108. Elocution is not, as some errone- 112. Freedom of Thought. Beware ously suppose, an art of something artificial of pinning your faith to another's sieve—-of in tones, looks and gestures, that may be forming your own opinion entirely on that learned by imitation. The principles teach of another. Strive to attain to a modest indeus-to exhibit truth and nature dressed to pendence of mind, and keep clear of leading advantage: its objects are, to enable the rea-strings: follow no one, where you cannot der, and speaker, to manifest his thoughts, see the road, in which you are desired to and feelings, in the most pleasing, perspic-walk: otherwise, you will have no confidence uous, and forcible manner, so as to charm the in your own judgment, and will become a afections, enlighten the understanding, and changeling all your days. Remember the leave the deepest, and most permanent im-old adage—“ let every tub stand on its own pression, on the mind of the attentive hearer. bottom! And, "never be the mere shadow of another."

109. The second sound of G, is hard, or gutteral, before a, o, u, l, r, and often before e, and i; also, at the end of monosyllables, and sometimes at the end of dissyllables, and their preceding sylla

bles. GAME; a giddy goose (G in GAME.]

Proverbs. 1. He dies like a beast, who has done no good while he lived. 2. 'Tis a base thing to betray a man, because he trusted you. 3 Knaves-imagine that nothing can be done without knavery. 4. He is not a wise man, who pays more for a thing than it is worth. 5. Learningis a sceptre to some, and a bauble-to others. 6.

Only that which is honestly got is true gain. 8. Pride-is as loud a beggar as want; and a great deal more saucy. 9. That is a bad child, that goes like a top, no longer than it is whipped. 10. It is hard for an empty bag to stand up

got a ci-gar, and gave it to a gan-grene beg-No tyrant can take from you your knowledge. 7. gar: Scrog-gins, of Brob-dig-nag, growls over his green-glass gog-gles, which the big ne-gro gath-er-ed from the bog-gy quag-mire; a gid-dy gig-gling girl glides into the grogge-ry, and gloats over the gru-el in the great vig-gin of the rag-ged grand-mother, ex-right. 11. Learn to bear disappointment cheerclaim-ing, dig or beg, the game is gone.

110. Foreigners and natives may derive essential aid from this system of mental and vocal philosophy; enabling them to read and speak the language correctly; which they most certainly ought to do, before they are employed in our schools: for whatever children learn, they should learn correctly. Good teachers are quite as necessary in the primary school, as in the Academy or College: at least, so thought Philip, king of Macedon, when he sent his son Alexander to Aristotle, the great philosopher, to learn his letters: and Alexander says, he owed more to his teacher, than to his father.

fully. 12. Eradicate your prejudices.

Anecdote. A sharp Eye. A witness, during the assizes, at York, in England, after several ineffectual attempts to go on with his story, declared, "he could not proceed in his testimony, if Mr. Brougham did not take his eyes off from him."

Varieties. 1. Which does society the most injury, the robber, the slanderer, or the murderer? 2. In every period of life, our talents may be improved, and our mind expan ded by education. 3. The mind is powerful, reduced to practice. 4. Give not the meats in proportion as it possesses powerful truths, and drinks of a man, to a child; for how should they do it good? 5. A proverb, well 111. Irregulars. Gh, in a few words, applied at the end of a phrase, often makes has this sound: tho', strictly speaking, the ha very happy conclusion: but beware of is silent. The ghast-ly bur-gher stood aghast to see the ghost of the ghyll, eat the ghas-tly gher-kins in the ghostly burgh. They are silent in-the neigh-bors taught their daughters to plough with de-light, though they caught a fur-lough; &c.

Notes. 1. This vocal sound is made, by pressing the roots of the tongue against the uvula, so as to close the throat, and beginning to ray go, without the o; the sound is intercepted lower down than that of first d, and the jaw dropped more; observe also the vocal and aspirate; the sound is finished, however, in this, as in al: oth. er instances of making the vocal consonants, by the organs resuming their natural position, either for another effort, or for silence. 2. If practice enables persons with half the usual number of fingers to accomplish whatever manual labor they undertake; think, how much may be done in this art, by those who possess their vocal organs complete, provided they pursue the course bere indicated, there is nothing like these vocal gymnastics.

'Tis autumn. Many, and many a fleeting age
Hath faded, since the primal morn of Time;
And silently the slowly journeying years,
All redolent of countless seasons, pass.

using such sentences too often. 6. Extrav
agant and misplaced eulogiums-neither
honor the one, who bestows them, nor the
person, who receives them. 7. Apparent
truth-has its use, but genuine truth a
greater use: and hence, it is the part of
wisdom-to seek it.

"Tis midnight's holy hour-and silence now
Is brooding, like a gentle Spirit, o'er

The still and pulseless woria. Hark! on the wing
The be's deep tones are swelling,-'tis the knell
Of the departed year. No funeral train

Is sweeping past,-yet, on the stream, and wood,
With melancholy light, the moonbeams rest,
Like a pale, spotless shroud,-the air is stirred,
As by a mourner's sigh-and on yon cloud,
That floats on still and placidly through heaven,
The Spirits of the Seasons-seem to stand;

Young Spring, bright Summer, Autumn's solemn (rm
And Winter, with his aged locks, and breathe

In mournful cadences, that come abroad

Like the far wind-harp's wild and torching wai,
A melancholy dirge-o'er the dead year---
Gone, from the Earth, forever.

113. These principles of oratory-are well calculated to accustom the mind to the closest investigation and reasoning; thus, affording a better discipline for the scientific, rational, and affectuous faculties of the mind, than even the study of the mathematics: for the whole man is here addressed, and all his mental powers, and all his acquirements, are called into requisition. This system is a fiery ordeal; and those who pass through it, understandingly, and practically, will come out purified as by fire: it solves difficulties, und eads the mind to correct conclusions, respecting what one is to do, and what one is not to do.

Proverbs. 1. Impudence, and wit, are vastly different. 2. Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. 3. Listeners-hear no good of themselves. 4. Make hay while the sun shines. 5. Ar ounce of discretion is worth a pound of wit. 6. Purposing, without performing, is mere fooling 7. Quiet persons-are welcome every where. 8. Some have been thought brave, because they were afraid to run away. 9. A liar-is a branc towards God, and a coward towards men. 10 Without a friend, the world is a wilderness A young man idle,—an old man-nesdy. 12 Resolution, without action, is a slothful folly.

Reading Rooms. Incalculable good might be done to the present and the rising generation, by the establishment, in every town and village in our country, of Public Reading Rooms, to be supported by voluntary subscription: indeed, it would be wise in town authorities to sustain such instituwhen shall we wake up to a consideration tions of knowledge by direct taxation. Oh! of things above the mere love of money-ma

114. The third sound of G is that of Zh which, tho' common to s and z, is derived to this letter from the French; or, perhaps we should say, the words in which G has this sound, are French words not Anglicised G in ROUGE.] -or made into English. The pro-te-ge (pro-ta-zha, a person protected, or patronized,) during his bad-e-nage, (bad-e-king. nazh, light or playful discourse,) in the meVarieties. 1. Did Napoleon-do more nag-e-ry, (e place for the collection of wild evil than good-to mankind? 2. A necesanimals, or their collection,) on the mi-rage, sary part of good manners-is a punctual (me-razh, an optical illusion, presenting an observation of time; whether on matters of image of water in sandy deserts,) put rouge, civility, business, or pleasure. 3. It is ab(roozh, red paint for the face,) on the char- surd-to expect that your friends will rege-d'af-fair, (shar-zha-dif-fare, an ambassa-member you, after you have thought proper dor, or minister of secondary rank.) 115. This work informs the pupil, as the rowed trouble cost us. to forget them. 4. How much pain has bor5. Adversity-bas master workman does the apprentice: it the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosteaches the principles, or rules, and the way perous circumstances, would have lain dorto apply them; and when they are thus ap-mant. 6. When the infidel would persuade plied to practice, he has no more use for them: indeed, its rules and directions serve him the same purpose as the guide-post does the traveler who, after visiting the place, towards which it directs, has no further need of it.

116. Irregulars. Soften has this sound. and Z, generally. The az-ure ad-he-sion to the am-bro-sial en-clo-sures is a ro-se-ate treas-ure of vis-ions of pleas-ures; the seizure of the viz-ier's en-thu-si-asm is an inva-sion of the gla-zier's di-vi-sions of the scis-sors; the ho-sier takes the bra-zier's cro-sier with a-bra-sions and cor-ro-sions by cx-po-sure, and treas-ures it up without elis-ions.

Notes. 1. This vocal triphthongal consonant sound may be made, by placing the organs, as if to pronounce sh in show, and adding a voice sound, from the larynx; or, by drawing out the sound of the imaginary word zhure, zh-ure. 2 Analyze these sounds thus; give the first sound of e, keep the teeth still compressed, add the arpi ate of h, and then prefix the vocality; or reverse the procoea. G is sent in-the ma-lign phlegm of the poig-nant gnat, impregns the en-sign's di-a-phragm, and gnaws into Char-le-magne's se-ragi-io,

Anecdote. A considerate Minister. A very dull clergyman, whose delivery was monotonous and uninteresting to his hearers, putting many of the old folks asleep said to the boys, who were playing in the gallery; "Don't make so much noise there; you will awake your parents below."

For me, my lot-was what I sought; to be,
In life, or death, the feries,-and be fres

you to abandon the Bible, tell him you will,
when he will bring you a better book. 7.
When the mind becomes persuaded of the
truth of a thing, it receives that thing, and it
becomes a part of the person's life: what
men seek, they find.

The spacious firmament-on high,
With all the blue etherial sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great original proclaim.
Th' unwearied sun-from day to day,
Does his Creator's power display;
And publishes-to ev'ry land,
The work of an Almighty hand.
Soon as the evening skades prevail,
The moon takes up the wond'rous tale
And, nightly, to the list'ning earth,
Repeats the story of her birth;
Whilst all the stars, that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth, from pole to pole.
What, though, in solemn silence, all
Move round the dark terrestrial ball?
What, though no real voice nor sound
Amid these radiant orbs be found?
In reason's ear they all rejoice,
And utter forth a glorious voice,
Forever singing, as they shine,
"The hand that made us-is divine "

117. Be very particular in pronouncing the jaw, or voice-breakers, and cease not, till you can give every sound fully, correctly and distinctly. If your vocal powers are well exercised, by faithful practice on the more difficult combinations, they will acquire a facility of movement, a precision of action, a flexibility, grace, and force truly surprising. 118. H has but one sound, which is an aspirate, or forcible breathing, made in the glottis: HALE: his high-ness holds high his haugh-ty head, and ex-hib-its! his shrunk shanks to the ho-ly horde in the hu-mid hall; the H in HALE.] hard-heart-ed hedge-hog, heed-less of his hav-oc of the house-wife's ham, hies him self home, hap-py to have his head, his hands, and his heart whole; the harm-ful hum-ble-bee hur-tles through the hot-house, and ex-horts his ex-haust-ed hive-lings to hold their house-hold-stuff for a hob-by-horse till har-vest-home.

Proverbs. 1. When the cat is away, the mice will play. 2 One may be a wise man, and yet not know how to make a watch. 3. A wicked companion invites us to hell. 4. All happiness and misery—is in the mind. 5. A good conscience is excellent divinity. 6. Bear and forbear—is good philosophy. 7. Drunkenness—is a voluntary madness. 8. Envy shoots at others, and wounds herself. 9. Fools lade out the water, and wiss men catch the fish. 10. Good preachers give fruits, rather than flowers. 11. Actions are the raiment of the man. 12. Faith is the eye of love.

Anecdote. Frederick the Great, of Prussia, an ardent lover of literature and the fine arts, as well as of his people, used to rise at three or four o'clock in the morning to get more time for his studies; and when one of his intimate friends noticed how hard he worked, he replied,-"It is true, I do work hard,but it is in order to live; for nothing has more resemblance to death, than idleness: of what use is it, to live, if one only vegetates"

To know

119. It is said, that no description can Wrong Choice. How miserable some adequately represent Lord Chatham : to comprehend the force of his eloquence, it people make themselves, by a wrong choice, was necessary to see and to hear him: his when they have all the good things of earth whole delivery was such, as to make the before them, out of which to choose! If good orator a part of his own eloquence: his mind judgment be wanting, neither the greatest monarch, nor the repeated smiles of fortune, was view'd in his countenance, and so emcan render such persons happy; hence, a bodied was it in his every look, and gesture, that his words were rather felt than follow-prince-may become a poor wretch, and the ed; they invested his hearers; the weapons peasant-completely blessed. of his opponents fell from their hands; he one's self—is the first degree of sound judg spoke with the air and vehemence of inspi-ment; for, by failing rightly to estimate our ration, and the very atmosphere flamed on capacity, we may undertake-not only what will make us unhappy, but ridiculous. around him. This may be illustrated by an unequal marriage with a person, whose genius, life and temper-will blast the peace of one, or loth, forever. The understanding, and not the

120. H is silent at the beginning and end of many words. The hon-est shepherd's ca-tarrh, hum-bles the heir-ess in her dish-a-billes, and hu-mors the thy-my rhet-will-should be our guide. o-ric of his rhymes to rhap-so-dy; the humor-some Thom-as ex-plained diph-thongs and triph-thongs to A-bi-jah, Be-ri-ah-Calah, Di-nah, E-li-jah, Ge-rah, Hul-dah, Isa-iah, Jo-nah, Han-nah, Nin-e-vah, O-badi-ah, Pis-gah, Ru-mah, Sa-rah, Te-rah, Uri-ah, Va-ni-ah, and Ze-lah.

Varieties. 1. What can the virtues of our ancestors profit us, unless we imitate them? 2. Why is it, that we are so unwilling to practice a little self-denial for the sake of a future good? 3. The toilet of woman-is too often an altar, erected by self-love—to vanity 4. Half the labor, required to make a first-rate musician, would make an accomplished rea

Notes. 1. This sound is the material of which all sounds are mode, whether vowel or consonant, either by condensation, or modification. To demonstrate this position, commence anyder and speaker. 5. Learn to unlearn what sound in a whisper, and proceed to a vocality; shaping the organ

to form the one required, if a vowel or voca, consonant, and in
proper way to produce any of the aspirates. 2 Those who are
a the abit of omitting the t, when it ought to be pronounced, can
ractice on the preceding and similar examples: and also correct
such sentences as this; Hi took my 'orse hand went hout to 'unt
my 'ogs, hand got hoff my 'orse, hand 'iched im to a hoak tree,
hand gave im some hoats. 3. It requires more breath to make
this sound, than any other in our language; as in producing it,
even mildly, the lungs are nearly exhausted of air. It may be
made by whispering the word huh: the higher up, the more scat.
tering, the lower in the throat, the more condensed, till it becomes
vocal

I am well aware, that what is base,
No polish-can make sterling-and that vice,
Though well perfumed, and elegantly dressed,
Like an unburied carcass,-trick'd with flowers,
Is but a garnished nuisance,-fitter far
For cleanly riddance,—than for fair attire.

you have learned amiss. 6. A conceit of
knowledge-is a great enemy to knowledge,
and a great argument for ignorance. 7. Of
pure love, and pure conception of truth, we
are only receivers: God only is the giver;
and they are all His from first to last.
It is a beautiful belief, that ever-round our head,
Are hovering, on noinless wing, the spirits of the dead.
It is a beautiful belief, when ended our career,
That it will be our ministry to watch o'er others here;
To lend a moral to the flower; breathe oudom on the wind;
To hold commune, at night's pure noon, with the impris n'd mis
To bid the mourner-cease to mourn, the trembling de forgiven
To bear away, from ills of clay, the infant-to its heaven.
I cannot tell how terrible-the mystery of death.
Ah! when delight-was found in life, and joy-in every breath,
But now, the past is bright to me, and all the future-doars
For 'tis my faith, that after death, I still shall linger hera

Proverbs. 1. Almost, and very nigh, save many a lie. 2. A man may buy even gold too dear. 3. He, that waits for dead men's shoes, may long go barefoot. 4. It is an ill cause, that none dare speak in. 5. If pride were an art, there would be many teachers. 6. Out of sight, out of mind. 7. The whole ocean is made of single drops. 8. There would be no great ones, if there were no little ones. 9. Things unreasonable-are never durable. 10. Time and tide walt for no man. 11. An author's writings are a mirror of his mind. 12. Every one is architect of his own character.

In the Truth. How may a person be said to be in the truth? This may be un

122. L has only one sound which is derstood, rationally, by a comparison: we

Honor was the virtue of the pagan; but christianity—teaches a more enlarged and nobler code; calling into activity-all the best feelings of our nature,-illuminat and make a sound through the nose, resembling the plaintive low-ing our path, through this world, with deeds g of an ox, with its mouth closed; or, a wailing sound through your nose. 2. This is called a nasal sound, because it is inade through the nose; and not because it does not pass through it, as many imagine: which may become evident, by producing the sound when the nose is held between the thumb and forefinger. 3.