INTERMEDIATE VOWELS.

Element No. 8.

1. And if ye dare to ask for justice, be answered by the lash. 2. When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous,

To lock such rascal counters from his friends,
Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts;
Dash him to pieces!

Element No. 9.

1. Seize on the thought ere yet its power be past, And bind in words the fleet emotion fast.

2. By a single glance of thought

Time's sealed years are 'fore us brought.

SHORT VOCALS.

Element No. 10.

1. We may try to evade it,

May do what we will,

But our acts, like our shadows,

Will follow us still.

2. Six added to fifty make fifty-six.

3. Where American Liberty raised its first voice, . . . there it still lives, in the strength of its manhood, and full of its original spirit. 4. For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't;

And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't.

5. The secret wouldst thou know

To fire the blood and touch the heart at will,

Let thine own eyes with tears o'erflow,

And thy voice quiver with convulsive thrill.

6. A more unmitigated villain never lived than the pirate Gibbs. 7. Fat paunches make lean pates; and dainty bits.

Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.

8. Of all the amusements of the mind

From logic, down to fishing,

There is not one that you can find

That is as cheap as wishing.

9. Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand

and my heart to this vote.

10. Stick to your aim, the mongrel's hold will slip;

But crow-bars only force the bull-dog's grip.

11. Nature to all things fixed the limit fit,

And wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit. 12. It is not all in bringing up,

Let folks say what they will;

You silver wash a pewter cup
It will be pewter still.

Element No. 11.

1. To this motto with firmness unceasing I'll bend, May he who wants gratitude e'er want a friend.

2. One rule I leave you when I'm dead:

Be sure you're right, then go ahead.

3. Were I an American, as I am an Englishman, I would never lay down my arms! Never! never! never!

4. The reason why, I can not tell,

But this I know, and know right well,

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell.

5. If virtue starves while vice is fed,

What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?

6. This letter was written by William Penn.

7. I said an older soldier, not a better: Did I say a better?

8. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostrils wide; and bend up every spirit to its full height.

9. Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?

10. The pen is mightier than the sword.

11. Hell's haughty monarch, that arch-foe of men,
Might in his bosom find a fouler den,

There to confine proud fiends that durst rebel,
And leave them pining for their native hell.

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3. Nothing is our own till we earn it.

4. Learn to unlearn what you have learned amiss. 5. A merciful man is merciful to his beast.

6. The earth is composed of land and water.

7. The passage will be found in the first chapter, in the thirty-third

8. His delivery was characterized by sincerity and fervid earnestness. 9. Men! yes, millions; yet many perish ere the holy fight is won: but the light that freemen cherish shall survive yon setting sun.

Element No. 13.

1. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

2. Know then thyself, presume not God to scan,

The proper study of mankind is Man.

3. Mr. Baxter met with an accident last Saturday, by which his back was badly hurt.

4. Back into the chamber turning,

All my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping
Somewhat louder than before.
Surely, said I, surely that is
Something at my window lattice.
Let me see, then, what thereat is,
And this mystery explore.

5. The general order since the world began

Is kept in nature and is kept in man.

6. A dandy is a thing that would
Be a young lady, if he could;
But as he can't, does all he can
To show the world he's not a man.
7. It rests with me, here brand to brand,
Worn as thou art, to bid thee stand.

Element No. 14.

1. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I!

2. If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men the greater share of honor.

3. As wounds in battle given,

Scarce felt when blood is hot,

So hearts may yet be riven

Though at first they knew it not.

4. What's hallowed ground? Has earth a clod Its Maker meant not should be trod

By man, the image of his God,

Erect and free,

Unscourged by Superstition's rod to bow the knee?

5. An honest man's the noblest work of God.

6. He was firm as a rock.

7. Let the carrion rot-there are no noble men but Romans.

Element No. 15.

1. Rum has been the ruin of thousands.

2. Destroy all creatures in thy sport and gust,
Then say "If man's unhappy, God's unjust."
3. He is a lumber merchant-his name is Dun.
4. Your apprehension must be dull,

To let a thought within your skull
Of matrimony spring.

5. The law was enacted by heaven above,

That like begets like, and that love begets love.
6. If there be, as there is, in this valley of tears,
One remembrance more dear than another,

It is that which runs back to our infantile years,-
The remembrance of thee, dearest mother.

7. What duties have I left undone?

What have I sought I ought to shun?

Or into what new follies run?

These self-inquiries are the road
That leads to virtue and to God.

8. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
Rules men below and gods above,

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

9. Trip lightly over trouble,

Pass lightly over wrong;
We only make grief double

By dwelling on it long.

10. Go, my son, and shut the shutter,
This I heard a mother utter.
Shutter's shut, the boy did mutter,
I can't shut it any shutter.

11. One constant element of luck
Is genuine old Teutonic pluck.

Element No. 16.

1. Here foot to foot, and steel to steel,

A chieftain's vengeance thou shalt feel.
2. Money is said to be the root of all evil.
3. I am thinking of the glen, Johnnie,
And the little running brook,

Of the birds upon the hazel copse,

And the violets in the nook.

4. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day,

Had he thy reason would he skip and play?
Pleased to the last he crops the flow'ry food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

DOUBLE OPEN VOWEL SOUNDS.

Element No. 17.

1. Honor and shame from no condition rise,

Act well your part, 'tis there the honor lies.

2. Will you dine with me to-morrow? Yes; if I be alive and your dinner be worth eating.

3. Of all the vices that conspire to blind

Man's erring judgment, and misguide his mind,

What the weak head with strongest bias rules

Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

4. Time is the stuff of which life is made.

5. There were six men of Indostan,

To learning much inclined,

Who went to see the Elephant, though all of them were blind,
That each by observation might satisfy his mind.

6. Ye freemen, how long will ye stifle

The vengeance that justice inspires?