desirous of covering him up close, received from the patient a violent box on the ear. Some hours after, observing the prince more calm, he entreated to know how he had incurred his displeasure, or what he had done to have merited a blow. "A blów?" replied Charles; "I do not remember any thing of it: I remember, indeed, that I thought myself in the battle of Arbela, fighting for Darius, where I gave Alexander a blow, which brought him to the ground."

4. What great effects might not these two qualities of courage and constancy have produced, had they at first received a just direction! Charles, with proper instructions, thus naturally disposed, would have been the delight and the glory of his age. Happy those princes who are educated by men who are at once virtuous and wise, and have been for some time in the school of affliction; who weigh happiness against glory, and teach their royal pupils the real value of fame: who are ever showing the superior dignity of man to that of royalty; that a peasant who does his duty, is a nobler character than a king of even middling reputation.

5. Happy, I say, were princes, could such men be found to instruct them; but those to whom such an education is generally intrusted, are men who themselves have acted in a sphere too high to know mankind. Puffed up themselves with an idea of false grandeur, and measuring merit by adventitious circumstances of greatness, they generally communicate those fatal prejudices to their pupils, confirm their .pride by adulation, or increase their ignorance by teaching them to despise that wisdom which is found among the poor.

QUESTIONS.-1. What qualities formed the basis of the character of Charles the XII. 2. What proofs of his courage and constancy are cited by the author? 3. How might Charles have proved the delight and glory of his age? 4. When was he born? 5. Where and how did he die ?

Why should blow be read with the rising inflection? See Note I, Rule II. p. 27. Why is p doubled in snapped and wrapped? See Sanders' Spelling Book, p. 167.

LESSON XCI.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. AD' A MANT, a stone extremely hard. 2. PA CIF IC, peaceful. 3. CA PIT U LATE, to surrender on certain conditions. 4. RE SIGN', to yield; submit. 5. SUS PEND' ED, held undetermined. 6. BAR RI CADES', obstructs; shuts up. 7. VAN' QUISH ED, defeated. 8. SUP PLI ANT, one who begs or supplicates. 9. IN TER POSE', mediate. 10. SUB VERT ED, overthrown. 11. RI' VAL, making the same claims. 12. Hos' TILE, adverse. 13. DU' BI OUS, doubtful; rncertain.

1. PUL TO' WA, a fortified town of Russia, on the river Worskla, 450 miles south-west from Moscow. Here Peter, the Great, on the 27th of June, 1709, defeated Charles the XII. of Sweden. In com memoration of this victory, the Russians have erected a column in the city, and an obelisk on the field where the battle was fought.

RESULTS OF AMBITION

1. On what foundation stands the warrior's pride,
How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide;
A frame of adamant, a soul of fire,

No dangers fright him, no labors tire;
O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain,
Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain;
No joys to him pacific scepters yield,

JOHNSON.

War sounds the trump, (=) he rushes to the field.

2. Behold surrounding kings their power combine,
And some capitulate and some resign.

Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain ·
"Think nothing gained," he cried, " till naught remain;
On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly,
And all be mine beneath the polar sky."

The march begins in military state,
And nations on his eye suspended wait.
Stern famine guards the solitary coast,
And winter barricades the realm of frost :

He comes-not want and cold his course delay-
Hide, blushing Glory, hide 'Pultowa's day!

3. The vanquished hero leaves his broken bands,
And shows his miseries in distant lands,
Condemned a needy suppliant to wait,
While ladies interpose, and slaves debate.

But did not Chance at length her error mend?
Did no subverted empire mark his end?
Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound?
Or hostile millions press him to the ground?
His fall was destined to a barren strand,
A petty fortress and a dubious hand.

He left a name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral or adorn a tale!

QUESTIONS.-1. How does the poet represent Charles the XIL 2. What is that monarch here represented as saying? 3. Where was he defeated, and by whom?

LESSON XCII.

SPELL AND DEFINE-1. FERN, brake; a species of plant. 2. Scoop'ED, hollowed out. 3. RAN' DOM, casual. 4. BEACON, a signal; a light-house. 5. MON' I TO RY, warning. 6. RA' DI ANCE, luster; brightness. 7. MART, a place of sale, or traffic. 8. TRANS' I TO RI, fleeting; passing away. 9. GERM, origin; first principle.

Avoid saying its sway for its way, its slight for its light, &c.

INFLUENCE OF GOOD DEEDS AND WORDS.

1. A traveler through a dusty road,

Strewed acorns on the lea;

CHARLES MACKAY.

And one took root and sprouted up,
And grew into a tree.

Love sought its shade at evening time,
To breathe its early vows;

And Age was pleased, in heats of noon,
To bask beneath its boughs:

The dormouse loved its dangling twigs,

The birds sweet music bore;

It stood, a glory in its place,
A blessing evermore!

2. A little spring had lost its way
Amid the grass and fern,

A. passing stranger scooped a well,
Where weary men might turn;

He walled it in, and hung with care
A ladle at the brink;

He thought not of the deed he did,
But judged that toil might drink.
He passed again,—and lo! the well,
By Summers never dried,

Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues,
And saved a life beside!

3. A dreamer dropped a random thought,
'Twas old, and yet was new,-
A simple fancy of the brain,
But strong in being true;
It shone upon a genial mind,
And, lo! its light became
A lamp of life, a beacon ray,
A monitory flame :

The thought was small; its issue great,
A watch-fire on the hill;

It sheds its radiance far adown,
And cheers the valley still!

4. A nameless man amid a crowd
That thronged the daily mart,
Let fall a word of Hope and Love,
Unstudied from the heart;

A whisper on the tumult thrown,-
A transitory breath,-

It raised a brother from the dust,

It saved a soul from death.

O, gèrm! O, fount ! O, wòrd of love !—
О, THOUGHT at random cast!

Ye were but little at the first,
But mighty at the last!

QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of one of the acorns, strewed on the lea? 2. What benefits were derived from it? 3. What did a passing stranger do with a little spring? 4. What benefits had resulted from this little deed? 5. What effect was produced by "a random thought" 6. What, by a word of Hope and Love"? 7. What important rule of life is suggested by this piece?

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Why the falling inflection ongerm, fount, word, thought, last stanza! See Rule IX. p. 31. What kind of emphasis on little mighty, last stanza? See Note VIII. p. 22.

LESSON XCIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. EM'I NENT, remarkable. 2. PRO PRI' E TY, appropriateness; fitness. 3. Nov' EL TY, newness. 4. PRE CLUD' ED, prevented. 5. TRIV I AL' I TY, lightness; little importance. 6. NECES' SI TATE, to make necessary. 7. HAZ ARD OUS, dangerous. 8. TOP' Ics, subjects. 9. IM PRES' SION, effect on the mind. 10. UN PREMED' I TA TED, unstudied. 11. IN TE GRAL, pertaining, or essential to the whole 12. DES' UL TO RY, unconnected. 13. Ac coM' PA NIMENTS, attendant circumstances. 14. IM PER TI NENT, not pertaining to the matter in hand. 15. AB RUPT', broken off; sudden. 16. REO TI FI CA' TION, correction. 17. SIG NIF' I CANT. expressive.

1. EDMUND BURKE, a celebrated English statesman, was born January 1st, 1730, and died July 8th, 1797.

LANGUAGE OF A MAN OF EDUCATION.

COLERIDGE.

1. What is that which first strikes us, and strikes us at once, in a man of education? and which, among educated men, so instantly distinguishes the man of superior mind, that (as was observed with eminent propriety of the late 'Edmund Burke) "we can not stand under the same archway during a shower of rain, without finding him out"?

2. Not the weight or novelty of his remarks; not any unusual interest of facts communicated by him; for we may suppose both the one and the other precluded by the shortness of our intercourse, and the triviality of the subjects. The difference will be impressed and felt, though the conversation should be confined to the state of the weather or the pavement.

3. Still less will it arise from any peculiarity in his words and phrases. For, if he be, as we now assume, a well-educated man, as well as a man of superior powers, he will not fail to follow the golden rule of Julius Caesar, Insolens verbum, tanquam scopulum, evitare. Unless where new things necessitate new terms, he will avoid an unusual word as a rock. It must have been among the earliest lessons of his youth, that the breach of this precept, at all times hazardous, be comes ridiculous in the topics of ordinary conversation.