LESSON CLXI. 1. MAR A THON is the name of a village in Ancient Greece, about 15 miles north-east of Athens, celebrated by the victory there gained over the Persians, in the year B. C. 490. 2. AN A KIM, the children of Anak; a wandering nation of Southern Canaan. Being formidable in stature and appearance, they received the name of giants. Hence the word is here used by the poet to designate any powerful foes. 1. Speak boldly, Freeman! while to-day 2. Speak boldly, Hero! while the foe Be true, or hence to darkness flee. 3. Speak boldly, Prophet! Let the fire Of Heaven come down on altars cursed, To pay their bloody homage first; 4. Speak boldly, Poet! Let thy pen Be nerved with fire that may not die; Be true, O Poet! Let thy name Be true to Man! Be true to God! 5. Speak boldly, Brothers! Wake, and come song, That Truth to Man is Truth to God. QUESTIONS.-1. What appeal is made to the FREEMAN? 2. What, to the Hero? 3. What, to the Prophet? 4. What, to the Poct? 5. What are all, as brethren, exhorted to do? LESSON CLXII. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. SUP' pli Ance, supplication. BRIDAL, nuptial; connubial. 1. Marʼ co Boz ZA RIS, often styled the Epaminondas of modern Greece, was killed in an attack upon the Turks, August 20th, 1823. His last words were: "To die for liberty is a pleasure, and not a pain." 2. Mos' LEM, a Mussulman; a true Mohammedan. MARCO BOZZARIS. FITZ-GREENE HALLEOK. 1. () At midnight in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour, In dreams, through camp and court, he bore In dreams, his song of triumph heard; As Eden's garden bird. 2. An hour passed on,-the Turk awoke; That bright dream was his last; He woke to hear his sentry's shriek; (f) "To ARMS! they come! the GREEK! the GREEK!" (°°) "Strike-till the last armed foe expires! 3. They fought, like brave men, long and well; They piled the ground with 'Moslem slain; They conquered; but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw Like flowers at set of sun. 4. Come to the bridal chamber, Death! That close the pestilence, are broke, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine,- The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, 5. But to the Hero, when his sword We tell thy doom without a sigh; That were not born to die! QUESTIONS.-1. Of what is the Turk represented as dreaming? 2. What did he awake to hear? 3. Can you describe the character and result of the combat as related in the 3d stanza? 4. When is Death terrible? 5. What is asserted of the Hero? With what modulation of voice should the 1st stanza be read? With what, the 2d? With what, the 3d? LESSON CLXIII. WORDS FOR SPELLING AND DEFINING. IN EV I TA BLE, unavoidable. validity of a will. CHAN' CEL, part of the church AV A RI CIOUS, miserly. A POTHE CA RY, one who pre-O' DI OUS, hateful. pares and sells drugs and medicines. PRO BATE, the proving of the PRO DIGIOUS, enormous. IN VEST', empower. 1. JOHN BULL, and JoN'A THAN, cant names for England and the United States. TAXES! TAXES! SYDNEY SMITH. 1. 'John Bull can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory:-TAXES! taxes upɔn every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot; taxes upon every thing which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion; taxes on every thing on earth, and the waters under the earth; on every thing that comes from abroad, or is grown at home; taxes on the raw material; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man; taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride;—at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. 2. The school-boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road;—and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintzbed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Beside the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers,-to be taxed no more. 3. In addition to all this, the habit of dealing with large sums will make the Government avaricious and profuse; and the system itself will infallibly generate the base vermin of spies and informers, and a still more pestilent race of political tools and retainers of the meanest and most odious descrip |