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The diseases of the soul, as well as those of the body, come posting on horseback, but depart leisurely on foot. Complain done you.

not of the wrongs

Some become proud and insolent by wearing fine clothes.

The nobility of our ancestors should not make us vain.

Learning is a disgrace to us when it puffs us up, and degenerates into pedantry.

That work is never well executed that is done with too much eagerness and hurry.

St. Louis, king of France, frequently served poor men at table.

Behold, fond man!

See here thy pictured life; pass some few years,
Thy flow'ring spring, thy summer's ardent strength,
Thy sober autumn fading into age,

And pale concluding winter comes at last,
And shuts the scene.

Generous minds amuse not themselves about the petty toys of rank.

Plainness and modesty in dress are the greatest ornaments of beauty, and the best excuse for the want of it.

Sugar is more excellent than salt; but the use of salt is more necessary and general.

A piece of wood sunk to a great depth in the ocean, has its pores filled with water, and becomes nearly as heavy as

Accustom yourself never to stone. tell a deliberate lie.

In India, flat dishes of water, placed during the night on beds of twigs and straw kept wet, and in a current of air, soon exhibit thin cakes of ice.

Lying is always the sign of a weak and mean spirit.

We often judge of others through passion or prejudice.

Be careful never to let slip an indecent word.

Logic gives a justness and clearness to our thoughts.

The Poles have suffered for the faith with constancy and heroic fortitude.

The Chinese gong is a metallic instrument shaped like a common sieve.

Is it known that any one has ever trisected an angle geometrically?

Self-love continually deceives us in what concerns ourselves.

The cause of the extraordinary phenomenon, which we call attraction, acts at all distances.

Why will you add to the evils done you, the vice of hatred, which is the greatest of all?

I am he who have shared thy bounty, but who have been ungrateful for the favour.

Who, in reality, can think of sleep, without also recollecting death?

Do not waste your time in amusements, which you cannot enjoy without endangering your virtue.

Most of the flowers that we admire, were once coarse and shapeless roots.

The Peak of Teneriffe is one of the most stupendous single objects that, on earth, and at one view, human vision can command.

Julian the Apostate was one of the most infamous dissemblers that ever lived.

A quadruped never raises both feet on the same side, simultaneously, for the centre of gravity

of its body would then be unsupported.

The vapour of camphor will, when cold, change into crystals.

There are several metals which, when slowly cooled after being melted, will crystalise.

A hundred parts of lime absorb from the atmosphere seventy-eight parts of carbonic acid.

The favour of great men is worth little.

Oh! if the atheist's words were true;
If those we seek to save,
Sink-and in sinking from our view
Are lost beyond the grave!

If life thus closed-how dark how drear
Would this bewildered earth appear,
Scarce worth the dust it gave!
A tract of black sepulchral gloom,
One yawning, ever-opening tomb.

Some strut like peacocks, and think themselves admired by every one.

Your heart is softened at the fancied misfortunes of a fabulous hero, and your distressed neighbour cannot excite your compassion.

us,

raised; virtue blushes and hides herself.

The cold of winter favours insensible perspiration.

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The moon, like the earth, is round, opaque body, which borrows its light from the sun. Animals are not subject to all

Friends who are an honour to those inconveniences to which

are always dear to us. Pity consoles the miserable as much as almsdeeds relieve

them.

Crime goes with her head

man is liable.

When youth is passed in decency and dread of sin, it draws mercy upon the remainder of life.

Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer;
Next day the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Year after year it steals, till all are fled;
And to the mercies of a moment, leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

PROSODY.

(1) PROSODY* is that part of Grammar which teaches the true pronunciation of words, and the structure of poetical compositions.

PRONUNCIATION comprises accent, quantity, emphasis, pause, and tone.†

(2) VERSIFICATION, or the measured arrangement of poetry, consists in the uniform recurrence, at fixed intervals, of accented or unaccented syllables. The number of accents determines the number of feet in a line.

A FOOT in poetry consists, generally, of two, and sometimes of three syllables.

(3) The principal feet are the Iambus, the Trochee, and the Anapest, each of which must always contain one accented syllable.

The secondary feet are the Spondee, Pyrrhic, Dactyl, Amphibrach, and Tribrach.

(4) The Iambus, Trochee, Spondee, and Pyrrhic, are dissyllabic feet; the others are trisyllabic.

VERSE is named from the feet that prevail in it. The Iambic, Trochaic, and Anapastic feet are the principal, because pieces of poetry may be wholly or chiefly formed of them.

(1) An IAMBUS has the first syllable unaccented; as-běhold', demand'.

A TROCHEE has the second syllable unaccented; as— hurt'ful.

A SPONDEE has both syllables accented; as-the red' rays'.

(2) A PYRRHIC has both syllables unaccented; as— on the green turf.

ody is from (G.) pros, concerning, and ode, a hymn or poem.

General Rules for the Management of the Voice in Reading," Lite-
Book, from p. VII to p. XVIII.

A DACTYL has only the first syllable accented; as— pow'ĕrful.

An AMPHIBRACH has only the middle syllable accented; as-děstructive.

(3) An ANAPEST has only the last syllable accented; as-countĕrmand'.

A TRIBRACH has no accented syllable; as-vůlnĕrǎble.

The Iambic and Trochaic verse are those most commonly used. They consist of alternate accented and unaccented syllables.

(4) In Iambic verse, the second, fourth, sixth, &c., syllables are accented. This verse may contain any number of feet from one to six, and may be further varied by the introduction of an additional syllable at the end of each line.

Verses of five Iambic feet, or ten syllables, are the most dignified, as well as the most common of English poetry.

EXAMPLES.

Iambic Measure.-Five Feet.

My fortune leads to tra- | verse realms | alone,
And find no spot | of all the world | my own.

The cur- few tolls | the knell of par- ting day,

The low-ing herd | winds slow-ly o'er the lea,
The plough-man home- ward plods | his wea- | ry way,
And leaves the world | to dark- | ness and to me.

This description of verse-called Heroic-sometimes admits of the introduction of a verse of six feet, called an Alexandrine; as

Rapt in- to fu- | ture times | the bard | begun,
A vir- gin shall conceive, a vir- | gin bear | a son.

Four Feet.

Fresh as if Day | again were born,
Again upon the lap of Morn!

When the light blossoms, rude- | ly torn
And scatter'd at | the whirl- | wind's will,
Hang floating in the pure | air still,
Filling it all with precious balm,

In gratitude for this sweet caim.

The turf | shall be my fra- | grant shrine,
My tem- ple, Lord, that arch of thine!
My cen-ser's breath | the mount- | ain airs,
And silent thoughts my on- | ly pray'rs.

Stanzas sometimes consist of alternate verses of four and three feet; as—

Grant me the faith | which pur- | er burns,

'Mid shades of doubt and care; Grant me the hope which nobly spurns

The meanness of despair;

The love that falters not in death,

And parts not with the parting breath.

Iambic verses further shortened :

Though lofty Sco- | tia's mount- | ains,
Where savage grand- eur reigns;
Though bright | be Eng- | land's fount- | ains,
And fer- tile be her plains:

When mid their charms | I wan- | der,

Of thee I think the while,

And seem ❘ of thee | the fon- | der,

My own green Isle !

The Trochaic verse, like the Iambic, varies from one to six feet, in all of which the accent is on the first, third, fifth, and other odd syllables. The Trochaic line generally used is that which contains three feet, with an additional syllable; as—

When, as moonlight | softly | steals,
Heav'n its thousand eyes reveals,
Then I think, who made their light
Is a thousand times more bright.

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