think of the multitude of men as living in the midst of it, and living almost as blind to it, as if, instead of this fair earth and glorious sky, they were tenants of a dungeon. An infinite joy is lost to the world by the want of culture of this spiritual endowment.

3. Suppose that I were to visit a cottage, and to see its walls lined with the choicest pictures of Raphael,' and every spare nook filled with statues of the most exquisite workman. ship, and that I were to learn that neither man, woman, nor child ever cast an eye at these miracles of art, how should I feel their privation! how should I want to open their eyes, and to help them to comprehend and feel the loveliness and grandeur which in vain courted their notice!

4. But every husbandman is living in sight of the works of a diviner Artist; and how much would his existence be elevated, could he see the glory which shines forth in their fòrms, hùes, propórtions, and moral exprèssion! I have spoken only of the beauty of nature, but how much of this mysterious charm is found in the elegant arts, and especially in literature! The best books have most beauty.

5. The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul, when arrayed in this, their natural and fit attire. Now, no man receives the true culture of a man, in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and I know of no condition in life from which it should be excluded.

6. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest and most at hand, and it seems to me to be most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give a grossness to the mind. From the diffusion of the sense of beauty in ancient Greece, and of the taste for music in modern Germany, we learn that the people at large may partake of refined gratifications, which have hitherto been thought to be necessari y restricted to a few.

QUESTIONS.-1. What are inflections of the voice? See page 23. 2. What rule for the rising inflections on proportions, 4th paragraph} Ans. Rule VII., page 31.

EXERCISE II.

1. Eo'-STA-SY, (EC, out and STASIS, a placing, or standing,) is derived from a Greek word signifying, literally, the removal of a thing out of its place. When applied to the mind, it denoted, formerly, a displacing, or unsettling of its powers, that is, madness: thence it has come to indicate a sort of intoxication, or bewilderment of joy; rapturous delight. 2. CAN'-0-PY, (from a Greek word, meaning a gnat-bar, or mosquito net for a bed, and that from coNors, a gnat, in the same language,) sig. nifies, primarily, a curtain, or covering to keep off gnats or mosquitoes from the face. It is applied to any shade or covering extended over the head; hence, the phrase, the canopy of heaven, from the cur tain-like appearance of the heavens above.

THE SPIRIT OF BEAUTY.

RUFUS DAWES.

1. The Spirit of Beauty unfurls her light,
And wheels her course in a joyous flight;
I know her track through the balmy air,
By the blossoms that cluster and whiten there;
She leaves the tops of the mountains green,
And gems the valley with crystal sheen.

2. At morn I know where she rested at night,

For the roses are gushing with dewy delight,
Then she mounts again, and round her flings
A shower of light from her crimson wings,
Till the spirit is drunk with the music on high,
That silently fills it with ecstasy.'

3. At noon she hies to a cool retreat,

Where bowering elms over waters meet ;
She dimples the wave where the green leaves dip,
As it smilingly curls like a maiden's lip,
When her tremulous bosom would hide, in vain,
From her lover, the hope that she loves again.

4. At eve she hangs o'er the western sky, (4) Dark clouds for a glorious canopy,"

And round the skirts of their deepen'd fold,
She paints a border of purple and gold,
Where the lingering sunbeams love to stay,
When their god in his glory has passed away.

5. She hovers around us at twilight hour,

When her presence is felt with the deepest power;
She silvers the landscape and crowds the stream
With shadows that flit like a fairy dream;
Then wheeling her flight through the gladdened air,
The Spirit of Beauty is everywhere.

EXERCISE III.

1. THE GERMAN OCEAN, or North Sea, is between Great Britain and the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Norway. It extends from the Straits of Dover to the most northern of the Shetland Islands: its length is 650 miles, and its greatest breadth about 400.

2. RE-CRIM-IN-A-TION, (from RE, again, CRIMEN, a crime, and the suffix ATION, the act of making,) signifies the act of making, or charging, crime again; that is, the act of retorting criminal accusations.

3. PROV'-I-DENCE is from PRO, before, VID, (Latin video,) to see, and the Suffix ENCE, which latter means the act, or state of. Hence, PROVIDENCE signifies, literally, the act of seeing, or seeing to, beforehand; foresight; forecast, and, when applied to the Divine Being, points to that attribute, whereby all things are known from the beginning, and carefully provided for.

4. CON-JUR'-ED, is made up of CON, together, JUR, (Latin juro,) to swear, and the suffix ED, which means did: the literal meaning of the whole being did swear together; that is, did join, or unite under the solemnity of an oath. The word was used in relation to plots and conspiracies, but it also had the kindred sense of urging, as with the solemnity of an oath, which is the signification in the following piece. With the accent on the first syllable, (con'-jure,) the word sig. nifies to practice witchcraft, or enchantment.

SABINUS AND OLINDA.

OLIVER GOLDSMITHI.

1. In a fair, rich, and flourishing country, whose cliffs are washed by the German Ocean,' lived Sabinus, a youth formed by nature to make a conquest wherever he thought proper; but the constancy of his disposition fixed him only with Olinda. He was, indeed, superior to her in fortune; but that defect on her side was so amply supplied by her merit, that none was thought more worthy of his regards than she. He loved her, he was beloved by her; and, in a short time, by joining hands publicly, they avowed the union of their hearts.

2. But, alas! none, however fortunate, however happy, are exempt from the shafts of envy, and the malignant effects of ungoverned appetite. How unsafe, how detestable are they who have this fury for their guide! How certainly will it lead them from themselves, and plunge them in errors they would have shuddered at, even in apprehension!

3. Ariana, a lady of many amiable qualities, very nearly allied to Sabinus, and highly esteemed by him, imagined herself slighted, and injuriously treated, since his marriage with Olinda. By incautiously suffering this jealousy to corrode in her breast, she began to give a loose to passion; she forgot those many virtues for which she had been so long and so justly applauded.

4. Causeless suspicion and mistaken resentment betrayed her into all the gloom of discontent: she sighed without ceasing; the happiness of others gave her intolerable pain; the thought of nothing but revenge. How unlike what she was, the cheerful, the prudent, the compassionate Ariana! She continually labored to disturb a union so firmly, so affectionately founded, and planned every scheme which she thought most likely to disturb it.

5. Fortune seemed willing to promote her unjust intentions. The circumstances of Sabinus had long been embarrassed by a tedious lawsuit, and, the court determining the

cause unexpectedly in favor of his opponent, it sunk his for. tune to the lowest pitch of penury from the highest affluence. From the nearness of relationship, Sabinus expected from Ariana those assistances his present situation required; but she was insensible to all his entreaties, and the justice of every remonstrance, unless he first separated from Olinda, whom she regarded with detestation.

6. Upon a compliance with her desires in this respect, she promised that her fortune, her interest, and her all, should be at his command. Sabinus was shocked at the proposal; he loved his wife with inexpressible tenderness, and refused those offers with indignation, which were to be purchased at so high a price. Ariana was no less displeased to find her offers rejected, and gave a loose to all that warmth which she had long endeavored to suppress. Reproach generally produces recrimination; the quarrel rose to such a hight, that Sabinus was marked for destruction, and the very next day, upon the strength of an old family debt, he was sent to jail, with none but Olinda to comfort him in his miseries.

7. In this mansion of distress they lived together with resignation and even with comfort. She provided the frugal meal, and he read to her while employed in the little offices of domestic concern. Their fellow-prisoners admired their contentment, and, whenever they had a desire of relaxing into mirth, and enjoying those little comforts that a prison affords, Sabinus and Olinda were sure to be of the party.

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8. Instead of reproaching each other for their mutual wretchedness, they both lightened it by bearing each a share of the load imposed by Providence. Whenever Sabinus showed the least concern on his dear partner's account, she conjured' him by the love he bore her, by those tender ties which now united them forever, not to discompose himself; that so long as his affection lasted, she defied all the ills of fortune, and every loss of fame or friendship that nothing could make her miserable but his seeming to want happiness. nothing pleased, but his sympathizing with her pleasure.