assure us of undisturbed rest, nor so powerful as to afford us constant protection.

IX. O Virtue! how amiable thou art! Ah me! what shall I do! O Thou who reignest above! Alas! I have been too often occupied with trifles. Ah! the delusions of hope. Hail, Simplicity! source of genuine joy. Hark! how the tempest rages! Behold! how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

1. An amiable youth lamented, in terms of sincere grief, the death of a most affectionate parent. His companion endeavoured to console him by the reflection, that he had always behaved to the deceased with duty, tenderness, and respect. "So I thought," replied the youth, "whilst my parent was living; but now I recollect, with pain and sorrow, many instances of disobedience and neglect, for which, alas! it is too late to make atonement."

2. On a fine morning in summer, two bees set forward in quest of honey; the one wise and temperate, the other careless and extravagant. They soon arrived at a garden enriched with aromatic herbs, the most fragrant flowers, and the most delicious fruits. They regaled themselves with the various dainties, that were spread before them; the one loaded his thighs, at intervals, with provisions for the hive against the distant winter; the other revelled in sweets, without regard to any thing but his present gratification. At length they found a wide-mouthed phial, which hung beneath the bough of a peach-tree, filled with honey ready tempered, and exposed to their taste in the most alluring manner. The thoughtless epicure, in spite of his friend's remonstrances, plunged headlong into the vessel, resolving to indulge himself in all the pleasures of sensuality. His philosophic companion, on the other hand, sipped a little with caution; but, being suspicious of danger, flew off to fruits and flowers; where, by the moderation of his meals, he improved his relish for the true enjoyment of them. In the evening, however, he called upon his friend, to inquire whether he would return to the hive; but he found him surfeited in sweets, which he was as unable to leave as to enjoy. Clogged in his wings, enfeebled in his feet, and his whole frame totally enervated, he was but just able to bid his friend adieu; and to lament with his latest breath, that though a taste of pleasure may quicken the relish of life, an unrestrained indulgence leads to inevitable destruction.

3. Time is a sacred trust committed to us by God, of which we are the depositaries, and are to render an account at the last.

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That portion of it, which he has allotted to us, is intended partly for the concerns of this world, partly for those of the next. Each of these ought to occupy, in the distribution of our time, that space which properly belongs to it. The hours of hospitality and pleasure should not interfere with the discharge of our necessary affairs; and what we call necessary affairs, should not encroach upon the time which is due to devotion. To every thing there is a season, and a time for every purpose under the heavens. delay till to-morrow what ought to be done to-day, we overcharge the morrow with a burden which belongs not to it. We load the wheels of time, and prevent them from carrying us along smoothly. He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows out that plan, carries on a thread which will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of his time is like a ray of light, which darts itself through all his affairs. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, all things lie huddled together in one chaos, which admits neither of distribution nor review.

SECTION II.

VARIETY OF INFLECTION.

Rudiments, p. 28.

1. Men never do designed injuries to others, without doing greater to themselves.

2. She who gives her child habits of industry, provides for him better than by giving him a stock of money.

3. Solicitude in hiding a failing makes it appear the greater. The safest and easiest course is to acknowledge it frankly. I own that I am ignorant; men admire my modesty. I say I am old, they scarcely think me so. I declare myself poor; they do not believe it.

4. The desires of men increased with their acquisitions. Every step which they advanced brought something within their view which they had not seen before, and which, so soon as they saw it, they began to want. When necessity ended, curiosity began; and no sooner were they supplied with every thing that nature could demand, than they sat down to contrive artificial appetites.

5. Do men reproach me for being proud or ill-natured, envious

or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Let me consider with myself whether their reproaches are true. If they are not, let me consider that I am not the person whom they reproach; but that they revile an imaginary being, and perhaps love what I really am, though they hate what I appear to be. If their reproaches are true; if I am the envious ill-natured man they take me for, let me give myself another turn; let me become mild, affable, and obliging, and their reproaches of me will naturally cease. Their reproaches may indeed continue, but I am no longer the person whom they reproach.

SECTION III.

WORDS TO FORM SENTENCES.

Rudiments, p. 29.

1. True politeness has its seat in the heart. 2. A good mind is unwilling to give pain.

3. A great proportion of human evils is created by ourselves. 4. If greatness flatters our vanity, it multiplies our dangers. 5. In preparing for another world, we must not neglect the duties of this life.

6. There is nothing in human life more amiable and respectable, than the character of a truly humble and benevolent man.

7. Multitudes in the most obscure stations are not less eager in their petty broils, nor less tormented by their passions, than if princely honours were the prize for which they contend.

8. With what anxious care does the parent hen call together her offspring, and cover them with her wings! Does not this sight suggest to you the tenderness and affection of your mother? Her watchful care protected you in the helpless period of infancy, when she nourished you with her milk, taught your limbs to move, and your tongue to lisp its unformed accents. In childhood, she mourned over your little griefs, rejoiced in your innocent delights, administered to you the healing balm in sickness, and instilled into your mind the love of truth, virtue, and wisdom.

9. In ancient times, a woman, in strange attire, made her appearance at Rome, and came to the king, offering to sell nine books, which she said were of her own composing. Not knowing the abilities of the seller, or that she was in fact one of the celebrated sibyls, whose prophecies were never found to fail, he at first refused

to buy them. Upon this she departed, and burning three of her books, returned again, demanding the same price for the six remaining. Being once more dismissed as an impostor, she again departed; and burning three more, she returned again with those remaining, still asking the same price as before. The king, surprised at the inconsistency of the woman's behaviour, consulted the augurs, that they might advise him what to do. They blamed him much for not buying the nine, and commanded him to purchase the remaining three at whatever price they were to be had. The woman, say historians, after thus selling and delivering the three prophetic volumes, having admonished the king to pay special attention to what they contained, vanished from before him, and was never seen after.

SECTION IV.

WORDS TO FORM SENTENCES (continued).

Rudiments, p. 31.

1. No errors are so trivial, that they do not deserve to be mended. 2. The work is a dull performance, and is capable of pleasing neither the understanding, nor the imagination.

3. When Socrates fell a victim to the madness of the people, truth and virtue fell with him.

4. The gay and pleasing are sometimes the most insidious and dangerous companions.

5. A taste for useful knowledge will provide for us a great and noble entertainment, when other enjoyments leave us.

6. The anxious man is the votary of riches; the negligent man, that of pleasure.

7. Perseverance in laudable pursuits will reward all our toils, and produce effects beyond our calculation.

8. Changes are almost continually taking place, in men and manners, in opinions and customs, in private fortunes and public conduct.

9. Religious persons are often unjustly represented as romantic in their character, visionary in their notions, unacquainted with the world, and unfit to live in it.

10. There is no talent more useful towards success in business, or which puts men more out of the reach of accidents, than that quality generally possessed by persons of cool temper, and which is, in common language, called discretion.

11. A celebrated poet relates, that a countryman, who wanted to pass a river, stood loitering on the banks of it, in the foolish expectation that a current so rapid would soon discharge its waters. But the stream still flowed, increased perhaps by fresh torrents from the mountains; and it must for ever flow, because the sources from which it is derived, are inexhaustible. Thus the idle and

irresolute youth trifles over his books, or wastes in play the precious moments; deferring the task of improvement, which at first is easy to be accomplished, but which will become more and more difficult, the longer it is neglected.

12. Few situations could have been more terribly affecting than that of Brutus,-a father placed as a judge upon the life and death of his own children; impelled by justice to condemn, and by nature to spare them. The young men pleaded nothing for themselves, but, with conscious guilt, awaited their sentence in silence and agony. The other judges felt all the pangs of nature, and could not repress the sentiments of pity. Brutus alone seemed to have lost all the softness of humanity, and, with a stern countenance, and a tone of voice that marked his firm resolution, demanded of his sons if they could make any defence of the crimes with which they had been charged. This demand he made three several times; but receiving no answer, he at length turned to the executioner: "Now," cried he, "it is your part to perform the rest." Thus saying he resumed his seat with an air of determined majesty; nor could all the sentiments of paternal pity, nor all the imploring looks of the people, nor yet the complaints of the young men who were preparing for execution, alter the tenor of his resolution.

SECTION V.

DERIVATIVE WORDS.

Rudiments, p. 32.

1. ART, artful, artless, artifice, artificer, artificial, artisan, artist, inert.*

*The Teacher may prescribe either the whole of the words given in this and the two following Sections, or only as many of them as he may think proper. The sentences containing the words, should, if possible, be on subjects which occur in the other lessons of the Pupils.

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