the Arab was at length subdued by the obstinate and persevering valor of the Goth.

10. Never was the annihilation of a people more complete than that of the Spanish Moors. Where are they? Ask the shores of Barbary and its desert places. The exiled remnant of their once powerful empire, disappeared among the barbarians of Africa, and ceased to be a nation. They have not even left a distinct name behind them, though for eight centuries they were a distinct people. The home of their adop tion, and of their occupation for ages, refuses to acknowledge them, except as invaders and usurpers.

11. A few broken monuments are all that remain to bear witness of their power and greatness, as solitary rocks left far in the interior, bear testimony to the extent of some vast inundation. Such is the Alhambra,-a Moslem pile in the midst of a Christian land,- -an oriental palace amidst the Gothic edifices of the West,-an elegant memento of a brave, intelligent, and graceful people, who conquered, ruled, and passed away.

QUESTIONS.-1. What was the origin of the Moors? 2. Where was their career of conquest checked? 3. What did they then establish and where? 4. What was their character as a nation? 5. Who resorted to their cities and universities? 6. How long did their empire continue? 7. What is said of their entire overthrow? 8. What remain to bear witness of them?

LESSON CVIII.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Margin, the brink of a stream. 2. Crys el, clear like a crystal; transparent. 3. Aye, yes; yea. 4. Rife, pounding in; prevalent. 5. Palmy, bearing palms, emblematical of ictory. 6. Pearly, bright like a pearl. 7. Lave, to bathe; to wash. 3 Emerald, a gem of a green color; foliage, resembling the emerald.

The Eternal River.-HESPERIAN.

1. BEYOND the silence, beyond the gloom
Of the vale of death and the dreary tomb-
Beyond the sorrow, beyond the sin
Of earthly ages, its waves begin.

2. Along the slope of its margin bright,
The groves rise up in a land of light,
And the shining floods of the crystal rills
Come leaping down from the jasper hills;

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4.

5.

6.

And ransom'd millions who take their birth
In the dark old climes of the ancient earth,
When the strife, and grief, and pain of the past,
Are all forgotten, will glide at last,-
Aye, crowned with glory and gladness, glide
Along the sweep of that silvery tide;
While all before them, and all around,
Shall the ceaseless song of the seraph sound

Amidst the murmuring fountains
Of everlasting life,

Thy spirit, like a bounding bark,
With song and gladness rife,
Goes gliding to the palmy shore
That lies in sunny light before.

Glide on, glide on, rejoicing-
The glories of that strand,
Are tinted by the golden morn
Of an immortal land,

Whose brilliant beams-whose pearly ray-
Shall never fade nor fleet away.

The silvery tide will bear thee
Amid the sound and bloom

Of many a green and blessed isle,
Whose shining banks illume

Each wandering bark and pathway dim

Along the passing billow's brim.

And soon the winds shall waft thee
Among the groves that lave

The emerald of their bending boughs
In life's eternal wave:

And round thee shall the music rise

Of happier worlds, and calmer skies.

QUESTIONS.-1. What river do you think the writer was here describing? (See Rev. 22nd Chap. 1st and 2nd verses.) 2. What can you say of this river?

What variety do you observe in the versification of this piece? To what does its refer, first line, second verse? What poetic pauses have the first four lines of the second verse? Which syllables in those lines, receive the metrical accent? What Rule for the prevalence of the rising inflection, third verse? What for the falling on glide, fourth verse? Which should have the more intense degree of emphasis, the first or second glide? How is emerald, last verso, parsed?

LESSON CIX.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Illume, to light up. 2. Communion, society; friendly intercourse. 3. Attain, to arrive at; to gain, 4. Tenement, a house; here means, the body.

Dialogue between the Body and the Spirit.--MRS
GILMAN.

Body-SPIRIT! I feel that thou
Wilt soon depart.

This body is too weak longer to hold
The immortal part.

The ties of earth are loosening

They soon will break ;

And thou, even as a joycus bird,

Thy flight wilt take

To the eternal world.

Sày, spírit ! sày!

Wilt thou return again? once more illume
My house of cláy?

Or must this body, which has been to thee
A temple and a dwelling-place,
Perish for ever and forgotten bè ?

Spirit.-Yes! I must leave thee.

I am longing

For the communion of those blessed ones
Within the courts of heaven,

Who tune their golden harps

To the eternal praise of Him, who gives
That home above-

Which they have gained, and which I would attain,
Through Him who came to prove

That "God is love."

And by Him, too, I know that thou,

My earthly tenement,

Within the dust must lie,

And there turn to corruption,
Even as the seed doth die,
To be revived again.

Death hath no power o'er the soul;
For Christ hath conquered-

The grave can not retain its victims

When He cries-come forth!

Then I return to thee

The victory is gained

For "Christ hath made us free."

QUESTIONS.-1. What is meant by 'the immortal part,' first verse? 2. To what is the spirit compared? 3. What is meant by 'house of clay'? 4. To what does they refer, third verse? 5. To what is the body in the grave compared? 6. To what does thee refer, last verse? 7. Where is the quotation, last line, found? Ans. Gal. 5th Chap. 1st

verse.

How do you explain the inflections, marked in the second verse? Why the falling on be? (Les. IV. Note I.) Point out all the examples of antithetic emphasis in this piece.

LESSON CX.

SPELL AND DEFINE.-1. Illusions, deceptive appearances. 2. Temporal, pertaining to this life; limited by time. 3. Sol' ace, to cheer under affliction; to console. 4. In sid' i ous, deceitful; treacherous. 5. Comports', to agree with; to accord. 6. Subjugation, the act of bringing under the power of another. 7. Navies, ships of war, &c. 8. Cope, to equal in combat; to oppose with success. 9. Election, choice; free will.

Extract from the Speech of Patrick Henry, in the Convention of Delegates of Virginia, March 23d, 1775.

1. MR. PRESIDENT,-It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

2. Í have but one lamp, by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes, with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the house? Is it that insidious smile, with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, air; it will prove a snare to your feet.

3. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations, which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves. These are the implements of war and subjugation-the last arguments to which kings resort.

4. I ask gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible mótive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and ármies? Nò, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.

5. And what have we to oppòse to them? Shall we try árgument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we any thing new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find, which have not been already exhausted?

6. Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we have done every thing that could be done, to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt, from the foot of the throne.

7. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be frée; if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges, for which we have been so long conténding; if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle, in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon, until-the glorious object of our contest shall be ob