of prosperity, might feed hundreds-why should they sigh amidst their profusion and splendor? They have broken the bond that should connect power with usefulness, and opulence with mercy. That is the reason.

4. They have taken up their treasures, and wandered away into a forbidden world of their own, far from the sympathies of suffering humanity; and the heavy night-dews are descending upon their splendid revels; and the all-gladdening light of heavenly beneficence is exchanged for the sickly glare of selfish enjoyment; and happiness, the blessed angel that hovers over generous deeds and heroic virtues, has fled away from that world of false gayety and fashionable exclusion.

QUESTIONS.-1. When, only, is the rich man safe? 2. Why do the rich often sigh?

How, according to the notation, should the first part of the 3d paragraph be read? What antithetic words in this paragraph!

LESSON LXXXII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. AL LAYS', drawbacks; hindrances. 2. PARA LYT' IC, palsied; benumbed. 3. SA' BLES., furs of the sable. 4. SCOR PI ON, a reptile with a venomous sting. 5. SPEO TERS, ghosts; apparitions. 6. IL LU' SIONS, deceptive appearances. 7. FAN TAS TIC, fanciful; whimsical. 8. FLAY ING, taking off the skin; skin. ning. 9. CAL' DRON, a large kettle or boiler. 10. DE LICIOUS, delightful. 11. IN TER MED DLE, interfere. 12. PI' RATES, robbers on the high seas. 13. MER' CHANT MAN, a vessel used for the transportation of goods. 14. SPIR' IT U AL, pertaining to the mind or spirit. 15. PRES' ENT LY, at present; for the time being.

1 SCYTH' I ANS, the general name given by the ancients to the nomadic or wandering tribes of the north of Europe and Asia, be yond the Black Sea.

REAL AND APPARENT HAPPINESS.

JEREMY TAYLOR

1. If we could look into the thoughts of the prosperous and prevailing tyrant, we should find, even in the days of his joys, such allays and abatements of his

pleasure, as may serve to represent him presently miserable, beside his final infelicities. For I have seen a young and healthful person warm and ruddy under a poor and thin garment, when, at the same time, an old rich person has been cold and paralytic under a load of sables, and the skins of foxes.

2. It is the body that makes the clothes warm, not the clothes the body; and the spirit of a man makes felicity and content, not any spoils of a rich fortune, wrapped about a sickly and an uneasy soul.

3. Apollodórus was a traitor and a tyrant, and the world wondered to see so bad a man have so good a fortune, but knew not that he nourished scorpions in his breast, and that his liver and his heart were eaten up with specters and images of death; his thoughts were full of interruptions, his dreams of illusions: his fancy was abused with real troubles and fantastic images, imagining that he saw the 'Scythians flaying him alive, his daughters like pillars of fire dancing round about a caldron in which himself was boiling, and that his heart accused itself to be the cause of all these evils.

4. Does he not drink more sweetly, that takes his beverage in an earthen vessel, than he that looks and searches into his golden chalices, for fear of poison, and looks pale at every sudden noise, and sleeps in armor, and trusts nobody, and does not trust God for his sáfety?

5. Can a man bind a thought with cháins, or carry imagination in the palm of his hand? Can the beauty of the peacock's train, or the ostrich plume, be delicious to the palate and the throat? Does the hand intermeddle with the joys of the heart? or darkness, which hides the naked, make him wárm? Does the body live as does the spírit?

6. Indeed, the sun shines upon the good and bad; and the vines give wine to the drunkard, as well as to the sober man; pirates have fair winds and a calm sea, at the same time when the just and peaceful merchantman hath them. But, although the things of this

world are common to good and bad, yet spiritual joys, the food of the soul, and the blessing of Christ, are the peculiar rights of saints.

QUESTIONS.-1. How must we examine a man, in order to know whether his happiness is real or apparent merely? 2. What instances are cited to show, that the happiness of a person can not be inferred from outward appearances only i

LESSON LXXXIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. PRE FER', choose. 2. LAN' GUISH, grow faint; lose strength. 3. COM' PE TENCE, sufficiency of property. 4. DINT, means. 5. IM' PO TENCE, weakness; insufficiency. 6. HOARD' ED, treasured up. 7. RE PUTE', Consider. 8. RES' ER VOIR, place where any thing is kept in store. 9. DIF FU SIVE LY, widely; exten sively.

EMPTINESS OF RICHES.

EDWARD YOUNG.

1. Can gold calm passion, or make reason shíne?
Can we dig peace or wisdom from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune than our happiness:
That happiness which great ones often see,
With rage and wonder, in a low degree,
Themselves unblessed. The poor are only poor;
But what are they who droop amid their store?
Nothing is meaner than a wretch of state.
The happy only are the truly great.

2. Peasants enjoy like appetites with kings,
And those best satisfied with cheapest things.
Could both our Indies buy but one new sense,
Our envy would be due to large expense;
Since not, those pomps which to the great belong,
Are but poor arts to mark them from the throng.
See how they beg an alms of Flattery:
They languish! oh, support them with a lie!

3. A decent competence we fully taste;

It strikes our sense, and gives a constant feast

;

More we perceive by dint of thought alone;
The rich must labor to possess
their own,

To feel their great abundance, and request
Their humble friends to help them to be blessed;
To see their treasure, hear their glory told,
And aid the wretched impotence of gold.

4. But some great souls, and touched with warmth divine,
Give gold a price, and teach its beams to shine;
All hoarded treasures they repute a load,

Nor think their wealth their own till well bestowed.
Grand reservoirs of public happiness,

Through secret streams diffusively they bless,

And, while their bounties glide, concealed from view,
Relieve our wants, and spare our blushes too.

QUESTIONS.-1. Why should we prefer wisdom to gold? 2. Who are the truly great! 3 What is it the rich beg? 4. What is said of a decent competence? 5. What do some great souls do?

LESSON LXXXIV.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. A WRY', asquint; turned aside. 2. IN CUR'A BLE, that can not be remedied. 3. LAUGH ING-STOCK, object of ridicule. 4. GUARD I AN, protecting. 5. IN AN'I MATE, lifeless. 6. IN'TER COURSE, connection; familiarity. 7. VIG'I LANCE, watchfulness. 8. FAST' ING, abstaining from food. 9. DE BAS' ING, degrading; rendering mean. 10. COM MUN' ION, fellowship; union. 11. DE CREP' IT, weakened by age. 12. IL LUS' TRI OUS, conspicuous. 13. UN ALMS' ED, unfed; unaided. 14. UT' TER, extreme; total. 15. WASTE FUL, deso late.

THE MISER.

ROBERT POLLOK.

1. But there was one in folly further gone;
With eye awry, incurable, and wild,
The laughing-stock of devils and of men,
And by his guardian angel quite given up,-
The MISER, who, with dust inanimate

2.

Held wedded intercourse.

Ill-guided wretch!

Thou might'st have seen him at the midnight hour,

3.

When good men slept, and in light-winged dreams
Ascended up to God-in wasteful hall,

With vigilance and fasting worn to skin

And bone, and wrapped in most debasing rags,-
Thou might'st have seen him bending o'er his heaps,
And holding strange communion with his gold;
And as his thievish fancy seemed to hear
The night-man's foot approach, starting alarmed
And in his old, decrepit, withered hand,
That palsy shook, grasping the yellow earth
To make it sure.

Of all God made upright,
And in their nostrils breathed a living soul,

Most fallen, most prone, most earthy, most debased.
Of all that sold Eternity for Time,

None bargained on so easy terms with death.
Illustrious fool! Nay! most inhuman wretch!
He sat among his bags, and, with a look
Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor
Away unalmsed; and 'midst abundance died-
Sorest of evils-died of utter want!

QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of the miser? 2. Where might he be seen "at the midnight hour"? 3. How did he treat the poor! 4. What is said of his death? 5. What is meant by the phrase, "yellow earth"?

LESSON LXXXV.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. DIF' FI DENCE, distrust. 2. VOLUMES, books. 3. DI VINES', ministers of the gospel. 4. CON CUS' SION, shock; stroke 5. FOR TI FY ING, making strong; strengthening. 6. BE TRAY' ER, & traitor. 7. NOUR' ISH ES, supports. 8. UN DER MIN' ING, sapping; removing the foundation. 9. AT TRAC' TIONS, allurements. 10. CON VICTION, belief. 11. AM BI' TION, desire of preferment. 12. UN SAT IS FAO' TO RY, not giving content. 13. TEN E MENT, house; structure, 14. HI BER NI AN, a native of Ireland. 15. TRIV I AL, trifling: worthless. 16. Ex' rr, departure; death. 17. BE GUILE', delude; deceive.

REFLECTIONS ON EARLY DEATH.

ALEXANDER POPE

1. Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state, and inspires us with