the answer; the patriarch and the prophet, the evangelist and the martyr. 5. If we look abroad through the world of men, the victims of folly or vice, the prey of cruelty, of injustice, and inquire what are its benefits, even in this temporal state, the great and the humble, the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak, the learned and the ignorant reply, as with one voice, that humility and resignation, purity, order and peace, faith, hope, and charity, are its blessings upon earth. 6. And if, raising our eyes from time to eternity, from the world of mortals to the world of just men made perfect, from the visible creation, marvelous, beautiful, and glorious as it is, to the invisible creation of angels and seraphs, from the footstool of God, to the throne of God himself, we ask, what are the blessings that flow from this single volume, let the question be answered by the pen of the evangelist, the harp of the prophet, and the records of the book of life. 7. Such is the best of classics the world has ever admired; such, the noblest that man has ever adopted as a guide. QUESTIONS.antiquity of the Bible? ticity? What, of the and have defended it? Why is the Bible called a classic? What is said of its evidences? GRIMKE. What is said of the What, of its authen nature of its truths? What, of the men who wrote it What is said of the change it produces in the character of men? What, of its bearing upon our future prospects ? In the 3d paragraph, which verbs are in the subjunctive mode? Which are the adjectives in the first sentence of that paragraph? Compare each one of them. What part of speech is their" and for what does it stand? Parse 66 66 God," "natures," "dominion," and "condition." ARTICULATION.— World, not worl: no-blest, not no-bles: gift, not gif: re-flect, not re-flec: just, not juss: e-van-ge-list, not e-van-gel-iss. SPELL AND DEFINE. 1. Dignified, literature: 2. consider, examine: 3. felicity: 4. recorded, martyr: 5. prey, resignation: 6. marvelous. LESSON LXXXVI. RULE. Let each pupil in the class observe and mention every syllable that is not sounded as each one reads. 1. MIDNIGHT MUSINGS. THE bell strikes One. We take no note of time Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, how-rich, 15. How complicate, how wonderful is man! How passing wonder, He who made him such! Who centered in our make such strange extremes From different natures marvelously mixed, Connection exquisite of distant worlds! 20. Distinguished link in being's endless chain ! A beam ethereal, sullied, and absorpt! A worm a god!-I tremble at myself, 30. And wondering at her own. O what a miracle to man is man! Triumphantly distressed! what joy! what dread! What can preserve my life! or what destroy! 35. An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; Legions of angels can't confine me there. 'Tis past conjecture; all things rise in proof. While o'er my limbs Sleep's soft dominion spread, What though my soul fantastic measures trod 40. O'er fairy fields, or mourned along the gloom Of pathless woods, or down the craggy steep Hurled headlong, swam with pain the mantled pool, Or scaled the cliff, or danced on hollow winds With antic shapes, wild natives of the brain! 45. Her ceaseless flight, though devious, speaks her nature Of subtler essence than the trodden clod; Active, aërial, towering, unconfined, Unfettered with her gross companion's fall. Even silent night proclaims my soul immortal; 50. Even silent night proclaims eternal day. For human weal Heaven husbands all events: YOUNG. What reflec QUESTIONS. What leads us to take "note of time?" tions follow, if this warning is "heard aright?" Repeat some of the numerous epithets applied to man. What does one class of these epithets represent man to be? In what light does the other class consider him? In what respect is he a "worm?" How can he be called a "god?" What is the state of the mind during sleep? What does this prove? Point out the instances of antithetic inflections and emphasis in this lesson. Why does " He," in the 16th line, commence with a capital letter. PRONUNCIATION.-An-gel (pro. ane-gel), not ann-gel: heard (pro. herd), not heerd: de-mands, not dum-ands: com-pli-cate, not com-pli-kit : ex'-quis-ite, not ex-quis'-ite: ab-so-lute, not ab-ser-lute: hus-bands, not husbunds. SPELL AND DEFINE. - 7. Dispatch: 9. alarmed: 10. abyss: 13. pensioner: 24. miniature: 29. aghast: 36. legions: 41. craggy: 45. devious 47. aërial. LESSON LXXXVII. RULE.- Be careful to give a full sound to the vowels. Regard to this rule, will correct the common, flat, clipping way in which many read. Words to be Spelled and Defined. 1. Phys'-ic-al, a. relating to nature. tity. 2. Pas'-sion-less, a. without feeling. Syl-lo-gis'-tic, a. relating to a syllo- 3. Ra'-tio, n. the relation of two quantities of the same kind to each other. Pro-por'-tion, n. equality of ratios. 4. Ac-cel'-er-a-ted, p. increased. 5. Di'-a-gram, n. a figure drawn for the purpose of demonstration or illustration. Phe-nom'-e-na, n. pl. of phenomenon, appearances. Re-frac'-tion, n. the turning from a di rect course. In'-ei-dence, n. a falling on any thing. 6. Par'-al-lax, n. the difference between A-nom'-a-lies, n. irregularities. A-nal'-y-sis, n. separation of any thing Or'-rer-y, n. an instrument to show the motions of the planets. 7. Op'-ties, n. the science of light. Aus-ter'-i-ty, n. severity, roughness. 9. Min-er-al'-o-gy, n. the science of mine- VALUE OF MATHEMATICS. 1. MAN may construct his works by irregular and uncertain rules; but God has made an unerring law for his whole creation, and made it, too, in respect to the physical system, upon principles, which, as far as we now know, can never be understood, without the aid of mathematics. 2. Let us suppose a youth who despises, as many do, these cold and passionless abstractions of the mathematics. Yet, he is intellectual; he loves knowledge; he would explore nature, and know the reason of things; but he would do it, without aid from this rigid, syllogistic, measuring, calculating science. He seeks indeed, no royal road to geometry," but, he seeks one not less difficult to find, in which geometry is not needed. 3. He begins with the mechanical powers. He takes the lever and readily understands that it will move a weight. But the principle upon which different weights at different distances are moved, he is forbidden to know; for they depend upon ratios and proportions. He passes to the inclined plane; but quits it in disgust, when he finds its action depends upon the relations of angles and triangles. The screw is still worse, and when he comes to the wheel and axle, he gives them up forever; they are all mathematical! 4. He would investigate the laws of falling bodies, and moving fluids, and would know why their motion is accelerated at different periods, and upon what their momentum depends. But, roots and squares, lines, angles, and curves, float before him in the mazy dance of a disturbed intellect. The very first proposition is a mystery: and he soon discovers, that mechanical philosophy is little better than mathematics itself. 5. But he still has his senses; he will, at least, not be indebted to diagrams and equations for their enjoyment. He gazes with admiration upon the phenomena of light; the many-colored rainbow upon the bosom of the clouds; the clouds themselves reflected with all their changing shades from the surface of the quiet waters. Whence comes this beautiful imagery? He investigates and finds that every hue in the rainbow is made by a different angle of refraction, and that each ray reflected from the mirror, has its angle of incidence equal to its angle of reflection; and, as he pursues the subject further, in the construction of lenses and telescopes, the whole family of triangles, ratios, proportions, and conclusions arise to alarm his excited vision. 6. He turns to the heavens, and is charmed with its shining host, moving in solemn procession, "through the halls of the sky," each star, as it rises and sets, marking time on the records of nature. He would know the structure of this beautiful system, and search out, if possible, the laws which regulate those distant lights. But astronomy forever banishes him from her presence; she will have none near her to whom mathematics is not a familiar friend. What can he know of her parallaxes, anomalies, and precessions, who has never studied the conic sections, or the higher order of analysis? She sends him to some wooden orrery, from which he may gather as much knowledge of the heavenly bodies, as a child does of armies from the gilded troopers of the toy shop. 7. But if he can have no companionship with optics, nor astronomy, nor mechanical philosophy, there are sciences, he thinks, which have better taste and less austerity of manners. He flies to chemistry, and her garments float loosely around him. For a while, he goes gloriously on, illuminated by the red lights and blue lights of crucibles and retorts. But, soon he comes to compound bodies, to the composition of the elements around |