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by practice, you will be likely to read aright. "Probably not a single instance," says Archbishop Whately, "could be found, of any one who has at tained, by the study of any system of instruction, a really good delivery; but there are many-probably nearly as many as have fully tried the experiment — who have by this means been totally spoiled."

8. In familiar discourse we rarely fail to place the emphasis properly; and this is because we fully understand what we are saying. In order, therefore, to give the right emphasis to what we read aloud, we should acquaint ourselves with the meaning and construction of every sentence; for emphasis is, as it were, the invisible gesticulation of the mind through the voice, and all rules must give way to it.

9. Dispose the emphasis aright in the following sentence: "The pleasures of the imagination are not so gross as those of sense, nor so refined as those of the understanding." In this example, the emphatic words, gross and refined, are opposed to each other, and contrasted with sense and understanding.

"He raised a mortal to the skies;

She drew an angel down."

Here three emphatic words in the first line are upposed to three in the second.

10. In the following passage, from Addison's tragedy of "Cato," the italicized words ought to be the most emphatic; and the parenthetical clause ought to be spoken in a lower tone of voice, and with a more rapid utterance, than the principal sentence; a slight pause, both before and after the parenthesis, being appro priate.

"If there's a Power above us

(And that there is, all Nature cries aloud

Through all her works), he must delight in virtue
And that which he delights in must be happy."

11. The reply of Mirabeau, to the messen king, who had ordered the French National to disperse, presents two emphatic words, reader who comprehends and feels the speed be slow to detect: "Go say to those who that we are here by the power of the people we will not be driven hence save by the pov bayonet."

12. The following passage, in the reply Thurlow to the Duke of Grafton, contain eight prominently emphatic words: "No o ates the Peerage more than I do; but, my must say that the Peerage solicited me,Peerage. Nay, more, - I can say, and will as a peer of Parliament, as Speaker of this orable House, as keeper of the great seal, as of his majesty's conscience, as Lord High O of England, -nay, even in that character which the noble duke would think it an affr considered, but which character none can de as a man, I am, at this moment, as respe beg leave to add, as much respected as the peer I now look down upon."

13. Few positive rules for reading can be la to which many unforeseen exceptions can not "Give the sense of what you read," says Mr. I "Mind is the thing. Pauses are essential on the omission would obscure the sense. Th who, in the act of delivering himself, is st solicitous about parceling his words, is sure the best part of his work undone. He deliver not thoughts. Deliver thoughts, and words w care enough of themselves, providing alwa you have acquired the proper accuracy in ciation."

THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND.

XXXIII. - THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND.

(seej), n., the besetting of a | IN-CUL'CATE, v. t., to urge upon by

ee with troops.

ÍLE, a., slavish; cringing.
HAL, a., like a beast.

ID, a., foul; covetous.

BARD', v. t., to attack with bombs.

ENT', v. t., to excite with heat.
-BUS, n., the nightmare.

frequent repetition.

DE-VEL'OP, v. t., to uncover.
ES-SEN'TIAL, a., necessary; pure.
DE-MOR'AL-IZ-ING, a., tending to de-
stroy moral principles.

MAG-NA-NIM'I-TY, n., greatness of
mind; generosity.

id saying wuss for worse; exibit for ex-hib'it; tremendyous for tre-men'dous. er in prop'er ty, en'er-gy, lib'er-ty, &c.

IF we are not fully prepared for war, let the sube fact be soon exhibited, that a free and valiant on, with our numbers, and a just cause, is always owerful nation,-is always ready to defend its ential rights. In the Congress of 1774, among er arguments used to prevent a war, and discourseparation from Great Britain, the danger of havour towns battered down and burnt was zealously -ed.

1. The venerable Christopher Gadsden, of South olina, rose and replied to it in these memorable rds: "Our seaport towns, Mr. President, are comsed of brick and wood. If they are destroyed, we ve clay and timber enough in our country to rebuild m. But, if the liberties of our country are deoyed, where shall we find the materials to replace

m?"

3. During the siege of Boston, General Washington nsulted Congress upon the propriety of bombarding e town. Mr. Hancock was then President of Coness. After General Washington's letter was read, a emn silence ensued. This was broken by a member

king a motion that the House should resolve itself.

ject, as he was so deeply interested, from his estate in Boston.

4. After he left the chair, he addressed man of the committee of the whole in the words: "It is true, sir, nearly all the prope in the world is in houses, and other real est town of Boston; but if the expulsion of th army from it, and the liberties of our countr their being burnt to ashes, issue the order for pose immediately."

5. What inspiring lessons of duty do exar these inculcate! War, fellow-citizens, is a g but not the greatest of evils. Submission to is worse. Loss of honor is worse. A peace p by mean and inglorious sacrifices is wors sordid or that self-indulgent spirit, which wou man to prize the satisfactions of avarice or of ease above country, above manliness, above is worse, far worse.

6. I am no apologist of war. I hate and d It should be the last resort of nations. It s shunned on every principle, Christian and hum brings tremendous evils in its train. It fomer of the vilest passions of our nature, even as develops the most heroic virtues. If the mo ished in keeping up great naval and military e ments were spent in employing labor, and ed the people, how much good might be effect much evil might be prevented!

7. But an ignoble peace may be even more izing than a sanguinary war. It may corrupt springs of a people's energy and magnanim may make them servile, sensual, selfish. It such an in'cubus on a nation's character, that

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o, "O! I have lost my reputation. I have lost mmortal part of myself, and what remains is bes My reputation, Iago, my reputation!"

BROWN. (1812.)

XXXIV. - SUNRISE ON MOUNT ETNA.

NI-A, n., a town on the east | IM-PLIC'IT (im-plis'it), a., wrapped up

t of Sicily.

V'I-TY, n., a slope.

:-NY (proj ́e-ny), n., offspring. TION, n., a breaking forth.

- n., the melted matter which s from a volcano.

'No, n., a burning mountain.

MATIC, a., fragrant; spicy.

M'I-LAR, a.,

unlike.

RATE, v. t., to disjoin; to part.

in; trusting to another.

PLASTIC, a., giving form.

CHA'OS (ka'os), n., a confused mass. PĂR'AL-LEL, n., a line equally distant at all points from another line; a resemblance.

SCEN'ER-Y, n., the objects that make
up a scene or view.

DE-SCRY', v. t., to see at a distance.
DI-VER'SI-TY, n., difference.

ounce Alicudi, Al-e-coo'de. The ph in atmosphere has the sound of f. Do not x for tracts. Perfume, the noun, has the accent on the first syllable, to distinfrom the verb per-fume'.

Ar daybreak, we set off from Cata'nia, to visit nt Etna, that venerable and respectable father of ntains. His base and his immense declivities are red with a numerous progeny of his own; for y great eruption produces a new mountain, and aps by the number of these, better than by any r method, the number of eruptions, and the age of itself, might be ascertained. The whole mountain vided into three distinct regions, called the fertile, woody, and the barren region. These three are lifferent, both in climate and productions, as the e zones of the earth, and, perhaps, with equal proty, might have been styled the Torrid, the Temperand the Frigid Zone.