"This globe, once a mass of molten granite, now blooms almost a paradise."

Clive, ill and exhausted as he was, undertook to make an army of this undisciplined rabble, and marched with them to Covelong. A shot from the fort killed one of these extraordinary soldiers; on which all the rest faced about and ran away, and it was with the greatest difficulty that Clive rallied them. On another occasion, the noise of a gun terrified the sentinels so much that one of them was found, some hours later, at the bottom of a well. Clive gradually accustomed them to danger, and, by exposing himself constantly in the most perilous situation, shamed them into courage. He at length succeeded in forming a respectable force out of his unpromising materials. Covelong fell. Clive learned that a strong detachment was marching to relieve it from Chingleput. He took measures to prevent the enemy from learning that they were too late, laid an ambuscade for them on the road, killed a hundred of them with one fire, took three hundred prisoners, pursued the fugitives to the gates of Chingleput, laid siege instantly to that fastness, reputed one of the strongest in India, made a breach, and was on the point of storming, when the French commandant capitulated and retired with his men. - MACAULAY.

But scarce again his horn he wound,
When lo! forth starting at the sound,
From underneath an aged oak
That slanted from the islet rock,
A damsel guider of its way,

A little skiff shot to the bay,
That round the promontory steep
Led its deep line in graceful sweep,
Eddying, in almost viewless wave,
The sweeping willow twig to lave,

And kiss, with whispering sound and slow,
The beach of pebbles bright as snow.

II. ANTICIPATION.

SCOTT.

"Antonio, I am married to a wife,

Which is as dear to me as life itself;

But life itself, my wife, and all the world,

Are not with me esteem'd above thy life:
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all
Here to this devil, to deliver you."

"But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, I say unto thee, Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thy house."

"I hold that he who humbly tries

To find wherein his duty lies,

And finding, does the same, and bears

Its burdens lightly, and its cares,

Is nobler, in his low estate,

Than crowned king or potentate."

"Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself."

"To prevent this, and secure the independence of the judges, after the English Revolution of 1689, it was fixed by the Act of Settlement, as it is called, that the King should not have the power to remove judges, but that they should hold their offices during good behavior.'"

"Now, gentlemen, looking on the face of this, it would be naturally inferred that notwithstanding his good behavior,' and without alleging any violation of it, a judge could, nevertheless, be removed by address."

"Standing as we do to-day in the presence of this fearful evil, surrounded on all sides by the enemies of law and good government, with factions within our own ranks striving in selfish ways each to attain its own ends, nothing can save us but honesty, integrity, and magnanimity."

There are many occasions when there is reasonable room for a difference of opinion in the rendition of certain passages. For instance, in the last of the extracts under Momentary Completeness," one might consider the sentence as momentarily complete at "anything." The stu

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dent may render it both ways, determining the meaning in each case.

One should be very careful in deciding this question. Where there is a preponderance of momentary completeness, the delivery will appear too emphatic and have the effect of dogmatism; and furthermore, the sign of momentary completeness, when used too frequently, will make so many ideas emphatic that there will be no perspective, no proportion. Here are excellent examples for practice.

One mast was broken short off, six or eight feet from the deck, and lay over on the side, entangled in a maze of sail and rigging; and in that ruin, as the ship rolled and beat, - which she did with a violence quite inconceivable, beat the side as if it would stave it in. Some efforts were being made to cut this portion of the wreck away; for as the ship, which was broadside on, turned toward us in her rolling, I plainly descried her people at work with axes especially one active figure, with long curling hair. But a great cry, audible even above the wind and water, rose from the shore; the sea, sweeping over the wreck, made a clean breach, and carried men, spars, casks, planks, bulwarks, heaps of such toys, into the boiling DICKENS.

surge.

Down the rivers, o'er the prairies,
Came the warriors of the nations,
Came the Delawares and Mohawks,
Came the Choctaws and Camanches,
Came the Shoshonies and, Blackfeet,
Came the Pawnees and Omahas,
Came the Mandans and Dacotahs,
Came the Hurons and Ojibways,
All the warriors drawn together
By the signal of the Peace-Pipe,
To the Mountains of the Prairie,

To the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry.

LONGFELLOW.

"The seed sown in life springs up in harvests of blessings or harvests of sorrow, whether our influence be great or small, whether

it be good or evil; it lasts, it lives somewhere, within some limit, and is operative wherever it is. The grave buries the dead dust; but the character walks the world, and distributes itself as a benediction or a curse among the families of mankind.”

Implied Incompleteness.

I. NEGATIVE STATEMENT.

"I do not claim this is the only method."

"I cannot promise definitely, but I think you may rely upon getting it."

"I shall wait for you in the lobby, if you don't tarry too long." "It doesn't look like rain, does it?"

II. NON-AFFIRMATIVE STATEMENT.

A. Concession.

"There are some arguments in its favor, but they are not weighty."

"No, nobody claims that."

"I grant I may have taken the honorable gentleman by surprise."

B. Inability to Assert.

"I cannot tell what you and other men

Think of this life, but, for my single self,

I had as lief not be as live to be

In awe of such a thing as I myself."

C. Unwillingness to Assert.

"I do not charge the gentleman with willful misstatement, but I would rather say he is a great economizer of the truth."

"I do not like to think that the opposition is purposely delaying the vote on this question."

"Never fear that: if he be so resolved,

I can o'ersway him."

D. Sense of Triviality.

"It would be idle to base an opinion on any argument of Mr. Webster."

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"O, that is of no consequence; you don't believe that."

"It is hardly necessary for me to go over the charges of the attorney for the plaintiff; they are trivial and unimportant."

E. Obviousness or Familiarity in Thought.

"It goes without saying that you know the early history of these people."

“There are very few who haven't a bowing acquaintance with this subject."

"You know me well, and herein spend but time

To wind about my love with circumstance."

F. The Anticipatory or Negative Member of an Antithesis.

"Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more."

"It is not that I doubt the gentleman's honesty, but that I question his authority."

"It was at the end of the war that this incident occurred; not at the beginning."

III. DOUBT.

Uncertainty, confusion, hesitation, and other forms of doubt, are really questions, the mind seeking solution. of difficult and perplexing problems.

"I wish I could find some way out of this, but "

"There ought to be some other method of solving this difficulty: let me see, let me see."

"I would I had been there,"