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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.

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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.
CON' STI TUTES, makes; forms.
BATTLE MENTS, breast works.
MOUND, rampart; bank of earth.
MOATED, surrounded by a ditch.
TUR RETS, little towers.
NA' VIES, fleets of ships.
BASE NESS, meanness.

EN DU ED, furnished; endowed.
EX CEL', exceed; surpass.
BRAM' BLES, prickly shrubs.
MAIN TAIN', defend; support.
REND, part asunder.
Sov' ER EIGN, supreme.
COL LECT ED, congregated.
E LATE', raised; lofty.

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,
Thick wall or moated gate;

Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned;
Not bays and broad-armed ports,

Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;
Not starred and spangled courts,

Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride.

2. No; men, high-minded men,

With powers as far above dull brutes endued,
In forest brake, or den,

As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude;
Men who their duties know,

But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain;
Prevent the long-aimed blow,

And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain;
These constitute a State;

And Sovereign Law, that State's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,

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.

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Where grows the vine, where flows the Rhine?
Is't where the gull skims Baltic's bríne?
No; yet more great and far more grand
Must be the German's fatherland!

2. How call they, then, the German's land
Bavària? Brunswick? Hast thou scanned
It where the Zuyder Zee exténds?
Where Styrian toil the iron bénds?
Nò, brother, nò; thou hast not spanned
The German's genuine fatherland!

3. Is, then, the German's fatherland
Westphalia? Pomeránia? Stand
Where Zurich's waveless water sleeps;
Where Weser winds, where Danube sweeps •
Hast found it nów ?-Not yet! Demand
Elsewhere the German's fatherland!

4. Then say, where lies the German's land?
How call they that unconquered land?
Is't where Tyrol's green mountains ríse?
The Switzer's land I dearly prize,
By freedom's purest breezes fanned,-
But nò; 'tis not the German's land!

5. Where, therefore, lies the German's land?
Baptize that great, that ancient land!
'Tis surely Austria, proud and bold,
In wealth unmatched, in glory old?
Oh! none shall write her name on sand:
But she is not the German's land.

6. Say, then, where lies the German's land?
Baptize that great, that ancient land!
Is't Al'sace? or Lorraine-that gem
Wrenched from the imperial diadem
By wiles which princely treachery plánned?
Nò; these are not the German's land!

7. Where, therefore, lies the German's land?
Name now, at last, that mighty land!
Where'er resounds the German tongue,-
Where German hymns to God are sung,―
There, gallant brother, take thy stand,
That is the German's fatherland!

8. That is his land, the land of lands,
Where vows bind less than claspéd hands,
Where valor lights the flashing eye,
Where love and truth in deep hearts lie,
And zeal enkindles freedom's brand,
That is the German's fatherland.

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,
Their universal fatherland.

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.
FER VOR, ardor; earnestness.
RE SERVES', retains; keeps.
PHI LAN' THRO PY, benevolence.

E JAC U LA TION, short prayer.
CA PRICIOUS, fickle; unsteady.
VIG'I LANT, watchful.
DIS CERN ING, discriminating.
LAN' GUOR, feebleness; dullness.

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?

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