How are the mighty fallen!

Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither rain upon you! For there the shield of the mighty was vilely cast away!

How are the mighty fallen in the midst of the battle!

Parenthesis.

We intend setting off for Paris (if God permit) on Monday next.

Such men as they, (if indeed they merit the name of men) are a disgrace, &c.

We shall come (if you will permit) to your house to-morrow; and (if quite convenient) we will stay a week, &c.

That man's prudence is truly admirable. ́

I admire the children's beauty and great sprightliness; and the mother's tenderness.

The sun's splendour is so very bright, that it dazzles the lady's eyes.

The king's wisdom and clemency were very appa rent upon this occasion, as well as the queen's cruelty. The general's skill, and the soldier's courage, were equally praiseworthy.

The admiral's conduct was highly approved, but the captain's fidelity was, &c.

Whose cheek, but imitates the peach's bloom.
Whose breath, the hyacinth's perfume.

The colony's existence was endangered by the insurrection, and till the mutineers were overpowered, no honest citizen's life was safe.

CHAP. III.

Exercises on the Use of capital Letters.

Greatness in the works of architecture may be considered as relating to the bulk and body of the structure, or to the manner in which it is built. As for the first, we find the ancients, especially among the eastern nations, infinitely superior to the moderns. The walls of Babylon; its hanging gardens; its temple of Belus; the huge rock which was cut into the figure of Semiramis, with the smaller rocks which lay by it, hewn so as to represent tributary kings; the artificial lake, large enough to receive all the waters of the Euphrates; the ne gical wan di Unma, are all

testimonies of this.

Is that your horse? Yes it is.

When will your dear mother come and visit us? To-morrow evening she will be with you.

Alas this day of woe! this is the melancholy day of separation.

The Supreme Being is the King Eternal, Immortal, Invisible; the only Wise, Living, and True God. Our Creator is Omnipotent, Omnipresent, Omniscient.

He is the source of all being, life, intelligence, and happiness.

Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, lived, and taught, and died, and rose again, to bring us from darkness unto light, from death to life.

Abraham was called the friend of God; the father of the faithful.

Peter and Paul were zealous servants, and faithful soldiers of the Lord Jesus Christ.

He visited Constantinople, Athens, Jerusalem, Cairo, and returned through Italy and France, to England. The capital of the British empire, London, is a very large, rich, and populous city.

It is remarked by Mr. Addison, in that excellent work, the Spectator, that allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, which make every thing about them clear and beautiful. A noble metaphor, when it is placed to advantage, casts a kind of glory round it, darts a lustre through the whole sentence.

The Roman history abounds in extraordinary events and great characters.

The English and French nations have too often been at war with each other, though from situation and products they seem intended by Nature to live always in friendly alliance.

How can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? is a sentiment which should arise in our minds whenever we are tempted to stray from the path of virtue, the road which leadeth unto life everlasting.

O, how I love thy law, O God! It is my meditation day and night.

Know thou this truth, enough for man to know,
Virtue alone is happiness below.

A' PROMISCUOUS EXERCISE UPON THE WHOLE OF THE ENGLISH GRAMMAR.

Religion may be considered under two general heads. The first comprehends what we are to believe; the second what we are to practise. By the things that we are to believe, is meant, whatever is revealed to us in the holy writings, and those truths, the knowledge of which we could not have obtained by the light of nature. By the things that we are to practise, is meant, all those duties to which we are directed by reason, or by natural religion. The first of these may be distinguished by the name of faith; the second by that of morality. If we look to the more serious part of mankind, we find many who lay so great a stress upon faith, that they neglect morality; and many who build so much upon morality, that they do not pay a due regard to faith. The perfect man would be defective in neither of these particulars.

They are both of high utility and vast importance, and should never be disconnected.

The excellence of morality appears from the following considerations :

Morality is of a fixed, eternal nature, and will endure when faith shall fail and be lost in conviction.

Morality without faith is more beneficial than faith without morality.

The rule of morality is more certain than that of faith, since all civilised nations of the world agree in the great points of morality, as much as they differ in those of faith.

Faith derives its principal, if not its only value, from the influence it has upon morality.

The excellence of faith seems to consist in the follow

ing circumstances.

Faith explains and carries to greater heights several points of morality.

It furnishes new and stronger motives to enforce the practice of morality.

Faith gives more amiable ideas of the Supreme Being, more endearing notions of one another, and a truer representation of ourselves, both in regard to the grandeur and to the imperfection of our nature:

It shows, in the most striking light, the deformity and dreadful mischiefs of vice; representing the Deity himself as a God of perfect purity; as loving virtue, and not beholding sin without abhorrence.

It makes morality necessary to salvation.

Thus, that man cannot be perfect in his scheme of morality who does not strengthen and support it by the aid of Christian faith.

As nothing is more laudable than inquiry after truth, so nothing is more irrational than to pass away our whole lives without determining ourselves one way or other as to those points which are of the last importance to us. There are, indeed, many things from which we may withhold our assent; but in cases by which we are to regulate our lives, it is the greatest absurdity to be wavering and unsettled, without joining with that side which appears the safest and most probable. When, then, we find ourselves convinced, by reading or discourse, of any doctrine or proposition, we should never after suffer ourselves to call it in question without the strongest motive, We may, perhaps, forget the arguments which occa

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