Proverbs. 1. Almost, and very nigh, save 121. Important Remarks. Every pupil | should be required to notice, distinctly, not many a lie. 2. A man may buy even gold too only all the specific sounds of our language, dear. 3. He, that waits for dead men's shoes, simple and compound, but also the different may long go barefoot. 4. It is an ill cause, that and exact positions of the vocal organs, ne-none dare speak in. 5. If pride were an art, The teacher there would be many teachers. 6. Out of sight, cessary to produce them. should, unyieldingly, insist upon having out of mind. 7. The whole ocean is made of these two things faithfully attended to: for single drops. 8. There would be no great ones, success in elocution, and music, absolutely if there were no little ones. 9. Things unreasondemands it: no one, therefore, should wish able-are never durable. 10. Time and tide wait to be excused from a full and hearty comfor no man. 11. An author's writings are a mirpliance. Master these elementary princi-ror of his mind. 12. Every one is architect of ples, and you will have command of all the mediums for communicating your thoughts and feelings.

122. L has only one sound, which is its name sound. LAY; the laird's little fool loudly lauds the lil-y white lamb the live-long day; Lem-u-el Ly-ell loves the lass-lorn lul-la-by of the landlord's love-ly la-dy, and, with [L in LAY.] bliss-ful dal-li-ance, gen-teel-ly lis-tens to the low-ly lol-lard's live-ly song; the lawyer le-gal-ly, and plain-ly tells his luck-less cli-ent, that he lit-er-al-ly re-pels the il-logi-cal re-ply of the nul-ly-fy-ing leg-is-lator, who, in list-less tan-guor, lies, and regales him-self over the el-der blow tea: (not I-oo-t loot.)

123. Pronounce my, you, your, and that, when emphatic, with the vowels full and open. My harp is as good as yours. He told you, but would not tell me. I said he was my friend, not yours. That man related that story. When these words are not emphatic, the sounds of y and u are shortened, the o silent, and u having its second sound, while the a is entirely suppressed. My pen is as bad as my paper. How do you do? Very well; and how do you do? Have you got your book? This is not your book; it is my book. I said that you said, that you told him so.

Notes. 1. This vocal lingual dental sound (from the harynx, tongue and teeth,) is made by pressing the tongue against the

upper gums and the roof of the mouth: pronounce the word lo, by prolonging the sound of 1; 10. 2. Do not let the eye mis lead the ear in the comparison of sounds; gay and ghay are alike to the ear, tho' unlike to the eye: so are ph in philosophy and f in folly: the same may be observed of th in thine and thou 3. Never forget the difference between the names of letters, and their respective sounds; weigh their natures, powers and qualities. 4. Notice the dissimilarity between the letters one, and the word one (wun ;) also e-i-g-h-t, and eight (ate ;) e-n-o-u-g-h, and enuff. Is there not a better way? and is not this that way? 5. L is silent in balm, salve, could, psalm, would, chalk, should, talk, hal-ser (haw-ser,) fal-con (faw-k'n,) salm-on, folks, malm-sey (21a) almonds, &c.

Anecdote. One Tongue. Milton, the author of Paradise Lost and Regained, was one day asked, by a friend of female education, if he did not intend to instruct his daughter in the different languages: "No Sir;" replied Milton," one tongue is sufficient for a

woman.

Ye despots, too long-did your tyranny hold us
In a vassalage vile-ere its weakness we knew ;

But we learn'd, that the links of the chain, that enthrald us,
Were forged by the fears of the captive alone.

his own character.

In the Truth. How may a person be said to be in the truth? This may be understood, rationally, by a comparison: we say-such a man is in the mercantile busi ness; by which we mean, that his life-is that of merchandizing, and is regulated by the laws of his peculiar calling. In like manner, we say of a christian, that he is in the truth, and in the Lord, when he is in the true order of his creation; which is to love the Lord, with all his heart, and his neighbor as himself; and to do unto others as he would they should do unto him: such a one is, emphatically, in the truth, and the truth makes him free; and this is the only freedom on earth, or in heaven; and any other state is abject slavery.

Varieties. 1. Why is the L, in the word military, like a man's nose? Because, it is between two ii. 2. No one is wise at all times; because every one is finite, and of course, imperfect. 3. Money-is the servant of those, who know how to use it; but the master of those, who do not. 4. Romewas built, 753 years before the christian era; and the Roman empire-terminated 476. years after it; what was its duration ?. The tales of other times-are like the calm dew of the morning, when the sun is faint on its side, and the lake is settled and blue in the vale. 6. As is the state of mind, such is the reception, operation, production, and manifestation-of all that is received. 7. Ends of actions show the quality of life; natural men ever regard natural ends; but spiritual men-spiritual ones.

Changing, forever changing!-So depart
The glories of the old majestic wood:
So-pass the pride, and garniture of fields;
The growth of ages, and the bloom of days,
Into the dust of centuries; and so-
Are both-renewed. The scattered tribes of men,
The generations of the populous earth,

All have their seasons too. And jocund Youth
Is the green spring-time-Manhood's lusty strength
Is the maturing summer-hoary Age
Types well the autumn of the year-and Death
Is the real winter, which forecloses all.
And shall the forests-have another spring,
And shall the fields-another garland wear,
And shall the worm-come forth, renew'd in life,
And clothed with highest beauty, and not MAN?
No!-in the Book before me now, I read
Another language; and my faith is sure,
That though the chains of death may hold it long,
This mortal-will o'ermaster them, and break
Away, and put on immortality.

124. Read, and speak, in such a just and impressive manner, as will instruct, interest and affect your hearers, and reproduce in them all those ideas and emotions, which you wish to convey. Remember, that theory-one in fifty of those taught in the usual is one thing, and practice-another; and that there is a great difference, between knowing how a sentence should be read or spoken, and the ability to read or speak it: theory is the result of thought; practice-of actual experience.

5. Alms

129. Distinctness of articulation demands Proverbs. 1. It is not the burthen, but the special attention, and requires that you should over-burthen, that kills the beast. 2. The death pronounce the vocal letters, as well as every of youth is a shipwreck. 3. There is no disputword, audibly and correctly, giving to each ing of tastes, appetites, and fancies. 4. When the its appropriate force and quantity. Unless for preaches, let the geese beware. these principles are perfectly understood, giving-never made a man poor; nor robberyyour future acquirements will be more or rich; nor prosperity-wise. 6. A lie, begets a lie, less faulty: for, in proportion as one is ig till they come to generations. 7. Anger-is often norant of what ought to be felt, thought, and more hurtful than the injury that caused it. 8. Better late ripe, and bear, than blossom, and blast. done, will he be liable to err. 9. Experience—is the mother of science. 10. He

130. N has two sounds; first its name that will not be counselled, can not be helped.

sound: NINE; the land-man's nin-ny, neg-li-gent of the huntsman's en-chant-ments, con-tami-nates the no-ble-man's nine

nose.

11. Expose one's evils, and he will either forsake them, or hate you for the exposure. 12. Do not hurry a free horse. 13. Every thing would livs.

Gradations. The dawn, the deep light, the sun-rise, and the blaze of day! what softness and gentleness! all is graduated, and yet, all is decisive. Again, observe how winter-passes into spring,-each

the summer, which is followed by the maturity of autumn. Look also at the gradations and commingling of infancy, childhood, series! and all this may be seen-in the youth, manhood and age: how beautiful the successive developments of the human mind:

pins with his an-ti-no-mi-an non- [N in NINE.] sense: Na-hant, and Flan-ni-gan, joint-tenants of nine-ty-nine Man-i-kins, u-nan-imous-ly en-chain with win-ning tones, the be-nig-nant du-en-na, while they are con-ven-weakened by the struggle; then, steals on ed to nom-i-nate con-di-ments for the so-cini-an con-ven-tion of the non-res-i-dents; he knows his nose; I know he knows his nose: he said I knew he knows his nose: and if he says he knows I know he knows his nose, of course, he knows I know he knows his-there is first sense, then fancy, imagination and reason,-each of which-is the 131. Some public speakers, in other re-ground, or continent, of all that succeed: spects inferior, from the ease, grace, dignity sense-is the rude germ, or crust of the and power of their delivery, are followed and fancy, which is the full-fledged bird, freed applauded; while others, however sound in and soaring aloft, unrestrained, in the luxu from its confinement and limited notices, matter, and finished in language, on accountries of its new being; then, succeeds imagi of their deficiency of manner, are passed by almost unnoticed. All experience teaches us the great importance of manner, as a means of inculcating truth, and persuading others to embrace it. Lord Bacon says, it is as necessary for a public speaker, as decorum for a gentleman.

Notes. 1. This vocal nasal sound is made, by pressing the from passing through the mouth, and canitting all of it through the nose: see engraving. 2. In comparing sounds, be guided solely by the car; beware of going by right in the science of accoustics. 3. Remember, when there is a change in the position of the organs,

tongue against the roof of the mouth, and thus preventing the sound

there is a corresponding change in the sounds. 4. In words where

I and n precede ch, the sound of f intervenes in the pronunciation: filch, blanch, wench, inch, bench, &c. 5. Beware of omissions and additions; Boston notion, not Boston ocean. Regain either, not regain neither.

Anecdote. The Rev. Mr. Whitfieldwas once accused, by one of his hearers, of wandering in his discourse; to which he replied: "If you will ramble like a lost sheep, I must ramble after you."

Truth

Comes to us with a slow-and doubtful step;
Measuring the ground she treads on, and forever
Turning her curious eye, to see that all
Is right-behind; and, with keen survey,
Choosing her onward path.

Seize upon truth,-wherever found,
On christian, or on heathen ground;
Among your friends,-among your foes;
The plant's divine,—where'er it grows.

nation, a well regulated fancy, that emulates the work of reason, while it borrows the hues of its immediate parent and reason

is the full and perfect development-of all that sense originally contain'd, fancy-decorated, and imagination-designed-in a thousand forms: thus reason-combines the of the Supreme Mind, deduces her concluwhole, and from the whole, thro' the light sions: thus, shall the gradations, or series of developments, continue in the good, and the true-to all eternity!

Varieties.

vened-between the discovery of the mar-
1. How many years inter-
iner's compass, in 1302, and the discovery
of America? 2. The covetous man-is as
much deprived of what he has, as of what
he has not; for he enjoys neither. 3. Ah!
who can tell, how hard it is to climb the
steep, where Fame's proud temple shines
afar, checked by the scoff of Pride, by En.
vy's frown, and Poverty's unconquerable
bar! 4. A man of cultivated mind, can
converse with a picture, and find an agree
triumph over the errors of great ones, as an
able companion in a statue. 5. Little men-
owl-rejoices at an eclipse of the sun. 6.
The eternal and natural worlds are so unit-
ed, as to make but one; like the soul and
the body. 7. What is the difference between
good sense, and wit?

A villain, when he most seems kind,
Is post to be suspected.

132. Be perfectly distinct in your articu- | Proverbs. 1. A miss, is as good as a mile. 3. He that lation, or you cannot become an easy, grace-2. A man is a lion in his own cause ful, effective and natural elocutionist; there- has too many irons in the fire, will find that some fore, practice on the vowels and consonants, of them will be apt to burn. 4. It is not an art to as here recommended, separately and com- play; but it is a very good art to leave off play. bined. If your utterance is rapid, and indis-5. Beyond the truth, there is nothing but error; tinct, your reading and speaking, will not be listened to with much pleasure, or profit. A hint-to those who would be wise, is sufficient.

133. The second sound of N, is that of Ng, before hard g, and often before hard c, k and q under the accent. BANK; con-gress conquers the strang-ling don-key,

and beyond error, there is madness 6. He, who deals with a blockhead, has need of much brains. 7. The burnt child dreads the fire. 8. When ons will not, two cannot quarrel. 9. Words from the mouth, die in the ears; but words from the heart -stay there. 11. Young folks-think old folks fools; but old folks know that young ones are. 11. First know what is to be done, then do it. 12. The tongue, without the heart, speaks an unknown tongue. 13. Remember the reckoning.

and sanc-tions the lank con-clave (N in BANK.) The three essentials-of every existin punc-til-ious con-course: the san-guine ence are an inmost, a middle and an outmost: un-cle, anxious to ling-er much long-eri. e. an end, a cause, and an effect: the end among the tink-ling in-gots, jin-gles his rin-is the inmost, the cause is the middle, and kled finger over the lin-guist's un-gu-lar the effect the outmost, or ultimate. Ex. Man is one existence, and yet consists of a

shrunk shanks.

134. The common mode of teaching elo-soul, or inmost principle, a body, or middle principle, and an activity, or ultimate princution is considered the true one, because it ciple. In his soul are ends, or motives to has been so long admitted and practiced action; in his body are causes, or ways and the old have become familiar with it, and fol-means of action; and in his life are effects, low it from habit, as their predecessors did; and the rising generation receive it on trust: thus, they pass on, striving to keep each other in countenance: hence it is, that most of our bad habits, in this important art, are born in the primary school, brought up in the academy, and graduated in the college; if we proceed so far in our education. Is not

an entire revolution necessary.

or actions themselves: if either were wanting, he could not be a man: for, take away his soul, and his body would die for want of a first principle to live from; take away his body, and his soul could not act in the natural world, for want of a suitably organized instrument; take away his life, or the activity of his body from his soul, and both soul and body would cease to exist for lack of exercise. In other words, MAN consists 135. Irregulars. Ng have generally this of will, or inmost; understanding, or intersound. In cultivating and strength-en-ing mediate; and activity, or ultimate. It is the un-der-stand-ing, by stud-y-ing, read-ing, evident, that without willing, his underteri-ting, cy-pher-ing, and speak-ing, I am standing would never think, and devise think-ing of con-tend-ing for go-ing to sing means of acting; and without understanding meet-ing; in re-lin-quish-ing your stand-ing, his will-could not effect its purpose; ing in the crisp-ing fry-ing pan, by jump-ing o-ver the wind-ing rail-ing, you may be sailing on the boil-ing o-cean, where the limp-ing Varieties. 1. The thief-is sorry he is her-rings are skip-ping, and danc-ing, around to be punished, but not that he is a thief. some-thing that is laugh-ing and cry-ing, 2. Some-are atheists-only in fair weather. sleep-ing and wa-king, lov-ing and smi-ling.

Notes. 1. This nasal diphthongal vocal consonant sound, may be made by drawing the tongue back, closing the passage from the throat into the mouth, and directing the sound through the nose, as in giving the name sound of N; it can be distinctly perovived by prolonging, or singing the ng sound in the word ring. If the accent be on the syllable beginning with g and c hard,

ei 4, ad q, then may take its name sound; as, con-grat-u-late, -rur, om-clude, &c. &. The three sounds of in and n, are the ealy mal ones in our language. 4. Some consonant sounds are cert.ma: the 1st, 31, and 4th of e; the 2nd of f, the third of 8.1.1, 1, 7, kc. are examples; others are abrupt or discrete; as, Ad. p. k, f, &c.: so we have continuous sounds, (the long ones,)

and abrupt or discrete ones, (the short.)

Anecdote. Equality. When Lycurgus, king of Sparta, was to reform and change the government, one advised him, that it should be reduced to an absolute popular equality: "Sir," said the lawgiver, "begin it in your own house first.

Lase-reckon hours--for months,-and days—for years;
And every little absence-is an age.

and without action-that willing and under standing would be of no use.

3. Is the casket-more valuable than the
jewel it contains? 4. Indolence is a stream
that flows slowly on; yet it undermines ev-
5. All outward existence-is
ery virtue.
only the shadow of that, which is truly real;
because its very correspondence. 6. Should
we act from policy, or from principle? 7.
The prayer of the memory is a reflected light,
like that of the moon; that of the under
standing alone, is as the light of the sun in
winter; but that of the heart, like the ligh
and heat united, as in spring or summ
and so also, is all discourse from then., and
all worship.

THE FLIGHT OF YEARS.
Gone! gone forever!-Like a rushing ware
Another year-has burst upon the shore
Of earthly being-and its last low tones,
Wandering in broken accents on the air,
Are dying-to an echo.

Proverbs. 1. He, who thinks he knows the most, knows the least. 2. Take every thing as if comes, and make the best of it. 3. Three removes are as bad as a fire. 4. Tread on a worm, and he will turn. 5. Two things we should never be angry at,-what we can, and what we cannot help. 6. When the bow is too much bent, it

136. In ancient Rome, an orator's education began in infancy; so should it be now; the seeds of eloquence may be sown, when the child is on the maternal bosom; the voice should be developed with the mind. If the child has good examples set him, in reading and speaking, and the youth is attentive to his every day language, and is careful to im-breaks. 7. A wise man-is a great wonder. S. prove his mind and voice together, he will become a good elocutionist, without scarcely knowing it. Connection and association— have as much to do with our manner of speaking, as with our cast of thinking.

137. P has but one sound: PAP; pale, par, pall, pap; peep, pet; pipe, pip; pope, pool, pop;

wrap

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wicked man-is his own hell; and his evil lusts Blushing-is virtue's color. 10. Evil communiand passions the fiends that torment him. cations corrupt good manners. 11. Gain-is uncertain, but the pain is sure. 12. Never court, unless you intend to marry.

Amusements. Ever since the fall, mankind have been prone to extremes; not only the religious, but the irreligious porpule, pup, puss; point, pound; tion of the world. It is greatly to be regretpeo-ple put pep-per in pep-perted, that we are all so much at the mercy box-es, ap-ple-pies in cup- [P in PAP.] of passion and prejudice, and so little-unboards, and whap-ping pap-poo-ses in der the guiding influence of reason and intelligence. In our creation, the Divine pers; the hap-py pi-per placed his peer-less Being-has manifested infinite love and inpup-py in Pom-pey's slop-shop, to be pur-finite wisdom: for we are made in " HIS chased for a peck of pap-py pip-pins, or a IMAGE and LIKENESS;" the former, we pound of pul-ver-iz-ed pop-pies; a pad-dy still retain, but the latter, sad to relate, we picked a peck of pick-led pep-pers, and put have lost. The will, or voluntary principle them on a broad brimed pew-ter plat-ter. of the mind, constitutes our impelling power, and the understanding, or reasoning faculties, under the light of truth, is our govern

138. MUSCLE BREAKERS. Peter Prickle Prandle picked three pecks of prickly pears, from three prickly prangly pear trees: ifing power: if, therefore, we find ourselves then, Peter Prickle Prandle, picked three pecks of prickly pears from three prickly prangly pear trees; where are the three pecks of prickly pears, that Peter Prickle Prandle picked, from the three prickly prangly pear trees? Success to the successful prickly prangly pear picker.

Notes. 1. To give this aspirate labial, whisper the word pugh, (u short,) or pop out the candle; see the engraving: it is all of the word up, except the u: but the sound is not finished till the lips are separated, or the remaining breath exhaled: remember

the remarks in reference to other abrupt elements. 2. The principal difference between b and p is, that b is a vocal, and p, only a

loving-what is not good and true, our rationality, enlightened by wisdom, must be ever amusements-tend to fit us for our va our guide. Hence, our rule is this; whatrious duties, and give us zest in faithfully performing them, are perfectly proper; but, amusements, whose tendency is the reverse of this, are entirely improper; and we should not hesitate a moment in abstaining from them, however they may be approved by others, or sanctioned by long usage: we eternity-for those transitory enjoyments of must never compromise the interests of time and sense, which are at variance with the principles of truth and goodness. Both worlds are best taken care of, when they are cared for together, and each has its attention, according to its importance.

breath sound. P, H, T, are called, by some, sharp mutes; and B, G, D, flat mutes. 3. Germans find it difficult to pronounce certain vocal consonants at the ends of words, tho' correctly at the beginning: hence, instead of saying dog, mad, pod, &c. they say, at first, dok, mat, pot, &c. 4. In pronouncing m, and t together, p is very apt to intervene ; as in Pam-ton &c. 5. P is silent in psal-ter, shaw, pneu-mat-ics, Ptol-e-my, Psy-che, rasp-ber-ry, (31 a,) corps (o long,) re-ceipt, etc. 6. Not debths, but depths; not clab-board,to eat and drink; and there are others, but clap-board; not Ja-cop, but Ja-cob; not bab-tism, but tap

ism, etc.

Varieties. 1. There are some, who live

who eat and drink, to live. 2. The perfec

tion of art is to conceal the art: i. e. to he Anecdote. A Check. Soon after the the thing, instead of its representative. 3. pattle of Leipsic, a wit observed," Bona- Let every one sweep the snow from his own part must now be in funds; for he has re-door, and not trouble himself about the frost ceived a check on the bank of the Elbe."

Hidden, and deep, and never dry,

Or flowing, or at rest,

A living spring of love-doth lie

In every human breast.

All else may fail, th❜t soothes the heart,

All, save that fount alone;

With that, and life, we never part;

For life, and love—are one.

He seemed

For dignity composed, and high exploit ;
But all was false-and hollow.

on his neighbor's tiles. 4. Galileo, the great astronomer, was imprisoned for life, because he declared that Venus-shone with a borrowed light, and from the sun, as the centre of our system. 5. There are abuses in all human governments. 6. He, whose virtues, exceed his talents, is the good man; but he, whose talents exceed his virtues, is the bad man. 7 All we perceive, understand, will, love, and practice, is our own; but nothing

else.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief-still fears each bush-an officer.