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128. By the aid of the principles here inculcated, children can be taken, before they have learned the names of the letters, and, in a few months, become better readers than one in fifty of those taught in the usual way; and they may have their voices so de veloped and trained, by the natural use of the proper organs and muscles, as to be able

124. Read, and speak, in such a just and impressive manner, as will instruct, interest and affect your hearers, and reproduce in them all those ideas and emotions, which you wish to convey. Remember, that theoryis one thing, and practice-another; and that there is a great difference, between knowing how a sentence should be read or spoken, and the ability to read or speak it: theory to read, speak, and sing, for hours in succes

is the result of thought; practice-of actual experience.

125. M has only one sound; MAIM: meek men made mum-mies out of gam-mon, and moon-beams of gum-my am-mo-ni-a, for a premi-um on dum-my som-nambu-lism: mind, man-ners and [M in MAIM.] mag-na-nim-i-ty, make a migh-ty man, to a-mal-ga-mate em-blems and wam-pum for an om-ni-um gath-er-um: the malt-man circum-am-bu-lates the cim-me-ri-an ham-mock, and tum-bles the mur-mur-ing mid-shipman into a min-i-mum and max-i-mum of a

mam-mi-form di-lem-ma.

126. CICERO and DEMOSTHENES, by their words, lives, maxims, and practice, show the high estimation, in which they held the subject of oratory; for they devoted years to the study and practice of its theory and art, under the most celebrated masters of antiquity. Most of the effects of ancient, as well as of modern eloquence, may be attributed to the manner of delivery: we read their words, but their spirit is gone; the body remains, beautiful indeed, but motionless-and dead; TRUE eloquence-revivifies it.

Notes. To produce this labio-nasal sound, close the lips

and make a sound through the nose, resembling the plaintive low. ing of an ox, with its mouth closed; or, a wailing sound through your nose. 2. This is called a nasal sound, because it is made through the nose; and not because it does not pass through it, as many imagine: which may become evident, by producing the sound when the nose is held between the thumb and forefinger. 3.

Avoid detaching letters from preceding words, and attaching them to succeeding ones; as-his cry moved me; for, his crime moved me. 4. M is silent before n, in the same syllable; as, Mnason,

and mne-mon-ics.

127. That is th' man, th't said that you saw him. I say th't that, th't that man said, is not that, th't that man told him. That th't I say is this: th't that, th't that gentleman advanced, is not that, th't he should have spoken; for he said, th❜t that THAT, th't that man pointed out, is not that that, th't that lady insisted th❜t it was; but is another that.

THE PATHS OF LIFE.

Go forth-the world is very wide,

And many paths-before you lie,
Devious, and dang'rous, and untried;
Go forth with wary eye!
Go! with the heart-by grief unbow'd!
Go! ere a shadow, or a cloud

Hath dimm'd the laughing sky!
But, lest your wand'ring footsteps stray,
Choose ye the straight, the narrow way.

sion, without hoarseness, or injurious ex haustion. It is a melancholy reflection, that children learn more bad habits than good ones, in most of our common schools.

Proverbs. 1. He, that does you an ill turn, will never forgive you. 2. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. 3. The proof of the pudding-is in eating. 4. None so deaf, as they that will not hear. 5. Time is a file, that wears, and makes no noise. 8. When every one takes care of himself, care is taken of all. 7. Without pains, there can be no gains. 8. One may as happy, without virtue. 9. A man, like a watck, well expect to be at ease, without money, as to be is valued according to his going. 10. The gov

ernment of the will is better than an increase of knowledge. 11. Character-is every thing-to both old and young. 12. War brings scars.

Anecdote. Long Enough. A man, up-on the verge of bankruptcy, having purchased an elegant coat, upon credit, and being told. by one of his acquaintances, that the cloth. was very beautiful, though the coat was too short; replied,-with a sigh-" It will be long enough before I get another.

Honor was the virtue of the pagan; but christianity-teaches a more enlarged and nobler code; calling into activity-all the best feelings of our nature,-illuminating our path, through this world, with deeds of mercy and charity, mutually done and received, and sustaining us, amidst difficul ties and temptations-by the hope of a glorious immortality, in which peaceshall be inviolable—and joy-eternal.

Varieties. 1. Why is a fashionably dressed lady, like a careful housewife? Because her waist (waste), is always as small as she can make it. 2. Literature and Science, to produce their full effect, must be generally diffused, like the healthful breeze. 3. The elements, so mixed in him, that Nature might stand up, and say to all the world, "This is a man!" 4. All minds are influenced every moment; and there is a providence in every feeling, thought and word. 5. The excesses of our youth, are drafts on our old age, payable with interest; though sometimes, they are payable at sight. 6. I will not only know the way, but walk in it. 7. As it is God's will to fill us with his life, let us exert every faculty we possess, to be filled with it; and that with all sin cerity and diligence.

The man, th't's resolute, and just,
Firm to his principles and trust,
Nor hopes, nor fears-can bind.

5. Alms

129. Distinctness of articulation demands Proverbs. 1. It is not the burthen, but the special attention, and requires that you should over-burthen, that kills the beast. 2. The death pronounce the vocal letters, as well as every of youth is a shipwreck. 3. There is no disputword, audibly and correctly, giving to each ing of tastes, appetites, and fancies. 4. When the its appropriate force and quantity. Unless fox preaches, let the geese beware. these principles are perfectly understood, giving-never made a man poor; nor robbery— your future acquirements will be more or rich; nor prosperity-wise. 6. A lie, begets a lie, less faulty: for, in proportion as one is ig till they come to generations. 7. Anger-is often norant of what ought to be felt, thought, and more hurtful than the injury that caused it. 8. Better late ripe, and bear, than blossom, and blast. done, will he be liable to err. 9. Experience-is the mother of science. 10. He

130. N has two sounds; first its name that will not be counselled, can not be helped

sound: NINE; the land-man's nin-ny, neg-li-gent of the huntsman's en-chant-ments, con-tami-nates the no-ble-man's nine

11. Expose one's evils, and he will either forsake them, or hate you for the exposure. 12. Do not hurry a free horse. 13. Every thing would live.

Gradations. The dawn, the deep light, pins with his an-ti-no-mi-an non- [N in NINE.] the sun-rise, and the blaze of day! what sense: Na-hant, and Flan-ni-gan, joint-ten- softness and gentleness! all is graduated, ants of nine-ty-nine Man-i-kins, u-nan-i- and yet, all is decisive. Again, observe mous-ly en-chain with win-ning tones, the how winter-passes into spring,-eachbe-nig-nant du-en-na, while they are con-ven-weakened by the struggle; then, steals on ed to nom-i-nate con-di-ments for the so-cin- the summer, which followed by the matui-an con-ven-tion of the non-res-i-dents; herity of autumn. Look also at the gradations

knows his nose; I know he knows his nose : he said I knew he knows his nose: and if he says he knows I know he knows his nose, of course, he knows I know he knows his

nose.

and commingling of infancy, childhood, series! and all this may be seen-in the youth, manhood and age: how beautiful the successive developments of the human mind: there is first sense, then fancy. imagination and reason,-each of which-is the

sense-is the rude germ, or crust of the fancy, which is the full-fledged bird, freed and soaring aloft, unrestrained, in the luxufrom its confinement and limited notices, ries of its new being; then, succeeds imagination, a well regulated fancy, that emulates the work of reason, while it borrows the hues of its immediate parent: and reason

131. Some public speakers, in other re-ground, or continent, of all that succeed: spects inferior, from the ease, grace, dignity and power of their delivery, are followed and applauded; while others, however sound in matter, and finished in language, on account of their deficiency of manner, are passed by almost unnoticed. All experience teaches us the great importance of manner, as a means of inculcating truth, and persuading others to embrace it. Lord Bacon says, it is as necessary for a public speaker, as decorum for a gentleman.

Notes. 1. This vocal nasal sound is made, by pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth, and thus preventing the sound

from passing through the mouth, and emitting all of it through the

nose: see engraving. 2. In comparing sounds, be guided solely by the ear; beware of going by sight in the science of accoustics. 3. Remember, when there is a change in the position of the organs, there is a corresponding change in the sounds. 4. In words where 1 and n precede ch, the sound of t intervenes in the pronunciation:

filch, blanch, wench, inch, bench, &c. 5. Beware of omissions and additions; Boston notion, not Boston ocean. Regain either, not regain neither.

Anecdote. The Rev. Mr. Whitfieldwas once accused, by one of his hearers, of wandering in his discourse; to which he replied: If you will ramble like a lost sheep, I must ramble after you."

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Truth

Comes to us with a slow-and doubtful step;
Measuring the ground she treads on, and forever
Turning her curious eye, to see that all
Is right-behind; and, with keen survey,
Choosing her onward path.

Seize upon truth,-wherever found,
On christian, or on heathen ground;
Among your friends,—among your foes;
The plant's divine,—where'er it grows.

is the full and perfect development—of all that sense originally contain'd, fancy-decorated, and imagination-designed-in a thousand forms: thus reason-combines the whole, and from the whole, thro' the light of the Supreme Mind, deduces her conclusions: thus, shall the gradations, or series of developments, continue in the good, and the true to all eternity!

Varieties. 1. How many years intervened-between the discovery of the mariner's compass, in 1302, and the discovery of America? 2. The covetous man-is as much deprived of what he has, as of what he has not; for he enjoys neither. 3. Ah! who can tell, how hard it is to climb the steep, where Fame's proud temple shines afar, checked by the scoff of Pride, by Envy's frown, and Poverty's unconquerable bar! 4. A man of cultivated mind, can converse with a picture, and find an agreeable companion in a statue. 5. Little mentriumph over the errors of great ones, as an owl-rejoices at an eclipse of the sun. 6. The eternal and natural worlds are so united, as to make but one; like the soul and the body. 7. What is the difference between good sense, and wit?

A villain, when he most seems kind,
Is most to be suspected.

132. Be perfectly distinct in your articu- Proverbs. 1. A miss, is as good as a mile. lation, or you cannot become an easy, grace-2. A man is a lion in his own cause. 3. He that ful, effective and natural elocutionist; there has too many irons in the fire, will find that some fore, practice on the vowels and consonants, of them will be apt to burn. 4. It is not an art to as here recommended, separately and com- play; but it is a very good art to leave off play. bined. If your utterance is rapid, and indis-5. Beyond the truth, there is nothing but error; tinct, your reading and speaking, will not be listened to with much pleasure, or profit. A hint-to those who would be wise, is sufficient.

133. The second sound of N, is that of Ng, before hard g, and often before hard c, k and q under the accent. BANK; con-gress conquers the strang-ling don-key,

and sanc-tions the lank con-clave [N in BANK.) in punc-til-ious con-course: the san-guine un-cle, anx-ious to ling-er much long-er among the tink-ling in-gots, jin-gles his rinkled fin-ger over the lin-guist's an-gu-lar

shrunk shanks.

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134. The common mode of teaching elocution is considered the true one, because it has been so long admitted and practiced the old have become familiar with it, and follow it from habit, as their predecessors did; and the rising generation receive it on trust: thus, they pass on, striving to keep each other in countenance: hence it is, that most of our bad habits, in this important art, are born in the primary school, brought up in the academy, and graduated in the college; if we proceed so far in our education. Is not

and beyond error, there is madness 6. He, who 7. The burnt child dreads the fire. 8. When ors deals with a blockhead, has need of much brains. will not, two cannot quarrel. 9. Words from the mouth, die in the ears; but words from the heart -stay there. 11. Young folks-think old folks fools; but old folks know that young ones are. 11. First know what is to be done, then do it. 12. The tongue, without the heart, speaks an unknown tongue. 13. Remember the reckoning.

The three essentials-of every existence are an inmost, a middle and an outmost: i. e. an end, a cause, and an effect: the end is the inmost, the cause is the middle, and the effect the outmost, or ultimate. Ex. Man is one existence, and yet consists of a soul, or inmost principle, a body, or middle principle, and an activity, or ultimate prinaction; in his body are causes, or ways and ciple. In his soul are ends, or motives to means of action; and in his life are effects, or actions themselves: if either were wanting, he could not be a man: for, take away his soul, and his body would die for want of a first principle to live from; take away his body, and his soul could not act in the natural world, for want of a suitably organized instrument; take away his life, or the activity of his body from his soul, and both soul and body would cease to exist for lack of exercise. In other words, MAN consists 135. Irregulars, Ng have generally this of will, or inmost; understanding, or intersound. In cultivating and strength-en-ing mediate; and activity, or ultimate. It is the un-der-stand-ing, by stud-y-ing, read-ing, evident, that without willing, his underwri-ting, cy-pher-ing, and speak-ing, I am standing would never think, and devise think-ing of con-tend-ing for go-ing to sing-means of acting; and without understanding meet-ing; in re-lin-quish-ing your stand-ing, his will-could not effect its purpose; ing in the crisp-ing fry-ing pan, by jump-ing and without action—that willing and undero-ver the wind-ing rail-ing, you may be sail- standing would be of no use. ing on the boil-ing o-cean, where the limp-ing Varieties. 1. The thief-is sorry he is her-rings are skip-ping, and danc-ing, around to be punished, but not that he is a thief. some-thing that is laugh-ing and cry-ing, 2. Some-are atheists-only in fair weather. sleep-ing and wa-king, lov-ing and smi-ling. Notes. 1. This nasal diphthongal vocal consonant sound,

an entire revolution necessary.

may be made by drawing the tongue back, closing the passage from the throat into the mouth, and directing the sound through the nose; as in giving the name sound of N; it can be distinctly perceived by prolonging, or singing the ng sound in the word sing. 2. If the accent be on the syllable beginning with g and c hard, and k, and q, the n may take its name sound; as, con-grat-u-late, con-cur, con-clude, &c. 3. The three sounds of m and n, are the continuous: the 1st, 31, and 4th of c; the 2nd of f, the third of g, l, m, n, r, &c. are examples; others are abrupt or discrete; as, b, d, p, k, t, &c.: so we have continuous sounds, (the long ones, and abrupt or discrete ones, (the short.)

only nasal ones in our language. 4. Some consonant sounds are

Anecdote. Equality. When Lycurgus, king of Sparta, was to reform and change the government, one advised him, that it should be reduced to an absolute popular equality: "Sir," said the lawgiver," begin it in your own house first.

Love-reckons hours-for months,-and days-for years;
And every little absence-is an age.

3. Is the casket-more valuable than the
that flows slowly on; yet it undermines ev-
jewel it contains? 4. Indolence is a stream
ery virtue. 5. All outward existence-is
only the shadow of that, which is truly real;
because its very correspondence. 6. Should
we act from policy, or from principle? 7.
The prayer of the memory is a reflected light,
like that of the moon; that of the under-
standing alone, is as the light of the sun in
winter; but that of the heart, like the light
and heat united, as in spring or summer;
and so also, is all discourse from them, and
all worship.

THE FLIGHT OF YEARS.
Gone! gone forever!—Like a rushing wave
Another year-has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being—and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents on the air,
Are dying to an echo.

136. In ancient Rome, an orator's education began in infancy; so should it be now; the seeds of eloquence may be sown, when the child is on the maternal bosom; the voice should be developed with the mind. If the child has good examples set him, in reading and speaking, and the youth is attentive to his every day language, and is careful to improve his mind and voice together, he will become a good elocutionist, without scarcely knowing it. Connection and associationhave as much to do with our manner of speaking, as with our cast of thinking.

Proverbs. 1. He, who thinks he knows the most, knows the least. 2. Take every thing as it comes, and make the best of it. 3. Three removes are as bad as a fire. 4. Tread on a worm, and he will turn. 5. Two things we should never be angry at,-what we can, and what we cannot help. 6. When the bow is too much bent, it breaks. 7. A wise man-is a great wonder. 8. A wicked man-is his own hell; and his evil lusts Blushing-is virtue's color. 10. Evil communiand passions the fiends that torment him. certain, but the pain is sure. cations corrupt good manners. 11. Gain-is un12. Never court, unless you intend to marry.

9.

137. P has but one sound: PAP; Amusements. Ever since the fall, pale, par, pall, pap; peep, pet; mankind have been prone to extremes; not pipe, pip; pope, pool, pop; only the religious, but the irreligious porpule, pup, puss; point, pound; tion of the world. It is greatly to be regretpeo-ple put pep-per in pep-perted, that we are all so much at the mercy box-es, ap-ple-pies in cup- [P in PAP.] of passion and prejudice, and so little-unboards, and whap-ping pap-poo-ses in wrapder the guiding influence of reason and inpers; the hap-py pi-per placed his peer-less Being-has manifested infinite love and intelligence. In our creation, the Divine pup-py in Pom-pey's slop-shop, to be pur-finite wisdom: for we are made in " chased for a peck of pap-py pip-pins, or a IMAGE and LIKENESS;" pound of pul-ver-iz-ed pop-pies; a pad-dy picked a peck of pick-led pep-pers, and put them on a broad brimed pew-ter plat-ter.

138. MUSCLE BREAKERS. Peter Prickle Prandle picked three pecks of prickly pears, from three prickly prangly pear trees: if then, Peter Prickle Prandle, picked three pecks of prickly pears from three prickly prangly pear trees; where are the three pecks of prickly pears, that Peter Prickle Prandle picked, from the three prickly prangly pear trees? Success to the successful prickly prangly pear picker.

Notes. 1. To give this aspirate labial, whisper the word pugh, (u short,) or pop out the candle; see the engraving: it is all of the word up, except the u: but the sound is not finished till the lips are separated, or the remaining breath exhaled: remember the remarks in reference to other abrupt elements. 2. The principal difference between b and p is, that b is a vocal, and p, only a breath sound. P, H, T, are called, by some, sharp mutes; and B, G, D, flat mutes. 3. Germans find it difficult to pronounce certain vocal consonants at the ends of words, tho' correctly at the beginning: hence, instead of saying dog, mad, pod, &c. they say, at first, dok, mat, pot, &c. 4. In pronouncing m, and t together, p is very apt to intervene ; as in Pam-ton &c. 5. P is silent in psal-ter, pshaw, pneu-mat-ics, Ptol-e-my, Psy-che, rasp-ber-ry, (3d a,) corps (o long,) re-ceipt, etc. 6. Not debths, but depths; not clab-board, but clap-board; not Ja-cop, but Ja-cob; not bab-tism, but bap

ism, etc.

HIS

still retain, but the latter, sad to relate, we the former, we have lost. The will, or voluntary principle of the mind, constitutes our impelling power, and the understanding, or reasoning faculties, under the light of truth, is our governing power: if, therefore, we find ourselves loving what is not good and true, our raour guide. Hence, our rule is this; whattionality, enlightened by wisdom, must be ever amusements-tend to fit us for our va rious duties, and give us zest in faithfully performing them, are perfectly proper; but, amusements, whose tendency is the reverse of this, are entirely improper; and we should not hesitate a moment in abstaining from them, however they may be approved by others, or sanctioned by long usage: we must never compromise the interests of eternity for those transitory enjoyments of time and sense, which are at variance with the principles of truth and goodness. Both worlds are best taken care of, when they are cared for together, and each has its attention, according to its importance.

Varieties. 1. There are some, who live -to eat and drink; and there are others, who eat and drink, to live. 2. The perfection of art is to conceal the art: i. e. to be the thing, instead of its representative. 3. Let every one sweep the snow from his own

Anecdote. A Check. Soon after the battle of Leipsic, a wit observed," Bonapart must now be in funds; for he has re-door, and not trouble himself about the frost ceived a check on the bank of the Elbe."

Hidden, and deep, and never dry,

Or flowing, or at rest,

A living spring of love-doth lie

In every human breast.

All else may fail, th't soothes the heart,
All, save that fount alone;

With that, and life, we never part ;
For life, and love-are one.

He seemed

For dignity composed,-and high exploit ;
But all was false-and hollow.

on his neighbor's tiles. 4. Galileo, the great astronomer, was imprisoned for life, because he declared that Venus-shone with a borrowed light, and from the sun, as the centre of our system. 5. There are abuses-in all human governments. 6. He, whose virtues, exceed his talents, is the good man; but he, whose talents exceed his virtues, is the bad 7 All we perceive, understand, will, love, and practice, is our own; but nothing else.

man.

Suspicion-always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief-still fears each bush-an officer.

139. Written language consists of letters, Proverbs. 1. He that is ill to himself, will and, consequently, is more durable than spo- be good to nobody. 2. The remedy-is worse than ken language, which is composed of articu- the disease. 3. Who is so deaf, as he that will late sounds. Our written alphabet contains not hear? 4. All vice infatuates and corrupts the twenty-six letters, which make syllables and judgment. 5. A fool, may, by chance, put somewords; words make sentences; sentences thing into a wise man's head. 6. After praying paragraphs, which make sections and chapto God, not to lead you into temptation, do not ters; these constitute an essay, discourse, adthrow yourself into it. 7. Evil gotten, evil spent. dress, oration, poem, dissertation, tract or 8. He, that knows useful things, and not he that knows book: but our vocal alphabet has forty-four many things, is the wise man. 9. Heletters, or sounds, which make up the whole of spoken language.

preaches well, that lives well. 10. It is always term time in the court of conscience. 11. We may be ashamed of our pride, but not proud of our

faith. 13. Stolen waters are sweet.

140. R has two sounds; first, its name shame. 12. Historical faith-precedes saving sound; ARM; the bar-bers were, in former years, the ar-bi-ters of The True Christian Character. The the mur-der-ers of their fore-fathree essentials of a christian-are-a good thers: the Tar-tars are gar-blers will-flowing through a true understanding, of hard-ware and per-ver-ters of into a uniform life of justice and judgment. the er-rors of North-ern-ers and [R in ARM.] It is not enough, that we mean well, or South-ern-ers; the far-mers are dire search-intention is powerless, without truth_to know our duty, or try to do right; for good

ers after burnt ar-bors, and store the corners of their lar-ders with di-vers sorts of quar-ter dol-lars; Charles Bur-ser goes to the far-ther barn, and gets lar-ger ears of hard corn, for the car-ter's hor-ses.

guide it aright; and truth-in the intellect alone, is mere winter-light, without the summer-heat of love to God-and love to man; and blundering efforts to do our duty are poor apologies for virtuous ener

141. Dr. Franklin says, (of the justly cel-gies, well directed and efficiently applied: ebrated Whitfield,) that it would have been tians; i. e. our will, understanding and life, the three alone-can constitute us true chrisfortunate for his reputation, if he had left no written works behind him; his talents would cient unity, in order that we may be entitled must be brought into harmonious and effichen have been estimated by their effects: in- to this high and holy appellation. Things deed, his elocution was almost faultless. must not only be thought of, and desired, But whence did he derive his effective man-purposed, and intended; but they must be ner? We are informed, that he took lessons of Garrick, an eminent tragedian of England, who was a great master in Nature's school of teaching and practicing this useful

art.

Notes. 1. To make this smooth vocal sound, pronounce the word arm, and dwell on the r sound; and you will perceive that the tongue is turned gently to the roof of the mouth, and at the same time drawn back a little. 2. Avoid omitting this letter, as it never is silent, except it is doubled in the same syllable; not staw-my, but stor-my; not lib-ah-ty, but lib-er-ty; not bust, but

done, from love to the Lord; that He, as a principle of goodness, and a principle of truth-may be flowing, constantly, from the centre-to the circumference of actions: we must practice what we know of the truth; ther's commandments; so as to have his we must live the life of our heavenly Fagoodness and truth implanted in us, that we may strive to walk before Him, and become perfect.

Varieties. 1. A certain apothecary-has burst; not waw-um, but warm; not ah-gu-ment, but ar-gu-ment; over his door, this sign-" All kinds of dynot hosses, but hor-ses; not hahd stawm, but hard storm; etc. 3. Re-ing stuff sold here." 2. Does wealth-exert member that short e and i before r, in the same syllable, when accented, sound like short u, unless followed by another r, as mercy, more influence than knowledge? 3. A (mer-it,) ser-geant, (ser-rate,) ter-ma-gant, (ter-ror,) mirth-ful, pretty shepherd, indeed, a wolf would make! (mir-ror,) ver-ses, (ver-y) (here the r is re-echoed ;) and spirits, &c.: 4. At some taverns-madness-is sold by the exceptions are in parentheses: see p. 22d. 4. Some words, the glass; at others, by the bottle. 5. So(where e, i, and r, are peculiarly situated, as above,) have, in their briety, without sullenness, and mirth with pronunciation, a reverberation, or repetition of the 7, although modesty, are commendable. 6. Even an or. there may be but one in the word; as-ver-y; being followed by dinary composition, well delivered, is better received, and of course does more good, than a superior one, badly delivered. 7. Where order—cannot enter, it cannot exist.

vowel.

a

Anecdote. Who Rules? A schoolmaster, in ancient Rome, declared, that he ruled the world. He was asked to explain: which he did in the following manner. "Romerules the world; the women rule those who govern Rome; the children control their mothers, and I rule the children."

So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming-parted;
But yet a union-in partition,
Two lowly berries,-moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart:
Two of the first, like coats, in heraldry,
Due but to one, and crowned-with one crest.

What is beauty? Not the show
Of shapely limbs, and features. No:
These are but flowers,

That have their dated hours,

To breathe their momentary sweets, then go;
"Tis the stainless soul-within-
That outshines-the fairest skin.

Appearances-deceive;

And this one maxim-is a standing rule,-
Men are not-what they scem.

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