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before Mexico was a city, or the Atzec race had journeyed

into central America.

10. Now, whenever the globe speaks in unison from every point of its surface, and history brings testimony from its every page, we may rest assured that there is more than common instruction in the tale; and, therefore, we should read and meditate upon it with more than ordinary attention.

11. And why is it, that man not only clings with the greatest pertinacity to those places of the earth to which, as we would say, nature has been the least bountiful, but also loves them with the most heartfelt affection, and acquires an elevation of mind, 'a determinedness of purpose, and a joyance of spirit in them, more than in places which abound far more in the good things of this world? The facts are certain and absolute; for there is not one exception to them; and there'fore the lesson that they teach us must be wisdom. It is wisdom, too. which bears directly upon our present object; and it is wisdom which is soon learned.

12. It is simply this: that in those wild, and as we would call them, barren places, man's chief occupation and converse are with nature whereas, in richer places, where there is more to tempt worldly ambition and worldly enterprise, art is his chief occupation, and becomes by habit his chief enjoyment.

QUESTIONS.-1. What country does every man best love? 2. How is this proved by the Bedouin? 3. Which are more fond of their homes, the inhabitants of fertile vales, or of mountains? 4. By what is the passage, quoted in the fourth verse, represented to be uttered? 5. What places of A sia retain their original inhabitants? 6. What of Europe? 7. Of Northern Africa? 8. What parts of South America have been conquered, and where does the red Indian yet live? 9. How do you account for the attachment of these people to their homes?

How are whirlwind, handful, and beyond, sometimes erroneously pronounced?

LESSON XCIX.

SPFLL AND DEFINE.-1. Dissemble, to assume a false appearance. 2. Profusion, rich abundance. 3. Swain, a servant employed in farming. 4. Tributary, yielding supplies. 5. Hoards, treasures, or large quantities of any thing laid up. 6. Alternate, one following the other in succession. 7. Tenant, one who has possession of any place; a dweller. 8. Revelry, noisy festivity. 9 Tepid. moderately warm; lukewarm 10. I'da, a lofty mountain in the Island of Candia. 11. Ar'no, a river in Italy, 12. Shelvy, full of rocks; sloping.

Blessings of Providence equally Dispensed.-
GOLDSMITH.

1. E'EN now, where Alpine solitudes ascend,
I sit me down a pensive hour to spend;
And placed on high above the storm's career,
Look downward where a hundred realms appear;
Lakes, forests, cities, plains extending wide,
The pomp of kings, the shepherd's humble pride.
2. When thus creation's charms around combine,
Amidst the store should thankless pride repíne?
Sày, should the philosophic mind disdain
That good which makes each humble bosom váin?
Let school-taught pride dissemble all it can,
These little things are great to little man;
And wiser he, whose sympathetic mind
Exults in all the good of all mankind.

3. Ye glittering towns, with wealth and splendor crowned;
Ye fields, where summer spreads profusion round;
Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale;
Ye bending swains, that dress the flowery vale;
For me your tributary stores combine:
Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

4. As some lone miser, visiting his store,

Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er;
Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill,
Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still:
Thus to my breast alternate passions rise,
Pleased with each good that Heaven to man supplies;
Yet oft a sigh prevails, and sorrows fall,
To see the hoard of human bliss so small;
And oft I wish, amidst the scene to find
Some spot to real happiness consigned,
Where my worn soul, each wandering hope at rest,
May gather bliss to see my fellows blest.

5. But where to find that happiest spot below,
Who can direct, when all pretend to know;
The shuddering tenant of the frigid zone
Boldly proclaims that happiest spot his own;
Extols the treasures of his stormy seas,
And his long nights of revelry and ease:

The naked negro, panting at the line,
Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine,
Basks in the glare, or stems the tepid wave,
And thanks his gods for all the good they gave.
6. Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country, ever is at home,
And yet, perhaps, if countries we compare,
And estimate the blessings which they share,
Though patriots flatter, still shall wisdom find
An equal portion dealt to all mankind;
As different good, by art or nature given,
To different nations makes their blessings even.
7. Nature, a mother kind alike to all,

Still grants her bliss at labor's earnest call;
With food as well the peasant is supplied
On Ida's cliffs as Arno's shelvy side;
And though the rocky crested summit frown,
These rocks, by custom, turn to beds of down.
From art more various are the blessings sent-
Wealth, commerce, honor, liberty, content.
Yet these each other's power so strong contest,
That either seems destructive to the rest.

3. Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails,
And honor sinks where commerce long prevails
Hence every state to one loved blessing prone,
Conforms and models life to that alone.
Each to the favorite happiness attends,
And spurns the plan that aims at other ends;
Till, carried to excess in each domain,
This favorite good begets peculiar pain.

QUESTIONS.-1. Where does the writer fancy himself situated, while he pens this piece? 2. Where are the Alps? 3. What did he fancy he saw from his lofty hight? 4. What did they combine to yield him? 5. What did the writer desire? 6. How does the tenant of the frigid zone, and the negro of the torrid zone, each regard their respective countries? 7. Of what does the patriot boast? 8. What is said of Nature? 9. What is the ultimate aim of all?

What is meant by the line,' in the fifth verse? Ans. The Equator or Equinoctial line. What pause should be made at disdain and mind, second verse, and zone, fifth verse? Why should such pause be made? (Les. XII. 9.) How is heir parsed, last line, third verse? How is the emphasis on world, same line and verse, affected by its repetition?

LESSON C.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Fabled, told in fables; invented, as stories. 2. Robing, dressing with splendid attire; arraying with elegance. 3. Lore, lesson; instruction. 4. Paradise, a place of supreme felicity and delight; the garden of Eden.

In reading this lesson be careful to observe the final poetic pause.

The Bird of Paradise.-C. B. Farnsworth.

[This bird is fabled to have no feet, and never to leave its birth-place, the sky ]

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FLY on, fly on!

The blue sky is around thee, pure and bright
As when the sun, on the first morning, shone
Where thou wert cradled, robing thee in light.

Those fields are nigh—

The angels' home; below, the tempests dwell,

There soft winds feed thee, and thou dost rely, With constant trust, on One who loves thee well.

Borne on thy wing

Of purple, gray, and gold, thy fellows near
Uniting in the chorus, thou didst sing
Such songs as angels leave the heavens to hear.

Thrice happy bìrd!

Would I were one of your celestial choir;

Then only where thou art, my voice were heard, Singing sweet hymns, instinct with sacred fire.

Stay as thou art,

Loved bìrd; come nòt near earth, lest thou shouldst find,
And weep the lore with me, the human heart
Is hard alike to thee and to its kind.

Earth keeps me here

Awhile; yet I shall leave it, and shall rise

On fairer wings than thine, to skies more clear, Better than thou-a Child of Paradise!

QUESTIONS.--1. What is fabled of the Bird of Paradise? 2. Does the writer address it as though it were a reality? 3. Is it represented as being above, or below the clouds? 4. Who is meant by One, last line, second verse; and who by fellows, second Ene, third verse? 5. How is it represented as singing? 6. What does the writer exhort it to do, fifth verse? 7. What does the writer desire, fourth verse? 8. What does he say he shall do, and be, last verse?

What inflection does the first line take? fourth and fifth verses? (Rule VII. Note I.) trasted, last line?

Why the falling on bird,
With what is thou con-

LESSON CI.

SPEL AND DEFINE.-1. Negative, not positive, or real. 2. Gentry, people of rank and distinction; a term of civility. 3. Assenting, agreeing to; admitting as true. 4. Topic, a subject of conversation. 5. Intrinsic, internal; real. 6. Parts, qualities; faculties; literall, portions 7. Unwary, not cautious; heedless.

A Mighty Good Kind of Man.-THORNTON.

THE good qualities of a mighty good kind of man, if he has any, are of the negative kind. He does very little harm; but you never find him doing any good. He is very decent in appearance and takes care to have all the externals of sense and virtue; but you never perceive the heart concerned in any thought, word, or action."

2. Not many love him, though very few think ill of him: every body is his "dear sir," though he cares not a farthing for any body but himself. If he writes to you, though you have but the slightest acquaintance with him, he begins with "dear sir," and ends with "I am, good sir, your ever sincere and affectionate friend, and most obedient humble servant." 3. You may generally find him in company with older persons than himself, but always with richer. He does not talk much, but he has a "yes," or a "true sir," or "you observe very right, sir," for every word that is said; which, with the old gentry that love to hear themselves talk, makes him pass for a mighty sensible and discerning, as well as a mighty good kind of man.

4. It is so familiar to him to be agreeable, and he has such a habit of assenting to every thing said in company, that he does it without the trouble of thinking what he is about, I have known such a one, after having approved an observation made by one of a company, assent with "what you say is very just," to an opposite sentiment advanced by another; and I have frequently heard him contradict himself five times during the same conversation.

5. As the weather is a principal and favorite topic with a mighty good kind of man, you may make him agree that it is very hot, very cold, very cloudy, a fine sunshine, or it rains, snows, hails or freezes, all in the same hour. The

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