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the Roman arms. The most eminent of the family was Publius Cornelius Scipio, surnamed Africanus, who conquered Hannibal He died B.C. 183.

6. PHID' I AS, an Athenian, and one of the greatest sculptors of antiquity: born B. C. 498, and died 431 B. C.

7. Mo' SES, the great Jewish Lawgiver.

8. DAN' TE A LI GHIE' RI, the most sublime of Italian poets: born at Florence, Anno Domini 1265.

SELF-RELIANCE.

R. WALDO EMERSON.

1. Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half-possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it.

2. Where is the master who could have taught 'Shakspeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or 'Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. If anybody will tell me whom the great man imitates in the original crisis, when he performs a great act, I will tell him who else than himself can teach him. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned thee, and thou canst not hope too much, or dare too much.

3. There is at this moment, there is for me an utterance bare and grand as that of the colossal chisel of 'Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of 'Moses, or 'Dante, but different from all these. Not possibly will the soul all rich, all eloquent, with thousand cloven-tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if I can hear what these patriarchs say, surely I can reply to them in the same pitch of voice: for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature. Dwell up

there in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again.

QUESTIONS.-1. What is said of that which each can do best! 2. When only can one know what it is! 3. What is meant by the "colossal chisel of Phidias"? 4. What persons are here meant by Patriarchs

LESSON CXXXVII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. AD' VERSE, afflictive. 2. TIM' OR OUS LY, timidly; with fear. 3. MEAN, medium; middle point 4. HAUNT, place of resort. 5. IM BIT' TER ING, rendering unhappy. 6. CLOUDCAP PED, covered, or surrounded by clouds. 7. EM' I NENCE, summit; highest point. 8. OB STRUCT', block up. 9. MAG NA NIM' I TY, greatness of mind. 10. PRO PI' TIOUS, favorable.

THE WAY TO MEET ADVERSITY.

HORACE BY JOWPER.

1. Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
So shalt thou live beyond the reach
Of adverse Fortune's power;
Not always tempt the distant deep,
Nor always timorously creep
Along the treacherous shore.

2. He that holds fast the golden mean,
And lives contentedly between
The little and the great,

Feels not the wants that pinch the poor,
Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door
Imbittering all his state.

3. The tallest pines feel most the power
Of winter's blasts; the loftiest tower
Comes heaviest to the ground;

The bolts, that spare the mountain s side,
His cloud-capped eminence divide,
And spread the ruin round.

4. The well-informed philosopher
Rejoices with a wholesome fear,
And hopes, in spite of pain;
If winter bellows from the north,
Soon the sweet Spring comes dancing forth.
And Nature laughs again.

5. What if thy heaven be overcast,
The dark appearance will not last;
Expect a brighter sky.

The god that strings the silver bow,
Awakes sometimes the muses too,
And lays his arrows by.

6. If hindrances obstruct thy way,
Thy magnanimity display,

And let thy strength be seen;
But O! if fortune fill thy sail
With more than a propitious gale,
Take half thy canvas in.

QUESTIONS.-1. What advice is given in the first stanza? 2. How, in the next stanza, is the poet's meaning explained? 3. What illustrations are given in the third stanza? 4. What is said of the well informed philosopher? 5. What encouragement to the desponding is given in the fifth and sixth stanzas? 6. Which of the heathen deities is referred to in the fifth stanza? Ans. Apollo, the god of archery, prophecy, and music. 7. Who were the muses? Certain goddesses who were supposed to preside over poetry, music the arts and sciences.

Ans

LESSON CXXXVIII.

"AS THY DAYS, SO SHALL THY STRENGTH BE.”

L. EL SIGOURNEY.

1. When adverse winds and waves arisé,
And in my heart despondence síghs;
When life her throng of cares reveals,
And weakness o'er my spirit stéals;
Grateful I hear the kind decrée,

That, "As my day, my strength shall bè."

2. When, with sad footstep, memory roves
'Mid smitten joys and buried loves;
When sleep my tearful pillow flies,
And dewy morning drinks my sighs;
Still to thy promise, Lord, I flee,
That, "As my day, my strength shall be."
3. One trial more must yet be past,

One pang-the keenest, and the last;
And when, with brow convulsed and pale,
My feeble, quivering heart-strings fail,
Redeemer, grant my soul to see

That, "As her day, her strength shall be."

QUESTIONS.-1. In what part of the Scriptures is the heading of this piece found? Ans. Deut. 33d chapter, 25th verse. 2. What is intended to be taught in this piece?

LESSON CXXXIX.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. REV O LU' TION IZ ING, effecting an entire change in. 2. IM MO BIL' I TY, fixedness; resistance to change. 3. CON SERV' A TISM, desire and effort to preserve what is established. 4. MO MEN' TUM, impetus. 5. WIELD' ER, manager; handler. 6. VIN'DI CATE, defend; justify. 7. PRE SCI ENCE, foreknowledge. 8. ARID, dry; parched. 9. MA LAR' IOUS, infectious; poisonous. 10. PER PET U ATE, continue. 11. AC CEL' ER A TED, quickened. 12. RA'TIO, rate; degree. 13. FA TU' I TY, weakness of mind; folly. 14. PRE DICT ED, foretold. 15. PHAN' TOMS, specters; fancies. 16. PEREN NI AL, everlasting; unceasing. 17. EM' U LA TING, vying with; rivaling. 18. PER SIST ENT, persevering. 19. PRI OR, previous. 20. UN FURL' ED, unrolled; spread out.

1. NA THANIEL HAW' THORNE, who, according to an excellent judge, "is among the first of the first order of writers," was born at Salem, Mass., about the year 1807.

AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS.

(Extract from an Address before the Indiana State Agricultural

Society.)

HORACE GREELEY.

1. I do not seek to disguise the magnitude and the difficulty of the work I contemplate-that of revolutionizing our agriculture, and making it the most

elevated and ennobling, because the most intellectual pursuit of man. I realize the mountains of Prejudice that are to be leveled, the Dead Seas of Ignorance that must be filled up, the constitutional immobility of Conservatism that must be overcome, before the end can be attained.

2. But I see, also, how "the stars in their courses" fight in behalf of Progress and Enlightenment,—how immense has been the march of Intelligence as well as Invention and Physical Improvement in our age,how the Steamboat, the Railroad, the Steam Press, the Ocean Steamship, the Electric Telegraph, are speeding us onward with a momentum the world has never before known,—and I hear a voice from all these, and many a kindred impulse, and influence, bidding Man, the Cultivator, advance boldly and confidently to take his proper post as lord of the animal kingdom, and wielder of the elements for the satisfaction of his wants, and the development of his immortal powers.

3. I hear them calling him to vindicate the discernment or the prescience of those glorious old Greeks, who gave our Earth in her young luxuriance the name of Kosmos or BEAUTY—a name belied by our scarred and stumpy grain-fields, our seared and barren pastures, our bleak and arid deserts, our foul, malarious marshes; but which Science shall yet justify, and joyous labor perpetuate.

4. In spite of all distractions and impediments, "the world does move," and even the most sluggish and stubborn are carried along with it. Our Agriculture as a whole, is more skillful and efficient than it was thirty or forty years ago; and it is now improving in accelerated ratio. Even I, the descendant of a line of poor cultivators, stretching back, very likely, to him who, through his own blindness and fatuity, lost the situation of head gardener in Eden,-even I feel the all-pervading impulse toward improvement and reform.

5. 'Hawthorne, in his "Three-Fold Destiny," tells the story of a young man who wandered all the world

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