his own fortune in the world. It is certain, that the world seldom turns wholly against a man, unless through his own fault. "Religion is," in general, "profitable unto all things." Virtue, diligence, and industry, joined with good temper and prudence, have ever been found the surest road to prosperity; and, where men fail of attaining it, their want of success is far oftener owing to their having deviated from that road, than to their having encountered insuperable barriers in it. 8 Some, by being too artful, forfeit the reputation of probity. Some, by being too open, are accounted to fail in prudence. Others, by being fickle and changeable, are distrusted by all. The case commonly is, that men seek to ascribe their disappointments to any cause, rather than to their own misconduct; and, when they can devise no other cause, they lay them to the charge of Providence. Their folly leads them into vices; their vices into misfortunes; and, in their misfortunes, they 66 murmur against Providence." 9. They are doubly unjust toward their Creator. In their prosperity, they are apt to ascribe their success to their own diligence, rather than to His blessing; and, in their adversity, they impute their distresses to His providence, not to their own misbehavior. Whereas, the truth is the very reverse of this. "Every good gift and every perfect gift cometh from above;" and of evil and misery, man is the author to himself. 2. QUESTIONS.-1. What is often the only resource left to men? How do some men behave under misfortunes? 3. Might not these misfortunes often be traced to previous impropriety of conduct? 4. What should we do before we indulge in feelings and expressions of discontent? 5. What old, but very true saying, is referred to by the writer? 6. What is the surest road to prosperity? 7. How do some lose the reputation of probity? 8. To what do men commonly ascribe their disappointments? 9. What leads them into vices, and what into misfortunes? 10. How are they doubly unjust to their Creator? Are the questions in the 3d and 5th paragraphs, direct or indi rect? Where is the quotation in the last paragraph found? LESSON CXX. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. PA TRI OT ISM, love of country. EN DU ED, furnished; endowed. HIGH-MIND ED, magnanimous.RE PRESS' ING, quelling. TRUE PATRIOTISM. 1. What constitutes a State? SIR WILLIAM JONES. Not high-raised battlements or labored mound, Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. 2. No; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain; And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain; And Sovereign Law, that State's collected will, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. QUESTIONS.-1. What are some of the things that do not consti-' tute a State? 2. What does constitute a State? 3. What is said of Law? What kind of emphasis on men and these, 2d paragraph. Where grows the vine, where flows the Rhine? 2. How call they, then, the German's land 3. Is, then, the German's fatherland 4. Then say, where lies the German's land? 5. Where, therefore, lies the German's land? 6. Say, then, where lies the German's land? 7. Where, therefore, lies the German's land? 8. That is his land, the land of lands, 9. That is the German's fatherland! Great God! look down and bless that land! And give her noble children souls To cherish while existence rolls, And love with heart, and aid with hand, QUESTIONS.-1. In what part of this piece do we find the answer to the question:-" Where is the German's Fatherland?" 2. With what prayer does the piece close? 3 Can you point out the places mentioned in this piece? Can you repeat the rules for the rising inflections marked in this piece? What rules for the falling? LESSON CXXII. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. FICTION, work of imagination. {PES TI LEN' TIAL, infectious. DEL I CA CY, tenderness. DIS' SI PATES, disperses. E JAC U LA TION, short prayer. ACTIVE BENEVOLENCE OF THE GOSPEL. CHALMERS. 1. The benevolence of the gospel lies in actions; the benevolence of our writers of fiction, in a kind of highwrought delicacy of feeling and sentiment. The one dissipates all its fervor in sighs, and tears, and idle aspirations; the other reserves its strength for efforts and execution. The one regards it as a luxurious enjoyment for the heart; the other, as a work and business for the hand. 2. The one sits in indolence, and broods, in visionary rapture, over its schemes of ideal philanthropy; the other steps abroad, and enlightens by its presence the dark and pestilential hovels of disease. The one wastes away in empty ejaculation; the other gives time and effort to the work of beneficence; gives education to the orphan; and provides clothes for the naked, and lays food on the table of the hungry. 3. The one is indolent and capricious, and often does mischief by the occasional overflowings of a whimsical and ill-directed charity; the other is vigilant and discerning, and takes care lest his distributions be injudicious, and the effort of benevolence be unsupplied. The one is soothed with the luxury of feeling, and reclines in easy and indolent satisfaction; the other shakes off the deceitful languor of contemplation and solitude, and delights in a scene of activity. 4. Remember that virtue, in general, is not to feel, but to do; not merely to conceive a purpose, but to carry that purpose into execution; not merely to be overpowered by the impression of a sentiment, but to practice what it loves, and to imitate what it admires. QUESTIONS.-1. In what lies the benevolence of the Gospel? 2. In what, the benevolence of the writers of fiction ! 3. What is each represented in 2d paragraph, as doing? 4. What is each represented in 3d paragraph, as doing? 5. What is the office of virtue? Can you point out the antithetic words and sentences in this piece? Why are feel and do emphatic, last paragraph? What sound has ch in schemes, ph in philanthropy and orphan? |