Exercise.

Alfred the Great

his time into three equal parts; allotting the first to prayer and pious exercises, the second to business, and the third to sleep

and refreshment.

England is

The river Rhine

from France by the English Channel.

France from Germany.

Alexander Selkirk, from whose adventures De Foe took his story of "Robinson Crusoe," lived for several years on an uninhabited island in the Pacific from human society.

Ocean, wholly

Opinions on the question of the Irish Union were

some holding that it should be immediately repealed, and others contending that the repeal would involve a of the two countries. into four provinces. Ulster is

Ireland is

the provinces of Leinster and Connaught.

If we

from Munster by

the life of most men into twenty parts, we shall find at least nineteen of them filled with gaps and chasms, which are neither filled up with pleasure nor business.

To doubt-to question.

We doubt within ourselves. The cause of our doubt is our imperfect knowledge. When we question, it is with the view that our doubts should be removed. By questioning, we endeavour to remove our ignorance, and thus resolve our doubt. Thus, we doubt the veracity of an historian; i. e. the knowledge we possess prevents us from assenting to what he has stated. If we set about resolving our doubts by inquiring into the truth of his writings, we question his veracity. We may doubt without questioning, but we cannot question without .doubting.

holy Star,

Holy as princely, who that looks on thee
Touching, as now, in thy humility

The mountain borders of this seat of care,
Can question that thy countenance is bright
Celestial Power, as much with love as light.
'Itiner. Sonnets."]

Exercise.

There are many things of which it would be very irrational to there are also others which we may

with great reason.

The Pyrrhonians were a sect of philosophers, who not only every thing they saw and heard, but even of their own existence.

but

of

I have never his veracity, for I have too high an opinion of his regard for every thing honourable and just, to suppose him capable of saying any thing false.

It is a whether, if Hannibal had taken Rome, and destroyed the empire of the Romans, it would have been more advantageous for the hu

man race.

Some truths are intuitive; such as, for example, "the whole is greater than its part;" "two straight lines cannot inclose a space," &c.: it would argue a want of common sense to such truths for a moment; they

are self-evident propositions.

He told me that he had never

that the prisoner had committed

the crime, although he was aware there would be great difficulty in convicting him

To expect to hope.

We hope

We expect what we think will probably occur. what we strongly desire to happen. We may expect an occurrence which will give us pain, but it is not in human nature to hope for such an occurrence. Thus, I may expect-though I cannot hope to hear of the death of a dear friend. Expectation regards merely the anticipation of future events without any reference to their being agreeable or otherwise. Hope is always accompanied with pleasure, and is employed upon those events which are likely to be attended with gratification to ourselves.

[Hel. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there
Where most it promises; and oft it hits
Where hope is coldest, and despair most sits

All's Well. &c., 11. 1

In the middle of the night, the storm raged with such violence, that

none of the passengers

The father had

the vessel would outlive the gale.

that his son would occupy the same distinguished

rank in his profession as himself.

He was doomed, however, to be cruelly disappointed; for he soon after received news that his son was dangerously ill, and that his death was hourly

Every man

one day to withdraw from the bustle and tumult of

the world, and spend the remainder of his life in quiet ease.

He had

that his friends would arrive in the course of the after

noon, and had prepared every thing for their reception.
My cousin sailed for India some months ago: I
his safe arrival at Calcutta.

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to hear soon of

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace
And rest can never dwell; —never comes
That comes to all."

"All these within the dungeon's depth remain,
Despairing pardon, and

-ing pain."

To finish to conclude.

To conclude is a species of finishing; it means to bring to a close for a time, implying a possibility, if not a probability, that we shall continue the action. To finish is to cease from acting, with either no power or no intention of resuming. In reading a book, we may conclude when we come to the end of a chapter or paragraph; but we finish when we come to

the end of the last page. A sermon which is divided into many sections may be concluded on one Sunday, and finished on the next.

He

Exercise.

his observations by calling the attention of the meeting to the marked improvement in the condition of the poorer classes in that part of the country.

I have not yet quite

reading the book you were kind enough to chapter, and I hope to re

lend me; but I have already begun the turn you the volume by to-morrow evening. According to the established rules of the society, the competitors had their pictures, and sent them in for exhibition by the 1st of

all May.

The prizes were distributed among the successful candidates, after which, the members of the society dined together; and the entertainments of the day were by a dance.

Every evening, after his daily labour was

he occupied him

self in reading; his master kindly supplying him with books from his own library.

The great work of which Justinian has the credit, although it comprehends the whole system of jurisprudence, was

three years.

-, we are told, in

"Destruction hangs on every word we speak,
On every thought, till the -ing stroke
Determines all, and closes our design."

To give―to grant.

Το give is the simple term which expresses the act of conveying property from one individual to another. To grant implies a previous desire expressed by the receiver of the gift. We give on familiar occasions. We grant on occasions of importance. Permission, requests, favours, prayers, petitions, &c., are granted. Meat, clothes, wine, &c., are given. We grant what we have the power of withholding. To give is not necessarily coupled with such a condition.

[Gon. Now would I give a thousand furongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

Tempest, i. 1.

Having the most confident anticipation that his petition would be he incurred many unnecessary expenses; great, then, was his mortification on learning, that, instead of presenting his petition to the king, the minister had the document to his secretary without even reading it

through.

Three more days were

approaching trial.

to the prisoner to collect evidence for his

These desperate men, who had led an abandoned life, had long ceased to be recognized as citizens; and a war ensued in consequence of the their demand to be admitted to the rights of

republic refusing to

citizenship.

Those who cannot

reasons for their ordinary actions have scarcely persons.

a right to be treated as rational

We are all required to

a portion of our substance towards alle

viating the sufferings, and providing for the wants of the poor. If you will but

through life.

me this favour, I shall hold myself bound to you

Nature ➖➖ us many children and friends to take them away; but takes none away to

them us again.

To gain is a general—to win is a specific term.

These words express different modes of acquiring possession, and are to be distinguished by the circumstances which respectively attend them. We gain with intention, we win by