LESSON CXXI. 4. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. FA' THER LAND, native country. 2. SOAN'NED, examined; scrutinized. 3. UN MATCH ED, unequaled. WRENCH' ED, wrested; taken by force. 5. IM PE' RI AL, belonging to an emperor. 6. Dr' a DEM, a crown. 7. PRINCE LY, royal. 8. TREACH' ER Y, treason. 9. EN KIN' DLES, inflames; excites. U NI VERS AL, total; whole. THE GERMAN'S FATHERLAND. FROM THE GERMAN OF ARNDT. 1. Where is the German's fatherland? Where grows the vine, where flows the Rhine? 2. How call they then the German's land 3. Is then the German's fatherland Where Zurich's waveless water sleeps; 4. Then say, where lies the German's land? 5. Where, therefore, lies the German's land? Oh! none shall write her name on sand: 10. 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! 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. SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. FIO' TION, that which is feigned, invented, or imagined. 2. DEL I CA OY, nicety; tenderness. 3. DIS' SIPATES, wastes; squanders; expends. 4. FER' VOR, ardor; warmth. 5. RE SERVES, retains; keeps. 6. PHI LAN' THRO PY, benevolence; good-will. 7. PEST I LEN TIAL, infectious. 8. E JAC U LA' TION, short prayer. 9. CA PRI CIOUS, fickle; unsteady. 10. DIS CERN' ING, discriminating; sharp-sighted. 11. 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 high-wrought 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 luxu rious 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 Bound has ch in schemes, ph in philanthropy and orphan? LESSON CXXIII. SPELL AND DEFINE-1. EQ' UI TY, justice; right. 2. PRO TEST', openly declare. 3. PRE VAR I CA TING, quibbling. 4. MER' OE NARY, hireling. 5. SEN' TI NELS, guards; watches. 6. POR' PHYR Y, & very hard stone of a red or rather of a purple and white color. 7 NOC TUR NAL, pertaining to the night. 8. As SAS' SINS, secret murderers. 9. IN VI O LA BLE, that ought not to be violated; sacred. 10. A SY' LUM, a place of refuge. 11. TRENCH, ditch. 12. IN DIG NA'TION, anger mingled with contempt. 13. IM PLA' CA BLE, nct to be appeased or subdued. 14. TRIB' UNES, magistrates chosen by the people. LOUIS ANTOINE HENRI DE BOURBON, DUKE OF ENGHIEN, was born at Chantilly, a small town of France, twenty-three miles north of Paris, in 1772. After serving with credit in the armies opposed to the French republic, he went to Baden, a Grand-Duchy of Germany, extending along the right bank of the Rhine, and lived there as a private citizen. He was, however, regarded with a jealous eye, as one who might become dangerous to the ambitious designs of Bonaparte, who was then First Consul. An order was accordingly given to arrest him. He was accused of having taken part in conspiracies against the life of the First Consul; and though nothing was proved against him, he was sentenced to death, and executed at the dead of night. REFLECTIONS ON NAPOLEON AND THE MURDER OF THE DUKE D'ENGHIEN. LAMARTINE. 1. The First Consul had said ""Tis well!" But conscience, equity, and humanity protest alike against this satisfaction of a murderer who applauds himself. He claimed this crime to himself alone, in his revelations at St. Helena. Let him then keep it all to himself! He has mowed down millions of men by the hand of war; and mad humanity, partial against itself for what it calls glory, has pardoned him. 2. He has slain one alone cruelly, like a coward, in the dark, by the consciences of prevaricating judges, and by the balls of mercenary executioners, without risking his own breast, not as a warrior, but even as a murderer. Neither mankind nor history will ever pardon him the spilling of blood. 3. A tomb has been raised to him under the dome built by Louis XIV. at the palace of the Invalids, where the statues of twelve victories hewn out from one single block of granite, harmonizing with the massy pillars which support the lofty edifice, seem to stand the sentinels of ages around the urn of porphyry which contains his bones. 4. But there is the shade, and seated on his sepulcher, an invisible statue, which blights and tarnishes all the others, the statue of a young man, torn by hired nocturnal assassins, from the arms of her he loved, from the inviolable asylum in which he confided, and slaughtered by the light of a lantern at the foot of the palace of his sires! 5. People go to visit, with a cold curiosity, the battle-fields of Marengo, of Austerlitz, of Wagram, of Leipsic, and of Waterloo; they walk over them with dry eyes; then they are shown, at the angle of a wall, round the foundations of Vincennes, at the bottom of a trench, a place covered with nettles and marshmallows, and they exclaim: "It is there!" With a cry of indignation they carry from the spot an eternal pity for the victim, and an implacable resentment against the assassin! 6. This resentment is a vengeance for the past, but it is also a lesson for the future. Let the ambitious, whether soldiers, tribunes, or kings, reflect, that if there are mercenary soldiers to serve them, and flatterers to excuse them while they reign, there is the conscience of humanity afterwards to judge them, and pity to detest them. The murderer has but this hour, the victim has all eternity! QUESTIONS-1. What had the First Consul, (Napoleon,) said? 2 What protest against this declaration? 3. Who alone has slain cruelly? 4. What is said of the tomb raised to him at the palace of the Invalids? 5. What is represented as being seated on his sepulcher? 6. How do people walk over Napoleon's battle-fields? 7. With what feelings do they survey the spot where the young duke was murdered? 8. On what does the author entreat the ambitious to reflect? Where is the Island of St. Helena? Where are Marengo, Austerlitz, Wagram, Leipsic, and Waterloo? Where is Vincennes ? |