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requires pity. It is inhuman to be altogether insensible of another's misery.

Envy is fixed only on merit; and like a sore eye, is offended with every thing that is bright.

If we knew how little others enjoy, it would rescue the world from one sin-there would be no such thing as envy upon earth.

Never employ yourself to discern the faults of others, but be careful to mend and prevent your own.

There is an odious spirit in many persons, who are better pleased to detect a fault, than commend a virtue.

The worthiest people are most injured by slanderers; as we usually find that to be the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

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A wise man, said Seneca, is provided for occurrences any kind; the good he manages, the bad he vanquishes; in prosperity he betrays no presumption, in adversity he feels no despondency.

A man cannot be truly happy here, without a well grounded hope of being happy hereafter.

If some are refined, like gold, in the furnace of affliction, there are many more that, like chaff, are consumed in it. Sorrow, when it is excessive, takes away fervor from piety, vigor from action, health from the body, light from reason, and repose from the conscience.

The expectation of future happiness is the best relief of anxious thoughts, the most perfect cure of melancholy, the guide of life, and the comfort of death.

Fear unruly passions more than the arrows of an enemy, and the slavery of them more than the fetters of a conqueror.

If you be naturally disposed to anger, frequent the company of the patient; by this means, without any labour, you will attain a fit temper; for conversation is of great moment; manners, humours, nay opinions, are thereby insensibly communicated.

It is more prudent to pass by trivial offences, than to quarrel for them; by the last you are even with your adversary, but by the first above him.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which always leaves us weaker than it found us.

Conquer your passions: it will be more glorious for you to triumph over your own heart, than it would be to take a citadel.

Defile not your mouth with swearing; neither use yourself to the naming of the Holy One.

He is wealthy enough that wanteth not-he is great enough that is his own master-he is happy enough that lives, to die well. Other things I will not care for, says Judge Hale, nor too much for these, save only for the last, which alone can admit of no immoderation.

Restrain yourself from being too fiery and flaming in matters of argument. Truth often suffers more from the heat of its defenders, than from the argument of its opposers. And nothing does reason more right, than

the coolness of those that offer it.

True quietness of heart is got by resisting our pas sions, not by obeying them.

The love of God and of the world are two different things; if the love of this world dwell in you, the love of God forsakes you; renounce that, and receive this; it is fit the more noble love should have the best place and acceptance.

The holy spirit is an antidote against seven poisons: it is wisdom against folly; quickness of apprehension against dullness; faithfulness of memory against forgetfulness; fortitude against fear; knowledge against ignorance; piety against profaneness; and humility against pride.

Good breeding is the result of much good sense, some good nature and a little self-denial for the sake of others, with a view to obtain the same indulgence from them.

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is-a devil. Oh! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

OBSERVATIONS

ON THE

CAUSES OF BAD READING AND SPEAKING.

Too slightly sounding the accented Vowels.

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One of the general faults in reading or speaking, is a short, slight, mincing pronunciation of the accented vowels, instead of that bold, round, mellow tone which forms the basis of good reading and speaking. The vowels which should especially be attended to are a and o; e is the most slender of all the vowels, and i and u are dipthongs which terminate in slender sounds, and do not afford a sufficient quantity to fill the ear, a in all its sounds in bare, bar, war, father and water, has a bold, full sound, which the ear dwells upon with pleasure. The sound of o likewise, when lengthened by e final, as in tone, or ending a syllable, as in noble, may be prolonged with great satisfaction to the ear. It is to a judicious elongation of the sound of these vowels that pronunciation owes one of its greatest beauties.

Too slightly sounding the unaccented Vowels.

There is an incorrect pronunciation of the letter u when it ends a syllable not under the accent, which not only prevails amongst the vulgar, but is sometimes found in better society, and that is, giving it a sound which confounds it with vowels of a very different nature, Thus we hear singular, regular, and particular, pro

nounced as if written, sing-e-lar, reg-e-lar, and particke-lar. Nothing tends to vulgarize pronunciation more than this short sound of the unaccented u. Those who

wish to pronounce with elegance, must be particularly attentive to the unaccented vowels, as their correct pronunciation forms one of the great beauties of reading or speaking.

The other vowels when unaccented, are liable to nearly the same indistinctness as the u. The first e in event, the first o in opinion, and the i in insensible, terrible, are apt to go into a sound approaching the short u, as if written uvent, upinion, sensubble, terruble, while proper pronunciation requires these vowels to be heard distinctly as when under the accent.

The e in event, should be pronounced as the e in equal, the o in opinion, as that in open, the ¿ in the unaccented termination, ible, ity, and at the end of other syllables not under the accent, ought to have the sound of e, and this sound to be preserved distinct and pure as if written sen-se-ble, ter-re-ble, de-ver-sety, u-ne-versety.

Wavering pronunciation of Vowels under the secondary accent.

The secondary accent, is the laying a stress on another syllable independently of that which has the chief accent upon it, in order to enable us to pronounce every part of the word distinctly, forcibly, and harmoniously. This accent is on the first syllable of conversation, commendation, the principal accent being on the third syllable.

The liquid sound of k, c or g hard before the Vowels a and i.

There is a liquid sound of these consonants before the vowels a and i, which gives a smooth and euphonious sound to the words in which they occur, and which distinguishes polite from vulgar pronunciation. This pronunciation is as if the a and i were preceded by e. Thus, kind is sounded as if written ke-ind, card

as ke-ard, and regard as regeard. The words which require this liquid sound in the k, c and g hard, are sky, kind, guide, gird, girt, girl, guise, guile; card, cart, carp, carpenter, carpet, carve, carbuncle, carnal, cartridge, guard and regard: these and their compounds are perhaps the only words where this sound occurs, but these words are in such continual use as to distinguish the correct from the incorrect speaker.

Polite speakers pronounce educate as if written ed-ucate, virtue as verchew, verdure as ver-dure, Indian as Indean, odious as odeous, and insidious as insideous.

The suppressing the sound of the final consonants, is

a GREAT ERROR IN READING OR SPEAKING.

The word and is frequently pronounced like the article an, both before a vowel and a consonant, as "Both men and money are wanting to carry on the war,” we hear pronounced as if written, both men an money are wanting to carry on the war. It is even worse when followed by a vowel, particularly the vowel a, followed by n. We often hear, "a subject is carried on by question and answer," as if written, a subject is carried on by question an answer, and, "he made his meal of an apple and an egg," as if written, he made his meal of an apple an an egg. The best method is to sound the d always in and. The sound of f, when final, is liable to the same suppression when a consonant begins the succeeding word, particularly the th. We frequently hear "the want of men is occasioned by the want of money," pronounced, the want o' mèn is occasioned by the want o' money, and "I spoke of the man who told me of the woman you mentioned," as if written, I spoke o' the man who told me o' the woman you mentioned.

The sounding of the letter R.

The letter R has two sounds, the rough or rolling, and the soft or smooth sound.

The rough r is formed by jarring the tip of the tongue against the roof of the mouth, near to the fore teeth; the smooth r is a vibration of the lower part of the tongue

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