EFINITIONS, &c.-Pause some time after Sent. 1st, as if thinking to Given his hand-enself. Define mean, aversion, bred up, count.

ed to marry. Deed-i. e. fulfilling the engagement, being married. ne statesman, esteem, trust. Where is Sicily? Define bribe, fatter, le, avoid, spare, observer, plays, music, seldom, sort, mocked, scorned, eart's ease, (content?) dangerous. Ha! in Sent. 3, expresses surprise, should therefore be delivered with the rising slide. What must be plied before perhaps in the same sentence?

SECT. CCXXXVII.-NEVER BE IN A HURRY.

You say, you are in a hurry; to which I answer, Why are you ever in a hurry? A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry, because he knows that whatever he does in a hurry he must necessarily do very ill. He may be in haste to dispatch an affair, but he will take care not to let that haste hinder his doing it well. Little minds are in a hurry, when the object proves (as it commonly does) too big for them. They run, they worry, they puzzle, confound and perplex themselves: they want to do every thing But a man of sense takes at once, and never do it at all. the time necessary for doing the thing he is about well; and his haste to dispatch a business, only appears by the continuity of his application to it. He pursues it with a cool steadiness, and finishes it before he begins another. DEFINITIONS, &c.-Endeavor to fix in your mind the difference between Define dispatch, rry and haste. A man of sense; i. e. of good sense. Little minds; i. e. minds not endowed with much sense or intelDefine worry, puzzle, confound, perplex, continuity, application,

nder.

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eadiness.

SECT. CCXXXVIII.-THE PERFECT SPEAKER.

IMAGINE to yourselves, Demosthenes, addressing the most illustrious assembly in the world, upon a point, whereon 2 the fate of the most illustrious of nations depended. How 3 awful such a meeting! how vast the subject! Is man posAde4 sessed of talents adequate to the great occasion? quate! Yes, superior: by the power of his eloquence, the bly is lost in the dignity of the

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orator; and the importance of the subject, for superseded, by the admiration of his talents. With 6 strength of argument, with what powers of the fancy, what emotions of the heart, does he assault and subju the whole man, and at once captivate his reason, his 7 agination, and his passions!-To effect this, must be utmost effort of the most improved state of human nat 8 Not a faculty that he possesses is here unemployed: n faculty that he possesses, but is here exerted to its hig 9 pitch. All his internal powers are at work: all his ternal, testify their energies. Within, the memory, 10 fancy, the judgment, the passions are all busy: with every muscle, every nerve, is exerted; not a feature, n limb, but speaks. The organs of the body attuned to 11 exertions of the mind, through the kindred organs of hearers, instantaneously, and, as it were, with an electri spirit, vibrate those energies from soul to soul.-Notwi 12 standing the diversity of minds in such a multitude, by lightning of eloquence, they are melted into one mass: whole assembly actuated in one and the same way, becon 13 as it were, but one man, and have but one voice. The u versal cry is-Let us march against Philip: let us fight f our liberties: let us conquer- -or die!

DEFINITIONS, &c.-What is meant by a perfect speaker? who Demosthenes? Define addressing, most, illustrious, assembly, upo point, (subject?) whereon, fate, depended, awful, meeting, vast, po sessed of, (in possession of, the owner?) talents, adequate, superior, powe eloquence, augustness, dignity, orator, importance, while, superseded admiration, strength, argument, fancy, assault, subjugate, captivat reason, imagination, (the difference between this and fancy,) passions effect, utmost, faculty, exerted, pitch, internal, external, testify, (show What other meaning has it?) energies, memory, judgment, busy, muscle nerve, feature, limb, organs, attuned, mind, kindred, instantaneously electrical, vibrate, diversity, multitude, lightning, melted, mass, actuated universal, cry, march, fight, conquer, die.

SECT. CCXXXIX.-COURAGE.

1 A GENEROUS few, the eteran hardy gleanings
Of many a hapless fight, with a fierce
Heroic fire, inspirited each other:
Resolved on death; disdaining to survive

NEVER did the spirit of true piety breathe more strongly than in these divine songs; which, being added to a rich vein of poetry, makes them more captivating to my heart and imagination, than any thing I ever read. You will consider how great disadvantages any poem must sustain from being rendered literally into prose, and then imagine how beautiful these must be in the original. May you be enabled by reading them frequently, to transfuse into your own breast that holy flame which inspired the writer! to delight in the Lord, and in his laws, like the Psalmist; to rejoice in him always; and to think "one day in his courts better than a thousand!"-But may you escape the heart-piercing sorrow of such repentance as that of David, by avoiding sin, which humbled this unhappy king to the dust; and which cost him such bitter anguish, as it is impossible to read of without being moved.

Not all the pleasures of the most prosperous sinners, could counterbalance the hundredth part of those sensations which are described in his penitential Psalms, and which must be the portion of every man, who has fallen from a religious 5 state into such crimes, when once he recovers a sense of religion and virtue, and is brought to a real hatred of sin. However available such repentance may be to the safety and 3 happiness of the soul after death, it is a state of such exquisite suffering here, that one cannot be enough surprised at the folly of those who indulge sin, with the hope of living to make their peace with God by repentance.

Happy are they who preserve their innocence unsullied 7 any great or wilful crimes, and who have only the comm failings of humanity to repent of! These are sufficien mortifying to a heart deeply smitten with the love of virt and with the desire of perfection.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Spirit of true piety-piety is here spoken of a were a man, and had a soul or spirit: the qualities of true or genuine pi are meant. Define added to, vein, poetry, captivating, (what connect has this word with captive and captivity ?) disadvantages, poem, susta rendered, (translated?) literally, prose, beautiful, original, enabled, f quently, transfuse, breast, inspired, holy, writer, courts. What is unde stood after thousand? Define heart-piercing, sorrow, dust, cost, bitt moved, (internally, i. e. affected?) prosperous, sinners, counterbalanc penitential, recovers, available, exquisite, unsullied, common failing

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SECT. CCXLI.-EXTRACT FROM AN EMIGRANT'S JOURNAL OF A DAY June 3. Nine o'clock 2 Glorious morning! To the 3 right is Long Island: to the left, the State of New Jersey 4 Here at last, is America: what a fine country! Yonder is 5 Sandy Hook, with a lighthouse. What neat wooden cottages 6 by the water's edge! Observe those forest trees, with a 7 house here and there peeping through the foliage. The sight now before us pays for all our toil and trouble: it is worth coming to see, if to return immediately back again.

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Three o'clock. Reporter came on board for papers and a 9 clean bill of health: many questions were asked: he left us at four, hoisting up signals to telegraph our arrival: thirty miles from New York: reckoned the news would reach the city in nine minutes.

DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define nine o'clock, (the pointer or hand is at the figure nine on the dial-plate of the clock?) glorious, (clear, balmy and bright?) Where and what is America? Long Island? New Jersey? Sandy Hook? Define wooden, cottages, peeping, Reporter, (for the newspapers? report what?) bill of health, (a bill showing no sickness on board,) signals, (signs raised at distant points, to convey news.)

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MATT. XXI. 23-31.

Fit haunts of God, 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 ev'n, 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

Less pure, accustomed to immortal fruits!

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DEFINITIONS, &c.-Define unexpected, stroke, (sentence of banishment,) Paradise, native, fit, haunts, respite, mortal, (fatal?) visitation, ev'n, (evening,) bred up, tender, (cautious?) rank, (name according to rank?) ambrosial, fount, (spring ?) nuptial, wander down.

AND when he was come into the temple, the chief priests 1 and the elders of the people came unto him as he was teaching, and said, By what authority doest thou these things? and who gave thee this authority? And Jesus an2 swered and said unto them, I also will ask you one thing, which if ye tell me, I in like wise will tell you by what au3 thority I do these things. The baptism of John: whence 4 was it? From heaven, or of men? And they reasoned 5 with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven, he will say unto us, Why did ye not then believe him? But if 6 we shall say, Of men, we fear the people; for all hold John 7 as a prophet. And they answered Jesus, and said, We can8 not tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

9 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and 10 he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to-day in my 11 vineyard. He answered and said, I will not; but afterwards 12 he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and 18 said likewise. And he answered, I go, sir, and went not.