"The best and the surest to accomplish your wish will be to en gage a master, and read with him three or four hours a day." "To be indifferent whether we embrace falsehood or truth is the great to error." The real "I am amazed, and lose my 66 Among the thorns and dangers of this world." Which through a path but scarcely printed lay." "An old man who was travelling along the groaning under a huge burden, found himself so weary that he called upon death to deliver him." A word is something uttered or written which stands for something perceived. Every conventional combination of letters representing an idea is a word. We cannot stretch the meaning of words beyond certain bounds; i. e. they cannot be made to have more or less than a certain meaning, and in this view they are terms. Nouns, verbs, and adjectives, are limited to a certain meaning, and in this sense they are terms. Prepositions and conjunctions, whose meaning is not likely to become disturbed, are not considered as terms. The object of defining is to lay down the precise meaning of terms, and show the exact limits to which they extend. The word term is properly applied in defining. It is only to terms that we can apply a definition. [Macd. I have no words. My voice is in my sword; thou bloodier villain The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Though in mysterious terms, judged as then best. "In painting, the greatest beauties cannot always be expressed for want "The use of the minister is brought down to the literal significa tion of it, a servant; for now, to serve and to minister, servile and minis terial, are equivalent." Purity of style depends on the choice of "Had the Roman language continued in common use, it would have been necessary, from the many have made great additions to it." 66 of art required in trade and in war, to Among men who confound their ideas with less disputes, wrangling, and jargon." there must be end "Those parts of nature into which the chaos was divided, they signified by dark and obscure names, which we have expressed in their plain and It is an affectation of style to introduce many technical composition. into our To augur-to forebode. Augur, from the Latin augurium, refers to the superstition of the ancient Romans, by which they pretended to predict future events. Forebode, from the Saxon forebodian, signifies to tell beforehand. In distinguishing between the modern use of these words, it is to be observed that there is more of chance in augury, and more of reasoning in foreboding. Moreover, an augury may be for good or for evil, whereas foreboding is scarcely ever used in a good sense. It may be almost said that to augur evil is to forebode. Again, an augury is founded upon outward appearances; a foreboding is founded upon induction. [Ham. Not a whit, we defy augury; there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Hamlet, v. 2. Ther. I would croak like a raven; I would bode, I would bode. Troilus and Cressida, v. 2. what they can do, as signs Betokening, or ill-boding, I contemn As false portents, not sent from God, but thee. P. R., iv. 490. And O, ye Fountains, Meadows, Hills, and Groves, WORDSWORTH. Ode on Intimations, &c.'] Exercise. He never could take a bright view of any question; but whatever appearance it might present, he had always the unhappy knack of some evil consequence from it. The sun rose clear and bright; the morning air was pure and deliciously fresh; pearly drops of crystal dew stood glittering on leaves of the brightest green, and all nature seemed to a happy result to the ceremony of this eventful day. "This looks not well!" exclaimed the doctor, raising his head suddenly from the book which he had been examining with apparently the most intense eagerness for the last five minutes-"This looks not well! these characters — no success, either to the undertaking or to any engaged in it. I withdraw my name from among its supporters." I saw by the smile on his countenance that he had succeeded in his wishes; and he soon after informed me that every thing favourably, and that he had every hope of obtaining the situation. To bestow-to confer. To bestow signifies to place, or lay out; to confer, to bear towards or upon. The idea of giving is common to both these verbs. They differ in this-that the former is said of things given between persons in private life; the latter, of things given from persons in authority to those below them in rank. The king confers the honour of knighthood. Princes confer privileges. One friend bestows favours on another. We bestow charity on the poor. It is also to be observed, that these verbs are scarcely ever used with any other than abstract nouns. Honours, dignities, privileges, &c., are conferred Praise, charity, kindness, pains, &c., are bestowed. [Grif. - though he were unsatisfied in getting, (Which was a sin,) yet in bestowing, madam, He was most princely. Henry VIII., iv. 2. A natural dignity on humblest rank. The Excursion,' vi.] Princes should Exercise. dignities as rewards of merit, not, as is generally the case, with a view to secure their own interests. I considered the whole affair so insignificant, that I have not thought it worth while to another thought upon the subject. Unless you — much time and attention on the subject, you will never succeed in comprehending it fully. Wolsey rose rapidly in the king's favour, and accommodated himself with such facility to all Henry's caprices, that the highest honours were upon him, and all the affairs of state were soon intrusted to his management. Great care was upon his education. It sometimes happens that even enemies and envious persons sincerest marks of esteem when they least design it. "On him the poet's sacred name, Whose lofty voice declares the heavenly frame." the To bring to fetch. To bring is to convey to; it is a simple act; to fetch is a compound act; it means to go and bring. When two persons are in the same room, and one asks the other to bring him something, we must suppose the person addressed to be near the object required. In order to fetch, we must go to some distance for the object. Potatoes are brought to market. Children are fetched from school; i. e. when some one goes to bring them. The parliament, however, maintained their power with continued success, and the king was at length to his trial. On the 20th of next December, just before the Christmas holidays, my father has promised that he will take me with him when he goes to my brothers from school. If you will call upon me to-morrow at three o'clock, I shall be at home and glad to see you; but do not forget to you will not be able to take a lesson. I have desired the servant to nine o'clock this evening. your books, as without them, your brother home from his uncle's at On the evening of the birthday, the prizes were all into the draw ing-room, and laid on a large table; the children being then placed on forms arranged across the other end of the room, each, in his turn, was told to his prize from the table and take it to his seat. This admonition at last produced the desired effect, and proper sense of his guilt. him to a What appeared to me wonderful was, that none of the ants came home without -ing something. I have said before, that those ants which I did so particularly consider, their corn out of a garret. To bury to inter. To bury is to conceal in the earth; to inter is to put into the earth with ceremony. We bury in order to cover up; we in.er from a religious motive. Interring is a species of burying. A miser may bury his money in a hole in his garden, or may |