560. POLYGLOTT OF BODY AND MIND. I Thus, we see that the body, in connection with the mind, speaks many languages; and he is a learned elocutionist, who understands and can speak them. In view of which, well might Hamlet exclaim, "WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN!" Observe well this strange being, as embodied in the works of the painter, and statuary: in what kingly wondrous manner, appear his force of altitude and looks! Who, but would covet the glorious art of making the flat canvas and rocky"if KINGS were to be my competitors." marble, utter every passion of the human mind, and touch the soul of the spectator, as if the picture, or statue, spoke the pathetic language of a Shakspeare? Is it any wonder that masterly action, joined with powerful elocution, should be irresistible? If poetry, music, and statuary, is good, is not on ATORY more excellent? for in that we have them all. Woe for those, who trample o'er a mind!

Anecdote. No hero was more distinguished in ancient times, than Alexander the Great, king of Macedon. His courage was undaunted, his ambition boundless, his friendship ardeni, his taste refined; and what was very extraordinary, he seems to have conversed with the same fire and spirit, with which he fought. Philip, his father, knowing him to be very swift, wished him to run for the prize, at the Olympic games. "I would comply with your request," said Alexander,

A deathless thing. They know not what they do,
Or what they deal with! Man, perchance, may
The flow'r his step hath bruis'd; or light anew[bind
The torch he quenches; or to music-wind
Again the lyre-string from his touch that flew ;
But, for the soul !-oh! tremble, and beware.--
To lay rude hands-upon God's mysteries there!
561. THE WRITTEN PAGE can but ill ex-
press the nicer shades of sentiment, passion,
and emotion which the poet has painted.
There are depths of thought, which the eye
cannot penetrate--and sublimities of flight,
which it cannot reach. The loveliest and
sublimest of written poetry-even that con-
tained in sacred scripture-cannot speak to
the eye with that vivid poper and intensity of
expression, drawn from it by the human voice,
when trained to the capacity given to it, by
the Creator. Hence, the ordained efficiency
of preaching; hence, the trembling of Felix,
as the great Apostle reasoned-" of righteous
ness, temperance, and judgment to come.'
So, with the production of the most consum-
mute human genius:

For ill-can poetry express,

Full many a tone-of thought sublime; And sculpture, mute and motionless,

Steals but one glance from time.

But, by the mighty actor's power,
Their wedded triumphs come:
Verse-ceases-to be airy thought

And sculpture-to be dumb.

562. The following-is an example of the sublime, falling far short of a hyperbole; for, as St. John observes, “even the WORLD ITSELF-Could not contain the books, that should be written" on the subject of INFINITE LOVE and INFINITE WISDOM-displayed in man's REDEMPTION and SALVATION. Could we, with ink, the OCEAN fill,

Were the whole earth-a PARCHMENT-made, Were every single stick-a QUILL,

And every man-a SCRIBE by trade;
To write the LOVE OF GOD-to man,
Would drain the OCEAN dry:

Nor would the scroll-contain the plan,
Tho' stretch'd-from SKY to SKY.

The mind-untaught,

Is a dark waste, where fiends and tempests howl;
A Phabus-te the world, is science-to the arul.

The ocean-when it rolls aloud-
The tempest-bursting from her cloud,
In one uninterrupted peal!
When darkness sits amid the sky;
And shadowy forms go trooping by;

And everlasting mountains reel--
All-all of this is Freedom's song--

'Tis pealed--'tis pealed eternally!
And all, that winds and waves prolong,
Are anthems rolled to Liberty!

Varieties. 1. Although the truth can ne ver come to condemn, but to sare, the world has ever pronounced its condemnation. 2. Garbled extracts from any work, are no more stone, mortar, boards, glass, and nails, are a a correct representation of the work, than fair specimen of a splendid palace. 3. Never let private interest, poverty, disgrace, danger, or death, deter you--from asserting the liberty of your country, or from transmitting to posterity, the sacred rights to which you were born. 4. What are the pleasures of the bodily senses, without the pleasures of the soul? 5. Themistocles, when asked to play the iute, replied, I cannot play the fiddle, but I can make a little village a great city. 6. The skin-co-operates with the lungs in purifying the blood. 7. How shall we know that the American government, is founded on the true principles of human nature ? By learning what the true principles of human nature are and an extensive induction of facts, derived from the study of history, and our own observation.

Yet, though my dust-in earth be laid,
My life on earth-withdrawn;
"Twill be--but as a fleeting shade
Of night-before the dawn!

For I shall spring-beyond the tomb,
To new-immortal prime,

Where all is light, and life, and bloom;
And no more winter-time.

I had a friend, that lov'd me :

I was his soul: he liv'd not, but in me:
We were so close within each other's breast,
The rivets were not found, that join'd us first,
That does not reach us yet. we were so mir'á,
As meeting streams; both to ourselves were lost
We were one mass; we could not give, or take,
But from the same: for he was I; I, he:
Return, my better half, and give me all myself,
For thou art all!

If I have any joy when thou art absent,
I grudge it to myself: methinks I rob
Thee-of thy part.

Stillest streams

Of water fairest meadows; and the bird,
That flutters least, is longest on the wing

563. GESTURE, or a just and elegant ad- A Great Mistake. The sons of the rich so aptation of every part of the body to the sub-often die poor-and the sons of the poor so often Ject, is an essential part of oratory; and its die rich, that it has grown into a proverb; and yet, power is much greater than that of words: how many parents are laboring and toiling to ac for it is the language of nature, and makes its cumulate wealth for their children, and, at the way to the heart, without the utterance of a single word: it affects the eye, (which is the same time, raising them up in habits of indolence quickest of all our senses,) and of course, con- and extravagance. Their sons will scatter their veys impressions more speedily to the mind, property much sooner than they can gather it tothan that of the voice, which aflects the ear gether. Let them have their heads well stored with only. Nature, having given to every senti-useful knowledge, and their hearts with sound and ment and feeling its proper outward expres virtuous principles, and they will ordinarily take sion, what we often mean, does not depend so much on our words, as on our manner of care of themselves. However affluent may be his speaking them. Art-only adds ease and circumstances, yet every parent inflicts upon his gracefulness, to what nature and reason dic-son a lasting injury, who does not train him up tɔ tate. Study the Gesture Engravings thor-habits of virtue, industry and economy.

oughly.

All natural objects have

An echo in the heart. This flesh doth thrill,
And has connection, by some unseen chain,
With its original source and kindred substance:
The mighty forest, the proud tides of ocean,
Sky-cleaving hills, and in the vast air,
The starry constellations; and the sun,
Parent of life exhaustless-these maintain

With the mysterious mind and breathing mould,
A coexistence and community.

MADNESS AND TERROR.

Stretch of Thought. A fellow-student, in consequence of too close application to study, and neglect of proper diet and exercise, became partially deranged; but being very harmless, it was thought best that he should go and come when, and where he pleased; in hope of facilitating his restoration. One Saturday afternoon, he went out through the gardens and fields, and gathered every variety of flowers, from the modest violet to the gaudy sunflower-with which he adorned himself from head to foot, in the most fantastical manner; in which condition he was displaying his imaginary kingly power, on a hillock in the college green, just as the president and one of the professors were going up to attend chapel prayers; when the former observed to the latter-what a great pity that such a noble mind should be thus in ruins! the maniac hearing what he said, rose majestically upon his throne, and with a most piercing look and voice, exclaimed; "What is that you say, old president? you presume to talk thus about ne? Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed as I am. You old sinner, come here; and I will tear you limb from limb,-and scatter you through infinite space; where Omniscience cannot find you, nor Omnipotence put you together again.

Anecdote. Francis I., king of France, (opponent and rival of Charles V., of Germany,) consulting with his generals, how to lead his army over the Alps into Italy, his fool, Amarel, sprung from a corner, and advised him to consult how to bring them buck again.

A child is born. Now take the germ, and make it
A bud of moral beauty. Let the dews

Of knowledge, and the light of virtue, wake it
In richest fragrance, and in purest hues;
When passion's gust, and sorrow's tempest shake it,
The shelter of affection-ne'er refuse,
For soon. the gathering hand of death will break t
From its weak stem of life,-and it shall lose
All power to charm; but, if that lonely flower
Hath swell'd one pleasure, or subdued one pain,
O, who shall say, that it has lived in vain,
However fugitive-its breathing hour?

For virtue-leaves its sweets wherever tasted,
And scatter'd truth is never, never wasted.

Varieties. 1. All those, who have pre-
sented themselves at the door of the world,
with a great truth, have been received with
stones, or hisses. 2. Who has not observed
the changed, and changing condition of the
human race! 3. We are indebted to the
monastic institutions for the preservation of
ancient libraries. 4. No good can bring
pleasure, unless it be that, for the loss of
which we are prepared. 5. They, who sac-
rifice at the altar of Apollo, are like those,
who drink of the waters of Claros; they re-
ceive the gift of divination, they imbibe the
seeds of death. 6. The same misconduct
which we pardon in ourselves, we condemn
in others; because we associate a palliatim
with the one, which we cannot perceive in
the other.
riuge?

7. What constitutes true mar

Sheba-was never

More cautious of wisdom, and fair virtue,
Than this pure soul shall be;
TRUTH-shall muse her,
Holy and heavenly thoughts-still counsel her.
Can you raise the dead!

Pursue, and overtake-the waves of time?
Bring back again—the hours, the days,
The months, the years, that made me happy?
The heart has tendrils-like the vine,

Which round another's bosom twine,

Outspringing from the living tree-
Of deeply-planted sympathy;

Where flowers are hope, its fruits-are bliss,
Beneficence-its harvest is.

564. VEHEMENCE OF ACTION. Cicero- Three Modes of Forming Theories. very judiciously observes, that a speaker One—to imagine them, and then search for facts must remit, occasionally, the vehemence of to sustain, prove and confirm them; one-to col his actions, and not utter every passage with leet facts, which are only effects. and out of ther all the force, of which he is capable; so as to set oil, more strongly, the emphatical parts; to form theories; and one-to observe all these as painters make their figures stand out boll- facts, and look through them to their cause; which er, by means of light and shades: there are causes constitute the only true theories: then, all always strong points, as they may be called, known or probable effects, will not only confirma in every well written piece, which must al- such theories, but they can be explained by these ways be attended to,-thus hill and dale, theories. Hence, the true theories of all things, mountain and precipice, cataract and gulph: will explain and demonstrate all things, so far as always keep some resources, and never utter the weaker with all your energy; for if they can be seen and understood; i. e. rationally you do, there will be a failing in the strong perceived, according to the state and capacity of the points the most pathetic parts. human mind. That which enables one to explain a thing, analytically and synthetically, is the true cause or theory of that thing; thus, true theories are the causes of things. and facts are the legitmate effects of those things. The ENDS OF THINGS. There is one step higher, which must be taken. and then we shall have all, that the human mint can conceive of, or think about; which is the end of things: thus we have ends, causes, and effects;

In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man,
As modest stillness, and humility:

But, when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then, imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood.
Disguise fair nature with hard-favor'd rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let it pry through the portage of the head,

thing, object or subject, concerning which we can feel, think or act, is either an end, a cause, or an effect; the latter only, are accessible to our senses: the other must be seen intellectually: i. e. in a region of mind above our senses.

Like the brass cannon; let the brow o'erwhelm it, beyond which sphere, man cannot go; for every
As fearfully, as doth a galled rock
O'erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean,
Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide;
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height!-On, on! you noblest English.

Varieties. 1. Can what is incomprehen465. THE FOREHEAD. TO WHAT spectaty, justice, and atriotism--are qualities-of sible, be an object of thought? 2. Humani tor can the forehead appear uninteresting? Here, appear LIGHT and GLOOM; JOY and ANXIETY, STUPIDITY, IGNORANCE, and VICE, On this brazen tablet are engraved MANY combinations of SENSE and of SOUL. Here, all the GRACES revel, and all the CYCLOPS thunder. Nature has left it bare, that by it, the countenance may be ENLIGHTENED and DARKENED. At its lowest extremities, THOUGHTS--appear changed into ACTS; the mind HERE collects the powers of RESISTANCE; and HERE headlong OBSTINACY, or wise PERSEVERANCE take up their fixed. abode.

That brow, which was, to me,
A blooming heaven (it was a heaven, for there
Shone forth twin stars of excellence, so brightly,
As though the winds of paradise had fann'd
Their orbed lustre, till they beam'd with love ;)
That brow-was as the sleep-imprison'd lake,
Treasuring the beauty of the deep blue skies,
Whose charm'd slumber, one small breath will ruffle.
Anecdote. A commonwealth's man, in
England, on his way to the scaffold, for
truth's sake, saw his wife, looking at him
from the fower window, and standing up in
the cart he waved his hat, and cried, "To
HEAVEN, my love, to HEAVEN, and I leave
you in the storm awhile."

Well might Lord Herbert write his love-
Were not our souls-immortal made,
Our equal love-would make them such.
Tis sweet to know, there is an eye-will mark,
Our coming, and look brighter,-when we come.
O, colder than the wind, that freezes
Founts, that but now-in sunshine played,
Is that congealing pang, which seizes
The bursting bosom, when betrayed.

universal benefit to mankind. 3. The only way to expel what is fulse from the mind, is to receive the opposite truth. 4. Faith-is saving, when we learn truths from the Bible, and live according to them. 5. A man is said to be square, when he does not, from inJustice, incline to this or that party. 6 The power of the muscles, is derived through the nerves, as the power of good is from truth. 7. Nothing remains with us, that is not received in freedom.

[nighs

Look nature through; 'tis revolution all:
All change; no death. Day-follows night, and
The dying day; stars rise, and set, and rise;
Earth-takes the example. See, the Summer, gay
With her green chaplet-and ambrosial flowers,
Droops into pallid Autumn: Winter, gray,
Horrid with frost, and turbuent with storm,
Blows Autumn, and his golden fruits, away;-
Then, inelts into the Spring. Soft Spring, with
Favonian. from warm chambers of the south. [breath
Recalls the first. All. to re-flourish, fades,
As in a wheel. all sinks to re-asrend—-
Emblems of man, who passes, not expires.
Say, dear, will you not have me?
Then take the kiss-you gave me;
You elsewhere would. perhaps, bestow it,
And I would be as loath-to owe it;
Or, if you will not take the thing-once given,
Let me kiss you, and then, we shall o even

And then, alone, would Ila mourn;
And count the hours, till his return,
For when--did woman's love expire,
If fondly fanned--the holy fire?

He, that doth public good-for multitudes,
Finds few are truly grateful

of position, denote majesty, activity, strength; the leaning-affection, respect. earnestness of entreaty dignity of composure, inditlerence, disease. The air of a person expresses a language easily understood. The husbandman, dandy, gentleman and military chief bespeak the habits and qualt es of each. The head gently reclined, denotes grief, shame; erect-courage, firmness; thrown back or shaken--dissent; forward--assent. The hand raised and inverted-repels, more elevated and extended-surprise, astonishment; placed on the mouth-silence; on the conscience: elevated--defiance; both raised and palms united-supplication; gently clasped thankfulness; wrung-agony.

569. RHETORICAL ACTION-respects the atti- | correspond. An erect attitude, and a firmness tude, gesture, and expression of the countenance. Words cannot represent certain peculiarities; they depend on the actor. Simplicity, or a strict adherence to the modesty of nature-correctness-or adaption to the word-an beauty, as opposed to awkwardness-are the principal marks of good action. Beauty belongs to objects of sight. Action should be easy, natural, varied, and directed by passion. Avoid affectation and display; for they disgust. The best artists are famous for simplicity, which has an enchanting effect, Profuse decorations indicate a wish to supply the want of genius by multiplying inferi-head. pain; on the breast--affection. or appeal to or beauties. There is in every one an indiscribable something, which we call nature, that perceives and recognizes the inspirations of nature; therefore, after bringing your voice under Anecdote. Tyrolese Songs. In the your control, if you enter fully into the spirit of the composition, and let your feelings prompt mountains of Tyrol, hundreds of women and Bd govern your action, you cannot greatly err. children-come out, at bed-time, and sing The victory is half won when you fully feel and their national songs, until they hear their husrealize what you read or speak. Resolve to ac-bands, fathers, and brothers, answer them quire the power, the witchery, the soul of elocu- from the hills on their return home. Upon tion-that lightning of ancient times which pour- the shore of the Adriatic, the wives of the ed a blaze of light on the darkest understanding, fishermen come down, about sunset, and and that thunder which awakens the dead. sing one of their melodies. They sing the first verse, and then listen-for sometime: then they sing a second; and so on, till they hear the answer from the fishermen, who are thus guided to their homes.

They never fail-who die

In a great cause: the block-may soak their gore:
Their heads-may sodden in the sun; their limbs
Be strung to city gates-and castle walls-
But still--their spirit walks abroad. Tho' years
Elipse, and others-share as dark a doom,
They but augment the deep and swelling thoughts
Which overpower all others, and conduct
The world, at last, to FREEDOM.

Hail memory, hail! in thy exhaustless mine,
From age--to age, unnumbered treasures shine!
Thought, and her shadowy brood, thy call obcy,
And place. and time, are subject to thy sway!
Thy pleasures most we feel, when most alone,
The only pleasures we can call our own.

570. This system teaches you to harmon-Lighter than air, Hope's summer visions fly, 17 matter and manner, to imbibe the author's If but a fleeting cloud obscure the sky; felines, to bring before you all the circum- If but a beam of sober Reason play, stances, and plunge amid the living scenes; Lo! Fancy's fairy frost-work melts away: and feel that what you describe is present, and actually passing before you. Speak of truths But, can the wiles of art, the grasp of power, as truths, not as fictions. Give the strongest, Snatch the rich relics of a well-spent hour? freest, truest expression of the natural blend- These, when the trembling spirit takes her flight, ings of thought and emotion; break thro' all Pour round her path a stream of living light, arbitrary restraint, and submit, after proper And gild those pure and perfect realms of rest, trainings, to the suggestions of reason and Where VIRTUE--triumphs, and her sons are blest. fiature. Let your manner be earnest, collected, vigorous, self-balanced. In the introduction, be respectful, modest, conciliatory, winning, rather mild and slow; in the discussion, clear, energetic; in the application, animated, pathetic, persuasive.

All-some force obey!
Gold-will dissolve, and diamonds-melt away;
Marble--obeys the chisel, and the saw;
And solar-beams-a rock of ice will thaw;
The flaming forge o'ercomes well-temper'd steel;
And flinty glass--is fashioned at the wheel:
Bat man's rebellious heart--no power can bend,
No flames can soften, no concussion--rend;
Till the pure spirit soften, pierce and melt,
And the warm blood-is in the conscience felt.

571. Look your hearers in the face--give yourself, body and soul, to the subject-let not the attention be divided between the manner and matter. Practice in private to establish correct habis of voice and gesture, ad become so familiar with all rules as not to think of them when exercising. The head, face, eyes, hands, and upper part of the body are principally employed in oratorical action. The soul speaks most intelligibly in the muscles of the face, and through the eve, which is the chief seat of expression; let the internal man, and the external

Varieties. 1. Costume, when once regulated by true science, and art, remains in un. changable good taste;comfortable, convenient, as well as picturesque and becoming. 2. In 1756, a white headed old woman--died in London, whose hair sold for 244 dollars to a ladies' periwig maker. 3. In some countries, intellect has sway; in some-wealth; and in others-beauty and rank; but the most powerful influence in the best societies, is goodness combined with truth in practice. 4. Merit-in the inheritor, alone makes valid an inheritance of glory in ancestry. 5. Why does new sweet milk become sour-during a thunder storm? 6. Why can no other na tion make a Chinese gong? 7. Is not the American government funded upon the true principles of human nature ? S. How prone many are, to worship the creature more than the Creator! 9. When apparent truths are taken, and confirmed for real ones, they become fallacies. 10. Actions-show best the nature of the law of life; and deedsshow the man.

In all thy huniors, whether grave or mellow,
Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; [thee,
Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about
That there's no living with thee, or without thee.