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sider it a duty to keep open, this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

4. Where is the mother that would willingly forget the infant that perished like a blossom from her arms, though every recollection is a pang? Where is the child that would forget the most tender of parents, though to remember be but to lament? Who, even in the hour of agony, would forget the friend over whom he mourns? Who, even when the tomb is closing over her he most loved,-when he feels his heart, as it were, crushed in the closing of its portals,would accept of the consolation that must be brought by forgetfulness?

5. No; the love that survives the tomb, is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. If it has its woes, it has likewise its delights; and, when the overwhelming burst of grief is calmed into the gentle tear of recollection,—when the sudden anguish, and the convulsive agony over the pregent ruins of all that we most loved, are softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the days of its loveliness, who would root out such a sorrow from the heart? Though it may sometimes throw a passing cloud over the brightest hours of gayety, or spread a deeper sadness over the hour of gloom, yet who would exchange it, even for the song of pleasure, or the burst of revelry?

6. No; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn, even from the charms of the living. Oh, the gráve! the grave! it buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets, and tender recollections. Who can look down upon the grave, even of an enemy, and not feel a compunctious throb, that he should ever have warred with the poor handful of earth that lies moldering before him?

7. Aye, go to the grave of buried love, and there meditate; there settle the account with thy conscience, for every past endearment unregarded, of that departed being, who can never, never, never return to be soothed by thy contrition! If thou art a child, and hast ever added a sorrow to the soul, or a furrow to the silvered brow of an affectionate parent.if thou art a husband, and hast ever caused the fond bosom chat ventured its happiness in thy arms, to doubt one moment of thy kindness, or thy truth-if thou art a friend, and hast ever wronged in thought, word, or deed, the spirit

that generously confided in thee,-if thou art a lover, and hast ever given one unmerited pang to that true heart which now lies cold and still beneath thy feet; then be sure that every unkind look, every ungracious word, every ungentle action, will come thronging back upon thy memory, and knocking dolefully at thy soul,-then be sure that thou wilt lie down sorrowing and repentant on the grave, and utter the unheard groan, and pour the unavailing tear, more deep, more bitter, because unheard and unavailing.

8. Then weave thy chaplet of flowers, and strew the beauties of nature about the grave; console thy broken spirit, if thou canst, with these tender, yet futile tributes of regret; but take warning by the bitterness of this thy contrite affliction over the dead, and henceforth be more faithful and affectionate in the discharge of thy duties to the living.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of the grave? 2. Of the sorrow for the dead? 3. What of it in a mother? 4. A child? 5. A husband? 6. What is said of the grave of an enemy? 7. Of the grave of buried love? 8. What may we do in vain at the graves of our friends whom we have wronged? 9. To whom should our scrrow teach us to be more faithful?

What inflection do the questions in the fourth verse require? (Rule II. Les. IV.) What inflection prevails in the seventh verse? How will you account for the change of inflection, on the repetition of grove, sixth verse? What can you say of the emphasis on the repetition of never, seventh verse? (Les. VIII. Note VI.)

LESSON XXIV.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Soliloquy, a talking to one's self. 2. Cir cumscribed, limited; confined. 3. Benighted, involved in darkness 4. Vitality, the principle of life, or of animation. 5. Dye, stain; color. 6. Enamel, to form a smooth, glossy surface. 7. Approximation, drawing near; an approach. 8. Cogitation, the act of thinking; thought. 9. Volition, the act of willing, or of determining a choice.

Contrasted Soliloquies.-JANE TAYLOR.

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1. "ALAS!" exclaimed a silver-headed sage, row is the utmost extent of human science!-how circum scribed the sphere of intellectual exertion! I have spen my life in acquiring knowledge; but how little do I know. The farther I attempt to penetrate the secrets of nature, the more I am bewildered and benighted. Beyond a certain limit, all is but confusion or conjecture; so that the advan

tage of the learned over the ignorant, consists greatly in having ascertained how little is to be known.

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It is true that I can measure the sun, and compute the distances of the planets; I can calculate their periodical movements, and even ascertain the laws by which they perform their sublime revolutions; but with regard to their construction, and the beings which inhabit them, what do I know more than the clown?

3. " Delighting to examine the economy of nature in our own world, I have analyzed the elements; and have given names to their component parts. And yet, should I not be as much at a loss to explain the burning of fire, or to account for the liquid quality of water, as the vulgar, who use and enjoy them without thought or examination?.

4. "I remark that all bodies, unsupported, fall to the ground; and I am taught to account for this by the law of gravitation. But what have I gained here more than a term? Does it convey to my mind any idea of the nature of that mysterious and invisible chain which draws all things to a common center? I observe the effect, I give a name to the cause; but can I explain or comprehend it?

5. "Pursuing the track of the naturalist, I have learned to distinguish the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms; and to divide these into their district tribes and families; but can I tell, after all this toil, whence a single blade of grass derives its vitality? Could the most minute researches enable me to discover the exquisite pencil, that paints and fringes the flowers of the field? Have I ever detected the secret, that gives their brilliant dye to the ruby and the emerald, or the art that enamels the delicate shell?

6. "I observe the sagacity of animals; I call it instinct, and speculate upon its various degrees of approximation to the reason of man. But, after all, I know as little of the cogitations of the brute, as he does of mine. When I see a flight of birds overhead, performing their evolutions, or steer ing their course to some distant settlement, their signals and cries are as un: itelligible to me, as are the learned languages to the unlettered rustic; I understand as little of their policy and laws as they do of Blackstone's Commentaries.

7. "But leaving the material creation, my thoughts have often ascended to loftier subjects, and indulged in metaphys ical speculation. And here, while I easily perceive in my self the two distinct qualities of matter and mind, I am baffled

in every attempt to comprehend their mutual dependence and mysterious connection. When my hand moves in obedience to my will, have I the most distant conception of the manner in which the volition is either communicated or understood? Thus, in the exercise of one of the most simple and ordinary actions, I am perplexed and confounded, if I attempt to account for it. Again, how many years of my life were devoted to the acquisition of those languages, by the means of which I might explore the records of remote ages, and become familiar with the learning and literature of other times! And what have I gathered from these, but the mortifying fact, that man has ever been struggling with his own impotence, and vainly endeavoring to overleap the bounds which limit his anxious inquiries?

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9. "Alas! then, what have I gained by my laborious researches, but a humbling conviction of my weakness and ignorance? How little has man, at his best estate, of which to boast! What folly in him to glory in his contracted power, or to value himself upon his imperfect acquisitions !"

10. "Well," exclaimed a young lady, just returned from school, "my education is at,last finished!-indeed, it would be strange, if, after five years' hard application, any thing were left incomplete. Happily, that is all over now; and I have nothing to do, but to exercise my various accomplishments.

11. "Let me see! As to French, I am complete mistress of that, and speak it, if possible, with more fluency than English. Italian I can read with ease, and pronounce very well; as well, at least, as any of my friends; and that is all one need wish for in Italian. Music I have learned till I am perfectly sick of it. But, now that we have a grand piano, it will be delightful to play when we have company; I must still continue to practice, a little-the only thing, I think, that I need now to improve myself in. And then there are my Italian songs! which every body allow I sing with taste; and as it is what so few people can pretend to, I am particularly glad that I can.

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12. "My drawings are universally admired.-especially the shells and flowers, which are beautiful, certainly besides this, I have a decided taste in all kinds of fancy ornaments. And then my dancing and. waltzing,-in which our master

himself owned that he could take me no farther-just the figure for it, certainly; it would be unpardonable if I did not

excel.

13. "As to common things, geography and history, and poetry and philosophy, thank my stars, I have got through them all! so that I may consider myself not only perfectly accomplished, but also thoroughly well informed. Well, to be sure, how much I have fagged through!-the only wonder Is, that one head can contain it all!"

QUESTIONS.-1. What soliloquies are here contrasted? 2. What it the substance of the old man's soliloquy? 3. What of the young lady's? 4. What feeling is manifested by the ittainments? 5. What by the young lady? Dost correctly?

old man in view of his 6. Which reasons the

With what different tones of voice should these two soliloquies be read? What different inflections at the end of the second and third verses, and why? What at the questions in the fourth verse? What inflection prevails in the fifth verse? What words in the last verse are sometimes wrongly articulated?

LESSON XXV.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Pharisees, a sect of the Jews who considered themselves, by the observance of certain rites, more righteous than thers. 2. Disciples, learners, or followers. 3. Meat, any kind of food; literally, flesh. 4. Salvation, the redemption of mankind. 5. Bards, poets. 6. Patriarch, Jacob-literally, a father considered as a ruler.

Christ talketh with the Woman of Samaria.-BIBLE.

1. WHEN therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples, -he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must needs go through Samaria. Then cometh he to the

eity of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sa thus on the well; and it was about the sixth hour.

2. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy meat. Then saith the

woman of Samaria unto him. How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria ?for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus

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