And seal thee so, as henceforth not to scorn Apostrophe and exclamation, as well as the imperative mode, when accompanied by emphasis, incline the voice to the falling inflection. 10. Oh! deep-enchanting prelude to repose, The dawn of bliss, the twilight of our wòes! Yet half I hear the panting spirit sigh, It is a dread and awful thing to die! 4 2 Mysterious worlds! untravell'd by the sun, 'Tis heaven's commanding trumpet, long and loud, 10 Like Sinai's thunder, pealing from the cloud! Daughter of Faith, awake! arise! illumet The dread unknown, the chàos of the tomb! Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness on the parting soul! 15 Fly, like the moon-eyed herald of dismay, Chased on his night-steed, by the star of day! The strife is o'er !-the pangs of nature close, And life's last rapture triumphs o'er her woes! Hark! as the spirit eyes, with eagle gaze, у 20 The noon of heaven, undazzled by the blaze, 25 When Jordan hush'd his waves, and midnight still Friends in the Friends of science, and true prayer Has flow'd from lips wet with Castalian dews. Such was thy wisdom, Newton, child-like sage! 5 Sagacious reader of the Works of God, And in his Word sagacious. Such too thine, Milton, whose genius had angelic wings, And fed on manna. And such thine, in whom Our British THEMIS gloried with just cause, 10 Immortal Hàle! for deep discernment prais❜d, 12. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wond'rous fair; thyself how wond'rous then! 5 To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare 15 If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn Thou Sun, of this great world both eye and soul, 20 Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, With the fix'd stars, fix'd in their orb that flies, And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, 40 Bear on your wings, and in your notes his praise. 14.] Page 60. Emphatic succession of particulars requires the falling slide. Note 3, page 61, should be examined before reading this class of Exercises. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man ;--the field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom: but the tares are the children of the wicked one;--the enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels. 2. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wìsdom; to another, the word of knowledge, by the same Spirit ;-to another, faith, by the same Spirit; to anoth er, the gifts of healing, by the same Spirit ;-to another, the working of miracles; to another, pròphecy; to another, discerning of spirits; to another, divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpertation of tongues. 3. Rejoice evermore, pray without ceasing :--in every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.--Quench not the Spìrit :---Déspise not prophesyings.--Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. 4. As virtue is the most reasonable and genuine source of honour, we generally find in titles, an intimation of some particular mèrit, that should recommend men to the high stations which they possess. Holiness is ascribed to the Pope; majesty, to kings; serenity, or mildness of temper, to princes; excellence, or perfection, to ambassadors; grace, to archbishops; honour, to peers; worship, or venerable behaviour, to magistrates; and reverence, which is of the same import as the former, to the inferior clergy. 5. It pleases me to think that I, who know so small a portion of the works of the Creator, and with slow and painful steps, creep up and down on the surface of this glóbe, shall, ere long, shoot away with the swiftness of imagination; trace out the hidden springs of nature's operations; be able to keep pace with the heavenly bodies in the rapidity of their career; be a spectator of the long chain of events in the natural and moral worlds; visit the several apartments of creàtion; know how they are furnished and how inhabited; comprehend the order and measure, the magnitude and distances of those orbs, which, to us, seem disposed without any regular design, and set all in the same circle; observe the dependence of the parts of each system; and (if our minds are big enough) grasp the theory of the several systems upon one another, from whence results the harmony of the ùniverse. .6. He who cannot persuade himself to withdraw from society, must be content to pay a tribute of his time to a multitude of tyrants; to the loìterer, who makes appointments he never keeps--to the consulter, who asks advice he never takes-to the bòaster, who blusters only to be praised to the complainer, who whines only to be pìtied -to the projector, whose happiness is only to entertain his friends with expectations, which all but himself know to be vain--to the economist, who tells of bargains and settlements--to the politician, who predicts the fate of battles and breach of alliances to the ùsurer, who compares the different fúnds--and to the tálker, who talks only because he loves talking. 7. That a man, to whom he was, in great measure, beholden for his crown, and even for his life; a man to whom, by every honour and favour, he had endeavoured to express his gratitude; whose brother, the earl of Derby, was his own father-in-law; to whom he had even committed the trust of his person, by creating him lord chamberlain; that a man enjoying his full confidence and affèction; not actuated by any motive of discontent |