have received, fighting by your side for the extension of the em pire, if our commerce is an object below your consideration, if justice and humanity have lost their influence on your hearts, still motives are not wanting to excite your indignation at the measures now pursued: your wealth, your honor, your liberty are at stake!

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XXXVIII.

POOR RICHARD'S SAYINGS.

1. IF pride leads the van, beggary brings up the rear. He that can travel well afoot, keeps a good horse. Mary's mouth costs her nothing, for she never opens it but at others' expense. Some men grow -mad by studying much192 to know; but who grows mad by studying good to grow?

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2. Take this remark from Richard poor and lame, e'er 's196 begun in anger ends in shame. The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise. He that falls in love with himself, will have no rivals. Against diseases, know the strongest fence is the defensive virtue, abstinence. If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.

3. A mob's a monster; with heads enough, but no brains. There is nothing humbler than ambition when it is about to climb. The discontented man finds no easy chair. When Prosperity was well mounted, she let go the bridle, and soon came tumbling out of the saddle. A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost, and for want of a shoe the horse was lost, and for want of a horse the rider was lost.

4. A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines. Plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep. Old boys have playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price. If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend.

5. One to-day is worth two to-morrows. What maintains one vice, would bring up two children. It is foolish to lay out money in a purchase of repentance. If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some; for he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing. Pride breakfasted with plenty,

dined with poverty, and supped with contempt. Fly pleasures, and they will follow you.

6. Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times. Sloth makes all things difficult; industry, all easy. But, after all, do not depend too much upon your own industry, and frugality, and prudence, though excellent things; for they may all be blasted without the blessing of Heaven.

DR. FRANKLIN.

XXXIX.

FALSE DEFERENCE TO WEALTH.

1. I ONCE saw a poor fellow, keen and clever, Witty and wise: -he paid a man a visit, And no one noticed him, and no one ever

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Gave him a welcome. "Strange!" cried I; "whence is it?"
He walked on this side, then on that,
He tried to introduce a social chat;
Now here, now there, in vain he tried;
Some formally and freezingly replied,

And some

Said, by their silence, "Better stay at home."

These crowd around to ask him of his health;

These bow in eager duty and respect;

And these arrange a sofa or a chair,

And these conduct him there.

"Allow me, sir, the honor!"- then a bow

Meet gratitude for such kind condescension?

3. The poor man hung his head,

And to himself he said,

"This is, indeed, beyond my comprehension!"

Then looking round.

One friendly face he found,

And said, "Pray tell me, why is wealth preferred

To wisdom?"—"That's a silly question, friend!"
Replied the other: "Have you never heard

A man may lend his store

Of gold or silver ore,

But wisdom none can borrow, none can lend?”

Khemnitzer, translated by Bowring.

XL. TO THE RAINBOW.

TRIUMPHAL arch, that fill'st the sky when storms begin to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy to teach me what thou art.
Still seem as to my childhood's sight, a midway station given,
For happy spirits to alight betwixt the earth and heaven.

Can all that optics" teach unfold thy form to please me so
As when I dreamt of gems and gold hid in thy radiant bow?
And yet, fair bow, no fabling dreams, but words of the Most High
Have told why first thy robe of beans was woven in the sky.

When o'er the green, undeluged earth, heaven's covenant thou didst shine,
How came the world's gray fathers forth, to watch thy sacred sign!
And when its yellow lustre smiled o'er mountains yet untrod,
Each mother held aloft her child to bless the bow of God.

Methinks, thy jubilee to keep, the first-made anthem rang,
On earth. delivered from the deep, and the first poet sang.
Nor ever shall the Muse's eye unraptured greet thy beam;
Theme of pri-meval prophecy, be still the poet's theme!

The earth to thee her incense yields, the lark thy welcome sings,
When, glittering in the freshened fields, the snowy mushroom springs.
How glorious is thy girdle cast o'er mountain, tower and town,
Or mirrored in the ocean vast a thousand fathoms down!

As fresh in yon horizon dark, as young thy beauties seem,
As when the eagle from the ark first sported in thy beam;
For, faithful to its sacred page, heaven still rebuilds thy span,
Nor lets the type grow pale with age, that first spoke peace to man.
Campbell.

Isabella. AND so, Don Gomez, it is your conclusion that we ought to dismiss the proposition of this worthy Genoese.

Don Gomez. His scheme, your majesty, seems to me fanciful in the extreme; but I am a plain, matter-of-fact man, and do not see visions and dream dreams, like some.

Isa. And yet Columbus has given us cogenter reasons for believing that it is practicable to reach the eastern coast of India by sailing in a westerly direction.

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Don G. Admitting that his theory is correct, namely, that the earth is a sphere,t-how would it be possible for him to return, if he once descended that sphere in the direction he proposes ? Would not the coming back be all up hill? Could a ship accomplish it with even the most favorable wind?

Columbus. Will your majesty allow me to suggest that if the earth is a sphere, the same laws of adhesion and motion must operate at every point on its surface; and the objection of Don Gomez would be quite as valid against our being able to return from crossing the Strait of Gibraltar.

Don G. This gentleman, then, would have us believe the monstrous absurdity that there are people on the earth who are our antip'o-dēs; who walk with their heads down, like flies on the ceiling.

Col. But, your majesty, if there is a law of attraction which makes matter gravitate to the earth, and prevents its flying off into space, may not this law operate at every point on the round earth's surface?

Isa. Truly, it so seems to me; and I perceive nothing absurd in the notion that this earth is a globe floating or revolving in space.

Don G. May it please your majesty, the ladies are privileged to give credence to many wild tales which we plain, mat

Columbus died in the erroneous belief that it was the eastern shore of

Asia, and not a new continent, that he had discovered.

Practise the Exercises on the twenty-third elementary sound, page 40.

ter-of-fact men cannot admit. Every step I take confutes this

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visionary idea of the earth's rotundity. Would not the blood. run into my head, if I were standing upside down? Were I not fearful of offending your majesty, I would quote what the great Lactantius says.

Isa. We are not vain of our science, Don Gomez; so let us have the quotation.

Don G. Is there any one so foolish," he asks, "as to believe that there are antip'o-dēs with their feet opposite to ours; that there is a part of the world in which all things are topsy-turvy, where the trees grow with their branches downward, and where it rains, hails and snows, upwards?"

Col. I have already answered this objection. If there are people on the earth who are our antip'o-dēs, it should be remembered that we are theirs also.

We know

Don G. Really, that is the very point wherein we matter-offact men abide by the assurance of our own senses. that we are not walking with our heads down.

Isa. To cut short the discussion, you think that the enterprise which the Genoese proposes is one unworthy of our serious consideration; and that his theory of an unknown shore to the westward of us is a fallacy.

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Don G. As a plain, matter-of-fact man, I must confess that 1 so regard it. Has your majesty ever seen an ambassador from this unknown coast?

Isa. Do you, Don Gomez, believe in the existence of a world of spirits?

Don G. I accept what the church says.

Isa. But have you ever seen an ambassador from that unknown world?

Don G. Certainly not. By faith we look forward to it. Isa. Even so by faith does the Genoese look forward, far over the misty ocean, to an undiscovered shore.

Col. Your majesty is right; but let it be added that I have reasons O! most potent and resistless reasons - for the faith that is in me: the testimony of many navigators who have picked up articles that must have drifted from this distant coast;