted in length and number, they out-measured in fervency.

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Having returned with his axe, he cut down the tree, and with much labor, and diligence during several days, prepared the fibres to make the rope, and after a continuance of daily occupation for some weeks, completed the command.

The vision that night appeared to the hermit, as promised, and thus addressed him: "You are now no longer weary of 8 life, but happy. Know then, that man was made for labor; and prayer also is his duty: the one as well as the other, 9 is essential to his well-being. Arise in the morning, take the cord, and with it, gird up thy loins, and go forth into the world; and let it be a memorial to thee of what God expects from man, if he would be blessed with happiness on earth.” DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define recluse, betook, depository, mummies, dates. Where is Upper Egypt? what is the Nile? Define vision, dream, arise, palm-tree, rope, fibres, hermit, awoke, instantly, applied himself, travelled, axe, fervency, continuance, occupation, some. Command-i. e. the thing commanded, promised. Define weary, happy, well-being, cord, memorial, expects, earth.

SECT. XXII.-HONESTY.

DR. ADAM CLARK was placed in early life with a Mr. 1 Bennet, a linen merchant of Colraine, in the north of Ireland.

Mr. Bennet and himself were one day engaged in prepar2 ing the linen for the great market in Dublin: measuring how many yards there were in each piece; Adam laying 3 hold of one end, and Mr. Bennet of the other. They found

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that one piece wanted a couple of inches to make a complete yard at the end.

“Come, Adam,” says Mr. B., "lay hold of the piece and pull against me, and we shall soon make it come up to 5 the yard." Alas! he little knew whom he had to deal 6 with. Adam dropped the linen on the ground, and stood and looked like one confounded.

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'Sir," said he, I cannot do it: I think it is a wrong thing."

Nonsense," said Mr. B.: "it is done every day: it 9 will not make the linen a bit the worse; the process it has 10 passed through has made it shrink a little. Come take hold."

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Mr. B. being a very placid man, they entered into a dispute about this piece of linen, until at last, he was obliged 12 to give it up: it was a lost case: Adam would not consent to meddle with it: he thought it was not fair: his conscience was against it; thus early showing that scrupulous honesty for which he was remarkable during life.

DEFINITIONS, &c.—-Early life-there is one little word understood before early, and two between it and life: what are they? Where and what is Ireland? Define linen, market. In what part of Ireland is Dublin? Define measuring, yards, couple, complete, pull, deal, confounded, nonsense, shrink, placid, lost, meddle, fair, conscience, scrupulous honesty. This is being very honest indeed! How many grains make a scruple ; how many scruples an ounce! It will not cheat a man even out of a scruple! Dear scholar, is your honesty scrupulous?

SECT. XXIII.- -ABSENCE OF MIND.

A VERY absent-minded minister, finding his sight beginning 1 to fail, bought a pair of spectacles; and on the first day of using them, he preached for a brother minister; when he was observed to have them at the top of his forehead 2 during the whole sermon. So you have taken, at last, to spectacles, doctor," said a friend after the service. "Yes,"

3 he replied; "I found I could not do without them; and I wonder now I never used them before to-day."

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DEFINITIONS, &c.-Absent-minded--with the mind absent from the present company or business. Define spectacles, minister, observed, top, forehead, service. Is any thing understood between do and without them.

SECT. XXIV.-A NAUTICAL SERMON.

WHEN Mr. Whitefield preached before the seamen at New York, he addressed them in the following manner: Well, 1 my boys, we have a clear sky, and are making fine headway over a smooth sea, before a light breeze, and we shall soon lose sight of the land; but what means this sudden lowering of the heavens; and that dark cloud rising from 2 beneath the western horizon? Hark! 3 Don't you hear distant thunder? don't you see those flashes of lightning? 5 Every man to his duty!

4 There is a storm gathering!

6 How the waves rise and dash against the ship! 7 The air is dark! the tempest rages! our masts are gone! the ship 8 is on her beam ends! What next?"

It is said that the unsuspecting tars, reminded of their 9 former perils on the deep, as if struck by the power of magic, rose, and with one voice, exclaimed, "TAKE TO THE LONG-BOAT."

DEFINITIONS, &C.-Define headway, light, (light, not heavy? or light not dark?) lowering, horizon, distant, thunder, flashes, lightning, storm, gathering, waves, dash, air, dark, tempest, rages, masts.

A ship is on her beam ends, when she is upset. Recollect where all the beams of a ship end, and you will understand this. What must be supplied in Sent. 5th, to make it complete?

SECT. XXV.—THE FOOL'S REPROOF.

"THERE was a certain nobleman," says bishop Hall, “who 1 kept a fool, to whom he one day gave a staff, with a charge to keep it, till he should meet with one who was a greater 2 fool than himself. Not many years after, the nobleman fell 3 sick, and did not expect to live. The fool came to see him. 4 His sick lord said to him, "I must shortly leave you."5" And whither are you going?"—6 "Into another world.”7" And when will you come again? 8 Within a month ?"9"No."-10" Within a year ?"-11 " No."-12" When 13 then ?"-" Never."-14"Never!" said the fool;

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