sum would have been taken, had the government authorized it. The crowd was large, that thronged the doors of the agent, and the pressure so tremendous, that a number of persons were killed. Houses worth, in ordinary times, a thousand livres, yielded now twelve or sixteen thousand. A cobbler let his stall for two hundred livres a day. The concourse was such, that the streets, at nightfall, had to be cleared by soldiers. 9. The rush for the stock was such, that peers would stand six hours for the purpose of seeing the agent. Ladies of rank came, day after day, for a fortnight, before they could obtain an audience. M. de Chirac, the first physician of France, having purchased some India stocks, just before they began to fall, was called to see an invalid lady. As he felt the pulse, he cried: "It falls! it falls!" She cried : "I am dying! I am dying! Oh, M. de Chirac, ring the bell for assistance! I am dying,-it falls! it falls !" "What falls?" cried the doctor. "My pulse! my pulse!" your fears," he replied; "I was speaking of my stocks." "Calm 10. The influx of strangers to Paris, during these years of excitement, was computed at 305,000. Dwellings could not accommodate the applicants, and houses rose like exha lations. Meat, vegetables, bread, and all manner of provi sions, sold at a price, beyond which they had ever been known. The artisan, who had earned but fifteen sous a day, now readily received sixty. Universal and unbounded prosperity bewildered the nation, and all the nation, blind as to the results, rushed forward to reap the golden harvest. 11. Paris never before was so filled with luxuries. Statues, pictures, and tapestries, were imported in large quantities, and found their way, not alone to the palaces of nobles, but to the drawing-rooms of merchants and traders. There seemed no end to credit, to treasures of silver and gold. 12. But the long, dark, stormy night was fast descending, and such a scene of confusion, bankruptcy, disaster, ruin, and havoc, ensued, as beggars all description. What num bers―after having been exalted to the pinnacle of prosperity, were now dashed down to penury and misery-laid violent hands upon themselves, and sought a doubtful refuge in the grave! 13. The few fortunes made by these fearful spasms in the community, shone afar like glittering pinnacles; but the millions who sighed and suffered unseen from this madness of the gold mania, illustrate the truth, in all its length and breadth, that "they who make haste to be rich, sha" not be innocent." QUESTIONS.-1. When and by whom was the "Mississippi scheme" originated? 2. What was Law's character? 3. How long did he roam through Flanders, Holland, &c.? 4. By what means was the drooping commerce of France raised? 5. What did Law's success induce him to devise? 6. What gave rise to the name of 66 India Company"! LESSON XCVIII. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. AC COMPLISH MENTS, acquire-{ ments. CON TRACTED, incurred. AF FORD ED, yielded. DE FICIENT, defective; wanting. best authors of Greece and RE LUCTANCE, unwillingness. VOL' UN TA RY, of one's own will. CON SPIR A CY, plot; combina LITER A TURE, learning. SCOPE, aim; design. tion for something evil. SAC' RI FIC ED, surrendered. CLASSIC AL, pertaining to the SHRINE, altar. ADDRESS TO YOUNG STUDENTS. ΕΝΟΣ. 1. Your parents have watched over your helpless infancy, and conducted you, with many a pang, to an age, at which your mind is capable of manly improvement. Their solicitude still continues, and no trouble nor expense is spared, in giving you all the instructions, and accomplishments which may enable you to act your part in life, as a man of polished sense and confirmed virtue. You have, then, already contracted a great debt of gratitude to them. You can pay it by no other method, but by using properly the advantages which their goodness has afforded you. 2. You must love learning, if you would possess it. In order to love it, you must feel its delights; in order to feel its delights, you must apply to it, however irksome, at first, closely, constantly, and for a considerable time. If you have resolution enough to do this, you can not but love learning; for the mind always loves that, to which it has been so long, steadily, and voluntarily attached. Habits are formed, which render what was, at first, disagreeable, not only pleasant, but necessary. 3. Pleasant, indeed, are all the paths which lead to polite and elegant literature. Yours, then, is surely a lot particularly happy. Your education is of such a sort, that its principal scope is, to prepare you to receive a refined pleasure during your life. Elegance, or delicacy of taste, is one of the first objects of classical discipline; and it is this fine quality which opens a new world to the scholar's view. 4. Elegance of taste has a connection with many virtues, and all of them virtues of the most amiable kind. It tends to render you, at once, good and agreeable; you must, therefore, be an enemy to your own enjoyment, if you enter on the discipline which leads to the attainment of a classical and liberal education, with reluctance. Value duly the opportunities you enjoy, and which are denied to thousands your fellow creatures. of 5. By laying in a store of useful knowledge, adorning your mind with elegant literature, improving and establishing your conduct by virtuous principles, you can not fail of being a comfort to those friends who have supported you, of being happy within yourself, and of being well received of mankind. Honor and success in life will probably attend you. Under all circumstances, you will have an eternal source of consolation and entertainment, of which no subluuary vicissitude can deprive you. 6. Time will show how much wiser has been your choice than that of your idle companions, who would gladly have drawn you into their association, or rather into their conspiracy, as it has been called, against good manners, and against all that is honorable and useful. While you appear in society, as a respectable and valuable member of it, they will, perhaps, have sacrificed at the shrine of vanity, pride, and extravagance, and false pleasure, their health and their sense, their fortune and their characters. 2. QUESTIONS.-1. What must one do in order to love learning? What advantages result from the possession of elegance, or delicacy of taste? 3. What advantages will you have over your idle companions, by steadily pursuing your studies? LESSON XCIX. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. AP PA BA TUS, means. CAB' I NETS, collections of curi- A BIL' I TY, power. SUM MON, Command; call up. E MER GEN CY, sudden or neces- CA PAC I TY, ability; talent. DIS' CI PLINE, mental training. 1. TROY, also called Troja, or cities of antiquity. It was situated in the north-western part of Asia Minor. Troy was taken by the Greeks, after a ten years' siege, and razed to the ground, about the year 1184, B. C. HOW TO MAKE A SCHOLAR. DANIEL WEBSTER. 1. Costly apparatus and splendid cabinets have no magical power to make scholars. In all circumstances, as a man is, under God, the master of his own fortune, so is he the maker of his own mind. The Creator has so constituted the human intellect, that it can only grow by its own action; and, by its own action and free will, it will certainly and necessarily grow. 2. Every man must, therefore, educate himself. book and teacher are but helps; the work is his. His A man is not educated until he has the ability to summon, in an emergency, all his mental powers in vigorous exercise to effect his proposed object. It is not the man who has seen most, or read most, who can do this; such a one is in danger of being borne down, like a beast of burden, by an overloaded mass of other men's thoughts. 3. Nor is it the man who can boast of native vigor and capacity. The greatest of all warriors in the siege of Troy, bad not the pre-eminence, because nature had given him strength, and he carried the largest bow, but because selfdiscipline had taught him how to bend it. QUESTIONS.-1. How has the Creator constituted human intellect in respect to its power of growth? 2. In what light are teachers and books to be regarded? 3. When may a man be said to be properly educated? LESSON C. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. AʼZURE, blue; sky-colored. E MOTION, feeling. COM MOTION, tumult; agitation. SER API, angel of the highest TREM' U LOUS, trembling. order. THE LIGHT-HOUSE. THOMAS MOORE. 1. The scene was more beautiful far to my eye, (p.) The murmur rose soft, as I silently gazed In the shadowy wave's playful motion, From the dim distant hill, till the light-house fire blazed 2. No longer the joy of the sailor-boy's breast Was heard in his wildly-breathed numbers; |