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of fair stars, countless as the sands upon the sea-shore. It } is a great, a magnificent world; and He who made it,-Oh! He is the perfection of all loveliness, all goodness, all greatness, all gloriousness!

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define laden, blossoms, blue, bright, merry, sing. ambs, gambol, hillside, wave, (move like waves?) brooks, ripple, gladress, yon, eagle, joyously, soars. Bird of liberty, bird of America-Why to called? Define hoary peaks, prop, blaze, midway, dim, gaze, glʊw, 'warmth and lightness?) huge, interminable, waste, myriad, sands, magnificent.

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SECT. CX.-TO-MORROW.

TO-MORROW, didst thou say ?

2 Methought I heard Horatio say,

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To-morrow.

Go to: I will not hear of it. 4 To-morrow!

5 "Tis a sharper, who stakes his penury

Against thy plenty; who takes thy ready cash,

And pays thee naught but wishes, hopes, and promises,
The currency of idiots: injurious bankrupt,

6 That gulls the easy creditor! To-morrow!
7 It is a period nowhere to be found

In all the hoary registers of Time,
Unless perchance in the fool's calendar.
8 Wisdom disclaims the word, nor holds society
With those who own it. No, my Horatio :
9 'Tis fancy's child, and folly is its father:

Wrought of such stuff as dreams are, and as baseless
As the fantastic visions of the evening.

DEFINITIONS, &C.-Methought-I thought. Define sharper, (rogue?) penury, plenty, ready cash, naught, currency, idiots, bankrupt, gulls, easy creditor, nowhere, period, hoary, registers, perchance, fool's calendar, (record, register, or common-place book of a fool, in which all kinds of absurdities are of course inserted,) disclaims, holds society, (keeps company,) wrought, stuff, baseless, fantastic, visions of the evening, (either dreams as in the preceding line, or what a man often thinks he sees, when walking in the evening.)

SECT. CXI.-DIALOGUE BETWEEN A MASTER AND HIS

SERVANT.

1 James. But, sir, you must have some poultry.

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Love. No'; I will have none.

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3 James. Indeed, sir, you should.

4 Love. Well, then, kill the old hen; for she has done

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laying.

James. Mercy! sir, how the folks will talk of it! 6 Indeed, people say enough of you already.

Love. Eh! why what do the people say, pray ?

James. Ah, sir, if I could be assured you would not be angry'.

Love. Not at all'; for I am always glad to hear what the world says of me".

James. Why, sir, since you will have it then, they make a jest of you everywhere: nay'; of your servants, on your 11 account. One says, you pick a quarrel with them quarterly, in order to find an excuse to pay them no wages.

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Love. Poh! poh!

James. Another says, you were taken one night stealing your own oats from your own horses.

Love. That must be a lie'; for I never allow them any. James. In a word, you are the by-word everywhere; and you are never mentioned, but by the names of covetous, stingy, scraping, old

Love. Get along, you impudent villain!

James. Nay, sir'; you said you would not be angry'. 18 Love. Get out, you dog! you—

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define poultry, (what is understood after should in Sent. 3d?) laying, (i. e. eggs in the nest,) folks, angry, pick a quarrel, quarterly, excuse, wages, (what feeling is expressed by poh! poh! ?) taken, (caught, seized,) oats, lie, allow, any, in a word, by-word, covetous, stingy, scraping, impudent, dog, (really a dog? or like ons?)

SECT. CXII.-A CENTURY FROM THE BIRTH OF WASHINGTON.

1 GENTLEMEN, we are at the point of a century from the birth of Washington; and what a century it has been! During its course, the human mind has seemed to proceed 2 with a sort of geometric velocity: accomplishing, for human intelligence, and human freedom, more than had been done 3 in fives or tens of centuries preceding. Washington stands at the commencement of a new era, as well as at the head 4 of the new world. A century from the birth of Washing5 ton has changed the world. The country of Washington

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has been the theatre on which a great part of that change has been wrought; and Washington himself a principal 6 agent, by which it has been accomplished. His age and his country are equally full of wonders, and of both he is the chief.

If the prediction of the poet, uttered a few years before 7 his birth, be true; if indeed it be designed by Providence that the grandest exhibition of human character and human affairs shall be made on this theatre of the western world'· if it be true that,

"The first four acts already past,

A fifth shall close the drama with the day';
Time's noblest offspring is the last';"

how could this imposing, swelling, final scene, be appropriately opened, how could its intense interest be adequately sustained, but by the introduction of just such a character as our Washington!

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Point of a century-point at the end of a hundred "ears, as a period at the end of a sentence. Define geometric, velocity, accomplishing, intelligence, (minds?) preceding, era, head, (i. e. of men in, in the most honorable places among men in, &c. Because the head is the most important part, dignified part of the body, we call the most important part of any thing the head,) theatre, (here a place for the performance of plays? or any place on which a great business has been transacted?) principal, agent, wonders, chief, prediction, designed, Providence, grandest, exhibition, western, acts, drama, offspring, imposing, swelling, final, appropriately, opened, intense, interest, adequately, sustained, introduction, just such, our.

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SECT. CXIII.-NEWSPAPERS.

1 Books are very pretty ornaments for a library, but for common, every-day use, what is there so cheap, so interesting, so instructive, so amusing, so indispensable as a good 2 family newspaper? Nothing, that we ever heard of. 3 As it comes smoking from the press, it contains all the freshness, 4 and ten times the variety, of a new book every week. smooths the thoughtful brow of age, and affords to the younger members of a family a most easy and agreeable 5 mode of acquiring habits of reading and reflection. Verily, the newspaper causes many hours to pass away pleasantly

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and profitably, which would otherwise have been spent in 6 idleness and mischief. Long evenings are before us once more, and we pity him who has not a good supply of these pleasant companions.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define books, pretty, ornaments, library, cheap, interesting, instructive, amusing, indispensable, newspaper, smoking, press, freshness, variety, smooths, affords, easy, agreeable, mode, acquiring, reflection, pleasantly, profitably, otherwise, spent, idleness, mischief, evenings, pity, good supply, companions.

SECT. CXIV.-FLOUR AND GRAIN.

1 THE quantity of flour, wheat, and corn left at tide-water, from the commencement of navigation to the 30th of November, in the years 1846 and 1847, is as follows:

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941,182 1,233,767 4,300,230

2 By reducing the wheat to flour, the quantity of the latter left at tide-water this year, compared with the corresponding period of last year, shows an excess equal to 1,187,635 barrels of flour.

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The receipts of corn thus far exceed by 4,279,627 bushels the entire receipts of 1846.

The following table shows the quantity of some others of the principal articles of produce left at tide-water, from the commencement of navigation to the 30th of November, inclusive, during the years 1846, (229 days,) and 1847, (214 days.)

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PROVIDENCE GUIDES IMPERCEPTIBLY.

DEFINITIONS, &c.—Define navigation, (on the canal and river ?) Novem ber, wheat, corn, flour, tide-water, (water influenced by the tide,) reducing, compared, corresponding, period, shows, excess, barrel, receipts, exceed, entire, following, table, principal, articles, inclusive.

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SECT. CXV.-THE CHRISTIAN ISRAEL.

THUS far on life's perplexing path,

Thus far, thou, Lord, our steps hast led:
Snatched from the world's pursuing wrath;
Unharmed though floods hung o'er our head'
Like ransomed Israel on the shore,

Here then we pause, look back, adore.

Strangers, and pilgrims here below,
Like all our fathers in their day,
We to the land of promise go,
Lord, by thine own appointed way:
Still guide, illumine, cheer our flight,
In cloud by day, in fire by night.
Safety thy presence is, and rest;
While, as the eagle o'er her brood,
Flutters her pinions, stirs the nest,
Covers, defends, provides them food,
Bears on her wings, instructs to fly,
Thy love prepares us for the sky.

Protect us through the wilderness,
From fiery serpents, plague, and foe:
With bread from heaven thy people bless,
And living streams where'er we go;

Nor let our rebel hearts repine,

Or follow any voice but thine.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define perplexing, snatched, pursuing, wrath, unharmed, ransomed, Israel, (children of Israel,) pause, adore, strangers, pilgrims, land of promise, (the land promised: heaven,) appointed, guide, illumine, cheer, flight, flutters, pinions, provides, bears, (carries ?) instructs, sky, (heaven,) protect, fiery, serpents, plague, living streams, (perennial, unfailing streams,) rebel, (i. e. rebellious,) repine.

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SECT. CXVI.-PROVIDENCE GUIDES IMPERCEPTIBLY.

PROVIDENCE Conducts us with so much goodness through the different periods of our life, that we do not perceive our

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