PART III

FOR the transgression of my people was he stricken. I was in trouble and affliction, and he comforted me. His arguments are based on an insecure foundation, indeed, some of his deductions are extremely fallacious. Temptation proves our virtue, and the righteousness of the Saviour secures our salvation. During the vacation we shall make a provincial excursion. Tradition says, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." The translation is a good one, and is evidently the production of a scholar. Demosthenes, who ultimately excelled in oration, was some time before he attained any degree of perfection. Your dictation will retard your promotion; as it is a very slovenly production. My impression is, that there is some mistake in the prescription. His narration was principally confined to the migration of birds. Suspend your diversion for a few minutes, and give me your attention. I hope the rejection of the candidate will not cause him any vexation. vexation. I understand your relation is an optician, not a musician. Among the ancient Egyptians, their magicians were held in great

reverence.

ac-tu-al-ly

an-te-cham-ber cat-er-pil-lar

ad-di-to-ry an-ti-mo-ny cel-i-ba-cy

ad-e-quate-ly an-ti-qua-ry

cen-sur-a-ble

Select Reading Lessons.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery! still thou art a bitter draught; and though thousands in all ages have been made to drink of thee, thou art no less bitter on that account. It is thou, Liberty! thrice sweet and gracious goddess, whom all in public or in private, worship; whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change:-No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle, or chymic power turn thy sceptre into iron: with thee to smile upon him as he eats his crust, the swain is happier than his august monarch, from whose court thou art exiled. Gracious Heaven! grant me but health, thou great Bestower of it, and give me but this fair goddess as my companion; and shower down thy mitres, if it seem good unto thy divine Providence, upon those heads which are aching for them.

Sterne.

Ah! little think the gay licentious proud,
Whom pleasure, power, and affluence surround;
They, who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth,
And wanton, often cruel, riot waste ;-

Ah! little think they, while they dance along,
How many feel, this very moment, death

And all the sad variety of pain!—

co"-py-hold-er for-tu-nate-ly mal-le-a-ble

cor-po-ral-ly fraud-u-lent-ly man-da-to-ry

cor-ri-gi-ble

friv-o-lous-ly ma-tri-mo-ny

cov-et-ous-ly

gen-er-al-ly

mel-an-cho-ly

cred-it-a-ble

gen-er-ous-ly

mem-o-ra-ble

cus-tom-a-ry gil-li-flow-er

men-su-ra-ble

dan-ger-ous-ly gov-ern-a-ble

mer-ce-na-ry

del-i-ca-cy grad-a-to-ry mil-i-ta-ry

des-pi-ca-ble

hab-er-dash-er mis-er-a-ble

How many sink in the devouring flood,
Or more devouring flame! how many bleed,
By shameful variance between man and man!
How many pine in want, and dungeon glooms;
Shut from the common air, and common use
Of their own limbs! how many drink the cup
Of baleful grief, or eat the bitter bread
Of misery! sore pierc'd by wintry winds,
How many shrink into the sordid hut
Of cheerless poverty!

Thomson.

Iphicrates, an Athenian commander, was of very humble extraction, his father having been a shoemaker. But in a free city like Athens, merit was the sole nobility. Having signalized himself in a naval combat, in which he was only a common sailor, he was soon after employed with distinction, and honoured with a command. In a legal process which had been fomented against him, his accuser, who was one of the descendants of the noble Harmodius, and made very great use of his ancestor's name, having reproached him with the baseness of his birth, "Yes," replied he; "the nobility of my family begins in me; that of your's ends in you."

Cornelius Nepos.