Dul Suci was actuai magituut UL three towers, their site added much to their ent dimensions. For the ancient wall in which stood was itself built on a lofty hill; and higher ose up in front, to the height of thirty cubits, d of crest of the hill; on this the towers rested, hus acquired a much greater altitude. Admiraikewise, was the magnitude of the stones; for towers were not constructed of ordinary s, nor of stones such as might be carried by but of white marble, cut; and the length of block was twenty cubits, its breadth ten, and its five. So accurately were they joined one upon er, that each tower seemed a single rock that l up naturally, and had subsequently been ed all round by the hands of the artificer into gular form; so totally imperceptible on all sides he fitting of the joints. these towers, which lay northward, was atd on the inner side the royal residence, which ded all description. The magnificence of the and the skill displayed in its construction, not be surpassed. It was completely enclosed na wall thirty cubits high, and ornamented s were distributed around it at equal distances, spacious apartments, each capable of containing es for a hundred guests. In these the diverof the stones were not to be expressed; for, ever was rare in every country, was there col1 in abundance. Admirable, also, were their both for the length of the beams, and for the lor of their decorations. The number of apart, moreover, and the variety of devices around were infinite; nor was any article of furniture ng in any of them, the greater proportion of it h being in silver and gold. parts of these as were open to the air were where clothed with verdure. There were bevarious groves with long walks through them, by deep conduits; and in many places ponds ed with bronze figures, through which the water ischarged; and around the streams were numerots for tame doves. But, indeed, adequately cribe the place is impossible; and the recollectings me to the heart, recalling as it does the es of the brigand fires. For it was not the Rowho consigned it to the flames, but this was as we have before related, by the conspirators the city at an early stage of the revolt. The gration began at the Antonia, passed onward palace, and consumed the roofs of the three MOSES THE LAWGIVER E who will peruse this history may principally learn from it, that all events succeed well, even incredible degree, and the reward of felicity posed by God: but then it is to those that folis will, and do not venture to break his excelws; and that so far as men any way apostatize the accurate observation of them, what was cable before becomes impracticable; and bever they set about as a good thing is coninto an incurable calamity. And now I exll those who peruse these books to apply their to God: and to examine the mind of our legiswhether he hath not understood his nature in ner worthy of him; and hath not ever ascribed n such operations as become his power; and not preserved his own writings from those in thousand years ago, at which vast distance of s the poets themselves have not been so hardy o fix even the generations of their gods, much the actions of their men or their own laws. I proceed, therefore, I shall accurately describe t is contained in our records, in the order of e that belongs to them, without adding thing to what is therein contained, or taking y anything therefrom. ut because almost all our constitution depends the wisdom of Moses our legislator, I cannot d saying somewhat concerning him beforehand, gh I shall do it briefly; I mean, because othere those that read my books may wonder how it es to pass that my discourse, which promises an ount of laws and historical facts, contains so -h of philosophy. The reader is therefore to w that Moses deemed it exceeding necessary that who would conduct his own life well, and give s to others, in the first place should consider the ne nature; and upon the contemplation of God's ations, should thereby imitate the best of all erns, so far as it is possible for human nature to and to endeavor to follow after it; neither could legislator himself have a right mind without a contemplation; nor would anything he should e tend to the promotion of virtue in his readI mean, unless they be taught first of all that is the father and Lord of all things, and sees things; and that hence he bestows a happy life n those that follow him, but plunges such as do walk in the paths of virtue into inevitable mis5. Now, when Moses was desirous to teach this on to his countrymen, he did not begin the estabnent of his laws after the same manner that other e most excellent of the creatures of God upon Now, when once he had brought them to subo religion, he easily persuaded them to submit other things; for as to other legislators, they ved fables, and by their discourses transferred ost reproachful of human vices unto the gods, o afforded wicked men the most plausible exfor their crimes; but as for our legislator, he had once demonstrated that God was posI of perfect virtue, he supposed men also ought ive after the participation of it; and on those lid not so think and so believe he inflicted the est punishments. I exhort, therefore, my readexamine this whole undertaking in that view; ereby it will appear to them that there is nothherein disagreeable either to the majesty of or to his love for mankind: for all things have reference to the nature of the universe; while gislator speaks some things wisely but enigally, and others under a decent allegory, but xplains such things as require a direct explicalainly and expressly. JOHN KEATS HN KEATS, one of the most famous of British s, was born at London, England, in 1795; died ome, in 1821. He left school at fifteen and took he study of surgery, but he soon decided that ad chosen the wrong field and decided to devote ife to writing. His first poems, the "Epistles," cared in 1817. Shortly after ill health compelled to leave England and he went to Italy. The mer climate prolonged his life for two years Among his best pieces are: Hyperion," bella," and "The Eve of St. Agnes." 66 ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE Y heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, -mptied some dull opiate to the drains ne minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: not through envy of thy happy lot, it being too happy in thine happiness,— That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease. or a draught of vintage! that hath been ol'd a long age in the deep-delv'd earth, ing of Flora and the country green, ince, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth! or a breaker full of the warm South, ill of the true, the blushful Hippocrene, |